Mitch McConnell is warning Democrats what will happen the next time he's Senate Majority Leader.
McConnell issues threats over 'nuclear option'
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/06/in-makng-threats-mitch-mcconnell-puts.html
I don't think the Dems should worry so much partly because I think it's going to be much longer than McConnell seems to think before they take the Senate back. It's already been 7 years. McConnell says that if the Dems were to end the filibuster on judicial and executive level nominations that would justify the GOP taking it away for everything next time they're in.
Here's the catch 22 though. The only way they're going to get in again any time soon is if they vote down the Amendment that gives women the vote. However, while I think a GOP simple majority Senate would vote for that in a minute, they can't get it without somehow getting the women of America to put them in again. Hopefully we don't have too many women that clueless these days.
The GOP just keeps getting worse. Recently we've looked at some of their crazy ideas on abortion like that for some reason rape victims can't become pregnant.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-war-on-women-or-case-against.html
We now have the best reason yet, for opposing abortion: turns out some genius GOPer is concerned because he thinks male fetuses already masturbate.
"Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said in a late-Monday night House Rules Committee hearing on a bill prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks that the procedure should be banned because even at as early as 15 weeks a male fetus "may have their hand between their legs" and "feel pleasure."
"This is a subject that I do know something about,” said Burgess, a former OB/GYN, during the House hearing first reported by RH Reality Check. "There is no question in my mind that a baby at 20 weeks after conception can feel pain. The fact of the matter is, I argue with the chairman because I thought the date was far too late. We should be setting this at 15 weeks, 16 weeks."
"Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” Burgess continued. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?"
This bill is scheduled for a House vote Tuesday afternoon.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-burgess-abortions-should-be-banned-because-male
Yet, the Far Right Marsha Blackburn thins that science-of all things-is on the GOP's side.The party of Creationism.
"Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) defended legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying that "science is on our side and public opinion is on our side."
The legislation is slated to be voted on Tuesday and is expected to pass the GOP-controlled House, but fail in the Senate."
"We are incredibly concerned about the well-being, safety, the health of these women. The life of women. And these babies. That is why we are doing this," Blackburn said in an interview with Craig Melvin on MSNBC. "The trial of Kermit Gosnell, the information that has subsequently come from other state, public opinion said something needs to be done about this. So you know, Craig, this is one of those issues where science is on our side and public opinion is on our side."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-blackburn-on-abortion-ban-bill-science-is?ref=fpb
I think what she says about their concern is half true: I think in their own distorted way, they do think they're concerned about the unborn. I don't think they care a whit about the women who they see as just human receptacles for their husbands or some such arcane ideas. But to claim that they care about science. That is some chutzpah.
McConnell issues threats over 'nuclear option'
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/06/in-makng-threats-mitch-mcconnell-puts.html
I don't think the Dems should worry so much partly because I think it's going to be much longer than McConnell seems to think before they take the Senate back. It's already been 7 years. McConnell says that if the Dems were to end the filibuster on judicial and executive level nominations that would justify the GOP taking it away for everything next time they're in.
Here's the catch 22 though. The only way they're going to get in again any time soon is if they vote down the Amendment that gives women the vote. However, while I think a GOP simple majority Senate would vote for that in a minute, they can't get it without somehow getting the women of America to put them in again. Hopefully we don't have too many women that clueless these days.
The GOP just keeps getting worse. Recently we've looked at some of their crazy ideas on abortion like that for some reason rape victims can't become pregnant.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-war-on-women-or-case-against.html
We now have the best reason yet, for opposing abortion: turns out some genius GOPer is concerned because he thinks male fetuses already masturbate.
"Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said in a late-Monday night House Rules Committee hearing on a bill prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks that the procedure should be banned because even at as early as 15 weeks a male fetus "may have their hand between their legs" and "feel pleasure."
"This is a subject that I do know something about,” said Burgess, a former OB/GYN, during the House hearing first reported by RH Reality Check. "There is no question in my mind that a baby at 20 weeks after conception can feel pain. The fact of the matter is, I argue with the chairman because I thought the date was far too late. We should be setting this at 15 weeks, 16 weeks."
"Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” Burgess continued. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?"
This bill is scheduled for a House vote Tuesday afternoon.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-burgess-abortions-should-be-banned-because-male
Yet, the Far Right Marsha Blackburn thins that science-of all things-is on the GOP's side.The party of Creationism.
"Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) defended legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying that "science is on our side and public opinion is on our side."
The legislation is slated to be voted on Tuesday and is expected to pass the GOP-controlled House, but fail in the Senate."
"We are incredibly concerned about the well-being, safety, the health of these women. The life of women. And these babies. That is why we are doing this," Blackburn said in an interview with Craig Melvin on MSNBC. "The trial of Kermit Gosnell, the information that has subsequently come from other state, public opinion said something needs to be done about this. So you know, Craig, this is one of those issues where science is on our side and public opinion is on our side."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-blackburn-on-abortion-ban-bill-science-is?ref=fpb
I think what she says about their concern is half true: I think in their own distorted way, they do think they're concerned about the unborn. I don't think they care a whit about the women who they see as just human receptacles for their husbands or some such arcane ideas. But to claim that they care about science. That is some chutzpah.
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