Sen. Warren on the Senate floor: "1 more piece of a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated right-wing

[cal04]

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I’m heading to the Senator floor soon to #StandwithPP. Watch live or follow here on Twitter for updates. http://floor.senate.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&event_id=482

http://www.senate.gov/floor/index.htm

“I come to the Sen. floor today to ask my GOP colleagues: Do you have any idea what year it is?

“Because I cannot believe that in 2015, the US Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women’s health care centers.

“Let’s be really clear: The GOP’s scheme to defund @PPFA is not some sort of surprised response to a highly edited video.”

“The GOP vote to defund @PPFA is 1 more piece of a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated right-wing attack on women’s rights.”

“Why do so many people use @PPFA? Because they are nonprofit & they are open.”

"To be clear: Even though the abortions performed at @PPFA are safe & legal, the federal gov isn't paying for them."

"A vote to defund @PPFA is a vote to defund cancer screenings & birth control & basic health care for millions of women."

"Women have lived through a world where backward-looking ideologues tried to interfere in basic health decisions, & we’re not going back."

"The GOP plan to defund @PPFA is a GOP plan to defund women’s health care. I #standwithPP – and I hope my colleagues will do the same."

https://twitter.com/SenWarren


Sen. Murray: Today the Senate is unfortunately taking a vote on whether critical hlth care services should be taken away from millions of women.

We’re voting on whether cancer screenings should be more, or less available to women across the country.

Unfortunately, it’s clear that Republicans will jump at any opportunity to put politics before women’s health.

Claiming other providers can simply absorb PPFA patients is like saying you can pour a bucket of water into a cup. It won’t work.

“...millions of women and their families are counting on us. And we’re going to keep standing up for them.”

I hope they think of women whose lives are happier & healthier because of services Planned Parenthood provides.

https://twitter.com/PattyMurray

Sen.Warren

"Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s?" Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked Senate Republicans.

[lamp_shade]

1. I was watching. She didn't hold back at all. Neither did Patty Murray who spoke just before her.

It was a pleasure to watch.
And that was Joanie Ernst sitting at the President's desk. Hah!

[cal04]

2. Yes, she was. I'm going to post some of her quotes too. Sen. Franken is on now

wish I could post all of their comments

[lamp_shade]

4. I'm watching them all. Tester up now. Love him.

[AllFieldsRequired]

3. I hope her anger will incite fury and anger among millions of real men and real women

who need to stand with us and say NO.

That is all, NO.

[billhicks76]

34. Republicans Declared War Long Ago

Why centrists in our party still try to play footsie with them is beyond me.

[AllFieldsRequired]

42. GOD HELP US if women will have to die before enough americans wake up

That wont go over well with some of us.

[billhicks76]

53. We Need More Marches On DC

These republicans are not just Neanderthals...they are corporate tools for ignorance begetting evil. Check out the new RollingStone article about climate change. We have doomed the earth more quickly than even we first even realized.

[jwirr]

5. I wish the Senate would stop it right here but I doubt there are enough vote. So glad we have

President Obama in the WH. He can and will veto this. Imagine what having an R in the WH would mean to this country.

[maindawg]

36. If there was a an R in the WH

then they never would advance or even propose these reticules bills.

[daybranch]

39. The right wing political hacks are doing a great job

of pushing bills that separate women democrats from men democrats. No democratic man supports any of this crap, but the right wing will use this as best they can to separate the democratic party along gender lines. I will let you decide for yourself which democratic candidate they prefer. But then look at the speeches of our candidates and see who addresses the real problems and who enumerates long lists of band-aid social programs to keep the masses from rising up and standing together against the oligarchy. Who said republicans do not do nuance?
Every time we hear the word inevitable, we should respond with the word oligarchy. Just sayin--

[RiverNoord]

47. Absolutely right.

Well, except for spelling 'ridiculous' as 'reticules,' , but that's how it works. The GOP wastes vast amount of time and resources proposing legislation it knows it can't pass purely to play to its most extreme base.

If, on the other hand, they could actually expect passage and Presidential signature, their corporate masters would say 'no, you're not going to do that.'

[Fred Sanders]

6. Now that the malicious charade has been exposed will the perpetrators of this attack on democracy

be held to account along with their willing lackey politicians?

[Beartracks]

14. Is there a link to the expose'? I need one to forward to people.

I've only seen a video rebuttal. Is there an actual rebuttal/expose' in text form somewhere?

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[Fred Sanders]

16. My pleasure:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/28/7-things-media-should-know-about-the-third-unde/204636


http://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/unspinning-the-planned-parenthood-video/


And for further discussion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027035512

[daybranch]

40. Only if

we remove the power of their donors by electing Bernie Sanders and creating a people's revolution, rather than accepting their band aid social enhancements which are never designed to do anything but continue the power of the oligarchy and avoid the wrath of the people.

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. Thank you Senators Warren and Murray!

[spanone]

8. republicans would permanently eliminate the poor if they could find a way to do it.

deportation? soylent green?

[TheKentuckian]

12. Nonsense, they want an even larger and more destitute underclass

Like the movie though, they would welcome the Soylent retirement plan and would expand it to an non wealthy health care program.

[lark]

46. Exactly.

Slaves R Us is what they want. A uneducated empoverished working class that isn't smart enough to fight for their rights and will do anything they are told for next to nothing in wages. They will get no healthcare, since they will be replaceable because there will be no contraception in their dytopian world, so lots and lots of poor babies. Who cares if the moms don't make it, orphanages will do fine for the babies strong enough to survive.

[RiverNoord]

48. Bingo

I find it strange that this isn't transparently obvious to most Americans. Why, for example, would ALEC, when it was still mostly made up of major corporate members, write and push model bills on subjects such as 'stand your ground (and shoot)' laws? There isn't any direct correlation from such laws to their business interests. However, anything that makes Americans feel less secure and more generally fearful is a win for the Cheap Jobs community.

And the Cheap Jobs mega-corporation lobby keeps winning...

[gregcrawford]

15. Soylent Green?

Too risky. If just one Republican was mixed in, the entire batch would be spoiled! Ick. I'm not hungry anymore.

[WillyT]

19. ... --- ...

[gregcrawford]

28. I'm trying to remember when that flick came out. Was it '67?

The sixties are kind of a blur...

[WillyT]

29. 1973...

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

[hifiguy]

22. The plan is a far simpler one and has been around ever since

Henry Kissinger (war criminal and bosom buddy of Hillary Clinton) stated in a National Security Memo from '74 or '75 that something had to be done to start getting rid of the "useless eaters." It is being put into effect, step by step, every day.

Destroy the social safety net and let the die-off from starvation, disease and exposure to inclement weather begin. No messy, expensive, attention-attracting concentration/extermination camps. let nature do the work for free. Genocide on the cheap, and keep the profits rolling in.

[merrily]

35. Cutting welfare, food stamps and fuel subsidies is as good a way as any. Slower, but effective.

[harun]

38. They absolutely NEED the poor and want MORE

Basic GOP economics.

3 Primary reasons:
1. They need poor and uneducated to vote for them. (They make them believe they will be rich someday too, so they better help the 1%, it's helping their future rich selves, right?)
2. An anchor on inflation. It is taught in their right wing business schools that equality = inflation.
3. Cheap and plentiful labor. Workers who can afford lawyers are bad for business.

[daybranch]

41. poor people hold down wages, create a scapegoat for more wealthy who avoid taxes

The poor are the creation of the rich oligarchy, blaming the poor and economically disadvantaged is central to the strategy of republicans to continue to be elected to serve the oligarchy by the rich. The poor are essential to this strategy and increasing their number is what the republicans desire without upsetting their control of the voters. So the poor are necessary to the system and will be with us in ever greater numbers as the oligarchy reigns. Vote for Bernie and fight back, We must unite if we are to win this fight. Do not accept band aids. Demand real change in who runs our government.

[RiverNoord]

50. You've got that all wrong.

They want a far greater percentage of the American population to be poor and desperate. The result is cheaper labor making fewer demands for decent pay and decent conditions because everyone's desperately afraid of what will happen if they lose a job. That's been the critical goal of corporate America for decades, and they are accomplishing it one almost invisible step at a time.

All the 'social issues' crap that the GOP is loudest about is smoke screen.

[PADemD]

9. Non-profit is the key.

Except for abortion, the GOP wouldn't care if these services were provided by a private, for profit group.

[Kber]

25. Huh. You are on to something.

I've been looking at this as primarily an attack on a woman's right to controller own sexuality. But there is more than one thing at play, as you rightly write.

[daleanime]

10. K&R.....

[Enthusiast]

11. Republicans are looney.

[gregcrawford]

17. Nah. They're not looney...

... they're evil down to their DNA.

[handmade34]

13. ...

"Women have lived through a world where backward-looking ideologues tried to interfere in basic health decisions, & we’re not going back."

[BlueJazz]

18. And some women will still vote the republican ticket.

It's a sad day when women are getting as disjointed from reality as men.

[rladdi]

20. REPUBLICANS HATE ANY KIND OF CARE FOR WOMEN OR ANY OTHER CITIZENS. WE KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN

REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED STATES. They have even forced many healthcare facilities to close because they took funding away. The REPUBLICANS are the ISIS of this USA.

[maindawg]

37. You are correct

Republicans are the equivalent to ISIS in the USA

[ion_theory]

21. Warren 2024!! nt

[hifiguy]

23. I do love me some Elizabeth Warren!

[freshwest]

24. A Texas District Attorney said these laws are to punish poor women and keep them poor. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

26. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cal.

[Thinkingabout]

27. Women has not always had the right to vote, now we do and it is time to step up and rid this nation

From this war on women.

[rhett o rick]

32. I agree. I am glad to see you posting in this thread. Those that aren't here

are obvious by their absence.

[Hotler]

30. It is all about "selfishness" with repugs. The...

I have mine. Fuck everyone else crowd.

[Kath1]

31. Elizabeth Warren was rocking!

"Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s?" Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked Senate Republicans.

She gets it.

[turbinetree]

33. I've got her back and any other woman that should have a RIGHT..................

to privacy and better health-------------just ask me for help------------I'll be there for you

[BeanMusical]

43. Big Kick and R.

[lostnfound]

44. "Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s?"

That's classic.
It characterizes a lot of the positions of the Republican Party.

[lark]

45. Liz gives me hope.

We NEED lots more like her and Bernie.

[libodem]

49. Stupendous

[still_one]

51. Articulate as ever

[LuckyLib]

52. These women are pointing out the NEVER ENDING

War on Women. I'm sick to death of it. My 27 year old daughter can not believe it. The crazies are loose and at the moment in Congress.

[DirkGently]

54. KNR. We're all sick and tired of it, Senator. n/t