What's worse than a bunch of creepy old man religious perverts conspiring against the health and well being of women? Well, perhaps a creepy young woman trying to make sure -- using copious amounts of taxpayer money -- to fight a requirement that health insurers cover the modest cost of birth control. Worse still, she's fighting something that in some cases is a medical necessity and in very many cases will prevent women from becoming unable to work and winding up in poverty and their children on public assistance.
Such things don't seem to matter to GOP apparatchiks like Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General who is suing the Federal Government over the Affordable Care Act, a law that is starting to provide health care to Florida's 4.5 million uninsured and access to contraception. As the ACA will come before the US Supreme Court this month, the redundancy of this suit is as obvious as the smug unconcern Bondi has for truth, justice and freedom from the tyranny of religious nuts.
Sold as another attempt at "smaller" government, it's really nothing but a power play by the Religious Rich to make their perverted, obsessive, inhumane and antique dogmas into public policy no matter the cost. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi may not be one of these foul, disgusting old men, but she sure as hell works for them while collecting a salary paid by the people she'd like to keep barefoot and pregnant and poor and in thrall to the superstition salesmen with the effrontery to use our freedom of religion and our tax revenues against us.
I admit I had to Google this cheer leader looking woman. Two statements from Wikipedia struck me:
ReplyDelete"On December 1, 2009, Bondi officially announced that she would be running for Florida Attorney General.[4] On August 24, 2010 she won the Republican primary for this post, narrowly defeating lieutenant governor Jeff Kottkamp in a 3-way race. On November 2, 2010 she defeated Democratic nominee Dan Gelber, to become the Attorney General of the State of Florida. She was endorsed by former Alaska Governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin during the primary.
Some former lawyers of the attorney general's office have criticized their former employer for preferential treatment of corporations and law firms. Critics have also charged that two of Bondi's assistant district attorneys investigating foreclosure fraud were admonished and then forced out of their jobs.[5][6] They also point out that Bondi has accepted campaign contributions from companies under investigation by the attorney general's office."
For me, this explains the timber of the woman...despicable.
It's remarkable to see this tack being taken by a major party during an election year: concentrating intently on an agenda that nearly every woman in the USA is sure to find deeply offensive and threatening. What arrogant, sexist morons they are! Birth control? Really? Birth control is their big-ticket issue for 2012? Why not rail at the invention of the wheel and get it over with?
ReplyDeleteIt probably speaks of their frustration and panic, since the idea that Obama's "spending spree" which consists mostly of paying Bush's bills, is going to lay waste to the country isn't as easy to sell of late. It's amusing to see them trying to keep up the Ohma-GAWD! level of panic selling when it seems likely like the worst is behind us and no, the "Tearists" haven't blown up Washington or even Festus, Missouri as was predicted.
ReplyDeleteSo we're down to sex, superstition and silliness and I think they're not going to make much headway with their brand of sexual loathing and anxiety as an impetus.
I wasn't aware that she'd been Palinized, but bimbos of a feather do seem to stick together.