Republicans defend having no women in health care group

[babylonsister]

Republicans defend having no women in health care group

By Dana Bash, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, CNN

Updated 5:29 PM ET, Fri May 5, 2017



Washington (CNN)Just hours after House Republicans managed to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Senate is signaling it will write its own proposal -- announcing a group of 13 Republican members who will be responsible for crafting the Senate's plan.
All are male.

A GOP aide defended the makeup of the group.

"We have no interest in playing the games of identity politics, that's not what this is about; it's about getting a job done," the aide said. "We'll work with any member of any background who wants to pass a health reform bill that will reduce premiums and take away the burdens that Obamacare inflicted.

"To reduce this to gender, race or geography misses the more important point of the diverse segments of the conference the group represents on policy -- from members who support Medicaid expansion, to those opposed to it, to those who have called for long term full repeal," the aide added.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/05/politics/senate-republican-health-care-men/index.html

[bronxiteforever]

1. Translation "we have no interest in women or their health"

[redstatebluegirl]

2. They shouldn't put the beer on ice just yet.

[Me.]

3. Hatch, Cruz & Lee

Oh yes, they're going to produce a better health care bill

[Coventina]

4. Half the human race is "identity politics"?!?!?!

Fuck every last Republican with a railroad spike!!!!

[dhill926]

5. you took the words right off of my fingertips....

[delisen]

6. The strategy of classifying human rights as identity politics is

is deliberate. The definition of diversity (group of older white males having some differences of opinion) is novel.

By that re-definition of diversity the group of white males who went to Philadelphia to write the US Constitution was also diverse (we know how that turned out for women, black people, and Native Americans).

[mnhtnbb]

7. Well, to be truthful, they probably have some Senators

who push their dicks to the right of their zipper and some who push their dicks to the left of their zipper. That's Republican diversity for you!

[trof]

8. Horseshit.

[jambo101]

9. Women scare republicans

especially smart ones

[NurseJackie]

10. "Identity Politics" eh? Sadly, I have heard that familiar admonition before.

I'm sick of it! Sick to death of it! Everyone knows what it means. It's the phrase used by racists and misogynists and homophobes (and by every other -ist or -phobe you can name) to try and excuse their "-ist" or "-phobic" behavior. They're ignoring reality. They're protecting their own. They're covering their asses. They're saying that we don't matter and that in-due-time everything will take-care-of-itself if we just wait for it to trickle-down.

It's total bullshit no matter WHICH party does it. It needs to stop.