But…but…isn’t the whole point of being a right-winger to reduce regulatory burdens? What’s that you say? It’s only to reduce the right of predatory corporations to plunder? Ack, sorry — never mind.

Damn you beat me to it.

Diane Derzis, president and owner of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state’s only abortion clinic, said one of the three doctors there has admitting privileges and all are OB-GYN certified.

The WAR, Inc, on women in Team USA continues at an ever increasing pace. And it’s not just about reproductive rights or sexytime, either.

PS It also doesn’t “just” affect women’s rights, btw.

It would similarly be the cutting off or severely restricting gov’t funding.

The prohibitionists would have a roster of economic plans, in addition to new regulations, to moot out choice without running afoul of Roe. The remaining “choice” becomes a technicality unless the best votes are cast in Nov.

What next?

American Conservatism = Christian Fascism

Please explain why the GREAT LIBERTARIAN Ron Paul has not taken a principled and vocal stand against this government intrusion. Could it be he is just a phony who selects his issues based on not riling up the republican leadership?

Mr. Dayen, simply put these folks should go get some soiled white sheets and wrap around head. Then use wife’s lipstick and place a “T,” for Taliban or “A,” for asshole, on their foreheads. The right to practice your religion does not give one the right to impose religious beliefs on atheists/agnostics, under the color of law No doubt we are going backwards here.

Regulatory Burden is too PC. Call it what it is, meddlesome moralizing maggots who like the Taliban or religious intolerant’s around the world impose their absolutes on others, at the point of a gun barrel.

I believe these folks would use a gun barrel to coerce, here in America. Any takers on this assertion? Look how many reacted to civil rights/voter rights. They killed and beat people to intimidate them just as the Taliban does. This is no different. You are correct!

“This is what we’ve seen from our stateside version of the Taliban when it comes to abortion laws.” Yup!

Your Iron hammer “obliterated” the nail’s head.

Who says any of these legislative moves is constitutional? Last time I looked, undue burdens on constitutional rights, even those indirectly burdening said rights,are just as unconstitutional or at least, subject to scrutiny by the courts as direct burdens.

Or, has everyone lost the taste for the fight already?

after the state put new restrictions on all clinics performing abortions after 16 weeks in 2004, those procedures decreased by 88 percent in the course of one year.

But as it turns out, there were a rise in the number of abortions reported at 15 weeks, suggesting that doctors were scheduling abortions just before the 16-week cut off.

Holy crap, I am having deja vu all over again (as the saying goes). What the heck decade is this?????????

Why does everyone seem mystified about how this happened? The right wing has been electing ultra-right, anti-choice people to school boards and city and county government for over 30 years. Now, those are the candidates that are being elected to state and national legislatures. The 2010 elections brought in an unusual number of ultra-right takeovers at the state level because many Dems were “punishing” the not-so-liberal party and simply not voting or voting for third-party candidates with zero chances of winning. The right wingers were ready for the opening and utilized it to the fullest advantage, even bumping less conservative members of their own party or forcing them to the right. The ultra-conservative long-term strategy worked and will likely, with some setbacks, change the face of American politics for another 30 years.

Yes, agreed. That is so. The ultra-conservative, ChristoFascists have to be given this: they had a goal with a plan to back it up; they were persistent on many levels; and they never gave up: NEVER.

It’s not just about the Southern Strategy, although that was a strategy that they heavily employed to achieve this outcome.

Unless or until US citizens wake up and smell the coffee, we are going to be ever more pushed against the wall by these Talibangicals. Fwiw, they are working hand-in-glove with (or are) the 1%. These kind of repressive & oppressive tactics work well to keep the populace ground under and beholden to their various “Masters.”

The 2010 elections brought in an unusual number of ultra-right takeovers at the state level because many Dems were “punishing” the not-so-liberal party and simply not voting or voting for third-party candidates with zero chances of winning.

I recall that not so long ago, one national election cycle ago, a black man had zero chances of winning the presidency.

The rightward moving of this government has been going on for decades, and instead of fighting it head on, Democrats have been playing defense for decades, losing more and more ground each election.

New and returning voters showed up to put Obama, a black man in good old racist America, into power. More people voted for Obama than have ever voted in any previous presidential election. Ten million more voters turned out for Obama than the other guy, and it wasn’t because they believed he would continue the Bush-Cheney-Republican policies.

Obama supports voting independents into office, even when it risks Democratic turnout.

Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressives/liberals from getting elected. Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressional committees behind Blue Dogs, Republicans and Independents over progressives/liberals and real Democrats. Some, but not all, examples:

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressive Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter.

Republican-turned-Independent Arlen Specter over progressive Democrat Joe Sestak.

Republican-turned-Independent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, was an effective endorsement of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressional seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy retired from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island).

Republican-turned-Independent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek.

Republicans, with the smallest minority, have managed to thwart Democrats, who’ve had the greatest majority in decades. You would think that with Republicans controlling the House, Democrats would’ve turned the tables and thwarted Republicans’ continuing legislation like Bush’s tax cuts for the rich? Are Democrats just stupld?
Obama never pressured Ben Nelson (or Blanche Lincoln, or any Blue Dog). The Democratic leadership could’ve taken away committee chairs (Blanche Lincoln’s, too) of members in their caucus that filibustered a public option for healthcare. They didn’t.

The DNC could’ve taken away reelection funds. They didn’t.

Reid could’ve actually forced Republicans and turncoat Democratic senators to filibuster. He didn’t (and doesn’t).

The Progressive Caucus could have kept their pledge about not voting for a bill that didn’t include a robust public option. They didn’t.

Obama did unleash the attack dogs to go after Howard Dean when Dean said it was a lousy bill. Dean was then forced to get back into line. Obama went after Kucinich, the last remaining holdout on the Progressive Caucus, for threatening to vote no on the healthcare bill, and we all know how that ended.

There is nothing that Lieberman (or Nelson or Lincoln) is doing that Obama hasn’t ordered. Obama and the DLC-Democrats want Lieberman there, doing what he’s doing, which is to take the heat off of Democrats.
And the proof of this is that when Obama needed Nelson (re: StupakAmendment), he ‘bought’ his support. That’s what Obama could’ve done for Nelson’s or Lincoln’s vote at any time, on any legislation.

There could be 100 “progressives” in the Senate and 435 in the House, and they and Obama would still find a way to deliver to corporations instead of the People and blame it on Republicans. Because they’re DLC, aka Republicans-in-Democrats’-clothing.

The “ultra conservative long-term strategy” has worked because you keep voting for the DLC-controlled Democratic Party. It may take a few election cycles, it may never happen, but the ‘buddy system’ (the Democratic and Republican parties) has to be broken up.

Our stateside version of the Taliban would argue that it’s a good thing that after the state put new restrictions on all clinics performing abortions after 16 weeks in 2004, those procedures decreased by 88 percent.

But those opposed to these restrictions could counter that it’s a good thing that during the same period the number of late terminations obtained by Texas residents in a nearby state increased by nearly 300%?

Well that’s just swell. Too bad if you are an older woman and have an increased risk of having a child with genetic anomolies that you can’t get an amniocentesis before 15 weeks. Nothing like making a woman and child suffer simply so the moralizing morons can say they decreased the number of later abortions.

Uh on a national level President Obama allowed anti choice Democrat Stupak and his merry Taliban of 12 to dictate health care.

Let’s not play the Red and Blue Jersey game.

I’m more than aware that partial birth and a whole host of other horrible things didn’t get passsed without the help of Democrats. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous.

We must play the Red and Blue game. Don’t play and the Red Jerseys win by default. Yes, there are unreliable Democrats and certainly Democrats that aren’t progressives on most issues, but without those Dems the committee chairs belong to the Red Jerseys and they get to set the agenda. To a man or woman, the R’s are anti-EPA, anti-ESA, anti-Clean Air Act, etc. (there may be an exception, but they won’t last long). Listen to what Grover Norquist is saying, because he is dead serious. All they need is someone in the White House that can use a pen. Pass a bill, sign it into law, and whatever we’ve taken for granted during the past 50 years is over. Not to mention the partly completed goal of moving the entire judicial system to the right. You don’t think it can get worse? I don’t want to bet on that, because history says that it can. The populace may be stupid, but the leaders of the right wingers are not. They deliberately boxed progressives into a corner where the only real power that a progressive has is to prevent the Dems from winning elections, which puts the R’s in power by default. I’ll bet that my politics is to the left of yours, but I can see what has transpired and I know that the strategy that you espouse has been nullified.

And in case anyone thinks I give Dems a pass, I have a list (continually updated) of those that need to be replaced, but to replace them requires a progressive that can actually win. Until then, I wait. Just the Senators:

Jay Rockerfeller (West Virginia), Joe Manchin (West Virginia), Claire McCaskill (Missouri) Kent Conrad (North Dakota), Tim Johnson (South Dakota), Ben Nelson (Nebraska) and Jim Webb (Virginia)

and Nelson will likely be replaced next round by either an R or another Blue Dog and Conrad with an R. Note that every one of those states, with the possible exception of Virginia, is a Red State, but without them we would have Senate Leader McConnell. Sucks to be a lefty.

The red jerseys are already winning. We had a Democratic House, Senate and White House when the Blue jersey team decided to throw the game to the Red team.

As long as the game is rigged the jersey color does not matter.

Blue Jersey team–Rockefeller, Johnson, Conrad, Nelson, etc. Don’t think so–now, the nuclear option may have gotten something done. A 60 seat majority was always a myth because the D’s could never get all 60 on a controversial vote. The D’s “big tent” led to a lot of Senators that would have been R’s because they were socially moderate to be not R’s, but not liberal D’s either. Same in the House, but you cannot argue that losing the house Blue Dogs in 2010, and thus the speakership, has been a good thing for progressives or for the country.