Cecile Richards, head of Planned Parenthood, was mistreated in Congressional hearings today.  Republicans want to defund the organization.  Their rhetoric centers on the abortion issue.  A trade in "dead baby parts" supposedly profits Planned Parenthood.  Tissue from aborted fetuses get used for research purposes, but people like Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, and the hostile Republicans facing Richards, make it seem as if Planned Parenthood is a government-sponsored murder factory, paid for by taxpayers.  They might want to apply the same notion to the Defense Department.
     Huckabee, interviewed on CNN by Wolf Blitzer, suggested we live in a dictatorship--one, I guess, in which murdering babies for profit sits well with the Babykiller-in-Chief, President Obama.  I admit, I lost my temper listening to this pseudo-pious con artist from Arkansas, whose schtick for years has been to set himself up as an amiable, wise, homespun I-know-what's-best-for-you politician-preacher, but who really acts more like a power-hungry theocrat listening mostly to the demon on his shoulder.
     Blitzer, in his braying, abrupt way, did me a favor when he changed topics from abortion and Planned Parenthood to Huckabee's current two percent standing in the polls.  I don't know what Wolf Blitzer thinks of the abortion issue, but it seemed almost like a hard flick of the middle finger at Huckabee's nose when he brought up such a humiliating situation for the former governor and Fox News talk show host.  Huckabee, politician that he is, doesn't appear concerned about being slightly more popular with voters than hearing loss.
     Cecile Richards handled herself well with the committee, but her face showed the strain of dealing with mean-spirited idiots who have no qualms browbeating a woman heading an organization that prevents cancer deaths through early detection, provides health care for millions, and keeps down the number of unwanted pregnancies, which by extension lowers the overall number of abortions.
     Huckabee and Fiorina support the views of the Congressional idiots who attacked Richards today. Why not?  She's a woman.  Unintentionally revealing the weakness of their overall argument, they resorted to bringing up her salary, around half a million dollars per year.  This amount offends them, seems much too large, I guess, for a woman who gives a shit about people and helps them in a practical and effective way.
     Huckabee, meanwhile, accepts donations for a presidential campaign he must realize is hopeless.  Why carry on with it?  Does he have backers who believe he'll become president?  What kind of person wants such a smooth-tongued scoundrel running America?  The same kind of person who wants to defund Planned Parenthood?  The kind of person who doesn't give a shit about women's health?  Are the Saudi Arabian men who oppress women any worse than our shits?

                                                                           Vic Neptune