I’d like to enjoy this slapdown the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) delivered to the Indiana legislature and Governor Mitch Daniels, but I worry that it will just instigate another holy war in Congress, complete with hostages. Indiana banned Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program. You can’t do that. It’s against the law to ban a legitimate medical provider from the system just because you don’t like their scope of services. Indiana has to comply with the law or they’ll face penalties, possibly including the rescinding of all the money they receive from the Federal Government to cover Family Planning. Yet, since they only receive $4 million for Family Planning, most Republican legislators may prefer to just pass on the money. Women shouldn’t take contraceptives anyway, as it gives them a false sense of freedom and let’s them let down their guard of their naughty parts.
I’m beginning to think that Democrats, progressives, women, reasonable people need to take back the Don’t Tread on Me flag from the wackos.
Also, too, do you think a Republican-run HHS would issue such a ruling?
it was the right thing to do. I have to be satisfied with that.
anything’s going turn into a hostage situation in Congress, because hostage taking was rewarded once, and it’s almost certainly going to be rewarded again on the debt ceiling.
until the president and the democrats are ready to start taking some hostages of their own, or publicly telling the hostage takers to go fuck themselves in the dick with a picklefork, it’s gonna keep happening.
As for “taking back the DTOM flag”, i’ve been saying that for a long time, usually to derision. Glad to see you’re coming round to my way of thinking.
I’d prefer it if the libertarians dropped all their economic voodoo and nonsense and just helped people on the left keep the government off our backs, out of our underwear, out of our emails, and not listening to our phones.
Interestingly, I’d prefer it if the libertarians died in a fire.
They’ve managed to raise the level of stupid to some sort of cruel and twisted art form.