Quote of the Morning

Posted on April 16, 2012 at 7:24 am by Bob Cesca

“What we want is women to be able to make their own choices [...] We want women to make their own choices in healthcare. You see that’s the lie that happens under Obamacare. The President of the United States effectively becomes a health care dictator. Women don’t need anyone to tell them what to do on health care. We want women to have their own choices, their own money, that way they can make their own choices for the future of their own bodies.” Michele Bachmann on Meet the Press

Soooo Michele Bachmann is pro-choice? Excellent!

I wrote an extended piece for The Daily Banter today about this. Read and RT often.

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  • missliberties

    Ann Romney also. She wants us to respect her choices. No problem Ann. I will respect yours if you will respect mine.

    I sure do wish Ms. Rosen had never said this, because the wingnuts aren’t gonna let it go.

    • stacib23

      I am glad she said it; I only wish she had stood behind her context of her comment and refused to apologize. Maybe she should have been more clear when she said that Ann Romney wasn’t a good sounding board when referencing women working outside of the home but the essence of her comment was spot on. She should have told everybody that jumped on that particular bandwagon to kiss her entire ass because each and every one of them knew exactly what she meant, and most likely totally concurred. I also wish with all my heart that she had followed up with the visit to Meet the Press and took Michele Bachman to school on the “war on women” and her party’s front line participation in making it happen. Hilary Rosen should have gone on every fucking news organization and shouted her message from the rooftops and then challenged everybody that came her way with a bullshit argument and made them explain how it is okay for Ann Romney but not okay for poor women to stay home and raise their children. She should have made Ann Romney eat her husband’s words,

      End of rant.

      • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

        Tell it, sistuh! Tell it! ;)

  • trgahan

    I love this third grade “I know you are, but what I am” strategy the GOP is playing trying to recover from two months of anti-choice, anti-contraception, etc. legislation at the state level. Can we please strip the voting rights of anyone who honestly beliefs that the Democrats, NOT the republicans, are anti-women because of the off handed statement of one person.

    BTW, Fox and Friends said that “most polls” (no detail given) are showing women flocking to Romeny because of what Ms. Rosen said. What a magical world they live in…

    • Victor_the_Crab

      The same “polls” that show eating pizza and ice cream and not exercizing is good for your health. What liars these Fox and Fiends are.

  • Brutlyhonest

    Silly rabbits: Contraception and abortion are NOT women’s healthcare issues; they’re about the “life” of a zygote.

    More anti-science synapse misfires/disconnects that feed the faithful.

  • muselet

    (I tell this story not to embarrass a long-ago ex, if anyone wonders.)

    I had a girlfriend in the late 1980s–early ’90s who was anti-abortion. We clicked in a lot of ways, but we disagreed on this.

    In the course of conversation one day, she brought up the subject, complete with the stock line about human life beginning at conception and the nod to personhood (yes, it was apparently already a thing then to conflate “human” and “person”). I told her I wasn’t pro-abortion (nobody is), I was pro-choice. I reminded her that she had been a biology major in college and was familiar with embryological development; that she was thinking about going to law school and that personhood isn’t a biological concept but is a legal concept; and that the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester. (I probably also mentioned some of the reasons women have abortions, but I don’t remember.) And I told her that one reason I was not anti-abortion was that I wasn’t willing to confer personhood on a blob of undifferentiated cells.

    Okay, not absolutely the strongest argument ever made, but she was very quiet for a while and admitted I had a point.

    The next time we were together, she said she’d been thinking about it and said something to the effect that she still didn’t like abortion. In the moment, after our earlier conversation, she recognized that the question of abortion can’t be reduced to a binary, black-or-white moral position. After a couple of days alone with her own thoughts, though, she returned to her previous way of thinking.

    Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann recognized, however dimly, that same thing, before falling back into their old patterns of thought. Plus they—like most Righties—trust themselves and members of their tribe to make the right decisions, but the rest of the population needs to be controlled.

    If only it were as simple as asking one question.

    –alopecia