No more Safe Stimulation: Contraception removed from bill
posted at 8:42 am on January 27, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Democrats thought they could sneak subsidies for Planned Parenthood into the stimulus package, and why not? After all, in a bill that will cost $825 billion, who’d notice? Unfortunately for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, George Stephanopolous did. After failing to explain how hundreds of millions of dollars in new contraception funding would stimulate anything except libidos and Democrats, Pelosi will reluctantly remove the provisions from the stimulus bill this morning:
Democratic leaders in the House are nearly certain to drop federal funding for new contraceptive services and on-going programs to stop sexually transmitted diseases from the $825 billion economic stimulus bill due to hit the floor Tuesday, a senior official told FOX News.
The decision is due Tuesday morning in advance of two high-profile meetings President Obama will hold with House and Senate Republicans to build bipartisan support for his massive economic stimulus bill. The bill contains $87 billion in emergency Medicaid funding to help states crushed by deficits. …
Despite Pelosi’s argument, Democrats and the Obama White House appear eager to deprive Republicans of what’s become a key attack line against the stimulus bill.
Democrats claimed that they merely wanted to follow the advice of a 2007 CBO study that predicted a $200 million savings in Medicaid birth costs if the federal government provided free contraception to eligible participants. That may be an issue worthy of debate — but not as part of an emergency stimulus plan for an economic crisis. The point of such a stimulus should be to inject capital back into markets for job creation, not the absorption of every pet issue from the governing party in Congress.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what this stimulus bill has become. It’s the ultimate in Congressional pork. In this case, Reid and Pelosi wanted to toss hundreds of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, an important contributor to Democratic candidates and the party. It has nothing to do with economic stimulus; it has everything to do with political stimulus.
Barack Obama hinted strongly yesterday that he didn’t need this distraction when trying to sell this humungous pork bill on Capitol Hill. He’s right. Perhaps at the same time, Congress can start removing anything else not related to immediate economic stimulation and start exercizing a little fiscal discipline.
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Damn! I was hoping that the stimulus would be ribbed for our pleasure.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 27, 2009 at 8:44 AM
It’s only a matter of time before the leading Dems become tired of Obama’s “do-boy” attitude.
ballz2wallz on January 27, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Very simply, since BHO received more campaign donations than anyone in history, he has more repaying to do than anyone in history. The “stimulus” is all about repaying unions,
Planned Parenthood, & other big donors.jgapinoy on January 27, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Too many girls anymore want to have babies…so they can collect public assistance. They choose not to use contraception anyway.
My daughter told me that every girl she graduated high school with have had all had babies….and only a few were married when they did. Isnt that what liberals want?
becki51758 on January 27, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Thanks for the morning laugh, Ed. I’m supposed to get another half foot or so of snow overnight, I needed something to brighten the day. And it’s going to be a long four/forty years.
rbj on January 27, 2009 at 8:48 AM
So long as it wasn’t a “token” removal package. (You put something glaringly bad in the bill to cover up the not so glaringly bad item in the bill so the watchdogs feel like they have something to do) If thi is the only thing the Republicans negotiate away (and they didn’t really) then this was all just a political showboat.
Skywise on January 27, 2009 at 8:48 AM
“exercizing?”
Do you mean “exercising?”
BigD on January 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM
So the subsidies for Planned Parenthood have been aborted?
How appropriate.
kingsjester on January 27, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Great. Only 10,576 other wasteful line items to remove from the stimulus package now.
Why does Harry Reid always look like an extra from “28 Days Later”?
Bishop on January 27, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Can we stop calling it a “stimulus bill”? Someone needs to think up a catchy name that serves as a more apt description, since the libs are, once again, twisting language in an attempt to secretly implement their full agenda.
Something like the “exploitation bill”? The Trojan Horse? The Nightime Raiding of the Treasury? The Giveaway Bonanza?
We need a name for it. We can’t let them get away with this like they get away with the “tax cuts” and negative brackets. That’s just insane, and quite un-Constitutional.
progressoverpeace on January 27, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Wow Nancy is going bareback!
Mr. Joe on January 27, 2009 at 8:51 AM
I though the contraception thing was a good idea, a lot better that some of the other nonsense in there–such as the ‘neighborhood stabilization’ boondoggle designed to give bottomless cash to groups like ACORN. At least the contraception thing might have kept a few hundred potentials out of foster care and off the Medicaid rolls, certainly one kind of economic improvment over time and a good idea in general.
jeanie on January 27, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Well now that the contraceptives are out of the stimulus I very strongly suspect we are going to catch something we can never get rid of from the screwing congress is about to give America…
doriangrey on January 27, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Those who aren’t responsible won’t use contraceptives, those who are responsible don’t need the government supplying them.
genso on January 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Per my comment at 8:47, the Payback Bill.
jgapinoy on January 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Is there a blog that’s documenting this crap… making a list of all the items that need to be stripped out?
petefrt on January 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Exactly!
becki51758 on January 27, 2009 at 8:54 AM
No that would be 105,765 other wasteful line items to remove from the stimulus package now… Not to mention about 500 other wasteful representatives….
doriangrey on January 27, 2009 at 8:55 AM
You really think the cleptocrats would allow that information to be freely available to the public???
doriangrey on January 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Now, how about the rest of the garbage in this trillion dollar pig roast?
As far as I can tell everyone has an invitation to the hogblast except white construction guys and small business/self-employed people.
forest on January 27, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Pelosi was made to look like a fool as she tried to defend that pork…makes sense a pig defending pork.
The problem is that item was just an example, tip of the iceberg.
And you have to hand it to Obama, he removed some small controversial, poorly defended pork, and now can keep everything else in with impunity.
They will just learn to throw in a couple of “give me’s”, then when they are criticized, they will say “Okay, in the name of bi-partisanship, we will remove these”…and if the Republicans push for more, “Hey, we are working with you, we already took out X, Y, and Z, you aren’t being very fair, wah, wah, wah…”
right2bright on January 27, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Can we stop calling it a “stimulus bill”?
The Bend Over and Hold On Here It Comes Bill of 2009
Bishop on January 27, 2009 at 8:59 AM
OT, and I guess I expected nothing less, but geez…he makes his first presidential phone call to a terrorist, now he makes his first TV interview to the ROP, which wants nothing more than to destroy us… Thanks a lot for supporting the US, Mr. President.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_obama_mideast_2
jwehman on January 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM
In their usual legalese, it is a lot to digest. I tried to read through the thing, but there were so many references to already existing bills and when I looked them up, there were even more references to other bills. I simply don’t have the time. So convoluted and intertwined.
genso on January 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM
I cannot collect my thoughts for even half of a reasonable comment, so I will excuse myself.
fiscallyconservative on January 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM
This must be a blow to the Democrats. It puts a wrench in their plan for a country full of followers. Without natural breeding, they are left with open borders and higher education indoctrination.
sherry on January 27, 2009 at 9:01 AM
If you feel so inclined, all 1588 pages. This is a good place to test the effectiveness of your high blood pressure medicine.
http://readthestimulus.org/
Bishop on January 27, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Prophylactics, Tax Cheats, & Senate Seats.
Oh, My.
Has it been four years, yet?
locomotivebreath1901 on January 27, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Actually, Obama has already dubbed at a “recovery and reinvestment” bill or some sort of nonsense like that. It’s all designed to make any members of Congress who oppose it sound like they’re against an economic recovery. Hopefully the GOP doesn’t get suckered in.
Doughboy on January 27, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Someone should tell her the Nazis wanted to save money through birth control too.
Ryan Gandy on January 27, 2009 at 9:04 AM
I prefer to call it this:
Unifying and Strengthening Americans Through Helpful Economic Funds Transferring Act
Otherwise known as the USA THEFT act.
Lay-Z on January 27, 2009 at 9:07 AM
One down. Let’s move on to the ACORN nonsense. That organization is criminal because it undermines the integrity of our elections. Republicans better stand up on this one. It has no business in any legislation, and it has no justification in this bill. The House and Senate GOP should hold a press conference and draw a big red circle around this and any other item that has no place in this bill. Item by item, let the American people know.
What better use do they have for their time?
BuckeyeSam on January 27, 2009 at 9:07 AM
glenn beck said he had a list of the “pork” items on his website, glennbeck.com.
kelley in virginia on January 27, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Pelosi pulled out?
Candy Slice on January 27, 2009 at 9:09 AM
I know this is off topic and may be a hoax but I just read over at Free Republic that Sarah Palin has just set up a Political Action Committee (PAC) to potentially run for President in 2012.
http://www.sarahpac.com
technopeasant on January 27, 2009 at 9:10 AM
As Michelle Malkins says, it is generational theft.
jgapinoy on January 27, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Is it just me? Or does Harry Reid’s expression remind you of the farmer with the pitchfork in that classic painting, American Gothic by Grant Wood? Someone photoshop these two into that scene.
kingsjester on January 27, 2009 at 9:11 AM
+100
Now THAT’s funny stuff…
Mark Garnett on January 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Wait until these girls finds out how the more kids you have the more free money you get. We can double the US population in 2 two years.
kanda on January 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM
“Perhaps at the same time, Congress can start removing anything else not related to immediate economic stimulation and start exercizing a little fiscal discipline.”
They could start by not approving the stimulus bill.
Rode Werk on January 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Nicely done.
LimeyGeek on January 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM
I heard they were going to hand them out in red districts.
faraway on January 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM
All this controversy over the contraceptive stimulus reminded me of /this. Does anyone else feel like they are on the receiving end of an overly-enthusiastic government screwing?
Mord on January 27, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Sorry the PAC committee is NOT authorized by Sarah or anybody connected to her. Sorry, I should have read the fine print.
technopeasant on January 27, 2009 at 9:14 AM
let’s abort about $800 BILLION of the bill and then we’ll have something to talk about
gatorboy on January 27, 2009 at 9:14 AM
HMMMMMMMM…now we are happy and won’t pay attention to the rest of the pork. Interesting.
tomas on January 27, 2009 at 9:15 AM
I have a suggestion for Queen Nancy. Stop subsidizing poverty via Medicaid, WIC, SCHIP, food stamps, welfare, public housing, free lunch programs, free breakfast programs, free day care, etc and just maybe poor people will have fewer children all in their own thereby mitigating the need for “family planning services”, i.e. abortions. This is the result of Great Society efforts to alleviate poverty, more poverty. Abortion is the Liberal solution to a liberal problem.
DerKrieger on January 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM
If you are going to screw us, we need birth control.
faraway on January 27, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Exactly. Its in the rules of negotiating. Give up something meaningless to make it seems you are compromising.
genso on January 27, 2009 at 9:18 AM
*cough* what did I say…..
DeathToMediaHacks on January 27, 2009 at 9:20 AM
I can almost guarantee that Pelosi and California will recieve at least 25% of this 87 billion to pay for undocumented “workers” in Southern California.
Rovin on January 27, 2009 at 9:22 AM
and the president said take it out. Why is our leadership so stupid. It boggles.
tomas on January 27, 2009 at 9:23 AM
The GOP is lousy at playing the language game. From what I’ve seen, all that they’ve accomplishing in the past few years is getting a handful of people to call the “estate tax” the “death tax” and the “Democratic Party” the “Democrat Party.” So what?
Every time the Dems trot out nonsense like “investment,” “reinvestment,” and the like, the GOP should be holding a press conference demanding to know what “return” is to be derived from funding for abortions overseas, condoms to localties, ACORN activities, and any other nonsense.
The GOP needs to begin ridiculing the terminology that Dems use to hide their nonsense. More important, the GOP needs to take hard line positions in which they consistently–and for reasons other than pettiness–point out precisely where Obama and the Dems our wearing no clothes.
I’m still convinced that only 35% of the country will walk off a cliff with Obama without questioning him. The problem is that the middle 35% will just follow the crowd unless they are shaken by common sense. And that’s what the GOP needs to do. With every item in this stimulus package, the GOP needs to say, “What do we need this for?” They shouldn’t get bought off with Obama’s lousy version of “tax cuts” (read “welfare”) and claim that they did what they could. Screw Obama’s welfare if they have to do so.
Why? Because that’s what all 535 of these fucking people are supposed to be doing every day they’re in office. That’s why. They’re stealing our money and then wasting on their agendas.
BuckeyeSam on January 27, 2009 at 9:24 AM
I can almost guarantee that Pelosi and California will recieve at least 25% of this 87 billion to pay for undocumented “workers” in Southern California.
Rovin on January 27, 2009 at 9:22 AM
SOMEONE has to work on Pelosi’s vineyards; we already know she doesn’t hire union workers.
Bishop on January 27, 2009 at 9:24 AM
I had a woman employee who quit her job one day. She explained, proudly, that her youngest child had just been diagnosed with ADHD and she no longer needed the job. It seemed that she had 5 children and all had ADHD and the government was sending her a check for each one.
genso on January 27, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Well that’s great. One huge waste of money down, only a million more to go.
Maxx on January 27, 2009 at 9:26 AM
See the headline post.
Skywise on January 27, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Ain’t that the truth. The majority of these girls only want babies so they aren’t alone….and so they don’t have to work. How sad is that?
becki51758 on January 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM
I do not understand why these kids are eligible for SSD. This does not prevent them from working when they get older…and what about the many people with real disabilities who are denied SSD, even tho they paid into it all their life?
becki51758 on January 27, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Will this bill still find Planned Parenthood?
Also, this should not make the republicans in the Hill swoon over this bill. It is so full of crap, that even the dumbest representative wouldn’t vote for it. Well, maybe Pelosi.
jencab on January 27, 2009 at 9:31 AM
I suppose, in the mind of a liberal, its all fair…or something.
genso on January 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Liberals have minds? hmmm…
becki51758 on January 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM
This is living proof though that our country is being ran by a select few with influence for their own needs. These people need to step aside.
Oh I’ve noticed by the way that Russia and Japan are saying get out there and go at it and make babies, heck take a day off and do it.
johnnyU on January 27, 2009 at 9:39 AM
kingsjester on January 27, 2009 at 9:11 AM
ROFL!!!
qestout on January 27, 2009 at 9:40 AM
This asumes a moderate level of confidence on the part of our GOP leadership. I wish I could be so optimistic.
We’d do better if the full senate and house were turned over every 3 or 4 years through a national lottery. That’s right.. true citizen legislature. Pay them like $500k per year or something rediculous for the ‘work’ that they actually perform. This would go a long way to ending the corruption and probably worse, the ‘good ol’ boy club’ (read Hatch’s defense of voting for tax-cheat IRS chief)
gatorboy on January 27, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Government interference and ineptitude are largely responsible for the current crisis. And the government should try to solve the problem?
Johan Klaus on January 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I don’t understand how one thinks this would even work.
If someone is irresponsible enough to get pregnant….what makes anyone think they would be responsible enough to actually USE contraceptives?
I just don’t see it.
If someone “cannot afford” birth control, and they don’t want a baby or an STD, they know what to do (or not do).
bridgetown on January 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM
So that’s what? $200 Million down, hundreds of billions to go. Merely a flesh wound.
LastRick on January 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Birth control stimiulates libido?? Showing your age there, Ed.
Liberty Girl on January 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM
The Pay-for-Play Bill?
onlineanalyst on January 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Not just the GOP, but conservatives. Can you believe we’ve allowed the libs to change from “global warming” to “climate change” without ridiculing them every time they say it. First, they sleazed away from a commitment to the claim that the world was warming, which should have been the end of it, but then actually came out against any change in the climate! I mean, how do they get away with that? Against climate change??!? It’s just insane.
We cannot let them do this with this USA THEFT/Payback bill (I like those two). There were a number of good suggestions earlier in the thread, but we need something that conservatives are going to use every time they talk about this, and force libs to use that name, too. It might seem petty, but the abuse of language by the libs has gotten dangerous, already. It’s not funa nd games anymore.
progressoverpeace on January 27, 2009 at 10:02 AM
For a start, any portion that slips in provisions that move us to nationalized health care should be removed.
onlineanalyst on January 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM
I wish they’d passed this contraception legislation in 1901, just prior to Pelosi’s conception.
marklmail on January 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Ah, but it is a stimulus bill. It’s been designed specifically to stimulate more Democratic voting. That’s why it contains so many large pay-offs to the groups that comprise the Democratic voting base: the abortion industry, the greenie/global warming crowd, ACORN, the entitlement crowd (they get increased welfare payments, now known as “tax credits” or “tax rebates,” more “free” health care, race-based set-asides for gov’t-funded jobs and contracts, etc.), etc.
This massive pork spending bill won’t do anything to stimulate the economy, but it will help keep the Democrats in power (and that’s all they really care about).
AZCoyote on January 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Wait until these girls finds out how the more kids you have the more free money you get. We can double the US population in 2 two years.
kanda on January 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM
You make a very valid point. I lived in NC where they pay 1000$ per month per child up to 5. I don’t know about you but I don’t make 5000$ per month working my a$$ off and all they have to do is pop out more kids. It is wrong.
milwife88 on January 27, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Didn’t the Community Reinvestment Act start this whole meltdown of irresponsible government behavior?
onlineanalyst on January 27, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Birth Control??
I have been depressed and need a lift and this can jump start universal health care.
Anyway, I thought that I was going to get a gift card for that Mustang Ranch in Nevada from the Messiah. He had ALL kinds of cash gifts in his campaign from unknown sources and I figured that he might spare some of them for us. It would keep the FEC from nosing around, too.
I am anxiously waiting and Pelosi is getting more attractive by the moment.
IlikedAUH2O on January 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Possibly, though the people who need government to pay for contraceptives are not the ones who are most reliable using them as a demographic. Some studies have shown that access to birth control can actually increase pregnancies as it gives women who don’t use them properly false hope. And still, I don’t see how it works as a stimulus.
Condoms are cheap, and so is the pill depending where you get it. Covering these things for people won’t necessarily get them to spend money on something else except maybe booze.
Esthier on January 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM
I thought that a few years back, this country ws going to end welfare, but it seems not only do we still have that ugly nonsense, it has expanded and grown like the cancer it is. As long as it survives, we will never be rid of the burdens it is to the taxpayers of this country. People need to take care of themselves, make kids their breakfasts and provide lunches for them, teach them how to not have an unwanted pregnancy, take responsibility for their own actions, and not go around crowing about how th government is taking care of them. We have no pride or self-respect left in this country, and those of us who pay the bills seem to just look the other way. We are the ones we should hold responsible for allowing this to go on for so many years. Just sayin”
clinker46 on January 27, 2009 at 10:21 AM
+10
genso on January 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Prior?
johnnyU on January 27, 2009 at 10:31 AM
He’s only taking it out because of the uproar. It’s like the pre ooze. Pretty soon they will stick it back in and conception of this pork will take place.
Brat4life on January 27, 2009 at 10:38 AM
I just got an e-mail from a friend of mine asking me to take some political leaders to the Mustang Ranch with me so they don’t have to keep doing stuff to the taxpayers.
Well, the problems is that the Democrats seem so happy right now that flood, plague, earthquake and a truth drug in the water couldn’t get them to leave town. They don’t need a depression cure. I haven’t seen Democrats so gleeful since the results came (in graphic color) from the three TV networks on the contest between LBJ and my guy. Awful.
I would have mentioned FDR and one of his opponents (like Governor Alfred Landon) with the thin electoral edge of 523-8 but that wasn’t on TV. And I am not that most rare type of gaffer: an anchronistic misstater. If we had one of them in D. C. we would have everything that could be wrong.
IlikedAUH2O on January 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM
‘Perhaps at the same time, Congress can start removing anything else not related to immediate economic stimulation and start exercizing a little fiscal discipline.’
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! And just when am I getting my own personal unicorn and rainbow?
GarandFan on January 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Just looking at Pelosi causes temporary birth control for me.
bullseye on January 27, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Actually, whenever I’m constipated, I just gaze at her image for a few minutes, and give birth to an entirely different entity.
LimeyGeek on January 27, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Activate that choke collar she’s wearing
Dr_Woof on January 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM
There are women out there who do this for a living. The minimum they get for each child is over 600$, free medical care and subsidized rent and on and on. I know one with nine! Or, she did, before they were removed for neglect and now cost the taxpayers twice as much per each child in foster care and each child at risk for futures that will cost even more. If these kids are diagnosed with behavorial or physical problems, the monthly costs can double and triple–both if they remain with the parent or end up in foster care or group homes. Many of them grow up to repeat this life style , become homeless, join the oldest profession and often end up in jail. Some, amazingly, turn out OK, but I suspect they are in the minority. Daddy never pays a cent and the State usually doesn’t bother to look for him. To my way of thinking, it’s the worst form of child abuse and the welfare system promotes it in the name of saving the children.
jeanie on January 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Nancy Pelosi believes that contraception will stimulate the economy.
[Contraception To Help Economy?]
What, is she nuts?! Let’s help stimulate her mail room.
Mail all “New-Unused” Condoms to:
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
H-232, U.S. Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515
202-225-0100
http://www.schnittshow.com/main.html
Scorched_Earth on January 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM
A little mind is a dangerous thing…
neuquenguy on January 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM
If they had put that in the bill, it would have put plenty of people in the baby industry out of work such as Toys R Us, Fisher Price, Carter’s, and others.
ScoopPC11 on January 27, 2009 at 11:57 AM
“Welfare Brood Mares” is the term, I believe.
LimeyGeek on January 27, 2009 at 12:08 PM
I’m willing to bet that the cost of welfare babies will far out strip the cost of all the unemployment in this country sooner or later. Even a reduction of a third would make a big difference over the long term economically, socially and from a humanitarian point of view. Yes, of course, add a few thousand more sad, neglected and abused kids to the rolls to save what amounts to a tiny portion of a bad bill. Other things should be cut, but not contraception.
jeanie on January 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Why would they use contraception now, when they never bothered before?
Cut off all welfare funding and let the parasites starve at the teat. They’ll soon close their legs.
LimeyGeek on January 27, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Why not cut welfare? Who says we have to pay for babies?
And reading above, it seems we’ve created an incentive to make babies, specifically ones that are not productive members of society. How will birth control fix that?
You seem to understand that here:
jeanie on January 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM
I don’t get this subsequent post.
Esthier on January 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Those are two of the most boner-killing faces in Washington. You can save the half-billion on rubbers.
Chuck Schick on January 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Limey: Many, if not most, still wouldn’t, I agree. But even the few who might would make a difference. To me, it would be money well spent if even a few less could be saved from the well meaning but failed institution of foster care and group homes and abusive and neglectful parent/s, lifes of crime, gangs, lack of bonding skills and the hosts of ills our welfare system unwittingly promotes.. As I see it, this ounce of prevention however small, would be money well spent. Sheesh!! It’s the one useful thing in this dismal bill from my point of view.
jeanie on January 27, 2009 at 12:28 PM
The Evil Green acre twin…….I don’t trust them. They will find a way to fund Planned Parent Hood. They have other pork in it as well. Also, they are giving themselves more money for travel, office goodies……..What else?
sheebe on January 27, 2009 at 12:33 PM
MM has a link to Think Progress blog on her site for the report on this subject.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/26/obama-family-palnning/
I find the first comment both dripping with irony and informative as to their mindset,
Quote:
Bobwurst Says:
scr3w the conservatives! They lost. They caused the problem in the first place. Tell em to sit down and shut up and watch the grown ups fix the stuff they broke. Just like when i had to watch dad fix the window I broke. Was I allowed to kibitz, tell him he was doing it wrong? These repubs are lucky corporal punishment was outlawed…
January 26th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Sorry, “Bobwurst,” the grown-ups left D.C. last week and now every single childish, moronic thing is being pushed as policy.
PJ Emeritus on January 27, 2009 at 12:35 PM
How about “Poke a Stick in McCarthy’s Eye Bill”. Or “Socialize America Bill.”
Or my favorite: “Democratic Voter Purchasing Plan.”
PastorJon on January 27, 2009 at 12:37 PM
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