Good morning

Once again the right are using the court to make law they couldn’t get passed through their congressional process.

From Think Progress:

Court Ruling Devastates Texas’ Abortion Clinic Infrastructure

Two signs at a rally in Dallas where a group of nearly 200 gathered to protest the approval of new abortion restrictions in Texas

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/TONY GUTIERREZ

The number of abortion clinics in the second most populous state is dwindling to just eight, following a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that allows a stringent new law to take effect immediately in Texas. On Thursday night, a panel of conservative judges reversed an earlier decision that allowed 13 clinics to remain open for the past several weeks.

Thursday’s decision is the latest installment in the battle over HB 2, the package of harsh abortion restrictions that Texas lawmakers approved last summerdespite gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ infamous filibuster against the legislation. An earlier provision of the law, which started going into effect last fall, requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges from local hospitals, an unnecessary business arrangement that has forced half of the state’s clinicsto close their doors already. Another portion of HB 2, which requires abortion clinics to make costly renovations to bring their building codes in line with ambulatory surgical centers, will now also take effect.

Just eight clinics in the entire state of Texas are currently certified as ambulatory surgical centers, or ASCs. They’re all located in San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and Houston. With the building code restrictions in effect, a broad swaths of the state — including the incredibly impoverished regionsalong the Mexico border — is now left without any clinics for hundreds of miles. Texas’ new reproductive rights landscape is illustrated in this map from the Texas Tribune:

CREDIT: TEXAS TRIBUNE

“What we have been fearing is now official: Texas faces a health care crisis, brought on by its own legislators,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, who used to operate five clinics in the state, said in a statement in response to the ruling.

Hagstrom Miller, the CEO of a group called Whole Woman’s Health, has just one clinic left under HB 2: A building that she rents in San Antonio that was already certified as an ASC when she moved in. She has been fighting hard to keep her other clinics operating, particularly the facilities she used to run in the Rio Grande Valley, a border community where immigrant women are left without many health care options. But in a recent interview with ThinkProgress, she explained that building more ASCs is simply not a tenable option.

“I wouldn’t be able to afford to raise the money for a $3 million ambulatory surgical center as a small business owner. There’s no bank that’s going to lend that money to me,” Hagstrom Miller said. “Plus, I would not be interested in building from the ground up. I think it’s the wrong solution on many levels. Philosophically, it’s wrong because it’s completely based on misinformation — it has nothing to do with patient care. It’s also, to me, just a poor use of resources. I could help so many women have safe abortions for $400 dollars rather than put $3 million dollars into a building.”

Medical experts have repeatedly spoken out against Texas’ new law, saying that the requirements won’t do anything to improve abortion clinics. Abortion is already an incredibly safe medical procedure that’s less risky than colonoscopies, gallbladder surgery, knee replacement surgery, or giving birth to a child. Both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) oppose requiring abortion providers to get hospital admitting privileges. ACOG also opposes imposing additional building code requirements on clinics.

Nonetheless, these type of restrictions are rapidly advancing throughout the country. Known as the “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers,” or TRAP, these laws have particularly taken root in Southern states, where an estimated 8.6 million women of reproductive age may soon be left with just 12 abortion clinics across five states.

TRAP laws are typically framed as protecting women’s health, even though there’s absolutely no relationship between harsh abortion restrictions and better health outcomes. But that hasn’t stopped conservative judges in the Fifth Circuit from buying into the framing. According to Nancy Northup, the president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, the most recent court decision in Texas “is an endorsement of politicians’ disingenuous tactic of undermining women’s safety under the false pretext of protecting it.”

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Readers: Then we’ve got repub Texas A.G. Greg Abbott, saying that the law that shut down 80 percent of clinics in the state, is merely a manageable “inconvenience” — not an undue burden — to Texas women. 

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) and his colleagues wrote in the memo that “the vast majority of Texas residents” still live “within comfortable driving distance (150 miles)” of an abortion provider. For the women who live in the farther-flung regions of the state, such as the low-income Rio Grande Valley near the Mexico border, Abbott wrote, “abortion can be accessed by driving approximately 230-250 miles — an inconvenience, but still a manageable one.”

I say we make Abbott drive that far to get his much needed Viagra and then tell him it’s an inconvenience, but still a manageable one, and see how he likes it.  

I know it has been said time and time again, but when will these D.A.A.B.O.R. women wake up, support women and stop voting in these men that couldn’t care less about the health and well-being of women, and their right to access health care when they need it.

Thoughts? Blog me. 

Peace baby. 

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Good morning!

The Koch brothers have used their money to control local elections to state level in many states to take control of the states election process and its economic system. Controlling a state’s election process allows them to decide who gets elected on every level of the state and in federal elections.

They gets to rig the states voting system by: gerrymandering, deciding who can vote, when they can vote, what and how many voting booths are in a particular polling place, and the software that counts the vote. That software can manipulate the count without a trace of its crime because there is no paper record of how you voted.

From Think Progress:

Is Your State Rigged?

Much has been written on the Koch brothers’ immense wealth and influential network of shadow groups, think tanks, and political action committees dedicated to drastically altering our economic and political system at the national level —or, as we call it, “Kochonomics.”

But it is at the state and local level that the Koch brothers’ impact has become the most effective—and harmful.

The less Americans know about the effects of these state and local efforts, the more the Koch brothers can accomplish. The Center for American Progress Action Fund needs your help today to investigate and inform the public about the Koch brothers’ extended efforts to rig the system for their benefit.

Recently, the Center for American Progress Action Fund released the report, “Kochonomics: Rigging the System at the Local Level,” which revealed the Koch brothers’ successful campaigns to take their anti-government, low-regulation lobbying efforts from city to city. These campaigns are a part of a $400 million scheme to transform policies in school boards and town halls to oppose funds that support teachers and students, pay for police officers, maintain roads and bridges, and protect the environment. Yesterday, we released another report, “Kochonomics in Wisconsin and North Carolina,” which gives an in-depth view into the Kochs brothers’ efforts in two of their self-declared model states.

Help us continue to inform Americans across the country by contributing $5, $10, or $25 dollars to the Center for American Progress Action Fund to fund our investigative efforts. Your contribution will help provide citizens with the knowledge they need to fight back against the spread of Kochonomics.

We cannot sit idly by as our states and cities are being re-structured to benefit a wealthy few.

The Koch brothers are spending $400 million – We are asking you for $25. Please go to our website today and contribute what you can to keep our work going.

Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Your friends at the Center for American Progress Action Fund

P.S. Please be sure to share our reports and encourage your friends to contribute!

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From MSNBC and The Rachel Maddow Show:

The bad news is unfortunately, it was just released that SCOTUS OK’d strict North Carolina voting law for the upcoming midterms. The awesome news is, SCOTUS has blocked Wisconsin’s voter ID law, and a federal court found a new Texas voter ID law unconstitutional.  Woo Hoo! – that is something to celebrate.

And speaking of Wisconsin, here’s a bit of laughter to start you off on your weekend. The topic isn’t funny but the comedian is. Comedian Lewis Black blasted voting restrictions in Wisconsin in an ad posted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Thursday.

Restrict voting rights? Not on comedian Lewis Black’s watch

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Readers: It’s enough that we need to be concerned about whether we can exercise our right to vote when there are those that oppose doing whatever it takes to prevent voters from voting. (That’s a nod to you Paula) Don’t miss your opportunity to vote.

Thoughts? What’s on your mind? Blog me. 

Social Butterfly: My pleasure. Unfortunately, I don’t think there is much we can do yet. Warren will most likely not run, unlike Bernie Sanders who is thinking with his ego instead of for his country. If he runs against the Dem candidate as a Independent, he will surely take away some Dem votes and we would have a strong chance at losing to the repubs. Sound familiar? Ugh. I can’t believe I am even having this conversation. :) Really, I don’t want to think about that right now; I am too entrenched in the November political race to think about 2016.

I am so narrowly focused that I am barely reading anything outside of the November midterms. So, I want to thank you for being my eyes on the outside, :) and bringing up Malala Yousafzai, winning the 2014 Nobel Peace prize! I couldn’t be more happier and proud, and she couldn’t be more deserving.  She is most definitely a Wonderful Girl Of The World.

♥ Congratulations Malala! ♥

Malala Yousafzai at the United Nations last year. Ms. Yousafzai, 17, is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. CreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times

Peace out.

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Good morning!

In light of yesterday’s post. From the New York Times.

Kansas Is Looking Like the Key to Senate Control

The conventional wisdom for most of the year has been that Republicans have a clear advantage in the fight to take the Senate.

And they would, were it not for Kansas.

The G.O.P. appears to lead in seven Democratic-held seats, when they need only six to control the chamber. But control of the Senate could turn on whether a Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts, can win re-election in a state that almost no one considered a battleground just two months ago. The added complication is that almost no one knows for sure whether the challenger, Greg Orman, a businessman turned independent candidate, would caucus with the Democrats or the Republicans if he won.

Mr. Orman took an early lead after Chad Taylor, the Democratic candidate, withdrew from the race. One month later, and there could not be less of a consensus. Five surveys over the past week yielded this: Fox News has Mr. Roberts up by 5 points; a CNN poll has Mr. Roberts up by 1; CBS/NYT/YouGov poll shows a tie; a SurveyUSA poll shows Mr. Orman up 5; and an NBC/Marist poll shows Mr. Orman up by 10.

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If one had to say who was ahead, Mr. Orman would probably still be the safe choice. But the more important takeaway is the tremendous uncertainty. The degree of variance among recent polls means that either candidate could have a lead. There are a lot of undecided voters as well.

Even if Mr. Roberts trails slightly, his position nonetheless seems to have improved. He hadn’t led in a one-on-one matchup with Mr. Orman until Wednesday, when two polls showed him with a lead. It could suggest that the state’s undecided, but predominantly Republican-leaning, voters are likely to break his way.

If Mr. Roberts has indeed made gains, it is not terribly surprising. Mr. Orman had uncontested control of the airwaves until a few weeks ago, when the Roberts campaign finally began airing television advertisements.

Mr. Roberts may be behind, he still has plenty of time to rally, especially since the Republicans haven’t yet invested a lot of money into his efforts. According to data from Kantar Media Group/CMAG, the Orman campaign aired 50 percent more television advertisements than the Roberts campaign over the two weeks ended Monday. Mr. Roberts has received a bit of assistance from Freedom Partners Action Fund, a group with ties to the Koch brothers, but only enough to level the score. A more robust Republican effort could presumably help Mr. Roberts out even more.

Without Kansas, the Republicans would probably need to win both Alaska and Iowa. That’s certainly possible because the Republicans appear to lead in both states. Leo gives the Republicans only a 54 percent chance of taking the Senate if they lose Kansas, not much better than a coin flip.

Mr. Orman has said he will caucus with whichever party wins a “clear majority,” but it is unclear what he would do if the Democrats won 49 seats and the Republicans won 50. Mr. Orman could still give the Democrats control by caucusing with them, making the Senate 50-50 and letting Vice President Joe Biden break any ties. The assumption is that Mr. Orman would caucus with the Democrats in that case because he has fairly liberal policy preferences.

But this is ultimately just an assumption. Mr. Orman might already know, deep down, exactly how he would vote in the event of a tie. Or he might have no idea whatsoever. We just don’t know, like just about everything else in this race.

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Readers: It’s only three and a half weeks before election day. I HOPE all of you are registered to vote because many states have hit the deadline for voter registration. If you’re not registered to vote, click here, find your state, and register. Please do it now before it’s too late. North Carolina: Your deadline to register is TOMORROW. There are other states where registration closes tomorrow as well. Please check the chart and get registered TODAY.

Kansas Residents: If you are not registered, please get registered. Tuesday, October 15th is the last day you can register and Monday is Columbus Day. After reading today’s write, the Kansas Senate race is too close for comfort, and Kansas is a state the Dems definitely need to win. 

All Those Intending to Vote: Just to be on the safe side, I suggest that you also check your local state website to confirm your deadline for voter registration, as I cannot validate the  accuracy of the website that I have posted.

It’s Friday…start flapping your lips. Blog me. 

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good afternoon!

This is a very important point. With less than a month away from the midterm elections, it is the important reason Obama needs to hold on to the Senate this November.

From Think Progress.

Justice Ginsburg: If I Resign, Obama Could Not Appoint ‘Anyone I Would Like To See In The Court’

CREDIT: AP PHOTO/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not plan to leave the Supreme Court anytime soon, and, as she tells Elle‘s Jessica Weisberg, that’s because the Senate is terrible:

[Weisberg]: I’m not sure how to ask this, but a lot of people who admire and respect you wonder if you’ll resign while President Obama is in office.

[Ginsburg]: Who do you think President Obama could appoint at this very day, given the boundaries that we have? If I resign any time this year, he could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. [The Senate ...] took off the filibuster for lower federal court appointments, but it remains for this court.So anybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided. As long as I can do the job full steam…. I think I’ll recognize when the time comes that I can’t any longer. But now I can.

Justice Ginsburg’s frustration with the Senate is not particularly surprising. Last year, Ginsburg said that the Senate’s bitter confirmation process is “destroying the United States’ reputation in the world as a beacon of democracy,” and she complained in 2011 that if she were nominated to the Supreme Court today “my ACLU connection would probably disqualify me.”

Prior to her elevation to the bench, Ginsburg led the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, where she orchestrated much of the legal strategy that led to the Supreme Court recognizing that governmental discrimination against women is unconstitutional. Indeed, Ginsburg was arguably the single most significant women’s rights attorney in American history even before she became a judge.

The particular problem Ginsburg cites, however, the fact that Supreme Court nominees can still be filibustered by a minority of the Senate, can be solved by a bare majority of the Senate at any time. When the Senate invoked the so-called “nuclear option” last November to eliminate the filibuster for most nominations, they invoked a process which effectively amended the Senate’s rules by a simple majority vote. Nothing prevents the Senate from using this process again to permit Supreme Court nominees to be confirmed by a simple majority if a majority of the Senate wished to make this change.

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Readers: It is imperative that democrats hold on to the Senate because the Senate decides who will sit on SCOTUS. Obama may get to select who he wishes, but it is the Senate that must say yes by a “super” majority vote of 60 to 40, or a simple majority vote of 51 to 49. The Senate agreed that it would take a “super” majority to seat a SCOTUS selection by POTUS.

But it is within the power of the Senate Majority Leader (the leader of the party who has the most senators in the Senate) to change that rule and make it a simple majority appointment – this is called the “nuclear option.”  Either way, the Democrats must hold the majority of senators in the Senate to decide who becomes the next member of SCOTUS. What will YOU do to ensure that?

The fact that the republican appointees to that position are showing they are willing to obey those that appointed them without regard to the Constitution or the rights or benefits of the people of America means that the any other than the white male will find no safe haven in either. 99% of those white males will discover that what they thought was a SCOTUS that would return them to absolute power over all others in America, is actually a court that is returning that power to the 1% that has bought and paid for those republican appointees. Once again, those 99%’ers are fooled by the false promise of the 1%’ers who give them HOPE that they will be part of the 1% club. It is never going to happen.  

S.T.A.R.K., S.calia T.homas A.lito R.oberts K.ennedy, are merely the beginning of the 1% attempt to control this country. They have discovered that the Will of the people is toothless. The America people will sit idly by and allow SCOTUS to make Law from the Bench – they call them “activist judges.” Hence, the 1% are convinced they need only own SCOTUS to rule this country. And they aren’t wrong.

Why bother buying individual members of Congress or spending $billions on political advertising with the HOPE of winning majorities and or the Will of the American people, when they can appoint 9 Kings and have them decide what the Law of the Land is. The 1% has effectively upset the balance of power between the three Branches (Executive, Legislative and Judicial) of our government. It can outlaw the actions of the Executive Branch without regard to the Constitution if the majority of SCOTUS dares to. Only the Legislative Branch, Congress (both Houses of the Legislature – the Senate and House of Representatives), can vote to limit or change the edicts of SCOTUS when SCOTUS interprets one of its laws contrary to its intentions.

But to do that Congress must have the Will to act and the Votes to enforce that Will. We’ve seen examples of this time and time again. The 1% has shown in “Citizens United,” Hobby Lobby,” and Voter suppression decisions by S.T.A.R.K., that no such Will is present. In other words, Congress hasn’t the Will to do anything, and the American people, the voters, haven’t used their Power: their Voices and their Vote to make them act.

No one has spoken up and said “Hey, that’s not what that law means, its intention was this, not that,” when SCOTUS has interpreted one of its laws that is obviously contrary to its intention. Hence, only the Judicial Branch of government decides what is the Law of the Land. The Judicial Branch of our government has effectively made themselves 9 Kings of America with all the powers of imperial majesty. What will YOU do to stop them?

POTUS and the Senate will determine for the next decades what life will be like in America and possibly the world, by who gets to be 1 of those 9 Kings. And considering what we have seen, the future could be very scary. What will YOU do to prevent that from happening? Will you sit around idly or will you exercise your voice and right to vote?

YOU decide how important that is to you when you decide to vote. Just remember as I have said before, if you do not decide to vote, you’re still making a decision, because you will be deciding to allow someone else to make it for you. Why would you give that much power to a party who has clearly shown that they don’t have your best interest or well-being at heart? (Ladies: I am speaking to you here, especially you Repub ladies. It’s time to really be involved, get informed, stop following lockstep behind your husbands and support your sisters.) Why would you give that much power to a party who has clearly shown that they prefer money and power over people and planet?

What will YOU do to prevent them? Since a No Vote for the Dems is a definite Yes Vote for the Repubs, my suggestion is that YOU get registered and then go VOTE!

Are you with me? Blog me. 

Christy: It was fabulous seeing you last night! You are still so sweet and you look the same with that big beautiful smile. YOU are one smart informed girl who is obviously on top of the issues! So proud. Spread the word, sister. PS: Mom says hi! :) xo

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

Social Butterfly: This one’s for you.

From The Rachel Maddow Show. It’s not a very good quality video but the conversation is all you need to be concerned about.

Sen. Warren draws distinction between parties for 2014 midterm elections

Readers: Love this girl. Love what she is saying.

Rachel Maddow: Good interview. I HOPE you’re feeling better.

Dailey: Thank you. I HOPE my message has long legs and a wide reach.

Miller: Nope, just a little halter sundress. :)

Scott: I agree with /SB, only I will take it a step further and say that they do have the cure for cancer and it is locked up in some safe place where no one can find it.

Blog me.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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