Tuesday Open Thread [6.25.13]
A new Suffolk poll finds Rep. Edward Markey (D) holding a 10 point lead over his Republican rival Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts special election to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate. Markey leads 52% to 42%. Turnout is the key today, with it expected to be low.
Gomez said recently that his party needs to change parts of itself in order to recognize that we are all in the 21st Century now. I have a suggestion.
STOP.
TALKING.
ABOUT.
RAPE.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
STOP.
Well, it only benefits liberals and Democrats when these idiot Republicans decide that they know what is best for women who are raped. So, don’t stop. Here is the latest from Texas state Rep. Jody Laubenberg (R):
“In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out.”
I really hope Mrs. Laudenberg is never raped. She will be in for a pretty rude awakening if this is what she really believes (and if she really believes that, she is as ignorant and dumb as her Republican male counterparts).
So yesterday, Comprenshive Immigration Reform passed its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate. The Border Surge Amendment sponsored by Republican Senators Bob Corker (TN) and John Hoeven (ND), which provides approximately $40 billion over the next 10 years to bolster border security, doubles the endorcement agents to 40,000 and the completion of 700 miles of border fencing. Cloture was filed on the amendment, which means that the Senate was voting to end debate on the Amendment and proceed to a floor vote on the Amendment. The Cloture vote was 67 to 31, with two Democrats absent. So that gives us our first indication that immigration reform may garner as many as 69 votes in support (as it is hard to imagine that the 31 Republican Senators voting to filibuster the Border Security Amendment would vote in favor of the full package with they say endorses amnesty.
This caused Sarah Palin to rev up her bigotry machine, and she took to the airwaves (or Facebook pages) to rip Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and the Immrigation Bill.
Said Palin: “Just like they did with Obamacare, some in Congress intend to ‘Pelosi’ the amnesty bill. They’ll pass it in order to find out what’s in it. And just like the unpopular, unaffordable Obamacare disaster, this pandering, rewarding-the-rule-breakers, still-no-border-security, special-interests-ridden, 24-pound disaster of a bill is not supported by informed Americans.”
If by “Pelosi,” Sarah Palin means pass significant and comprehensive reform that improves the lives of many in an efficient manner, which Nancy Pelosi did as Speaker, then she’s right.
“Palin promised to make immigration a major issue in the 2014 election cycle, comparing it to 2010 when the tea party movement helped propel Republican gains as Americans rallied against President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law.”
LOL. Yes, make immigration a center piece of the Republican 2014 midterms and you threaten to awaken the voting blocs that usually sleep during midterms: minorities (especially Latinos and young people). So go ahead Sarah, rev up your engine. You only do good for us Democrats (see Mike Castle and Christine O’Donnell).
Finally, like the President who nominated him, Justice Sam Alito is an asshole. Dana Millbank:
“The most remarkable thing about the Supreme Court’s opinions announced Monday was not what the justices wrote or said. It was what Samuel Alito did. The associate justice, a George W. Bush appointee, read two opinions, both 5-4 decisions that split the court along its usual right-left divide. But Alito didn’t stop there. When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, Alito visibly mocked his colleague. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court, was making her argument about how the majority opinion made it easier for sexual harassment to occur in the workplace when Alito, seated immediately to Ginsburg’s left, shook his head from side to side in disagreement, rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling.”
since we gave Jody publicity for her idiocy can we talk about how awesome Wendy Davis is? She’s got about 8 more hours to go.
http://gawker.com/texas-lawmaker-braving-backbreaking-filibuster-to-stop-575168871
The only thing standing between the women of Texas and this dickery with their ability to get healthcare is Wendy. GO WENDY GO.
RIP, Bobby Blue Bland. First single I ever bought, Richardson’s Variety Store, 1964:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CZMEctxtwE
What if somebody from Moldova or the Faroe Islands, for example, over stays their green card. Do they get amnesty too, or does this whole initiative only apply to people here illegally from Central America, and of the Latino ethnolinguistic origin?
It is not a legal possibility to overstay a green card
A green card extends to the holder legal PERMANENT residence in the United States, therefore one cannot over stay PERMANENT.
so maybe if you unplugged your face from FAUX news and actually read USC title 8 you would have known that little factoid and not made yourself look…..well……uninformed.
Oh and the folks of Latino ethnolinguistic origin DO know those little factoids you seemed to have missed
But hey, play on!
I don’t watch Fox news . I don’t even watch TV unless it’s cartoons or a sporting event, pretty much. Sorry if I’m not familiar with the limits of a green card.
So, what if someone is here illegally, and they are not of Latino ethnolinguistic origin? Are they included?
I’m watching the Phillies game, but my attention is really focused on the Texas legislature online. Wendy Davis filibustered all day about the state’s draconian abortion restrictions bill, only to have her efforts sabotaged by the Republican senate president. Efforts by others in the senate to address the points of order were shot down.
So what is happening? As the minutes of the legislative session wound down, hundreds of citizens in the gallery whooped and hollered, preventing the senate from taking a vote on the bill. It was democracy in action, and it was beautiful. I don’t know how this will end up, but I applaud those who provided the citizens’ filibuster. Senate president notes that it’s now after midnight, and the session is officially over, but he’s seeking a ruling because of the chaos in the capitol.
Go citizens of Texas!
“Wendy Davis filibustered all day about the state’s draconian abortion restrictions ”
Draconian? They want more abortion clinics to have the same standards as ambulatory surgical- centers, and they want to ban most abortions after twenty weeks.
I’m not completely familiar with the proposed legislation, but those parts sound pretty reasonable to me.
FBH,
The law is ostensibly to create higher standards for clinics, but it will have the effect of closing down all by 5 clinics in the entire state of Texas. In addition, a ban on abortions after twenty weeks is unconstitutional, not that conservatives give a shit.
“In addition, a ban on abortions after twenty weeks is unconstitutional, not that conservatives give a shit”
Unconstitutional? Then I guess an abortion at forty weeks is unconstitutional also.
You have to draw the line somewhere don’t you? Take a look at an image of a fetus at twenty weeks, and get back with me.
BTW, has anyone figured out if there will be blanket amnesty covering all who are in this country illegally or is it just for Latinos?………aoine?
There’s not going to be blanket amnesty. The current plan provides a fairly long (and draconian, IMO) path to achieve citizenship. No one is proposing what Ronald Reagan did.
“Unconstitutional” as it relates to Roe v. Wade, which set the line at viability. A fetus of 20 weeks’ gestation is not viable outside the womb.
They can pretend all they like that this is about protecting women; everybody with any intellectual honesty knows that they are far more interested in the fetuses than the women. After all, a fetus can still be brainwashed into becoming a so-called “Christian.” The women, by their slutty sluttiness, already have joined with Satan.
“There’s not going to be blanket amnesty. The current plan provides a fairly long (and draconian, IMO) path to achieve citizenship. No one is proposing what Ronald Reagan did.”
But that still doesn’t tell me if it includes all illegals, or just Latinos. I just want to know if it’s racial, geographical, or what. I don’t even think the legislators know given that most haven’t even read the extensive proposed legislation.
Um… you could read the proposed legislation, FBH.
WYFP, FBH? It’s anyone who is here without documentation who meet certain requirements.
FBH is auditioning to be one of those legislators who don’t read what they are talking about.
1,200 pages just for an amendment to the bill, casandra.
So, what, you can’t read? Google doesn’t work for you?
You can’t tell me either cassandra. All you said was, “It’s anyone who is here without documentation who meet certain requirements”.
That just brings us full circle back to my original question.
FBH, you cant expect anyone here to have read the entire bill, they just post talking points from the DNC.
All you said was, “It’s anyone who is here without documentation who meet certain requirements”.
So. Your reading comprehension is THIS bad to not know what “anyone” means? Seriously? And you are actually unembarrassed to admit this is public? There has been extensive reporting on this thing for months, including some very fine summaries of this bill — yet you want to come here and demand that people answer your questions. If you really wanted to know this you would be doing some research rather than just putting your ignorance on display.
Anyone means anyone. Look it up.