PBS: NewsHour- ‘Five States Move to Restrict Access to Abortion Services’

Source:PBS NewsHour– Ilyse Hogue from National Pro-Choice America.

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From Wikipedia

“Five states have moved to adopt tighter abortion regulations, including North Dakota, which has the nation’s strictest abortion regulation, outlawing abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life and Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America.”

From the PBS NewsHour

All of these abortion restriction laws are coming in red states that like to complain about big government and government interfering in our lives and so-forth and yet they write laws that do exactly that. And interfere with the most personal of decisions that Americans will ever make which get’s to our healthcare.

In this case women’s healthcare and who decides whether women give birth or not after being pregnant. Apparently big government in red states is government they do not like mainly as it relates to the economy. But big government that they do like as it has to do with our personal lives is okay, because: “It’s in our national interest to have government making these decisions for us. Rather than individuals have the freedom and responsibility to make these decisions for ourselves.”

And then you get to the constitutional and legal aspects of this where these laws will be ruled unconstitutional. Because of the rock solid pro-choice majority on it. And you have states defending laws in court with taxpayer funds that will be ruled unconstitutional. Money that would’ve been spent for other things that would not get thrown out.

You can also see this post at The New Democrat, on WordPress.

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ABC News: Good Morning America- Rick Santorum: ‘In It To Win’

Source:ABC News– Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (Republican, Pennsylvania) talking to ABC News about his presidential campaign.

“Former Senator from Pennsylvania declares intention to run for U.S. president. For more on this story, click here:ABC News.”

From ABC News

Is there any point in taking Rick Santorum seriously anymore except for maybe when we need and are looking for a good laugh: I mean this is the guy who’s a devout Catholic who blamed with Catholic Church scandal with their Priests back in 2002, on gays.

Now today Senator Santorum says the reason why American soldiers fought in World War II, so they can have freedom of choice in their health care.

Senator Santorum, didn’t mention the fact that American military personal fought in World War II: number one, to defend themselves, number two, to defend their fellow servicemen, and number three to defend their country. Thats why we fought in World War II. It’s not like guys were telling their wives and families: “Honey, dad, mom etc, I must fight in World War II so we can continue to have freedom of choice in our health care!”

We went to War in World War II to save European Jews from being genocide and two prevent further genocides of Jews. (To state the obvious) It had nothing to do with health care or health insurance.

And for Rick Santorum, by the way how he ever get elected to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania: Was the whole state high on marijuana on Election Day in 1994? His statement is complete nonsense. (For lack of a better word)

Rick Santorum who I assume for argument sake means well and I don’t put people down for the fun of it (contrary to popular opinion) is another example of how weak the GOP presidential field of 2012 is.

Senator Santorum is also  another example of how the President Obama’s potential competition is his best asset. And who thirty years ago would’ve been considered a fringe Far-Right presidential  candidate, because of his outrageous statements.

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Hoover Institution: Uncommon Knowledge With Peter Robinson- ‘Politics With Haley Barbour’

Source:Hoover Institution– Uncommon Knowledge With Peter Robinson.

“In 2003 Haley Barbour was elected governor of Mississippi, becoming only the second Republican governor since Reconstruction. In 2007 he won reelection to a second and final term. Since June of last year, Governor Barbour has served as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

Will the GOP recapture the House once again this year? The Senate? How many of the 37 gubernatorial races will the GOP win? Haley Barbour offers his political insights on the November elections. He further describes why he believes that Barack Obama represents “the biggest lurch to the left in American political history,” and responds to where he’d like to see the Republican Party stand on issues ranging from Obama Care and immigration to the Ground Zero mosque. Finally, he analyzes his own prospects as a presidential candidate in 2012 and the chances that he will run.”

From the Hoover Institution

Governor Haley Barbour is right for the GOP and I’m not sure he would put it this way and I don’t pretend to speak for him, but for the GOP to have any shot at winning back the White House in 2012, they are going to have to nominate a presidential nominee that at least part of their vast base has issues with. Thats the only way they are going to win the White House in 2012.

This means nominating someone who is yes an economic conservative, but someone who’s probably not a Neo-Conservative, when it comes to foreign policy and national security. And someone who’s not a Christian-Conservative (or any other Religious-Conservative) like in the case of Mitt Romney who at least at one point was pro-choice on abortion and homosexuality and introduced civil unions in Massachusetts to America back in 2003-04.

The problem with Mitt Romney is that economic conservatives don’t like him because of his health Care law that looks a lot like the Affordable Care Act of 2010. So thats why Tim Pawlenty is a viable alternative to Governor Romney because he’s an economic conservative who at least to this point hasn’t pushed a Christian-Conservative agenda in his presidential campaign.

Which is why candidates like Rick Santorum, Michele Bachman, Sarah Palin who has a laundry list of other issues, which is why she’s not a credible candidate, but why these other candidates aren’t serious contenders at this point, because they push the Christian-Conservative agenda real hard and look intolerant. And why they would never beat President Obama in 2012.

Christian-Conservatives in the GOP really belong in their own fringe Far- Right party and not in a major political Party like the GOP.

And if the Republican Party ever gets back to its Conservative-Libertarian roots of limited government and moves away from this authoritarian route they’ve been on for twenty years now, they’ll be a major player in American politics and a ruling majority party that could compete anywhere in the country, not just in the Bible Belt. And compete with the Democratic Party in all racial, ethnic, and religious groups.

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