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edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7690

Thanks, but I'm not impressed.

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:22 pm

edge540 wrote:

Thanks, but I'm not impressed.

File that under "nobody cares" because every one considers you an idiot.

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7690

A Rare Deal

There’s nothing like a deadline — and the prospect of acute political embarrassment — to concentrate the mind. With Congress about to go on recess, and with Republicans fearing a voter backlash, negotiators on Wednesday were putting the finishing touches on a deal to extend the payroll tax cut and federal jobless benefits through 2012.
The agreement is imperfect but sound. It will help struggling Americans and the struggling economy. It is also a political win for Democrats and President Obama, who had made extending the payroll tax cut and the jobless benefits a centerpiece of his jobs agenda. We hope that it gives them the courage to stick to that agenda if they face another round of Republican obstructionism.

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7690

Ah yes, the GOP, the party of "small government" mandating the unnecessary insertion of a probe into a woman's vagina against her will. What a great idea.

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Breaking from Newsmax.com
Va. House Scraps Invasive Abortion Prerequisite

RICHMOND, Va. — Amid a public uproar that prompted Virginia's governor to withdraw his support, Republican legislators on Wednesday dropped a bitterly contested proposal to require that women seeking abortions undergo invasive ultrasound imaging, likely dooming the bill.

The Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted 65-32 for an amended bill that requires only an external ultrasound, not the vaginal insertion of a wand-like device that emits ultrasonic waves that are used to create images of the fetus.

The House amended the bill shortly after Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell issued a statement opposing the more invasive procedure. McDonnell, who has been mentioned as a possible vice-presidential candidate, shifted ground after the proposal drew outrage from women, national ridicule from television comedians and appeals from GOP moderates concerned about the political impact in the presidential battleground state.

"Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper role for the state," said McDonnell, a socially conservative Catholic who had voiced support for the legislation last week. "No person should be directed to undergo an invasive procedure by the state, without their consent, as a precondition to another medical procedure." His written statement came as the House's majority Republicans quarreled over how to handle the legislation minutes before it was to be debated. House Republicans twice recessed Wednesday's session to regroup. The final vote was mostly along party lines.

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