I snort at the Republicans now. Richard Nixon declared a War on cancer (misguided, but at least his two-sizes-too-small heart was in the right place). Now, there is a preventative for almost all cervical cancer, and the two idiots of the gender solely affected, are against it.
I would love to wallpaper their houses and offices entirely with full-color pictures of peoples’ genitalia infected with HPV warts.
People who lobby against public health care measures are pretty damned evil. Who the fuck believes that it’s good public policy for young women to increase their chances of a hysterectomy? Because that’s the way you cure cervical cancer. Bachmann’s crotch should rot for spreading bullshit about the HPV vaccine.
Remember who you’re quoting.
No, burning your dog is hilarious. Burning my dog is tragic.
You know who else called people out for use of lazy rhetorical devices, right?
Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder?
I think the opposition to it also has a lot to do with the underhanded tactics that were used to get Texas HPV vaccination requirement in place. I lived in Texas at the time that it came into being, and even some pretty liberal friends, who were otherwise in favor of it, felt queasy about Perry’s motivations.
Plus the ones who opposed the Bush era destruction of our economy, involving tax cuts & 2 expensive wars, but didn’t speak out until we got a (sorta) black president. (Yes, I got the joke!)
Evil and stupid might apply to many but stupidity alone suffices for most. (Hey, I live in Texas.)
By the way–don’t think that Perry decreed the HPV vaccinations because he was concerned about the health of the young women of Texas. He’s staunchly behind abstinence-only sex education & generally hates science. His reason?
At least your stereotypical GOPer has an excuse for not being hip to 21st century sexual politics (or 20th, or 19th…): low education, ignorance, poverty, and religious indoctrination.
What excuse do educated, well off, non-religious Pwogs have for supporting torture? Or the building of fleets of robots to bomb brown people into a fine pink mist?
Well it surely wasn’t a reference to Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus the younger. Good lord, man, common sense.
Cicero?
No, but sometimes the best you can hope for is that the right thing gets done for the wrong reason. The only reason that the pharmas made the vaccine was for profit, but I’m OK with that (yes, it’s different but still). Of course, Perry’s still a d-bag, but waddayagonnado?
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There is no “liberal health care plan”; Obama’s plan is just a warmed over Republican plan, and Obama isn’t a liberal or even close. QUOTE]
ROTFLMAO!!
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.
DT, what color is the sky on your home planet? You want to argue that Obama isn’t a liberal, you better be ready to argue that the Pope ain’t Catholic in your next breath.
Eh, crawl back to your Fox hole.
So…does that make Obama evil and stupid? 
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I’m not really sure if this is just a circular definition, but it’s because I believe someone has a *right *to be treated in a life-threatening emergency, within reasonable medical limits, regardless of their economic status, intelligence, forsight, etc. Just because someone was too poor to afford insurance doesn’t mean they don’t deserve treatment, and similarly, just because someone who could have afforded insurance but chose not to doesn’t mean they should have to die. People do dumb things, and not purchasing health insurance when it is within their means is one of those things. I don’t feel comfortable with the idea that they should have to die because of that particular dumb idea. It is specific to this case, however, not all dumb ideas in general. Just a personal opinion, and I hope that clears it up somewhat.
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I’m not sure exactly how to address this point. I believe health insurance needs reform, and that the obama health care plan was a massive failure to do it correctly (requiring everyone to purchase it but not putting in very strict price-cap measures, unless I have been misinformed on this point). Doctors, surgeons, nurses, etc deserve generous compensation for their work, but I have no idea how insurance works with compensating them, so I am admittedly pretty uneducated on this point.
The “Obama Health Care Plan” used to be the one favored by Republicans–private health care, we just make everyone buy it. Win-win, the poor people get insurance, and the rich insurance companies get customers.
Then Obama supported it, and it became socialism.
If you base your entire political platform on advocating the opposite of whatever Obama supports, you’re going to find yourself advocating some pretty odd positions.
Coming from the guy who wants to record women he’s having sex with without their knowledge because he thinks that they’re all so evil they’ll falsely cry rape after the fact, just to cheat him out of money, this is freakin’ hilarious.
Sorry you diseased woman-hating perv, you get no cred when it comes to talking about how others value women.
From this thread
As far as I understand it, it’s even more republican than you are letting on. The bill that got passed requires people purchase insurance, but it puts relatively poor or no price-caps on what insurance companies can charge. It’s irresponsible and unfair, a monumental failure of legislation, and a huge win for insurance companies.
I hope I’m wrong about the price-capping thing though, but that’s what I’ve heard.
I warn you, sir, that you are perilously close to sowing doubts about the wonderful efficiency and equality of the Free Market, blessings and peace be upon it. Take care!