As if the GOP doesn't have enough problems, their fearless leader and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus joined the chorus of looney tunes from the Right. He said, "If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars," he told Bloomberg Television, in response to a question about the party's supposed "war on women." "It's a fiction."
Maybe he's confused, Dictionary.Com defines Fiction like this: something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story. An imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation. Seems pretty straight forward to me, but lets check the facts one more time.
The Republican controlled House has passed, 44 bills on Abortion, 99 on Religion, 105 on Family Relationships and Gay Marriage, 67 on Firearms/Gun Control, 552 on Taxation, and conducted 445 Government Investigations, mostly on subjects that were settled, but Republicans wanted to reanimate for political gain. Since the "War on Women" was noted in the context of his comment, I would simply refer you to the recent embarrassment by The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. When Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) held a hearing on contraception with no women at the hearing.
Those bills I note are just on the federal level. It doesn't count the hundreds of pieces of legislation taken up and passed by the states. Against women's rights, women's health care, abortion rights, are these all a fiction? Mitt Romney has a 19 point gender gap with women voters, that's not a fiction it's a fact. These proposals, all of which were generated by the Republicans are facts, not fiction. Republicans don't have a "War on Caterpillars", but they damn near have a war on everything else. Women's issues are just one of many "Wars" the right has engaged in. They attack gay rights, immigration, the poor, health care reform, voters, even the President himself.
This morning Romney's communications director Eric Fehrnstromon, on The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd, Mr. Etch-A-Sketch himself, called all these "Wars", sideshows. He said President Obama has more sideshows than P.T. Barnum, Really? If RNC Chairman Priebus thinks he can wash away everything his party has done, and continues to do, as fiction, he's not only beyond reality, he's a liar too. My suggestion for Mr. Priebus would be a find psychiatrist, and start a healthy course of anti-psychotics. For the leader of the Republican National Committee to, in one broad stroke, try to wipe away years of Right wing efforts to undermine all the issues I list here, that my friends is the real FICTION.
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