New Right-Wing Stimulus Myth: Progressives Want To Spend ‘Hundreds Of Millions On Contraceptives’
New Right-Wing Stimulus Myth: Progressives Want To Spend ‘Hundreds Of Millions On Contraceptives’
In recent days, conservatives have been stepping up their opposition to any stimulus proposal that favors smart spending over tax cuts for businesses. To push their argument — which most economists have discredited — they have tried to call out wasteful spending in the bill. Last week, for example, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) went on a tirade about funding to revitalize the National Mall.
This week, the focus is on contraceptives. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has claimed that the package would spend “hundreds of millions on contraceptives.” Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) about the provision. Pelosi replied:
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those – one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
Today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that if Pelosi “wants fewer births, I have the way to do this and it won’t require any contraception: You simply put pictures of Nancy Pelosi…in every cheap motel room. … That will keep birthrates down because that picture will keep a lot of things down.” Now on the top of the Drudge Report:
As usual, in addition to throwing out insults, conservatives are distorting and simplifying the facts. Here is the actual text from the stimulus package’s summary:
State Option to Cover Family Planning Services. Under current law, the Secretary has the authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act to grant waivers to states to allow them to cover family planning services and supplies to low-income women who are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid. The bill would give states the option to provide such coverage without obtaining a waiver. States could continue to use the existing waiver authority if they preferred.
Like other portions of the stimulus bill, this measure would not only aid states, but also provide preventative, cost-saving health care to help low-income women support their families and keep working. It focuses on access to recommended services and contraception to prevent unplanned pregnancies and promote maternal and infant health — not abortion. ThinkProgress has learned that an upcoming Congressional Budget Office report estimates that this change would save $200 million over five years and $700 million over 10.
No one would be forcing states to pay for family planning services. States can now cover low-income women if they get a state waiver, but approval can take a long time. Despite these bureaucratic hassles, 27 states have already “obtained federal approval to extend Medicaid eligibility for family planning services to individuals who would otherwise not be eligible.” This bill would simply allow states to skip the administrative delays.
We just passed the State Children Health Insurance program that will expand health care for children by $4 million, taking us to a total of 11 million children.We are, in this legislation, looking at other aspects of Medicaid. We are looking at electronically storing health records, so that in five years all of that can be a part of the ordinary course of defense with health care. That saves millions of dollars in money. So I think that Mr. Boehner is looking for one little sound bite rather than looking at the total package here and seeing what it will do for the American people.
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The idiots who lost using the same old fear mongering tactics are continuing in the same vein in any possible way they can. Pity they seem to live on another planet.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pmWhy do right-wingers always have to use wild exaggerations to make their arguments? And it’s not just the hate radio blowhards — it’s congressional leaders too.
Why do they have to play that way?
…hmmm.. the thought just occurred to me… maybe they know that if they described Democratic proposals accurately, people would like them…
ya think?
January 26th, 2009 at 3:26 pmCorporate tax cuts during recessions dont create jobs, which is what the republican stimulus package proposes.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:27 pmIt is a known fact that when someone is drowning they will flail about in panic and even attack anyone trying to save them.
Blub, blub.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:28 pmOnoes, be afraid of the condoms!
How is this supposed to convince anyone the stimulus package is bad? I just don’t get it.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:30 pmToo bad contraception cannot be retroactive. . .just THINK of the benefits to the US–perhaps to the entire human race–had the parents of these prizes been given access to quick and easy contraception: Shrub, Chainlink, Gonzo, Squush, Rave, most of the commentators on Faux, Swaggart, Delayed, Scaleylia. . .
January 26th, 2009 at 3:31 pmI would suggest that a naked picture of Rush himself would prevent all forms of sexual activity. Well, except perhaps for the sexual deviant wing of the GOP.
PEACE
January 26th, 2009 at 3:32 pmHey! Quit having sex! (note, this is just to rational people who think.)
January 26th, 2009 at 3:32 pmyou want to cut down on pregnancies? deny repukelicans their viagra prescriptions.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:33 pmP.S. to neocons: For 8 years, BushCo has eschewed BIRTH control in favor of DEATH control: 100,000+ and counting. . .
January 26th, 2009 at 3:33 pmI,for one,welcome our new Democratic overlords and their wise policy to sex me up with family planning supplies!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:33 pm(I guess the Republicans didn’t get the memos about either STFU or Grow The F Up).
These people are truly discusting.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:34 pmJebus – I think a picture of that bloated, flabby, smelly blob of dog crap Rush Limbaugh would work MUCH better as a contraceptive…
January 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pmLimbaugh talking about erections when he takes viagra?
Comedy Gold!!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pmA note of importance: people it is more important to worry about people doing something that might be fun than to be interested in companies using bailout dollars to buy luxury jets.
This is important because jets don’t make babies. (The folks who fly them use contraceptives)
January 26th, 2009 at 3:37 pmIt seems to me that under the SHRUBS abstinence only plan,STD`s are up along with pregnant teens…..What gives GOOPERS, are you afraid of family planning and other lies that come from your hatred of middle and low income Americans.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:37 pmKeep obstructing in congress so real Americans can see that the real you(GOOPERS) are all about your party and not America.
Why is Rush allowed to spew such hate? He is truly a disgusting person. A real 21st century nazi.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:38 pmSo called conservatives have so degraded public discourse that it is no wonder that solid family man won by overwhelming numbers. People are sick and tired of this fat blowhard. Perhaps we should truly begin ignoring him and his crude cronies.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:39 pmPS…they do so because they don’t want anyone to be eleigible for their inheritance.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:39 pmRepukes just love that Kool-aid!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:39 pmI don’t understand the Republiscums on this. Wouldn’t conctraceptives cut down on the mongoloids produced by their inbreeding inside those walled compounds?
Oh wait. Mongoloids are future GOP voters.
Never mind.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:39 pmYou want people to stop having sex? Just go to Google images and type in Pilonidal cyst [What Limbaugh has] and post pcitures of that with Limbaughs name on them.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pmI think most people are missing the point. $200 million to family planning? These social programs and upkeeps may need to happen, but I doubt you could call it “Economic Stimulus”. Sounds to me like its a “get what you can while you can” until the American people figure out whats has happened. Have any of you actually read the proposed bill? Do you know where the money is being spent? Proportionally why does California have so many earmarks? Research for yourselves. Blind faith is as “stupid” as it gets, Republican or Democrat. Don’t be stupid.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pmIn these economic times, women/men/families definitely do not want unplanned pregnancies. While it’s easy to say don’t have sex, sometimes on those cold nights, that’s not an easy thing to do. Repubs really need to get their heads out of their a**es and try using their common sense before opening their putrid mouths! (I know, I know, not going to happen, but a girl can hope.)
January 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pmYou expect the usual onslaught of lies from conservative hacks like Limbaugh and Drudge. These types of comments should not be the norm for our elected officials though.
It’s easy to laugh off Rush’s untruths. Every sane person knows it’s all bluster. But too often lies come from the mouths of people like Boehner. It’s hard to have respect for conservatives (or Dems for that matter) who consistently mislead people.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pmRush is talking about Pelosi’s looks? I’m not gay but I guarantee I’d have sex with Nancy before I’d get near that piece of fecal matter.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:40 pmX: I was thinking more in the strangled hemorrhoid department – but the pilonodal cyst works for me too.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:41 pmWow! Rush hit the mother load on just one sentence.
Slamming Nancy, for one.
And then implying with the “cheap” motel reference that only poor people have unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies.
And of course, completely ignoring the obvious fact that TP reiterated:
provide preventative, cost-saving health care to help low-income women support their families and keep working. It focuses on access to recommended services and contraception to prevent unplanned pregnancies and promote maternal and infant health — not abortion.
Why, oh why, do the right hate the poor so much?
January 26th, 2009 at 3:41 pmten bucks says it’s been years since tubbalard baggyballs has seen his “manhood” nevermind have sex using it.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:42 pmI seem to remember the GOP spent a billion or two for their ‘Just Say No to Sex’ campaign, yet its been the most staunchly Republican States that still lead in unwanted and underage pregnancies.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:44 pmHow are the Republicans going to breed more Republicans if sex education and contraception is allowed to flourish?
Sounds like social engineering to me.
Oh, and I gots to agree with spencers mom,
Nothing would say coitus interruptus (hell, coitus deferus) like a picture of Oxybreath sucking a fattie while golfing.
Blechh!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:44 pmI was thinking more in the strangled hemorrhoid department
Heh.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:45 pmDRxJ Says:
Why, oh why, do the right hate the poor so much?
Easy, they are poor.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pmDRxJ Says:
“Why, oh why, do the right hate the poor so much?”
because it is a constant reminder that ronnie raygun’s “trickle down economics” was and always will be an utter failure.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:47 pmA picture of Nancy in Rush’s cheap hotel room would stifle his sexual activity no doubt, but so would a picture of any female human.
Rush just isn’t into that stuff.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:49 pmLeave it to the goppers in these difficult times to focus in, exaggerate or obsess on sex. What is wrong with these people? Perhaps the word stimulus brings them to this place.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:52 pmLimbaugh has no kids…
You’d think with three ex wives, is it?, that contraception is something he would back.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:56 pm5th Estate Says:
I seem to remember the GOP spent a billion or two for their ‘Just Say No to Sex’ campaign, yet its been the most staunchly Republican States that still lead in unwanted and underage pregnancies.
How are the Republicans going to breed more Republicans if sex education and contraception is allowed to flourish?
Some reason this reminded me of a joke:
A woman went to her doctor for advice . . .
. . . She told the physician that her husband had developed a penchant for an@l sex, and she wasn’t sure it was such a good idea.
The Doctor asked, “Do you enjoy it?”
She said that she did.
He asked, “Does it hurt you?” She said no.
The Doctor then told her, “Well, then, there’s no reason that you shouldn’t practice an@l sex, if that’s what you like, so long as you take care not to get pregnant.” The woman was mystified.
She asked, “You can get pregnant from an@l sex?”
The Doctor replied, “Of course. Where do you think republicans come from?”
January 26th, 2009 at 3:56 pmLimbaugh himself needs medication to ‘do anything’. Why does Limbaugh – and the right side – always seem to frame the debate within sexual conotations? Maybe if they bothered with their own failures and left the rest of us alone, they might be happier people.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:57 pmWayne…. funny!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:58 pmAs long as Republicans can hand out those magical blue pills like candy to 40-500 year old guys and have it all covered by their health insurance, it’s just great for the economy.
Just as long as their spouses, girlfriends, mistresses and hookers/strippers either buy more lingerie, sex toys or have a child that will be unloved.
January 26th, 2009 at 3:58 pmLimbaugh is following the methods of Scanlon, Reed and ilk. That is to get the people they call ‘wackos’ out to obstruct issues on issues the GOP doesnt really care about.
Obstruction by shrieking and foaming.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:01 pmMethinks that if the Drudge headline was instead this, “Pelosi Says Birth Control For Blacks and Mexicans Will Help Economy”, I doubt there would be much of a kerfluffle from the right wing hand wringers. On the contrary, there’d likely be millions of right wing noggins nodding in unison.
Just saying . . .
January 26th, 2009 at 4:01 pmXisithrus Says:
“Limbaugh has no kids…”
thank god. some gene pools should be allowed to dry up.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:02 pmDamn skippy!
Sounds like a fine idea to me!
Note to conservatives:
ABSTINENCE EDUCATION DOES. NOT. WORK.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:04 pmwayne….though logically it should be the woman who fears of getting pregnant from an@l sex, the Doctor saying, “what are you talking about?” and the woman explaining that that’s how she understand that Republicans are conceived.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:04 pmHmmm, So now preventing unwanted pregnancys and the spread of
January 26th, 2009 at 4:08 pmSTDs is a bad thing?
Times sure have changed.
“Times sure have changed.”
The repubs are concerned about their shrinking base…
January 26th, 2009 at 4:11 pmThe right is grasping at straws, but seriously nonsense like this SHOULD NOT BE IN A BILL THIS IMPORTANT.
I know the Blue team isn’t used to being in power, but FOCUS PEOPLE, FOCUS. We need real stimulus, and while this is independantly a good idea that wouldn’t stand as good a chance passing on its own, THIS DOES NOT PROMOTE STIMULUS.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pmMathazar Says:
Hmmm, So now preventing unwanted pregnancys and the spread of
STDs is a bad thing?
The more unwanted babies equal more poverty and more to fight the goppers greedy wars.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:15 pmI don’t understand why the Regressive Right worries about birth control,family planning etc, aren’t the majority of them gay!
January 26th, 2009 at 4:18 pmIt’s worth mentioning that this amount also covers neonatal care. And more contraception = less abortions. Why does Rush want there to be more abortions?
And just what is the deal with Republicans saying that any female politician who doesn’t look like a Barbie doll is hideous? Sure, Pelosi’s no calendar girl material, but it’s not like she looks like… Rush Limbaugh or something. She seems pretty well put together for a lady her age.
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Hoodathunk Says:
Hey! Quit having sex!
No!
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deebaser Says:
THIS DOES NOT PROMOTE STIMULUS.
Anybody want to take the free punchline on this one? No? OK.
And technically it should go in a health care package, but I think this one is such a no-brainer that it’s fine to put it in the first major spending bill down the pike.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:25 pmWow, had enough, EXCELLENT POINT!
The Vietnam war was fought largely by the poor whites and
and minorities, and to some extent the Iraq occupation as
well.
The wingers only value the poor as cannon fodder.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:35 pmXisithrus Says:
You want people to stop having sex? Just go to Google images and type in Pilonidal cyst [What Limbaugh has] and post pcitures of that with Limbaughs name on them.
Minor correction to your post, X: a pilonidal cyst is what Limbaugh IS.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:35 pmToday on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that if Pelosi “wants fewer births, I have the way to do this and it won’t require any contraception: You simply put pictures of Nancy Pelosi…in every cheap motel room. … That will keep birthrates down because that picture will keep a lot of things down.”
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This is the kind of comment that says a great deal more about Rush than it does about Nancy.
Apparently, Rush feels very threatened by accomplished women or women in any position of power, and believes his slams about their sexual desirability are devastating instead of merely juvenile.
It also says something about his audience that they mindlessly absorb this sexism without protest. But what do you expect from a mindless audience?
January 26th, 2009 at 4:36 pmPeople that obsessed with sex should not be allowed to vote.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pmThe fact that they result to this sort of idiocy proves they have no rational objections to offer. This should be regarded as a ringing endorsement and a green light for us to proceed as we want.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:38 pmAren’t repugs talking out of both sides of their mouth? (I know that is nothing new.)
On the one hand, they categorize all the poor as a low class group that have children every year – yet they criticize federal spending that would provide the poor with family planning services and contraception.
I believe they like to be petulant and contrary, no matter what.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:42 pmTouché salesman. lol
I agree, but putting anything not directly related to the goal of fixing this country NOW is politically dumb.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:43 pmObviosly Dimbulb doesn’t have any mirrors in his house.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pmThe H-H-H-H-orror!!
January 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmIsn’t this article like Jeffrey Dahmer calling Charles Manson a dirty filthy serial killer? What part of hypocrite do liberals not understand? -=Dynamo=-
When did either of those guys use contraceptives? Im not sure what your trying to say here although Im pretty sure your trying to say something…
January 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pmDynamo Says:
Isn’t this article like… blah blah blah… blah blah blah… blah blah blah…
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Geez… try making some sort of “point”, okay?
January 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmIsn’t this an ad hominem attack on Pelosi? Way to be classy, Rush!
January 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pmYou simply put pictures of Nancy Pelosi…in every cheap motel room. … That will keep birthrates down because that picture will keep a lot of things down.
Can’t help it… Picturing Rush… Grabbing his ankles in cheap motel room…
God, make it stop!!!
January 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pmdarwin109 Says:
California has about 10% of the countries population along with it being the sixth or seventh largest economy in the WORLD all on its own and is in a huge economic crisis. Why dont YOU stop being stupid.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:50 pmdeebaser Says:
I agree, but putting anything not directly related to the goal of fixing this country NOW is politically dumb.
I don’t know, the Republicans do seem to be running straight at this particular red cape full tilt. Apparently they never watched Bugs Bunny cartoons, ‘cuz there’s probably an anvil right behind it.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pmDynamo Says:
What part of STUPID dont you conservative MORONS understand? You people are just bone ignorant and then parade your ignorance and inability to GET it as some sort of gotcha. Hey YOUR ignorance isnt OUR problem. The fact YOU dont get it is only a symptom of YOUR stupidity not any indication of a failing on our part
January 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pmRepukes want to spend all the treasury on bibles and bombs and gay hookers.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:16 pmIs this going to put a juggling clown who compares having sex out of wedlock to juggling machetes out of work?
Hope so.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pmRegarding Mr. Limbaugh & jokes – another old one:
What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
One’s a flaming Nazi gasbag and the other’s just a blimp.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pmHere is even more proof of wingnut extremist Rush Limbaugh total disconnect from reality. Among his many mental handicaps, his known lust for young boys has blinded his brain once again. Because I, and most healthy men, view Nancy Pelosi as one sexy women!
Time to get ride of Limbaugh’s whining, lying and bigoted mouth.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:25 pmNancy is right, contraceptives would help the economy by preventing the birth of more liberals.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:37 pmdrick23 Says:
funny you guys trying to use large words and speak sooo intelligently, with sly cut downs and grade school slurs.
That’s ‘cuz we gots all the edumacations. And our slurs are typically postgraduate level, I’ll have you know.
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drick23 Says:
Here’s mine, Im glad to see you idiots wanting tax dollars to go towards domestic abortion (family planning) and international abortion aid. Im glad our stimulus package includes trojans and ky in the mix.
Nope, you failed. Sorry.
That’s just you saying the opposite of what you said before. What’s “ky” a typo for?
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drick23 Says:
thank GOID for drudgereport thanks for the advertisiing!!!!
Thank Goid indeed. Let us give thanks unto the Loid.
But I wouldn’t exactly think that people are going to see that and think “wow, that’s some good reporting there…”
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katrina blo Says:
Nancy is right, contraceptives would help the economy by preventing the birth of more liberals.
Reminds me of that scene in Idiocracy where they explain how the world got that way.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:02 pmdrick23 Says:
Nothing anyone with a brain could possibly care about. Drudge is worth a laugh but only the stupidest people on the planet, say YOU, think he serves any other purpose than high comedy
January 27th, 2009 at 2:25 amdrick23 Says: 78
You cant pull it off. First you are too stupid to know the big words second along with the sly wit we put REALITY into our posts. You put in the talking points that you were TOLD to believe and dont understand by Rush et al. You are so ignorant. Here is some homework for you mentally challenged though you are. Look up the gag rule. See if ending it is the same thing as paying for abortions. My GOD you are stupider than toe jam
January 27th, 2009 at 2:28 amDick you ignorant loaf you have taken monumental stupidity about as far as it can go. You are a pitiful, very stupid, pustulant herpes sore. Your massive stupidity is only making a fool out of you. Thanks for the free clown show
January 27th, 2009 at 2:31 amyou know, it’s stories like this one that makes me want to call my parents and thank them for raising me to be a level-headed, thoughtful, and progressive feminist. thanks mom and dad, you did a good job.
January 27th, 2009 at 1:28 pmI’m an independent. To me this website is just as bad as the ultra-conservatives this website pokes fun of. You can cherry pick your information (just as you claim the conservatives are), but common sense tells me that providing contraceptives to low-income families will not provide any immediate economic stimulus. If it helps to stop breed stupidity so that I don’t have to read stupid forums like this one, then maybe I’ll support it.
In addition to needing an economic stimulus, we also have a growing deficit that is already at dangerous levels. If having Republicans go through this stimulus plan line by line to make sure the money is being spent intelligently, then I’m OK with that. I don’t subscribe to any one party to make all the fiscal decisions without any checks and balances.
Let’s get smart about this people. Whether we’re helping low income families or saving puppies, this is pork barrel spending and it doesn’t focus on the core objects of what we’re trying to accomplish, which is the get people working again and save the economy. If people want to help low-income families with contraceptives because Dick Johnson can’t keep it in his pants, let’s address it under a separate bill.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:41 pmbthomp, nice try, but claiming that you’re independent doesn ‘t earn you free points for being insightful. That will come when you grasp the fact that family planning has a powerful deficit reducing effect. Unwanted pregnancies of low income women = more medicaid funded maternity care and, over the longer run, medicaid covered children. Think.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:11 pmBoehner wasn’t providing checks and balances, he was going for a cheap soundbite for uninformed constituents.
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