GOP and Abortion After spending fifty years coherently arguing against the incoherent Roe and Casey decisions, the GOP—like the dog that finally catches the car—had no approach to what to do next after these decisions were overturned earlier this summer. The natural and reasonable one—that the issue is returned to the States and the people of those States will determine how the practice is regulated—was washed out in our new national past-time, the politics of the extreme. Congressional Liberals leapt at the opportunity to introduce legislation that would codify Roe/Casey as the baseline of a national approach to abortion, and irresponsible Congressional Republicans (I cannot in good faith call many of them Conservatives anymore) were not to be outdone, publicly speculating about a ban on abortion nationwide. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has
So now you get the short form since I’m not retyping.
They have court dates, so are federally protected asylum seekers, but you knew that.
DeSantis misappropriated state funds, engaged in deception, essentially kidnapped federally protected persons, and crossed state lines to do it. We’ll ignore the self-dealing done in the process.
He didn’t do it to highlight the desperate plight of Texans. These people had court dates in Texas. His motives were as base as they come.
This act of cruelty was an effort to take ownership of Trump’s base by “owning the libs”.
See how quickly and easily we have normalized cruelty and violence against “others”?
Part of your lack of engagement might be substack is such a PITA.
Having spent time considering, reconsidering, typing, reviewing, correcting, substack informs I failed to sign in first. Dumped all, accepted my signin and returned me to an empty comments section.
So now you get the short form since I’m not retyping.
They have court dates, so are federally protected asylum seekers, but you knew that.
DeSantis misappropriated state funds, engaged in deception, essentially kidnapped federally protected persons, and crossed state lines to do it. We’ll ignore the self-dealing done in the process.
He didn’t do it to highlight the desperate plight of Texans. These people had court dates in Texas. His motives were as base as they come.
This act of cruelty was an effort to take ownership of Trump’s base by “owning the libs”.
See how quickly and easily we have normalized cruelty and violence against “others”?
Part of your lack of engagement might be substack is such a PITA.
Having spent time considering, reconsidering, typing, reviewing, correcting, substack informs I failed to sign in first. Dumped all, accepted my signin and returned me to an empty comments section.
Me blushes!
Well put.