For the last 18 years, the young women who worked for the Republican National Committee (RNC) had some very comprehensive health insurance. It even covered abortions.
That's right kids, if a RNC campaign muffin found herself with a bun in the oven unexpectedly (Remember, they only teach abstinence, not sex-ed, at the Nancy Reagan Preparatory School and Country Club!) all she had to do was head down to the local abortionist and be done with it. And these abortions were made possible by Republican donors of America.
Sweet huh? Those same people who have spouted hateful things about the reproductive rights of women in order to get fat cat Republicans to whip out their wallets and write even fatter checks have been spending some of those dollars they raised to ensure that their female employees can get abortions on demand.
Oh...and the best part? The only reason that they quit is because they got caught. They are trying to use the abortion issue as a way to trip up health care reform and some snoopy reporter types found out that the RNC insurance plan was providing the actual services that the Republican's were trying to strip out of the public option insurance being proposed on the hill.
You know...that part of the health care reform bill intended to cover those who are currently falling through the cracks. People like the poor, the un- or underemployed, the under-educated, -- in other words -- the kinds of people who are the least likely to ever work at the RNC.
Well, they may have been trying to strip it out, but the main purpose of the whole thing was to use the abortion issue as they have been for years and years, to drive a wedge between conservative Democrats and liberal ones.
I think some on the Religious Right actually care about abortion.
(I also think they are self-righteous hypocrites who think they've been saved by Jesus but miss the point completely when it comes to tolerance and forgiveness. But that is for another day.)
But deep in the dark bowels of the RNC, where the Republican political hacks cultivate their strategies based not on belief or credo, but on an unfailing desire to gain and maintain power, the abortion issue is just an old, favorite tool. It is a tool they use whenever they need to divide the voters or the Congress, to distract them from the true goal of the Republican efforts, to keep the rich rich and the poor poor and the government out of the way of those with the most money and power.
This isn't about abortion. This is about the insurance companies getting what they want: little or no public option and a mandate that everyone buy insurance. If they can get that without too many more government regulations -- like you have to cover anyone, regardless of their pre-existing conditions -- then the Republican hacks have done their job.
The abortion issue is just their way of distracting the voters from their true goal, to protect those insurance companies that have given billions of dollars over the years to Congressmen and Senators for the sole purpose of ensuring that those elected officials protect the insurance industry's corporate interests ahead of ours, the voters.
We Democrats have to learn to quit jumping at the abortion bone whenever the Republican dark wizards wave it under our noses. Passing this health reform is too important for us to be distracted by this same, tired old tactic. Give up the abortion funding and concentrate on the overall game, getting meaningful health care reform that includes a robust public option.
That is a fight we must fight. That is a fight we can win. Give me the side of the public over the side of corporate greed any day. That is a story I can sell. We can't allow them to frame the debate with a distraction! The choice here isn't about "choice" or "right to life"; it's between the wealthy insurance companies who have been fucking the consumer for profit for much too long and the voters who deserve access to quality health care.
Republican Abortion Coverage
At just about the same time as Sarah Palin's book is coming out, her daughter's baby daddy is getting ready to show the world his man junk in Playgirl magazine.
First, I didn't know Playgirl still existed, who knew? Gay men I guess.
Second, if the future of the Republican Party is going to be filled with Milfy moron ex-governors and the nude models that impregnate their daughters, I think the Dems will be just fine thank you.
Can't you just see all those country club ladies standing around at a fund raiser thinking to themselves, "Yeah, that Sarah Palin, she represents everything we believe in. You know, babies out of wedlock, male soft core porn, hunting...it's like she's one of us!"
Or not...
(You notice how I completely avoided all the hockey stick jokes? It was very difficult, believe me.)
Playgirl Photo Shoot "Fantastic" Involves Hockey Stick
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I've tried to understand all about this government insurance plan and I agree that something needs to be done to help the public because private insurance companies are really taking advantage of people. But why can't the government just put some kind of controls on these private insuance companies so that they can't over charge people or drop them once they file a claim.
As for Sarah Palin, I don't have time for her at all. She's a joke.
They also had end of life counseling in their plan. You know, “death panels”!
P.S. Who is the dish?
I don't even know what to say about health care anymore. I can say, however, that it doesn't surprise me in the least they would be funding abortions. I mean, like any other group out there, I imagne there is much infidelity going on, because a lot of people just can't control themselves. And, well, which of them would like to have another John Edwards situation on their hands? God fearing peeps that they are. I would bet that at least half of the people that talk shit about abortion being wrong and immoral have either had one or paid for one themselves. Of course no one would ever admit it, but I fully believe it happens much more often than ANY of us would like to admit. Pro-Lifers and Pro-choicers alike.
Now..as for young Mr. Levi. He's the perfect choice for a Sarah Palin Grand-Baby-Daddy. Perfect. I couldn't be happier with the job he's doing in making her look worse than she's already done herself.
And, I'm sorry-kind of off topic here- but who does/did she think she was fooling with her excuses as to why she bailed on her job? Did she think that none of us would put two and two together once we started hearing the buzz on her memoir and seeing her giant tour bus rolling around the country? I imagine the residents of Alaska wouldn't have been too excited with her spending all of her work time promoting herself..erm..I mean her Book during a tour around the US.
She's such a piece of work..I almost enjoy the disdain I feel toward her.
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