Sarah and Stupak
Posted by: Donna
Hi kidlets. Been busy moving from LD20 to LD11 so I haven’t kept up with the blogging but a lot’s gone on lately with health care reform regarding reproductive choice. And the Quitter In Chief of Alaska released her rogue-ish magnum opus.
Those things are related. Because I want them to be for the purposes of this post and because they really are. Congress peeps are getting all up on TV either opining how the health care bill must include a provision to bar all federal funds from going to abortion OR saying that the Stupak Amendment is the biggest encroachment on reproductive choice since the Hyde Amendment. Queen Sarah, for her part, is all up on the teevee interview circuit selling her “book”, and promoting her political aspirations via soft-focus human interest pap on Oprah and Barbara Walters.
What I want to know from any of the interlocutors of these people is this: What about contraception? Rep. Stupak, if you want to bar coverage of abortion from all plans in the Health Insurance Exchange, are you willing to demand that all plans cover contraception?
Members of Congress and the Senate who oppose Stupak, are you willing to force the issue by inserting a provision to any amendment to a health care bill that contraception MUST be covered in all insurance plans? Because it’s not there.
Hey interviewers of Sarah Palin, can you forget that you’re talking to a Big CelebrityTM for a minute and remember that you are talking to a politician? One who was a former Vice Presidential candidate and one who has further political aspirations? And one who trotted her pregnant teenage daughter out onto the national stage? The locus of the Palin family sympathy trainwreck is the unplanned, unwed baby of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston. At any rate, could you ask Sarah a few policy questions? Could one of them be what her view is on whether or not contraception should be covered by government subsidized insurance plans? I’d really like to know what she thinks about that.
Hey, hello, all of you, could you stop dithering and get American women some reliable and affordable birth control?
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As one of my colleagues says: “what? You are supposed to be barefoot and pregnant. That was what was wrong with Hilary.”
Donna,
“And the Quitter In Chief of Alaska released her rogue-ish magnum opus.”
Sarah Palin’s stated reason for quitting was the constant nuisance lawsuits that Your people tied her up with. Why don’t you address those?
I’d like to point out the hypocrisy of the whole situation with the following example. Your people can file endless lawsuits for no other reason than harassment, yet look what happens when someone dares pursue President Obama.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/10/obama_birther_fined_20k.html
C’mon! Stupak? Real name? That’s comedy!
Why should a woman have the rightt to covered reproductive rights, when a mans blue pills and two fingers up the you know what are?
Duih!
Whatever her reasons, Alan, she couldn’t hack it. President Obama has been the target of numerous death threats since he announced his candidacy, not to mention endless idiotic attacks by teabaggers and vexatious litigants like Orly Taitz*. Yet he shows up for work every day.
*Say, aren’t you guys against “frivolous litigation?”
Donna,
“Whatever her reasons, Alan, she couldn’t hack it. President Obama has been the target of numerous death threats since he announced his candidacy, not to mention endless idiotic attacks by teabaggers and vexatious litigants like Orly Taitz*. Yet he shows up for work every day.”
You should go in to politics. You have a gift for stating irrelevant facts. Every Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate has death threats. As the winner of the last election Obama has the best Secret Service protection and Palin did not give death threats as a reason, so that has no meaning whatsoever.
“Idiotic attacks by teabaggers” has no meaning also. How about we stay focused on the legal attacks, OK?
As President, Barak Obama, I believe has the legal power of the entire US Government to defend himself from petty lawsuits. As Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin bore the brunt of your side’s BS legal attacks. As evidence I offer the following.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/64545.html
As always I say prove me wrong.
Welcome to LD11. Want to run for State Senate?