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[Rover]

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Getting us back on track here, some porn star is running against Vitter for Senate in LA. This interview is priceless, especially the 1st question...
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Porn star Stormy Daniels talks to Marie Claire about her transition to politics as a U.S. Senate candidate from Louisiana.

Q: How much will your résumé be a factor?

A: It's actually starting to work in my favor -- I have nothing to hide. A sex tape of me isn't going to pop up and shame me; there are 150 of them at the video store.

Q: Do you think you're more qualified than Senator Vitter?

A: Absolutely not. But in one movie, I did play a Secret Service agent marooned on an island controlled by North Korea. I butt heads with dictator Kim Jong-il and come out on top.
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[geezer]

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This should really be in the health care thread.
Yea, tacking on an amendment that will cause sweeping issues for any woman seeking an abortion, even with a private insurer, is something to be proud of. That and linking a site that uses the term "Pro-abortion" often and repeatedly.
He's also not a Yooper, he was born in Milwaukee.

Stupak represents the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'll leave the rest of that connection for your keen intellect (*that's sarcasm*) to figure out.
Concerning pro-abortion activism, I think the most horrible travesty (irony being too weak a word in this case) is that we've allowed our society to effectively define abortion as a "health care" issue. It has nothing to do with health; in fact, the opposite. The arguable exceptions being those allowed for by the amendment.
How long will BO be able to ride the fence on this one before he gets called out? It's either health care or it's killing kids.

[rufus]

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Is it a medical procedure? Is it legal under the law? Then why shouldn't insurance cover it?


If you want to restrict any public option, or any government subsidy money to buy private insurance from covering abortions, then why not also restrict them from covering Viagra, hair replacement procedures, etc.?

I mean, after all, it's God's will if a guy can't get it up anymore, or his hair has fallen out, right?

[ScottM]

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Is it a medical procedure? Is it legal under the law? Then why shouldn't insurance cover it?


If you want to restrict any public option, or any government subsidy money to buy private insurance from covering abortions, then why not also restrict them from covering Viagra, hair replacement procedures, etc.?

I mean, after all, it's God's will if a guy can't get it up anymore, or his hair has fallen out, right?

I'd say the same about fertility treatments too. Surgical and medical advances should not thwart "God's will" ...

[walrus]

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I mean, after all, it's God's will if a guy can't get it up anymore, or his hair has fallen out, right?

Fine with me. Having insurance pay for hair transplant shows whats really wrong with our system. Thats elective, you want it, you pay for it.
Same for liposuction, nose jobs, gender reidentification etc

[Plante26]

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Fine with me. Having insurance pay for hair transplant shows whats really wrong with our system. Thats elective, you want it, you pay for it.
Same for liposuction, nose jobs, gender reidentification, abortion(s), etc

Truth. And FYP.

[geezer]

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Rufus may have been sarcastic (or not?) but I agree that tax money should be paying for none of these things. Essential bypass surgery for a poor person is one thing (and we have Medicaid already)... want new boobs? Buy them yourself. (or viagra, hair, fertility drugs, toenail fungus cream, etc. etc.)

[DrDemento]

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I'd say the same about fertility treatments too. Surgical and medical advances should not thwart "God's will" ...

Certainly would have stopped Octomom

[Rover]

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Is it a medical procedure? Is it legal under the law? Then why shouldn't insurance cover it?


If you want to restrict any public option, or any government subsidy money to buy private insurance from covering abortions, then why not also restrict them from covering Viagra, hair replacement procedures, etc.?

I mean, after all, it's God's will if a guy can't get it up anymore, or his hair has fallen out, right?

The problem you're dealing with rufus is that most conservatives are celibate, and not by choice, so none of these issues affect them.

As abortion is a medical procedure, its part of health care. Forcing insurance not to cover it is a back door attempt at subverting the law of the land, Roe v Wade, by making the procedure too expensive to obtain (because, as all of us know, its only poor people doing this).

[rufus]

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The problem you're dealing with rufus is that most conservatives are celibate, and not by choice, so none of these issues affect them.

I can't have you speading deliberate falsehoods about our good Repub friends.

They like sex as much as anyone, they're always looking for it in airport men's rooms, and Congressional page dormitories, and Louisiana prostitutes(complete with accessory diaper), and other such places.

[Rover]

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I can't have you speading deliberate falsehoods about our good Repub friends.

They like sex as much as anyone, they're always looking for it in airport men's rooms, and Congressional page dormitories, and Louisiana prostitutes(complete with accessory diaper), and other such places.

(now cue somebody taking a hissy fit even though this is all in good humor )

[Kepler]

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That's harsh. Plenty of social conservatives commit heterosexual adultery.

[ScottM]

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That's harsh. Plenty of social conservatives commit heterosexual adultery.

*Paging Senator Ensign, Senator Ensign, line 1, please.*

[geezer]

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(now cue somebody taking a hissy fit even though this is all in good humor )

This lusty response damages my working assumption that Rover and rufus are the same person. You mean there really are two of you?

[Plante26]

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As abortion is a medical procedure, its part of health care. Forcing insurance not to cover it is a back door attempt at subverting the law of the land, Roe v Wade, by making the procedure too expensive to obtain (because, as all of us know, its only poor people doing this).

It's elective surgery. Period. Can't argue with that.