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kalikshama -> RE: The crazies would destroy america than let women decide their own healthcare. (10/14/2013 3:14:27 PM)
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Ah, that provides the context I needed.
From your link:
Across town, at the U.S. Capitol, Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee, was making the most of the moment by rallying his troops in the House to do the bishops’ bidding.
Earlier in the day, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), presented a plan for a compromise deal (later rejected by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) that would have funded the government through March, ending the current partial government shutdown, and delayed until January the showdown on the debt ceiling—which needs to be raised by October 17, according to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, in order to avert a financial crisis. Ryan, the Washington Post reported, was having none of it. One big reason: birth control. Specifically, the contraception benefit in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), to which the bishops object.
In a closed-door meeting with his fellow House Republicans, Ryan reportedly “riled” up his colleagues with a speech opposing the Collins compromise, finding no benefit in the extension of deadlines to alleviate the current crisis.
Elizabeth Warren on the Government's Hostage Tactics on Birth Control
Posted on Oct 1, 2013
As the government was on the verge of shutting down, the Massachusetts Democrat began her speech on the Senate floor Monday by exclaiming she was in a “state of disbelief.” After a litany of the dismal conditions the country will face during a government shutdown in an “economic recovery still far too fragile,” Warren says angrily, “Republicans have decided that the single most important issue facing our nation is to change the law so that employers can deny women access birth control coverage…in the year 2013. Not the year 1913—the year 2013.”
In other words, GOP, wake up and smell the democratic coffee. In the year 2013, women have rights, and one of these rights, upheld by U.S. law, is the ability to obtain contraception without fear of excessive costs that have led women to make choices about their bodies based on money rather than health. The inimitable Warren declares, “I have a daughter and I have granddaughters, and I will never vote to let a group of backward thinking ideologues cut women’s access to birth control. We have lived in that world and we are not going back. Not ever.”
She adds that these ridiculous threats may continue, but they will not change the reality of American democracy, in which the law is the rule of the land. And that law includes the Affordable Care Act. Republicans, she reminds us, are merely desperate, grasping at straws because they’ve failed to win elections or pass the outdated laws they’ve proposed. Because “hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the presidency, and can’t win their fights in courts.”
And as long as Warren is in the same rink, fighting back, keeping the best interests of American women and men in mind, Republicans will not prevail with their cheap shots and childish tantrums. Not ever.
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