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Republican double standard on regulation

Adding to my previous post on the proper use of vagina, I find it very curious that when it comes to regulating pollution, or fraud, or safety in Big Business practices, Republicans continuously wail about supression and over regulation. Yet these things actually do have an effect on the public health and welfare. Meanwhile, they spend inordinate amounts of time inventing ever more invasive regulations over the bodies of individual women when these private decisions have no impact on anyone other than themselves.

So in other words, if we judge them by their actions instead of their rhetoric, Republicans apparently believe the corporate “person” is entitled to the freedom and right to decide their own conduct, but ordinary human women in America are not worthy of the same respect.

Funny, I don’t recall them running for office on that platform.

Libby Spencer
Libby Spencer is a social media maven whose political commentary has been published on a wide variety of websites including a rather short lived guest blog at Fox News. She has been practicing her particular brand of punditry at the Detroit News Politics blog since April 2004.

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