Arianna appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" on Thursday to discuss the GOP's sudden fixation on contraception over the past few weeks, and how it could hurt the party in the November elections.
"Ultimately it is about contraception, and debating contraception in 2012, including the idea that somehow aspirin between your legs is the trick -- you and I should have mentioned that to our daughters, we forgot it -- is not working for them. You can see in their faces, you can see through their equivocations, that they know it is not working for them, and they don't quite know how to get out of it."
She also pointed out that while the economy might still prove to be fertile ground for Republican attacks on Obama, the GOP can't seem to quit its self-destructive social platform.
"They're missing the point. Even though the job numbers may be a little better, people don't feel better. We still have over 20 percent of young people unemployed, we're still above 8 percent unemployment, we still have 4 million people's homes foreclosed. Why are they not playing on that terrain -- which is really where their advantage is?"
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Great Victimization is very different from the Great Depression, lest we never forget.
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France, on the other hand, routinely set aside its laws in favor of socially expedient and seemingly beneficial programs.
France descended into a crisis that was resolved only by a dictator. America survived as a representative democracy.
Laws, not public opinion, are what sustains us as a Nation.
Mind you, the republicans did not bring this subject up, Pres. Obama did.
Contraception is a low cost solution to prevent unwanted children that the mother isn't prepared or able to take care of. No human life is lost (unless they want to say that each sperm is actually a human being prior to conception), so there's no ethical quandary here.
Women's health issues, specifically the ability to control the number of children you have as well as when you have them, is one of the most powerful predictors for women's economic stability and the stability of that woman's dependents. So, this is a HUGE economic issue!
Similar, or near similar requirements are in effect in 28 states, many passed passed by republican legislatures and governers. Not to long ago it was also supported by the Republican party as a whole. Now that the GOTP finds itself catering to the extreme far right out on edge city it has become a cynical political ploy to feed the crowd frenzy. With the candidates signing pledges supporting "personhood", and anti-contraception legislation, and VA and OK passing laws that even voters in red,red Mississippi rejected they are dooming themselves to obscurity. This has nothing to really to do with religious freedom ,but is a carcus to feed hate, anger,fear, and emotions to their radical base.