Yesterday an additional phase of the Affordable Health Care Act kicked in --- with provisions oriented toward women. The emphasis is on preventive services, largely free of copayments.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's response? Yet still another attempt to "repeal Obamacare"! What is this now, the thirty-fourth one?
In the meantime, Republicans on the House side drew up a measure known as The District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act (HR 3803). This bill would mandate the banning of all abortions in the nation's capital (whose constituents are the only ones in the United States lacking an elective voice in Congress) --- even in the event of rape or incest!
So, knowing full well that this proposal would die in the Senate, why did they even bother? I dunno, maybe they just hate women!!??
In the wake of these actions, I propose the following theme song for the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa: "Turn Back the Hands of Time". Not Tyrone Davis's R&B rendition from the seventies. I mean the original: the one crooned by Eddie Fisher back in 1951. Here's the refrain:
Turn back the hands of time
Roll back the sands of time
Bring back my dreams divine
Let's live it over again.
Better still --- one vintage video on the platter! Here's Eddie! Enjoy.
Let us all now return to those romantic days of yesteryear --- 1951: when a woman's place was in the kitchen!
Yep, it is the 34th time the house is exerting its, er, "muscle" (as opposed to mind and heart).
ReplyDeleteRecalling McConnell's "heartfelt sentiment", the most important thing to do is defeat Obama (never mind work on the nation's chronically urgent problems), this is no surprise. But it all has everything to do with the right-wing nuthatches getting re-elected (and adding to their number), precious little else.
Very fine post, Dan.
P.S.: No comments on my blog lately....