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red states rule

06-27-2013, 01:59 AM

I am glad to see Gov Perry standing up to the rent a thug mob that prevented a vote from taking place. Libs know they are going to lose this one and are determined not to allow the vote to take place

Liberals want evey vote counted - as long as the votes go the way they want them to go

After a one-woman filibuster and a raucous crowd helped derail a GOP-led effort to restrict Texas abortions, Gov. Rick Perry announced Wednesday that he's calling lawmakers back next week to try again.

Perry ordered the Legislature to meet July 1 to begin 30 more days of work. Like the first special session, which ended in chaos overnight, the second one will include on its agenda a Republican-backed plan that critics say would close nearly every abortion clinic across the state and impose other widespread limits on the procedure.

"I am calling the Legislature back into session because too much important work remains undone for the people of Texas," Perry said in a statement. "Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn."

The first session's debate over abortion restrictions led to the most chaotic day in the Texas Legislature in modern history, starting with a marathon filibuster and ending with a down-to-the wire, frenetic vote marked by questions about whether Republicans tried to break chamber rules and jam the measure through.

A second filibuster is harder to pull off though, since supporters of the bill will ensure it clear preliminary hurdles and reaches floor votes in the House and Senate well before the second session expires.

The governor can convene as many extra sessions as he likes and sets the agenda of what lawmakers can work on. Also listed on the session's agenda are separate bills to boost highway funding and deal with a juvenile justice issue.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who oversees the flow of legislation in the Senate, hinted that another special session was coming when he told lawmakers "see you soon" after the first session adjourned.

Many of the same abortion rights groups that staged Tuesday's night's protests took to Twitter on Wednesday, promising they had more in store.
The entire process starts over, with bills that must be filed by individual lawmakers, undergo a public hearing and be passed out of committee before they can be considered by both chambers.

Still, supporters are likely to draft a measure similar to the one that nearly passed during the first special session. It sought a statewide ban on undergoing the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the point at which anti-abortion activists claim a fetus can feel pain — despite a lack of scientific evidence to support that.

That bill also would have forced many clinics that perform the procedure to upgrade their facilities to be classified as ambulatory surgical centers. Doctors would be required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles.

Democrats put their hopes of thwarting the bill Tuesday in the hands of Wendy Davis, a state senator clad in pink running shoes, for a daylong attempt to talk the bill to death. Over the duration of the speech, Davis became a social media star, even becoming the subject of a tweet from President Obama for her efforts.

But just before midnight, Republicans claimed she strayed off topic and got help with a back brace — two things that are against filibuster rules — and cut her off.

That cleared the way for a vote.

But when Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst shouted into the microphone, trying to call the final votes, nobody seemed to hear him. Some 400 supporters jammed into the gallery had taken their feet with a deafening roar, drowning out his voice. It was, as some claimed, a "people's filibuster" — an attempt by protesters to finish what Davis had started more than 11 hours earlier.

"Get them out!" Republican Sen. Donna Campbell shouted to a security guard. "... I want them out of here!"

As the crowd clapped and shouted "shame, shame, shame," Dewhurst gathered Republican lawmakers around Secretary of the Senate Patsy Spaw to register their votes. Democrats ran forward, holding up their cellphones, which showed it was past midnight.

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2013/06/26/texas-abortion-bill-falls-after-challenge-n1627995

red states rule

06-27-2013, 03:24 AM

and as usual the left shows off their civility and they hold nothing back

The party of tolerance, and open mindedness once again shows they are willing to discuss any topic you want

As long as you agree with them

Perry can call as many 30-day extra sessions as he likes, but lawmakers can only take up those issues he assigns.
Perry’s move infuriated the left and they let everyone know it on Twitter Wednesday. It got ugly (Warning! Strong and hateful language):
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Gaffer

06-27-2013, 06:29 AM

Jeff

06-27-2013, 06:50 AM

I bet none of those twitters are Texans.

I bet none actually have a brain , the liberals all want gun control " if it can save just one child's life " as they stand in line to murder babies :rolleyes:

red states rule

06-27-2013, 03:51 PM

I bet none actually have a brain , the liberals all want gun control " if it can save just one child's life " as they stand in line to murder babies :rolleyes:

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/130626wendydavisRGB20130627020103.jpg

red states rule

06-28-2013, 03:26 AM

The hero of the day for the liberal media is getting a major push over delaying what wil become the law in Texas

Bookmark this so that you have it at hand the next time someone complains about ridiculous softball interviews of political allies on Fox News. Someone in my Twitter timeline last night said it was the political equivalent of Chris Farley’s SNL “interview” with Paul McCartney (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAh9x5-5ffo). Bingo. The closest Hayes gets to a question that’s even a little bit challenging is when he asks her to respond to Perry saying that the hooting mob lacked decorum, which is really just a set-up for her to run through talking points about “the people’s filibuster.” Contrary to rumor, though, he does utter the word “abortion” at least once at the beginning before he and Davis start wandering away from it. As Orwellian as the left’s handling of this subject is (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352146/stand-death-charles-c-w-cooke), it’s not quite that Orwellian. Yet.
I hope you’ll be as excited as I am to learn that the grassroots effort to draft abortion warrior Wendy Davis for governor of America’s most famously red state is in full swing (http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=452).

On June 25, Texas state Senator Wendy Davis stood for 13 hours to filibuster against Texas Republicans’ War on Women. She did us proud, and it’s time that we made her governor of Texas.

Current Republican Gov. Rick Perry may run for an unprecedented fourth term. A hypothetical poll in January had Sen. Davis trailing Gov. Perry by only six points––despite the fact that she had virtually no name recognition at the time.

With changing demographics shaking up the Texas electorate, and Republicans continuously alienating millions of voters, Texas is ready to turn blue.
What word is missing there? Nationally, 50 percent of women support a ban on abortion after 20 weeks like the one Texas is trying to pass versus 44 percent who don’t. (Philip Klein (http://washingtonexaminer.com/late-term-abortion-ban-more-popular-among-women-than-obamacare/article/2532458) slyly notes that this makes the ban more popular with women than ObamaCare is.) In Texas, 62 percent (http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/26/texas-late-term-abortion-ban-has-the-support-of-62-of-texas-residents/) of all voters support it. And yet here’s the left angling to turn the next gubernatorial election into a referendum on the subject, no doubt powered by the same huge sums and organizational effort that worked so well for big labor in trying to recall Scott Walker. Having lefty grassroots donors divert millions from winnable Senate races to Davis’s lost cause would be a boost to GOP efforts next year to retake the upper chamber. I encourage you to sign every dumb Democratic “draft Wendy!” petition you stumble across.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/27/hard-hitting-msnbc-interview-with-wendy-davis-exactly-how-awesome-was-your-abortion-filibuster/

aboutime

06-28-2013, 02:29 PM

and as usual the left shows off their civility and they hold nothing back

The party of tolerance, and open mindedness once again shows they are willing to discuss any topic you want

As long as you agree with them

That's what I admire most about the terminally ignorant, and educationally disabled forms of liberalism.

They really aren't smart enough to understand, or realize how openly stupid, and miserably dumb they are until they POST like that.

Missileman

06-28-2013, 07:28 PM

The hero of the day for the liberal media is getting a major push over delaying what wil become the law in Texas

I'm in favor of the restrictions on the procedure in the bill. I don't think it's right to put requirements in the bill that intentionally forces the closing of the majority of clinics.

gabosaurus

06-28-2013, 10:39 PM

red states rule

06-29-2013, 04:43 AM

Conservative groups are all in favor of civil disobedience when it benefits their causes. But when opponents resort to civil disobedience, they become "thugs" and "bullies."

If you watched the stream (which my best friend in Austin did), you saw the crowd being very quiet and civil. Until the Lt. Gov. and other Republicans tried illegal tactics to stop the filibuster. When the filibuster did end, the Senate took a vote after the midnight deadline and tried to date the result before the deadline. Which is when the crowd began to scream and howl.
I found it to be a fascinating look at citizens attempting to right a wrong committed by their government.

Of course, conservatives outside of Texas who did not watch the stream or any of the videos only know what extreme right-wing blogs are telling them. It's the stupid preaching to the other stupids.

It was not civil disobedience Gabby - it was a mob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jD77goJy_o

It was the only way they could stop a vote they knew they would lose. A majority of the voters in Texas support this bill. The mother has 20 week to kill her unborn child Gabby and after that it will be illegal to kill the baby under this bill

The reason for this bill is to make sure there are no "Dr" Gosnell clinics in Texas. I find it strange you jump on this thread defending the murder of children yet you ignored the Philly butcher thread

BTW Gabby, while I know you will ignore these facts and offer no response - here is what a baby 20 weeks old looks like. Please tell me how this is NOT a human being who deserves a chance to live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOR44JEiNSQ&feature=player_embedded