Very bipartisan issue – as moderate as it gets. 

And also very current and global: see Spain and Greece crash and burn on page 5.

Also, how many US Reps self-identify as Tea Party?  A couple dozen, and they set the agenda for the Republican Party.  How many Occupiers are there in Congress?  Any?

Anyway, when actual abortions are performed, one of Romney’s Bain-funded companies will be there to dispose of the aborted remains.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/07/romney-led-bains-investment-firm-disposed-aborted-fetuses/54097/

He says, “…There are not enough heartless doctors being graduated from medical schools. There’s a real shortage of abortionists. Who wants to be at the very bottom of the food chain of the medical profession?”

The kind of people who tell us that abortionists are “heartless” and the bottom of the food chain are the people who make them feel like they are the bottom of the food chain. Med students are reasonable. They don’t want to get assassinated by supporters of inflammatory anti-abortion zealots like Akin. They know they won’t make much money providing a service that conservatives are piling more and more restrictions on. Potential abortion doctors know that fans of Akin might picket their house, put photos of aborted fetuses in their neighbors’ mail or cars or doorknobs, picket their kids’ schools, etc. Akin and anti-abortion activists vocally discourage doctors from performing abortions, and here he pretends that it’s some unrelated, natural development when med students avoid it.

“And what sort of places do these bottom of the food chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit.”

If that is true, is it because they choose to operate in “pits,” or because they are relegated to ghettos by anti-abortion activists and ppl like Akin?

The crazies on the left are a handful of voices writing blogs, shouting in the digital wilderness. The Right Wing crazies have an entire cable network devoted to making their varied and nutty ideas palatable. There’s no comparison.

Here ya go.

The main point I’m trying to make is those of us on the left look as extreme to those in the centre as those on the right.

And, of course, appearances are everything. Why bother to have any ethics at all when you can just have your PR flaks do some focus groups to make your positions palatable to the lowest common denominator?

Also, real classy going back to old sexist bullshit about “dirty” gynecologists… he can’t even bring himself to use the word. Don’t forget ladies— anything to do with lady parts is filthy! Get the Lysol!

I guess he would be opposed to drone killings of innocent people, then.

Of course he is.  Because a Democrat is President.

Do such people deserve the right to vote?

It’s not a question of whether they deserve it.  It’s a right.  When you start talking about restricting the right to vote then you start standing on one hell of a slippery slope.  Would you require a test for people to register to vote?  It’s been done.  It’s now unconstitutional.  That’s because, like all attempts to suppress voting rights, it was used to disenfranchise minorities.

We shouldn’t be talking about whether or not a class of people “deserves the right to vote”, no matter how deluded they may be.  We should talk about how to reach that class of people, or, if we’re to give them up as a lost cause, how to reach OTHER people to offset those ill-informed votes.

The answer to the problems with our democracy is MORE participation, not less.