My Plan for Fighting Zika

The Senate has nixed another Zika funding bill.

As Congress returned from a seven-week recess on Tuesday, Senate Democrats again stymied a $1.1 billion plan to fight the Zika virus, demanding that Republicans drop an effort to block Planned Parenthood from receiving money to combat the mosquito-borne disease.

Democrats, who had essentially blocked the same legislation in late June, had enough votes Tuesday to prevent Congress from moving emergency funding public health experts say is desperately needed as they prepare for the possibility that Zika will spread to other states along the gulf coast. The vote was 52 to 46, and Republicans needed 60 votes to advance the bill….

… The Republican-driven package was supposed to resolve the differences between a bipartisan Senate plan and a less Democrat-friendly House version. The bill would exclude Planned Parenthood from the list of providers that get new funding for contraception to combat spread of the virus, which can be sexually transmitted.

Mitch McConnell sorrowfully wondered how Democrats could be so stubborn.

“It’s hard to explain why, despite their own calls for funding, Democrats would block plans to keep women and babies safe from Zika,” Mr. McConnell said before the vote.

Tell us about how you want to keep women and babies safe by blocking Planned Parenthood funding, Mitch. I’m sure you’ve got an excuse, somewhere.

Oh, and my plan is to spread a rumor in Washington that Zika doesn’t just affect pregnant women; it also causes permanent and untreatable erectile dysfunction. In a month or two there wouldn’t be a mosquito left on the East Coast. Maybe in the Western Hemisphere.

3 thoughts on “My Plan for Fighting Zika

  1. First of all, if the Zika Virus caused er*ctile d*syfunction in men, most conservative males wouldn’t notice until they were looking at some gay-p*rn on the internet, or near a gay dance-club, or trying to stop LGBTQ folks from doing… whatever they want to make up that day taht they don’t want them to do!!!

    And then, it would become a “Christian” health issue!
    And women would be blamed for fucking around, and giving the men the disease.

    It’s how they “roll…”

  2. The Republicans are modern day Nero’s; let everyone die, let everything go to cr*p, as long as we keep the NRA and the oil lobby happy.

  3. Well, if you’re talkin’ about the Repugs being morally erectile as a governing body then the dysfunction should be obvious.

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