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GOP: "To improve your health, we must destroy your health."

Just yesterday Senate Republicans rejected a bill to grant emergency funds to combat the Zika virus because they want to cut Obamacare funding in the process. No, I'm not kidding. Here's how Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn discussed the matter:

Murray: "There is no reason to keep it attached to the bill we're on and allow House Republicans to slow-walk it. And there's no reason that this funding can't be approved and signed into law next week, in time for summer and the peak of mosquito season."

Cornyn: "Would the senator modify her request to include my language... which has the exact same funding levels... but includes a pay-for using the prevention fund in the Affordable Care Act?"

That's right, ladies and gentlemen - according to Senate Republicans, in order to help prevent health problems courtesy of the Zika virus, we must increase health problems by cutting Obamacare funding. Due to this kind of rationale, expect Senate Republicans to propose the following ideas in the future:

- "In order to get better grades, we should give kids more time to study, but also take away their textbooks."

- "Preventing teenage pregnancy is simple in two easy steps: 1) Provide comprehensive sex education, especially with regard to contraception, and 2) Make contraception illegal."

- "If we're going to get serious about decreasing gun violence, we're going to have to pass stricter gun laws, but also make it legal for Walmart greeters to hand out free guns to their patrons."

- "It's like my daddy always said, 'To make someone rich, you've got to give that person some money, and have someone else take it away. Science."

- "In order for this country to be free, we need to abide by the First Amendment of the Constitution, as well as ban Muslims from coming here."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-cornyn-zika-funding_us_573cb65ae4b0646cbeebd2b3

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