Huckabee “Appalled” At RNC Abortion Mess, But Steele Did Right Thing
Conservative standard bearer Mike Huckabee says in a statement sent my way that he’s “appalled” by the news that the Republican National Committee’s insurance plan covers abortion — which is starkly at odds with the GOP’s anti-abortion position on health care.
But, in a rare bit of praise for Michael Steele from the right, Huckabee is commending Steele for “decisive corrective action” to fix the problem.
After the news broke yesterday about the RNC plan, Steele ordered an immediate stop to the coverage for abortion. “Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose,” Steele said. “Consider this issue settled.”
In a statement sent my way, Huckabee, who has hit Steele in the past for missteps on abortion, pronounced himself appalled by the original breach, but says he’s satisfied by Steele’s response:
I think we need to commend Michael Steele for his quick and decisive corrective action on this. I am appalled that it was ever covered and it shouldn’t have been, but Michael didn’t create the problem, he inherited it without realizing it, but when brought to his attention, he did the right thing.
It isn’t every day that Steele gets praised for decisive leadership, particularly by social conservatives.
The RNC abortion mess is stoking anger on the grass roots right, where activists already furious with the GOP political leadership are grabbing onto this news to keep hitting the party establishment. A prominent blogger at RedState is blasting the RNC, saying Steele’s actions are insufficent and that donors should boycott the RNC until someone is fired.
Huckabee, interestingly, isn’t going along with this effort, which could give Steele a bit of comfort at a messy and difficult moment.
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This is a very serious matter, and there needs to be a full public investigation to find out how many abortions were paid for.
Of course, I am absolutely shocked to hear about this, because we have all being lead to believe that Republicans never have ***.
Of course, that leads to the more serious question; why would they need to have abortion coverage for people who only get pregnant through immaculate conception, when ever God wants them to have a baby.
We need to have all the records made public about who got abortions, and were any Federal funds used to pay for any of them.
Poor old God; he has a hard time clinging on to the edge of our coins, and now his chosen party are paying for abortions to kill his gifts to them.
Name names!
OT @ TPM:
The local Tea Party organization in Danville, Virginia, is taking their opposition to freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello to a whole new level — announcing that they will burn him in effigy, along with a similar image of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at a rally called “Fired Up For Freedom.”
Not. Cool.
edit;
never have s*ex……
Greg,
Would you ask the web overlords to stop censoring this word ,which is perfectly acceptable to use.
@Ethan,
Will they have their white sheets laundered for the event, and will they use starter fluid on the effigies, and their burning cross?
Poor Michael Steele is scrambling and backtracking yet again. Good thing he’s got a crackerjack coach:
http://bit.ly/3ppyiu
(satire)
I dunno, but I wonder if they sense the extraordinary irony of having a rally for “freedom” and then burning an image of their constitutionally-elected representative?
Liam,I am going to ask for a broad rollback of the censor
“For instance, Newt Gingrich, like the RNC, has said he would like to outlaw abortions. According to IRS disclosure forms, Gingrich’s 527 attack organization American Solutions for Winning the Future provides health coverage to its employees through CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield. According to its website, standard Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield policies cover elective abortions unless the employer specifically opts out.
House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), another staunch opponent of reproductive rights, also provides Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield coverage to his campaign employees.
Both Gingrich and Cantor’s office have not responded to calls from ThinkProgress inquiring if either employer has canceled elective abortion coverage on their insurance coverage.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/13/cantor-gingrich-abortions/
Me thinks the GOP needs a prayer…Pat Robertson…the Pope…anyone? I do believe I had read since 1991 the option was available…… Maybe it was hidden in fine print.
Greg,
Would you ask the web overlords to stop censoring this word ,which is perfectly acceptable to use.
Would you ask the same about g*a*y? There’s a case to be made that censoring that word is an expression of bigotry.
I think that this calls for Michael Steele to go the extra mile, to repair all the damage that has been caused.
It is not good enough to just put a stop to the practice of paying for abortions. He needs to correct past mistakes, by tracking down all those aborted fetuses, and having them re-implanted in the wombs that they were taken from. That is the only way to make things right with their God.
Can I get an Amen for that, Brothers and Sisters?
“A prominent blogger at RedState is blasting the RNC, saying Steele’s actions are insufficent and that donors should boycott the RNC until someone is fired.”
I love it when they eat their own.
@Oddjob,
I have asked for that, several times in the past. I think what is needed, is a whole new software suite, because this is what you end up with, when you purchase software from The Church Lady. Isn’t that special!
OT – Bill Kristol concludes that ‘justice’ is best served by simply executing Hasan without trial… http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/13/cantor-gingrich-abortions/
Hate Muslims much, Bill?
Sorry…wrong link above…it’s here… http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/13/kristol-hasan-trial/
Bill Kristol wants us to do it, The Taliban way. How ironic!
“OT – Bill Kristol concludes that ‘justice’ is best served by simply executing Hasan without trial”
Well of course he does.
Since when does the Conservative Movement care on bit about the constitution or democracy or any of the things that make this country actually stand out?
“The Taliban way. How ironic!”
If only they could see that.
“purchase software from The Church Lady”. LOL.
Talking of boycotts, what’s up with Markos, Jane Hamsher et. al. boycotting OFA, DNC, DCCC etc. ? yeah, that’s the ticket and a great way to build the party !
Won’t the “pure” left ever learn ?
The Stupak argument boils down to saying that since money is “fungible”, doing any business with a business who pays for abortions means you might be funding them or profiting from them. The RNC didn’t cancel their pact with company that pays for abortion, therefore nothing has changed.
I guarantee that the rates they pay for insurance are still based on actuarial tables developed with abortion included, the RNC is still complicit under their own and Stupad’s argument.
The American Taliban opened up a can of worms.
Yet another glaring example of how the GOP has used the idiot sheeple for years, mobilizing them with solemn pleas that only the Republicans will undo Roe vs. Wade. In truth, the majority of GOP elite have never given a hoot about the issue. If they had they would have mounted serious frontal assaults on legalized abortion and they simply haven’t.
In 1983, on the 10th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, Ronald Reagan wouldn’t cross the street to Lafayette Park to attend an anti abortion rally. He was in the White House and phoned in his support. Neither did Bush the greater or Bush the lesser put in appearances at anti-abortion rallies. Since at least Reagan the GOP has been phoning in their support for the wingnuts.
Now we have but the latest example of GOP hypocrisy. With the rise of the teabaggers, the GOP imbecilic chickens have come home to roost. I think that the idiot flock is becoming somewhat wise to GOP tactics.
I’ve mixed my barnyard metaphors, but in either example, I am being charitable to the intellect of the teabaggers.
“Talking of boycotts, what’s up with Markos, Jane Hamsher et. al. boycotting OFA, DNC, DCCC etc. ? yeah, that’s the ticket and a great way to build the party !”
They are?
Oy vey!
What are they boycotting over, amk?
GOP seems to be spinning in circles lately.
Can anyone tell me if this picture of Reagan meeting with the same people we are fighting now is real?
Could you imagine if Obama invited these guys to the WH.
Fox Propaganda Network would explode and all their viewers would run to their local Walmart, buy up all the ammunition they could, run home, lock the doors and windows and get ready for a holy war.
Gotta love M/b> Republicans.
Tena – Apparently the Prez did not fulfill all his “campaign promises (God knows, each one there has his/her own pet peeve)” and so they are taking their collective balls and going home.
Sometimes, I almost believe the americans deserve their shrubs and palins.
I can’t say for sure it’s real, but I’m betting it is since the 80s was when the USSR was fighting a war with Afghanistan and we were arming the Taliban to fight the Russians.
Great so now KOS is boycotting, Huffington Post is busy dividing everyone else, Greenwald expects the impossible at all times. Soon TMP will try and show both perspectives and let Bill Kristol guest blog and Plumline will become an outlet of conservative Republican propaganda.
“Tena – Apparently the Prez did not fulfill all his “campaign promises (God knows, each one there has his/her own pet peeve)” and so they are taking their collective balls and going home.”
Are they taking Arianna with them?
Jeezuz – when will they grow up?
You know, regarding the USSR fighting Afghanistan. I guess I never realized USSR was doing back then what we are doing….sorta. They were fighting the mujaheddin fighters that were against the centralized government in Kabul.
Never mind abortion. Back to terrorism:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/terrorism/bloomberg-we-should-try-911-terrorists-near-site-of-bombing/
I can’t recall what the issue was now, but I do recall that Bill Clinton was speaking somewhere in the past year and someone in the audience raised their hand and accused Bill of not getting something big done – I can’t recall if it was health care.
But I remember exactly what he shot back with: You didn’t give me a Congress that would work with me on getting that done.
What good does boycotting our party do for anyone? What possible thing do they think they can prove to the Democrats by boycotting them?
“They were fighting the mujaheddin fighters that were against the centralized government in Kabul.”
You didn’t? Everybody who invades Afghanistan winds up in the same hopeless situation. You end up involved in their tribal warfare.
Didn’t Greg have a link, just recently, to that guy Aravosis calling for a Boycott of the DNC, because they did not push for the gay marriage rights in Maine?
By the way; in order to avoid any appearance at sexism, shouln’t it be: Personcott.
It is just a play on words folks; no need to get your knickers in a bunch. I know that the word originated in County Mayo, Ireland, because of how the tenant farmers organized to ostracize their Landlord; Captain Boycott.
Bin Laden was among the group that we armed to fight the Red Army in Afghanistan.
Tena – a dkos diary on your own Taos racist nut, larry whitten (probably the punk took his name
seriously).
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/13/797626/-Markos:-A-Name-Not-Fit-for-Management
They went to the wrong office, when they entered Speaker Pelosi’s.
Paging Operation Rescue.
Paging Operation Rescue.
Please grab you snow shovels. There has been a huge avalanche of “Snowflakes” into Michael Steele’s office.
Speaking of our good friends the Taliban… Everyone remember this?
Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.
A spokesman for the company, Unocal, said the Taleban were expected to spend several days at the company’s headquarters in Sugarland, Texas.
[...]
The BBC regional correspondent says the Afghan economy has been devastated by 20 years of civil war.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm
Guess the date……………….
December 4, 1997………
Mr. Steele did the right thing.
It’s a shame that many insurers include abortion as a covered service in their health benefits packages without expliciting informing their customers. HR professionals must ensure that there are plan options for employees to forego coverage for abortion.
Authoritarian patriarchs like “Matt” (above) work against the interest of women making personal choices.
But as sad as that is, it’s even sadder that so many women feel compelled to limit other women’s choices.
Choosing the right time to have and raise children is one of the most important choices that a mother makes for her future family.
Taking that choice away, and worse, using government power to deny that choice, is extraordinarily authoritarian.
It’s sadly ironic that those that would use government power to dictatorially interfere with a person’s basic right to chose when to start a family would then claim they were against government powers.
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