Ohio Issue 1 on November 7, 2023

[RickeyM]

Like I've said before. The tRumplican party is giving the Dems all the ammo that they need to wipe them out in 2024. The best defense is a good offense and the Dems need to start attacking now .

[finnbow]

OHIO (The Borowitz Report)—Irate Republican officials in Ohio have been crying foul over Tuesday night’s election results, claiming that there were “widespread cases” of women voting across the state.

Harland Dorrinson, a G.O.P. operative in Lake County, said that he had “eyewitness accounts” of “swarms of women” standing in long lines outside of polling places.

“Many of our poll workers spotted women going into voting booths and literally casting votes,” he said. “These were not isolated incidents.”

Dorrinson said the “nightmare scenario” that unfolded on Tuesday has dire implications for both Ohio and the nation.

“There is every indication that women meddled in this election,” he said. “What’s to stop them from doing it again in 2024?”

[finnbow]

Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A group of Michigan GOP lawmakers and the anti-abortion rights group Right To Life of Michigan on Wednesday sued to overturn the will of state voters who approved a 2022 constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights 56.7% to 44.3%.

The lawsuit said that when voters passed that proposal protecting reproductive rights, including abortion, it "created a super-right to "reproductive freedom." At no time in our nation's history has such a super-right, immune from all legislative action, ever been created by a popular vote outside of the checks and balances of a republican form of government."

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023...2071699472193/

Further proof, if you needed it, that Republicans don't believe in democracy.

[Mark B]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A group of Michigan GOP lawmakers and the anti-abortion rights group Right To Life of Michigan on Wednesday sued to overturn the will of state voters who approved a 2022 constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights 56.7% to 44.3%.

The lawsuit said that when voters passed that proposal protecting reproductive rights, including abortion, it "created a super-right to "reproductive freedom." At no time in our nation's history has such a super-right, immune from all legislative action, ever been created by a popular vote outside of the checks and balances of a republican form of government."

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023...2071699472193/

Further proof, if you needed it, that Republicans don't believe in democracy.

But Repubs are just fine with a super-prohibition of rights they disapprove of.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Mark B

But Repubs are just fine with a super-prohibition of rights they disapprove of.

And here is proof, though this is going nowhere, neither is the current US House. They are stuck in reverse with a shutdown looming in a week or so.

The House then wasted hours on Wednesday debating and voting on amendments to the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill, only to pull it moments before the scheduled vote on Thursday morning. This time, moderate Republicans rebelled over a provision in the bill that would allow employers in D.C. to discriminate against women who have an abortion or use contraception.

This is the kind of nonsense that the House is working on, attaching a provision to a funding bill which is not only unrelated but also will not pass muster. But guess it scores points with the deplorables.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...laib-shutdown/