(Above: Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, D - Ft. Worth, who filibustered for 13 hours over the late-term abortion bill before the state senate in Texas. Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Introduction: Acknowledging the Ineptitude of GOP Politicians
Upon the election of George H.W. Bush in 1988, the consensus among political pundits was that the Democratic Party may never regain a solid foothold in the White House again. The party was in shambles, and had been since Jimmy Carter's embarrassing landslide defeat at the hands of the far-more charismatic and emblematic figure of the conservative movement, Ronald Reagan, in 1980. Yet, as the Republican Party managed to do so well with Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal of 1972-74 and his successor, Gerald Ford, who did nothing but make a laughing stock of himself by stating that there was no domination of Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union in the second presidential debate of 1976 (See videos below), and topped ultimately with the coup de gras of former-President George H.W. Bush promising not to the raise taxes and then doing so in just his second year in power, the party managed to destroy all of its credibility among its loyal constituents and result in the current tide of rabid liberalism that has been the prevailing force-wind in U.S. politics for more than 20 years.
This is the video of then-President Richard Nixon announcing his resignation on August 8, 1974:
And of Gerald Ford's infamous gaffe about Soviet-domination in Eastern Europe:
And this excerpt from then-1988 presidential candidate George H.W. Bush at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, where he made his most (in)famous speech pledging not to raise taxes that by his second year as president, he retracted and thus brought about the recession that would end the GOP's 12 year run of dominance in the White House:
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As we can see, while the Democrats are smooth talkers and far superior politicians, the GOP is the exact opposite. Republicans consistently ruin every opportunity afforded them whereupon when a Democratic lawmaker or president makes a serious mistake in public policy or becomes embroiled in scandal(s) they manage to become the "Teflon Dons" of American politics. In 1999, upon the Senate being charged with the task of determining then-President Bill Clinton's fate as a result of the House's passing the Articles of Impeachment due to his lying under oath while providing testimony on his then-alleged affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, it failed to vote him out of office. If this had been a Democratic-controlled Senate, it would have been one thing, but it held a Republican majority. This trend continues today, most notably in the two most recent reactions and votes within the Senate regarding the NSA spying scandal and Edward Snowden's role in revealing; and the 14 GOP senators who voted in favor of the immigration bill -- two of whom, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, are from my home state of Tennessee.
The Abortion Issue Takes Flight in Texas
A great deal of the time, conservative-libertarian ideals such as mine are not in the majority of the American people's visions of what would make our nation better, and yet they are by far in the best interest of our country. To paraphrase Jean-Jacques Rousseau, might does not always make right. The principles upon which America were founded are no longer championed by the majority of the population. We see this today with the abortion issue, an issue former President Ronald Reagan once stated was not an one of faith or religion, but of the Constitution. Below is a clip of that remark by Reagan in one of the presidential debates with Walter Mondale in 1984:
The movement towards conservatism in the 1980's regendered a resurgence of the American patriotic spirit long since divested within our society by decades of the propagation of licentiousness, irresponsibility, and the subsequent immorality resulting from the previous two descriptions. Yet today, we have not only returned to the practices of pre-Reagan Revolution politics and policies, but have exacerbated the issue. Sex has always sold like hotcakes as I once wrote in a poem about six years ago, yet this phenomena has taken on a more heightened state of emergency in society. Today, we see reality television shows on MTV and VH1 where young people engage in acts of promiscuous sex, living dissolute lives predicated upon the above-mentioned propagations, and yet rather than the conservative movement counteracting this menace, it stands by idly while the tide of the radical Left passes it by, rendering the Right "impotent and obsolete."
Such behavior often results in the aborting of more than a million children in American annually. Depending on the article you read, there are estimates that between 1.2 and 1.3 million unborn children will be aborted in America by mothers. Since World War II, approximately 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States; yet claims of infanticide domestically have seen a dramatic drop in occurrences since the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. However, you and I know better than to believe this trend; the practice of abortion is, indeed, infanticide, albeit in a legalized, institutional format. Throughout the world since World War II as well, the world has seen more than 1.5 billion babies be aborted by parents, more than the populations of both China and India. The fact we have seen so many inexcusable deaths is not just a concept predicated upon murder, but rather genocide. The Left in America will do whatever it can to propagate, promote, and encourage this evil institution, but at the same time seek to use photographs of dead school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, to achieve its means of eventually banning all legal possession of firearms, as well as ending all prisoner executions for heinous crimes committed by violent criminals against their victims. There is no consistency behind the definition of "justice" in America today, and we, the American electorate, are solely to blame. The American voter continues to elect Democrats into public office seeking to create a new Sodom and Gomorrha and base our society on the principles that led to the fall of the first great empire the world has ever known (the Roman Empire). If we do not act more intelligently and wisely with our votes in the next two elections, we risk further damage to the validity of America's founding principles all while our nation will continue to spiral ever deeper into the abyss of abomination.
In Texas, the abortion issue is the greatest debate raging in the state capital of Austin today. The news has reported on this for more than a week, prompting people of both political persuasions to vocalize their opinions on the matter. As I will be speaking out vehemently and vociferously against this evil establishment, I will bring up the Left's using young school-age children to hold signs in favor of abortions who just a few years earlier could have been the unborn children extracted their mothers' uterus's. There is also the point whereupon the religious pro-life organizers clashed with secular members of the Left promoting pro-choice laws, but those of the latter persuasion who did so while chanting, "Hail Satan!" repeatedly. The video of this can be seen below:
Among other things, these are the principles guiding the conscience of the Democratic Party. The Democrats will do whatever it takes to garner as many votes as possible, something we have seen just recently with the immigration bill passed just about a week ago. Pictured below are photographs of the a fore-mentioned children carrying posters of coat hangers, long a sign of the pro-abortion movement; as well as the equally-stunning photo of two women I will define as "utter whores" who acknowledge this trait about themselves in their posters:
Conservative-libertarians are not only a growing minority in the American political sphere, but also within the Republican Party itself. I fear it is a movement destined for extinction unless someone as charismatic as Ronald Reagan resurrects the ideology from the ash heap of history.
(Above: Texas Gov. Rick Perry on the right; State Sen. Wendy Davis on the right.)
While a flawed leader of the national conservative movement in terms of his presentation of its philosophy, Gov. Rick Perry has no doubt the best interests for his state and America at heart. His stand-off against State Senator Wendy Davis (D) has been monumental, and he continues to fight her through calling another session of the legislature.
To provide a short recount of the history of the issue on the late-term abortion issue in Texas involving both Sen. Davis and Gov. Perry, I will turn to Wikipedia to provide the information:
On June 25, 2013, Senator Davis began a filibuster to block the Senate Bill 5, "the bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, require abortion clinics to meet the same standards that hospital-style surgical centers do, and mandate that a doctor who performs abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital."[20] She attempted to maintain the floor until midnight, when the Senate's special session ended, after which the state Senate would no longer be able to vote on the measure.[21] Following a 10-hour filibuster, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst ruled that Davis had gone off topic, forcing a vote on whether the filibuster could continue.[22] Despite Republican efforts, parliamentary inquiries from Leticia R. Van de Putte and others as well as raucous cheering and yelling from the political activists gathered in the Capitol carried on through midnight and the close of the special session.[23] Following the deadline, Republicans indicated that a vote had taken place and passed, while Democrats declared that the vote had taken place after midnight, making it void.[23] Dewhurst later conceded that the bill was dead.[24][25] On the 26th, Governor Rick Perry added the bill as part of three bills in a second special session to be debated again.[26][27]
Conclusion: The Article Authored by Sarah Lee Titled "Taking Back Feminism"
As a regular reader and subscriber to the conservative-libertarian online publication United Liberty, I have had the great privilege to read some the most intelligent and common-sense-laden articles on politics on the Internet. Today's article by conservative feminist Sarah Lee was no different, and in fact, one of the most refreshing reinforcements to me that there is a semblance of morality within some women among the legions of profligates. The article from the site will be cut-and-pasted below, as it will serve as my conclusion for this blog article for today:
Taking Back Feminism
Wed, 07/03/2013 - 4:19pm | posted by Sarah Lee
As a woman, watching what’s happening in Texas is a study in dichotomies. On the one hand, the right to speak about reproductive rights at all is fairly astonishing and heartening given the relative inability of women the world over to do the same. On the other, the most hateful among us appear to be squandering that precious gift by — well —chanting “Hail, Satan!” at people who have a different take on reproductive rights (read: the right to reproduce), and celebrating being a “ho.” Pretty sure that’s not what the early crusaders for women’s rights in this country had in mind, but whatever. Times change.
What does not change, however, is the human tendency — particularly in politics — of those on the side of a losing argument to devolve their protestations into puerility and desperation, both in an attempt to gain attention to “the cause,” and to shock and offend; because shocking and offensive behavior drives the news cycle, and the news cycle (in theory) determines relevance. Hence, the very ridiculous images and videos coming out of Texas as they debate late-term abortion.
Personally, I have very strong opinions about the morality of aborting babies at 20 weeks and later. It seems to be antithetical to what women are designed to do. But I guess convenience, in modern society, has taken a larger role (and, before you get started, I’m more forgiving of abortion for those who are medically endangered or have been raped).
A male friend of mine, who told me about the silly young girl invoking the personification of Evil (whether real or a myth to you personally, everyone understands that’s what Satan represents), made an astoundingly profound statement about late-term abortion: he said that proponents of abortion MUST defend abortion at any stage (even the Gosnell stage) because, if they don’t, they have to admit that it’s the snuffing out of life (you can rhetorically wrangle this one any way you like but the spark of life is simply what it is) at EVERY stage. I think that’s right.
So, basically, it requires getting right with that fact before deciding how you feel about it. Or, invoking Old Scratch in order to be comfortable in your denial I guess. I’m also particularly intrigued by the “ball of cells” argument, and the “get the government out of my uterus!” argument. They all seem to be the verbal equivalent to killing the messenger. Quite literally. And what this messenger portends is that there are consequences to the sexual act and so one should plan accordingly and give it the proper weight. But again, planning is inconvenient and inconvenience isn’t fun.
All that aside, what interests me most here, more than the politics, are the tactics. As noted, it’s not uncommon for those on the losing side of an argument that just don’t have the support of facts on their side (in this case, that we should cavalierly start scraping fully-formed babies from wombs) to start yelling and calling names and, horrifyingly, using children as props. It’s fine to have the debate. I’ll disagree with you, and you can disagree with me. But, as my male friend said this morning, assuming you don’t actually believe that Satan should be hailed, and it’s reasonable to think this silly child in Texas doesn’t, then you are full of such contempt that you will do and say the most ridiculous things to defeat your opponent. And that doesn’t speak well for your argument.
And one other thing: as a feminist, albeit one to the right of the Planned Parenthood cult, I would ask the ladies drowning out one of the most beautiful songs ever written, to please watch this video and try to stop making the rest of us look bad by doing everything but listening to your sisters-in-arms. You may find that the truths are not so inconvenient after all.
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