The Idaho House just passed a sweeping anti-abortion bill that grants no exceptions for rape, incest, severe fetal abnormality or the mental or psychological health of the mother. As if to avoid any question of the religious basis for the measure, the sponsor state Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, explained to the House that this was God’s will.
Senate Bill 1165 bans abortion after 20 weeks on grounds of fetal pain. Crane invoked the “hand of the Almighty” and “His ways are higher than our ways. He has the ability to take difficult, tragic, horrific circumstances and then turn them into wonderful examples.” The measure passed on a 54-14 vote and now heads to the governor’s desk.
These measures have proven costly to the state. In the 1990s, the legislator passed an anti-abortion law and “spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars” unsuccessfully defending the law.
Here is the information on Crane from the House website:
Born 07/02/1974 in Nampa ID; graduated in 1992 from Nampa Christian High School, received a B.A. in Political Science with emphasis in Public Administration from Boise State University 2005; Protestant; Vice President of Crane Alarm Service; family: wife Rochenda, son Keaton and daughter Riley.
Source: Spokesman
ebob, I’m feeling sorry for the ants, not so much for Bohner though the similarity is striking 😉
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Rafflaw: “Jim, Martyrs? What the heck are you talking about now?”
Like Ryan said about his budget “It’s not a budget, it’s a cause”
These folks are on a jihad and much of it is against women. Instead of ‘no daylight between me and the tea party’, Bohner should have said ‘no daylight between our bills and Sharia law’.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/rushs-id-only-sluts-need-birth-control.html
@Jim: Why, exactly, is the Tea Party worried about debt? It is 14T, as you said, but that is equivalent to (almost exactly) one year’s worth of income (our GDP).
We pay about 1.7% interest on that debt. It is trivial; the average American household has more debt than a year’s worth of their household income; and if they could get it at 1.7% interest it would probably be a hell of a lot higher than that.
Are you just inappropriately staggered by the word trillion? What’s the problem?
Blouise,
“Last night god let me talk to Madison and Madison told me that, without a doubt, he expected government to provide entitlements for everyone. He also told me, and I quote, “Hamilton is still a bum.”
Two weeks ago when god let me talk to Washington, His Excellency told me that not getting involved in foreign affairs was only intended as guidance for Franklin.”
HHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Positively PRICELESS!!
rafflaw
1, April 8, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Jim,
Martyrs? What the heck are you talking about now?
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Savior complex … or else he thought Newt should have given his life for government shutdown …
Stamford Liberal,
Every time Jim reaches for a dictionary, it bursts into flames … and you know what that means …
Gotta go and meet the ladies.
Jim,
Martyrs? What the heck are you talking about now?
Jim,
“All polls polling tea partiers show debt as #1. Get your facts strait!”
Do keep in mind that not only teabaggers voted, dingleberry … and use a dictionary …
“Two weeks ago when god let me talk to Washington, His Excellency told me that not getting involved in foreign affairs was only intended as guidance for Franklin.”
now that is funny.
Note to Jim, Blouise wasnt talking about politics. Do I need to spell it out?
AY,
See … I told you he was fun!
Grasp this….Jim….
Newt was ousted for House Ethics Standards that they put in place complaining about Jim Wright forcing people to buy his book and make a contribution to the House Republican Fund….It appears what you are saying is total shit….now go wipe and tell your momma you smell…maybe she’ll clean you…
Jim hates us cause we don’t need handouts, because we make a lot of money, because we all have degrees, and not a one of us wants anything to do with his Republican Party.
God told me that Jim is trying to ruin all the prosperity that god has showered upon me by trying to convince me to join his party full of paupers and pervert teabaggers.
I’m a god-fearing progressive who enjoys all the blessings that god has showered upon me for living life as a liberal.
Jim, get thee behind me.
@Jim: So? I do not agree they ARE a handout, but so what if they are? How does that negate their value or efficacy? What do you propose to accomplish by starving people, or throwing them out on the street, or letting their children die of pneumonia because they fear the expense of an E.R. visit?
You accomplish nothing. Your taxes are not decreased or increased, but you will pay anyway, in the form of inflated prices and premiums when the cost of their desperation moves, bankruptcies, and defaults get passed on to you in the form of higher prices.
Even if all you intend to accomplish is punishment, that won’t do any good either. These people didn’t QUIT their jobs, they got dismissed because business closed (or sent the jobs elsewhere). You are punishing them for something that was not their fault, and that kind of punishment just breeds resentment and a desire for retribution against those that imposed it.
I don’t care if it is a handout, or charity, those terms carry no negative weight with me when applied to the unemployed that would work if they could.
I do not consider it a handout; I consider it an investment that will pay for itself in the future by saving a working member of society; and whether that pay off actually ends up returning to me the few dollars I contributed is immaterial to me; I do not count my pennies or spend my nights dreaming of riches.
Rafflaw,
I have read about many Martyrs who didn’t give in and paid with their life. That is what you call not caving in.
When government extends unemployment benefits it then becomes a handout. Why is that so hard to understand?
rafflaw,
No extended unemployment is a handout.
Newt caved because he gave in. He was the speaker and made the decisions. Being forced to do something and then doing it is caved.
Jim,
You seem to ignore reality. Newt Gingrich didn’t cave. He was pushed to the result by his own party and then he was ousted from his Speaker position. Why do you think Karl Rove has warned the Republicans about this shutdown and why is Huckabee against the shutdown, even over abortion issues?????
Finally, Unemployment compensation is paid for by employees and employers through payroll taxes and it is not a “handout” Another issue that you are missing is that unemployment benefits, dollar for dollar, are one of the best ways to stimulate a bad economy.
Tony C
You are wrong about unemployment. Extended benefits is a handout no matter how you define it. My arguement is government should not be giving handouts but rather people should be helping people willingly. If government would have followed my advice we wouldn’t have a debt problem!
@Jim: Your claim of what would have happened is bullshit; if anybody knows how politics is played it is the sociopaths like Newt and Cheney. Newt’s best judgment was he should cave.
If the government is still shut down three months from now, Obama will be portraying the Republicans as the spoiled, tantrum throwing children they are. It isn’t hard to do, and if you think the rank and file Republicans in the House want that image of them burned into the memories of voters come 2012 and their elections, you should think again. The Tea Party may be influential, but only a handful of the hundreds of Republicans in the House can get elected without Independents, and as Wisconsin proves, Independents will abandon the Republicans in droves when they try to overreach and refuse to compromise.