Why was Cecile Richards brought before congress to answer questions if she wasn’t going to be allowed to speak?
No, stop, don’t answer the question, I have to interrupt you right now.
It’s because Republicans are assholes.
I’m kind of amazed at Richards’ equanimity, though.
Seeing that big “MS. RICHARDS” sign reminded me of something. Haven’t a lot of modern countries stopped using different words for married vs. unmarried women (I know I’ve read that “fraulein” is now an obsolete word in German)? Yet here in the US people still feel the need to have special titles to point out single women vs. married (but not men, of course).
themadtapper
Ms. is actually the neutral term used for both married and unmarried women. It’s not the abreviation of “miss”, though it is problematic when it comes to pronounciation.
Yes, Germany has stopped using “Fräulein” a few decades ago, but don’t get me started on people being idiots because you decided to keep your last name…
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As for Cecile Richards, I’m amazed as well. I think at some point I would have stopped answering and then asked if they would allow me to finish my sentence when asked why I didn’T answer.
Ah, I gotcha.
Ms. Richards demonstrated how to adult in front of several Congresspeople who will never know how to adult properly. An amazing performance in the face of such childishness.
@2 on last names…
Yep. I get shit as a male for hyphenating my last name when I got married. I’ve gotten support for it though.
My favorite is “but your name is so long now”.
Hey what else can they do if a mere woman won’t let them grandstand on/against a subject that they’ve been trying to strawman to death for 15+ years now.
I think the Congrescritters were using a technique that proved successful* during trials for witchcraft and heresy.
* “success” by pre-Enlightenment criteria.
All of this over easily discredited lied.
Fuck it all, we live in a Breitbart culture, a place where repeated lies become a reality that smashes people’s lives.
Here is Rachel Maddow’s interview with Cecile Richards. This is from last night’s show. Richards appeared on the Maddow show in the evening, after having been grilled/interrupted for five hours by Republicans in Congress.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/planned-parenthood-popular-despite-gop-blitz-534752323969
Maddow allowed Richards to speak without being interrupted. As a result, we get more information in 5:22 minutes than we got during the Congressional hearing.
Cross-posted from the Moments of Political Madness thread.
Here are a few more telling details related to the hearings that Congress held concerning Planned Parenthood.
Link
Good video is also available at the link.
Chaffetz is from Utah. He is one of Utah’s mormon politicians that combines his religious conservatism with political conservatism. The governor of Utah, Gary Herbert, is another conservative politician that has tried to take down Planned Parenthood.
Cross-posted from the Moments of Political Madness thread.
Here’s some good news.
Salt Lake Tribune link
In a nice touch of irony, Judge Waddoups is a mormon, with a long line of mormon ancestors. He is part of what is known as the mormon aristocracy, and has been accused in the past of giving mormon white collar criminals light sentences. He graduated from Brigham Young University, and later in his career was appointed by George Bush as a judge.
Some mormons cannot believe that Waddoups would rule as he did in this case. Part of their reaction includes a belief that he must not be mormon. From the comments (errors are in the original):
Luckily, others with more working brain cells replied:
Cross-posted from the Moments of Political Madness thread.
As Republicans in the House of Congress try to defund Planned Parenthood, with threats to shut down the government if they don’t get their way, one of their major talking points is that there are thousands of already-existing clinics that could replace Planned Parenthood. That talking point is a lie, patently false, easy to disprove.
Yes, there’s a list of 13,540 clinics, listed by state, that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services) put out. Most of the clinics listed do not have a certified OB-GYN on staff. They do not have the expertise, nor in most cases the medical equipment, to provide reproductive health services for women.
Many private clinics do not take Medicaid patients. About half of Planned Parenthood patients rely on Medicaid.
Here’s snippet from the transcript of the many times that Republicans on the hearing committee interrupted Cecile Richards.
You see, according to the bible women aren’t allowed to speak in church and what is congress, by REpublican standards, if not just another church?
No, the thugs know they are the great sky faeries’s most critical, important, trusted, and absolutely vital advisor. Each and every one of them is the Grand Vicar. Without them, the great sky faeries’s would never accomplish anything. They are directly involved in all aspects, from making sure the planet is flat and the Sun orbits it daily, to the “Big Stuff” such as ensuring wimmin don’t, unless assorted males say otherwise.
Ms. Richards’ salary was questioned in an insulting manner during the hearing (which is a strange term for what that was since the Republicans didn’t hear a thing she said). She proved she’s worth 100% of her salary by the way she comported herself yesterday.
they seem to think that they need to sound and act like an american tv cop questioning the bad guy acting all tough no none sense manly hero or something.
uncle frogy