Texas GOP Attacks Planned Parenthood by Banning Them from Medicaid Program

The Republican Party’s total war on women’s rights goes local
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The Republican Party clearly has a national agenda to wage total war against Planned Parenthood.

In Texas today, a Senate subcommittee voted to ban Planned Parenthood from being part of a program that provides health screening for low income women.

That’s not all. The bill also includes a “poison pill” provision that would completely scrap the Women’s Health Program if Planned Parenthood successfully sues to restore their participation.

Planned Parenthood says this bill would immediately deny access to health care for about 40,000 women.

The bill now heads to the Texas Health and Human Services Committee.

This bad craziness is getting out of control, folks. Unless the women’s rights movement starts to show signs of reviving and actually organizing to fight these throwbacks, America’s going to regress to a very dark period of our history.

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1 windsagio  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:07:06pm

Said this when it came up in the other thread but it bears repeating.

Really really wanna think that they’re finally overextending themselves and are gonna pay the price, finally. But I’ve probably thought that 15 times in the last decade.

There’s a large minority if not a regional majority that actually likes this kind of crap… which is so scary. They’ll stop if it starts seriously costing them votes.

2 Interesting Times  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:09:01pm
This bad craziness is getting out of control, folks. Unless the women’s rights movement starts to show signs of reviving and actually organizing to fight these throwbacks, America’s going to regress to a very dark period of our history

No, we’ll become the glorious, Biblical Christianity-based society outlined here.

3 Kragar  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:09:15pm

Evil or Stupid is no longer the question. Its obviously both.

4 windsagio  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:10:06pm

re: #3 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Evil or Stupid is no longer the question. Its obviously both.

Is it actually stupid if it works? Remember the goal here isn’t good governance.

5 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:10:58pm

This saves/creates how many American jobs?

Obama needs to revive a Clinton-ism. “It’s the economy, stupid”.

6 Lidane  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:10:59pm

Here in Texas, there’s not much to be done at the legislative level. Republicans have a 2-to-1 supermajority over Democrats, 101 to 49.

This would have to be solved by the courts, and with that poison pill provision in place I don’t know how they’ll do it. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t even begin to speculate on what would be involved in fighting this.

7 Nevertires  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:13:51pm

re: #1 windsagio

You spoke my mind. Literally read my mind.

It is like I can see or think I can see who this affects - and why can’t these d’bags realize who pays the price for their political farce.

What do we do? Exposing these people and their actions to daylight kills some of it - but how do you get at the rest?

Aggravating beyond words.

8 windsagio  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:13:56pm

re: #6 Lidane

The poison pill thing seems illegal too tho’, blocking the power of the courts or something.

9 Lidane  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:15:48pm

re: #8 windsagio

The poison pill thing seems illegal too tho’, blocking the power of the courts or something.

Yeah, but not being a lawyer, I don’t want to try and parse it or offer any kind of route to fight it. I don’t know how it would be done.

It’s so damn frustrating. I grew up here in Texas. I like living here in Austin, and I like my friends. I just hate seeing all this backwards garbage.

10 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:16:19pm

Isn’t this how bullies fight? Ganging up on somebody see as unable to defend themselves, then setting it up so that fighting back just gets the victim in trouble instead?

11 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:18:58pm

Heh, and the “Frank Says” I got for this page is: “Get yer ass out there and register to VOTE!”

12 elizajane  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:19:53pm

There is this creepy way that this all happens under the mainstream radar. I mean that the platform on which the Republicans ran for election was about jobs and the economy; things like abortion were a minuscule part of 2010. That’s why the center voted them in. But now the GOP performance is all about the base, and somehow only the base really notices this. There’s a lot of big public noise about the budget and Paul Ryan, but nothing happens there. What happens is fucking up women’s right to a choice, and getting creationism into the curriculum, and garbage like that.

BTW, on a happier note, did anybody see that stem cell research is federally funded again?
foxnews.com

13 Killgore Trout  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:23:55pm
14 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:28:28pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Well, I guess they couldn’t actually claim he was responsible for causing the tornadoes, so they had to go with something.

15 Nevertires  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:29:10pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

speechless… my idiocy absorption ability is maxed out. Too bad there are no journalistic credentials to lose for sheer stupidity and/or malice.

16 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:29:22pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

You’ve got to be kidding me

17 makeitstop  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:30:07pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

What idiocy.

18 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:30:33pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Should probably screenshot that before it slips down the memory hole.

19 Kragar  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:31:05pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

HE SAID “I”! HE SAID “I”!

20 Lidane  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:32:15pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

It just never stops with these people. OMG.

Also, I’ll just leave this here:

Donald Trump’s lunacy reveals core truth about the Republicans

21 McSpiff  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:32:49pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

hahahaha….

22 ausador  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:34:24pm

“Throwing out the baby with the bathwater” comes to mind.

There is a point when irrational non-informed hatred becomes pathological, I think we have reached it. :(

23 simoom  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:35:56pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

Screen shot for posterity:
Image: M00XP.png

Should be retitled: “Fox plays the basest of partisan politics on the backs of tornado victims and the dead.”

24 Kragar  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:36:41pm

IAEA Confirms Syria Secretly Building Nuclear Reactor

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency has said for the first time that a target bombed in Syria in 2007 was a secretly built nuclear reactor.

Yukiya Amano Thursday told a Paris press conference that the facility destroyed by Israel in an air strike was a “nuclear reactor under construction.” As such, Amano said, it was not producing plutonium.

25 mr.fusion  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:37:06pm

re: #1 windsagio

Said this when it came up in the other thread but it bears repeating.

Really really wanna think that they’re finally overextending themselves and are gonna pay the price, finally. But I’ve probably thought that 15 times in the last decade.

There’s a large minority if not a regional majority that actually likes this kind of crap… which is so scary. They’ll stop if it starts seriously costing them votes.

I just worry that not enough people are paying attention. The GOP is going to come out and yell about socialism, and try like hell to continue painting the President as “other.” It worked in 2010 and I worry like crazy that it will work again in 2012

26 Charles Johnson  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:37:45pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

I think ‘Dim’ Hoft is writing the Fox Nation headlines now.

27 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:38:04pm

re: #24 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

IAEA Confirms Syria Secretly Building Nuclear Reactor

And the IAEA once again comes from behind to clench the “DUH!” Award for 2011.

28 I Am Kreniigh!  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:41:02pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

Wow. I’m a pretty big politics junkie, but this… I am switching off for the weekend. I can’t bear to read about any more evil stupidity. It’s bright and sunny outside and there’s a nice breeze. Later lizards!

29 wrenchwench  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:42:39pm

re: #11 Slumbering Behemoth

Heh, and the “Frank Says” I got for this page is: “Get yer ass out there and register to VOTE!”

My Frank Says sounds like Trump Says:

Frank says:

Well, you know people, I’d rather have my own game show than have enough votes to become president.

30 iossarian  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:44:55pm

re: #12 elizajane

There is this creepy way that this all happens under the mainstream radar. I mean that the platform on which the Republicans ran for election was about jobs and the economy; things like abortion were a minuscule part of 2010. That’s why the center voted them in. […]

I can’t tell you how many conversations I had with people where they were dismissing the extreme anti-abortion positions that GOP candidates were taking, basically saying “they don’t really believe that stuff, they’re just saying it to get elected”.

Welcome to reality morons. Never vote for a Republican again.

31 Kragar  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:45:10pm

Shocking news

Bachmann mangles the facts on domestic oil production

We have generally become accustomed to Michele Bachmann’s careless use of facts on a number of issues, but her analysis of domestic oil reserves in the Tuesday, April 26 Star Tribune was beyond her normal exaggerations. Her facts, in fact, were highly distorted and unsupported by any reliable data.

Bachmann noted potential United States oil reserves in our shale deposits and the deep water Gulf, but her focus was on the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). So, let’s first deal with her claim that in ANWR “30 to 50 years of oil may be available”. This claim, by any reliable data available is so wildly exaggerated, it defies credibility. But first, a critical number that will affect all the data which follows. The DOE reported that the United States consumption of crude oil and petroleum products has been about 7.55 billion barrels annually, for several years now.

Back to ANWR. There are varying estimates about reserves in that area, and also some discussion about how much of the Wildlife Reserve should be drilled on. But that aside, the amount of oil in ANWR has been studied for years. In 1998, the US Geological Survey estimated that between 5.7 and 16.0 billion barrels of technically recoverable crude oil and natural gas liquids are in the coastal plain area of ANWR, with a mean estimate of 10.4 billion barrel — of which 7.7 billion barrels lie within the Federal portion of the ANWR area. Moreover, as recently as 2008, the undiscovered estimates are categorized as “prospective” resources and therefore, not proved; and further, to reach full production could take many years. In fact, given the estimated reserves, the total production from ANWR would be between 0.4 and 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030. And more importantly would represent less than one year of United State’s oil consumption – not the 30 to 50 years purported by Bachmann.

33 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:46:38pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

It’s gotta be absolutely devastating to the wingnuts, that Obama’s there in person to look at the damage, rather than fly over it in Air Force One.

34 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:48:09pm

re: #23 simoom


Should be retitled: “Fox plays the basest of partisan politics on the backs of tornado victims and the dead.”

Word. Bunch of goddamned ghouls.

35 Kragar  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:48:50pm

re: #33 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

It’s gotta be absolutely devastating to the wingnuts, that Obama’s there in person to look at the damage, rather than fly over it in Air Force One.

“Obama blocks relief efforts by getting in the way of relief crews.”

36 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:49:15pm

Remember, these folks are not just against Planned Parenthood as an instution, they are against the very concept of planned parenthood in small letters: it is not in keeping with God’s Divine Plan.

37 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:50:15pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

I swear, I thought that was gonna be the Onion.

Holy Christ.

38 allegro  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:52:50pm

re: #30 iossarian

I can’t tell you how many conversations I had with people where they were dismissing the extreme anti-abortion positions that GOP candidates were taking, basically saying “they don’t really believe that stuff, they’re just saying it to get elected”.

Welcome to reality morons. Never vote for a Republican again.

That’s exactly the same conversation I’ve had over and over again for the past 20+ years with people who I KNOW don’t go for this crap but continue to vote for the assholes. They always come back to the “Democrats will raise my taxes!” routine even though “fiscal responsibility” has been proven to be a much greater forte of Dem leadership than Rep.

39 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 1:55:15pm

re: #31 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Shocking news

Bachmann mangles the facts on domestic oil production

To hear the “Drill, Baby, Drill!” crowd, there’s an endless supply of oil off our shores or locked in shale, but those damned “libruls” are keeping us from tapping it, driving up oil prices.

40 Thorzdad  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:12:03pm

The Indiana general assembly passed a similar bill this week, banning any money from going to Planned Parenthood. It’s sitting on Governor Mitch Daniels’ desk, waiting for him to decide which way the strongest presidential wind blows…Sign the bill, and keep the love of the social conservatives, or veto the bill, and maybe gain the love of independents, moderates and swing voters.

Unfortunately, to even have a hope of getting the nomination, he will have to get his knees dirty with the social conservatives. I expect him to sign the bill.

41 Sionainn  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 2:12:13pm

re: #13 Killgore Trout

Outrageous outrage of the day: Obama Makes Tornadoes About Himself: ‘I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like This’

Another shining example of how Fox News headlines have nothing to do with the story…and also proves that Fox News readers only read headlines to get their news. It’s quite effective when dealing with the dumber folk.

42 mikec6666  Fri, Apr 29, 2011 8:29:43pm

I wonder why women’s groups are largely silent on these de-funding efforts. Maybe it’s been a settled matter for so long in their minds (and the minds of most Americans) that they aren’t really sure how to react. I suppose we’ll see in the next election cycle whether it has an effect. Somehow, I’m not hopeful that it will get the backlash it deserves. Man, Republicans sure know how to attack. They’re damn good at it, to our detriment.


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