They’re crawling out of the woodwork like roaches on a mission.
Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter (R) said that it’s OK for women to have coat hanger abortions because it’s for a greater good.
A video obtained by Rachel Maddow’s blog captures Carpenter saying he is proud of Mississippi’s attempts to outlaw abortion outright, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled abortions legal in the United States.
His exact words.
It’s going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all — but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to– Roe vs. Wade. So we’ve done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They’re like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can’t afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger. That’s what we’ve learned over and over and over.’
But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere, and that’s what we’ve decided to do. This became law and the governor signed it, and I think for one time, we were first in the nation in the state of Mississippi.
The thinly veiled scam that Mississippi is pulling off here is passing a law they claim puts an end to coat hanger abortions by placing restrictions on which doctors can perform abortions in Mississippi. What the law does in fact is jeopardize the existence of Mississippi’s only abortion clinic thereby leaving women without the means to travel out of state to take matters into their own hands.
The only explanation I can think of on how legislators like Bubba in Mississippi can sleep at night after passing draconian laws that endanger the lives of women is that they’re sociopaths.
And the only explanation I can think of on how people can vote sociopaths like Bubba into office is that they’re a terribly ignorant and backward bunch.
Also, it should be illegal for anyone with the name ‘Bubba’ to enter politics.
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Thanks to the idiots and bigots in Mississippi we in Tennessee don’t look quite as bad. We only come across as the second stupidest state!
I don’t know, Charlie. Tennessee and Mississippi are running a tight race for the dunce cap trophy. Your governor is putting up a good fight.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/12/11668279-new-tennessee-law-aims-to-curb-teaching-gateway-sexual-activity?lite
Our dear governor Bill Haslam’s first official act after being sworn in was to rescind the act of his predecessor that made it mandatory for top officials, including the governor, to make their finances public. I haven’t trusted anything the bastard has done since then.
There are enough outright idiots in some of the states, think Florida, Texas, and North Carolina for starters, that maybe we should have the dunce cap on a rotating schedule. Share the prestige of the pointy hat.
When I lived in Alabama everyone would say, “Thank God for Mississippi!”. Because if it weren’t for Mississippi, Alabama would be last in everything.
No matter how open-minded I try to be, some politician from a southern state (it used to be Democrats when I was a kid, but now it’s always a Republican or bagger) pulls some bonehead stunt that reinforces all the negative regional stereotypes. What Carpenter said is the kind of thing that almost makes me wish that, instead of fighting a war, Lincoln had just let them go – I have a feeling that eventually, war or not, the confederacy would have failed anyway. Whenever I meet someone and find out their provenance is from one of the former CSA states, my first impulse is to offer my condolences. The prejudice is mutual, though. I once worked in an office where a large segment of the staff had been brought in from South Carolina. They constantly tried to get a rise out of me by commenting on the high level of lead pollution (i.e., bullets) in the air of northern cities.
By the way, Bubba’s real first name is Lester. That’s not much better, because, offhand, the only other Lester that comes to mind is Lester Maddox.
Again, what is most disgusting is the fact that these people are voted in. Women represent a slightly higher majority over men. These guys should not be in office – but they are, thanks to the help from ignorant women. Those women are either self-loathing – or dumber than a box of rocks.
Dumbing down the education in America has certainly worked for the Republicans.
My mother (who is missing the logic gene) voted for Kennedy because he was handsome. She voted for Bush – because he ran an ad that “Kerry” rhymed with “scary”. She voted for McCain because she thought Palin was real (yeah, real dumb). She is the the ideal voter for Rove, etc. I know this is going to grate – but I think you should have to pass a test proving that you have some sort of idea about current events, etc. before being allowed to vote.
Cheryl – our founders felt the same way – so the only people they allowed to have the vote were landed white men. If you didn’t own property, you were the unwashed, uneducated masses (we know, of course, that was not true – or it would still be that way).
Of course, our founders understood the value of education — so does the GOP, who have spent years working towards dumbing down the population for their purposes. NCLB made Bush’s brother millions selling his software program to schools. Remember when mama Bush donated the program to all those kids (without computers) at the Super Dome in Houston — that was a real nice write off for her and added more money to her son’s coffers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush
Isn’t it nice to know that our tax dollars were spent enriching the brother of the President to millionaire status? How sweet!
And we simply ended up with more and more students incapable of coming to logical conclusions. Hell, they can’t even spell half the time.
That said, I’d prefer the unwashed masses participating over the landed gentry putting their agenda ahead of ours — oh, sorry, I forgot — that’s what we now have, isn’t it?
I think we should just give them the south and let them build their plutocracy/theocracy below the Mason Dixon. I’m pretty much exhausted with all their hate.
Some counties are missing the logic gene.
In slight defense of my southern home there are many Western and Northern states whose populations are also missing the logic gene. I just looked at a political map of America and saw many red states in both these areas.
Why do Republicans defund education?
“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans — unless they have “too much education” and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”
Karl Rove
“Dumbing down the education in America has certainly worked for the Republicans.”
Cheryl – I think it’s universally accepted that the teacher’s unions, and the educational system in general, have been dominated by Democrats for the last 40 years. That includes “higher” education.
Diana, I thought you were a product of that higher education. I would have expected you to know this.