You mean that Republicans not only lie themselves but allow others to lie too? Amazing.
Obviously on some level it's not surprising, but it's one of those things that I wish people would just stop and seriously think about for a moment. It's so completely crazy that not stopping everything and having a serious discussion about that specific part of these bills feels like it's being overlooked.
Moreover though, it just feels like a teaching moment in how Republicans do policy. In Indiana,
a Democratic senator proposed an amendment to the bill that required doctors to read a ridiculous script to women seeking an abortion, an amendment that would require all information in the script to be "medically and scientifically accurate." The amendment was rejected.
I wish people would stop and consider things like that. A political party in this country will reject amendments to their ideological goals that require such pesky things as
medical and scientific accuracy. It is one thing to accuse the other side of being wrong, of trying to lie, of being dishonest about their goals and methods to those goals. That's always existed and is to be expected. It's a very different thing for that to be an
open admission from the accused.
