A large portion of the liberal/progressive blogosphere is in an uproar over the South Dakota abortion ban. I'm not quite as ready to "man the barricades" yet because I understand completely that the ban is nothing more than a nationally sponsored vehicle to get the subject in front of the Supreme Court. It won't stand the initial rounds of court challenges, and, even if it makes it to the SCOTUS, it still will end up 5-4 FOR Roe v Wade. Sooooooo.......it's not time to panic....yet. It is, however, another alligator.
Some interesting insights are put up by Digby.
In the meantime, Senator Olympia Snowe, who spoke out against the illegal NSA wiretaping initially, folded like a cheap suitcase to White House pressure and voted AGAINST an investigation. She was joined by fellow "cheap suitcases" Sen Chuck (ES&S) Hagel and the current King of Senate Wingnuttery, Senator DeWine of Ohio. Jane Hamser has more on it here.
Tom Delay is squirming a little bit tonight. He's facing a primary battle but he expects to survive but the general election is going to be tougher yet....GOOD.
More later.....blogger has been a little squirrely this afternoon.
Let's talk about this.......
About Me
- hizzoner
- I have been involved in politics since I was 18 years old....let's just say that was a considerably long time ago. I've been in legislative service, I've been in local government as both staff and an elected official (three times actually). I have an almost child-like belief in the good that government can do and have always felt that it was my duty to make government work for the people it represented no matter what venue I was in. If I have any admirable trait at all, I think it must be insight. Maybe there's something to the zodiac sign business afterall because my sign says that I am supposed to have special insights into people and I have found that it's true....at least thus far.