The mother of all Hoekstroika’s:
House Republicans called the Obama administration’s birth-control mandate “religious bigotry” and compared it to the events of Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11, 2001.
The heated remarks came at a press conference marking the mandate’s first day.
“I know in your mind you can think of the times America was attacked,” said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), a freshman.
“One is December 7 — that is Pearl Harbor Day. Another was September 11 — that was the day of the terrorist attack.
“I want you to remember August 1, 2012 — the attack on our religious freedom. That is a date that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.”
Starting Wednesday, most employers will have to cover contraception in their health plans without a co-pay.
Here are some of the new provisions that go into practice today because of the ACA that have Mike Kelly all bent out of shape:
Breastfeeding comprehensive support and counseling from trained providers, as well as access to breastfeeding supplies, for pregnant and nursing women
Contraception: Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling, not including abortifacient drugs
Domestic and interpersonal violence screening and counseling for all womenGestational diabetes screening for women 24 to 28 weeks pregnant and those at high risk of developing gestational diabetes
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) screening and counseling for sexually active women
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) counseling for sexually active women
Well-woman visits to obtain recommended preventive services for women under 65
Can’t you just see how this is an all out assault on the baby Jeebus?
cathyx
As Kathleen Sebelius says being a female is no longer being treated as a preexisting condition.
RaflW
Well, since Democrats are not Americans, this ACA disaster is an assault by foreigners on sovereign Amerikkkuh.
PaulW
Is it me or do the wingnuts compare EVERYTHING to 9/11?
Obama ties his shoelaces wrong: WORST DAY SINCE 9/11 NEVAR FORGET
Obama breathes in oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide: IT’S PEARL HARBOR ALL OVER AGAIN
Obama’s mere existence IS LIKE THE EMANCIPATION PROCL… wait, we’re supposed to act like that was a good thing. Damn this Southern Strategery…
dedc79
Remember, this is one reason they tried so hard to strike the law down or repeal it as quickly as possible. They know that as times goes on, and different provisions of the bill go into effect, it will be harder and harder to justify their anger and desire for repeal.
Starting today, any effort at repeal is an effort to take away all these gains for women.
NCSteve
@PaulW: Those new pop-up ad thingees that are like a translucent band across the bottom of a web page that you have to disrupt you reading to figure out how to close? Worst thing since 9/11!
Is it too soon for a #WorseThan9/11 hashtag?
Just Some Fuckhead
The only thing worse than this would be if Saudi Jihadists flew Japanese nuclear reactors into the Holocaust. And then it’s still really close.
Tonal Crow
Republicans’ bullshit is so far over the top that it satirizes itself.
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brent
When women get to have sex without being punished and poor people get to eat without having to beg for scraps from my table its like 1000 9/11s strapped to a nuclear warhead and dropped on top of Pearl Harbor.
Hal
Wow. Just…wow.
Dennis SGMM
When did the freedom to practice the religion of your choice expand to the freedom to make others adhere to your beliefs as well?
Patricia Kayden
Great post. The benefits that begin today need to be trumpeted loud and far. This is a great start. Hopefully, if Obama wins again, the ACA can be improved.
I really could care less what the Repubs think about the ACA (or anything else for that matter). They’ve already shown themselves to be delusional, racist, homophobic, sexist bigots.
If they’re enraged, I’m ecstatic.
jibeaux
@Hal: Fortunately, you can fight the assault on religious freedom on 8/1 with a chicken sammich.
Tonal Crow
“Obama gave me the evil eye! It’s like 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Grant AAAAAAAND Sherman all in one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
— Typical Republican
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HobbesAI
Pearl Harbor? That’s somewhere in Kenya isn’t it?
RP
Mandatory coverage of birth control: 9/11!
Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire: Pearl Harbor!
Didn’t like the new exhibit at the Hirshhorn: The Trail of Tears!
Got pinto beans instead of black beans in my burrito at Chipotle: The destruction of Carthage!
chopper
@Just Some Fuckhead:
and the subsequent explosion showered the world with aborted fetuses. oh god, they’re everywhere! jesus it’s turning into a massive fetus tsunami!
joes527
Someone should ask Mitt about the history of this country in terms of treating religious beliefs as being above the law.
Could be humorous.
beltane
Shrill Republicans are shrill.
Tonal Crow
Whatever happened to the fact that Romney made money from abortions?
Don’t Republicans think that’s worse than Hitler?
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chopper
see, that’s why i moved to somalia. i got 99 problems but a bitch getting health care aint one.
Dennis SGMM
@joes527:
Yeah, like he’d give a straight answer.
redshirt
My lunch today was worse than 9/11 – times a thousand!
Citizen_X
This has now gone into effect? Great.
Republicans: make sure you campaign about this, as hysterically as possible, from now till November.
Tonal Crow
@joes527:
Yeah. Especially if he’s asked whether people should be able to smoke pot if their religion requires it.
Culture of Truth
I’ll never forget it – I was an eight one first responder… first there was the screening, then the counseling, and then I looked up and saw… the breast pumps…
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8/1/12 Oral History Project
NCSteve
@Dennis SGMM:
325 AD. Council of Nicea.
FoxinSocks
@chopper
I’m at work and you just made me totally lose it. Can’t stop laughing…co-workers looking at me funny…
qwerty42
Erin Gloria Ryan over at Jezebel:
…Kelly wasn’t the only one to embarrass himself at a press conference on a day where health care will become more accessible to millions of American women. New York’s Ann Marie Buerkle added,
“And as Mike said, August the 1st is a day that we as American will look at as the largest assault on our First Amendment rights.”
Guess I missed that part of the US constitution that guarantees business owners the freedom to decide that their female employees shouldn’t be allowed to purchase birth control using funds from a pool they’ve paid into. Or the part where men’s religious convictions get to determine what women get to do inside their own skin.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Culture of Truth: I watched in horror as the co-pays fell, one by one. Swarms of women begin stampeding around me, desperately seeking preventative help. I could no longer stand by idly. I ripped off my burning clothes and began to assist the most sexually active..
catclub
@Culture of Truth: I can almost hear the slurp of tea between phrases, like those in the interviews of victims in the Pirhana Brothers Python sketch.
moonbat
@Just Some Fuckhead: @Culture of Truth: @RP: Stop it! You guys are killing me. It’s worse than 9/11!
Dennis SGMM
@NCSteve:
Got me.
Culture of Truth
What will the 8/1 Memorial look like?
A large phallic symbol, certainly, those always work, plus something tasteful, like big egg on a roller coaster failing to attach to a large marble uterus
The Moar You Know
@Tonal Crow: While the Rastafari issue is very valid, people still believe it’s just college students finding an excuse to grow their hair long and smoke pot. With good reason. Americans are quite unlikely to meet real adherents to Rastafarianism.
I think the one that’s far harder for them to squirm out of are the Native peyote ceremonies. Those have a history, are well known, and let’s face it, nobody takes peyote for fun. It’s about the furthest thing from a “recreational drug” that I know of.
redshirt
Also, 8/1 is a Chik-filla day. Co-incidence? NO!
Just Some Fuckhead
The Republican fallout was toxic; noxious and choking. The first few hours I and my compatriots struggled through the twisted wreckage of rightwing blogs and conservative press releases. Then we heard a baby crying. It was Pennsylvania Republican Mike Kelly.
redshirt
@The Moar You Know: Bath Salts disagrees!
Also, wants more faces to eat.
joes527
@The Moar You Know: If I say that my religion requires me to smoke weed, who are you to say it is less legitimate than someone else’s religious beliefs.
That path leads to officially sanctioned religion(s) and the constitution has something to say about that.
My religion means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.
Face
As if there’s an American anywhere who doesn’t know what Sept. 11 was.
catclub
@Tonal Crow: I think asking about Mormons and multiple wives was the point. The US overruled that particular religious preference. Is Mitt gonna say they should have allowed it?
Every business owner becomes a Christian Scientist if they allow ‘religious’ exceptions. never mind the question of the religious preferences of a corporation.
joel hanes
Well, to be fair, it is a pretty effective assault on traditional forms of slut-shaming.
It remains difficult for me to understand how slut-shaming became part of the religion of Christ — slut-shaming is the exact opposite of Christ-like behavior.
trollhattan
@PaulW:
It’s not called “Wingnut Christmas” for nuttin’.
My fave tee-up of the last decade remains Biden’s “A noun, a verb and nine-eleven.” One line like that at the right time can kill a career.
handy
Holy Hyperbole Batman!
Spiny Norman
@catclub:
Dinsdale
trollhattan
@redshirt:
TBogg(pbuh) has improved it to “Chick-fil-Atio Day.”
Punchy
So assuming a Obama r’lectshun, do the House Impeachment hearings start on his first day of the second term, or the second day?
chopper
@handy:
he’s the adolph hitler of exaggeration.
NonyNony
@Punchy: If I were a betting man, I’d say during the lame duck session.
chopper
@FoxinSocks:
back in college, for a hot second i was in a band called Abortion Milkshake. funny thing is, some death metal band 10 years later came up with the same name.
Ben Franklin
@joel hanes:
Yup. He saved his vitriol for the super-righteous elite of his day.
Ben Franklin
@joel hanes:
Yup. He saved his vitriol for the super-righteous elite of his day.
Ben Franklin
@joel hanes:
Yup. He saved his vitriol for the super-righteous elite of his day.
SFAW
“Enforcing the ACA to stop companies from denying contraception is a crucifixion. And forcing a company to pay for domestic violence screening, that’s a crucifixion. And every time the Obama Mob puts the pressure on a good man, tries to stop him from keeping women from having sexytime, it’s a crucifixion. And anybody who sits around and lets it happen, keeps silent about something he knows that happened, shares the guilt of it just as much as the Roman soldier who pierced the flesh of our Lord to see if he was dead.”
Or maybe a crucifixion combined with 1000 anthrax-containing nukes used to force Teh Geh Marriage during the Islamofascist Holocaust at Pearl Harbor. Also, too.
Roger Moore
@Punchy:
Depends on whether we can get Nancy Smash her Speakership back.
David in NY
Sort of OT, but … Just got a notice that my employer will be getting a rebate of premiums from United Health, which will apparently be returned to me or defray the premium costs of next year. This is the second time I’ve benefited from the ACA — the 24 year old has insurance by me.
So — OBAMAdoesCARE
Chyron HR
@Face:
Actually, most Republicans seem convinced that the September 11 attacks happened on January 19, 2001.
SatanicPanic
@redshirt: The liberal campaign against Chik-Fil-A is worse than anything Stalin could have come up with.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
Speaking as a Christian, I’m fairly certain that baby-Jesus sort of wishes that all of these assholes would go find a hobby, and stop being haters.
JPL
Congress voted for the little blue pill to be covered by insurance. Since it is one of the top selling drugs on the market, it is easy to assume that not everyone is using it for medical reasons. I am trying to find out who voted for it.
Was it you Boehner?
SFAW
@NonyNony:
And if His Mittjesty wins, they can even do it retroactively, to 2008. Which would be good news for President John McCain.
The Moar You Know
@joes527:
If I were this kind of person, which I’m not, it would make me the “average dumbfuck American voter who comprises the vast majority of voters in this country”, as we’ve seen time and time again.
I don’t give two shits if your religion requires you to eat live babies every day, so long as it ain’t my kid.
If you’re looking for a freedom of religion issue that involves you consuming drugs currently held to be illegal by the U.S., if you’d like to get some traction/sympathy/votes with the American electorate, I’m just saying that Rastafarianism probably isn’t the way to go.
Really just trying to be helpful here.
Bulworth
Yes, gosh, will someone, anyone, please think of the employers!
danah gaz (fka gaz)
Time for God to queue up another tornado to send to flyover country. Probably a hurricane to florida as well, for good measure.
=)
Ash Can
Awesome. Scream louder, Republicans. Hold news conferences every day. Every hour, in fact. Make it so that no one in any news media anywhere can talk about anything but how awful the Republicans think it is that women now have all this additional care covered by their insurance, thanks to Obamacare. Make sure everybody knows what’s going on, in exact and thorough detail. Knock yourselves out.
Villago Delenda Est
This asshole needs to be actually crucified, just to demonstrate to him, at long last, what it actually fucking is.
trollhattan
@JPL:
Have heard more than one Republican declare, “But that’s a ‘medical kondishuun!'” when asked about their conflicting stances on that pill versus the other pill. Which gives me an instant headache requiring yet a third pill.
Tonal Crow
@Ash Can:
Also too, MOAR BIRTHERISM!!!!!
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Villago Delenda Est
@trollhattan:
I think we need to administer all these idiots the red pill.
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
Yeah, because we all know there are no medical implications of pregnancy.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore:
Just ask Jon Kyl!
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
I was thinking they should take their cyanide pills, but that’s just me.
MattR
@chopper: As God is my witness, I thought aborted fetuses could fly.
@Bulworth: It is only a matter of time before all employers convert to a new religion that believes taking vacations is a sin so they should no longer be forced to pay their employees salary when they take one.
redshirt
W. climbs up a tower of birth control pills, megaphone in hand….
trollhattan
@redshirt:
FTW.
Baud
Doesn’t have the same ring to it.
aimai
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I have to give you a huge round of golf claps for that.
aimai
Frank in midtown
Surely it is time to admit that Phillip Roth was right, the P in GOP stands for penis.
Culture of Truth
@redshirt: nice
tjmn
The current dumbest piece of House furniture would not get all the fun y’all are having.
tybee
“…nobody takes peyote for fun…”
ahhh. well, nevermind.
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
To be fair, the majority of these people are 100 percent convinced that there is no such thing as a pregnancy complication that was not caused by the woman herself, mostly because she was a shallow bitch who didn’t want that baby enough.
Goes right along with their general Calvinist worldview — if you weren’t a bad person, God wouldn’t have punished you by causing you to have life-threatening preeclampsia, now would He?
gluon1
Sen. Inouye, who knows a little something about Pearl Harbor and World War II, politely disagrees with Mr. Kelly’s argument. Don’t miss the twist of the knife at the end.
RedKitten
@gluon1:
OUCH! That is going to leave a mark.