They stop caring about you the moment you are born:
Leticia Parra, a mother of five scraping by on income from her husband’s sporadic construction jobs, relied on the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Carlos, an impoverished town in South Texas, for breast cancer screenings, free birth control pills and pap smears for cervical cancer.
But the clinic closed in October, along with more than a dozen others in the state, after financing for women’s health was slashed by two-thirds by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The cuts, which left many low-income women with inconvenient or costly options, grew out of the effort to eliminate state support for Planned Parenthood. Although the cuts also forced clinics that were not affiliated with the agency to close — and none of them, even the ones run by Planned Parenthood, performed abortions — supporters of the cutbacks said they were motivated by the fight against abortion.
Now, the same sentiment is likely to lead to a shutdown next week of another significant source of reproductive health care: the Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which serves 130,000 women with grants to many clinics, including those run by Planned Parenthood. Gov. Rick Perry and Republican lawmakers have said they would forgo the $35 million in federal money that finances the women’s health program in order to keep Planned Parenthood from getting any of it.
And they aren’t stopping with Planned Parenthood:
Nationally, the newest target is Title X, the main federal family planning program. All four Republican presidential candidates support eliminating Title X, which was created in 1970 with Republican support from President Nixon and the elder George Bush, then a congressman.
Like other federal financing, Title X does not pay for abortions. Only some of it covers birth control. Title X also provides money for cervical and breast cancer screening, testing for H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted diseases, adolescent abstinence counseling, infertility counseling and other services.
Planned Parenthood receives about a quarter of Title X’s $300 million budget and sees about a third of Title X patients. The remaining money goes to clinics, community health centers, hospitals and state agencies.
Mitt Romney’s fiscal plan proposes eliminating Title X because it “subsidizes family planning programs that benefit abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.”
Rick Santorum, in a recent debate, acknowledged, to boos, that in Congress he voted for appropriations bills that included Title X money. He pledged to rectify that if elected, saying, “I’ve always opposed Title X funding.”
President Obama supports Title X, which serves five million low-income people.
If thousands of women die of breast and cervical cancer in the war Planned Parenthood, well, so be it. You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, doncha know.
rikyrah
THIS is who they are.
plain and simple.
BlueDWarrior
Yet another thing to file under “Shut up and do what we tell you like the good serfs you are.”
the Red States have allowed themselves to come under the rule of rank idiots because they have such a fetish for punching proverbial hippies
shortstop
kay-kay did a nice post on this this a.m.
sharl
I see that shortstop at #3 beat me to it, on noting Kay’s morning post on this.
Not complaining though. This is huge, and worth multiple revisits.
dmsilev
Do you read your own blog?
Maude
Thank you Ronald Reagan for giving the Religious right political power in the 1980’s.
John Cole
@dmsilev: Well shit.
kdaug
Leslie died today.
Austin Weird -1.
JGabriel
Whoa. Deja vu.
Edited to Add: Oops, didn’t mean to pile on.
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cathyx
@John Cole: So in other words, no. He was sleeping during it.
Another Halocene Human
I haven’t forgotten that Tex-Ass had the worst coverage of children’s healthcare of any state all through the 1990’s.
Daaling
I find it curious that Cole seems sooooo concerned with these bullshit social issues that the GOPers are simply trying to use to stir up their base but he hasn’t said a peep about things that are so much more important. By important I mean the neocons are now doing EXACTLY the same things to try push America into a war with Iran as they did to start a war with Iraq.
And if you liked an Iraq war,you are gonna LOVE an Iran war. A country that has a much larger and more organized army than Iraq with much more high tech weapons.
But “Drones are comin to git us” Cole seem completely oblivous to this even though he is so against it. I guess Greenwald hasn’t told him how to think about it yet.
But that isn’t what is important in Coles bizzarro world. No what is important is that suddenly advertisers need to understand Limbaugh spews hate. Something they seem to have failed to realize over the last 20 years apparently and that somehow a boycott that will last for maybe 2 weeks until everyone moves on to the next shiny object is going to somehow accomplish something.
middlewest
Hey, John Cole, I heard about this great blog called “Balloon Juice”, you should check it out.
dmsilev
@JGabriel: It’s a glitch in the Matrix!
Ben Franklin
The Military should see this. They don’t support the troops when they come home, wounded physically, mentally , spiritually. All they want is cannon fodder for their wars of choice, and so contraception/abortion waxes unpatriotic because it deprives them of the casualty count which is a marker of their success.
Chyron HR
@Daaling:
You forgot the part where you start sobbing and shrieking that we’re your “groupies”.
shortstop
@cathyx: In the La-Zed-Boy, as an English friend of mine calls it.
Jay C
@Daaling:
Unless you have been reading some alternate version of Balloon Juice than the rest of us, I fail to recall any posts or comments where John has, ever, mentioned support for a war against Iran. Or anyone else, recently, AFAICR.
Or maybe you’re looking for an apology from Mr. Cole for failing to harp on your pet-issue-of-the-day in good-enough time?
Good luck with that….
dmsilev
@Daaling: You can change your handle as often as you want, but somehow your true self always seems to shine through.
jl
Amazing to see a major political party backing policies that amount to killing and maiming women and children.
All in the name of a doctrine (that life begins at conception) which has always been controversial.
Ensoulment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoulment
But then, whether it is all about life beginning at conception is debatable, at least for many of the politicians. It might be about social, economic and sexual control of lesser persons to maintain control over money and political power. After you get certain people to admit they were wrong about what the real targets of the fanatic anti abortion crowd are, and get them to agree how horrible these developments are, time to bring up that topic.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Daaling: If you read the blog like John doesn’t, you’d note that the topic of Israel and Iran has come up.
grape_crush
Happy International Women’s Day, y’all.
Try not to choke on the irony.
Brachiator
Fertilized eggs excepted.
Culture of Truth
Wait, didn’t Obama hug a black guy 30 years ago?
Corner Stone
@dmsilev:
What needs to be understood is that the “John Cole” persona is a kind of Turing test-bot that whoever DougJ really is programmed.
It has several subroutines including “Gay Male, Cavuto Mark?”, “Clueless Cracker”, “Misanthropic Master DJ”, “Powerless Pet Lover”, and “Trollie Trollerson”.
JGabriel
@Daaling:
What makes you think the Iran issue and Limbaugh’s meltdown are disconnected?
Take out, or marginalize, Limbaugh, and you shut down one of the primary voices that propagandized so hard for the Iraq fiasco and would do the same for Iran.
Fighting GOP propaganda is a multi-front war, Daaling.
.
shortstop
@grape_crush: grape! There’s a friendly old face. Nice to see you.
Brachiator
@Daaling:
Let’s see.
Actual war on American women.
Theoretical war on Iran.
You’re an idiot.
joeyess
This nonsense has always been about contraception. It was the gateway case that lead directly to Roe.
They’re still uncomfortable with losing their slaves 151 years ago, now they want their indentured servants back. They don’t care what color they are, just as long as they can cook.
pragmatism
OT, but James fucking Inhofe uncorked the biblical justification for climate change denial.
Inhofe: Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night,’ my point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.
Daaling
@Chyron HR: Start with reading comprehension first. Baby steps.
wrb
Perhaps the women of Arizona should henceforth only have sex with Mexicans, delightfully complicating the issues of contraception and abortion.
El Tiburon
@Daaling:
Part of me kind of wants to appreciate your comment. I mean, I do feel your frustration at times with the discourse over here. But the blocked quote above really blows your entire thesis. If you really want to get into civil liberties and the frustration with Obama and so on, do like me and read FDL and Greenwald.
Otherwise I did touch on a similar theme the other day around here regarding TEH VICTORY RAH RAH RAH with Obama’s compromise with the Catholics over contraception and so forth. I postulated it was a hollow victory simply because we appear to be losing the battle where it really counts, such as the defunding of PP and the de-facto outlawing of abortion in many states. That we seem to get so caught up in winning these media-battles while we continue to lose the war. Badly.
Daaling
@Jay C: Start with reading comprehension first. Baby steps.
gwangung
@Brachiator: Dude. We can multitask. The troll can’t.
Nutella
@jl:
The real targets of the culture warriors were never abortions. That was just their cover story. Hardly anybody believed that the targets include all women and all children until it became extremely clear now .
Through all the changes and upheavals in the last 40 years they’ve been determined to stay with their ideal of keeping women barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen. It’s just more blatant now. We’ll win eventually of course but a lot of people will be harmed in the next few years. Leticia Parra and her husband and kids, to start.
Amir Khalid
@Daaling:
This is the least apt of your nyms so far. And Belafon is right: before you gripe about what John Cole’s blog is not mentioning, make sure first that John Cole’s blog has indeed not mentioned it.
Violet
I hope young women are aware of all this stuff. They may take access to birth control pills and pre-natal care for granted, but they’d better be paying attention and VOTE or they’ll lose it all.
Maybe we should follow the lead of the women in Liberia and withhold sex until things change.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@pragmatism: When my children were really young, I allowed them to believe that everyone was going to live forever because there was no way their minds could handle the concept. Eventually, though, I had to break it to my children that: 1) I don’t know everything, and 2) we are all eventually going to die. When God said those things, the Jews were a young people and had to be treated as children. We should have grown up by now.
cathyx
@wrb: That’s a good one. It’s worth trying.
joeyess
@Daaling: Shut the fuck up.
Corner Stone
@El Tiburon:
Something that should be noted is the Gov in VA signed the odious transvaginal ultrasound bill into law today.
All the fury just deflected, not defeated their intent.
Daaling
@dmsilev: urrum….and your point is? You do realize that I am not changing my handle by choice rrright? Frankly I am surprised Cole can even managed to ban handles and IP’s. The guy can’t even make a simple blog site work properly doing the most basic things.
Calouste
@pragmatism:
We could of course point out to Inhofe that there are places on the planet that do not really have cold or winter, or heat and summer, or even night and day in some extremeties. But I doubt he would realize they exist unless we just drop him there.
pragmatism
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): well put. back then this would have been a sane belief, as humanity was still striking (somewhat) a balance with nature. these ain’t those times.
i hope acid rain demolishes the igloo inhofe and his kids build to make fun of al gore.
piratedan
@Corner Stone: they waited for the news cycle to turn to something else (ty Rushbo) and then stealthed it in while other Repubs were torching other edifices of reason.
Rosalita
George Carlin said it best:
Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.
bemused
@pragmatism:
Inhofe should not be talking about arrogance. He thinks he speaks for God.
TK-421
SEX SEX SEX YOU PEOPLE SHOULD STOP HAVING SEX STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT AND IF YOU DON’T WE’RE GOING TO PUNISH YOU AND MAKE IT SUPER RISKY SO STOP HAVING THE SEXYTIME!!!!eleven!!!
/seriously, this is what it’s about
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Daaling: We know you can’t actually take a hint. You do realize IP address can be tracked, right? We don’t live in the Diamond Age yet.
ETA: Luckily, most of us have way more important things to do than hack the dhcp server for your area.
Corner Stone
The part I find instructive about the specific Parra story is this:
Because, I infer (hope) her and her husband agree, that the sex will be continuing. It’s really more about risk taking from here on out after needed medical services are withdrawn from her.
shortstop
@Corner Stone: It was yesterday and it’s not transvaginal. So now Virginia women must have transabdominal ultrasounds that are not only not medically indicated; they cannot, in the first few weeks, determine the age of the fetus, the ostensible reason for the bill in the first place.
This does, however, succeed in the GOP legislators’ real intent, demeaning patients and costing them hundreds in out-of-pocket costs no insurer will cover.
Daaling
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): So far not a peep out of Cole about it other than a passing mention inbetween 10 posts about what his stupid dog did, what he ate, what his farts smell like and other serious discussions.
But heaven forbid there is a news story about a Drone somewhere doing something, then it is end times as far as Cole is concerned. I honestly do not know how the guy manages to get through the day without shitting his pants because he forgot that he needs to take them off and sit on the toilet. Maybe he just wears depends.
joeyess
@Violet: Wait! At least perform a litmus test on those of us with the Y chromosome. I guess what I’m saying is don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. (ok, bad choice of words when discussing this issue)
Violet
@Corner Stone:
The transvaginal ultrasound can now be replaced with the abdominal ultrasound. From the article you linked:
It’s still awful, but at least a woman can opt out of being raped by the state. And this is how they pass the truly awful laws. They try something truly egregious and then back off so that the slightly less awful one seems a good “compromise.” Fuckers.
War on women. Complete war on women.
Southern Beale
Right-wingers are hitting the media hard this week with major blowback to the “War On Women” meme. It’s not a war on women! It’s a war on Republicans!
Well, I don’t know what YOU call it when women’s healthcare is singled out this way. Without healthcare you get sick, sometimes as in the case with cervical cancer and other cancer screenings you get REALLY sick. You die.
Looks like a war on women to me.
jibeaux
Site upgrade suggestion: a little warning box pops up at the appropriate time
WARNING. YOU ARE ENGAGING A TROLL. THIS TENDS TO ENCOURAGE THEM. CLEEK HAS AN EXCELLENT FILTER. DO YOU WISH TO PROCEED?
if yes
ARE YOU SURE I CAN’T INTEREST YOU IN SOME PIE (FILTERS)?
something like that, I’m just spitballing here
Amir Khalid
@Daaling:
Said the ugly little shit.
Daaling
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): No I didn’t realize that. I am shocked! Shocked I tell ya. I guess I need to keep an eye out for BJ drones over my house then eh?
Daaling
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): No I didn’t realize that. I am shocked! Shocked I tell ya. I guess I need to keep an eye out for BJ drones over my house then eh?
Have you figured out how I can be in different parts of the world within minutes too? Get back to me when you do.
Southern Beale
Speaking of the war on women: the latest Breitbart.com scooop:
* SIRENS *
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Violet
@joeyess:
Nope. Sorry. If the no sex thing is going to work, ALL heterosexual men will have to be affected, no matter if they’re 100% in support of women’s rights or not. Consider it a sacrifice for the cause.
pragmatism
@Southern Beale: i saw the “Obama FORCED students to read Bell in class” headline. it’s trending on the memeorandum.
bemused
@Violet:
How much does an abdominal ultrasound cost these days? Even people with insurance usually have high deductibles, so this is a financial burden for a woman and her family on top of the intentional emotional assault.
El Tiburon
@Rosalita:
with an addendum: If you are born a female, then they care about you only so much as you are a vassal to your uterus.
But even more so, I challenge that these pro-life dipshits could care less about the fetus. They care about exerting power and control. They can no longer get their official “bail that cotton N*****” on anymore, they must do with enslaving women.
joeyess
@Violet: Brrrrrr…… it’s gettin’ cold in here.
I still agree with you 100% on this issue and the need to end this assault on women’s healthcare.
Will there be a day set aside for “catching up” after the war is won?
joeyess
@El Tiburon: agreed.
jl
@Daaling:
” posts about … what his farts smell like ”
Hey, I missed that one. Link please? Sounds interesting.
To non trolls: My opinion is that this blog has its own strange ways, and front posters obsessing over an issue multiple times a day happens. And even the same links? Yes, sadly, yes. So, what is new?
But I don’t mind a day of posts spent on a nationwide organized push to adopt laws and policies that kill and maim women and children.
Villago Delenda Est
The sluts must, must, MUST be punished.
Even if they’re married, were virgins when they married, and are mothers.
They must be punished. As well as any issue of them. Especially if they’re brown.
slag
@sharl:
Agreed. I could just hug that Nancy Brinker lunatic for getting this party started. This war has been raging underground for far too long. Somehow, we’ve long had this notion that women were a “special interest” whose concerns may have been worthy of a Feministing link or two every now and again but hardly justifying lengthy coed discussion.
But now, every major lefty blog I visit has at least one post on the issue a day. I’m more than happy to see more.
Teamwork among liberals. This is change I can believe in.
wrb
So now we’ve got drones firing transvaginal ultrasound probes from 10,000′?
Will these wonders never cease?
It is hard to keep up.
GregB
@pragmatism:
Another sign of tyranny.
Professors should only suggest what books their students read, anything else is worse than Hitler.
Soonergrunt
@Daaling: lolwhut?
pragmatism
@GregB: i have a hazy recollection of college, but i was never FORCED to read anything. i could always choose not to read what the prof. assigned. this is still ‘murica, right?
piratedan
@Rosalita: TYVM! THIS!!!!!!
Martin
@Daaling:
Really? You think Obama or Biden or Clinton are neocons? Iraq couldn’t have happened without Cheney. Who is Cheney in this White House? If it’s nobody, then STFU, because there’s no more of a parallel here than worrying that Merkel is going to start chucking Jews into ovens because she’s the current leader of Germany.
bemused
@slag:
Same here. There really is no excuse anymore for republicans who are not quite the hard core 27% to deny what is happening. If I hear a republican woman try to minimize these attacks on us, I’m a little afraid I will haul off and slap her silly.
Martin
@Daaling:
I don’t remember Cole telling us what you did or ate. Did I miss a morning post somewhere? Link plz.
Anya
@pragmatism: You’re talking about James Inhofe, the former chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committeee, right? The same dingbad, who in 2009 went to Copenhagen and embarrassed us in front of the world?
Warning: link leads to Politico
El Tiburon
@joeyess:
Nice.
Martin
@pragmatism:
Did he ram it down their throats? Did he do it forcefully and repeatedly? Rush said he wanted to watch video of that kind of stuff.
pragmatism
@Anya: the very same bag of smashed assholes. the polling is going in a non-climate change denier direction. we will see more of this sort of jackholery.
Culture of Truth
In the spirit of bipartisanship, I propose a compromise.
Force all pregnant women to read Derrick Bell.
muddy
How is it that they can force you to pay for something you don’t want to buy? Forcible medical care that you don’t want but will have to pay for. I just keep getting a pain in my head because on Every Single Issue the idiots can easily hold two completely opposing principles simultaneously, and be so *sure* about both.
Ordinarily this would be assessed as a psychotic episode, but it’s their way of life. They are always at war with Eurasia, right inside their own heads. My brain aches just trying to fully grok it.
slag
@bemused: Me too. Not only are these attacks becoming harder to ignore and harder to minimize, they’re becoming harder to justify. As ABL pointed out earlier, every angle that Republicans have used to cover up their discriminatory agenda is being cut off by another aspect of their discriminatory agenda. Religious freedom? What about for women? Right to know? What about for women? Right to life? What about for women?
If it looks like a bullseye and feels like a bullseye, maybe it’s time to realize…it’s a bullseye…and it’s on your body.
Daaling
@El Tiburon: What’s this! An intelligent response? Had to double check if I was still on BJ.
Pretty much yes. We are winning the battles and while idiots like Cole are patting themselves on the back we are losing the wars.
Necons got Iraq, Supreme court 5:4 right leaning. 2/3 federal judges appointed by Republican president. The list goes on and on. Liberals can always be counted on to be apathetic in the long term. That has always been our achillies heel. But hey, we got civil rights done so every 50 years we manage to win a war now and again.
jl
@pragmatism:
Nothing about a promise of no famine in Genesis 8:22, is there?
grape_crush
@shortstop: Same! Been seeing your stuff here as I’ve been in lurk mode most of the time. Hope you’re well.
Culture of Truth
If anyone’s is being forced to Bell, it’s visitors to their site.
shortstop
@grape_crush: Doing fine, thanks, and hope you are, too. Come out and play more often!
pragmatism
@Martin: maybe the breitbartards have a video of Prof. Obama standing behind students whipping them and yelling “READ FASTER!”. or maybe it’s just a blurry picture of the syllabus. i eagerly anticipate the breitbartpocalypse, part trois.
jl
@Daaling:
Did you know, that if you have something constructive to say about pretty much any topic at all, you can type it into a little window at the bottom of the blog and press a button and I appears in the comments to a post?
Amazing! But try it out and see if you believe your own eyes.
I still find it hard to believe.
And sometimes, the crazy people who run this blog will see a comment that they think makes an important point and include it in a front page post.
I know, I know, hard to believe, but with modern technology, even people half baked on bad booze, and using one hand to waft the breeze doing research for their next fart review can do it.
So, why not tell us all what you think is so important (Edit: meaning, useful information or a link, not rattling off the names of a dozen topics), rather than making a spectacle?
Martin
@muddy:
I wouldn’t lead with that, or you’ll get back a pile of ‘health insurance mandate’ arguments. That’s not really the issue anyway. How do each of those things affect society and the individual? How is insurance different from treatment? Does each treat citizens equally? Understand the differences between these two mandates and you’ll have your argument.
4jkb4ia
Both of you (yes, read your own blog) missed the best part–that the legislature was told that funding women’s health services would save money. Save money if somewhere, Planned Parenthood is doing abortion services! The horror!
Nancy
And the Kansas lege, which is full of little boys with fevered dreams about vagina dentatas apparently, is considering a bill that would levy a sales tax on abortions.
Last year, they passed a bill forbidding abortion coverage in general health insurance policies. Women who wanted the coverage would have to purchase a rider—in advance of pregnancy.
The current bill under consideration would not allow an income tax deduction for medical expenses related to abortion if the woman had not purchased the special rider. It makes no exceptions for rape, incest, dead fetus requiring D&C, ectopic pregnancies, etc.
Every day their vileness outdoes the day before. These people are truly sick—and that is not hyperbole.
muddy
@Martin: I might get those arguments, but I think it’s quite different. The one is saying you have to get insurance. Just like they make you get car insurance, at least in every state I have lived in. Personally I think they should have it for guns as well. When you get a mortgage, they make you get insurance. Being told to buy insurance is commonplace. Being told to pay money to essentially be assaulted (you don’t want those hands on you) is not. Or ought not be.
This is making you pay for one specific procedure, what’s more you aren’t even in the position of being able to shop around, or to know when exactly it might happen in advance so you can plan for it. Evidently they have never had a condom break.
To further the car insurance analogy, it would be as though they made you take the car to the shop just randomly sometime.
Or no more driving for you, missy!
TooManyJens
My God, it’s like Derf’s trying to get a 3-for-1 deal on pie filter entries.
Ben Franklin
Just don’t expect a h/t…. :-)
Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
@Daaling: Hey Derf. You just don’t quit, do ya?
muddy
@TooManyJens: I don’t get the pie thing. You still know the person in there. You don’t need to see the words to know It’s stupid. I don’t care if it’s about the topic or pie, I just slide by. And then try my best to slide by the replies to it too, hoping I don’t miss any better things those people say while they are at it.
It’s like diet pie, made with skim.
Suffern ACE
I’m guessing that they’re using Iran to distract us from cultural issues, but I could be wrong about that. They can only handle one issue at a time, so why all the saber rattling now?
Vixen Strangely
This is why the right insist on Limbaugh’s lie about “taxpayer funded” birth control regarding Sandra Fluke’s testimony. They want it to be that “We all” (meaning, Republican geezers) get to determine the health care women (and their families) have access to, since “we’re paying for it”. That’s its primarily misogyny shows in how other health services are reduced, and how this in the long run leads to higher costs–the only effective purpose is making life difficult for lower income (and particularly female-headed) households.
justawriter
I am reminded of the Holly Near lyric, “If you care about life, why don’t you care about mine?”
bemused
@slag:
When they have been believing six impossible things before breakfast most of their lives, it can take a massively rude awakening for the light to dawn. It doesn’t look like Republicans are daunted by push backs, instead tripling down, so hopefully, it will become so obvious even the most comatose people will see it.
Nancy
@Nancy: Is “vagina dentata” a forbidden term here? Otherwise, why am I in moderation at #95.
David Koch
This proves Barry is a monster.
Listen to your progressive betters — Ron Paul 2012!
Brachiator
@El Tiburon:
And what authority does the federal government have to overrule the actions of state governors?
It’s not about winning media battles while losing some other war. It’s about the fact that the war against women is being fought on many fronts. And it says that “we” have got to start electing more liberal Democrats at the state and federal level, have got to elect a Democratic majority to Congress, and re-elect Obama.
MikeJ
@Nancy: Only if you sing it to the tune of Hakuna Matata.
Vagina dentata
It means no p3nis for the rest of your days…
Cassidy
@MikeJ: Not liking where
this is going.
Mike Lamb
@pragmatism: The “hubris” argument from denialists slays me. What do dipshits like Inhofe think would happen to the climate, environment, planet, etc. if we let loose our entire nuclear arsenal?
TooManyJens
@muddy: Technically I don’t use the pie filter, I use Troll-B-Gone, which hides replies to trolls too. It just makes the thread a lot less cluttered with bullshit.
Master Mahan
It’s a
childpunishment, not a choice.Schlemizel
@Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity:
not as long as decent people respond to it.
pragmatism
@Mike Lamb: i’m sure he’d say, “that’s in God’s plan. there will still be seeds. radioactive seeds which will never grow into radioactive plants. there will be a harvest, but we will not harvest anything except for the limbs that keep falling off. there will be realative cold and lots of heat. nuclear summer and nuclear winter.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Nancy: No, but it frightens me.
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: don’t look behind you, that is not a chomping noise you hear
El Tiburon
@Brachiator:
I wish I knew what this had to do with a goddamn thing.
My comment had nothing to do with federal vs. state power. It DID have a lot to do with the fist-bumping that went on around here and in many liberal circles with Obama’s Catholic Compromise. I believe the title of one FP post was: This is What Victory Feels Like.
Say what? Everyone got all jacked up that Obama punked some Cahtolic dbags. My point was it was but a minor victory at best. The real war against women continues and a lot of it doesn’t get the heavy rotation like a made-for-TV drama as the Catholic compromise or the Komen Cave. I’m not saying we don’t fight those battles: but the real battles are the states continuing to basically outlawing womens rights by other means, i.e. only having one abortion clinic that only takes American Express if you get my drift.
Gravenstone
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Gravenstone
@TooManyJens: Oh, I think he’s up to 5 or 6 in there by now.
Brachiator
@El Tiburon:
You are still dealing in dishonesty and non sequiturs. Obama’s compromise was a victory. You just can’t admit it. To bring it up here in a discussion about a state action reeks of dishonesty.
If you get my drift.
Obama can’t do shit about the Arizona law. And posters like Kay and others have been doing hard work documenting the war against women and against contraception, and how Republicans are trying to go around Roe v Wade by attacks at the state level. So it’s not as though you have singularly identified any of the issues here.