Does the GOP Really Want to Make a Stand on STD-Prevention?
The National Republican Congressional Committee is going after swing-district Democrats over sexually transmitted disease-prevention funding in the stimulus,
Jul 31, 202089.3K Shares1.1M Views
The National Republican Congressional Committee is going after swing-district Democrats over sexually transmitted disease-prevention funding in the stimulus, reports Glenn Thrush.
“„The NRCC is banging the good old culture wars drum today, sending out a raft of press releases asking if rookie Dems from conservative districts back the inclusion of anti-sexually transmitted disease programs (read: condoms and needle exchanges).
I’m … confused.
The target list includes at least a dozen congressmen and women from districts that voted for President Obama. Is opposition to anti-STD funding really burning up Connecticut’s 4th District, which Democrats just took away from former GOP Rep. Chris Shays? In Greenwich and Bridgeport? Really?
There’s a good attack line here about stimulus funding going to programs that won’t immediately benefit the economy, but Democrats really couldn’t care lessabout this: either the stimulus works and they’re re-elected in 2010 as the economy recovers — or it fails, and they’re defeated because it fails.
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