Proving yet again their hypocrisy and fixation for the pre-born over the born, a week before the government shutdown the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Congress urging them to include the revocation of contraceptive coverage in the Affordable Care Act as one of the Republicans’ hostage demands over the shutdown and raising the debt ceiling.

As Congress considers a Continuing Resolution and debt ceiling bill in the days to come, we reaffirm the vital importance of incorporating the policy of this bill into such “must-pass” legislation.

(emphasis theirs)

I guess it’s okay that the 53% of LIVING American babies who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) will go without assistance ($109 million in unpaid vouchers as of this morning); that Head Start programs close their doors for early-childhood programs; that VA employees are being worked like rented mules to get benefits out the door for disabled veterans, and there aren’t benefits being paid to survivors of dead soldiers; that NIH and NSF have had to cut off funding for scientific researchers that can stop illnesses and prolong lives; that the CDC has food inspectors furloughed so nobody is around to investigate salmonella outbreaks affecting people in 20 states; or that money from HUD to assist in funding affordable housing will dry up if this lasts much longer.

The important thing is that the church make sure those uppity whores who dare to have sex for any reason than to have a baby not have access to birth control.

He skates:

David Vitter is a piece of shit. He screamed family values in an ad that helped get him elected, then got caught fucking hookers. Prostitution should be legal, sure, but if you’re a guy that gets elected by claiming he’s loyal to his spouse and his family, and you’re not, you deserve to be thrown out of office. Somehow, Louisiana voters don’t agree with that sentiment.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) on Friday sent a letter to the Senate Ethics Committee requesting an investigation of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for what he calls “attempted bribery.”

The letter responded to reports that Senate Democrats were shopping around a plan to deny government contributions to lawmakers’ health care plans if there is “probable cause” they solicited prostitutes. The proposal would effectively dredge up Vitter’s 2007 prostitution scandal unless he stopped pressuring the Senate to vote on an amendment repealing federal contributions to legislators’ health plans.

The graphic, by the way, was done by BlueGal – the hooker on the left, the wife (fittingly) on the right. Interesting ….

Talking Points Memo

From Australia:

UPDATE: She’s out!

More Weiner: “Quotes from the unnamed woman in The Dirty’s posts described the exchanges as having occurred after Weiner’s initial scandal in 2011, however the timestamps appear to have been edited out of the images of the chats published on the site. ‘This was a bad situation for me because I really admired him. Even post scandal, I thought he was misunderstood. Until I got to know him. I thought I loved him. Pretty pathetic,’ the anonymous woman is quoted as saying.” [TPM]

now on Fox!

This is the site he’s referencing.

[via]

“Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) won the commendation of a Republican colleague on Wednesday night for supporting an amendment to defund the Appalachian Regional Commission, The Huffington Post reported. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to argue in favor of the amendment, but the Ohio Republican made a point to thank Sanford.” [TPM]