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
No, If Newt wouldn’t have caved, Clinton would have been blamed. Did you not read what I wrote above.
@Jim: If we want everyone to get a college education, who will work at walmart, mcdonalds, etc?
First, I for one do not want everyone to get a college education; I want everybody that wants a college education to get a college education.
Second, I don’t think everybody is capable of being a knowledge worker or inclined toward that; and I don’t think we need that many laborers anyway. A generation or two from now, McDonald’s will be a robot; the store will be automated, run by the tenth generation of IBM’s Watson program or something similar.
Contrary to myth; The trend in technology is to take low level jobs like those you are talking about. Machines dig all the long ditches now, not an army of men with picks and shovels. Computers and robots can produce 100% of the framing of a house, out of wood, and load it on trucks and bring it to a site. A crane lifts the pieces out, and men use electric drills to bolt it together: But since all the bolts are in the same place every time, it isn’t a stretch to imagine a robot doing that too. Thanks to machines, an entire 3000 sf house can be framed on site in a thousandth of the time it would take with hand tools. Machines are eating our jobs from the bottom up; even the labor costs overseas are just a stopgap measure on the way to the automated future.
We may not be able to do away with humans altogether, but since the lifetime cost of a robotic worker (purchase plus all energy and maintenance costs) is about 22c per operational hour, and they are more productive and reliable than humans, it should be obvious to anybody why we will try. The pool of jobs you are talking about is evaporating fast.
Jim,
You seem to be forgetting recent history when the last shutdown was also caused by the Teapublicans. The crazies have taken over the party and it will be good for America to see that the Right has not learned from Newt Gingrich’s fiasco.
Jim,
Historically, you are incorrect and displaying wishful thinking. When the government shut down under Clinton (at the doing of the GOP), it boosted Clinton’s numbers and hurt the GOP in the next state election cycle. I’m also just thrilled that you – a shill for the GOP – advocates government by coercion over government by cooperation. It shows what a bunch of unreasonable asshats the GOP has in charge right now. Government by “my way or the highway” is simply obstructionist extortion; the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one’s office or authority.
Have a nice day.
“Jobs won’t get created and a bad economy always falls at the lap of the President. Stay true Repbublicans!”
Poe’s law in action folks.
I can tell you that if the government shuts down, then the Republicans should keep it shut until they get what they want. The longer it stays closed, the more the President will get blamed. Jobs won’t get created and a bad economy always falls at the lap of the President. Stay true Repbublicans!
Tony C
Isn’t that what the House Dems (Pelosi) did the last 2 years especially with Obamacare)? You just proved my point!
Swarthmore mom
1, April 8, 2011 at 11:49 am
Disagree, many of them are hard core ant-woman .
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I’m with you completely. No need to explain … one either gets it or one doesn’t.
@Jim: Harry Reid (probably at the direction of Obama) is avoiding getting railroaded into passing only what the House wants passed, because Harry Reid and Obama thinks their agenda is bad for the country. The Republicans should not be allowed to marginalize and pass individual funding bills for only the programs they want, and starve the programs they don’t want, if Democrats agree to that they surrender all power to do what they think is right for the country and its citizens, and we are reduced to single party rule.
The House is not in charge of the country. Democrats have a majority in the Senate, and the President has veto power, and they should all exercise their power to the maximum extent possible to do what they believe does the most good for the most people in this country, no matter how vehemently the Republicans insist that black is white.
Jim
1, April 7, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Blouis
If we want everyone to get a college education, who will work at walmart, mcdonalds, etc? We don’t build anything anymore because labor costs and lawsuits. These are real problems to overcome and at the same time we can’t keep taking from Paul to give Peter.
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A college education does not guarantee a career that provides a livable wage. The degree gets your foot in the door but, and this is something every caring parent teaches their child, it is your ability to handle the job responsibly, to do the work well that creates more responsibility and higher pay. If one does not know how to work responsibly, the degree is worthless and one soon finds oneself either stuck in the lower paying position or out the door completely. A degree is helpful but success is predicated on one’s own ability to handle the job and recognize and take advantage of opportunities when presented.
Gyges,
“Shift key get a little excited?”
He gets paid extra for each cap letter …
Jim,
Shift key get a little excited?
The DEMS couldn’t pass a budget because of the November elections and now are trying to blame the RePUBS. It won’t work. Also, Pelosi lied about old people not eating and now is scrambling to try and get her story strait. The DEMS are shutting the govt. down not the REPUBS because of Harry Reid who doesn’t want to pay the troops and bring the pay the troops bill to the floor.
Gyges,
“I’d say it’s more likely that Republicans are willing to use Planned Parenthood as an excuse to shut down the government.”
You may just be right – but, if government does shut down over this, I can’t help but think that women storming Versailles during the French Revolution will look tame compared to what will happen if you piss off millions of women here …
Smom,
Pandering and being actually anti-women are not mutually exclusive.
“They” being the Republicans in charge of the House.
Which isn’t to say that they aren’t pandering to a group of people that honestly want PP closed, and they may very well want PP closed.
I just happen to think they said “we’re going to shut down the government, what can we use to justify it?”
Disagree, many of them are hard core ant-woman .
Got to go with Gyges on this one, ladies.
Swarthmore and Stamford,
I’d say it’s more likely that Republicans are willing to use Planned Parenthood as an excuse to shut down the government.