It's always been considered that Republicans were the party of government spending restraint. This particular set of congress critters representing the GOP seem to have lost that mission.
The Republican base, as it were, is angry.
GOP CONGRESS ON STEROIDS"Congress under Republican control has increased earmarks 873 percent in a decade."
- Columnist George Will
Partial Birth Abortion Upheld by 9TH Circuit
The legislators, ladies and gems, keep trying to stop the practice of partial birth abortion. A procedure where babies are murdered in their mothers' wombs through insertion of a long needle into their brains. Partial birth abortions are done all the way up through the day of birth if required.
The un-elected Justices, beginning with Roe vs. Wade, seem to think legislating abortion is their job. Not that the voters couldn't decide such a thing, what a concept. So the 9th circuit of the federal court continues to uphold the practice of partial birth abortion.
Give them time. Soon enough it will be permissible to kill a five-year-old, hey we'll call it "after birth abortion". This will be especially permissible in the case where the five-year-old is dangerous to the "health of the mother".
From the AP:
9TH CIRCUS UPHOLDS BARBARIC PROCEDURE"A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a congressional ban on a form of abortion is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling in June 2004, saying the ban on partial-birth abortions lacks an exception for when a woman's health is at stake. The ruling also called the ban 'impermissibly vague.'"
- Associated Press, 1/31/06
Leaving With a Smile
Erma, we miss you.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
-Erma Bombeck-
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1 - El Bicho
If you think Durbin mixing up a website's name is funny, you must be in hysterics with the President bungling the name of an ally in the War on Terror.
"I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company."