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- mediablitz, on 04/29/2009, -15/+61Republicans opposed her because she is "pro-choice".
In other words, they opposed her because she supported the LAW. Yep, no partisan BS involved there. What other laws would they like her to ignore, in order to get their vote? - eastwood24, on 04/29/2009, -9/+53I am from the reddest of red states and one thing I still do not understand about pro-life views is that many supporters also hate welfare. I have brought up the point before with pro-lifers that if you make abortion illegal, it will cause increased unwanted pregnancies among the poorest, yet at the same time you refuse to help the mothers with temporary aid for the baby. The response has typically been along the lines that it is not their problem and the mom shouldn't have had sex. This view is the complete opposite of what Jesus preached, (help the poor) yet they are perfectly okay with it. Never underestimate the power of cognitive dissodance.
- Gemfinder, on 04/28/2009, -12/+53Because if someone doesn't stand in the middle and draw lines, it wouldn't be just Kansas's schools that front Creationism and Intelligent Design as fact and ***** on science. It'll be the whole Bible Belt from Oklahoma through Alabama.
Give 'em hell, Kathleen!! - sbader, on 04/29/2009, -5/+44I hate how the article said pro-abortion instead of pro-choice.
- MacEnvy, on 04/29/2009, -4/+32For the past 8 years we complained about incompetence and failure, not differences in political opinion.
And that article is retarded, implicating Sibelius in nothing. Keep pushing that ridiculous stuff and see where you end up in 4 years, righties.
By all means, don't clean house or come up with workable solutions of your own. Bravado, little budget pamphlets without any numbers in them, forcing moderates away ... yeah, that'll do it. Keep it up guys. - inactive, on 04/29/2009, -20/+48Cant beleive the GOP was trying to hold up this nomination based on the fact that she didnt share their political views. Get used to it and stop acting like babies for the next 3 1/2 years.
- lisaawesome, on 04/29/2009, -4/+31Is one of the great conundrums of the GOP. They will fight tooth and nail to make sure you get born but once you're out of the womb they don't care what happens!
- inactive, on 04/29/2009, -4/+31I honestly don't understand what the beef was with her. She's qualified, seems smart and effective. All this ***** can't just be about some footnote about pro-choice, could it?
- ProfessorSYM, on 04/29/2009, -9/+34We need them to do that because we don't need for-profit corporations running our society.
- Exhibitionist, on 04/29/2009, -4/+26Yeah, you're right, never mind that Americans would prefer a government-run universal healthcare system to the current one by a 2:1 margin. What the hell does that matter, right?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/US/healthcar ...
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/03/opi ... - Hetman, on 04/29/2009, -3/+21If you have a problem with public education just send your kids to private school or is that to expensive for you?
- shaka999, on 04/29/2009, -0/+17What if the father agrees to take care of the baby by himself?
- Hetman, on 04/29/2009, -2/+19I do not buy that argument. Just for the simple fact that there are countries that have better education that America, and are way more socialist. You just want to punish the poor. People earning around 35K a years. "Which is not even considered poor in this country." Pay very few taxes. How are they going to afford to pay an extra 5k a year per kid even if they are paying no taxes? 5k a year for education is probably an underestimate also.
- mediablitz, on 04/29/2009, -4/+20We already have in many states. It is called the death penalty. You know, actual human beings, not clumps of cells.
We have killed 47 people (that can be proven with DNA evidence) that were innocent. Who knows how many prior to that.
I am SURE any pro-life people are against the death penalty. Yeah, RIGHT. The life only matters until it is born. THEN, it becomes something to complain about (welfare kids, poor people, whatever). - Hetman, on 04/29/2009, -1/+17That is where there becomes a problem. I dunno if you can force someone to go through a pregnancy they do not want. I am partially joking about the mandatory abortion thing. The key is to stop unwanted pregnancies. We can do this by better education, easy acess to free contraceptive. i know people will complain about the free contraceptive. But hey it is like this, you can spend 30$ a month allowing girls free access to birth control, or you can allow them to have a baby and in a worst case scenario you are going to spend upwards of 15K a year on welfare for the child itself.
- Hetman, on 04/29/2009, -6/+22I am actually pro-abortion. Abortions should be mandatory unless both parties agree on having the baby. And in extreme cases if the women wants to volunteer to take care of the baby by herself with out monetary help from the father, she can also keep it.
- s0krat3z, on 04/29/2009, -2/+17"Let's throw money at our problems... that sounds just like the same out of the last administration."
What would you suggest throwing - tea? - treehugger87, on 04/29/2009, -7/+21Government needs to get involved in health care because private has absolutely failed. Millions of Americans are uninsured. Millions have been financially ruined by a single illness within their family. The rest of us pay way too much money for what we get. Sign me up any day for the $60 a month healthcare plan that federal employees get and I'll say thank you very much.
Private industry run schools? Don't make me laugh! Sounds like another opportunity for a few people to get rich while the rest of us suffer. - Suricou, on 04/29/2009, -1/+14Because a healthy and well-educated population brings social and economic benefits to everyone.
- inactive, on 04/29/2009, -3/+16Ha ha. Nice, you watch Glen Beck.
- Hetman, on 04/29/2009, -1/+14The government can offer good education. Look at China, Japan and most European countries. It has nothing to do with funding either. It has to do with asanine policies put forth like no children left behind. Just because our government of the last 8 years could not do it. That does not mean it cannot be done.
- kyouteki, on 04/29/2009, -6/+18As a Kansan, I feel mixed about her appointment. On the positive side, I think she's a great candidate for the job. However, she's been the only thing keeping this state from being completely ruled by the right. The Deputy Governor that replaces her is just a Republican in disguise, Sebelius used him to get some acceptance from the right. Now that decision comes back to bite Kansas in the ass.
- SpinningHead, on 04/29/2009, -1/+13@wjappe
Reading is fundamental.
"I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1810. ME 12:393
"Of all the views of this law [for public education], none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe as they are the ultimate guardians of their own liberty." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:206 - Chapman9110, on 04/29/2009, -0/+12It's not really political spin, pro-abortion makes it sound like she is encouraging women to get abortions. She is just a proponent of a woman's right to choose, so pro-choice is the accurate description of her views.
- NSResponder, on 04/29/2009, -7/+19It seems to me that if running a federal cabinet department is a more powerful job than being the governor of a state, something is seriously out of whack with our balance of power.
-jcr - Aero347, on 04/29/2009, -1/+12Actually the economy is filled with debt, and to pay off the debt of citizens to stimulate the economy would be the wisest course. Just short of that, would be to have the goverment spend money on projects to create jobs so people can pay it off themselves.
- KSUdesigner, on 04/29/2009, -1/+11"Public opinion should have no bearing on the pass/fail of a law."
Excuse me? So the government should do what they feel is best, despite what the majority of the public thinks? I don't think so buddy. If that were the case then this country wouldn't exist. We became the greatest country on the planet because the public rose up against government. That alone proves that public opinion is very important in determining law. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+10Sickening indeed - looking out for rights and well-being of women and incidentally upholding established laws and legal precedents.... Who the hell does she think she is, anyway?
- heresy_fnord, on 04/29/2009, -3/+13Anyone who uses "pro-abortion" in place of "pro-choice" is ignorant.
Let's start referring to "pro-life" as "pro-ignorance". - pinchduck, on 04/29/2009, -2/+11Hey, GOP, if you want to be relevant, try winning elections. Here is a helpful hint: Don't be for fiscal responsibility when you are only out of power. See, we have 8 years of your lying backstabbing record to look at. If Bush had balanced the budget (i.e., kept doing the same thing Clinton did) and paid down a good chunk of the debt, our current mess wouldn't be nearly so bad. Instead, you all lied about being fiscally responsible and wrecked the country's finances. Helpful Hint to Democrats: Balance the budget, or your messiah may be a one-termer. For the record, all politicians suck.
- pintomp3, on 04/29/2009, -1/+10If you are against abortions, don't have one. Stop forcing others to live by our religious beliefs. And no, God did not found America for white Christians.
- C0ntraRadical, on 04/29/2009, -1/+10That's false designerutah.
http://www.factcheck.org/president_uses_dubious_st ... - kingmanic, on 04/29/2009, -1/+10CoD4-mediablitz:
The irony is most of the pro-life states are also pro-capital punishment. - Ouze, on 04/29/2009, -1/+9enjoy copying and pasting sentiments like that for the next 4 years. I know I enjoy reading them!
Can I lick your tears? mmm, so yummy, the tears of unfathomable sadness. - DrSnugglebunny, on 04/29/2009, -0/+8Rationing health care? I've lived in the US system for >30yrs and the UK system (NHS) for 5. I've never seen rationing of public health care here; the care is as good as in the USA largely. And if you don't like it, you can go w/private health care, which is also good. Sure, the NHS has it's problems, but I wouldn't say they're greater problems than the drug company-HMO industrial complex in the USA.
- SpinningHead, on 04/29/2009, -0/+8I think you're missing what Lisa is saying. The point is that, you cant force people who cant or don't want a child to carry a fetus to term because you think life is sacred and then as soon as that life comes into the world say "***** them". If the pro-lifers want to make choices for other people then they should be responsible for those decisions.
- SpinningHead, on 04/29/2009, -1/+9@ Doubledown
Study after study have shown private schools are not actually better overall and they have an easier time looking better because they dont have to accept all students.
@designerutah
Even states with tougher litigation rules saw similar increases in rates year after year. One big problem is we spend more to have ER care for the indigent rather than preventative care for everyone. We also spend much more on bureaucracy because there are so many MBAs making money off health care at the insurance companies, HMOs, drig companies, etc. - Hetman, on 04/29/2009, -1/+9The media only cares about itself. Swine Flu made for a good story and an increased in viewer ship. This means more money in advertising for the media giants. Capitalism FTW.
- joauri, on 04/29/2009, -1/+9I'm proud that my state actually had a democrat for a governor. Needed something to balance out the intelligent design crazies.
- mediablitz, on 04/29/2009, -0/+8@CoD4
So every life ISN'T precious then. Even innocent people put to death.
Gotcha. - treehugger87, on 04/29/2009, -1/+8@Doubledown. You're saying that the reason healthcare is so inneficient and wasteful is because of government regulation? Are you a banker? Have you seen what deregulation does? The health care industrial complex has failed us by spending more money trying to deny people care and marketing their product than they do helping sick people get well.
Believe me, I know a lot about private schools. Private school teachers, parents & students universally frown upon for-profit schools. That's what I mean when I say "industry" run schools. A "free market" solution would have a school CEO earning $8 million a year while the school struggled to find someone willing to teach English Literature for $7.25 an hour.
@design. You're wrong, and as C0ontra says, your statements are false. If insurance has gone up it's because insurance companies are not protecting their assets as they should. Insurance companies are not supposed to make risky investments and don't need a CEO earning $20 million a year. The ideal insurance company CEO drive an 8 year old Volvo stations and would bore you to death at a party. - SteveMTyler, on 04/29/2009, -0/+6I was hoping she would lose so democrats could keep the gov. seat in kansas when the census comes up
- SpinningHead, on 04/29/2009, -1/+7"So its only the government that can create jobs???? "
When money isn't moving in the economy, yes. Its also about revamping our infrastructure which is required for any recovery to happen.
"I think you have to ask yourself a deeper question which is why is it cost effective to ship most of our jobs overseas?"
Because 3rd world children will always be cheaper labor and if your gov permits it and the gov will give you tax breaks even if you do ship jobs overseas (see republicans) then companies will do that. - Hetman, on 04/29/2009, -1/+7Short answer: Yea
Long answer" Yyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - Bloodwine, on 04/29/2009, -5/+11The acting leader of the HHS is doing a great job. Hopefully she can live up to his standard. I always feel bad for the interim folks, who usually do a better job than the official position holders.
- SpinningHead, on 04/29/2009, -2/+8He also didn't force people to have babies they didn't want. And, yes, abortion was ubiquitous back then too. According to the Torah you could even do a retroactive abortion up to 2 yrs.
- scottknick, on 04/29/2009, -1/+7SpinningHead is right, but also remember that private schools have a greater latitude to expel students, and are not punished for low graduation rates. It's one of the things that make private school rates look better, along with the fact that their students are predominantly from wealthier households.
- scottknick, on 04/29/2009, -1/+7You're telling me that the fact that more and more people can't afford insurance and medicine while insurance and pharmaceutical profits continue to skyrocket is because of government regulation?
Nonsense. Profits go up while people served go down because these oligopolies are providing less service and charging more for it. That's what oligopolies do, that's Capitalism. And it's why free-market health care is a capitalistic success and an utter disaster for American health. - SpinningHead, on 04/29/2009, -0/+6Um, yeah...parents are key to education. Thats why you cant expect kids in the inner city with illiterate parents to do well on some test. Of course, private schools don't accept those kids, so the problem falls on public schools.
- xenuxenuts, on 04/29/2009, -3/+8Show me the countries where privatizing education worked. I'm not aware of any. In fact, I'm not aware of any countries where libertarian economics have worked. However, I'm all for letting individual states try it. That way, if it does work, we'll know. If it doesn't we'll also know.
We can say that the GOP's ideas have failed. Time to let the libertarians have a stab at being the right wing party. But this time, if they screw it up, please let it just be one state. -
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