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Is this what Todd Rokita really wanted? Paunchy and bloated Rokita was the subject of a segment on national news on Thursday evening, and the coverage was far from complimentary. On the contrary, Rokita was characterized as one of the very worst and most vindictive of the many Republican anti-abortion fanatics in the country. His harassment of an Indiana physician who performed an abortion for a 10-year old rape victim from Ohio, and his current crusade to possibly have her medical license revoked, was described as “a dark moment in American history.” And they reported how both the physician and her children have been subjected to death threats after Rokita began his crusade against her. Nice going, Todd, you make all of us Hoosiers so proud. We don’t at all mind being portrayed as a bunch of embittered yokels and hayseeds. And you think you should be governor? God help us.
Twice as many white voters in Georgia say they support Herschel Walker as support incumbent Raphael Warnock. Why? It’s easy, and it’s not pretty. Whites were going to bet a black senator either way, but don’t want one who is well-spoken, competent, and smart, no matter how good he is. They much prefer a pliant black candidate like Walker, no matter how unqualified and dishonest he is, because they know he will do exactly what his bosses in the Republican party tell him to do and never rock the boat. This is what deep-seeded racism looks like.
One Quickly contributor claims that it’s only the Republican party that has proposed any solutions to our problems. Let’s take a look at just a handful of these “solutions”: Republicans (including both of Indiana’s two Senators) oppose an assault weapons ban. Republicans demand voter IDs but oppose voting rights. They have tried to repeal The Affordable Care Act at least 60 times. They have opposed any spending to combat climate change. They cheered the Roe v. Wade reversal that has taken away women’s right to control over their own bodies. They have voted against infrastructure spending, but at the same time have taken credit for the jobs it creates as well as the improvements it provides. They promise to “phase out” Social Security and Medicare, and have obstructed Medicaid expansion in several of the states they control. They oppose Joe Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness initiative and have gone to court to block it. They have pledged to investigate every single member of the January 6th Commission and possibly send them to jail. Yes, indeed, that’s quite a list of solutions. Here’s the big question. Given their record, why do Hoosier voters still overwhelmingly vote for Republicans? What on earth are they thinking? Any way you look at it, it’s a mystery.
Pretty neat to hear about the upcoming Alton Brown appearance that’s taking place … the day before the paper came out. I’ll hop right into my time machine and get a ticket. I’m just one reader but I do have a request: publish things about the future in the future tense, things about the past in the past tense, and if you find the thing that was going to be in the future is now in the past? I don’t know, how about publish a news story in the newspaper.
Are the Bears playing for a high draft choice?
Two of the three judges who overturned the appointment of the special master to oversee the stolen documents stored in Trump’s closet were appointed by him. I guess his crimes cannot be ignored even by those he appointed. Go get him, DOJ. He needs to be held accountable for his actions!
Too bad Congress does not intervene in all strikes. Strikes should be against the law. A strike creates a mechanism for lazy workers to get paid for not working. It results in shoddy products, high inflation and prices and also many American jobs being exported overseas. Democrats finally stepped up to the plate. I’m proud of them.
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