Justin's Political Corner

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) shot back at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, claiming that Pelosi’s move to connect a GOP student loan plan to the so-called Republican war on women was “pathetic.”

“She wants to continue this fiction that every Democrat messenger is trying to put forward, which is there’s a war on women,” Bachmann told Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto. “There is no war on women. There’s never been a war on women.”

On Thursday, Pelosi lambasted the recently announced Republican bill, which would keep student loan rates at their current levels by pulling money from a public health fund included in President Barack Obama’s health care law. Democrats had originally proposed covering the estimated $6 billion cost by closing a tax loophole that lets certain wealthy people avoid paying Medicare taxes, but Republicans countered by targeting what House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called an Obamacare “slush fund.”

H/T: Huffington Post