Key House Republican Admits: GOP Attacks on Women’s Health R Holding Up Zika Funding

[Bill USA]

https://www.dpcc.senate.gov/?p=blog&id=596

The threat of the Zika public health crisis is increasing as summer continues. While Democrats have spent months trying to get our Republican colleagues to take the Zika virus seriously, Republicans have engaged in yet another cynical crusade against women's health. Now, even a key Republican appropriator admits that Republicans are refusing to fund our response to the Zika virus unless the bill attacks Planned Parenthood. There is no reason for this bill to be bogged down by another Republican attack on women's health.

REPUBLICAN APPROPRIATOR: REMOVING ATTACK ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS "RED LINE" GOP REFUSES TO CROSS

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK): Republican Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a senior appropriator, said Republicans are willing to negotiate further on Zika, but said they still want to avoid adding to the deficit or funding Planned Parenthood. Cole called the latter a "red line" for the Republican conference. (Bloomberg, 7/11/16)

The Washington Post Editorial Board described the Republican Zika Conference report as "saddled with unnecessary partisan baubles"

Washington Post Editorial: It's Us Against Zika - Whose Side Is Congress On? "In the very early morning hours Thursday, Republicans who control the House pushed through a bill to combat the Zika virus that is a totem to their favored causes and a poke in the eye of Democrats. More than four months after President Obama requested nearly $1.9 billion in emergency funding to deal with a public-health emergency, the House voted for $1.1 billion but saddled it with unnecessary partisan baubles. This may further delay action against the mosquito-borne virus that can cause severe fetal birth defects." (Washington Post, 6/23/16)
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[Angry Dragon]

1. I guess republicans are really pigs

[yeoman6987]

2. They are but democratic politicians voted down the funding

[Angry Dragon]

4. because of the PP clause??

[yeoman6987]

6. Are you sure? I think it was because the democratic politicians wanted to use

The left over Ebola money that's just sitting there doing nothing. Remember democratic politicians are the ones that are good with money no matter what BS the Repugs say.

[Angry Dragon]

7. It was a question

[gratuitous]

5. A couple of things

First, Democrats are in the minority in the House. They can't vote down anything by themselves; they have to have at least some Republicans on board. Second, Democrats voted against the bill in the sense that someone offers you a state-of-the-art mobile device, but only if they can cut off your hands. It's not a good deal.

Sheesh. This needs to be spelled out?

[gratuitous]

3. I guess we're long past that "will of the people" thing

Let's get out and vote these fuckers out of office, hmmmm? If judicial appointments don't do it for you, there's the environment and global climate change. If the livability of the planet doesn't get your motor running, you can vote against them in the name of women's health. If you think women are a bunch of sluts, maybe you'd like to see fewer babies born without microcephaly?

Get these retrograde assholes away from the levers of power. I don't care if your personal Republican is "one of the good ones"; they travel together and vote the same.