The writer needs to be a little more precise.
It's not clear from the article in which of those "Republican" states, it will now be illegal for a woman to get a mammogram. Maybe it's all of them. I'm just not. sure.
Well, THIS teacher says that the woman belongs in the Democrat party. The culture wars exist because the left wants them to- a heteronormative Christian society is the only successful model of civilization, and they tear at it for a reason:
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
The point she does not understand is that the “economy”, as she puts it, can only work in an environment free of con jobs like abortion and what not.
It’s the character, stupid.
THe Smithonian Channel had a hit piece on economies of scale and they called the victory of the West with Stalin against Hitler’s overengineered machines as the “spirit of the gulag allied with Detroit manufacturing genius”, I kid you not.
Some people’s “economies”...
Ya, so many to choose from. This is a good one.
“the extremism and dysfunction of the Republican controlled House?”
Yet no examples are cited. The only two budgets Obama has ever put forward received zero votes from Democrats, first in the Senate and most recently in the House. Paul Ryan (one of those extremist house Republicans) has put forward a budget that includes some of the ideas from Obama’s own debt commission.
Just who are the extremists here?
Before withdrawing from the presidential race on Tuesday, Rick Santorum had said that birth control is “a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
Is this an example of Republicans wanting to limit the size of government?
This wasn’t stated in the context of government. The writer is either stupid or evil (maybe both).
Nuff said...and might I add...what a damned snob...she considers herself a a "thinker"?
and the rest of us are what ...stupid?
A few years ago, I probably would have agreed....but social policies and economic policies cannot be separated from each other. The breakup of the traditional family has tremendous ramifications for the economy.
Gotta be in it to win it!
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Let’s roll!
Left wing liar. Probably a slut, too, from the sound of it.
For a lot of RINOS, this is an incredibly alien concept. They want ‘gay marriage’, believing that gays are somehow restricted from marrying. They aren't - there's no sexual orientation test - simply a compliance with the meaning of a word that has existed throughout our cultural history - marriage is a union of a man and a woman. Fine, make a homosexual shacking up law, whoopee. But changing the meaning of something to fit the liberal trend of the moment is a shockingly bad idea.
My world has risks - as it stands now, an OSHA inspector can walk into virtually any business, pick some random government regulation, arbitrarily fine the business, and inform them that if they do not fix that problem, next time it's a higher fine. It is completely counter to the central tenant of our judicial system that you are innocent until proven guilty, and you can't be proved guilty unless declared by your peers. No judge, no jury, just some government drone who can bankrupt a business with the scribble of a pen.
ADA act is open season for any lawyer who wishes to attack a business. Do you have braille on your keypad for entering a pin? Nope? Here's your lawsuit. Does this store have a counter at the right height for a wheelchair bound customer? Nope? Here's your lawsuit. And all of these lawsuits come with automatic class action status - it's not just the complainant's ‘rights’ that they're suing for, and punishing for, it's every single one that may or may not have entered the business.
Worse is the billions we've spent making every single school have an ADA compliant playground, every school bathroom be wheelchair and walker compliant, every classroom door adjusted for a mythical wheelchair student. A school near me which has never had a wheelchair bound student spent 1.7 million dollars in making the school compliant with ADA regulations. Result? Playground equipment that goes half unused, a quarter of the restrooms lost, and a drastically increased maintenance budget of more than $80,000 per year, just to keep those ‘upgrades’ working.
Constitution says ‘limited time’ - congress interprets this to mean ‘a lifetime plus seventy years.’ Yet the 2nd appears to be the only part that the drones want to interpret as narrowly as possible.
It is not chaperoning adults in the bedroom when you say ‘no’ to corrupting the meaning of marriage. It is not an invasion or over-regulation by government when you say that ‘if you want condoms, go buy them.’ Overturning Roe v Wade is correcting judicial activism, not invading someone’s womb.
And taking the side of liberals on all these issues and then whining when the few conservatives in the GOP actually act like conservatives, that they embarrass you in front of other liberals, means you're in the wrong party.
Ahhhhh......Montana......where a judge can plead guilty to felony bribery charges and get probation......rotten right to the core.
I saw the title and excerpt as well as a few of the replies before clicking, and was almost certain it was written by Megan McCain, it’s that vapid.
Why do individuals who are so impressed by “thinking” have such problems with it themselves? Is it one of those grass is always greener sort of things?
Romney should bravely run right up the center now! The door is wide open! The thinkers are in charge! Ideology is out! The litmus tests are gone and the golden age of an olympically run economy is waiting for it's champion!
A teacher who can't spell.
I hope that the thinking Republicans will speak up in response to the non-thinking side of the party represented well by Ms. Otjen. What is she complaining about anyway? The non-thinking wing of the party got their man apparently. Everyone knows that Romney’s conservative stands are for show only and not to be taken seriously. Certainly, he doesn’t take them seriously.
Lie.
It is surprising this collosus of brilliance was unable to win her congressional race.
Also, as has been commented lumping all those states together is also inaccurate. The Idaho law for instance, simply required the women to have (not even look at) an ultrasound. It had nothing to do with mammograms or contraception.
If states doing this action are evidence for ‘unthinking’ conservatives, shouldn't Romney be the most ‘unthinking’ conservative of all since in his state the state government completely controls the health-care system. Are we only unthinking for standing for morality, but thinking if we stand for more government control as long as we let the unborn be murdered?
See what voting for the (R) candidate can bring you?