Contraception coverage and related insurance issues

[Minardil]

Actually, I'd go so far as to say people don't actually know what healthy is at all anymore. I can't remember, honestly, the last time I saw a positive body image anywhere in the media, at least one that pointed to a realistic body image.

But weren't we suposed to be talking about contraception here?

Is there a more effective form of contraception than images of fat people? I know when I look in the mirror, I lose all interest in sexual activity, and clearly I have that same affect on all the women I know. . .

[hamlet]

Actually, I'd go so far as to say people don't actually know what healthy is at all anymore. I can't remember, honestly, the last time I saw a positive body image anywhere in the media, at least one that pointed to a realistic body image.

But weren't we suposed to be talking about contraception here?

Is there a more effective form of contraception than images of fat people? I know when I look in the mirror, I lose all interest in sexual activity, and clearly I have that same affect on all the women I know. . .

This coming from someone married with children?

You sir, may stick it where the sun don't shine. And I say that as a representative of all singles on the board.

[vison]

hamlet. For pete's sake, lighten up.

Minardil can laugh at himself, if he wants.

[Democritus]

Turns out that attacking reproductive rights are a real big vote winner for the GOP... real big........ http://www.salon.com/2012/04/02/when_gender_gaps_save_presidents/singleton/#comments

I hate to say I told you so... but I told you so...

[Dave_LF]

This is exactly why I said that Obama should provide more rope when the whole birth control thing came up.

[vison]

Turns out that attacking reproductive rights are a real big vote winner for the GOP... real big........ http://www.salon.com/2012/04/02/when_gender_gaps_save_presidents/singleton/#comments

I hate to say I told you so... but I told you so...

Not sure what you told us? Can't remember.


The lunacies (for there are several) that have overtaken the GOP makes the whole thing look like the famous circular firing squad. They are out of touch with a significant portion of the population. I suspect that women who might otherwise vote Right will vote Left over the women's rights issue, and can't quite see why anyone would be surprised by that. (Not that anyone here will be.)

[Minardil]

Actually, I'd go so far as to say people don't actually know what healthy is at all anymore. I can't remember, honestly, the last time I saw a positive body image anywhere in the media, at least one that pointed to a realistic body image.

But weren't we suposed to be talking about contraception here?

Is there a more effective form of contraception than images of fat people? I know when I look in the mirror, I lose all interest in sexual activity, and clearly I have that same affect on all the women I know. . .

This coming from someone married with children?

You sir, may stick it where the sun don't shine. And I say that as a representative of all singles on the board.

Let me just say that as a Person of Heft, I have lots of places which haven't seen sunlight in a while.

[Cerin]

TMI

[hamlet]

Excuse me while I try to locate the mental Brillo pad and scour that image from my head . . .

[Democritus]

Turns out that attacking reproductive rights are a real big vote winner for the GOP... real big........ http://www.salon.com/2012/04/02/when_gender_gaps_save_presidents/singleton/#comments

I hate to say I told you so... but I told you so...

Not sure what you told us? Can't remember.


The lunacies (for there are several) that have overtaken the GOP makes the whole thing look like the famous circular firing squad. They are out of touch with a significant portion of the population. I suspect that women who might otherwise vote Right will vote Left over the women's rights issue, and can't quite see why anyone would be surprised by that. (Not that anyone here will be.)

Hee, hee, a while ago, when this issue of contraception reared its head, I wrote that this issue would ultimatey come to hurt the GOP, not the Democrats, with reasons why... and now it has come to pass. The "told you so" was mainly to the universe and the minority of folks around here who thought it was the President who was setting himself up for a fall on the issue.

But when you have ahats like Santorum and Limbaugh around, you can always count on them to blow up the issue well beyond where the party leaders wanted to draw the line.

[portia]

Not to imply that the Party leaders had any sense about the result.

[Democritus]

Not to imply that the Party leaders had any sense about the result.

That is very true, but I think privately they would have been tearing their hair out at Limbaugh for the beautiful gift he handed out.....

[Minardil]

But when you have ahats like Santorum and Limbaugh around, you can always count on them to blow up the issue well beyond where the party leaders wanted to draw the line.

Limbaugh IS the GOP leadership. Plain and simple.

[Cenedril_Gildinaur]

But when you have ahats like Santorum and Limbaugh around, you can always count on them to blow up the issue well beyond where the party leaders wanted to draw the line.

Limbaugh IS the GOP leadership. Plain and simple.

He's influential in Republican circles, and a conservative leader, but the party leadership is composed of people with titles like "chairman" or "executive committee member".

[TheEllipticalDisillusion]

But when you have ahats like Santorum and Limbaugh around, you can always count on them to blow up the issue well beyond where the party leaders wanted to draw the line.

Limbaugh IS the GOP leadership. Plain and simple.

He's influential in Republican circles, and a conservative leader, but the party leadership is composed of people with titles like "chairman" or "executive committee member".

Chairmen or executive committee members can't be heavily influenced by other individuals missing those titles?

I doubt Minardil meant his comment seriously (though, I could be wrong).

[Minardil]

But when you have ahats like Santorum and Limbaugh around, you can always count on them to blow up the issue well beyond where the party leaders wanted to draw the line.

Limbaugh IS the GOP leadership. Plain and simple.

He's influential in Republican circles, and a conservative leader, but the party leadership is composed of people with titles like "chairman" or "executive committee member".

Chairmen or executive committee members can't be heavily influenced by other individuals missing those titles?

I doubt Minardil meant his comment seriously (though, I could be wrong).

While Mr. Limbaugh is not an official leader of the Party, in that he holds no designated rank within the party structure, it is undeniable that he wields tremendous influence over the party, and few if any Republicans dare to challenge or even contradict him openly. He sets the agenda and the TONE of the party, so in that regard he is most definitely their leader.

[portia]

I think that is essentially true, Minardil, and it is strange to me in that I do not, ever, listen to him.

[Minardil]

I think that is essentially true, Minardil, and it is strange to me in that I do not, ever, listen to him.

I think there are LOTS of rank and file Republicans who are disgusted by Limbaugh, or at least who don't listen to him or his show, but I think the party leadership toes whatever line he lays out.

[JewelSong]

I think the party leadership toes whatever line he lays out.

The question for me is WHY? Why does the GOP party leadership listen to him? Why are they so intimidated by him? Where does he get his "power?"

To me, he is a blowhard - nothing more. Attention-grabbing, nasty and mean-spirited.

What is the attraction to the GOP?

[Griffon64]

The GOP party leadership perceive him to have power. And they are attracted to power like flies to cow dung.

Whether their perception of his power is in scale with the power he actually has is another story.

[vison]

The GOP party leadership perceive him to have power. And they are attracted to power like flies to cow dung.

Whether their perception of his power is in scale with the power he actually has is another story.

I think you're right, Griffon64.

I suspect that the PTB in the GOP are, themselves, so removed from the ordinary Republican, and have such contempt for the ordinary Republican, that they think ordinary Republicans ALL worship Limbaugh and therefore they ought to publicly kowtow to him, to please "the base".

It's that "elite" thing. "Elite people" think regular people are all really the Great Unwashed: to be courted and appeased in meaningless ways. The Elites toss bones, in the form of Sarah Palins and her ilk, to The Mob, while at the same time never for ONE second intending to give up any real power to anyone other than their little club.

[Cenedril_Gildinaur]

Sounds like the other party too.

[vison]

Sounds like the other party too.

Well, in this case, not to the same extent. But you have a point.

[Cenedril_Gildinaur]

Sounds like the other party too.

Well, in this case, not to the same extent.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[JewelSong]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

yeah, yeah, we get it, C_G. You hate everyone equally.

[ToshoftheWuffingas]

The basic point is that an unscrupulous press can and does assassinate a chosen victim's character. The worst are not slow to use that for political advantage.

[Minardil]

The basic point is that an unscrupulous press can and does assassinate a chosen victim's character. The worst are not slow to use that for political advantage.

Yes, why here's noted media victim Newt Gingrich, complaining about how Fox News gave him a raw deal:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57412780-503544/gingrich-charges-fox-news-with-pro-romney-bias/

Really??? FOX???? I find that impossible to believe.

[oldtoby]

It makes perfect sense, once you realize Mr Staypuffd's definition of raw deal is "Them mean old media types didn't slavishly parrot every word that came outta my mouth"

[portia]

A person needs a really big ego to run for President. Or to be President. But there are egos and egos, and Gingrich's ego has not seemed to be a healthy "big" one since the mid-90s. He is convinced that he is right, and not only right, but so blindingly, obviously right that anyone who disagrees, or thinks that he doesn't have the right stuff to be President, has got to be jealous or something worse.

And, he is not shy about saying so, which antagonizes even those people who would be willing to cut him some slack.

A loose cannon, and one that doesn't very often shoot accurately.

[Minardil]

Hmm, I think Gingrich's problem isn't so much that he thinks that he and ONLY HE is "right" and that everyone is wrong, I think he thinks that he can say anything he wants and that no one else is smart enough to pick up on it.

So, when he says that politicians who work with Fannie Mae should go to jail, while he is personally pocketing millions of dollars working as a consultant for Fannie Mae, HE thinks he'll be able to get away with it.

When he was pummeling Bill Clinton for having an extra-marital affair WHILE he was cheating on his own wife, he thought he wouldn't get caught.

When he criticized Mr. Obama for "doing nothing" in Libya, then two weeks later criticized Mr. Obama for doing something in Libya, he thought no one would remember what he had said earlier.

The list of examples of his hypocrisy and his politically motivated and opportunisitic flip-flopping on issues goes on and on. This essentially defines his career and his character. Either he is completely delusional and doesn't realize that he behaves in this way, or he's completely delusional and thinks that everyone else is too stupide to realize that he behaves this way.