Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Republicans in disarray!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

The lights are all blinking red.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Come on, man.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

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  1. 1.

    JKC

    And it’s proof of the evil stupidity of the rabid-right’s witch hunt against family planning services and women’s health care because someone might mention the A-word. (That would be abortion)

    I should think that if one was pro-life he would not want to give credence to the liberal argument that conservatives are a lot more concerned about fetuses than they are about children.

    But cheers to Dr Hamlin- she is a saint in the truest sense of the word.

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    John Cole

    IS there anything you won’t use as a bludgeon against Republicans?

    What this is proof of is the moral superiority of the United States over other cultures- cultures who do not value women, who treat them as disposable commodities. It is proof of the vast superiority of the medical expertise and care of the United States.

    Pro-life individuals have their position due to their sense of morality and religious convictions. I don’t know one pro-lifer who would be in favor of cutting funding or keeping funding from the sort of operation Dr. Hamlin is running. The problem is the abortion at all costs crowd is unwilling to separate their agenda from causes such as this.

    If the UNited States is not funding this sort of ooperation to the degree I believe we should (I think we have a moral oligation to address this sort of issue, politically and financially), it is the consequence of the obstinance of both parties, not merely pro-lifers. BTW- I am pro-choice.

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    JKC

    John-

    I didn’t mean that to bludgeon Republicans in general- if my post came off that way, I apologise. I have a big problem with the policy-makers (on any side of an issue) who let ideological blinders keep them ignorant of the side-effects of any given stand.

    As a clinician,I’m pro-choice, too, but every time I see a pregnancy terminated because it’s unwanted, I feel a deep sense of sadness and shame. (Comes from having kids, I guess.) People need to have access to (and education about) contraception if we want to put an end to unwanted pregnancies. You and I are both smart enough to know that Santorum-type solutions will never work in the real world.

    I agree with you that America is a great society. Maybe that’s why (like, I suspect, a lot of liberals) I want to hold us up to such high ideals.

    Respectfully,

    Jeff

    PS: Let’s not forget that Dr Hamlin’s Australian. We Americans don’t have a monopoly on decency. : )

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    John Cole

    I understand- it just seemed to come off that way. I am pro-choice, but I get really heated when I hear some on the left bashing the christian right and others over abortion- they believe that abortion is against God’s will, not that they are evil people. Most of them are the most genuinely decent people I have ever met- they just view things differently. Coincidentally- they are also the people most likely to donate their time and money in the community.

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    David Perron

    I don’t have any issues with Bush cutting off funding for U.N. activities that he can’t control. He should be aware, though, when cutting such funding adversely affects activities he ought to support, and take some kind of remedial action when that happens.

    I’m not sure what fistulas and Chinese abortions have in common; in that respect the article is poorly written. I do have problems with funding Chinese abortions. Selective abortion in China is currently a popular way of ensuring a male child. It’s not clear to me why we should encourage such a thing with our money.

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