Really, GOP? Dems are Anti-Woman?

Media Matters has the astounding story of two Republican women accusing the Democrats of being anti-woman in the healthcare plan.

[W]riting in the Washington Times today, Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) had the audacity to complain that pro-reform Democrats don't care about women:

As congresswomen, we think we should be listening to and speaking out for women.

If Democrats in Congress and the administration had been listening to women, they would not have drafted and passed a reform bill that takes power away from women and gives it to federal bureaucrats. Today, we, women - working with a trusted medical professional - guide which treatments are best for our family, from flu shots and hormones to heart stents and long-term care facilities. If H.R. 3962 ultimately becomes law, these decisions will increasingly be made by bureaucrats, statisticians and actuaries.

The Pelosi health care plan aims to have an impartial, all-knowing federal government make decisions that cannot be trusted to mere housewives (and their greedy, small town doctors).

For McMorris Rodgers and Jenkins to gripe about anyone disrespecting women is laughable.  In addition to last weekend's theatrics, every single Republican member of the House voted for the so-called Stupak amendment, which will impose extreme restrictions on a woman's right make reproductive choices.  The vote came a day after one of their conservative colleagues actually compared women to smokers in order to justify gender-based discrimination on the part of insurance companies.    

Maybe McMorris-Rogers and Jenkins weren't on the floor for this lovely display by their Republican colleagues last Saturday. Surely, they could not have approved of this:

It's not that you really expect honest debate out of Republicans, but seriously, how do they come up with this stuff?