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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
 Posted - 07/19/2005 : 00:26:31
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Even before Bush named his nominee, liberal and conservative interest groups armed with millions of dollars unleashed TV and Internet ads designed to influence the first Supreme Court fight in over a decade. Advocacy groups kicked off their public relations campaigns within hours after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.
The initial round of ads contains little factual information. Each side is trying to portray the other as unreasonable and motivated by partisanship.
The liberal People for the American Way launched an ad warning Bush not to "divide the country" by "trying to force through a judge who threatens our basic rights." And the liberal MoveOn PAC unveiled a separate ad suggesting that Bush might "choose an extremist" who will "support even more government intrusion into our lives."
Meanwhile, the conservative, pro-Bush Progress for America's Internet ad says, "Some Democrats will oppose any Supreme Court nominee," even if they are of the caliber of Ben Franklin or George Washington. The same group ran a TV ad last month attacking Democrats even before the O'Connor vacancy opened up.
These ads are just a warm-up. Both sides say the confirmation battle will rival the intensity of the 2004 Presidential campaign, and independent analysts already predict that $100 million or more might be spent on the fight for O'Connor's seat.
For more analysis on this go here: http://www.factcheck.org/article335.html
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"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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trishran
Skeptic Friend
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2005 : 11:35:57 [Permalink]
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The fact that interpersonal crime has decreased in the years since Roe v Wade deomnstrates that wanted children are much less likely to engage in violence than kids who are born to people who had an accident and were forced to raise a child.
I know this will irritate people who think abortion is an unpardonable sin [unpardonable until the woman publicly confesses how unhappy the abortion made her...]. But, if abortion is such an unpardonable sin, as purported by a religious tradition that claims to promote eternal truth, why is it that abortion is not mentioned in the Old Testament, the sayings of Jesus, the Medieval compendiums of sins and penances, and that the Catholic church itself, before the 1840s, said that it was only a sin to end preganacy after quickening? And, finally, if egg + sperm not equally a baby is so offensive to god, why is it by far the most common outcome of conception? |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2005 : 22:16:48 [Permalink]
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| Nicely put trish |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2005 : 22:52:17 [Permalink]
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Well, looking at Bush's nomination to replace O'Conner - John Roberts, a young, male, conservative - I'd say that all is hopeless.
(But I'm still gonna write TONS of letters to my Senators and Reps tomorrow! The filibuster might be our only chance.) |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
Check out my art store: http://www.marfknox.etsy.com
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