He’s Got a Slip in His Differential
Good Grief Alert.
Republican Congressidiot Mike Kelly says that the Affordable Care Act is exactly like Pearl Harbor. Exactly. Well, if not totally exactly like Pearl Harbor, then exactly like 9/11.
I did not make that up. My mind doesn’t go places like that.
“I know in your mind, you can think of the times America was attacked,” he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “One is Dec. 7, that’s Pearl Harbor Day. The other is Sept. 11, and that’s the day the terrorists attacked. I want you to remember Aug. 1, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.”
You know when I found out that health insurance companies can no longer refuse to insure children with pre-existing conditions? Just like Pearl Harbor. Just like it.
You know how Republicans act when they want insurance companies not to provide breastfeeding support and supplies, gestational diabetes screening? Just like November 22nd.
Thanks to Deb for the heads-up.
And don’t forget that awful day when liberals forced us to drink water with flouride added to it! Or when they deprived citizens of their property by outlawing slavery! Its just one attack on American’s after another.
1In the 1960s Kelly’s predecessors in right wing lunacy made a similar complaint about the decision to add flouride to drinking water. And in the 1860s others were stunned when govnernment deprived them of property by freeing their slaves.
2The odd thing is that most Americans support contraception, and yes Mr. Congress Varmint that includes Catholics! Then again, perhaps that isn’t odd at all – maybe it is just Kelly who is nuts.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47526076/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/most-americans-even-catholics-say-birth-control-moral/
BTW – I notice not a one of these folks is arguing that we should not cover Viagra – now that would be Pearl Harbor!
3Well, of course it is like Pearl Harbor. Here are the benefits effective today:
• Well-woman visits (annually and now including prenatal visits) • Screening for gestational diabetes
• Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing
• Counseling for sexually transmitted infections
• Counseling and screening for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• Screening and counseling for interpersonal and domestic violence
• Breastfeeding support, supplies and counseling
• Generic formulary contraceptives, certain brand formulary contraceptives, and FDA-approved over-the-counter female contraceptives with prescription are covered without member cost share (for example, no copayment); certain religious organizations or religious employers may be exempt from offering contraceptive services
Loved Rachel Maddow last night highlighting these and also Mitch “Turtle” McConnell trying to Repeal the ACA the day before these benefits went in to effect.
4So religious freedom is now defined as the right of the Catholic church (which is not a person) to make intimate contraception decisions for employees (who are people), even though these employees likely don’t belong to the Catholic church.
Does that mean that my freedom of speech gives me the right to put a size 10 boot up this guy’s size 20 butt?
5So does the insurance coverage of a blood transfusion violate the religious freedom of an employer who happens to be a Jehovah’s Witness?
6Why does it seem that the organizations which do the most pushing, complain the loudest when they get nudged slightly?
7His overwrought hyperbole is almost as laughable as his undersized brain. This is the same guy who has tried to gut animal cruelty laws and believes dog fighting is the same thing as boxing. When he tried to walk back the dog fighting comments from his town hall meeting, he said a lot of people believed in animal rights, not human rights. Then he wandered off into some kind of porno fairy story about a 13 year old girl getting raped by a sexual predator and carted off for an abortion. He has got some boulders growing in his brain pan.
8Uncle Dave, your point is so well taken! Lest we forget, there are still folks out there complaining about fluoride, I taught in a community that has yet to add it to their water supply. And the Confederate Party is still up to its old tricks:
http://www.confederateamericanpride.com/CNP.html
Mollusk, what a wonderful rejoinder!
Rekster, thank you for the great summary, with your permission I will use your list whenever some ding dong wants to debate the merits of Obama Care with me!
9@Deb. I think we should all be using this list daily to remind our “friends” in the lunatic fringe start to denigrate “Obamacare”!
10I’m so tired of these A**hats. (Sorry, Momma!) Religion was NOT a political weapon in our society until the recent, diabolical ‘Morning In America” bulls**t. Liberals need to GET LOUD, get involved in any way we can, and combat mass hysteria amongst the knuckle-draggers with the ABSOLUTE TRUTH. A long shot, to be sure, but the TeaBaggers have an endless money machine that buys elections with the Pavlonianly righteous, undereducated and/or overprivileged cerebral slackers. This means YOU, TexAss! SHAME ON ALL TEXAS REPUBLICANS! I’ll be smiling when you “Cruz Into Bankruptcy and Nonexistant Public Services” while the Peasants are sharpening their Pitchforks.. Live by the Almighty Dollar, die destitute, friendless, and Hellbound.
11Wow I did not think there was a similarity between the World Trade Towers, a huge Pearl Harbor military base, and my uterus, glad he clued me in!
12I don’t understand where they find these idiots, is it a qualification to joint the republican party?
13What good is religious freedom, I ask you, if you don’t get to boss other people around? I feel that my religious beliefs entitle me to keep Mikey off the Viagra and definitely off the caffeine. That boy needs to calm down.
If Rep. Mike Kelly got the kind of America he wants, he’d have so much fun padlocking those churches he doesn’t agree with.
But some of those church folks would be over in his neighborhood padlocking his.
14Some people seem to believe that religious freedom means the right to force their religion on everybody else.
When they offer equality to Muslims, Wiccans, atheists, and other minorities, then it will be freedom. Until then, it is just more religious oppression. And I’m sick of it.
If it is not free for everybody, it is a privilege, not a freedom.
15I was completely disappointed that there was no mass death and concomittant societal chaos yesterday. daMrs and I had been stockpiling Cheetos and beer and ammunition, and holding ACA drills where we practiced entering houses of the newly deceased and taking stuff.
Our next drill takes place in October, (RED October!) when the ACA deems that billing standardization and electronic records should begin to be implemented. I’m thinking of adding Twinkies to the stockpile. And maybe something to shoot the ammunition out of.
Hopefully, next year, when they start taking extra Medicare money from rich rich people, we will have a fully stocked undisclosed location to hunker down in until the danger of Communization passes.
Also, Mike Kelly may have a slip in his differential, but RuPaul has a differential in his slip.
16To Rick at August 1, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Your question reminds me of a quote from 18th century English essayist Samuel Johnson on the American colonies:
“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
For some reason, some people think they are not “free” unless they are pushing someone else around.
Conservatives think that freedom is finite and oil is not.
17daChipster, you and the Mrs. sound like my kinda people, especially if you’re fond of RuPaul. She’s got it going ON.
As for religious liberty, I, for one, can’t recall a Jewish business owner demanding the right to make employees in a non-kosher business keep kosher themselves, but I’m slipping in my dottage.
18I’m waiting for the Japanese to bomb maternity wards and then for them and the Germans to declare war on Planned Parenthood or the closest hospital.Differential or no wingnuts slipped their connection to reality a longtime ago and they’ll never get it reestablished.
19Da mr and Mrs Chipster’s ACA drill sound like my post rapture preparations. My fondest hope is that some thumper and jumper departs for that great cheerleader practice and experimental ballet in the sky having left the keys in his Porsche 959.
Mike Kelly is MY Congressidiot. He is a pea-brained used car salesman in actual fact, and all the $10K millionaires around here love him almost as much as they love their guns.
20If I had known my uterus was so significant, I would have kept it instead of putting it on E-Bay.
21jeez i had so much fun reading the comments. i almost wish you had “like” buttons for the comments. Rachael Maddow did a great segment on this nut job.
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