Love
the Fetus, Hate the Child, Love the Soldier.
 Last
evening I watched, with growing astonishment, the final
five hours of Texas Senator Wendy Davis' filibuster,
in all its sausage-making glory, as she stood in opposition
to the latest Republican insult to women. I knew those
cheesy GOP weasels would pull something underhanded
at the last
moment but I was disappointed when it turned out to
be the "Sit down and shut up because I said so!" variety. I
was hoping for insinuations of lesbianism. You
know, the usual Texas stuff.
I'm of the opinion the
GOP didn't so much fumble the opportunity
to pass
the bill, which is designed to shut down all but five
abortion clinics in Texas, as they chose to simply declare
an Oopsie, missing by mere seconds the deadline to take
the vote, especially when it became apparent that they
were unleashing a politically untenable Democratic
Kraken.
As midnight
approached there were almost 200,000 people
watching
the live Youtube
stream. That's a lot. (In case
you're wondering the stream garnered 17,209 Likes and
only 438 Dislikes. Remove the troll votes and it's almost
a clean-sweep for the Like faction.)
I'm told that Governor "Oops" is going to call another
special session and let his minions try to pass the same
bill again. We'll see.
The relationship between Republicans and babies is a
curious one as they're seemingly only interested in the
first nine months
and then the kid's on his own. The truth is, they could
care less about babies. They only care about money.
Let's do the math.
When you have a child, or are forced to have a child
because barriers to birth control or abortion are seemingly
endless, you have to spend mucho dinero to feed,
house, clothe, entertain, and educate the little buggers.
All this requires you to spend money, lots of money,
and
your
money alone. Don't expect help from Republican-led legislatures
when
times
get tough or day-care costs become astronomical. They're
too busy killing early education and food stamp programs
to bother with the likes of people with hungry or deprived
children.
And certainly don't expect to
see any of your tax dollars that the Republican party
is
currently
shoveling
into
the
Swiss bank accounts of its donors as fast as
possible.
Oh, and your babies make great soldiers, too, especially
if Military-Industrial-Succubus gets its hands on their
minds
first and teaches them that dying for a foreign-owned
petroleum company is "patriotic".
"So have your babies, then go away", says the GOP. "We'll
see them again in 18 years. Whether they go to college
or Iran we'll squeeze them like a sponge."
On the other hand, if you don't have children you spend
less money. Lots less. And Corporate America HATES that.
Let me wrap this up by saying that children
are a blessing, have all you want, all you can comfortably
afford, but women should have them because they want
them, not because they have no other choice.
=Lefty=
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