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Ice Scrapers: Great Idea, Bad Timing

by: Dean Barker

Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 08:04:56 AM EST
Dorgan again:
A few of the take-aways from the Republican State Committee meeting last week: Cornerstone Policy Research had a basket of little plastic fetuses. And Gregg's folk handed out ice scrapers emblazoned "see clearly with Judd Gregg."
Great idea - the ice scrapers, that is (I'm at a loss for words about the plastic fetuses).

The timing could have been better though.  The scrapers would have come in really handy, for example, when Gregg won an $800K+ powerball lottery and voted against increasing home heating assistance on the same day:

Gregg didn't let that good fortune keep him from putting in a full day's work yesterday. For instance, he found time to vote against a bill that would have helped poor families pay their home heating costs this winter. (Gregg was the only New England senator to vote against the proposal.)

A day earlier, Gregg voted against raising the minimum wage by $1.10, to $6.25 an hour. That wage hasn't increased since 1997.

Gregg wasted no time claiming his share of the Powerball prize, picking up his oversized check from the lottery commission and depositing it in his bank account.
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Ice Scrapers: Great Idea, Bad Timing | 6 comments
Plastic fetuses? (0.00 / 0)
That's disgusting! And it's also sick.

There is a lunatic who drives around with photos of fetuses on his/her vehicle (or supposed photos of fetuses). While driving in Manchester with my then five year old in the car. we encountered this.

Also, look at the voting records of reps who are anti-choice. They vote against kindergarten, children's health care, etc. They have turned the fetus into a totem onto which they project their concepts of innocence, infancy, etc. But once that fetus is born, they don't care whether it is educated, abused, starves to death, gets lead poisoned, or receives health care.

There are a few anti-choice people who do, but they are in the vast minority.

Right to Life does not mean Right to Quality of Life (0.00 / 0)
Plastic fetuses? Really?

If the most radical and self-righteous elements in the pro-life movement really cared that much about the next generation, they wouldn't be so cavalier about producing (wasting resources and creating unnecessary pollution) single-use plastic novelty items that will sit in landfills and take centuries to decompose, assuming everything else in the space-consuming landfill decomposes as well--not to mention overpopulation exponentially worsening the problems of resources, production, and waste in the lifetimes of future generations.  But of course, these people are the saviors of children yet to be born.

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Hope 2012

@DougLindner

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what does one do (4.00 / 1)
with a plastic fetus, besides fetishize it? These people are seriously insane. Their concern for the fetus runs from conception to birth, and after that, the little tot can pull itself up by it's bootstraps.  

sanctimonious purist/professional lefty
bootie-straps n/t (4.00 / 2)

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Plastic Fetus Precedent (0.00 / 0)
I would expect Cornerstone to be a bit more creative, rather than stealing from Bob Smith's humiliating Senate floor presentation.
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Feeling a little antagonistic-- (0.00 / 0)
So, let me just observe that terminating a pregnancy is a matter of self-defense.  It really doesn't matter at what stage the ovum or fetal development has arrived.  If a pregnancy isn't terminated timely, it's a potentially life-threatening situation.

Now, humans routinely brave life-threatening situations.  But, they shouldn't be forced to.

Plastic fetuses go with plastic people. If that's what makes them happy, we should probably thank our lucky stars.

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