Senate Republicans blocked the consideration of a bill that would’ve put senators on record on contraceptives during an election year when reproductive rights have taken center stage as a mobilizing issue among all voters.
If I understand this correctly, they support the purpose of the bill, but they voted against the bill now so they wouldn’t be in a position to vote for the bill later?
I think this means they’re more afraid of losing the let’s-kill-more-women-and-children vote than they are of losing the sane-people vote.
Goopers and the fetus people have never ever recognized their moral inconsistencies.
“Reverence for life” my ass. Kill the mom to save a fetus. Fry some mental defective in the electric chair. Kill Gaza people – or Israelis, take your choice.
Keep at it D Senators. Nail these f"*kers to the wall. Put up or shut up should be the motto. (Sorry, I grew up in Philly, that was as polite as I could be.)
But despite all of that hemming and hawing, [Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)] said he is confident that voters will be able to make sense of Republicans’ various muddied positioning on the topic.
GOPers want to simultaneously be free to play wind-sock in their own individual elections, while preserving the illusion that they will unite to shut down birth control.
A tight-rope so thin it should be 2-dimensional. But there is an ocean of money dedicated to helping them walk it.
The Age of Organized Money has many such marvels in store for fans of the law of the excluded middle.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) . … It’s a phony vote because contraception, to my knowledge, is not illegal. It’s not unavailable.”
Legal and available now, senator, in large part because the cult doesn’t yet have the votes/power to make it illegal. The only way to assure contraception will remain legal is to vote Democratic.
When you really stand for nothing, any position is possible, so it’s everyone for themselves.
Look! Over there! Squirrel! Joe is really, really old and his son’s laptop. Brown people massing at the border.
I hope the Dems’ messaging people are all over this – Goopers DON’T want women to have easy access to all forms of contraception. This was a total gimme, but Goopers are so SCARED of their base that they’ll sacrifice all women to stay in Congress.
Oh, look, a Republican taking a progressive position on something because it affects his family.
A lot of Goopers went to Congress for the express purpose of sacrificing all women; the pay and status are the silver lining.
That sick rott? He looks terrible. Aged 30 years in 3 years. Looks like Mr Burns
In a 51-39 vote, Senate Republicans blocked a motion to proceed to a floor vote on the Right to Contraception Act,
Nothing’s getting to a floor vote. Eating their own and lobbing grenades till November is all they have left. After that, after they lose, let’s get really smug and condescending. Plus pass a national Happy Holiday. Gotta get to work on my happy dance.
When you really stand for nothing, any position is possible, so it’s everyone for themselves.
Yeah, let’s go tribal, live in the woods, sleep on the ground and hope we survive from day to day.
What “exceptions for conscience” is Cornyn talking about? Does he want the clerk at the pharmacy to be able to refuse to let a woman purchasing contraception pay for it? Is he saying a pharmacist can refuse to refill a prescription for contraception? Or that a doctor can refuse to prescribe contraceptives? Or is he just mouthing words that he’s heard in relation to something he thinks is similar?
So Rick Scott wants to replace MoscowMitch as the Republican Senate Leader but somehow it’s not his job to get some kind of policy position together. Hmmmm.
That’s where the law is now. There have been more than a few stories of women being denied contraceptives at their favorite pharmacy because the prig behind the counter has an issue with providing pills to promiscuous young hussies.
