Scott Walker: Women Should be Forced to Have Ultrasounds

Proving once again that the Republican Party's war on women is real, would be presidential candidate Scott Walker has stated that women considering an abortion should be forced to have ultrasounds.  Underscoring Walker's contempt for women, he described the procedure as "cool."  I wonder if Walker would think the procedure was so "cool" if the probe was forced up his ass against his will?  What fetid swamp did Walker crawl out of? Sadly, Walker's mind set is all too prevalent among Republicans - especially the males - who believe that men should make decisions about women's control of their own bodies.  It's no doubt the mindset of scum like Josh Duggar as he took improprieties with five girls, including some of his sisters.  A column in the New York Times looks at Walker's shocking statement.  Here are excerpts:

We’ve been wondering when a presidential candidate would say something incredibly insensitive about women and reproduction.

The moment has arrived. The 2016 Todd (“Legitimate Rape”) Akin Award for Sexual Sensitivity goes to Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.

Maybe it was inevitable. Of all the practicing politicians in the scramble, Walker is possibly the sloppiest public speaker. Compared with him, Chris Christie can be a pinnacle of verbal discipline.

Last week, Walker was on a radio talk show, praising a law he signed requiring women who want an abortion to undergo an ultrasound. Which they’re supposed to watch, while the physician points out the features of the fetus.   An ultrasound, he said, was “just a cool thing.”

Walker was complaining that, in his words, “the media is a gotcha.” He then bragged about his anti-abortion agenda: “We defunded Planned Parenthood. We signed a law that requires an ultrasound, which, the thing about that, the media tried to make that sound like that was a crazy idea.  

Let’s leap, temporarily, past the fact that Walker was conflating the vision of happy parents getting their first glimpse of their baby-to-be with what’s appropriate for a woman who has made the stupendously profound and private decision to terminate a pregnancy.

His larger point was apparently that the sight of a fetus in an ultrasound is so moving that a woman undergoing an abortion would almost certainly change her mind. This is wrong. There’s no evidence these ultrasound laws discourage women who have already decided they want an abortion. And it’s incredibly insulting because it presumes that they’re making this choice on a kind of whim. If they’d only thought things through.

“I just don’t understand why politicians want to be in the middle of this,” she said in a phone interview.

At one point — during a re-election campaign against a female opponent — Walker seemed to get that resentment against political intrusion. So he claimed the then-pending ultrasound proposal “leaves the final decision to a woman and her doctor.” Although neither the woman nor the doctor gets any say in the ultrasound-plus-commentary.

[W]hile Walker keeps describing external “jelly-on-the-belly” procedures, representatives of the medical community say doctors will sometimes have to use intrusive vaginal probes to meet the law’s requirements.

[W]e have here a potential president who justifies a law on how doctors treat their abortion patients by citing what we know from watching TV and movies. Seventeen months to go. Lord knows what’s next.

Walker needs to go crawl under a rock - maybe he can take Josh Duggar with him.

GOP Lawmaker: If Witnesses Saw College Rape, It Was "A Really Great Party"

GOP State Rep. Mike Bocchino

The sickness of the Republican Party simply ceases never to amaze me.  Where else would one see an elected official  say that if witnesses existed to a college campus rape, "it’s a really great party."  The sick individual in question?  Connecticut Republican State Representative Mike Bocchino.  As the father of two daughters, I can only ask WTF is wrong with Bocchino?  The GOP can claim that the GOP war on women is over, but Bocchino and the other foul trolls like him make it clear that such is not the case.  The New Civil Rights Movement has details.  Here are excerpts:

Why can't Republican lawmakers stop the stupid talk about rape. It might as well be labeled the Todd Akin syndrome, but it extends back much further than the disgraced Missouri former Congressman.

You'll remember, of course, it was Akin in August of 2012 who claimed "if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

There have been countless others since, some joking about rape, others serious in their ignorance of what rape actually is, or how it affects victims, both physically and emotionally.

Today you can add Connecticut Republican State Representative to the shameful list.

During a debate on a campus sexual assault bill Tuesday, Connecticut state Rep. Mike Bocchino offered up an unwise opinion. The bill would require both parties about to engage in an intimate or otherwise sexual moment to both consent by saying "yes."

"No question that sexual assault is a horrific thing," Bocchino, who voted for the bill, told his colleagues. "No question that date rape things that happen on college campuses are disgusting," he added. "Because at the end of the day, there are no witnesses…or at least if there are, it’s a really great party."

Nearly 24 hours later, Bocchino finally offered a statement that incorrectly characterizes and incorrectly quotes his comments,a nd offers a slim apology.

Bocchino actually said, "it’s a really great party," not "some kind of party." 

Bocchino is one sick bastard. Why do I suspect that he also campaigns as a "family values" Christian?  

Will Mitch McConnell's Attacks on Alison Grimes Backfire?

Having just triumphed over a thoroughly insane Tea Party candidate, the always sleazy and despicable Mitch McConnell launched into a tirade trashing his Democrat opponent, Alison Grimes.  The unanswered question is whether or not McConnell's chauvinistic, condescending attacks on his female opponent will ultimately bite him in has nasty, foul ass.  Personally, I hope that's the post mortem opinion after November.  A column in the Washington Post looks at what will likely be a very ugly campaign.  Here are some highlights:

McConnell laconically invited a round of applause for Bevin and then moved to his main purpose: treating Alison Lundergan Grimes, his Democratic opponent, not as a person in her own right but rather as an agent for President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

First elected to the Senate three decades ago, McConnell clearly realizes he cannot win on the basis of his own low poll ratings. So he’ll try to survive by running against Democratic politicians who, in this red state, may be even more unpopular.

Thus his reduction of the 35-year-old Grimes to a cipher, the handmaiden to “every Hollywood liberal,” someone who “is in this race because Barack Obama and Harry Reid want her to be in this race.”

But when Grimes spoke at her own primary victory party 75 miles away in Lexington, she was anything but a cipher. She was rousing in assailing McConnell but did not rise up in defense of either Obama or Reid. Indeed, she distanced herself from what she, sounding a McConnell theme, termed the president’s “war on coal,” coal being an issue with symbolic power here beyond its economic impact on the state’s mining counties.

Obama is not on “Kentucky’s 2014 election ballot,” she declared. But McConnell is, and the best way for Kentucky voters to express their dissatisfaction, she said, was to vote out “Senator Gridlock” and to put “people above partisanship.” For good measure, she broached populist pro-labor themes, challenging McConnell for opposing a minimum wage increase and a bill on equal pay for women. She also denounced anti-union right-to-work laws being pushed here by Republicans.

Pro-McConnell forces blanketed the state with an attack spot that reprised his election-night themes and condemned Grimes as “too liberal for Kentucky.” 

Grimes went for a more subtle jibe, with a 60-second spot in which she spoke directly to the camera. “It seems no matter how many elections we have, nothing gets better in Washington. It only gets worse,” she said. “I approved this message because it’s time Washington put the good of our people ahead of the bad that comes from acting petty and small. We’ve had too much of that for too long.”

Few thinks would give me more pleasure than to see McConnell defeated - especially by a woman.