Ignoramus Politics: WAR is a band!

The Maddow Blog - Mitch McConnell, call your caucus

Someone needs to tell the GOP that WAR is a band!  No, actually it's a metaphor that it tossed around in the political world like a beach ball at a WAR concert. Players in the game of Ignoramus Politics [Mr. McConnell in this case]  love to either deny or extol one type of war or another.  In this case the use of the 'war' metaphor is the core of today's episode of Ignoramus Politics.

Here's the honorable Senator holding forth on the false notion that the GOP is somehow waging a 'war' on women's rights, an accusation coming from the opposition with more than a little enthusiasm. 

"There is no issue. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine I think would be the first to say -- and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska -- 'we don't see any evidence of this.'"

Then we have the honorable senator Murkowski from Alaska:

"It makes no sense to make this attack on women," she said. "If you don't feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters."

Now the honorable  Senator Hutchinson from Texas:

"We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women to have health care services. We can't keep turning back federal funds that every state gets and then try to find money in our budget that is already being cut in key areas like education.

"I do think that the governor needs to sit down with the federal government and work it out so that we can have our share -- our fair share, not more, but our share -- of money for Medicaid to help low-income women have their healthcare services.

"I think Planned Parenthood does mammograms, they do so much of the health care, the preventative health care, and if they're doing that, then we need to provide those services, absolutely."

And the Senator from Maine, Ms. Snowe:

"You know, it really is surprising, because I feel like it's a retro-debate that took place in the 1950s," Snowe said. "It's sort of back to the future, isn't it? And it is surprising in the 21st century we would be revisiting this issue. And Sandra Fluke should have been commended, not condemned, for her courage in expressing her own views and beliefs before members of Congress." 

Mr. McConnell is playing Ignoramus Politics because he truly expects his constituents to believe him with regards to the assult on women's rights.  He's a smart guy, he just thinks he's talking to folks who aren't paying attention and will believe him. Folks, it's either that or Mr. McConnell and a whole bunch of his wingnut brethren truly feel that women belong at home and subservient to their men.

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