Well…by now you know that the Violence Against Women Act has passed the Senate with a semi-bipartisan majority of 78 to 22…with all of the 22 no votes being male republican senators who are running scared of primary challenges from even worse knuckle draggers…and now, there are “discussions” going on in the house repub delegation that maybe it’s not such a good idea to oppose a law that will protect more than half of the population…but, the reasons that are being stated are not that it is the right thing to do…nope, you’d never hear that from the repubs who don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich and their corporate backers…but that if they don’t vote for it, it may be an issue that can be used against them in the next election. Well, duh….why shouldn’t being the bastards you are be used against you? The abject cynicism here is getting to almost too much…what happened to looking at the merits of legislation and how it may help your constituents? Even those who didn’t vote for you….you are, after all, elected to represent everyone in your district, not just the crazy assed righties that are trying to return this country to the 1700′s. What are the objections? That is might cost money to implement? Well…it won’t cost a dime…I think this just gets to the hate that is the core of the repub party these days…since the protections in the bill would extend to groups they don’t like, like minorities, lesbians, and immigrants, they don’t see a need for it…and since they do truly believe that women should be subservient to men and just take the beatings, there is only one reason for them to support the law…to protect their own asses in the next election…geez…

Well…the “lipstick on a pig” project continues over on the right with a chorus of the big thinkers over there just positive that their only problem is that they didn’t ‘splain themselves good enough during the last election…nope it’s not their ongoing war on women’s rights…their clear hatred of anyone that is not white like them…or that they are just not too bright…nope, it’s just that they think the American people are so stupid that they just need to shout their crazy assed ideas louder and then they will get it and vote for them. Never mind the hatred they are showing for our democracy by trying to rig elections in every way so that they will stay in power even if they don’t get more votes…and never mind that the House repubs are not even going to let a vote come up on the Violence Against Women Act because it may protect some women that they don’t like…oh, hell, they don’t like any women unless they are barefoot and pregnant….how do you make this terrible message that more than half of America will stay unprotected, second class citizens just because their archaic, nonsensical religious beliefs tell them so, palatable to the progressives of us out here that see the utter, shameless power grab for what it is. Why do the repubs always need to control everyone they don’t like? I, for one, have had enough of this nonsense…but, I will say keep it up…we’ll take the house back in two years and they will be done permanently…geez…