Cross posted on Texas Kaos.
Earth to all women. GOP leader Rush Limbaugh has ruthlessly and cruelly savaged a female third year law student at Georgetown University for having the nerve to speak on behalf of the need for contraception and women's health care initiatives.
Apparently these cynical clowns are incapable of creating the jobs they promised in 2010 and so they must feel the need to bully and demonize women instead.
Good luck with that strategy dudes.
Follow me below the fold to visit a Pandora's box of right wing pathology and its train wreck that flew over the cliff into loserville.
Rush and Fox "News" have apparently declared war on this brave women, Sandra Fluke.
According to right wing Republican misogynist thought those of us who support and seek women's contraceptive health initiatives are defined as sluts and prostitutes. And because we are sluts and prostitutes we should be required to make videos of our sexual encounters so Rush can view them.
How very elegant of GOP Party leader Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh repeated his remarks about Sandra Fluke yesterday, “Well, what would you call someone who wants us to pay for her to have sex? What would you call that woman? You’d call ‘em a slut, a prostitute or whatever, and turned them into a demand that women who use birth control make porn for him, “So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal: If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. And I’ll tell you what it is. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
Excuse me while I take a shower with lysol instead of soap.
For the Republican Party boss and spokesman in chief, Rush Limbaugh, said it is so.
This bears repeating.
According to the leader of the Republican Party all women who seek contraceptive health care, also known as birth control are sluts and prostitutes.
As outrageous and as hateful as such disgraceful labeling is, not one, that would be not one Republican lawmaker or GOP Presidential candidate has had the courage or the integrity to disagree with Rush Limbaugh.
Sadly for them, the guys who feel need to subjugate women to Middle or Stone age primitive standards are out of touch with reality as most of us know it.
Just when we think the GOP has reached the very bottom of the cesspool of scorched earth politics and pathological mendacity, the Party manages to find yet a newer and even sicker low in the sewer of hate talk.
This firestorm of irrational hate was brought about by the Obama Administration's mandate for employers, including religious organizations,to make contraception medications available to women.
The right wing has gone ape shit, to say the least.
This is a threat to our religious freedom! This is imposing the government on employers! This violates our First Amendment rights!
The present self-serving hysteria, mind you, is coming from the same Republicans who passed government invading laws that can require physically invasive, costly and unnecessary medical procedures for women who seek abortions.
The Republican politicians for the 1% have voted to jump in and insert themselves between a doctor and his or her patients. Middle Eastern Taliban religious mullahs must be high fiving their Western counterparts as I write.
How's that for a big brother invasion into the private lives of citizens? How is that for keeping the government out of women's uteruses and vaginas? How about a woman's right to affordable health care? How about a woman's liberty to make decisions about her healthcare needs and financial stability by having control over the size of her family?
Desperate times must call for desperate measures.
Desperation can work both ways dudes.
For hell hath no fury.
You know the rest.
Maybe the GOP is possessed by the hate devil because the pimps for the 1% are running out of hate talking points and distractions.
In Virginia some consider the trans vaginal ultrasound procedure as evil as state mandated rape. So, a woman has to drink large amounts of fluids, lay on a table and get her vagina probed with a wand for oh, maybe as long as 30 minutes, while trying to not pee.
This procedure may be necessary in some cases but forcing it onto to women who do not need it and for solely ideological reasons is nothing short of a form of torture in my opinion.
But don't tell that to Republican Vice Presidential hopeful wannabe Governor McDonnell who has pretty much burned his credibility alive at the stake by pimping himself out as a patronizing apologist for state mandated rape and torture.
The Misogynists don't get it.
Naturally the panicked and out of touch hysterics on the right decided that it must abolish the mandate for contraceptive care.
Senators Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rubio (R-FL.) "bravely" stepped up to block Obama's mandate. Together, both Senators wrote an amendment that would allow for employers to refuse to provide health care coverage for any treatment for which a corporation or company has any "moral" objections.
One can always depend upon the GOP to go to the mattresses in order to give corporate interests a loop hole to throw some basic care for the American people under the bus. Providing health care benefits for profit driven corporations could be considered morally objectionable on the part of CEOs (that means less for me!) and boards of directors (that means less for me, too!).
The Catholic bishops most unfortunately entered the anti contraception fray and this is the point at which both the GOP and the Catholic church lost the fight.
Hell hath no fury....
Fortunately the Blunt/Rubio amendment did not pass the Senate. But the vote was a squeaker and too close for comfort. Every Republican Senator voted for the amendment except for Olympia Snowe. Three Blue Dog Democrats were dumb enough to vote in favor of it too: Senators Bob Casey (Pa.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.).
While we scratch our heads trying to figure out why the Republicans think they can win by bullying and demonizing women, an article I read in the New York Times today gave me a hint as to why the GOP has gone mad enough to wage a war on women. In 2012.
It comes down to this. The Republican Party wants to repeal the 1960's. You know, the 1960s when birth control pills became a reality. Yes, women were sexually liberated during this time because a woman could take control over the size of her family. Men could no longer joke about keeping one's wife home barefoot and pregnant. Or God forbid, a woman could have sex if she wanted, out of marriage, without fearing an unintended pregnancy. In other words, women finally realized the same kind of sexual freedom as men have had all along. Needless to say, this was the kind of change that many women and men as well, could believe in.
But some men have not come to terms with such tumultuous change. They would be Republican politicians like most of them and Rush Limbaugh, the GOP's ideological enforcer.
This was also a time in which there were anti-establishment beatniks, peaceniks, hippies and love children all of whom protested the Vietnam War. There was Woodstock, the Beatles the Rolling Stones, among many other rock musicians. But among the most turbulent change at the time was the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Those of us who grew up and came of age during this era are who we have become in no small part due to this time in history. Some saw it as a time of great liberation for women and minorities while others feared the change that shook their long held beliefs and ideological comfort zones. Some obviously still have not gotten over the changes that rocked boats nearly 50 years ago.
According to Rick Santorum:
“Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has become. They have become the party of Woodstock. They prey upon our most basic primal lusts, and that’s sex. And the whole abortion culture, it’s not about life. It’s about sexual freedom. That’s what it’s about. Homosexuality. It’s about sexual freedom. All of the things are about sexual freedom, and they hate to be called on them. They try to somehow or other tie this to the founding fathers’ vision of liberty, which is bizarre. It’s ridiculous. That’s at the core of why you are attacked.”
Resentment rocks. Blame it all on sex, Rick.
“What changed was the ’60s. What changed was sex. What changed was the social and cultural issues that have huge amounts of money because if you look — I haven’t seen numbers on this, but I’m sure it’s true — if you go socioeconomic scale, the higher the income, the more socially liberal you are. The more you know you can buy your way out of the problems that sexual libertinism causes you. You have an abortion, well, I have the money to take care of it. If I want to live an extravagant life and get diseases, I can. ... You can always take care of everything. If you have money, you can get away with things that if you’re poor you can’t.”
What an uplifting statement on behalf of job creation initiatives.
The President stands up for women's rights and health care needs.
Fortunately for the good of the good ol' US of A there is a class act who cares about women's rights.
Go below the fold if you would like to visit a sick hell of hate. But bring some lysol and clorox with you.
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I guess we are all hookers now. Let's work hard to get rid of right wing hate talkers.