Republican men are continuing their war on women, whether they want to own up to it or not.
In the latest salvo, House Speaker John Boehner called a program aimed at wellness, prevention and early cancer detection a "slush fund" and cut it in order to pay for the bill that would keep student loan interest rates from doubling.
First of all, it's utterly ridiculous that this program is being called a "slush fund" by the right. This program is called the Prevention and Public Health Fund and is part of the health care act passed under President Obama. Secondly, the Republicans blocked a Democratic bill that would have paid for the student loan interest rate extension by eliminating tax subsidies for oil companies. That's right. The Republicans would rather cut health care benefits than eliminate tax subsidies for oil companies that are making record profits. Can you say corruption?? Could it be any more obvious, at least to those of us with any common sense whatsoever, that the Republicans only care about old wealthy white guy CEO's, particularly those from oil companies, than they do about the rest of us?
Why does anyone vote for these people again? I really don't get it.
And Boehner keeps saying that the so-called Republican "war on women" is just something the Democrats cooked up for political purposes. Seriously. OK, explain then, Mr. Speaker, how the Democrats forced Republican state legislatures to come up with over 90 bills cutting women's health care, particularly abortion rights. I know you guys on the right tend to forget, but abortion is legal. Explain to me how the Democrats forced Rush Limbaugh to call a law student a "slut" and a "prostitute." She was, after all, simply wanting Georgetown's student health care plan to cover contraception. (Georgetown covers contraception for their employees, just not the students, btw, a fact that has gotten lost in all the hoopla.) Explain how the Democrats have forced Republicans to do all this, if you want to say it's all made up by the lefties.
You, John Boehner, are an embarassment to the office of House Speaker.
The Republicans have now managed to alienate most women, men who think women should have equal rights, union workers, minorities, secularists and gay people. The only audience they have left are the wealthy, right-wing male nutcases and women who are on the extreme religious right. If I were them, I'd be getting plenty nervous about this upcoming election.
See the Huffington Post article here.
