focused on jobs, jobs, jobs, while instead what they work on is abortion, abortion, abortion. at mother jones, kate shep ard highlights that disconnect on abortion issues on the right goes so far to include a move by cliff stearns of florida, who along with most of the rest of the republicans voted to de-fund planned parenthood last month, she calls on cliff stearns of florida to overtly spend federal taxpayer money to directly support the anti-abortion quack safe medical clinics that try to trick women into believing they can get an abortion there, but instead subject them to anti-abortion hectoring masked as medical care. the crisis centers, in 2006 when they investigated what these centers do, they found 20 of 23 clinics investigated, 20 of 23, provided false or misleading information about the health effects of abortion.
like this. i think it is also an unanswered question, whether republicans will have electoral trouble with this issue, too. there is a big coordinated anti-abortion push in the states by republican legs tours and governors this year. we reported on this show about some small government republican opposition to that push, in places like wyoming, where the libertarian minded leave me alone model of conservatism isn t a beltway construct but doesn t translate to policy, but where republicans get on the floor of the legislature and argue against this big government conservative proposal to force the government into your doctor s appointment, give doctors a script to read to patients, regardless of the doctor s medical opinion. now you have the democratic party in this senate fund-raising letter attacking republicans for saying they were focused on jobs, jobs, jobs, while instead what they work on is abortion, abortion, abortion. at mother jones, kate shep ard