Republicon laughing point (s) of the day ....

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House Republicans Revive The Contraception Wars

They’re back!

This spring’s political contretemps over access to contraception are returning to Capitol Hill — and this time Republicans are trying to tie the issue to must-pass legislation, foreshadowing a possible government shutdown standoff unless conservatives back down and temporarily agree to set aside earlier grievances.

House Republicans renewed their effort Wednesday by advancing a measure through the Labor-HHS appropriations subcommittee with a rider to roll back President Obama’s contraception mandate. Authorized by the Affordable Care Act, the rule requires employer-provided health insurance plans to cover contraception without co-pays, with carve-outs for churches and religious non-profits. Republicans on the panel defeated a Democratic amendment to strip the provision, suggesting they’re willing to pick the fight.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/house-gop-contraception-birth-control.php?ref=fpblg

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Rush Limbaugh: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’/Bane slam got more backlash than ‘anything’ else on his show

Consevative radio host Rush Limbaugh says he never claimed Bane was created in 1993 as a dig against Mitt Romney's ties to Bain - and says Batman is a conservative hero

Holy backlash, Batman!

One day after slamming "The Dark Knight Rises" for featuring a villain named Bane, which he said benefits the Obama campaign because of its similarity to Mitt Romney's venture capital firm, Bain, Rush Limbaugh backtracked - slightly - from his earlier comments.

Comic book fans eagerly awaiting the final installment of director Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy, which opens Friday, however, turned out to be worse whiners than his usual liberal critics.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/rush-limbaugh-dark-knight-rises-bane-slam-backlash-show-article-1.1117266

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Top Obamacare Critic's Op-Eds Drafted by PR Firm That Reps Drug, Health Care Clients

Last Tuesday, a week after the Supreme Court's ruling upholding Obamacare, Sally Pipes appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to enumerate the evils of the law. The president of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based freemarket think tank, Pipes warned members of Congress that if they didn't act quickly Americans would soon suffer the rationed care and long waits supposedly plaguing her native Canada. The country's health care system, she insisted, had killed her mother by refusing to test her for colon cancer, which she later died from.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/sally-pipes-pacific-research-institute-keybridge-communications

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Rick Perry Accuses Attorney General Holder Of Intentionally Inciting Racial Tensions

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) believes that US Attorney General Eric Holder “purposefully” made remarks meant to “incite racial tensions” by talking about voter identification efforts at the NAACP.
In a statement released Tuesday, Perry calls on President Obama to apologize for Holder’s speech at the NAACP, during which he said that voter identification laws amounted to a “poll tax“:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/19/546551/perry-holder-racial-tensions/

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"They are gonna fire the coach"

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