A Day In The Life... Right Wing Nutter

From an AP article on Sam Brownback -

"I am an economic, a fiscal, a social and a compassionate conservative," he said.

"I'm the one that has been there, is there and will be there in the future," he added, a subtle dig at his potential rivals who are trying to claim the conservative mantle.

Positioning himself as the traditional values candidate, Brownback said his campaign's main focus would be "to save and improve lives, rebuild families and renew the culture" in the United States that supports the institution of family.

"We don't have enough family formation taking place in this country," the father of five said. "We know the best place to raise children is between a mom and a dad. It's not the only place, and you can raise great kids in many different settings, and people do, and they struggle heroically to do it."

"Raising kids is difficult, and it's difficult, too when you have a culture that doesn't particularly support you, but is constantly pulling away," Brownback added.

*Shudder*

Sam Brownback is a walking right-wing nutter stereotype, so I’m glad he’s making his positions known loudly, early on. This should designate him as one of the Republican extremists entering the presidential race, which should get him booted quite quickly.

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Morning Roundup

Yesterday, I posted about the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act that Republicans in the House are trying to push through in their last days of power. Today, the WaPo has a more in-depth article complete with this little tidbit -

Even the bill's definition of pregnancy -- beginning at the moment of fertilization, rather than at implantation in the uterus -- is problematic to some abortion rights groups, since it would legislatively establish that some forms of birth control induce abortion by blocking implantation after fertilization.

Really, this is simply just another declaration of science by a political body. “Fertilization” is not an accepted beginning to pregnancy amongst the scientific community, yet here we have Republicans frothing at the mouth to, like, declare their religious assumptions as truth.

And they wonder why they have been booted out of office. Perhaps someone needs to inform them that their job is in politics, not medicine or science.


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• From CSN -

With the White House facing a pivotal week for Iraq policy, the big question is not so much what the bipartisan Iraq Study Group will say when it releases its report Wednesday, but how President Bush will respond.

In the final two years of his tenure and well aware that Iraq more than anything will define his place in history, Mr. Bush is facing intense pressure to make extensive adjustments to save a project that most experts conclude is rapidly failing.

I want to have faith that Bush will listen… that he will realize that his policy is a horribly failed one and that we need an Iraq change, but… I think Bush has proven that he isn’t in touch with reality. Even if there is a policy change, how do we know that it will be the right one? Bush is utterly out of touch with the situation in Iraq. He refuses to call it a civil war, and he still claims that we are fighting terrorists there. If Bush doesn’t even want to admit the real situation in Iraq, how is he going to come up with a plan to solve it?

I believe that Bush, in some weird out-of-touch-moron-reality hating way, actually believes that he knows what he is doing. His Iraq policy is a complete failure, yet he thinks that it is correct. What makes anyone think that he will change? He has no political pressure to stop this insanity, so what would make him change his opinions? Reality certainly doesn’t have that power… so what the hell does?



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Do-Nothing Congress' Last Act: Do Nothing

If you’re like me, you had to be sitting on pins and needles, wondering what the Repuiblican House’s final action would be before they lose control (shhh, it’s a slow news day… and my ass is numb, sort of feels like it’s being jammed by pins and needles).

Well, apparently, in far-right fashion, they are going to throw the religious right another bone.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ An anti-abortion bill seeking to declare that fetuses can feel pain is slated to be voted on by the House this week, a last bid for loyalty from the GOP's base of social conservatives.

The measure, sponsored by New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, has no chance of passing the Senate this year since it won't be brought to a vote in that body. And the incoming Democratic majority won't let it come to a vote when they take control of both Houses next year.

So yes, the do-nothing Republican Congress’ last act will be to… do absolutely nothing by pushing a bill that will, according to themselves, never be passed. Interesting.

The bill defines a 20-week-old fetus as a "pain-capable unborn child" _ a highly controversial threshold among scientists. It also directs the Health and Human Service Department to develop a brochure stating "that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain."

So, I guess the real question here is, what the Hell is Congress doing making scientific proclamations when what they claim is under scientific debate? Again, I guess it’s okay to lie, if your lies support a particular religious notion. Thankfully, these people are going to soon be out of power, and sanity restored to our Legislature. Hopefully.

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