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I think it was Reid who said that a Cruz nomination for Prez. in 2016 really could mean the end of the GOP....I gotta say, he could be right...it could splinter....
eg:
UT/TT Poll: Cruz Earning Top Marks From Conservatives
http://www.texastribune.org/2013/11/...0Subscriptions
I think it was Reid who said that a Cruz nomination for Prez. in 2016 really could mean the end of the GOP....I gotta say, he could be right...it could splinter....
Doesn't make them wrong about that claim, even *if* they were.
What does it say about the right wing in this country when they can't stand to have their claims fact checked?
"lefty" = anybody not drinking the coolaid and repeating the claims without any attempt critical thinking
Do you think they are wrong about their debunking because they are "lefty" websites?
Stop debunking my right wing sites!
Another Repug appointment, a megastar of jurisprudence (and non-stop ridicule)
Drawing attention on Monday were questions posed by the judges reckoned skeptical of abortion rights groups' argument that the new restrictions would create an "undue burden" on women seeking an abortion. Judge Edith Jones questioned whether the closure of all the clinics in the Rio Grande Valley would pose a problem since the highways out of the region have high speed limits and are "particularly flat."
http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=...8&e=d070f58998
Legal philosophy
In her opinions, she has questioned the legal reasoning which legalized abortion, advocated streamlining death penalty cases, invalidated a federal ban on possession of machine guns and advocated toughening bankruptcy laws.
Ethical complaint
A group of civil rights organizations and legal ethicists filed a complaint of misconduct against Jones on June 4, 2013, after she allegedly said that "racial groups like African-Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime," and are "prone to commit acts of violence" which are more "heinous" than members of other ethnic groups.[5][6] According to the complaint, Jones also stated that a death sentence is a service to defendants because it allows them to make peace with God and she "referred to her personal religious views as justification for the death penalty".[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Jones
Greg Abbott: New York and California are using Wendy Davis to turn Texas blue
“Her name is Wendy Davis and she is banking money from people in New York, in California, in Washington, D.C. and across the entire country, because the other states want to try to turn Texas blue, just like those other states.”
“I’ve got to tell you, I’m not going to let it happen,” he added.
“Texas is the last bastion of freedom in this country.
We’ve been the leader in the entire country of creating jobs because we have a formula, and the formula is to get government off the backs of the people, let you lead your lives, not government.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/0...e+Raw+Story%29
whiny, picked-on Abbott spews stupid because he knows his TX rednecks and rural assholes are stupid as .
Sen. Wendy Davis: Attorney General Greg Abbott at fault for payday-lending uptick
"Greg Abbott's office gave the green light to predatory lenders to expand their operations across our state," Davis said in a statement Monday. "Greg Abbott has proven that he is an advocate for payday lenders that go after hardworking Texans, even members of our armed services, with predatory loan costs often exceeding 500 percent. It's time for a leader who believes you don't have to buy your way into Texas' future."
most other major Texas cities have passed ordinances in the face of unwillingness by the Legislature to place stricter limits on the industry.
Religious and charitable groups also have called for reforms of an industry they say traps poor people in a cycle of debt.
A Times analysis of state data from 2012 showed that in El Paso, the average payday or auto- le loan was for $564 and cost the borrower $387 to hold the money for less than two months. Lenders collected $34 million in fees from the loans.
The concept of usury -- unconscionably high interest rates -- goes at least as far back as the Old Testament.
It's also part of the Texas Cons ution, which says that in the absence of legislation, interest rates in the state are limited to 10 percent a year.
Lenders that are licensed and regulated under Texas law face caps of their own. Commercial loans in most instances can't exceed 18 percent except when the loan is greater than $250,000, when they can't exceed 28 percent.
Auto loans can't exceed 27 percent. Short-term loans by licensed lenders can't exceed 150 percent and pawn loans can't exceed 240 percent.
But the letter by the attorney general that was released Monday said fees associated with payday and le loans have no limits.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_2...al-greg-abbott
Tea Party Republican spews vile, sexist Twitter attacks at Wendy Davis
By David Ferguson at the Raw Story
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Former head of the South Carolina Republican Party, Tea Party activist Todd Kincannon has unleashed a vile parade of hateful, sexist insults aimed at Texas Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis. According to Americans Against the Tea Party, the attacks began earlier this week and have only gotten uglier.
Kincannon has enlarged upon early Republican attacks on Davis, insinuating that because she supports a woman’s right to choose, she must be a promiscuous, man-eating tramp. Calling her a “coke ” and insinuating that she cheated on her then-husband, Kincannon wrote, at one point, “I don’t care if folks attack Wendy Davis unfairly. I just want her attacked.”
He has tweeted, variously:
- I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was as much of a as Wendy Davis. And I’ve met some epic s in my travels.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/2...t-wendy-davis/
The GOP's Other War on Women: 5 Gender Battlegrounds Beyond Abortion and Contraception
Poverty.
One in 3 women are living in or on the verge of poverty — nationwide, that’s 42 million women and 28 million children who depend on them. Black and Latina women face particularly high rates of poverty, and trans women — particularly trans women of color — are alsodisproportionally likely to live in poverty at some point in their lifetimes. So it seems pretty obvious that women would be paying attention when Republicans (aided in many cases by Democrats) slash food assistance programs at a time of record need.
Congress voted in February to cut $9 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next ten years, just two months after $11 billion had already been slashed from the program when a 2009 benefits increase expired. These reductions have cost families an average of $90 each month, a heavy hit for those already struggling to keep food on the table.
As Salon’s Blake Zeff noted just before the cuts passed in February, what was hailed by lawmakers as a shining example of bipartisan compromise was actually just a measure that will “make hungry people hungrier at a time of rampant poverty.”
And managing on less often means women will be going without. “What we find in our research is that when someone is going to have to do without, it’s usually women,” Lindsey Spindle, a communications officer at an anti-hunger nonprofit recently told Glamour. “They sacrifice their meals for their children, for their spouse, for their parents. So what we’re anticipating with these cuts is that families will be left vulnerable, but women in particular will do a lot to shield their families.”
Republican indifference to the millions of women facing food insecurity becomes that much more striking when you consider that the $9 billion in cuts in the final bill was a dramatic reduction from the outrageous $40 billion House Republicans originally demanded.
Women’s views on poverty and social services aren’t any great secret, either. A recent poll revealed that 56 percent of women surveyed “disapproved” or “strongly disapproved” of gutting food assistance programs at a moment when people need them more than ever.
Voting rights.
Women care about voting rights because women vote. More than men, actually.
As Reid Wilson at the Washington Post recently pointed out, women are statistically more likely than men to not have a form of accepted identification at the polls. Low-income women may struggle to obtain the necessary ID because accessing birth records and other do entation can be costly and out of reach for many. Women over the age of 65 — who outnumber men over the age of 65 — are also less likely to have a form of identification required by these new laws. Women are also more likely than men to be enrolled in college, and students who attend out of state universities are disproportionately impacted by voter ID laws.
These laws threaten the votes of married women who may have changed or hyphenated their names. They jeopardize the rights of trans women, who can face several obstacles while trying to obtain an ID that reflects their name and gender. Voter ID laws are, generally speaking, bad for women.
But voter suppression efforts are, generally speaking, good for Republicans.
The fact that these laws disenfranchise women voters seems to be part of the point, and theGOP seems to know this. As Imani Gandy at RH Reality Check notes, women of color — particularly black and Latina women — have long been and continue to be crucial voting forces, particularly in contentious elections, both nationally and in states like Virginia.
As Gandy points outs, if black women had stayed home in 2012 (or disenfranchised through bogus voter ID requirements), “We would be face-palming our way through a Mitt Romney presidency right now.”
Work.
Two out of every 3 minimum wage workers is a woman, and many of those women are also mothers or the primary caregivers in their households. Despite widespread support across gender and party lines, Republican lawmakers almost uniformly oppose a modest raise to the minimum wage, making the party’s appeals to women’s “pocketbooks” particularly laughable.
Raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to a meager $10.10 an hour would boost earnings for 28 million workers, and would help lift millions of women out of poverty. More than 25 percentof low-wage and low-income workers are single mothers, but at the current minimum wage, a woman who works full-time can expect to make an average of $14,500 each year. That’s $4,000 dollars less than the poverty level for a mother of two children.
Republican intransigence on equal pay measures is — surprise — also wildly out of step with voters.
Women, on average, still make 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. The gap is even more drastic for women of color; black women make an average of 64 cents on the dollar, while Latina women make an average of 55 cents. A recent study from the Williams Ins ute also revealed that trans women face up to a 30 percent drop in wages following their gender transition.
Almost across the board, women’s earnings have stalled for much of the last two decades, and Republican opposition to equal pay legislation means they can expect more of the same in coming decades. As New York Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand remarked on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, “If you’re not paying a woman dollar for dollar for the exact same work, you’re not really tapping the full potential of the economy.” You’re also, it seems, bound to hemorrhage all but a narrow segment of women voters. Whoops.
And yet Bobby Jindal called raising the minimum wage “waving the white flag of surrender” on the economy, and Rand Paul thinks women are doing just fine making poverty wages for full-time work. “I think some of the victimology and all this other stuff is trumped up,” Paul said recently when asked about women’s status in 2014. “And we don’t get to any good policy by playing some charade that one party doesn’t care about women or one party isn’t in favor of women advancing or other people advancing.”
Guns.
This time last year, Gayle Trotter, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, became something of a conservative celebrity when she testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence that “guns make women safer.” Trotter celebrated what she called the power of “scary-looking guns” to help women defend themselves against “hardened violent criminals.”
As I argued at the time, Trotter’s views on women and guns are not based in reality.
According to recent data, more than 60 percent of women killed by a firearm in 2010 were murdered by a current or former intimate partner, many of whom are able to keep their guns despite their violent records because of weak laws and even weaker enforcement. And far from protecting women, the presence of a firearm during a domestic violence incident increases the likelihood of a homicide by a staggering 500 percent.
Women — along with most other people in America — overwhelmingly support the kind of gun reform that Republican lawmakers oppose.
A poll released earlier this month by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal found that 55 percent of Americans support tougher gun measures, and that 65 percent of women support such reforms.
“It’s easily one of the largest policy gender gaps we’ve seen in years,” researchers said of the findings.
This kind of gap should give the GOP pause the next time it blocks modest reforms to gun laws, but, if history is any indicator, it won’t.
LGBTQ rights.
The recent Republican fight in Arizona and elsewhere in the country to let private companies discriminate against LGBTQ people puts them out of step with even moderates in the GOP, but it puts them even further out of step with LGBTQ women voters and their allies.
But it’s not just about Arizona. Despite widespread support for the Employer Non-Discrimination Act, House Speaker John Boehner has said that he sees “no basis or need” for the legislation to protect workers from discrimination based on sexual or gender iden y. The measure passed in the Senate, but has yet to come to a vote in the House because of Republican opposition to the measure.
Republicans are equally out of step with a majority of Americans when it comes to marriage equality. Equal marriage has more or less ceased to be a controversial issue for most Americans, with a historic majority now favoring it. But you wouldn’t know this by listening to the Republican leadership. Conservative lawmakers — at the state and federal level — continue to fight tooth and nail to resist momentum behind equal marriage.
Conservative lawmakers — with the support of virulently anti-LGBTQ groups — have also advanced measures in states like California to roll back basic protections for transgender young people. And it is, of course, a Republican lobbyist who is currently working on a bill to ban openly gay players from the NFL.
Members of the GOP may continue to take etiquette classes and eventually get better about not calling women “hosts” for a fetus or describing female candidates as “empty dresses,” but no amount of reform school will change the fundamentals of the party’s platform.
The GOP is wrong about most things, but they’re right when they say that women care about more than just birth control. What they don’t seem to realize is that this is precisely the reason they have lost women voters.
http://www.alternet.org/5-gender-bat...age=1#bookmark
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