The immaculate deception



Not be left behind by Mittens, Mitch McConnell lent his gravitas to the endless series of GOP lies that now makes up the religious-right conservative movement these days, with this comedy styling on the conservative crusade against women:

Talk about a manufactured issue. There is no issue. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine I think would be the first to say — and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — ‘we don’t see any evidence of this.’

After I picked myself off the floor following a debilitating laughing attack, my colleagues and I at Daily Kos collected the statements below from those very female lawmakers names above for McConnell’s edification.

Like Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison:

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low income women to have health care services. We cannot. We keep turning back federal funds that every state gets and then try to find money in our budget, which is already being cut in key areas like education. I do think that the governor needs to sit down with the federal government and work it out so we can have our share — our fair share not more — of money for Medicaid to help low-income women have their health care services. […] I think Planned Parenthood does mammograms, they do so much of the health care — the preventive health care and they’re doing that, we need to provide those services, absolutely.

And Sen. Lisa Murkowski:

I think [these incidents] are just adding to this sense that women’s health rights are being attacked — that in 2012 we’re having a conversation about whether or not contraception should be allowed.

And Sen. Lisa Murkowski some more:

“It makes no sense to make this attack on women,” she said at a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon. “If you don’t feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters.”

And Sen. Olympia Snowe:

“You know, it really is surprising, because I feel like it’s a retro-debate that took place in the 1950s,” Snowe said. “It’s sort of back to the future, isn’t it? And it is surprising in the 21st century we would be revisiting this issue. And Sandra Fluke should have been commended, not condemned, for her courage in expressing her own views and beliefs before members of Congress.”

Heck, even for good measure, Sen. John McCain (who isn’t a lady but is a Republican senator):

GREGORY: Do you think that there is something of a war on women among Republicans?

McCAIN: I think we have to fix that. I think that there is a perception out there because of how this whole contraception issue played out — ah, we need to get off of that issue, in my view. I think we ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives and make that clear, and get back onto what the American people really care about.

But yeah, all those loyal common sensed GOP gals are telling you, Mitch, is that’s it’s all contrived, and what they really care about are jobs, you know, for the big man in their life, so they can bake pies and get dinner on the table at 5 O’clock sharp.

As Rachel Maddow noted on her fantastic Romney Lies segment above, it may seem cliché to point out when politicians lie these days. But the GOP lies about everything, all the time, and they don’t seem the least bit worried and certainly not the tiniest bit ashamed, when they’re caught lying red-handed on video and print.

Comments

  1. unbound says

    “I think that there is a perception out there because of how this whole contraception issue played out — ah, we need to get off of that issue, in my view.”

    Perception? Someone needs to slap the rethuglicans around really, really hard. This was not a perception issue, the rethuglicans decided to press hard on the issue…now that there is blowback (and only because of the blowback), they want to back pedal and claim they didn’t really mean it. Same old sick stuff from them putting out their racist or sexist or classist comments, and if there is too much objection, just claim they were joking.

    Rethuglicans have been so transparent for at least the last decade, I truly do not understand how nearly 1/2 the nation still supports them.

  2. says

    That’s why I hate the GOP constituency more than their leaders. I EXPECT to find sleazy sociopaths clamoring for political power, However they exist entirely at the will of their constituency.

  3. magistramarla says

    And it just gets worse…
    Check out this report with the title “Arizona Abortion Bill: Legislators Pass Three Bills, Including One That Redefines When Life Begins”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/az-abortion-bills-arizona-gestational-age_n_1415715.html

    I kid you not: those idiots in Arizona define gestational age as “calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman,” which would move the beginning of a pregnancy up two weeks prior to conception.
    A woman can be counted as pregnant two weeks before she gets pregnant? This is insane!

    On the positive side, it’s sure keeping The War on Women fresh in the minds of women voters.

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