these f*ckers never quit....House GOP takes up abortion ban

[spanone]

Amid roiling debates on national security, foreign policy and immigration, the Republican-led House turned its attention Tuesday to social issues, setting a vote on a measure that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Although the measure is expected to pass the GOP-controlled House, it has no chance of becoming law, with the Democratic-led Senate certain to ignore it and the White House threatening in scathing language to veto it.

The bill, called the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks, unless the life of the mother is at risk. The legislation cites studies which indicate that a fetus feels pain starting at this gestational threshold; supporters of the bill say this medical research dictates that these fetuses should therefore not be aborted.

While this vote offers a chance for members from socially conservative districts to flex their political muscles, some moderate Republicans have grumbled about the leadership’s decision to hold a vote on a controversial measure with no chance of going beyond the House.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/18/19024546-amid-some-grumbles-house-gop-takes-up-abortion-ban?lite

[DainBramaged]

1. GO GOP GO GO GOP GO

[spanone]

2. how many jobs bills have they passed?

not a fucking one.

[redqueen]

3. They're wasting time and money on a bill that is unconstitutional.

And their own supporters know it. I'm glad they're not giving up. They're alienating more and more people with this theatrical nonsense.

[DainBramaged]

4. It's the end of the GOP as we know it......

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt
No strength the ladder starts to clatter with the fear, fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games with a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of West and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop.
Look at that low playing! Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed.
Dummy with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light,
Feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the GOP as we know it.
It's the end of the GOP as we know it.
It's the end of the GOP as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour.
Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive.
Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
This means no fear - cavalier.
Renegade, steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline.

It's the end of the GOP as we know it.
It's the end of the GOP as we know it.
It's the end of the GOP as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide.
Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein.
Leonid Breshnev, Lester Bangs and Lenny Bruce.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right?
Right.

It's the end of the GOP as we know it.
It's the end of the GOP as we know it.
It's the end of the GOP as we know it and I feel fine... fine...

(It's time I had some time alone,
It's time I had some time alone,
It's time I had some time alone
I feel fine...)

[redqueen]

5. Yep, but sadly there is a shitload of corporatist, third-way dem candidates waiting to ensure

that not much will change no matter who is elected.

[Bandit]

8. What they want is for it to go before the Extreme Court, to get Roe V wade overturned

They know it is now or never because the Republican Brand is dying and there soon won't be enough Conservatives left on the Court to do this deed for them..

[redqueen]

9. Perhaps. As much as they've reduced acces that would seem to be merely icing

on their woman-hating cake.

[hollysmom]

6. This is the hold on the religious poor -

I have a friend who is very serious antiabortionist - believes it is murder, she wanted to vote for Romney just on this topic, but I had to keep pressing her on how they let children who are already born die and suffer without medical care or food or .....

[Populist_Prole]

11. BINNG-GO!

They got nuthin! Nothing but trying to jealously hoard and corral every last "family values" voter.

[99Forever]

7. Yeah. They never quit.

Too effen bad the Dems can't adopt a similar strategy. They can't seem to roll over and show belly fast enough.

[redqueen]

10. Oh, the dems can. They are quite capable.

They just won't. They choose not to because that'd alienate the big donors.