The phrase War On Women is starting to crop up on some of the internets. I recommend using the phrase as much as possible. I’ve made it a tag.
We’ll know we’re winning when Politifact rates it as “false”.
by DougJ| 64 Comments
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The phrase War On Women is starting to crop up on some of the internets. I recommend using the phrase as much as possible. I’ve made it a tag.
We’ll know we’re winning when Politifact rates it as “false”.
by DougJ| 72 Comments
This post is in: The War On Women, Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!
A good summary from Steve M.:
For those who are still in denial about the extremism of modern-day Republicans, the past week — hell, the past 24 hours — should have been a cold slap in the face, a big jolt of reality. Rush Limbaugh, praised for years by Republicans, declared an honorary member of the House freshman class in the Contract with America year of 1994, pal to Dick Cheney all through his time as vice president, attacks an advocate of contraceptive coverage as a slut and a prostitute and, after being criticized, doubles down, demanding that the woman “post [sex] videos online” in return for contraceptive coverage. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, honorary Arizona co-chair of Mitt Romney’s 2008 campaign, backer of Rick Perry last fall until he dropped out of the race, object of the entreaties of Rick Santorum, holds a press conference today to reassert that the long-form Obama birth certificate is a fake. (Santorum, when he met with Arpaio last week, was briefed on Arpaio’s birther “investigation” and didn’t immediately distance himself from the sheriff.) Oh, and what else? Nearly every Republican senator voted for the Blunt amendment? Andrew Breitbart died and much of the right concluded that President Obama murdered him? And, five days ago, Rick Santorum declared that anyone who wants more Americans to have access to college is a “snob”?
And only a few months til we’re told that we’re a right-center nation who should respect Mitt Romney’s Hayekian modesty.
by Imani Gandy (ABL)| 68 Comments
This post is in: Vagina Outrage, Assholes
Limbaugh is so disgusting that he’s not worthy of my contempt.
As such, I write this post only to demonstrate how deliberately manipulative (and wantonly dickish) he is, having managed to convince right-wing assclowns like Patricia Heaton (who knew she was such an asshole?) that Fluke wanted birth control to have more sex, when in actuality she was relaying the story of a friend who needed birth control to manage a medical condition.
But whatever. Facts don’t matter because GIRLZ HAB BAJINAS LOL:
[O]n his radio show today, Limbaugh showed no remorse and instead reveled in the attention. Referring to Fluke, Limbaugh demanded that women post sex tapes online if they use insurance-covered birth control:LIMBAUGH: So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch.
Limbaugh also said he found the outrage over his remarks “absolutely hilarious.” He again completely misrepresented Fluke’s testimony, saying, she “went before a Congressional committee and said she’s having so much sex she’s going broke buying contraceptives and wants us to buy them.” In fact, Fluke testimony was about a friend — who is gay — and needed contraception for medical reasons, but was denied coverage by Georgetown, a Catholic university.
He went on to say, “I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much Aspirin to put between their knees as they want” — a reference to Rick Santorum-backer Foster Friess’ home-spun idea of birth control.
I’m less irritated by Limbaugh’s comments (which are par for the course for him), and more irritated by the fact that he has planted a disgusting mental image in my brain — of his doughy hand gripping his tiny wang as he — BRAIN BLEACH.
I will say this: It is rather amusing to watch the nutbags alternatively crying about how liberals are celebrating Andrew Breitbart’s death and bemoaning the lack of civility while simultaneously slut-shaming Sandra Fluke. You can’t buy cognitive dissonance like that, y’all.
RELATED POST: The Contraception/Slut Prophecy
[via Think Progress]
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Some rare good news in the Senate:
Sen. Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican who this week said she would not run for reelection, joined nearly all Democrats in a 51-48 vote to dispense of the amendment, which would have allowed employers to decline to cover certain health benefits that conflict with their religious beliefs.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted for the proposed amendment to the Senate transportation bill, saying the Obama administration did not respond to her concerns about whether self-insured health plans of faith-based organizations would be exempt from the contraception coverage mandate. So did Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who this week questioned why Republicans were voting on the proposal now.
Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania joined Republicans in support of the amendment.
Afterwards, Blunt said the vote went “just as he expected it to go.”
“I’m pleased it was bipartisan; I’m pleased that three Democrats were supportive. It’s a matter of conscience, people have to do what they have to do on something like this,” he said.
“I’m confident this issue is not over and won’t be over until the administration figures out how to accommodate people’s religious views as it relates to these new mandates,” Blunt said.
I honestly don’t know what the Manchin team is thinking. I have no idea what polls they must be reading, or what strategy they think they are following. This was a radical, radical amendment, and I have no idea why Manchin would support this.
by DougJ| 154 Comments
This post is in: Activist Judges!, Post-racial America
From the email of Montana’s U.S. District Chief Judge Richard Cebull, a federal judge (h/t reader J):
“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.
“A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’ ” the e-mail joke reads. “His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!’ “
Cebull admitted Wednesday to sending the e-mail to seven recipients, including his personal e-mail address. The judge acknowledged that the content of the e-mail was racist, but said he does not consider himself racist. He said the e-mail was intended to be a private communication.
Liberals can’t take a joke blah blah blah.
This douchebag should resign immediately.
This post is in: Vagina Outrage, Assholes, Teabagger Stupidity
Me, yesterday, on the wingnut response to Sandra Fluke’s testimony:
C’mon, wingnuts, quit nancying around and just call them sluts.
Limbaugh, today:
LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.
Excellent! I hope the wingnuts in the blogosphere follow his lead and start calling all women who use contraceptives sluts and hookers. This is going to be fucking awesome.
This post is in: Election 2012, Excellent Links, Vagina Outrage
I know some of you don’t care for Slate, but this deserves to be shared. Emily Rapp disagrees with Rick Santorum:
… If I had known Ronan had Tay-Sachs (I met with two genetic counselors and had every standard prenatal test available to me, including the one for Tay-Sachs, which did not detect my rare mutation, and therefore I waived the test at my CVS procedure), I would have found out what the disease meant for my then unborn child; I would have talked to parents who are raising (and burying) children with this disease, and then I would have had an abortion. Without question and without regret, although this would have been a different kind of loss to mourn and would by no means have been a cavalier or uncomplicated, heartless decision. I’m so grateful that Ronan is my child. I also wish he’d never been born; no person should suffer in this way—daily seizures, blindness, lack of movement, inability to swallow, a devastated brain—with no hope for a cure. Both of these statements are categorically true; neither one is mutually exclusive.