It must be the weekend because the summary of the ravings of the lunatic fringe, aka Republicans and their media cohorts, are "rolling off the presses" so to speak. But nothing the rabid right says or does is cogent, nor truthful.
BARF BAG ALERT!
The week began with an attempted massacre of Planned Parenthood and ended with another horrific mass shooting. Conservatives grilled the head of a organization that provides healthcare to poor women as if she were a criminal, and then threw up their hands saying nothing can be done about gun violence. Poor healthcare and random gun deaths are just the price you pay for freedom, they say. Or as Jeb Bush so brilliantly articulated: "Stuff happens." Here are five low-lights from the week that was:
5. Republican Congressman: Planned Parenthood is not necessary, because as a guy with great health insurance from the taxpayers, I have plenty of healthcare options.
During this week’s Planned Parenthood hearings, the tin-eared award goes to Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman, a Republican congressman who told the CEO of the women’s healthcare provider that he just does not find her organization necessary. As a man enjoying great government-funded health insurance, he has plenty of other options. Bully for him.
When I look at cities around me that have a Planned Parenthood clinic … usually in those cities, as a guy, I could go to many clinics locally that have all the machines that one would need, all these clinics as far as I know take Medicaid dollars, so you could go to any of those clinics to get any medical service you could. . . . I guess what I’m getting at is if Planned Parenthood disappeared tomorrow in those towns, there would still be three or four or five clinics or hospitals providing all the … medical care you would want.
Grothman's general outlook on Medicaid is almost as dim as his view of Planned Parenthood. He has then claimed in the past that people who use the public safety net are fleecing taxpayers by living high on the hog, and not having to pay deductibles like those with private insurance do.
Women and poor people have all the luck!
Read about the other four Right Wing Idiocies in Alternet. I'd say they'd amaze you, but I don't think anything that Republicans or Faux say or do amazes anyone anymore. It is SSDD . . . Stupid is as stupid does!
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And has he seen the signs in all those clinics saying that they do not accept Medicaid payment limits?
Man. He is a raving IDIOT! I don't know what I would have done without PP when I was younger! And when I was married or unmarried! I think that is his REAL thing with PP. He thinks that no woman should have access to PP if they are NOT married! And then if they are, what difference does it make if you get pregnant or not? Your married, so it shouldn't be a problem. Unless you don't want to be the spokesperson of the RepukkklicanTs, barefoot and pregnant! I guess couples should not be able PLAN how many kids you have and when or if you have them!!!!!
1. Calling Bill O'Lielly "Papa" is a scathing indictment of patriarchy. Here's a much better view of guns: http://www.peaceteam.net/gun_regulation.php
2. We all know what he WANTED to say is :Shit happens." Not that Jeb! is worthy to lick Truman's boots, but it does remind me of a Truman story. He had given a speech including the statement that "All politics is, is manure, manure, and more manure." A prim friend said to BEss, "Couldn't you get him to say fertilizer?" Bess responded, "You have no idea how long it has taken me to get him to say manure."
3. What amazes me, when people react like this to any faint suggestion of gin regulation – and they do, in drives – is: when they PROVE by their childish tantrums that they are unfit to have a gun, WHY do we just shut up and let them hold us hostage?
4. Is he trying to become Sister Sarah's counterpart as the king of word salad?
5. Glenn Grothmann. Plutocrat Pup. Need I say more?
Yeah, why don't these poor women man up and get themselves a good medical insurance for their medical (man) problems, available from their friendly neighborhood clinic?
As my mom used to say: people like that weren't born, they were lost by a donkey in a gallop. She forgot to mention they mostly landed on their head.
So O'Reilly really can't think of a single thing to help curb – NOT PREVENT … LOWER – gun violence?
We can all help him out:
Close the gun show loophole
Prohibit assault weapons and high capacity magazines
Mandate passing a firearms safety course (like we do for drivers)
National gun registry (like we do for cars)
Mental health screening requirement
Mandatory gun insurance (like we do for cars)
… Add your own "Common Sense Gun Control Laws" …
License for what class of firearm you qualified as knowing how to use (like we do for motorcycles and trucks)
Lose the privilege similar to drivers' licenses for certain health events (e.g., passing out, infirmities) with process and procedures requiring doctor notifications and certification the health issue is history, etc.
I read all five, they are all lunatics. You know O'reilly and Hannity are going to find a way to attack Pres.Obama at any opportunity. Carson, whew, how did someone this dumb ever get to be a neurosurgeon? The congressman who thinks women should just go look for other health care was so flippant about his insurance that I wish there were some way to take it away from him. Sometimes I almost feel sorry for Jeb, he is so confused.
I just read an article that says Kim Davis's lawyer heads a hate group, no big surprise there.