Official House GOP Website Promoting Video Of Rep Saying Obama’s Mom Might Have Aborted Him

[babylonsister]

I have no words. If the GOP promotes crap like this, why shouldn't r/w talking heads? :argh:

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/house-republicans/official-house-gop-website-promoting-video-of-rep-saying-obamas-mom-might-have-aborted-him/

Official House GOP Website Promoting Video Of Rep Saying Obama’s Mom Might Have Aborted Him


The other day, GOP Rep Todd Tiahrt sparked a firestorm by suggesting in a speech on the House floor that if the government had paid for abortions, Obama’s mother might have, well, had an abortion.

Wouldn’t you know it, but now the official Web site of the House GOP has posted video of Tiahrt making the eyebrow-raising suggestion.

In case you missed it, Tihart said last week that government funded abortions could encourage low-income moms to have more abortions, and then added:

“Our President grew up in those similar circumstances. If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother might have taken advantage of it?”

The House Republican Conference’s Web site has now posted video of Tiahrt saying this stuff right here, which seems to constitute something less than condemnation.
http://www.gop.gov/blog/09/07/20/tiahrts-opposition-to-taxpayer-funded

The video posted there does include Tihart’s whole floor speech, under the title: “Tiahrt’s Opposition to Taxpayer Funded Abortions.” But the vid does include, at the 4:15 mark, Tiahrt’s claim that Obama’s mother might have cut short her pregnancy.

Not to go too far out on a limb, but maybe this means the House GOP doesn’t see any need to distance itself from the remarks…

[Ilsa]

1. So, if a woman was killed 500 years ago before she had kids,

are we supposed to wring our hands over the unknown people she didn't give birth to? It makes no sense to me.

Republicans are really weird on the subject of abortion. Locally, they want to end abortion to increase the number of taxpayers to pay SSI to the elderly. Yeah, they want a pertpetual pyramid scheme.

[pbrower2a]

2. I wonder how many abortions happend while...

I wonder how many abortions were done during the Rove/Bush/Cheney administration.

Women have more abortions when times are rough, when they must choose between a child and a job, when pay is stagnant and shaky for all but the powerful and connected, when the health care system works very well for a few and is a shambles for working people... We had a fascist economy between 2001 and 2009.

I figure that there was a racial overtone in the speech. Pitiable!