Oh, you crazy GOP supporters! I’m getting tired of writing the phrase “Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t get more insane,” but you’ve done it again! Check it:
Questionable acting skills of the talent in the ad aside (seriously you two, you’re totally unbelievable), WTF is this? There’s nothing in any of the health bills that states taxpayers will fund abortions! Thanks, Family Research Council Action, for suggesting that, though! Way to keep the people scared out of their minds. Facts schmacts is the name of the game.
Read H.R. 3200 yourself here. Or take the easy way out and read an explanation of the ad and the bill on CNN’s Political Ticker.
I’ve read the bill and there is the suggestion that it would, de facto, force taxpayers will fund abortions. Various passages include the vague term “other services” alongside more descriptive coverages.
When that is combined with the fact that the amendment to the bill that would have stated that it wouldn’t cover non-medically required abortions was voted down, the suggestion is definitely there.
Without a direct prohibitive statement forbidding the funding of abortions in the bill, legal precedence would hold that abortion must be covered, as was the case with Medicaid.
From the 1996 Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Michigan v. Engler Appellate Court ruling
So it’s not such a bad ad from a truth perspective after all. The acting was sub-par though.
Wow. An articulate and thoughtful response on our site. Will wonders never cease?
No; wonders will never cease, but they’ll continue to be rare. That’s why they’re wonders.
One thing – To my mind the scariest thing about “insane people” is how often they turn out to be right, or close to it, once all the dust settles.
Something tells me this is not one of those cases.
i thought the acting was good in it’s badness. i would hire those actors to play bad actor characters in a movie about making bad movies… like mark wahlberg in boogie nights!