The crocodile and the scorpion: Or "there I was thinking that 'job creation' was the number one republican priority..."

..well okay, no I didn't.

I knew it was a bunch of bullshit the minute the phrase escaped their sneering lips, but because there are a sufficient number of completely fucking stupid people in this country that did believe that steaming pile of manure, here we are half a year later, chin-deep in the brown and smellies, with no relief in sight.

You see, contrary to the slick Koch brothers-funded campaign ads in 2010 talking about "job creation", and "reigning in out-of-control spending in Washington D.C.", I knew all along that the REAL republican agenda was primarily focused on gutting the public safety net by dismantling Medicare and Social Security, and giving free reign to the pro-life hypocrites that infest their ranks like a bunch of smugly self-righteous 'Dudley-do-Gooders', hell-bent on totally denying a woman's right to choose.

The republican-taliban have tried through various means at the state and federal level to make the highly emotional and deeply personal decision to terminate a pregnancy, as difficult as humanly possible. Worryingly they have had some success. They have passed laws requiring sonograms be taken and shown to the patient before the procedure takes place (in a particularly distasteful and unnecessarily sadistic twist, this has to be paid for by the patient), enforcing mandatory 24 hour waiting periods, forced "counselling" geared towards shaming or dissuading the patient from moving forward, and a myriad of other draconian measures designed to do one thing, and one thing only, to prevent a woman from having control over her own body.

Ladies, don't kid yourself, this is all about treating you like second-class citizens and nothing more. Or do you really think that Congress would vote on legislation limiting a man's right to choose? (I am often reminded of a phrase I heard many years ago about freedom of choice that said that if it were men that got pregnant, the right to choose would be in the Bill of Rights). This has nothing to do with the 'sanctity of life' otherwise all of these anti-choice zealots would be offering to adopt all of the babies that would otherwise be aborted. I have yet to see that transpire.

The latest attack on women is an amendment that forbids federal funds to be used to even teach how to perform the operation itself. The fact that the repugnant sponsor of this amendment is herself a hateful homophobic bigot just rubs more salt in the wound. In case you have forgotten (or more likely never heard) Virginia Foxx is the same "caring christian" that said that the Matthew Shepard murder was "a hoax" meant to further the "gay agenda". She cares more about the unborn than the born apparently, but only if they are heterosexual.

Look, I know that ALL politicians lie, but some lies are bigger than others. The lesson that needs to be learned here is that the republicans tell the biggest lie of all, that they are on YOUR side, when the opposite is in fact the absolute truth. They were as sincere about job creation being their number one priority as the scorpion was when he told the crocodile he wouldn't sting him if he gave him a ride across the river. The only difference is that this 'sting' will take away the rights of half the population of this country.