Politics

[tikiera]

I was wrong.

I thought when it was time to compromise, Obama would be most likely to get rid of the things that were "woman's" issues.

Nope.  He didn't even wait to for it to be time to compromise...

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_090129.htm

Not a single damn republican vote, but hey, why not just take out any family planning in the health section.   Because the republicans will like that and vote for... nope, no votes there.

Comments

[ngrylilasianboy.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I see much mention of family planning or reproductive rights issues mentioned in the article you linked to. What exactly was it that you saw that inspired your post? Any particular quote or text that you can point out that I may have missed?

[tikiera.livejournal.com]

big ole stimulus bill.

had a section in the health care section that had some family planning funding.

was cut so that the bill could be "bipartisan"

republicans didn't vote for the bill - weren't ever planning to vote for the bill.

if you haven't been following it in the news, i am not going to do the work for you, i am too pissed because i followed it for days and predicted this sort of shit, and frankly, considering our difference in political views, won't do me any good anyway.

[jamesofengland.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen news of the stripping of the reproductive stuff, but I'd be surprised if that was the first thing to go. The lawn mowing costs would seem like an obvious place to go if you wanted to cut stuff without too much controversy, and they seem to be the most common thing I'm hearing GOP complaints about. Is it something you heard elsewhere? Feministing doesn't have anything on it, nor Guttmacher/ Planned Parenthood.

I think that most people were pretty surprised that there wasn't a single GOP vote for it.

Obama's team has said that he compromised women's rights as one of his first acts in office, but I'm not sure that his delay of a single day in issuing his executive order over the Mexico City policy is a big betrayal, or that it'll provide much of a fig-leaf for his thinner skinned pro life supporters. He hasn't compromised, so far as I know, in making the Lilly Ledbetter Act his first signing. I'm with you on this; I'd rather see him take the family planning parts of the stimulus to $3 billion than to take away the 1/3 of a billion currently proposed.

[jamesofengland.livejournal.com]

Thought this migh make you smile, too.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDVhMThjYWRiMmQzMDlkNTI2YTQ5YmUzNWM2OGViOWQ=