Update: It’s officially out.
I’ve literally spent all day, on and off, obsessing over the way that Republicans have made an issue out of contraception funding in this stimulus bill. It looks like it’s coming out, since Obama is firm about not letting this small issue stop the bill. His reasoning is that the money can be put into another bill, which is actually not a bad idea because then we can have another round of Republicans going on talk shows to talk about the evils of contraception while journalists inject to point out that contraception is really evil. Or communist, even.
Yep, Chris Matthews thinks providing financial assistance for contraception is the same thing as the one-child policy in China. This is an opinion that differs not one whit from that of the bug-eyed anti-choice nuts who think that Planned Parenthood is run by the Elders of Zion in order to capitalize on a lower birth rate as part of the New World Order. What this is not is the opinion of your average American, who just can’t be so severely undersexed that they get bent out of shape at the mere thought of other people doing it without getting horribly punished somehow.