Bill Zedler calls Wendy Davis a terrorist
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UPDATED: Saturday, June 29, 2013 12:37
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...for utilizing the very American filibuster which the Republicans have utilized far more than at any other time in history. In their case, they haven't even had the balls to actually stand up and ENDURE one, so in his eyes, does that make them COWARDLY Terrorists?Quote:
On Monday, the Texas State House voted overwhelmingly to pass SB 5, a proposal that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks, as well as adding stringent new restrictions on how clinics get licensed.
In the State Senate, the bill was met by stiff resistance, both by protestors outside, but more prominently by State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Ft. Worth), who filibustered for thirteen hours to try and stop the bill, successfully shutting the bill down.
Today, State Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington) responded by tweeting the following: “We had terrorist in the Texas State Senate opposing SB 5." Two hours later, hundreds of people called out his comment.
Zedler has already endured national ridicule for a multitude of offenses. Past instances of criminal stupidity include:
•Authoring H.B. 650, better known as the Birther Bill, which would have required all presidential and vice presidential candidates to submit a birth certificate to Texas officials for examination before they could be placed on the statewide ballot.
•Attempting earlier this year to shutter all the LGBT centers on Texas college campuses.
•Convincing the Texas Department of Health and Human Services to begin collecting detailed information on women who undergo an abortion.
Now he can be internationally known again as the man who thinks terrorists are anyone who filibusters or panders to gathered protestors to try and kill a bill they object to (or as they're known in Washington D.C.: Republicans). http://www.examiner.com/article/bill-zedler-calls-wendy-davis-a-terror
ist?cid=rss
Well, you knew it was coming. The terminology the right has become accustomed to using has gotten to the point where virtually ANYTHING they disagree with is terrorist, Nazi, Communist, dictatorial...and any time they don't get their way, out come "civil war", "revolution", "Second-Amendment solution", etc. It seems simple thing like "un-American" got left behind, apparently not strident and threatening enough for them. We'll have to remember that next time Republicans threaten a filibuster
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...aaand here comes Rick Perry, and HIS gem of "wisdom" about Davis:Quote:
Rick Perry: Wendy Davis should know better
Demonstrating the stark ideological divide between abortion supporters and opponents, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) argued Thursday that state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) should have learned more from her own life experience.
"Who are we to say that children born in the worst of circumstances can’t lead successful lives?” Perry asked in a speech at a convention held by the National Right to Life organization. “Even the woman who filibustered the Senate the other day was born into difficult circumstances. She’s the daughter of as single woman, she was a teenage mother herself. She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law School and serve in the Texas Senate. It’s just unfortunate that she hasn’t learned from her own example: that every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential, and that every life matters.”
Davis started working when she was 14 to help her single mother and siblings; by 19 she was divorced with a daughter of her own. Living in a trailer park and “destined to live the life that I watched my mother live,” as she put it in a 2011 video, Davis was encouraged by a co-worker to go to community college. She worked two jobs and took paralegal classes, transferred to Texas Christian University, and after being the first in her family to get a bachelor’s degree went on to graduate from Harvard Law School with honors. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/27/rick-p
erry-wendy-davis-should-know-better/]
And, of course, it surprises nobody that "Gov. Rick Perry (R) is calling the legislature back into session to deal with the abortion bill." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/26/texas-
special-session-will-deal-with-abortion/
These people sicken me. Perry spews forth that "Through their duly elected representatives, the citizens of our state have made crystal clear their priorities for our great state. Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn." No, Rick; when your elected representatives don't REPRESENT YOU, the citizens have little recourse, and your and your party's actions regarding people ONCE THEY ARE BORN make it patently obvious where your priorities lie.
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Heard about this.
Assuming fuzzy logic is at work regarding terrorist --> someone who kills people --> fetuses are people --> abortion supporters. (Ignored: stances on war or capital punishment)
Or something about how some of the protesters in the gallery were arrested for becoming unruly, and even though it was removed from DOD guidebooks, law enforcement and military types probably still consider protesters to be a form of low-level terrorism. As such unruly protesters --> person they support --> terrorists.
Or maybe it's just pandering to the base. Even though I've also heard Texas is surprisingly pro-choice?
Anyway, I declare these comments to be verbal assault upon my brain matter and they fail basic sniff tests for various categories of argument.
I am also sad that I think I understand how the minds of politicians process what happened. Possibly should recommend self for mental cleansing, preferably violent.
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Yes, "it's just pandering to the base". Texas' CITIZENS may be pro-choice, but remember that Texas' GOVERNMENT is in the hands of the right wing. What the citizens want means nothing to those in power if they have the power to give their citizens the finger and do exactly what they want, you already know that.
No mental cleansing required, Byte. As the old saying goes: "It's better to know where the alligator IS than where he ISN'T". And of course "Just because you're paranoid doesn't meant they AREN'T out to get you". Both good things to live by, in an insane world.
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Where Alligator Is ---> Alligator
Where Alligator Isn't --> Bliss.
Subnote: can determine location of alligator with second option via process of elimination.
Anyway. To be honest, I actually have mixed feelings about all this. I only know three things about the bill:
1) Tightened medical standards for clinics
2) 20 week limit on abortions
3) No rape exception.
It probably needed to be killed just on account of number three, but 20 weeks seems pretty generous (five months is the lower limit on fetus viability) and I thought there was already universal disapproval of late-term abortion unless there's a medical risk for the mother. And I heard that the first one would close some clinics, but by itself having high medical standards doesn't seem like a bad thing.
I also question the use of the term "hero" as applying to anyone in congress that day except for the members of the public watching in the galley. Davis, it seems to me, was just doing her job. Her feat of talking for 12 hours and ignoring physical discomfort to kill a bill was impressive, but I am not sure it was heroic.
She's definitely not a terrorist though, not any more than the people in the gallery were or the Republicans opposing her were.
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“We had terrorist in the Texas State Senate opposing SB 5."
The name "Wendy Davis " does not appear in the reported tweet. But we're SURE he meant her , right ?
Right.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
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5 months of pregnancy just isn't enough time for these idiots to decide to have an abortion. They prefer the Kermit Gosnell option....kill 'em any time before they learn to walk. Despite their pathetic efforts the 20+ week ban will be signed into law soon enough.
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I'm all in favor of late term abortions, the fewer liberals the better.
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
5 months of pregnancy just isn't enough time for these idiots to decide to have an abortion. They prefer the Kermit Gosnell option....* kill 'em any time before they learn to walk. Despite their pathetic efforts the 20+ week ban will be signed into law soon enough.
* PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia abortion doctor was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could "walk to the bus."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/15/gosnell-gets-life-in-prison-no-pa
role/#ixzz2XSihpzL2
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
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Hmm. You know, my brother was a month and a half overdue. They say he weighed ten pounds at one point before birth.
My mom didn't abort any of us, but she was wishing for the sweet embrace of death about then.
Almost happened too. Brain tumours.
*COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT*
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