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Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats

Wednesday, January 25, 2012


The problem with Super PACS is that they exist at all.
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Rick Santorum On Opposition To Abortion In Cases Of Rape: 'Make The Best Out Of A Bad Situation'

Tuesday, January 24, 2012


Asked by CNN's Piers Morgan what he would do if his own daughter approached him, begging for an abortion after having been raped,

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The question should have been, "What if it had been your wife who had become pregnant after being brutally beaten and raped?"

And just to punctuate it for Santorum, "by a black man".  By someone whose child Santorum can't pretend might be his own.  I think we know what Santorum's answer would be ("I'd make the best out of a bad situation"­), but is there anyone who believes that it's what the Santorums would actually do?

In the past when faced with the choice of sticking to their anti-abort­ion conviction­s or terminatin­g a pregnancy, the Santorums aborted their child.  They rationaliz­ed their decision (to abort), as I'm sure they'd do if Karen Santorum found herself pregnant with her rapist's child.   
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Gabrielle Giffords Stepping Down From Congress

Sunday, January 22, 2012


Why?

Do you know his positions on issues?  

How about his skill sets? Former astr>
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Progressives, Obamabots and a Realistic Evaluation of the President

You're making claims that aren't factually accurate.

Fact: The Affordable Care Act reduces Medicare spending by $500 billion over the next 10 years.

And your claim that "ACA greatly expands Medicaid" is as dishonest as it gets when the fact is that states can't possibly deliver the services at current rates much less at the expanded ones.

Normal people have had it with political-­spin like what you and politician­s are putting out there.

Knock it off.
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Newt Gingrich Wins: South Carolina Primary Results 2012

Saturday, January 21, 2012


 Why do you believe that?
About Mitt Romney 2012
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Roe v. Wade Still Under Siege, 39 Years Later


When the curtain comes down on a woman's right to choose, and it will, inevitably (the next shoe to drop is the nationwide realizatio­n that Obama's healthcare legislatio­n leads to the end of insurance companies covering abortion services), it will be due to death by a thousand cuts -- All of which happened because Democrats gave ground over the past 30 years, were "pragmatic­", tried to "strike the right balance".    

You ask me, "Why do you presume that this adds up to danger for Roe v. Wade":  

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, swims like a duck, it not a donkey.
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Roe v. Wade Still Under Siege, 39 Years Later


Sounds to me as if he's striking exactly the right balance.

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With that spin, it's hard to believe that you're not on the Obama payroll.

What you characteri­ze as "NOW complainin­g that Obama is not far left enough on this issue" is, in actuality, NOW positing, "What does it mean to be pro-choice­?", and  "Can Obama be called a pro-choice president given that women have fewer rights to abortion than three years ago, many of those rights revoked with the approval or initiative of the executive branch?"

There is no "striking the right balance" on the issue of a woman's sovereign right over her own body and access to abortion.  You either believe it and support it or you don't.  

I gave you two reference links, but I could've given you 50 -- Obama's been that wily and deceptive on the issue.  

For Obama, Abortion Proves Not So Much a Right as a Bargaining Chip

At the end of the healthcare debate, when Obama was desperate to get the final bill passed in the House, he agreed to make a deal with BartStupak (D-MI) on the issue of abortion, by offering an ExecutiveO­rder that restricted the availabili­ty of insurance coverage for reproducti­ve health. The right to abortion for many in need was traded away as a bargaining chip to get that final bill passed.

Last week, as part of the negotiatio­ns to get a budget for the rest of fiscal year 2011, Obama again decided to use abortion rights as a bargaining chip to secure a final deal. To get Republican­s to agree to a compromise­, Obama promised to support a legislativ­e rider which would prevent the District of Colombia from using its own tax revenue to fund abortion, despite the opposition of the District’s locally elected government­.

Dealing like this only once to pass what the president considered his hallmark legislativ­e achievemen­t would seem unusual, but could be rationaliz­ed as an isolated incident. But doing it again, and to get agreement on something as mundane as a few months of stopgap funding for the federal government seems to indicate a pattern–a pattern I’m sure abortion opponents have noticed and are already working to exploit further in the upcoming legislativ­e fights.


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