The GOP Big Government In Your Uterus Plan

So, after five months, the Republicans have finally gotten around to a "jobs proposal".

The plan calls for cutting taxes on corporations, individuals and small businesses to no more than 25 percent; allowing companies to repatriate foreign profits without being taxed; approving trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea; expanding domestic oil drilling; rewiring the patent process; requiring congressional approval of executive branch regulations that have a significant impact on the economy; and continuing to slash spending.

None of these proposals and none of the handful of others in the plan qualify as new ideas. Some were embedded in the GOP's 'Pledge to America' last year.

Even Politico is pointing out this is pretty much the same "jobs proposal" that the GOP has been pushing for years.  Cut taxes on businesses (making record profits anyway and paying zero in taxes thanks to loopholes) and cut spending!  This will magically create jobs, just like it's been doing for the last several years, right?

Well, since the GOP clearly hasn't been working on jobs, what have they been working on at the national and state level?  Why, the big government intrusion into millions of uteri, of course.

As Rachel Maddow points out, John Boehner and Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell have said that jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs are the number one issue.  They have yet to write a single jobs bill, but they sure do have time to write four national bills and literally hundreds of bills at the state level (some of which have been passed into law) dealing with the government being able to tell women exactly what they should do with their wombs.

A number of states have now drafted bills to criminalize abortions completely and put doctors who perform them in prison for anywhere from six months all the way to 30 years.  In states with heavily GOP legislatures, these abortion ban bills are expected to pass and be signed into law and will face legal challenges.

Time and time again the GOP in these states and at the national level have proven that their number one priority isn't jobs, but overturning Roe v Wade in the Supreme Court.  That is what they have been working on since January.  They could give a rat's ass about jobs, the economy, the environment, the war on terror, the housing depression, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or yes, even the deficit (which they plan to make worse with more trillion dollar tax cuts for the wealthy and for businesses.) But abortion?  They have literally stopped everything to go after that.

As Rachel says above, anyone who tells you that a pro-choice Republican has any place in the party in 2011 has no idea what they are talking about.