Moronic Right Wingers

Today I need to vent!

1. If you are a poor woman, need a pap smear, have found a lump in your breast, or have some other medical problem, you may have lost the help and assistance that you've had in the past.  Due to a campaign from conservatives and anti-abortion groups, the Komen Foundation has severed ties with Planned Parenthood.  Personally, I'm disgusted at Komen for caving into the demands of the right. (The next area for a fight might be right wingers demanding an end to birth control pills (see HuffPost), and allowing states to stop the sale of them.)  Republican Mitt Romney has said he'd leave it to the states to decide whether to ban their sale.

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2. No one is pro-abortion. No one cheers when a woman decides to have an abortion. Everyone is pro-life because we like living.  However, as a woman myself and a human being, I cannot determine what is acceptable for someone else. It is not fitting that I should decide what happens to your body, what medicines you should take, and what medical treatment you should receive.  It is not my business--- or anyone else's.  This is a free country and you have the right to decide what clothes to wear, what you will say, what you drive, how you'll vote, and your own reproductive rights.

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3. Rick Santorum is a major jerk (that is the cleanest thing I can think of at the moment). Santorum cares more about drug companies surviving on the free market than he does about someone else's child surviving.  Raw Story has the encounter a mother had with Santorum over the cost of her son's medicine:

....The mother replied that she could not afford her son’s medication, Abilify, which can cost as much as $1 million a year without health insurance. 

“Look, I want your son and everybody to have the opportunity to stay alive on much-needed drugs,” Santorum insisted. “But the bottom line is, we have to give companies the incentive to make those drugs. And if they don’t have the incentive to make those drugs, your son won’t be alive and lots of other people in this country won’t be alive.”

“He’s alive today because drug companies provide care,” the candidate continued. “And if they didn’t think they could make money providing that drug, that drug wouldn’t be here. I sympathize with these compassionate cases. … I want your son to stay alive on much-needed drugs. Fact is, we need companies to have incentives to make drugs. If they don’t have incentives, they won’t make those drugs. We either believe in markets or we don’t.”

Let me remind you that Santorum and his wife have a very sick child who often receives medical care.  Apparently, they can afford the medical treatment and medicines she requires.

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4. There is a lawmaker from Alabama that says that it is in the Bible that teachers should work for low pay. I didn't catch his chapter and verse.
Raw Story:

.....Speaking at a prayer breakfast recently, Alabama state Senator Shadrack McGill praised giving pay raises to politicians, saying that it helps to prevent bribery. Then he shifted gears and went in the opposite direction with regards to teachers, arguing against a bill that would increase their salaries....

.....McGill voted in favor of a 67 percent pay raise for lawmakers in 2007.

Alabama ranks 31st in the nation in average teacher salaries, although the state did see an 11 percent increase in teacher pay from 2007-2009. The state’s Republicans have adopted so-called “right to work” laws that forbid public employees from collectively bargaining for better wages and benefits.

I suppose that McGill believes in the axiom, "Do as I say, not as I do."  

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5. Gov. John Kasich's plan to take his State of the State speech outside of the Statehouse and to Steubenville, has many people bailing out, according to the HeraldStaronline, including Ohio Sec. of State Jon Husted, Atty. Gen. Mike DeWine, and Ohio Supreme Court Justices.

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6. The super secret meetings continue in the Ohio Department of Transportation on how to lease the Turnpike.  The Cantonrep is reporting that many people still remain opposed to the leasing of the Ohio Turnpike. The hired consultants? KPMG, and -------------
 Ohio Secretary of State campaign contribution website reports that The Kasich-Taylor committee received $4,040 in campaign contributions from individuals that work for KPMG... 

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7. Anyone that seeks, desires, and then receives the endorsement from Donald Trump, should be disqualified from holding any and all public offices. That is my opinion, and I'm sticking with it.


I feel better.............

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Rumors are floating that the right wing governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, is the leading contender for a Romney ticket. McDonnell, as you may recall, announced a "Confederate History Month" in his state.  You remember the Confederate states fought to keep slavery.  I don't know why anyone would celebrate slavery and oppression. 

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Where in the world is Ohio's Treasurer Josh Mandel if he is not in his office and not  attending Ohio Board of Deposit meetings about our money?????  Even Politico has noticed that Mandel is shirking his duties.

Plunderbund has devoted a page to some of the locations you'll find Josh Mandel since he spends so little time in Ohio:  Plunderbund Facebook

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Lawrence O'Donnell, on MSNBC, mentioned that Mitt Romney was in a position of authority when African-Americans were forbidden to be leaders in his Mormon church.  Was Mitt also opposed to their inclusion?