The GOP's War On Women Won By Debt Ceiling Deal

Aug 07, 2011 7 Comments by Rippa

It wasn’t that long ago that this year when we were all focused on the GOP’s war on women. Back then we were all screaming mad as the political war on the vagina dominated our news. It was planned parenthood, abortion, you name it, women were the new target for the GOP. Which when I think of it, it’s a wonder none of them suggested that the U.S. economy is teetering on the brink of collapse all due to some evil vagina-lurking-terrorist, hell bent on destroying America.

Check out the top 10 shocking attacks from the GOP’s war on women according to MoveOn.org:

1) Republicans not only want to reduce women’s access to abortion care, they’re actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven’t yet. Shocker.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to “accuser.” But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain “victims.”

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.

5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids’ preschool program. Why? No need, they said.Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

10) And if that wasn’t enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can’t make this stuff up).

I mean hell, according to them it was those poor financially undisciplined people of color who was responsible for the bursting of the housing bubble. So given the strong sentiments of the Republican lead anti-coochie movement, it’s really a wonder that nobody suggested that women were responsible for the 14 trillion dollar national debt which is rapidly increasing.

Be that as it may, and given the analysis by pundits after the ink on the freshly signed debt ceiling deal by president Obama has dried. What I find interesting is that while touted as a victory for the GOP mostly because of the non-inclusion of revenue enhancements. Is the fact that it is women, who will come to bear the brunt of the $2.1 trillion in cuts by the government. And of course we already know the huge disparity between white women and women of color, when in comes to the net worth of women in their prime. So yes, maybe the GOP did win, but this time on the sneak tip.

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Yes, we will bear the brunt of the debt ceiling deal. That is not a good look for either party. I think that we are going to have to be a little wild in the upcoming months to show everybody that we ain’t having it without a fight.
George

And I suppose the Democrats are simply angelic Christians in all this, eh?

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Angelic? I wouldn’t say that. However, I don’t see them pushing legislation which infringes on the rights, and privileges to access to health care for women. Hell, I thought I was stating the obvious. These are the things they fought for, and eventually scored a victory via the debt ceiling deal in many ways.

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Still think the GOP gives a damn about women?

While Congress was playing fiscal roulette last month, House Republicans quietly advanced their attack on reproductive choice, too. Conservative legislators are working to reinstate the so-called Global Gag Rule, which would block international aid to organizations that provide abortion-related information and services in other countries. Exporting their domestic anti-abortion agenda to the Global South, conservatives seek to hold international family planning programs hostage to America’s culture wars.The proposed policy, part of a larger bill funding the State Department, is based on a Bush administration executive order that President Obama repealed. Under the previous gag rule, overseas organizations receiving U.S. family-planning funds were not allowed to provide abortion-related care or counseling, to help women avoid unsafe abortions, or to advocate on abortion issues. In addition to damaging women’s health, the policy undermined political dialogue on providing comprehensive family planning in aid-dependent countries. The bill passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-chen/house-gop-revives-global-_b_920378.html

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I will admit that Democrats had to vote on this bill too or see the whole country burn but last time I checked there wasn’t a single NEGATIVE womens reproductive rights bill brought up in 2009 or 2010? I wonder why that was, oh wait thats right the democrats held the house and the senate, as well as the presidency. Now I am not going to say ALL republicans were evil or a part of this, but I will say that the TEA party appears to think that women who do more than have babies should be punished. We are not going to run out of people, if a young girl wishes to NOT have a child while in high school than I think that is a good thing. If she chooses after her 18th birthday that is fine, if she chooses after she graduates college that is fine.

Sooner or later we will have to recognize the damage we keep doing to future generations by trying to make them live the same mistakes SOME people made when they were younger. I’m sorry if you weren’t taught about contraception and either had to marry your high school girlfriend or else are paying child support which is reducing the amount of money you have to live your dreams. If you aren’t happy about that why force someone else to go through it? I’m sorry that the father of your child decided not to stick around and help you raise the child or that his idea of sticking around is laying around the house sucking up your public assistance. They are called Fairy Tales for a reason, they are just stories sometimes you get a happily ever after most times you have to work through more and more hard times to get to your goals.

I will never understand female republicans, it’s like they have to hurt their fellow women to be allowed into the club and some of them are glad to do it. Like it makes them feel privileged to wield such power over their fellow women, just like some of the GOP men do over those who have served when it’s time to provide for veterans benefits or soldier pay. I look at how much we payed blackwater and wondered if we put half of that in the soldiers pockets would their families not have faired better back home? How many stories of Housing Foreclosures, military families needing food stamps, and insufficient treatment whether it be mental or physical did we hear reported for the last decade?

Sooner or later it has to become more important to BE the greatest nation on the planet than to just say it. I mean the reason why people come hear isn’t because we always brag on how great we are, but because it was easily seen, great countries do not act like this. We protect our women and children not play political games with them, and for those who give their limbs and sometimes their lives for our country we do not turn our backs on them. Again if we ALL need to pay more taxes to make sure those who need are taken care of so be it, get rid of the loop holes that people abuse in the system and make sure EVERYONE pays their fair share of taxes. If you transfer all of your profits to a foreign subsidiary of your company I say we tax any and all of the money made of those items that were used on US soil at the top rate. Transferred a patent that was registered in the US do you Belize affiliate fine tax the hell out of them or fine them in the amount of the tax, why are we allowing cheaters to get away with it while those who are doing what they are supposed to do suffer? How is that great? How is that what our founding fathers had in mind? Oh wait, it’s okay because one day some of you hope to be able to do it too.

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