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Im heading to the Senator floor soon to #StandwithPP. Watch live or follow here on Twitter for updates. http://floor.senate.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&event_id=482
http://www.senate.gov/floor/index.htm
I come to the Sen. floor today to ask my GOP colleagues: Do you have any idea what year it is?
Because I cannot believe that in 2015, the US Senate would be spending its time trying to defund womens health care centers.
Lets be really clear: The GOPs scheme to defund @PPFA is not some sort of surprised response to a highly edited video.
The GOP vote to defund @PPFA is 1 more piece of a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated right-wing attack on womens rights.
Why do so many people use @PPFA? Because they are nonprofit & they are open.
"To be clear: Even though the abortions performed at @PPFA are safe & legal, the federal gov isn't paying for them."
"A vote to defund @PPFA is a vote to defund cancer screenings & birth control & basic health care for millions of women."
"Women have lived through a world where backward-looking ideologues tried to interfere in basic health decisions, & were not going back."
"The GOP plan to defund @PPFA is a GOP plan to defund womens health care. I #standwithPP and I hope my colleagues will do the same."
https://twitter.com/SenWarren
Sen. Murray: Today the Senate is unfortunately taking a vote on whether critical hlth care services should be taken away from millions of women.
Were voting on whether cancer screenings should be more, or less available to women across the country.
Unfortunately, its clear that Republicans will jump at any opportunity to put politics before womens health.
Claiming other providers can simply absorb PPFA patients is like saying you can pour a bucket of water into a cup. It wont work.
...millions of women and their families are counting on us. And were going to keep standing up for them.
I hope they think of women whose lives are happier & healthier because of services Planned Parenthood provides.
https://twitter.com/PattyMurray
Sen.Warren
"Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s?" Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked Senate Republicans.
lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)It was a pleasure to watch.
And that was Joanie Ernst sitting at the President's desk. Hah!
cal04
(41,505 posts)wish I could post all of their comments
lamp_shade
(14,836 posts)AllFieldsRequired
(489 posts)who need to stand with us and say NO.
That is all, NO.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Why centrists in our party still try to play footsie with them is beyond me.
AllFieldsRequired
(489 posts)That wont go over well with some of us.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)These republicans are not just Neanderthals...they are corporate tools for ignorance begetting evil. Check out the new RollingStone article about climate change. We have doomed the earth more quickly than even we first even realized.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)President Obama in the WH. He can and will veto this. Imagine what having an R in the WH would mean to this country.
maindawg
(1,151 posts)then they never would advance or even propose these reticules bills.
daybranch
(1,309 posts)of pushing bills that separate women democrats from men democrats. No democratic man supports any of this crap, but the right wing will use this as best they can to separate the democratic party along gender lines. I will let you decide for yourself which democratic candidate they prefer. But then look at the speeches of our candidates and see who addresses the real problems and who enumerates long lists of band-aid social programs to keep the masses from rising up and standing together against the oligarchy. Who said republicans do not do nuance?
Every time we hear the word inevitable, we should respond with the word oligarchy. Just sayin--
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)Well, except for spelling 'ridiculous' as 'reticules,' , but that's how it works. The GOP wastes vast amount of time and resources proposing legislation it knows it can't pass purely to play to its most extreme base.
If, on the other hand, they could actually expect passage and Presidential signature, their corporate masters would say 'no, you're not going to do that.'
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)be held to account along with their willing lackey politicians?
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)I've only seen a video rebuttal. Is there an actual rebuttal/expose' in text form somewhere?
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)daybranch
(1,309 posts)we remove the power of their donors by electing Bernie Sanders and creating a people's revolution, rather than accepting their band aid social enhancements which are never designed to do anything but continue the power of the oligarchy and avoid the wrath of the people.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)deportation? soylent green?
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Like the movie though, they would welcome the Soylent retirement plan and would expand it to an non wealthy health care program.
lark
(23,105 posts)Slaves R Us is what they want. A uneducated empoverished working class that isn't smart enough to fight for their rights and will do anything they are told for next to nothing in wages. They will get no healthcare, since they will be replaceable because there will be no contraception in their dytopian world, so lots and lots of poor babies. Who cares if the moms don't make it, orphanages will do fine for the babies strong enough to survive.
I find it strange that this isn't transparently obvious to most Americans. Why, for example, would ALEC, when it was still mostly made up of major corporate members, write and push model bills on subjects such as 'stand your ground (and shoot)' laws? There isn't any direct correlation from such laws to their business interests. However, anything that makes Americans feel less secure and more generally fearful is a win for the Cheap Jobs community.
And the Cheap Jobs mega-corporation lobby keeps winning...
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)Too risky. If just one Republican was mixed in, the entire batch would be spoiled! Ick. I'm not hungry anymore.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)The sixties are kind of a blur...
WillyT
(72,631 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Henry Kissinger (war criminal and bosom buddy of Hillary Clinton) stated in a National Security Memo from '74 or '75 that something had to be done to start getting rid of the "useless eaters." It is being put into effect, step by step, every day.
Destroy the social safety net and let the die-off from starvation, disease and exposure to inclement weather begin. No messy, expensive, attention-attracting concentration/extermination camps. let nature do the work for free. Genocide on the cheap, and keep the profits rolling in.
merrily
(45,251 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)Basic GOP economics.
3 Primary reasons:
1. They need poor and uneducated to vote for them. (They make them believe they will be rich someday too, so they better help the 1%, it's helping their future rich selves, right?)
2. An anchor on inflation. It is taught in their right wing business schools that equality = inflation.
3. Cheap and plentiful labor. Workers who can afford lawyers are bad for business.
daybranch
(1,309 posts)The poor are the creation of the rich oligarchy, blaming the poor and economically disadvantaged is central to the strategy of republicans to continue to be elected to serve the oligarchy by the rich. The poor are essential to this strategy and increasing their number is what the republicans desire without upsetting their control of the voters. So the poor are necessary to the system and will be with us in ever greater numbers as the oligarchy reigns. Vote for Bernie and fight back, We must unite if we are to win this fight. Do not accept band aids. Demand real change in who runs our government.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)They want a far greater percentage of the American population to be poor and desperate. The result is cheaper labor making fewer demands for decent pay and decent conditions because everyone's desperately afraid of what will happen if they lose a job. That's been the critical goal of corporate America for decades, and they are accomplishing it one almost invisible step at a time.
All the 'social issues' crap that the GOP is loudest about is smoke screen.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Except for abortion, the GOP wouldn't care if these services were provided by a private, for profit group.
Kber
(5,043 posts)I've been looking at this as primarily an attack on a woman's right to controller own sexuality. But there is more than one thing at play, as you rightly write.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... they're evil down to their DNA.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)It's a sad day when women are getting as disjointed from reality as men.
rladdi
(581 posts)REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED STATES. They have even forced many healthcare facilities to close because they took funding away. The REPUBLICANS are the ISIS of this USA.
maindawg
(1,151 posts)Republicans are the equivalent to ISIS in the USA
ion_theory
(235 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, cal.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)From this war on women.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)are obvious by their absence.
Hotler
(11,425 posts)I have mine. Fuck everyone else crowd.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)"Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s?" Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked Senate Republicans.
She gets it.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)to privacy and better health-------------just ask me for help------------I'll be there for you
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)lostnfound
(16,184 posts)That's classic.
It characterizes a lot of the positions of the Republican Party.
lark
(23,105 posts)We NEED lots more like her and Bernie.
libodem
(19,288 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)War on Women. I'm sick to death of it. My 27 year old daughter can not believe it. The crazies are loose and at the moment in Congress.