"To the best of your knowledge, has a man ever delivered a baby?" Rep. ?? (R)

[Coyotl]

This is a question posed to Sec. Sebellius at the sham of a congressional hearing this morning.

Who was that Republican Rep.? I didn't get her name, and i want to create a meme for her.

The hearing was one of the worst displays of vindictiveness I have ever seen in such a setting. It replays tonight on C-SPAM at 8pm ET.

[leftstreet]

1. Hope she said yes - many doctors are men

What a freak show

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. Sounds like that moron Marsha Blackburn.

[TexasTowelie]

5. See #4, I was watching. nt

[Arkana]

3. What...?

This has to be Marsha fucking Blackburn. She's the only one stupid enough to ask that question.

[TexasTowelie]

6. See #4, I was watching.

Keep in mind that there is no shortage of stupid Republicans.

[TexasTowelie]

4. I think that the person that asked the question

was Renee Ellmers from North Carolina.

[Coyotl]

11. Looks like it: Confronted With Example Of Obamacare Success, GOP Rep Freaks Out

I think that is the same voice:

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/22/2815961/cnn-anchor-slams-gop-rep-rooting-obamacares-failure/

ELLMERS: I know you had the clip of the governor and God bless him. He’s talking about a situation that he supports. American people cannot wait for this. There are hard working taxpayers –

CAROL COSTELLO (HOST): Was the governor joshing us? Is he not telling the truth?

ELLMERS: I’m not exactly sure it is working in Kentucky…..

COSTELLO: So the governor when he says he’s signing up 1,000 people a day and wants to get the 640,000 people in Kentucky insured, he’s just saying that for political purposes?

ELLMERS: Well, you know, let’s look again at the grand scheme of things. It is a failure at monumental levels. [...]

COSTELLO: But you’re discounting everything that the Kentucky governor is saying. Instead of sitting down with him and saying, governor, let’s talk and figure this out together. Let’s figure out what’s political in what you’re saying. You’re discounting what he has to say outright.

Unable to directly respond to Kentucky’s enrollment numbers, Ellmers confronted Costello, saying, “you’re getting awfully angry about this situation!”

#t=274

[Arkana]

15. Almost as stupid as Blackburn.

Isn't she the woman who had a gun stolen out of an unsecured safe in her house?

[Coyotl]

7. Republican women, membership includes:

Marsha Blackburn (TN) - Vice Chairman http://blackburn.house.gov/

Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA) http://mcmorris.house.gov/

Renee Ellmers (NC) http://ellmers.house.gov/ Ironically, her site is down for maintenance!

All three have ACA opposition on their government home page. Blackburn even has a YouTube:

22 views.

Blackburn has an accent and a squeaky voice. So, I think it wasn't her.

[randome]

8. Was she trying to get at the old 'why should men pay for women's medical care?' canard?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Coyotl]

12. Yep. I guess she wants to have male-only insurance and women-only insurance.

That way, women won't pay for testicular cancer coverage and men won't pay for uterine cancer coverage.

[Whisp]

14. yah well we have our share of that idiotic thought here on DU.

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. I was wondering if she had spent the day on DU before asking that question.

[moriah]

9. Yep, the doctor who delivered me. How many men have been delivered? All of 'em. n/t

[HappyMe]

10. Um....yeah?

My cousin's husband is an ob/gyn.

[MANative]

13. My response to this canard is always...

Has a woman ever been treated for prostate cancer or erectile dysfunction? Same difference in terms of what comprehensive coverage has always done. Morans.

[Coyotl]

16. Grasping at strawmen

and strawwomen in the Land of Oz

These people 'aren't in Kansas anymore' and 'haven't left Kansas yet' at the same time.

[MANative]

26. sounds like an existential crisis to me!

[Victor_c3]

17. I'd say nope, no man has ever delivered a baby

When you say someone delivered a baby you are insinuating that they did the work. Well, the person who does the work (i.e. the delivering) is the woman giving birth. The doctors and/or anyone else present just catches the baby.

As an aside, I had the fortune of catching my first born daughter. It was quite the experience.

[HockeyMom]

20. My daughter was breech

I could not have delivered her alone. My male doctor had to reach in and get her head out. That was 34 years ago. Today the majority of breech babies would be "delivered" via C-Section by a DOCTOR (male or female). The mothers would not be doing the surgery themselves.

[Coyotl]

18. Here it is, a freshly-minted new meme for Halloween 2013:

Why didn't she just look that up on Wikipedia?

[irisblue]

19. no man has DELIVERED/ brought to life a baby

many have CAUGHT the babies though.

[randome]

21. Someone should point out to her the difference between men and storks.

Let her down easy.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[kydo]

22. I bet that bagger congress critter spent all week thinking up that question

[Coyotl]

23. I bet she just spitted it out without thinking in a frustrated state.

She was making no headway in trying to elicit the response she wanted for a perfect wingnut soundbite.

Given the witch burning nature of the hearing, Sec. Sebillius sure stayed cool.

[Lars39]

24. They're pushing the meme that pre-natal care, labor and delivery monitoring and assisting at time

of delivery are *not* medical care. Fuck them sideways. I don't give a damn if a man is involved in any stage of the above...has nothing to do with the fact that women are people who need medical care during this time of their lives.

[sinkingfeeling]

25. The answer is no, but if one does they'll be covered by the ACA.

[Coyotl]

30. ^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^ +1000000000000000

[Quantess]

27. Okay, but to be fair, maybe she meant "has a man ever given birth to a baby?"

That may have been what was swirling around in her noggin when she asked that.

[DevonRex]

36. We all know that. She's trying to say maternity coverage shouldn't be mandatory

since men don't have wombs and vaginas. They're just making fun of her word choice.

[Quantess]

38. As my friend's mother used to utter way too frequently, "good enough". (no text)

[Politicalboi]

28. Someone should ask this asshole

To the best of your knowledge, has a man ever had an abortion? Then why do they make laws against it.

[Nine]

43. +1

These right-wingers are largely anti-choice, but when it comes to paying for maternity costs, suddenly it's, "But it's the woman's body, why should the rest of us be involved!?"

[enlightenment]

29. Billy Crystal.

It was very touching.

[napkinz]

35. Rabbit Test ... wow, I had forgotten about that movie

[11 Bravo]

31. Damn, is it "Who Can Act Dumber Than Louie Gohmert Day" again already?

[Coyotl]

41. Hell, is it "Who Can Act Dumber Than Louie Gohmert Day" every day it seems.

[OregonBlue]

32. No I haven't but I've never know a woman to have prostate cancer or need viagra and those are also

covered.

[DinahMoeHum]

33. ". . .and by that we mean actually physically spit one out, not merely acted as a midwife"

[Coyotl]

34. GOP Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) Tears Into Sebelius: 'Why Aren’t You Losing Your Health Insurance?'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017155439

[DevonRex]

37. I'd have asked her exactly how many Immaculate Conceptions there have been

throughout history. To the best of her knowledge, of course. And who the Father was in that case (if known). So, to the best of her knowledge, has a woman ever, in the history of the universe, ever given birth without first having been impregnated by the father of the baby?

[Coyotl]

39. If virgins can give birth, so can men, right?

Can't argue with that one.

[DevonRex]

40. Eggzackly.

She should talk to the Angel Gabriel, The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost, too, if she's going to start denying The Father had anything whatsoever to do with Jesus's birth. Talk about starting the WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!

[Scuba]

42. Every man on earth was involved with a delivery.