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An article earlier today said Republicans were underestimating the numbers of women in their party using abortion services.
– unable to find this article.
The research I have seen would support this. Banning abortions does not lower their incidence, it only increases the harm to mothers as they seek more dangerous ways to accomplish it. What does lower abortion rates is to take care of the needs of mothers, infants, and families with good affordable health care, living wages, and supports for families in the community throughout the years of raising children.
I think we should be pointing out that during President Barack Obama’s administration abortion rates came down to an historic low. It’s explained by the supports his administration was building particularly in the health care and coverage areas.
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Going to our usual Tuesday Indivisible meetup at our Senator Merkley’s office then straight to the rally downtown. Women’s rights are human rights.
All they do is talk …
Thought out plan?
bbl …
YUP …
BTW, that is a fine paraphrase of exactly what Elizabeth Holtzman said to Lawrence 2 weeks ago – and she knows of what she speaks!
bbl …
Past time
This is my representative.
Lucky you
Karma! She’s not a lady.
Pls see Chairman Nadler’s opening statement document the relationship history of Trump and McGahn at:
https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=393930
–which includes–
“The Special Counsel also found the following:
“Substantial evidence indicates that by June 17, 2017, the President knew his conduct was under investigation by a federal prosecutor who could present any evidence of federal crimes to a grand jury.”
“Substantial evidence indicates that the President’s attempts to remove the Special Counsel were linked to the Special Counsel’s oversight of investigations that involved the President’s conduct—and most immediately, to reports that the President was being investigated for potential obstruction of justice.”
“Substantial evidence indicates that in repeatedly urging McGahn to dispute that he was ordered to have the Special Counsel terminated, the President acted for the purpose of influencing McGahn’s account in order to deflect or prevent further scrutiny of the President’s conduct towards the investigation.”
“Substantial evidence indicates that the President’s effort to have Sessions limit the scope of the Special Counsel’s investigation to future election interference was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct.”
Chairman Nadler concluded his statement with:
“But for the DOJ’s policy of refusing to indict any sitting president,
I believe that each of these incidents, documented in detail in the Mueller report, constitutes a crime. But for the Department of Justice’s policy of refusing to indict a sitting President, I believe he would have been charged with these crimes. I am not alone in this belief. Over 900 former federal prosecutors, from across the political spectrum—whose job was to determine when the elements of a crime have been satisfied—have agreed that the President committed crimes and would have been charged if he were not the President.
And I believe that the President’s conduct since the report was released, with respect to Mr. McGahn’s testimony and other information we have sought, has carried this pattern of obstruction and cover up well beyond the four corners of the Mueller report. The President has declared out loud his intention to cover up this misconduct. He told Mr. McGahn to commit crimes on his behalf. He told Mr. McGahn to lie about it. After the report came out, the President claimed that Mr. McGahn lied to the Special Counsel about what happened. Then he directed Mr. McGahn not to come here today, so that the public would not hear his testimony and so that we could not question him.
President Trump may think he can hide behind his lawyers as he launches a series of baseless legal arguments designed to obstruct our work. He cannot think these legal arguments will prevail in court. He he can think he can slow us down and run out the clock on the American people.”
Let me be clear: this Committee will hear Mr. McGahn’s testimony, even if we have to go to court to secure it.
We will not allow the President to prevent the American people from hearing from this witness.
We will not allow the President to block congressional subpoenas, putting himself and his allies above the law.
We will not allow the President to stop this investigation, and nothing in these unjustified and unjustifiable legal attacks will stop us from pressing forward with our work on behalf of the American people.
We will hold this President accountable, one way or the other.”
Lots of words. Zero action. Pitiful.
we’ve all played our parts and imo Nadler is playing his part with brilliance.
About actions…read.between.the.lines.
No disrespect intended.
All I see ‘between the lines’ is white nothingness.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to abandon her “measured approach” and begin impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump.”
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-calls-on-nancy-pelosi-to-abandon-her-measured-approach-to-impeachment/
= (note to inside-outside voice)
I agree with AOC. Begin impeachment proceedings now. Doesn’t matter if the Senate will not impeach. Put Trump’s sleaziness before the American voters and force Trump to go on the defense.
Fact: All the evidence is there in the Mueller report to convict.
Barr managed to invent a few non-legal talking points for GOP – especially as they were never going to read the report.
YUP
Could not agree with you more, pkayden.
Thank you for the AOC update, bridge!
There is a crook sitting in the White House and what is so pitiful is most Republicans know that but they don’t care. What do that make them?
-cynicism is understandable right now!
Would be nice to take KOCH tea party Rep. Amash at face value….wish I could…beware libertarian presidential.
OOOPS! Yep. And here it is….
“There is growing buzz that Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) will leave the Republican Party to mount a challenge against President Trump as the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/444653-buzz-grows-rep-amash-will-challenge-trump-as-a-libertarian
–wow how transparent was that?
–how about a nice moderate looking libertarian to replace a fascist?
Looks to me like overlords KOCH are fine with Trump gone.
Thread…
Thread…
Fucking idiot
So now:
KOCH brothers try to rebrand from greedy capitalists to benevolent philanthropists.
“…the repeated efforts by the Kochs and their network to smother climate science, kill clean air and climate regulations, and thwart the renewable energy revolution are making the problem much worse and speeding the nation and the world on a path to self-destruction.
A new name, website, and slogan can’t change that reality.”
https://thinkprogress.org/koch-network-rebrand-capitalist-philanthropist-53ac4635081a/
Oh and if you please they want to be known henceforth as:
1) “Stand Together Foundation.”
2) “Koch network” = instead of “the fucking globe-asphyxiating, Earth extinguishing, murdering KOCH brothers”.
Thanks. More sequential reading tonight!
Senator Connie Leyva, the bill’s primary sponsor:
“If you don’t want to have an abortion, don’t have one. If you do, we live in the United States, where Roe v. Wade is the law and it’s our responsibility to ensure that access.”
Run Sybrina Run…
Win Sybrina Win
Kerry Eleveld wrote about Mueller declining to testify in case it looks ‘political’:
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/21/1859423/-America-needs-Robert-Mueller-s-service-one-more-time-Testify-publicly-set-the-record-straight)
“If Mueller is the patriot that his long record of distinguished public service suggests, then for god’s sake, step up to the plate now and play it down the line. America needs an arbiter of fairness now more than ever, and the country is knocking on your door one more time. Open it.”
…New York state lawmakers passed a measure Tuesday that would allow prosecutors to pursue state charges against certain individuals even if they have received a presidential pardon, a move seen as a direct shot at President Donald Trump. …
JER! You always find amazing nuggets! Woo-hoo! 💃
Nazi propaganda mocked disabled people;
within a few years, they were being sterilized and then exterminated.
Sound familiar?
“Ullrich shows how carefully Hitler prepared his speeches.
-Seemingly spontaneous, they were in fact calculated. Full of base allegations and vile stereotypes, they were precisely designed to gain maximum attention from the media and maximum reaction from the crowds he addressed. When he declared that fines were of no use against those he called Jewish criminals, his listeners interrupted him with chants of “Beatings! Hangings!”
-Aided by his talented propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, Hitler not only flaunted his vulgarity and exploited tribal hatreds; he also lied and lied his way to success. The Jews, he argued, had stabbed the German Army in the back in 1918; the politicians of the other parties, he insisted, were hopelessly venal and corrupt and should be put in jail; the Nazi thugs who were condemned to death in 1932 for the “Potempa murders” were victims of a “monstrous blood-verdict”; liberal newspapers that criticized Hitler were, as Goebbels put it, the “Jewish lying press.”
-Few took Hitler seriously or thought that he would actually put his threats against the country’s tiny Jewish minority, his rants against feminists, left-wing politicians, homosexuals, pacifists, and liberal newspaper editors, into effect. Fewer still believed his vow to quit the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations. But within a few months of taking office, he did all of these things—and much more. Once in power, the Nazi regime was run exclusively by men.”
(https://www.thenation.com/article/the-ways-to-destroy-democracy/)
May be my thinking is simplistic but here goes:
The fact that the republican-controlled senate will not vote to impeach that homegrown demagogue scumbag should be welcomed by Democrats and not feared.
Why: because it would put every elected member of congress and senate on record about that scumbag.
therefore, it would give Democrats another chance to demonstrate to us voters that the republicans have been consistent in their complicity in the deep corruption going on.
As such the Democratic party as a whole would get a chance to campaign for a need to clean out all the complicity republicans.
maybe I am naive
Nope. I agree 100%. What I have always thought, just never expressed it. To me, it’s common sense. Sadly, too often the Dems are 1. Scared of their own shadows and 2. Totally suck at messaging. It astounds me how they never learn to FIGHT, not like the Rs, but clean and right FIGHT. And, how year after year and year, the Rs run away with messaging on EVERY issue. Makes me crazy.
Lawdy & Jaysus! The “best” iQ45 people! Yup!
https://www-vox-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/5/21/18634580/ben-carson-oreo-hearing-disaster?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQA#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F2019%2F5%2F21%2F18634580%2Fben-carson-oreo-hearing-disaster
Uggh, thought it would post a “clean” link!
OMG, tonight’s Colbert monologue is 😂😂
Just hearing about this cameo appearance from old creepy Rex:
John Heilmann on Last Word tonight – the House will Impeach Trump. Correct.
Congressman Justin Amash, a Republican, has had an obvious transformative effect on House Dems.
Goodnight TOD …
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL statement from Pete.
Those words….give me hope and reminds me that things do not have to be the way they are now…they challenge what we have today…and show us that there is a better way forward…
YesWeCan,,StrongerTogether
There seems to be a lot going on behind the scenes in the Democratic lead house.
Good morning TOD ….
Rather than distracting, Speaker Pelosi has the opportunity to amplify the Legislative message of Dems while defending the Constitution and our National Security.
Trump’s Records Are In Merrick Garland’s Hands
Revenge is a dish best served Merrick. #LSSC #Colbert #Monologue
Brilliant as ever…give that man a toffee apple! love Col-burt.
Morning everyone. Share.
How many electoral votes would that be so far?
https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-States-Electoral-College-Votes-by-State-1787124
Oh Donnie boy, the pipes, the pipes are bursting.
😂😂😂
Ooh to think of it, oooh to dream of it…makes my he-a-eart seem light.
I know you’re all shocked
A thought:)
Yep, Speaker Pelosi wouldn’t just throw the word “cover up” out there haphazardly.
Go Pelosi! So proud of you gurl.
Someone’s scared
FYI
‘Dry snitching on himself’ 😂😂😂😂😂
I had the same reaction 🙂
It’s funny:) And true:)
Thread. Down and dirty Cliffnotes version of Cohen docs
Speaker Pelosi needs to keep doing what she’s doing. He’s going to blow.
heh. stellar captions.
What a stupid chump.
Zacklee
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxxZ_aOIYC9/
Ummmm, whaaaaat????
😎😎😎
The Party of the Rule
Of Law and Transparency! What a hot mess they are!!
Speaker Pelosi:
“For some reason – maybe it was lack of confidence on his part – that he really couldn’t match the greatness of the challenge that we have, wasn’t really respectful of the reason of the congress and the white house working together. He just took a pass, and it just makes me wonder why he did that. In any event, I pray for the President of the United States. And I pray for the United States of America.”
-snorting heffalump responds stage left-
Destroying your opponent while praying for your opponent.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi-Tzu
It’s what happens when liars lie
Can someone post this PERFECT sign!!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212118554
It is posted further below. It would not post here.
Judgement Day is coming!!!
“His judgment cometh and that right soon”
The Shawshank Redemption.
Chairman Schiff:
“The Department of Justice has accepted our offer of a first step towards compliance with our subpoena, and this week will begin turning over to the Committee twelve categories of counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials as part of an initial rolling production. That initial production should be completed by the end of next week.
As a result of the Department’s acceptance, the business meeting has been postponed. The Committee’s subpoena will remain in effect, and will be enforced should the Department fail to comply with the full document request.
The Department has repeatedly acknowledged the Committee’s legitimate oversight interest in these materials. I look forward to, and expect, continued compliance by the Department so we can do our vital oversight work.”
(Easley: https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/22/adam-schiff-barr-mueller-docs.html)
–Um.
–Winning.
While this may be a good start, since when does an agency get to set any terms after it has been served with a subpoena? GTFOOH!
Giving our own JOB a run for the money
Resign, traitor
Consider the trumpetry:
“”In June 2015, Trump promised that if elected president, he would rebuild the country’s infrastructure. “Nobody can do that like me,” he said, “Believe me. It will be done on time, on budget, way below cost, way below what anyone ever thought.””
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-america-infrastructure-congress-stops-doing-oversight-39f29d965596/
Today Pelosi: “Last night he put forth a letter saying that unless we passed the U.S./Mexico/Canada free trade agreement, there was no reason for us to, you know, we couldn’t go forward with infrastructure.”
Today Schumer: “When we got in the room, the curtains were closed, the president – there was a place for him at the front, so he could stand and attempt to tell us why he wouldn’t do infrastructure. And of course, then he went to the Rose Garden with prepared signs that had been printed up long before our meeting.”
For DF:
2 precious lives taken in the last 2 weeks.
The kings of cruelty will pay for what their brownshirts are doing to our children in their gulags. Justice will be done.
-The CA University system is potentially on track to provide free abortion pills that address early pregnancy.
SOON – 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg participates in Queens County Democratic Party town hall – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
Sen. Cory Booker would put an ‘Office of Reproductive Freedom’ in the White House.”
“Amid a nationwide onslaught of anti-abortion bills whose reach and cruelty seem to be expanding at ever-increasing rates, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced Wednesday that, if elected president, he would create a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom on his first day in the White House.” (https://thinkprogress.org/cory-booker-would-put-an-office-of-reproductive-freedom-in-the-white-house-e8e3bfe7d793/)
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/05/22/netflix-and-obama/
Trump v Deutsche Bank!!