Getting better all the time

For a while there, between the chained CPI bullshit that President Obama has bought into, Democrats voting to cut food stamps,  not being able to get enough Democrats to sign on to filibuster reform, and the general failure of our party to do much of anything that supports working families, I was beginning to think 2014 was shaping up to be as disastrous electorally as was 2010.

But lo and behold, up to the plate stepped the republican party--the gift that keeps on giving.

Following their disaster in Texas with its misinformed choice haters, special sessions to pass what cannot pass in the regular session, and flat out cheating to pass historically harsh restrictions to abortion, the geniuses next used an end around in Ohio by passing more historically harsh restrictions to abortion by using budget gimmicks, and then had the good sense to have Gov. John Kasich sign the bill surrounded by nothing but old white men (Kasich is also giving our own Gov. Gutless, Rick Snyder, a run for his money for the most gutless governor in the nation by signing the bill and then running and tucking tail rather than answer any questions regarding it).  For good measure, republicans in North Carolina also tried an end around by inserting historically harsh abortion restrictions into a bill on Sharia law, since the two have so much in common, and Wisconsin's Scott Walker this week became the umpteenth republican leader to think that the U.S. Government has no right to keep guns out of the hands of psychopaths but every right to stick medical instruments into womens' vaginas.

Apparently the sole guideline for being a republican consultant is to have no brain whatsoever.  Because nothing helps win elections by pissing off even more voters who historically vote in the biggest numbers and against your party.  Thanks, guys!

Not to worry, though, as they also have a brilliant plan for the Presidency in 2016.  It's to paint Hillary Clinton as old.

Man, mocking the only voting bloc--seniors--that votes for you is some kind of strategy.

Peace,
emaycee

Another nail in the republican party coffin

If there's a political organization that is more tone deaf  than the republican party (not that I care--their loss is our gain) I'm not sure history has ever recorded it.

The filibuster by Wendy Davis, a state senator in Texas, against the republican controlled legislature's attempt to pass a harshly restrictive abortion bill could not have possible put the republicans in a harsher light had the script been written by Gloria Steinem.

The anti-abortion bill couldn't pass in a regular legislative session, so Gov. Rick Perry calls a special session.  Courageous woman filibusters for almost thirteen hours and is finally only able to be stopped by bullshit technicalities.  Men call for a vote which is righteously yelled down by female pro-choice supporters.  Republicans claim vote was done before midnight deadline, only it wasn't.  They then change times of vote in the computer.  Finally realize they are completely fucked, and numbnuts governor calls for another special session beginning July 1st.

Women, Latinos, and young people are all overwhelmingly in favor of a woman's right to choose, republicans get decimated in elections by all three groups, and all yesterday did was further entrench them in the Democratic Party.

It takes a lifetime to create old, white men--and best of luck to republicans with that strategy.

Peace,
emaycee