- Remember Philly’s Valley Swim Club, which famously kicked a group of black kids out of its pool because of their race? It is filing for bankruptcy and closing because of the whole “overt racism” thing. (Philadelphia Daily News)
- In addition to abortion, the RNC’s health insurer also offers end-of-life counseling or, as Sarah Palin would call it, “death panels.” Why does Michael Steele want to kill all of his employees’ grandparents in a bureaucratically efficient manner? (ThinkProgress)
- Here is a look into the thought process behind Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators in a New York City civilian court. (Washington Post)
- President Obama urged members of Congress this morning not to politicize the trial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the November 5 Fort Hood shootings. Um, Mr. President, have you met these members of Congress? (CNN Political Ticker)
- Before last year’s vice presidential debate, Joe Lieberman advised Sarah Palin to be herself and not let the McCain campaign “tell you what to say or how to think.” Thanks, Joe! Maybe he really is a Democrat after all! (WSJ Washington Wire)
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RNC Regrets Accidental Pro-Women Stance
Turns out the Republican National Committee’s insurance plan allows its female employees to make their own decisions about their reproductive health. But don’t worry, the RNC plans to change all that:
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
“The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to address the issue,” Gitcho said.
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“We were not aware of this, obviously, and this will, of course, be fixed,” said James Bopp Jr., a Republican National Committeeman from Indiana. “I think Chairman Steele will see to it that that’s the case.”Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia conservative, said “they need to drop that clause” from the policy or find a new one.
“From a philosophical standpoint, it’s inconsistent,” Kingston said. “It makes me think someone isn’t scrutinizing the purchases.”
Whoops! Wouldn’t want anyone to think Republicans believe women should be in control of their own bodies!
Update: Another interpretation: IOKIYAR.
Senate Democrats Win Important Baseball Debate. Also, Healthcare.
- Oh look, here is Harry Reid with your public option, for healthcare, even though Her Majesty Queen Olympia Snowe does not care for it! (CBS News)
- If the Democrats really cared about bipartisanship, they would have let the St. Louis Cardinals go to the World Series. (NYT The Caucus)
- Some of the RNC’s Facebook friends are terribly racist and do not care for our mixed-race president. (Raw Story)
- President Obama has more women in his Cabinet than any previous president. But does he invite them over for basketball enough? That is the real important question. (ABC News)
- Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) took his daughter to a public clinic to get the terrible socialist swine flu vaccine that he voted not to fund. What will Glenn Beck say? (Roll Call via Daily Kos)
John Ensign’s Parents Have Some Cash for Everyone These Days
- Sen. John Ensign’s parents, who famously paid off the family of Ensign’s mistress, are also maxed-out donors to Harry Reid’s re-election campaign. Is John Ensign having an affair with him now too? Or is John Ensign, along with the rest of the Senate GOP, only metaphorically screwing Reid? (CQ Politics)
- Losing his job and his health insurance left one Wisconsin man with no choice but to join the Army to pay for his wife’s chemotherapy. So please, Congress, just take your time with this whole healthcare reform thing. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- And speaking of which, given the choice between passing a public option with only Democratic votes and failing to do anything in a spectacular but bipartisan way, most Americans choose the public option. Hopefully this influences the only person whose vote really matters, Queen Olympia I. (ABC News)
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is deeply disappointed that anyone thought that they might actually believe in global warming, and they would like to reinforce that they definitely do not think climate change is happening. (CNN Political Ticker)
- The DNC demands that the RNC start mopping up the mess in Washington and stop… kicking over the bucket of nasty grey mop-water? This mop analogy was good for a while, but I think it’s gone about as far as it can go. (MSNBC First Read)
We Are All Kenyans
- Have you seen Orly Taitz’s Kenyan birth certificate yet? Incontrovertible evidence! (KenyanBirthCerficiateGenerator.com)
- The teabaggers have an exciting new way of expressing their opposition to healthcare reform: physically assaulting members of Congress! (Roll Call via Think Progress)
- Your DNC is interested in whether the RNC’s refrigerators are running, and vice versa. (Ben Smith)
- Retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) will never have to run for office again in Missouri, so he will vote for Sonia Sotomayor. (CNN Political Ticker)
- What a shame! Your Washington Post has canceled Dana Milbank and Chris Cilizza’s “Hillary Clinton is a Huge Bitch Comedy Hour” series of YouTube videos. (WaPo)
If You Play Nice, Maybe You Can Have Healthcare
- Your RNC is just not comfortable with handing over the company credit card to Michael Steele to spend on his “hip hop,” or whatever it is the kids are saying doing days. (The Hill/Washington Times)
- If healthcare reformers don’t stop saying mean things about healthcare reform blocker Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), then he will pull this car over right now! and nobody will get healthcare. (TPMDC)
- Here are some lovely photos of that time someone at the Pentagon thought it would be a good idea to fly Air Force One straight over the Manhattan skyline. (NYT The Caucus)
- President McCain just does not care for this Obama upstart and his “change” that he keeps talking about. (CNN Political Ticker)
Wankers of the Day
Half a Trillion Here, Half a Trillion There
- In a stunning show of bipartisanship, staffers for the Republican and Democratic National Committees teamed up to beat the crap out of poor Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). (Roll Call)
- Republican members of your Senate Judiciary Committee thought they could catch Sonia Sotomayor off-guard yesterday by asking her about guns and abortion, but–quelle surprise!–somehow she saw those questions coming. (NYT)
- Hillary Clinton has almost finished paying off her debts from that time Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination for president because of sexism. Now she only has to pay Mark Penn, who famously said Obama could never win the general election, for his highly valuable services! (CNN Political Ticker/USA Today)
- The crack team of reporters at your Associated Press is almost accurately reporting the cost of Democrats’ healthcare reform bill. They’re only off by half a trillion dollars, or $500,000,000,000. (TPMDC)
Forget Elections, Let’s Just Play Softball Instead
There is only one thing in Washington taken more seriously than elections and that is intramural softball! This weekend, the RNC “Teabaggers” defeated the DNC “Democrat-Socialists” by a score of 5-4, which, in wingnut-speak means 9-0. This stunning victory entitled the RNC to say mean things about Democrats via email, something which would not have taken place under any other cirumstances. (CNN/Media Matters)
Steele Is New RNC Chair
Yesterday’s election for the next leader of the Republican Party came down to two men: one of the five black RNC members or the guy who became a Republican because of desegregation and had to leave his “whites only” country club in order to run. After the final balloting was done, Michael Steele emerged as the next RNC Chairman.
Have fun taking orders from Rush Limbaugh for the next few years.
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