...maybe it was Greg Craig's idea? (snicker)
Posted on 01/26/2009 5:09:26 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
(CNSNews.com) - The Obama White House on Monday backed away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support for increased federal funding of contraception in the $825-billion stimulus bill now under consideration by Congress.
That was not President Obama’s idea, a White House spokesman told CNSNews.com.
“The principles of what he thought should be in the package--that wasn’t part of that,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton told CNSNews.com. “They’re working on what the final bill should look like.”
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) was among the first to criticize the Democratic plan, specifically the provisions funding contraception.
The provision in the draft legislation would expand federal funding for contraception through Medicaid, allowing those not poor enough to be currently eligible for Medicaid to nonetheless qualify for the contraception aid.
A program created during the Clinton administration allows states to seek a waiver to offer Medicaid “family planning” services to those who are otherwise not qualified for Medicaid. When states get a waiver, the federal government matches state Medicaid family planning funds with $9 in federal money for every $1 the state spends.
Under the provision in the stimulus package supported by Speaker Pelosi, states would no longer need to apply for a waiver. All 50 states would be given 9-1 federal matching funds for their Medicaid-funded contraceptives.
Pelosi defended the funding during an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“We also heard from Congressman Boehner coming out of the meeting today that again a lot of that spending doesn’t even meet the same test you just talked about right now,” Stephanopoulos said. “Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?”
“Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost,” Pelosi responded. “The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those--one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
“So no apologies for that?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“No apologies. No,” the speaker responded. “We have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. What the economists have told us from right to left. There is more bang for the buck, a term they use, by investing in food stamps and in unemployment insurance than in any tax cut.”
Obama will be meeting with House and Senate Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Tuesday at noon, in what White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said is a serious attempt to get ideas from the opposing party.
Obama has consistently said he wants his stimulus bill to pass with bi-partisan support. However, many Republicans--including his rival in the presidential race, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said they would vote against the bill in its current form.
In other words, Obama voted “present”.
He’s not into contraception.....
He’s more of a late-term abortion kind of guy.
If it wasn’t his idea, that means he’ll be opposing it, right?
????
Pelosi and Jocelyn Elders — separated at birth? Hard to see what the MSM sees in her.
Actually, every baby born is a built-in economic STIMULUS.
But the only thing Pelosi wants to stimulate is her own quest for more personal power.
He said, she said...
Carter held his finger in the air to test the winds of public opinion, Clinton did likewise. Is “Obama the magnificent” going to be guilty of the same thing? Leadership by public consensus … gota love it. ;-)
riiiiiight.
See today’s Scrappleface and get back to me.
“Um, it’s not my idea to have federal funds to prevent children of color from being born. I knew it was there, um, but, the economy is just um too important to worry about them. They do, um, cost a lot.” ~ The One (closet racist).
Nan, ‘there can be only One.’
Breaking news on CNN just announced they are pulling the BC part from the stimulous package b/c of outrage from Repubs!
Hubby also mentioned he heard on the news this morning that Pelosi’s parish priest would refuse her communion if she supported the birth control in the stimulous package. He said it was only a 5 or 10 second blurb and it was not heard again, and since he is not a poster, he didn’t remember what news channel he was watching, but, he heard it, and that tells me at least that it was said! We are both very pro life and pissed off catholics who are sick of the bull about 2 sets of rules. Anyone else hear about this or know how I can verify it for FReepers???
OTOH, it should stand out starkly which ideology is on what side.
Shades Of Pelosi: Wexler Boosts Birth Control As Cost Cutter
FinkelBlog | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 01/26/2009 4:32:17 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172310/posts
Pelosi and Death Control Funding?
Vanity | 1/26/09
Posted on 01/26/2009 4:49:52 PM PST by Keli Kilohana
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172321/posts
Nancy Pelosi is Right
self | 01/26/09 | self
Posted on 01/26/2009 4:37:27 PM PST by Yaelle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172313/posts
"Yeah, I don't believe in prevention. I prefer to kill them in the womb."
If that is true, thank God. Some morality may still exist.
Just because the WH and Obama don’t support eugenics of low income Americans don’t mean Nazi Eichman Pelousey’s proposal won’t still be a part of the TRAP fund disbursement. Don’t believe for a minute it won’t be left out.
The Rats are rolling out some pretty sickening changes and Americans better wake up real soon or we are going to be naked in the snow.
How quickly Nancy Pelosi got thrown under the bus, eh?
If the ideas in this bill aren’t his, where exactly is the Big O’s bill then?
...maybe it was Greg Craig's idea? (snicker)
Zero said he didn’t want his (well what I was about to say could get me banned) to be ‘punished’ with a baby. HIS own words.
“Pelosi: Cutting Poor Babies Accelerates Economic Growth
Scrappleface ^ | Scott Ott
Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 9:16:17 AM by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: Cutting Poor Babies Accelerates Economic Growth by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171891/posts
Maybe Barry should spend less time in the gym and fist bumping Gibbs ,
so he might understand what’s actually in his Stimulating bill.
Are they substituting a Viagra stimulous package to replace contraception?
Makes as much sense as anything else these jokers do!
Considering the average age of the senate, that would be a viable need LOL.
Considering the average age of the senate, that would be a viable need LOL.
He does know how to vote “Present”.
sorry on the double post, i HATE this laptop! over sensitive keys!
Yep! One of the hazards of growing old...along with repeating oneself. LOL!
Jocelyn Elders said we should save the lives of AIDS patients so there would be people to pay into social security.
The left is filled with loons.
I see, Pelosi believes that Americans should stop reproducing so that there will be more room for Illegals, who are way cheaper labor to support the huge amount retires.
Check out this, and look for my post on how to send a letter to your representatives in D.C. Easy to go from your keyboard...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172301/posts
Obama is not for stopping pregnancy, he is for stopping birth.
Abortion Doctors need fetus’s to make a buck.
These people are amazing.
sure’now ‘tis the green of the irish clover that grows..../s
Pelosi is a kook.
That's what I picked up from this story. Pelosi was hung out to dry - she has to be furious. Pass the popcorn.
If Polousy is SOOOO concerned about the poor, here are two suggestions:
1. Give away a couple of million that you have to help solve the problem; or
2. Just simply kill all the people you don’t loke (Conservatives, Republicans, poor people, Catholics, etc.)/s
U. S. House of Representatives
Contact Obama WhiteHouse – Warning—responses will be tracked on WhiteHouse.gov
No funding for abortion!
Keep the government out of the womb!
“Obama’s never written a bill in his life.”
Nope. But he sure has spent some time with one. ;)
Children are the single most important investment a country can make in its economic future.
“present’
Exactly! That’s his MO. Managed to maneuver through one of the most corrupt poilitical machines in the nation (Chicago) and come out unscathed. Yet, assuming for a moment that he never broke the law, can you admire anyone who never once spoke out against all the shenanigans?
I guess Nancy didn’t check with Obama before she wrote the bill. Sounds like a small crack that the Republicans should keep exploiting and widen to get more junk out of this bill.....then still vote no.
Irony: Dole out little blue pills with one hand and contraceptives with the other. Have sex, but don’t have babies.
Viva the sexual revolution! (Keep the masses busy and happy, and they will be having too much fun to pay attention to what the nanny state is up to).
Government spending, state or federal, doesn’t do much to stimulate the economy. If states have fiscal problems they need to trim their budgets not get the money from the same people (taxpayers) through covert means. IE: federal taxing.
Sure he has...Thats the whole idea behind spreading the wealth...He wants the bucks to stop here on his desk, and he can decide where to redistribute them, if to do that at all...
It is a brilliant plan if you ask me...
/sarc
White House to the Press: “It’s not my fault! She did it! Mommy!!!!”
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