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by moiv
Tue Oct 18th, 2005 at 10:38:47 PM EDT

Abortion is in the headlines this week.  On Saturday jsmdlawyer at Daily Kos diaried Clarence Thomas' attempt to prevent an imprisoned woman in Missouri from having the abortion to which she was legally entitled, just because she didn't have the $350 she needed to get to the clinic (before we were through with that one, she could have hired a limo, but how much better for women everywhere that she didn't need it after all).  
And this morning none of us was shocked--shocked!-- to hear about Harriet Miers' 1989 promise to support a Constitutional amendment banning abortion altogether.  

But now I'm going to tell you an abortion story that hasn't made the news, and probably won't--a story about the women of Katrina, and about the hurricane relief effort no one talks about--the Katrina aid that dare not speak its name.

Boy this makes me feel a lot safer knowing that the Democrats just bowed down to an avowed racist for the SCOTUS Cheif Justice. Seems like the Republicans have just called open season on killing niggers.

The Democratic party sunk to a new low today. Democratic Leadership was non existent. Harry "Charlie Brown" Reid once again let the GOP set him up to fall on his ass... taking the party and Democratic base with him.

Roberts is not even on the fucking bench yet and they are already attacking abortion...

This is why I do not trust the DLC/NDN.

Yeah the "New" Media machine... only they forgot to tell every one that it is turned inwards to attack progressives and to silence dissent and push their own agenda within the party...or whats left of the party.

I started this as a comment to Chris's
Getting Low Income Voters to the Polls but then it got way toooo long...

There are some good points that Chris has made particulary that when "low Income" people vote they usually vote Democratic. However, if you look on closer inspection you would find a greater percentage of lower income Black vote Democratically and a higher percentage of lower income whites vote Republican.

That is where our agreement ends.

Short history of Democratic Presidential elections:

It amazes me that everyone is soooo perplexed. It is easy to see if you open your eyes...The moral of this story is:

• 2000: First time, voting for a Democrat that won't protect my vote, ...shame on them

• 2004: Second time,  voting for a Democrat that won't protect my vote, ...shame on me

• 2008: Third time, I will not vote for a Democrat that won't protect my vote, ...and keep my butt at home

The only logical reasoning for Senators like Leahy and Fiengold in supporting this Roberts debacle is to give cover to the more conservative Dems when they eventually sell out in the Senate vote.

Under no circumstances does the Democratic Establishment want a repeat the Iraq voting blocques redrawn in the Democratic party. Whereby, those that voted against the Iraq vote where given more "Dem Cred" over those that didn't. Hilliary to this day can not shake the fact that she was a political opportunist and voted for an immoral war.

This is reform.