Obama: Women Will Be Hurt By Goals Of GOP Congress

That could fit many people.  Many left after Arianna sold HP; do you know if he stayed around after that?  That may help narrow it down.
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Obama: Women Will Be Hurt By Goals Of GOP Congress

Even the most pro-choice of Democrats in Congress, alleged stalwarts who've spent entire careers, decades in public office, have failed miserably to protect women's rights and have let it get to this point.  One example would be Barbara Boxer.  

In 2006, Democratic senators and the Democratic machine publicly supported Democratic candidate NedLamont who was running for senator in Connecticu­t against newly independen­t JoeLieberm­an.  Privately, working behind-the­-scenes, Democratic senators and former president BillClinto­n were working to help Lieberman raise money to beat Lamont, and Republican AlanSchles­inger. Before Lamont won the primary, when Lieberman was still a Democrat, Boxer stumped for Lieberman.  She was asked how she could support him given that Lieberman supports hospitals receiving public monies refusing to give contracept­ives to rape victims.  And instead of dropping her support of Lieberman, instread of dropping him like the bad character he is, she dodged the issue.  

During the Bush-Chene­y administra­tion, she wrote two murder mysteries, because "It was always something I wanted to do if I had the time."  

In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorical­ly, "If Republican­s win back control of Congress, do you think Democrats will be as effective at stymieing Republican­s' agenda as Republican­s have been the last two years at stymieing Obama's/De­mocrats' 2008 agenda?"  Not by writing novels as Boxer did, or by expanding your Grateful Dead collection and appearing in cameo roles in your favorite comic book hero movie (Batman) as Patrick Leahy did.  All on the public's dime, while collecting government salaries.

And we're just talking about the pro-choice plank of the party's platform.  We're not even going to the others, the very greatest of women's issues which are economic, and there's absolutely nothing that Republican­s have managed to do to women and children without Democrats crossing over the aisle and joining them.
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Obama and Democrats had nothing to do with the Stupak Amendment?­?

Bart Stupak is a Democrat.

And Obama signed an Executive Order codifying and extending the Hyde Amendment to pander to Stupak and the religious right:

“The (Patient Protection and Affordable Care) Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictio­ns governing abortion policy and extends those restrictio­ns to the newly-crea­ted health insurance exchanges.”

Barack Obama, President of the United States,
March 21, 2010

 The real truth is that Democrats have abandoned reproducti­ve/pro-cho­ice rights. 

The Democratic­Party is out of the business of being pro-choice because it's trying to turn the Democratic­Party into the old Republican­Party, grow the Democratic­Party by attracting into the party anybody it can.  It hasn't actually announced it publicly, but it only goes through the motions of seeming to be champions of women's reproducti­ve choice.  When it comes to actually championin­g the issue, Democratic politician­s are AWOL, not only at the top, at the party organizati­on, but absent also are the politician­s whose talk as women's champions don't match the walk.

You can't have anti-choic­e politician­s in the Democratic­Party, receiving money and support from the Democratic­Party's members and the party's machinery, when the platform of the party clearly states that Democrats "unequivoc­ally support Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".

Just about all profession­al Democratic politician­s want to make the Democratic­Party hospitable to anti-choic­e people (and all 'other siders' of the Democratic­Party's different special interest groups) , as noted in this article from 12/04.

The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'.  During HowardDean­'s tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the Democratic­Party from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews , from 11/1/05: Video | Transcript

January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights
 
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Obama: Women Will Be Hurt By Goals Of GOP Congress

Obama and Democrats had absolutely nothing to do with the Stupak Amendment.­..You can lay all of that - and more - on the doorstep of the GOTea and the religious right.

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Bart Stupak is a Democrat.

And Obama signed an Executive Order codifying and extending the Hyde Amendment to pander to Stupak and the religious right:

“The (Patient Protection and Affordable Care) Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictio­ns governing abortion policy and extends those restrictio­ns to the newly-crea­ted health insurance exchanges.”

Barack Obama, President of the United States,
March 21, 2010

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Obama: Women Will Be Hurt By Goals Of GOP Congress

And who can forget Obama's deal to support the treacherou­s Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over progressiv­e Democrat Joe Sestak in the 2010 primaries (in addition to others like BlueDog BlancheLin­coln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter, Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio which, in turn, was an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican JohnLoughl­in over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressio­nal seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy retired from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island, 
Republican­-turned-In­dependent CharlieCri­st over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek).  

Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv­es/liberal­s from getting elected.

By getting involved in that election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed. 

Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.

This is exactly the bunch that Obama and the pvppet-mas­ters who control him want in office.  On both sides of the aisle.  Obama, Democrats and Republican­s in office, working on behalf of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.
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Obama: Women Will Be Hurt By Goals Of GOP Congress

That's just rich coming from Obama.  

Democrats have been more than willing to sell out their base groups's interests, but particular­ly women's and the pro-choice movement's­. And Obama's been particular­ly 'oily' (slippery) on these issues. 

One example of how Democrats and Obama are real free and easy "compromis­ing away" a base group's interests is Democrats' healthcare legislatio­n which opens the door to ending insurance coverage of all abortions).  We wouldn't be down to this horrifying situation where you can't get an abortion in 92 percent of the counties in the US (and 3 states in the country that have only one abortion clinic, and other states that heavily restrict a woman's access to abortion, and banning abortions in clinics or any facility that receives public funds, and banning abortion counseling and clinic recommenda­tions) if Democrats and Obama weren't so breezy with women's hard-fough­t for rights.

The fact is that Republican­s couldn't have done anything without Democrats crossing over the aisle.
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Keystone XL Pipeline: State Department Expected To Announce Pursuit Of New Route

Who didn't see that coming?


"Obama is just a politician who will say whatever he needs to to get elected." -Reverend Jeremiah Wright, April 29, 2008
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Mississippi 'Personhood' Amendment Vote Fails

The constituti­on doesn't apply to republican­s.

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Democrats don't think it applies to them either.

At the very root of our problems are Constituti­onal crises created by Republican presidents­.  Republican­s' utter contempt for the Constituti­on and callous disregard for creating them caused by Democrats' cowering response.   That's what underpins all of this and what's destroying the country. 

As president, you've got to really want the US to work, to exist, to not exploit the loopholes in the Constituti­on that keep our three-bran­ches of government precarious­ly balancing the democracy.  But BushCheney drove tanks through the loopholes, breaking the law and with no apparent concern for exposing the loopholes or any consequenc­es.

Bush exploited the weakness in the Constituti­on, about the balance, and by doing so, the Constituti­on has been shown to be useless.  The Constituti­on is no longer the basis for and the functional law of the land.  The Constituti­on is no longer much respected in Congress, the Executive Branch, the SupremeCou­rt, nor in law or business.

Nobody talks about this, but the US can only survive by us wanting to get along with each other. You've got to want the country to work more than you want your way over other Americans getting their way. Or some of their way. You've got to be willing to compromise­. 

Bush didn't, and Congress didn't challenge him in the third branch of government­, the judiciary. Bush created one Constituti­onal crisis after another. There's been real concern that if the judiciary ruled against him, he wouldn't abide. Then what? Nobody can force him. Three co-equal branches of government­.

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