South Dakotans reject abortion ban.
By on Jul 31st, 2006 at 1:03 pm
South Dakotans reject abortion ban.
47 percent of South Dakotans will vote to overturn the near-total abortion ban passed into law this year, which included no exceptions for incest or rape, according to a new poll. 39 percent said they would uphold the ban. More at South Dakota Campaign for Health Families.
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Land of the free… as long you aren’t pregnant.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:09 pmI’d like to see a law that makes it mandatory for all finger-pointing, anti-abortion Chistians to adopt these unwanted babies.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:18 pmConsidering all the religious groups who speak God but committed sin I say bring back legal abortions to all. Look the President is shagging the Secretary of State, Laura’s with her boyfriend. the church has porn stars as teachers. Hookergate where our elected leaders play cards and have sex with boys/girls, and who knows what else is going on with this so called group. Bush policy preaches one thing but does another. Notice the one show Laura, Connie and Lyn Cheney spoke about is Desperate Housewives and talk about drug,sex,alcohol as what is number one. All these people tell you they’ve been born again and yet they continue to do the same sinful things of the pass. Romeny is a Mormon but speaks racist. Senator Frist gives medical opinions based on tapes. The Congress gives an award to Duke Cunningham for his job well done that is stealing and lying. Connie Rice solves war conflicts by playing the piano. Bush solves world , Iraq and Afghan conflict by partying with the young American Idols. When people like Paris Hilton get pregnant they go overseas for their abortions when regular American woman get rapped or pregnant they have to suffer that’s the American way to keep the scum from being known that their scum. Rich will always go overseas and no one will know about it.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:22 pmWell that settles it! If they had a poll just repeal the law and have done with it! Why go throughth the expense of having a costly election when everyone (sic) is soo sure of the outcome. Is this the same polling company that claims 60% of ______ (fill in the state) supports gay marriage/impeachment/socilaized medicine?
July 31st, 2006 at 1:23 pm#4, RRS,
Once again, you have stated the matter succinctly and accurately. Gay marriage is wildly popular, until there is an election in which 65% – 90% of the voters say it isn’t. The more Republicans actually use the legislative process, the more they succeed – there is a lesson in that.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:40 pmSouth Dakota supporters of banning abortion want to ban it for everyone else. But just in case they find themseves in a position of an unwanted pregnancy, they want the freedom to choose to have the abortion.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:52 pmYes, the election will tell all, won’t it? When the results are in, will you guys be back to gloat or apologize?
July 31st, 2006 at 2:10 pmYou’ll never apologize. I think we have a 39% chance of hearing from you jokers again after the election. Wish it was less.
If this is true, then one would expect to see South Dakota state legislators falling during the next election cycle. That is considering, of course, the poll above is accurate and that the citizens of South Dakota are sufficiently outraged to boot out their legislators for not accurately representing their interests.
I fully support what South Dakota is doing, even if I personally would be more inclined to permit abortions in the case of rape or incest (as rare as that’s the case). I think the legislative process is the appropriate place to set public policy on issues such as abortion, not in the unelected federal judiciary.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:12 pm….The more Republicans actually use the legislative process, the more they succeed – there is a lesson in that.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
Het, Jason Handjob, you and Retarded Republican Soldier might be in for yet another is a lesson in November. ;).
July 31st, 2006 at 2:14 pmJoe – I wouldn’t be so bold.
You have to remember that the Congressional district lines have been drawn so precisely with the intent of protecting the incumbent, regardless of party. It’s very difficult for the out-party to win, period.
When you see these national, generic candidate polls that show a huge margin in favor of Democrats, that are beyond meaningless.
I expect Democrats to make up a lot of the gap this election. I wouldn’t be shocked if they took back one, if not both, of the Houses of Congress. But I think it’s way to premature to be predicting an out-and-out Democratic sweep that would give them the House and the Senate.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:21 pm#10, Chase,
They may narrow the margins in the elections, as Busby did a tiny bit, but they will not have enough wins to retake the House, much less the Senate.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:33 pmThat’s a good take, Chase. I fully agree that it would shock me to see both houses fall to the democrats—with weak leaders and Kennedy puppets like Polosi and Reed at the helm. The dems should at least take the house, though. And if Jack Murtha wins his challenge as House leader—–that alone should take the starch out of Jason and RPS and set up 2008 for victory.
Still, I am confident that the new era of solid democrats like Rep. Ford, TN, Sen. Obama, IL and former Governor of Virginia and presidential hopeful Mark Warner will prevail over the Repugnicans by 2008.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:41 pm#12, Joe,
Oh, in case you missed it, a win of the House by Democrats would actually make a Democratic win for President in 2004 LESS likely. Why do you think Hill’reh positioned her boy Raum Emanuel in charge of House elections in 2006?
July 31st, 2006 at 2:47 pm#13, Joe,
I meant 2008, not 2004.
July 31st, 2006 at 2:47 pm#13, Joe, I meant 2008, not 2004.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
I got ya. I don’t agree on the democratic win. If they swept both houses maybe. But I think only the House of Reps will fall and the Senate will stay in Republican control. That gives the dems 2 years under new Rep. Jack Murtha’s leadership to show what they have to offer in the face of a Republican administration that will be under siege. I think 2008 will see a democratic president in take power. Probably an unknown or hardly known guy who will rise to the front of the pack during the primaries.
Why a democrat you might ask? Because the Republican right wing would never allow a desperate, reinvented-right of center character like John McCain, or a center-leftist like Rudy Guiliani to take control.
After all this thinking, my head hurts. Time for a trip down to the bar for a frothy draft.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:08 pmBased on those numbers SD needs to be burned to the ground.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:13 pm#16, Joe,
As the panel on Chris Matthews stated, only Hill’reh or Gore would be accepted by the general public in a time of war, and Hill’reh loses in every hypothetical head-to-head poll they put her in. Do you think global warming Gore stands a chance? I think the Democratic field is in far worse shape for 2008, than the Republicans.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:14 pmsocilaized medicine?
Comment by Retired Republican Soldier — July 31, 2006 @ 1:23 pm
I’m always mystified by the visceral republican hatred of the concept of universal health care. I know it’s off topic, but I’m bored by South Dakotan politics:-) Can someone explain it to me?
July 31st, 2006 at 3:18 pmNow these people just need to get their asses to the voting booth.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:25 pm#18, Brian,
Republicans would be happy to institute a universal health care system that allows citizens a choice among several health care providers that are not government franchises. Choice among independent providers will provide the lowest cost solution for the biggest bang of each tax dollar.
What Republicans do NOT want is socialized medicine, in which health institutions are owned and run by the government, with salaries and fees controlled by the government, and services dictated by the government. That is a big difference.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:25 pm#18 – Brian,
This type of person can’t stand the thought that someone else might get more of something than they would. They are the whiners on the schoolyard in adult-sized bodies.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:26 pmAnother blow to gay marriage – where are all the libs demanding we look to Europe for guidance now?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206399,00.html
July 31st, 2006 at 3:29 pmallows citizens a choice among several health care providers that are not government franchises.
So why don’t they do that then? Healthcare should be a right surely?
July 31st, 2006 at 3:33 pm#21, Zoo,
I don’t begrudge anyone anything they earn. I just want to receive and enjoy what I have earned.
Socialized medicine will give the average American less choices and less service. Only the indigent will end up with “more”, which is less than what the average American has now.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:33 pm#23, Brian,
Republicans have tried, but Democrats keep trying to create a government administered program, and block any attempt to do otherwise. For Dems, it’s an opportunity to vastly expand the federal payroll and government employee union ranks, so that more tax dollars are funneled through unions into their campaigns. Republicans simply can’t allow such a poor system, especially when it just launders tax dollars into Democratic campaign coffers.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:36 pm#24 – Jason,
I just want to receive and enjoy what I have earned.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
You DO receive and enjoy what you earn. So do I. But it doesn’t stop there. If socialized medicine gives everyone less, then we need to figure out something else.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:39 pmEveryone in this country should have decent healthcare coverage.
#23, Brian,
Republicans have tried,
But I understood that this issue was of major concern to most Americans, and that republicans have majorities in all the branches of government. As a result, the Democrats don’t seem to have had much luck frustrating anything else, how have they managed to stymie something so important?
July 31st, 2006 at 3:42 pmEveryone in this country should have decent healthcare coverage.
Comment by Zooey — July 31, 2006 @ 3:39 pm
It is a mystery. Everyone in Sweden does, and even though it’s a wasteful government run program, it still only costs half per capita what it does in the US. Really wierd, where does all the money go?
July 31st, 2006 at 3:44 pmYeah, and in Utah if your dad gets you pregnant, then you cannot cross state lines to get an abortion > I have NO idea why GOP Mormons want incest children?
July 31st, 2006 at 3:46 pmReally wierd, where does all the money go?
Comment by Brian Coughlan
Waste, waste, waste, and pockets. It’s disgusting.
Gotta get back to work. Jason is going to hijack this thread anyway.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:48 pmPlay nicely!
Yeah and I am the one who needs a tinfoil hat. Jason, you are a crazy as a shit house rat. All of your posts talk about how wonderful, brave and powerful the republicans are, and how if it wasn’t for those evil dems, then we would have a perfect country. hint, both sides have a rotten underbelly. I am not nearly as blinded as you are. Please get some help.
July 31st, 2006 at 3:49 pm#28, Brian,
Since we cannot compare your coverage to the typical Americans, how do we know you are even get half the service we do?
July 31st, 2006 at 5:23 pmJason,
Health care outcomes in other developing countries, all of which use some sort of single payer insurance system, are better by almost every measure, be it life expectancy, infant mortality, or whatever. This has been shown again and again by public health studies. Recent studies have also shown that error rates in U.S. hospitals are far worse than in Europe. Bottom line: we pay twice as much for inferior health care delivery.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:37 pm#28, Brian,
Since we cannot compare your coverage to the typical Americans, how do we know you are even get half the service we do?
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — July 31, 2006 @ 5:23 pm
We live longer?
August 1st, 2006 at 1:25 amThe Abortion issue…do not make anyone get an abortion against their will. Minors are not elligible for abortions. Individuals who want one pay for them. Gov’t will pay in cases of rape, incest.
Healthcare Issue…Have you ever seen a poor Insurance Underwriter, pharmacutical salesperson, or medical equipment salesperson. Thats where the healthcare money goes…
TexasJuice
August 1st, 2006 at 5:59 pm