I hope so.
Seems to me any woman wishing to have an abortion has already passed that exam.
The 2010 GOP tidal wave had more to do with people’s uneasiness about the economy that had been compounded by the drawn out passage of the health care reform bill and the rise of the Tea Party. It wasn’t so much a celebration of the Republican party as it was a very heavy anti-incumbency feeling amongst voters in general; because most elected officials were Democrats at the time, most of those Dems got booted out.
There is a similar feeling this election, though it doesn’t apply to the presidential race as much as it applies to Congressional races.
I daresay the rural exodus is not exactly a new thang :D.
Good observation. What partisans seem to miss is that among less partisan voters, the basic voting technique is to “throw the bums out” whether they have an R or D after their names when times are bad. Which they are, still. It’s a clumsy and ineffective approach, but most of the less partisan independent voters are not, shall we say, rocket scientists.
That was unusual for the time, and it cane from a Senator known as an extremist. Now it’s standard for the Speaker of the House to rhetorically support racist nonsense against the POTUS.
Plus nothing says “jobs” like state-sponsored rape laws.
astro, may I ask what drew you to the Republican party in the first place?
The republican party has it’s radical fundamentalist groups just as the dems have their own. I can never understand how the republican part can be seen as racist. We believe that any minority can and deserves to succeed in america. The liberals would rather keep them down by giving out welfare checks and simply buying their votes. The dmes have become anti Chrisatian, anti wealthy, anti business and anti anything decent for that matter. The dems have moved too far left and will need to return to center or their demise will be in the writing soon. I agree the GOP has moved a bit too far to the right but they will also be steered closer back to center.
Who told you this? Welfare in that form hasn’t existed for decades.
Didn’t you hear the news, the administration just brought it back. Waived work requirements.
Oh, I missed that law being changed by the executive branch. Thanks for citing this shocking turnaround so exhaustively! You’re the best, adaher!
I figured everyone knew about it by now:
http://news.yahoo.com/administration-proposes-welfare-waivers-184813543.html?_esi=1
Oh my god, it appears that the proposed change is at the request of the states and would give them more freedom to experiment with programs to get TANF recipients back to work…:rolleyes:
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In its memo to the states, the administration said no waivers will be allowed that could reduce access to employment, nor will they permit exceptions to time limits on welfare assistance. Waivers can be revoked if the experiments don’t work out. Still, a state can seek a waiver to cover its entire welfare population.
“We will hold states accountable,” said George Sheldon, head of the federal Administration for Children and Families, the HHS agency that oversees the program. “If states are not meeting their performance targets, their authority to test new ideas will be terminated.”
California, Connecticut, Minnesota, Nevada, and Utah have already asked about waivers. Nevada and Utah have Republican governors.
Officials from Utah — Hatch’s home state — said in a letter to HHS that they want relief from burdensome federal reporting requirements that tie up staffers who could be helping welfare recipients find a job. State case workers are supposed to keep meticulous logs on the hours that welfare recipients devote to job activities.</snip>
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The GOP is not unhealthy. In fact, there’s a ton of racists and hateful people in the country to keep them going for a long time
Not unless they suddenly become much more informed and intelligent than they are.
You mean like sheltering illegal immigrants?
Don’t be ridiculous, nobody supports tolerating families which are abusive. Mainstream conservatism isn’t some weird neo-tribalism.
Tea Party conservatism is. And it seems to be fast becoming the “mainstream.”
Please show me where the Tea Party has said that abusive families should not be interfered with by the government.
The value of the extremes is that they move the center. I admit that the TP has some valid points (overspending), but they drown it out with anger and derp, and a distinct lack of reasonable solutions.
BTW ageofautism.org is an anti-vaccine outfit, A pit thread on Wakefield and the anti-vaccers makes clear to me that they may not hit their kids, but the abuse they in the end suffer under the ideologies their parents follow does qualify as such in my opinion.