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GOP Holds Hearing on Women's Health Without Women
In an effort to win over the electorate of 1956, congressional Republicans have taken up birth control as their new wedge issue. Unfortunately, it's hard to start a culture war over something that 99% of the culture supports.
But the GOP pressed ahead today with a full-blown congressional hearing, and who better to testify on this important women's issue than a panel composed entirely of men?
Female members of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee walked out of a hearing on the contraception policy after committee Chairman Darrell Issa (D-Calif.) refused to allow testimony from Sandra Flake, a Georgetown University law student who supports the administration’s policy.
Because she couldn’t testify, the hearing started off with an all-male panel of religious leaders answering questions from male lawmakers. The optics were hard to miss…
Witnesses from Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organizations testified Thursday that even though they don't have to subsidize employees' birth-control coverage, the policy remains a threat to their religious freedoms.
It makes sense that a congressional hearing on women's health would contain neither women nor health experts. It was organized by public servants who have no interest in serving the public.
Of course women shouldn't be able to testify about their own reproductive health needs. In order to help draft an unpopular law that sets women back 50 years, you must have a pair of testicles. Because that kind of arrogance takes a huge set of balls.
Photo via Nancy Pelosi/Twitter
Tags: Contraception, Darrell Issa, Health Care, House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood, Republicans, Women's Rights -
Love, Washington Style
Despite common misconceptions, U.S. politicians are not simply cold unfeeling syphons of money and power who leech resources from hardworking voters and bleed discontent into our shared consciousness. In fact, some of them are even capable of genuine human emotions like "love" and "non-quite hate."
Don't believe me? Check out this photo gallery of our nation's leaders expressing emotion with those lip-like things on their faces.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images
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Nancy Pelosi vs. Colbert Super PAC
I'm not so sure former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants to be playing with this kind of fire. Or this kind of magic lightning or whatever. Publicly coming out against super PACs has got to be kind of dangerous. But to come out against Stephen Colbert's super PAC? That's got to be like an anti-Colbert Bump times a zillion, right?
The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30/10:30c.
Tags: Colbert Super PAC, House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Stephen Colbert, Super PACs, The Colbert Report, Video -
From the Pork Barrel: Newt Moon Rising
* Newt Gingrich promises a U.S. moon base by the end of his second term. Can't decide the funniest part of that sentence.
* Florida Republicans seem to be having trouble deciding between the lesser of two lessers.
* Nancy Pelosi's office says Nancy Pelosi is full of shit. Good! We're all in agreement.
* Barack Obama's SOTU address was written at an 8th grade reading level and appealed to 91 percent of viewers. That right there says everything you need to know about America.
* A lot of people think that Tennessee Tea Party demands to ban truths concerning slavery from school history text books is an overt attempt to whitewash the lives of the Founding Fathers. I disagree. I think they're just trying to get rid of all mention of black people.
* A new study disproves the common belief that people get more conservative as they age. On the contrary, I just think society gets more liberal as people get smarter.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Tags: Barack Obama, Conservatives, Education, Florida, Founding Fathers, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, Pork Barrel, Primaries, Racism, Republicans, Senior Citizens, Slavery, State of the Union, Tea Party, Tennessee -
Democrats Not Expected to Win Back House in 2012, Unless . . .
Democratic hopes of returning former ineffectual Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to her ineffectual job being ineffectual may be dashed this Novemeber, according to some numbers which have recently been crunched by some number crunchers…Democrats need to win 25 additional House seats to retake the speaker's gavel next year. In order for them to do that, President Obama will need to win next year, and that probably won’t be enough.
What Democrats really need is a poisonous, damaged Republican nominee who not only loses to Obama but causes harm down the ticket.
Hmmmmmm… A "poisonous, damaged Republican nominee," you say?
Alright! The Republicans are on it!
The question I posed yesterday — does Newt Gingrich have momentum in South Carolina? — now appears to have an unambiguous answer. Yes, Mr. Gingrich does have momentum — and a lot of it…
The model now shows a virtual tie in the race, with Mr. Gingrich projected to get 34 percent of the vote and Mr. Romney 33.6 percent and each candidate having about a 50 percent chance of winning.
What else do you need? Whatever it is, I'm relatively certain it can be arranged. If not already in the pipeline.
Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Tags: Democrats, House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, Primaries, Republicans
