…who needs Republicans? 64 Democrats joined 176 Republicans to stick a shiv in the backs of hundreds of thousands of poor women; bipartisanship at its “finest.” Notice how it’s always one-sided and hews to the right?

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation.

Opposition Republicans joined forces with anti-abortion Democrats to pass the amendment to the healthcare legislation on a vote of 240-194.

The amendment angered liberal Democrats who support abortion rights…

This is the kind of betrayal that led to me join the Green Party in 2008, and it’s the kind of betrayal that keeps me from donating to the odd Dem who still remembers that being a Democrat means not acting like a piece of right-wing trash.

Anthony Wiener has abandoned single-payer, joining the rest of the Dems who foolishly abandoned it months ago:

“I feel very strongly that the employer-based model is not the way to go and single-payer is the better way,” Mr. Weiner said in an interview. “But I never wanted it to be the situation where we literally let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

Unfortunately Mr.Wiener, the bill you have is so watered-down for the DINO Blue Dogs it doesn’t remotely approach “good.”

While Mr. Weiner said he recognized that his decision would disappoint legions of single-payer advocates, he said the danger to the larger bill was too great.

Forcing a vote on single-payer could be particularly problematic for lawmakers who represent districts that split heavily between liberal and more moderate or conservative voters. A vote against the single-payer issue would anger constituents on the left, while emboldening opponents on the right, making it more difficult to support the larger bill. Avoiding a vote on the issue, in turn, could allow centrist Democrats to take a tough vote in favor of the larger bill.

In short: Some members of the Democratic Party from the dumber districts are willing to fight against and even vote against actual progressive reform (in favor of supporting legislative pablum) out of fear that they may lose their seat to a Republican who will also fight against and vote against progressive reform.

Time for better Democrats.

Just got into my first Facebook flamewar with right-wing trash trying to tar and feather anyone who points out that Nidal Malik Hasan was the victim of intense and prolonged bigotry. Several right-wingers denied that bigotry exists anywhere, let alone in the military.

It boggles my mind that there are people denying that bigotry is an issue in the military, or trying to downplay it as a factor in Hasan’s rampage. 43 people were SHOT yesterday, so it clearly IS an issue. One of many in this case. And all issues related to this case MUST be examined.

Set aside the fact that Hasan needs to be — and will be — punished. We need to ensure that an incident like this NEVER happens again.

Disagree with that and you become part of the problem instead of the solution.

Wingnut trash Logan Davis took offense at this post of mine yesterday, in which I stated that “I will not be surprised if the Ft. Hood shooters turn out to be some right-wing whackos inspired by Guy Fawkes Day…”

Given the Radical Reich’s penchant for terrorism, (see Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Randall Terry, James von Brunn, Scott Roeder, the militia movement, the KKK, the Neo-Nazi movement) this statement really wasn’t out-of-bounds — unless you’re a thin-skinned right-winger.

Wait, that implies that some right-wingers have thick skins, which is not the case (although they all have thick heads). And Logan has a very thick head, indeed…

Logan’s unsolicited comments to me yesterday, via reblogging my post: “Forgive me if I step out of line here, but you’re either someone whose trolling skills have surpassed my own or so ridiculously ignorant and borderline-chromosomally retarded that you’re the bastard love child of Rachel Maddow and Corky from Life Goes On.”

Here’s a newsflash for you, Logan: I don’t troll, I merely tell the truth about you America-hating treason spewers and your ilk mistakenly believes that to be trolling.