Juxtaposition: Joe Donnelly for Senate
Joe Donnelly, currently serving as the Representative for Indiana’s 2nd District, is unopposed for the party’s nomination for US Senate. He’ll be facing the winner of the Mourdock-Lugar primary race and Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning in the general election.
On Tuesday, Donnelly’s campaign joined with other Democrats in bringing attention to “Equal Pay Day.”
I am a proud supporter of the Lilly Ledbetter Law and the Paycheck Fairness Act. http://t.co/lbL1LrPD
— JoeforIndiana (@JoeforIndiana) April 17, 2012
It's #EqualPayDay. Hoosier women earned 72% of what men earned in 2010, 5th worst in the nation. This is unacceptable. http://t.co/lbL1LrPD
— JoeforIndiana (@JoeforIndiana) April 17, 2012
But just last week, Donnelly was the sole Democrat named to Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s Toxic Ten list, “remembering those who sought to end access to affordable health care for millions of women” by supporting the Pence Amendment to defund Planned Parenthood:
Running for Senate in Indiana, Congressman Joe Donnelly is campaigning on a platform to stand up for families. Unfortunately the policies he supported as a Congressman haven’t always followed suit. In his own words, “I think Indiana would benefit from having a senator whose priorities are day-in and day-out: jobs, the economy, and standing up for working and middle-class families.” His words, however, don’t square with his record—and Donnelly voted for the Pence amendment which would have effectively defunded Planned Parenthood. What are the working and middle class families who go to Planned Parenthood as their primary source of health care supposed to do? You only have to take a look at his record to tell that his “pro-life credentials are crystal clear.”
I’m a conservative independent who is thinking about voting for Mourdock in order to get Lugar out and then voting for Donnelly in the general election. But, can we stop with the idiocy of making statements that are true, but misleading. The fact that women make 72% of what men make nationwide means absolutely nothing. Unless, of course, you think everyone should make the same amount of money regardless of the job they do. The Lilly Ledbetter law puts it correctly, thankfully; equal pay for equal job. The fact that a woman who checks parking meters makes less than a male bank branch manager is irrelevant to the argument.
As for Planned Parenthood, whatever shall my wife do? If they are defunded, she won’t be able to get free or subsidized health care. Oh, wait, she doesn’t go there. She goes to a doctor and PAYS FOR IT! Other “working and middle-class” people can do the same. If you were talking about the poor and unemployed, at least you (whoever wrote the quote above) would have some basis for the argument. In truth, the solution for Planned Parenthood is so simple that anyone but a liberal can figure it out. Just as the Palestinians don’t want peace as it will take away a means by which to demonize Israel, the left doesn’t want a solution to the Planned Parenthood situation as it will lose a means by which to demonize the right.