Are You Kidding Me: Tiahrt Offensive At Best
By Dana Jones on 07/22/2009 @ 02:42 PM
Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) -- Congrats! You are the recipient of the very first Are you Kidding Me!? post with an honorable mention for Senator Coburn of Oklahoma.
Last week Tiahrt argued on the House floor to restrict public funding of abortions within the District of Columbia. Tiahrt suggested that if such “financial incentives” had been available some 47 years ago, President Obama might not have been born. Continuing in his offensive downward spiral rant, he had one more example of yet another ”great mind” that might not have been born -- he added Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
"If you think of it in human terms, there is a financial incentive that will be put in place, paid for by tax dollars, that will encourage women who are -- single parents, living below the poverty level, to have the opportunity for a free abortion… If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in a similar circumstance."
"If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it? …Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible that we would be denied his great mind? The opportunity to have tax-funded abortions, a financial incentive, is something that I think most of us want to oppose in America and it's certainly deserves a clean up or down vote."
Is this really how the GOP is trying to reach out to minorities? Is this how they think they are going to build their ‘Big Tent’? Last week during the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Tom Coburn, R-OK, told Judge Sotomayor, a Latina, that she had “lots of ‘splaining to do” as if he were imitating Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy.
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