{"id":7081,"date":"2012-02-11T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2012-02-11T00:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T08:03:15","slug":"more-from-the-republican-war-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/more-from-the-republican-war-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"More from the Republican War on Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the front lines of the Republican War on Women are the standard issues of abortion and birth control, and they serve two valuable purposes for the Republican Party.  First they keep Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians goose stepping without realizing that Republicans do not represent their well being.  Second, they detract attention from what Republicans want to avoid: the economy.  However the seamiest side of the Republican War on Women, the side that should provoke as much outrage as the standard issues, receives very little attention.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GrassleyHat\"What Republican war on women? The Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized in 2005 by unanimous consent in the Senate and with 415<\/a><\/font> votes in favor in the House, and signed by George W. Bush. It’s up for reauthorization again now, and of course, this time, Republicans have a problem with it. The bill\u2014which is actually cosponsored by Idaho Republican Sen. Mike Crapo\u2014received no Republican votes<\/font> in the Senate Judiciary Committee<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Oh, they’ll tell you they want to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act … but of course, they want to do it their way. "The Republican opposition seems driven largely by an antigay, anti-immigrant agenda," a New York Times<\/em><\/span> editorial<\/a><\/font> explains:<\/font><\/p>\n

The main sticking points seemed to be language in the bill to ensure that victims are not denied services because they are gay or transgender and a provision that would modestly expand the availability of special visas for undocumented immigrants who are victims of domestic violence \u2014 a necessary step to encourage those victims to come forward<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s not just that, though. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, not only wants to eliminate those provisions, but has his own version of the bill that contains "a huge reduction in authorized financing<\/font>, and elimination of the Justice Department office devoted to administering the law and coordinating the nation\u2019s response to domestic violence and sexual assaults."<\/strong> Grassley’s funding cuts are above and beyond the $135 million reduction<\/a><\/font> in funding from 2005 levels already contained in the bill the Judiciary Committee Republicans unanimously rejected\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not accusing Republicans of wanting to encourage violence against women.  What makes this part of the Republican War on Women is that Republicans care so little about women\u2019s safety that they want to gut the funding for it.  Why?  Every penny spent protecting a woman from violence is a penny Republicans cannot give to a billionaire.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the front lines of the Republican War on Women are the standard issues of abortion and birth control, and they serve two valuable purposes for the Republican Party.  First they keep Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians goose stepping without realizing that Republicans do not represent their well being.  Second, they detract attention from what Republicans want […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}