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| Subject: The Miserable Plight of the Moderate Republican Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:21 pm | |
| ...It hasn’t worked out that way. Instead, the House GOP has voted to outlaw abortion after 20 weeks; to deport the children of undocumented immigrants; to repeal Obamacare (the 37th time they’ve voted on this). Just yesterday, they tried—but failed—to cut $20 billion from the nutritional assistance program that mainly benefits poor children, the elderly, and the severely disabled. Along the way, Republicans have downplayed the importance of pregnancies caused by rape and suggested that abortion should be outlawed even earlier than 20 weeks because, as Texas Representative Michael Burgess said, it looked to him like fetuses as early as 15 weeks were capable of masturbation.
So the Republican rebranding effort isn’t going so well. And it could be killing any chance that candidates like Gomez have to get elected.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-21/the-miserable-plight-of-the-moderate-republican#r=discussed
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