{"id":32245,"date":"2015-08-06T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32245"},"modified":"2015-08-05T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:10:00","slug":"jeb-bush-shows-his-true-colours-im-not-sure-we-need-a-half-a-billion-dollars-for-womens-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/06\/jeb-bush-shows-his-true-colours-im-not-sure-we-need-a-half-a-billion-dollars-for-womens-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush shows his true colours: &#8220;I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc:1080\/?post=358290\" target=\"_blank\">Ace<\/a> explains why Jeb&#8217;s little mind fart is such a huge gift to the Democrats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Talking about defunding Planned Parenthood Jeb Bush, the presumptive GOP nominee, went just a bit off message about the whole baby parts for sale in violation of federal law thing <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3984699\/jeb-bush-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\">and mused&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cThe argument against this is \u2026 it is a war on women and you are attacking women\u2019s health issues,\u201d he said. \u201cYou could take dollar for dollar \u2014 <strong>although I\u2019m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women\u2019s health issues<\/strong> \u2014 but if you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fine organizations, community health organizations that exist.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emphasis mine and everyone elses.<\/p>\n<p>DUDE. NO! BAD JEB! BAD!<\/p>\n<p>So the GOP actually had a reasonable plan, this wasn&#8217;t about budget root canal and saving a few bucks, it was about not funding illegal and immoral acts, even indirectly. And hey, we&#8217;re going to send this money to decent and honest places that actually, you know, help improve women&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty solid for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>But instead, Jeb for some reason thought this would be a good time to toss out there the idea that he, and by extension the party he seeks to lead, really just want to stick it to poor women.<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic work!<\/p>\n<p>Well, he did <a href=\"https:\/\/jeb2016.com\/statement-federal-funding-planned-parenthood\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">issue a statement<\/a> saying that&#8217;s not what he meant. I&#8217;m sure Hillary and every Democratic candidate will be sure to include that correction in the four million ads they&#8217;re going to run with the, &#8220;although I&#8217;m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women&#8217;s health issues&#8221; sound bite. So no big whoop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your party has already been castigated &mdash; extensively &mdash; for the &#8220;War on Women&#8221; they&#8217;ve apparently been waging for years &#8230; so you just casually drop in an aside that totally justifies all the accusations? Man, that&#8217;s a serious day&#8217;s work in this election campaign! I&#8217;m not sure even his brother George could have malapropped his way quite so convincingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ace explains why Jeb&#8217;s little mind fart is such a huge gift to the Democrats: Talking about defunding Planned Parenthood Jeb Bush, the presumptive GOP nominee, went just a bit off message about the whole baby parts for sale in violation of federal law thing and mused&#8230;. \u201cThe argument against this is \u2026 it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,28,53,13],"tags":[188,517,43],"class_list":["post-32245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-republican","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8o5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32247,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions\/32247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}