Barbara Boxer To GOP: Quit Saying Ted Kennedy Would Support Your Birth Control Bill

[cal04]

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/barbara-boxer-to-gop-quit-saying-ted-kennedy

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) emphatically called on Republicans Wednesday to stop invoking the late Ted Kennedy to justify their support for the Blunt contraception amendment. She said he was a great champion of women's health.

"So I ask my colleagues here in this debate. Come here and state your views," Boxer said on the Senate floor. "But don't misstake the views of a dear departed colleague, who for 12 years supported a women's right to have access to contraception."


Boxer: Contraception amendment a 'radical departure'
http://thehill.com/video/senate/213417-boxer-contraception-amendment-a-radical-departure
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) blasted the proposed amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would exempt employers and insurers from covering healthcare procedures they object to on moral or religious grounds a "radical departure from what we've always done in this country" during an interview Wednesday. Boxer went on to say Republicans "can't help themselves" from engaging in battles over social issues, and criticized the GOP for attempting to attach the amendment to a highway transportation bill.

[monmouth]

1. They mistakenly think this because he was a Catholic? How mis-informed they are..LOL...n/t

[karynnj]

4. No, Scott Brown cynically said it because he thought that would help his position

an d he refused to back down when former Kennedy aides disputed him and even when his son, Patrick did - responding to Patrick that he did not think he was wrong! The utter chutzpah of Brown, who never worked with Kennedy and really was not someone who knew him well, is astonishing.

[Kalidurga]

6. Even if it were true...

it has nothing to do with how other Democrats should vote or even how Republicans should vote. I mean since they are against everything Democrats are for, they should probably rethink their position on birth control if Kennedy was against it, according to Brown.

[politicasista]

2. Kick

[Beaverhausen]

3. I love my Senator!

[geardaddy]

5. Will R-Money try to baptize him?