Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Bark louder, little dog.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

You cannot shame the shameless.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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I guess it is nice to know that certain members of the Indiana state Republican party aren’t completely and totally batshit insane:

A controversial proposed bill to prohibit gays, lesbians and single people from using medical procedures to become pregnant has been dropped by its legislative sponsor.

State Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, issued a one-sentence statement this afternoon saying: “The issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission.”

Miller had asked that committee — a panel of lawmakers who meet when the Indiana General Assembly is not in session to discuss possible legislation — to recommend the bill to the full legislature when it meets in January.

Under her proposal, couples who need assistance to become pregnant — such as through intrauterine insemination; the use of donor eggs, embryos and sperm; in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer or other medical means — would have to be married to each other. In addition, married couples who needed donor sperm and eggs to become pregnant would be required to go through the same rigorous assessment process of their fitness to be parents as do people who adopt a child.

Miller had earlier acknowledged that the legislation would be “enormously controversial.” It had already drawn fire from the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood of Indiana.

We got a live one here, I think, and I hope Patricia Miller turns out to be as endlessly entertaining as Utah’s Chris Buttars.

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  1. 1.

    demimondian

    For my part, I wonder who had what on Miller to get her to reverse herself on this. She’d obviously been playing to the Indiana right, and those people don’t like to be teased.

  2. 2.

    Jim Allen

    “The issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission.”

    WTF?

  3. 3.

    Jack Roy

    Didn’t The Onion have a story about a week ago—“Bill introduced as joke signed into law” or words to that effect? Maybe a similar story here.

    Here’s hoping, at least.

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