Texas Senator Wendy Davis is currently on hour 4 of her 13 hour filibuster of #SB5, a pernicious bill that will result in all but five clinics being closed in Texas, and will ban abortion after 20 weeks. (You can watch the livestream here.)
For the past several days, there have been protests at the Capitol, and Texas anti-choicers have been doing everything they can in order to ram SB5 through the legislature. The bill passed the House at around 3 am on Monday morning (to loud screams of “SHAME! SHAME!”) Then yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst attempted to leverage the death of the father of one of his colleagues in order to suspend the 24-hour rule in the Senate and bring the bill to an immediate vote. (He failed.)
Senator Davis’s filibuster and the repro rights fight in Texas hasn’t been getting much play in the media, so if you want to read up on what’s going on, check RH Reality Check‘s coverage here. RHRC’s Andrea Grimes has been a warrior on the ground. Another repro rights warrior, Jessica Luther of Flyover Feminism has a post detailing what you can do to stand with Texas women even if you don’t live in Texas. (You can read that post here.)
Also, President and Editor-in-Chief of RHRC, Jodi Jacobson, is organizing a massive food delivery to all the men and women who are camping out at the capital to show their support for Wendy Davis. On Sunday, RHRC provided more than $800 worth of food to more than 1,000 people. We expect the crowd to be even larger tonight.
If you want to donate to that effort, click here.
Go, Wendy, go!
P.S. If you’re thinking about typing “Women should just move out of Texas!” please don’t.
*** You can follow Jessica Luther on Twitter — @scaTX. you can follow Andrea Grimes on Twitter — @andreagrimes. You can also follow the hashtags #TxLege, #SB5, #HB16, and #HB60 for the most up-to-date news.
Forum Transmitted Disease
Good for her. Shame that our federal representatives won’t do the same thing.
Maybe they’re just too fucking old, and should retire.
Roger Moore
OK. But maybe they should stop having sex with Texan men until they agree to protect reproductive rights. It seems like an entirely logical place to attempt the Lysistrata approach.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
I’m watching now, and it’s all I can do to keep from typing that Greenville, Texas is a festering boil of ugliness.
c u n d gulag
If it’s not SC, or Kansas, it’s the “Not-for Peoples of the Female, or Brown, or Not Christian, Persuasion, of Texas,” which is at the forefront of “A Handmaid’s Tale” and Jim Crow legislation.
Hint to Republicans:
“Bitch-slapping,” ain’t exactly “Outreach”
But, with the evisceration of the VRA’s by the SCOTUS today, you probably feel even more secure, don’t-cha?
Cacti
@Roger Moore:
I think you could just limit it to the mistresses of the Texas leg and it would have the desired effect.
aimai
I really don’t think that the lysistrata approach makes sense. Many of the women who seek abortions are in committed relationships, are already parenting with another person, etc…etc…etc… The Republican party is simply committed to destroying the lives of people who are poor enough that they can’t afford to leave texas to get an abortion–i.e. working class people, men as well as women. And the women who are living with these Republican bastards? They probably support their anti-choice goals.
PeakVT
I hope she can make it.
piratedan
TY Wendy, might as well use the weapons that we have to try and beat back the night… ty ABL for FPing this.
Arclite
Thanks ABL! I had no clue this was going on until I read this.
Fight the insanity!
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
I also have to say that right as I jumped into the livestream (thanks poopyman!), Sen. Davis was talking about scraping together to put another gallon of gas in her car. That hit me hard, because I’ve been in that situation, and it’s not a fun place to be.
I hope she makes it, and fuck all these assholes.
metricpenny
I’ve gone from tears (Supreme Court ruling on VRA) to cheers (listening to Senator Davis) on the law coverage today.
Senator Davis is sharp! Maybe she’ll be the governor of Texas one day.
Thanks ABL for this post.
Zifnab
Listen, if some woman is looking to live in a feudal society where she is held as chattel for amusement and livestock purposes, there’s no reason to inflict that on the rest of the state. Mississippi is right over there.
Any woman that votes for these Texas douchebag reps would do better to just pick up and leave. That’s all I’m saying.
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Roger Moore:
Read the linked article. States like TX and CA have an outsized influence on what happens in the rest of the country (everything from textbooks to lobbyists).
I mean, yeah, we have to fix our own shit (stop electing troglodytes to the Lege), and until we do that we are worthy of mockage, but don’t pretend this shit doesn’t matter outside of the state. You can write off the South and flyover country, but after that there’s really not a helluva lot left, and like it or not the coasts are not that representative of the country as a whole.
Ted & Hellen
I wish she would loan some of her massively powerful ovarian might to some of the sackless Dems in Congress. Christ.
Hal
I saw the clip yesterday of the TX Rep who said rape kits were available in ERs to ahem “clean the woman out” so really, why the need for an abortion? Republicans have as much an aversion to science as voting rights.
Patricia Kayden
Go on, Girl! If she’s successful, that will be a miracle.
Marmot
@Roger Moore: Listen up, Moore. Plenty of Texas men oppose this right-wing bullshit.
Why must your opponents be homogeneous? You some sort of simpleton?
Roger Moore
@Hal:
IMO this is exactly why fighting for rape and incest exceptions is a long-term losing proposition. It buys into the basic idea that some abortions are more justified than others. Abortion should be a medical decision made by the woman whose life is affected, period. Anything else is on the slippery slope, and one that women have been sliding down since Roe v. Wade.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
Is this going to descend into a “why doesn’t Texas secede”? thread?
Let’s just admire this woman’s stance for a while, how about it?
Keith G
It is my profound hope that before long I will be voting for Sen. Wendy Davis for Governor of Texas. Yay! A Democrat who fights.
Another Bot Splainer
@Zifnab: Hey was that you over on /r/poltics the other day? If so, you were doing a great job. That place is a cesspool of false equivalency.
Woodrow/asim Jarvis Hill
FYI that the Paypal link for donations for RH Reality Check is not working, so I let them know when I just used the email address to send them funds.
Today should be the day we stop BS’ing and start getting real. Our side needs help — spreading the word, putting money where mouth is, and being the backstop for the Reps. out there to have some more backbone.
Go get ’em Senator Davis!
Another Halocene Human
Welcome back Imani.
And…donated. :-D
lacerda
Wendy is my state senator. I can’t tell you how proud I am of her right now — how proud I am to know that Fort Worth would send her to Austin. Go, Wendy!
Patricia Kayden
@Zifnab: I hope Texas women stop voting for Repubs period. Obviously, they don’t value women’s health concerns.
David Hunt
It’s nice to know that it’s still possible to be proud of something that haves in my home’s state legislature.
Marmot
@aimai: Hell, the Repubs aren’t even thinking it through that far. They’re trying to please the right wing that gets outsized power in our fair state through fucked-up congressional districts. To hang onto that power.
Here in Austin we’re contending with Rule by Redneck that extends hundreds of miles in every direction.
lacerda
“Lawmakers, either get out of the vagina business, or go to medical school.”
So proud!
Keith G
@Patricia Kayden:
Barring some unforeseen bizarreness, she will prevail this time. The bill will be brought back, maybe in another special session.
Marmot
@lacerda: Heh. That’s awesome.
Another Halocene Human
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Word.
I, for one, am really proud of Texas women and Texas reps with a D after their name.
Florida could take a page from them.
Citizen_X
Now THERE’S a fucking HERO! Kick ass, Senator!
SarahT
Sen. Webdy Davis = hero
BIBLE_DUDE1
I bet I know some things she WON’T be reading out loud during her disgusting filibuster:
— the quaran
— the torah
— the bible
— obgyn books
— the smriti
because these books teach respect for the Unborn.
Josie
So proud of Wendy Davis. Women from all over Texas are sending her their stories and she is telling the stories to the lege. What a woman! I wish Molly Ivins could see her go.
ETA: to send her more stories, go to this site:
http://wendydavisforsenate.com/standwithwendy/
Tokyokie
@lacerda: She’s my state senator, too! And I’ve already called her office to let her know how proud I am of her!
quannlace
Whereas Rand Paul’s filibuster, (on what, I can’t remember) was treated breathlessly like The Shot Heard Round The World.
geg6
Love her! And there’s not much about Texas I can say that about, other than my good friend Lynda in Houston and the entire city of San Antonio. I reserve judgment on Austin because I’ve never been there but I’m told it’s a cool place.
Soonergrunt
@BIBLE_DUDE1: Don’t pretend that you give a flying fuck about anything but slut-shaming. We’ve seen your type around here before.
How much money do you give to charity for the poor, and how many times have you supported tax increases to pay for increased well-baby care, food aid, unemployment, education and training, or Head Start for poor people?
Because unless you can truthfully answer “lots and lots” and “every single time” respectively to those questions, you can fuck right off.
And actually try to READ your bible while your at it.
Have a nice day.
Forum Transmitted Disease
@BIBLE_DUDE1: 2/10. No conservative ever cites the Quran. Or the Torah. Or medical books. Those have icky science in them.
It’s bibles all the way down.
You got a good nym for it though. Keep tryin’.
Soonergrunt
@geg6: Austin rocks.
ruemara
@BIBLE_DUDE1: You should actually read the bible once in a while. “Happy is he who dashes thy little ones against the rocks.”
“Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.”
Cacti
@BIBLE_DUDE1:
Under the Mosaic Law, the penalty for causing a miscarriage where the mother also died was death.
The penalty for a miscarriage where the mother lived was financial compensation to the pregnant woman’s husband.
While the bible predictably disregards the female in this case, you should probably straighten Yahweh out about how life begins at conception.
On the other hand, the Bible does give instructions on how to sell your daughter into slavery after she’s alive and kicking.
Cassidy
Why shouldn’t we say it? Seriously? Progressive minded men and women and even Corner Stone, get the fuck out of that unregulated, dilapidated hell hole of a state, encourage others to leave with you and leave the treasonous slime of Texas republicans to their own devices. Spend your money elsewhere and let those assholes die a slow economic death.
scav
@BIBLE_DUDE1: Let us pause and consider holy Life-affirming Respectful Biblically Based Texas where they sell tickets for watching their 500th execution. Being eternally unborn might be the best way to experience your company and moral heights.
Cacti
@Forum Transmitted Disease:
Ding ding ding ding ding!
When a winger complains about the need to get back to “our Judeo-Christian values,” it’s never the lack of Judaism in our public policies that they’re lamenting.
Seanly
Hooray! We haz a new, stupid troll!
Good luck to Senator Davis.
schrodinger's cat
@BIBLE_DUDE1: Which Smriti? There is more than one.
Joy in FL
Thank you for the information. Also I made a small donation. This could easily be my state next.
Baud
@BIBLE_DUDE1:
She should read the books that teach respect for the Undead. Much more entertaining.
Imani Gandy (ABL)
@Cassidy: you gonna pay for everyone to move? their families too? come on, dude.
Felinious Wench
@Cassidy: Why shouldn’t we leave? Barbara Jordan. Ann Richards. Molly Ivins. Sen. Davis. I’m a 6th generation Houstonian from a long line of yellow dog Democrats and I’ll be DAMNED if these fuckers get to tell me how to live. This is MY home too.
In other words, fuck them. Texas goes blue if we keep fighting and demographics continue to change, and I plan on being here when we win.
slag
Possibly the most ridiculous method of protest since threatening to send Olympia Snowe rock salt in winter:
Yes. Let’s deliver a bunch of blank paper to a sitting state senator. What could she possibly do with it?
ETA I should also say: Go, Wendy, go!
Cacti
@Imani Gandy (ABL):
If it was just that easy to pick up and move to a new state, I’d have burned rubber out of Arizona several years ago.
Violet
@Cassidy: Hey, Cassidy–remind me again where you live. In which state? Don’t suppose there is anything going on there that the rest of us could point at and suggest that because of it you and everyone else there should move away? Are only pure blue states welcomed in the United States of America? If so, could you tell me which ones are sufficiently pure to meet those standards?
A far better approach is helping organizations like Battleground Texas who are working on the ground to turn the state from red to purple to blue.
jamick6000
lmao I disagree with BIBLE_DUDE1’s post, but I have to say that might be the best name I’ve ever seen here.
(Forum Transmitted Disease, schrodinger’s cat, and Doug Galt are my other favorites, though I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch that have tickled me.)
Mandalay
@Cassidy:
Maybe I’m missing some snark, but your proposal seems spineless to me. What’s wrong with fighting back instead?
jacy
@Imani Gandy (ABL):
Hey, if somebody’s paying, get me the fuck out of Louisiana. I’d like to live in San Francisco. Or maybe Santa Fe. Where do I sign up for the free relocation?
YellowJournalism
@slag:
Send it back with a printed list of names of women who have died from illegal abortions and pregnancy complications where an abortion was denied.
AHH onna Droid
I call poe. @BIBLE_DUDE1:
SatanicPanic
@AHH onna Droid: Link to Redstate is a dead giveaway
JPL
I just started streaming and there are a bunch of guys in conference and there is no sound. What’s up
Grumpy Code Monkey
@Felinious Wench:
Don’t forget some dude named Johnson. Was kind of a big deal from what I hear.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Cassidy:
Sorry, man. Once you get fucked beyond a certain point you’re walking to the grocery store. Move to another state? Not much.
slag
@YellowJournalism: Definitely an option. Let’s just hope it’s 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Don’t want no foreign A4s in our fetus stash.
If it were me, I think I just might write, “Whew! This one was going to turn out to be the next Adolph Hitler!”, on every sheet.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Would it be wrong for me to say that State Senator Davis’ courage and intelligence make her, for me, extremely hot?
AHH onna Droid
@quannlace: whitemale privilege, white white white, whitemale privilege,
Whitemale privilege is no fun at all
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Dick Cheney approves this message!
YellowJournalism
@slag: Her office could also release a statement thanking those who have donated blank paper, saying that it will be used make informational mailers on abortion rights with the name of the “generous” contributor noted at the top.
Roger Moore
@jacy:
I think FEMA has some camps they’ll be more than happy to relocate you to…
PsiFighter37
Watching civil rights legislation from the 60s get struck down and seeing people have to filibuster against anti-abortion bills.
What the fuck is going on in this country?!
YellowJournalism
@PsiFighter37: Doc Brown’s been fucking with the space-time continuum again.
slag
@PsiFighter37:
Ummm…they’re taking their freedoms back?
Felinious Wench
@Grumpy Code Monkey: yep, and let’s talk about Jim Hightower, Lloyd Bensen, Sam Rayburn, the Yarboroughs, Bob Bullock, hell, Sam Houston was a liberal. We’ll find every single loophole, every trick, every little glitch in a law, and we’ll fight outright too. We have to. We’re a tricksy bunch that REALLY enjoys sending conservative Republicans into orbit. You guys have NO idea how much I’m enjoying the sweet tears of my relatives who were crowing about how wonderful this bill is this morning. It’s delicious.
SIA
@jamick6000: I’ve always liked Garage Mahal and Frankensteinbeck.
Oh, and GO SENATOR DAVIS!!
Roger Moore
@SIA:
Warren Terra is a great nick, too.
ruemara
@jacy: I call dibs on the relocation bonanza. I got friends in France and Iceland who keep telling me to get over there. And I’d like to check out New Zealand.
SIA
@Roger Moore: Yes. I’ve been reading this blog since 2007. I figured out Warren Terra last week.
TenguPhule
We are attempting to avoid a Miscarriage of Justice. Good luck, Texas Democrats.
Daniel
But what does Helen think? We won’t know because she at the polls casting a ballot for Markey. Ted will keep us updated, I hope.
quannlace
How long does she have to go? 2 AM Texas time?
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Fixt your medical terminology.
TenguPhule
@Baud: I thought forcing people to read Twilight was against the Geneva Conventions?
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
I thought he was thinking more along the lines of Necronomicon.
Cassidy
@Violet: Absolutely. I live in Florida. If you’re black, or even brown, get the fuck out before some redneck stands his ground and doesn’t leave a second side of the story! Serious. No snark, no bullshit. The white Republicans hate minorities here.
Now that that’s out of the way…
@Mandalay: Theres nothing wrong with fighting back. Shit, you’ve seen me, I love to fight and argue. But I also know when to walk away. There’s one way Texas turns blue and that’s when the underage Hispanic voters are no longer underage.
@Felinious Wench: Good luck. I’m glad you’re proud of your home.
dance around in your bones
I’m glad that Senator Wendy Davis is doing the filibuster, but I am sad that it is even necessary. I thought all this stuff got settled back in the early 70’s and it is dispiriting to see it brought up again and again and again by these bible-thumping whackadoodles.
I just hope that in some future scenario that men could get pregnant and realize what an invasive thing it can be when you had no intent to do so. I’m speaking as a woman who got pregnant at age 18 (which was about the same time the Roe v. Wade decision came down) and never even thought about having an abortion but would NEVER restrict someone else’s right to do what they want with their own body.
It’s fucking personal. Leave it that way. I can’t decide for you, you can’t decide for me. If you don’t want to have an abortion, don’t have one, but keep your nose and personal opinions out of other people’s business and health. Period.
quannlace
“I just hope that in some future scenario that men could get pregnant and realize ”
*********
Are you kidding? If men could get pregnant, contraception and right to an abortion would be written into a Constitutional amemdment.
Janet Strange
I went down and spent some time in the Senate gallery listening to Wendy filibustering away this afternoon. I took pictures. Here’s an attempt at a photobucket link:
http://s1296.photobucket.com/user/JanetStrange/library/Sen%20Wendy%20Davis%20filibustering%20SB%205
patroclus
This is a great move and will likely succeed (at least for this Special Session). I used to be an intern in the Texas lege, and, so long as you have 1/3+1 of the Senate, things can be delayed.
Violet
@Cassidy: So why haven’t you left Florida? If you’re progressive, I mean. Isn’t that what you’re asking others to do – leave their state because the state does things you don’t agree with? I don’t agree with you guys sending Rubio to the Senate and electing Rick Scott your Governor and the stand-your-ground law is terrible. So why are you still there? From your original comment:
Why do you stay in that dilapidated hell hole of a state called Florida? Get the fuck out, encourage others to leave with you and leave the treasonous slime that are Florida Republicans to their own devices. Spend your money elsewhere and let Florida die a slow economic death. Why haven’t you done this?
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore: I bow towards your superior snark.
dance around in your bones
@quannlace:
NO I am not kidding and I agree with you 100%.
Thlayli
@Josie:
Molly Ivins is pounding on the coffin lid, shouting “LEMME OUT!! I GOTTA WRITE ABOUT THIS!!”
SIA
@Janet Strange: That’s fantastic, thank you. The tall woman in one of the photos looks like Cecile Richards – do you know if it was?
Meg
ABL did not even mention that the rules for filibuster in Texas senate is really strict. According to Gawker, there would be
No food,
No drink,
No bathroom breaks,
No leaning against the podium,
and what she says has to be directly connected to SB5.
The only time she can stop talking is when her nice colleagues ask her questions.
I watched for a while, the senate president was warning them for going off topic while they were discussing if the bill will violate Roe v. Wade.
It is a tough business.
Janet Strange
@SIA: Yes, that’s Cecile. I put that in the description on the photo. Does it not show up? I just created this acct so I could share these pix, so Photobucket’s kind of a mystery to me.
SarahT
@YellowJournalism: YES
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
This bald guy seems okay. Is anyone else watching?
SIA
@Janet Strange: On second viewing, yes it does show her name. Small print, old eyes :)
PurpleGirl
@slag: That’s 170 reams of paper, costing in the area of $1500. Senator Davis could use the paper in her office to run off information sheets about her stances. There’s lots of things she could use the paper for, or she could donate it to a pro-choice group. (As long as they don’t mess the paper up before sending it to her, that is.)
slag
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): I’m riveted. I hope we can go the distance on this!
Felinious Wench
@quannlace: @quannlace:
She has to keep going until midnight CST. I plan on staying up with her in Houston. I can’t be with the crew in Austin, but I’m hanging with her to cheer her on from down South.
YellowJournalism
@PurpleGirl: Then her office can use it for toilet paper when Texas Republicans visit!
I can’t believe she’s got two warnings for touching her back brace. And they’re asking for people to send in their stories for her to read. She may be running out.
PurpleGirl
A couple of friends were life-long New Yorkers. They recently moved to Houston. His job moved to Texas. He tried for several months to find another job in the New York area — no go. His job was held for him to decide what he wanted to do. As I said, they moved to Texas.
People have jobs in Texas, they might not be able to find a job elsewhere. People often can’t just pick up and move some place else.
And remember, please, many women support conservative ideas, not all women by virtue of being a woman, are pro-choice.
slag
@PurpleGirl: Yes. It would be a very kind donation. Hopefully, it will be all white. But, who am I kidding? Of course it will be all white.
waratah
Dewhurst is showing how dumb he is.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@slag: @Felinious Wench: I’m here in the midwest, riveted as well.
Roger Moore
@slag:
I guess abortion is only the African American Holocaust when they’re trying to attract the blah vote.
slag
@Roger Moore: Or, actually, when they’re trying to pretend that they’re not trying to obstruct the blah vote.
slag
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Yeah. This whole thing is very educational. On so many levels.
slag
Love that Senator Davis got the old white guy to sit down. Who is that guy?
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@slag: He’s some doctor from Greenville who’s been griefing her all afternoon, if it’s the one I’m thinking of.
Felinious Wench
@Violet: I love you for this.
slag
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Yep. Definitely a douche. She’s sick of that guy.
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@slag: she seems to have some backup. 4 hours to go!
ETA: Does she have to answer questions? No, she does not.
waratah
This is not her first time to filibuster according to this.
http://www.davis.senate.state.tx.us/
She forced a special session in her attempt to stop 5 biillion in cuts to Texas public schools.
gorram
Hey, I’m also one of the people who can’t get this to stream with sound (I keep seeing comments here and on the YouTube page itself). Anyone got an idea for how to fix that? So far no one’s been answered that I’ve seen…
slag
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): I know. I’m pleased about that. Especially because, like some of the senators there, I’m still not confident that the questions can’t get her into trouble. The messages on that issue seemed mixed to me.
Normally, I’m not into this Mr. Smith/cult of personality stuff, but Wendy Davis is definitely my kind of instigator.
schrodinger's cat
@jamick6000: Thanks!
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@slag: yeah, that was a mixed bag from the stupid parliamentarian. But I get the sense that a lot of the R’s are still giving her the benefit of the doubt. Other than a couple of teabagger douches.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@lacerda: I’m stuck at the other end of the metroplex, in Rockwall. Ralph Hall is the best rep we’ve got here at any level, state or federal. Really sux.
slag
@Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): Wendy Davis makes being a Texas state senator look hard. She must be in the minority.
Cassidy
@Violet: I did. I left for 13 years.
slag
@Cassidy: Oh go away. There’s serious business going on here, and you’re clearly intent on being a glib asshole.
Chris
@gorram: You might try the Senate feed: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/bin/live.php
You’ll probably need Realplayer.
Cory
@lacerda:
Nice to see another Fort Worthian on here. I’m not lucky to live in Sen Davis’ district, but so proud of how she’s representing us as a city. Between Councilman Joel Burns and she, I’m so proud of the quality of leadership Fort Worth is producing nowadays.
Berial
Just one question, seriously, why aren’t the Federal Congress’s rules as strict on filibuster as Texas’ is? The Feds just say we’re considering it, and bam you need 60 votes or you lose? What the hell man?
Felinious Wench
@Berial: We’re mean. We make people actually do it.
Groucho48
We should drop off several ten’s of million pieces of paper at Texas Republican headquarters, each piece representing one of the dollars Texas taxpayers will have to pay to cover the costs of all those forced births as they grow into adulthood.
Violet
@Cassidy: And you’re back now? Why? Why are you staying in that hell hole, spending your money and helping out the Florida economy? Why haven’t you left the state to the slimy Republicans? If Texans are supposed to do it because of the things you don’t like about Texas and Texans, then why aren’t you leading by example? If you left the horror that is Florida, why did you return? How could you do that? How could you return, only to support the Florida economy with your money and thereby prop up the freak show that is the Republican Governor and Senator, not to mention various state elected officials and terrible laws. How could you do that? Why didn’t you stay away?
Back on topic, Wendy Davis is amazing. She’s still going strong. Damn, I hope she runs for Governor, or at least another state-wide office.
Comrade Mary
Anyone who’s watching: what the hell is going on now? Are they saying that she somehow broke the rules and is being pushed off the stage, or did they bend and did she win?
Comrade Mary
Oh fffffuuuck — they’re trying to shut her down for being insufficiently germane TWICE. Fuckers.
Comrade Mary
WHAT IS THE POINT OF A FILIBUSTER CONDUCTED ACCORDING TO THE RULES IF YOU CAN MOVE TO OVERRULE THE CHAIR?
FUCK!
master c
@BIBLE_DUDE1: duh!
oh was that snark? come and take it-[insert picture of vagina]
YellowJournalism
@Comrade Mary: This is just nuts. They don’t even want to go over the rules again?
Laur
What is this shit??? Rat Paul filibusters over the complete idiocy of being killed by a drone at your local Starbucks and the world had to stop. This woman is doing something that actually, you know, FUCKING MATTERS, and ?????????
Dave
If you want to stay aware of what Democrats are trying to do in Texas, be sure to check in on Juanita Jean’s site. She’ll also tell you what the Rethugs are doing to the citizens of Texas. I’m a Texas native who hasn’t lived in the state since 1963, but I can tell you there are good people there who believe in progressive governance. There just aren’t enough of them (yet).
http://juanitajean.com/
Nate Dawg
Four minutes to go!!!! This is better than any sport’s event ….because, you know, it matters!
joel hanes
@Arclite:
I had no clue this was going on
I can recommend Juanita Jean’s if you’re looking for expertly-informed coverage of the character failings and shenanigans of Texas Republicans, and hope and encouragement for Texas Democrats. Susan isn’t Molly Ivins, but she’s got something of Molly’s voice and her politics. (BTW, Susan’s previous blog was called “Kiss My Big Blue Butt”. She has attitude.)
Anyway, “Stand With Wendy” was the talk of Juanita’s yesterday. And today.
Texas Democrats especially should stop in and get to know Juanita Jean.
joel hanes
H/T to Dave. I need to type faster, or stop taking the time to fool around with links.
JR in WV
So, am I surprised the TX Repugnants cheated to stop a Democratic filibuster?
No, I am not! Here’s hoping the vile bill got choked off somehow after they cheated on this respectable Democratic legislator…
Debbie(aussie)
I have a great deal of respect for this senator. Should not be be ecessaery tot fight this over again and again. Best wishes a d luck from down under
Sadly we coul be grading I. This direction. Electing right wing nut job
Best wishes
Debbie