I'd write Speaker Pelosi a ten grand check if she'd go on camera and say, "We really can't do much about the Republican party being so afraid of sex."

The NRCC is banging the good old culture wars drum today

Heh heh, heh, heh, heh...he said "banging" ;>

Are Bevis and Butthead in charge of the GOP now?

I'm sure glad we have excellent reporters and pundits on TV, who point out all the discrepancies and ommissions, each time they discuss the latest Republican Talking point.

Not

This exceeds my limit for absurd bullshit from the GOP. I'm taking a few days off.

Let me guess....

Abstinance is the only proven 100% effective method of STD prevention?

Probable the same level of efficacy as pregnancy prevention, but then efficacy evidence is one of those "science" things President Hussein promised, wasn't it?

335 million to teach people to use protection? Can we plow the money into public sachools so people aren't so stupid in the first place?

The Republican gang of Boehner, Cantor, et al, are again on TV praising THEIR party's proposals for economic revival. In the background, Congressman Pence keeps nodding his head, agreeing with everything his GOP colleagues are saying. With so much Republican ubiquity on TV, could somebody tell me again who won control of our government last November? And wasn't it just last week that it seemed as if we inaugurated a Democratic president? Can anyone explain exactly what the hell is going on here?

The Corporate Media is what is going on here .. all these millionaire 'journalists' that are bought and paid for to do their Corporate Masters bidding .. all of them are nothing more than CORPORATE HEMMROIDS ..

Republican bullshit meter once again pegged at 10.

First of all, the money that goes to these programs will mean new jobs. -- Alex Koppelman

So what? The renovation of the Mall would have meant jobs too, but it didn't stop the Repubs from sneering at it (or the Dems from removing it). I'm surprised that they don't mind showing a shabby and decrepit face to the millions of tourists -- from all over the world -- who come and visit the Mall every year. Maybe they figure that the tourists -- who also bring jobs -- will come anyway. And maybe their overriding worry is that, with a pretty Mall, people would "get ideas" (like: why don't we do it in the Mall?).

Unfortunately for the rest of us, Republicans do not practice abstinence and occasionally manage to have sex, resulting in more Republicans.

So STDs are good. If we prevent them, they cost less to deal with later on. STD prevention is like fixing potholes or increased fuel mileage, they just reduce consumption, bad for the economy.

I think the Repubs might be right on this one!

There was nary a peep from Repubmicans when Bush propsoed the same thing regarding STD's and Family Planning during his 8 year term. NOT A DAMN PEEP
Now I am supposed to believe that Republicans are all of a sudden concerned about spending on STD's and Family Planning right around the same time the opposition Party presents it....puh leeze

STD's

Bush spent $5 billion on AIDS research in Africa. Now correct me if I am worng but AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease correct????

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B04E7DC1F39F933A05752C0A9659C8B63&fta=y

Family Planning
Bush spend billions on The "Mexico City Policy" which clearly states that This policy recognizes our country's long history of providing international health care services, including voluntary family planning to couples around the world who want to make free and responsible decisions about the number and spacing of their children."

http://www.usaid.gov/bush_pro_new.html

And yet again not a peep from Republicans back then

This is game set match for DEMS to cry foul on the duplicitous and blatantly obstructionist efforts by the Republicans to kill this stimulus package uner the guise if concern about "spending"

F-R-A-U-D-S

I admit I haven't paid close attention to this or the flap over the stimulus bill inclusion of contraceptives for low-income folks, but from a slightly blurry distance it looks like the GOP is doubling down on its No Sex for You! strategy. Demonizing fucking is sure to be a winner with the non-base electorate.

Our side needs a counter punch PR. The lead:

"Congressional Republicans Are Working Hard to Increase Sexually Transmittedd Disease"

And we have the advantage of telling the truth, twice!

toowearyforoutrage - "Can we plow the money into public sachools so people aren't so stupid in the first place?"

No we can't. Because the republicans will block this sort of education, regardless of where you try and teach it. What are you advocating - we're going to teach you how not to be stupid, but we can't teach you what stupid actually is?

The GOP is on record in favor of STDs. They think if we lived in a world without HPV and other STDs that people would be more likely to have sex. And we can't have people having sex. So, give them diseases instead.

Those are family values we can all support: diseases for some, little American flags for others.

Koppelman says, "47 percent of people receiving treatment for HIV were covered by Medicare." But, that can't be right, can it? Medicare covers the elderly, and I find it hard to believe that the elderly represent nearly half of those being treated for HIV. I'm thinkin' he meant Medicaid.

One wonders how Republican conservatives reproduce.....it must be something asexual. Maybe its pods....or lizard people.

Improves people's health, puts money in health care professionals pockets, gets money moving...

What's not to like?

I suppose the Republicans are stuck defining 'stimulus' as 'tax cuts'. But, stimulus is pushing money through the system to make up for the decrease in capital flows caused by the banking snafu.

That we choose to push the money through the system by immediately requiring consequential things to be done is just good common sense. There's no time like the present in the middle of a financial crisis to get these kinds of projects done.

If Republicans object to these projects then I guess they'll have to campaign on it in their next election.

Can't somebody manage to bring up the idea that a party which harbors a Senator who likes to parade around in a diaper in front of a prostitute really is not in a position to be so freaked out about anything that has to do with sex?

..conservative Republicans just seem to like talking about, complaining about, and campaigning on sex.

= they are sexophobic

..because, by their public puritanism and private prurience, they just keep getting bitten in the ass by it all the time.