Abortion is a faux, but hot button, issue, and both parties are exploiting it to the hilt.
For reasons I don't understand, the issue of abortion rights is a hot button issue in the Presidential campaign. There is little, if anything, the President can do either to criminalize or further to legalize abortion, as I pointed out in an article here last month. Sure, he (or she) can nominate Supreme Court justices, and some may be nominated during the next four years. However, that doesn't count for much, even if the President were successful in getting seated a Supreme Court justice whose views on abortion reflected his own,Supreme Court justices sometimes do not behave as either the President or the Senate contemplated that they would. They tend, in most cases, to look to the unique facts, the procedural context of the case, and the U.S. Constitution to make up their minds; when they don't, they should. That is their job.Their job is not to impose their own religious, political or even moral views on the rest of us. Nevertheless, abortion is a hot button issue.…
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126 - Irene Wagner
Ruvy, if things keep spinning out of control the way you think they may be, the UNITED STATES Senate might try to pull something like that off!
127 - Irene Wagner
Franco - you were posting #116 while I was posting #117, so I didn't notice your questions to me there 'til now. I think I'd just repeat #114 to answer them.
Jesus did make Pilates head spin, yes. He made McCain's and Obama's heads spin, too. Cynicism in politics has never been in short supply.