House Republicans won't vote on jobs, but will vote to punish women

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday October 13, 2011 · 9:12 AM PDT

2011/10/13 · 09:12

As the House prepares to take up the job-creating "Protect Life (Unless it's a Woman's) Act"—H.R. 358, aka the "Let Women Die" bill—POLITICO notes that they're treading where the GOP's presidential candidates refuse to go, maybe letting the crazy scary people carry their water.

The relative silence of the Republican candidates is mostly a sign that they’re all committed to anti-abortion positions, not that they don’t care about the issue, anti-abortion groups say.
But Republicans can’t let social conservatives feel overlooked by the focus on the tea party’s spending concerns—so they’re about to make sure those critical GOP voters know that they haven’t forgotten about their campaign pledge to block federal funding of abortions.[...]

It's one of the first Republican primaries in recent history in which there hasn’t been a pro-choice candidate in the race, like a "Rudy Giuliani running," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. "This is basically a pro-life primary, and they're focusing on other issues."

Gotta keep the crazy scary base happy. They only have two moderate women left in the party anyway, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, and they can be counted on to get in line when it matters. They're happy to let the crazy scary people control their party, and tell hospitals they don't have to save women's lives.

So yes, instead of dealing with the jobs crisis, the House is going to vote today to protect life, unless it's a woman's.

House Republicans won't vote on jobs, but will vote to punish women

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