The Republican war on women and on...breast pumps?

[XanaDUer]

Yes, breast pumps. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has decided to attack First Lady Michelle Obama, the government’s role in health care, the President’s policies, and the needy, by saying, “I’ve given birth to five babies and I breast-fed every single one of these babies,” Bachmann said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. “To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. I mean, you want to talk about the nanny state?”

But even her own state residents disagree. “The government isn’t buying nursing women breast pumps (nor telling them they must buy them),” writes Susan Perry in the Minnesota Post. “The IRS is simply permitting women to purchase a pump and other breast-feeding supplies with their flexible spending accounts — as they can now buy other health-related items, such as hearing aids, contact-lens solution and over-the-counter pain relievers.”

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/the-gops-war-on-women-and-children/politics/2011/02/17/17488

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Ya know, that just sucks.

[spanone]

2. let them attack michelle, america loves her

and it makes them look like the shits they are.

[pokerfan]

3. Apparently Palin thinks infants should be fed cow's milk

Palin: "No wonder Michelle O is telling everybody 'you'd better breastfeed your baby.' Yeah, you'd better bc the price of milk is so high"

[TheKentuckian]

4. Bachmann always has more crazy reserves just when you thought she has hit peak batshit

How the fuck does someone get away with lamenting people being able to use their own fucking money to buy a breast pump and still get votes?

I'm kinda shocked such equipment wasn't already an approved purchase but it would seem like something that virtually every American would endorse.

[Initech]

5. Its official: The republicans hate everything!!!

[gatorboy]

6. Ugh. I'm so sick of these people.

Wake me up in a couple of years...

[Alameda]

7. If you go to sleep, there will be many more of them..WAKE UP!