Lipinski - probably going as himself for Halloween.
Unemployment has been an issue since late 2008. The GOP stormed the 2010 elections on a “Jobs First” platform. A year later, no jobs legislation and the economy’s only growth sector is ‘K-Street Fluffers.’ So what happened to “Jobs First?” Well…they’ll eventually get around to proposing tax cuts for the wealthy and further poisoning our air and water, henceforth saving our shattered republic. However, they first have to soften up the job market by endangering women’s health.
H.R. 358 – The Protect Life Act (hilarious!) is coming to the House floor soon. What we have here is a classic 2-Fer:
1. The bill would permit federally funded hospitals to refuse abortion services even to women who would likely die without the procedure.
2. The bill would deny federal funding to a health care plan that offers to pay for abortion services even in life-threatening circumstances.
Said majority-weasel Eric Cantor, “We will bring to the floor a bill to ensure that no taxpayer dollars flow to health care plans that cover abortion and no health care worker has to participate in abortions against their will,” he said.
“First, Do No Harm!” “First, I’m only going to do the parts of my job I enjoy.”
To be fair, the GOP is not alone in proposing this woman-hating, zygote-friendly proposal. I would be remiss if I didn’t point out my former rep and current shriveled, reanimated corpse of Anthony Perkins – nepotistic jellyfish Dan Lipinski (D-IL 03). He’s a fantastic exhibit as to the virtues of rubbers and other contraception. He’s co-sponsoring the Bill, but miraculously his website is scrubbed of this information.
Read the bill here, and the predictably reasonable take of the Catholic Church over at Mother Jones.
Gratuitous World 