I wonder if this guy is going to be taken aside by some of his more PR-savvy Republican friends. Many of us liberals have known this for years, but here it’s said right out loud to a national journalist:

These cuts are less about saving money and more about abortion and contraception. Evangelicals and Tea Party supporters are ascendant in Texas, and Perry is their champion. These cuts are evidence of their political power as well.

The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process, and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage in the process, so be it. When The Texas Tribune asked state Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Nacogdoches), a supporter of the family planning cuts, if this was a war on birth control, he said “yes.”

“Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything — that’s what family planning is supposed to be about,” Christian said.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.