"Controversial." "Onerous." "Ideologically offensive." These are the words used by Washington Post reporters Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey Smith to describe the pro-life policies of President George W. Bush. The liberal slam came in an article about some of the early actions President-elect Obama will take when he is inaugurated next year.
"Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions" was carried in the November 9 edition of the Post. The story revealed that Obama is "now consulting with liberal advocacy groups" in order to create a hit list of "the most onerous or ideologically offensive" regulatory and policy initiatives of the Bush administration. Two of the top three initiatives singled out in the Post's story are pro-life: embryonic stem cell research and abortion funding. The other is global warming.
The Post also quoted Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards who said the country's leading abortion-provider is in near-daily communication with Obama's transition team and "expects to see real change." In other words, Planned Parenthood got the president they wanted.
The Post story left no doubt as to the reporters' feelings on pro-life initiatives. Regulations "imposed" by President Bush include his "controversial" limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research which "pleased religious conservatives." Obama is also "expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal." This is the Mexico City Policy, a regulation put in place under President Reagan, rescinded by President Clinton and reinstituted by President Bush. Post reporters used the word "reimposed" to describe Bush's action. And for them it is only President Bush who operates from a partisan agenda.
"The kind of regulations they are looking at" are those imposed by Bush for "overtly political" reasons, in pursuit of what Democrats say was a partisan Republican agenda, said Dan Mendelson, a former associate administrator for health in the Clinton administration's Office of Management and Budget. The list of executive orders targeted by Obama's team could well get longer in the coming days, as Bush's appointees rush to enact a number of last-minute policies in an effort to extend his legacy.
The story noted that Obama advisers say "key shifts in social and regulatory policies" will not be delayed and that the liberal Center for American Progress (CAP), founded by former Clinton insider John Podesta who is now co-chairman of Obama's transition team, is "substantial" in its influence with the President-elect.
The center's influence with Obama is substantial: It was created by former Clinton White House official John D. Podesta, a co-chairman of the transition effort, and much of its staff has been swept into planning for Obama's first 100 days in office.
The Post correctly identified the CAP as a "liberal think tank" but only reported its influence in relation to Bush's climate change regulations which Obama will seek to undo. In fact CAP is radically liberal in its stance on social issues: pro-abortion, pro-same sex marriage, pro-Plan B, anti-abstinence. With "much" of the CAP staff "swept into planning for Obama's first 100 days" as the Post reported it is a safe bet that other issues of importance to social conservatives are already on the table. It's also a safe bet the Post will gleefully report their demise.
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More proof of liberal
November 10, 2008 - 13:48 ET by motherbeltMore proof of liberal "tolerance" of opposing views.
Of course, liberal policies are never "onerous" or "offensive."
They make me ill.
John Podesta. Rahm Emanuel.
How's that "change" thing coming along, Mr. President-elect????
I wouldn't be surprised to see George Stephanopoulos tapped next.
Here's why...
November 10, 2008 - 14:56 ET by AJBWAPO knows that 80% of abortion clinics are located in/near the inner cities. They know that the Democrats go out of their way to fund these clinics. They know that three times the national average for abortions is done by the African American community. They, therefore, wholeheartedly support the genocide and infanticide of African-Americans. And they call Conservatives racist! Here's a whole party who garnered almost 99% of the vote of the African American community whose policy it is to wipe them out. Boy, that community should really rethink their obsessive support of those who are out to eliminate them!!
dirty secret
November 10, 2008 - 17:49 ET by LionKingIt is more about elitism than racism.
Liberals fancy themselves smarter and better than everyone else, especially the masses. They do not trust the masses to take care of themselves, that is why they push the "cradle-to-grave" agenda.
Here is the Dirty Secret about abortion.
Pots and kettles
November 10, 2008 - 13:56 ET by KC MulvilleSo the overturning of these regulation has nothing to do with politics, right? The Democrat party is accusing the Republican party of having a party agenda? (Stop these idiots! Give them some gum!)
Notice, of course, that the entire perspective is Democrat. The reporters don't offer the Republican view, only the Democrats' verson of what the Republicans were up to. That's like allowing the prosecutor to tell the jury how the defense sees things, and then not giving the defense a chance to explain it themselves.
It's Sodom and Gomorrah all over again
November 10, 2008 - 14:03 ET by attorneygirlWow.
Ideologically offensive? Are they kidding?
So, if I choose to respect and honor the life of a child (yes, I said child) I am ideologically offensive?
The left is now brazenly exposing its inhumanity, hate, and blackened heart. My views in protecting the life of an unborn child are ideologically offensive?
Our country is doomed if we continue down this path.
This is one reason I fought the Obama campaign so hard. He will destroy this country.
My adopted son
November 10, 2008 - 16:54 ET by NorthCoasterwould be terribly upset if he understood what the these life threatening issues mean.
Please do Mahdi Obama
November 10, 2008 - 14:08 ET by Lame CherryPeople haven't figured out yet that the protection America has received from Christians due to God's Grace is gone with Mahdi Obama.
So I say, please do Mahdi Obama, please put in your earth worship, please cannibalize our children even if stem cells can be grown from skin tissue, please make your children pedophile bait, please let sodomy run wild in telling them to commit suicide, please subvert the Congress and the laws of God.
Let the full wrath of God come on these reprobates. Certainly good Americans will suffer, but as they murder off their constituents and some Iranian nukes blow up with nukes the Democratic gulags with all the disease and death that follows, hey they will reap the full harvest of their deadly mandates.
So Mahdi Obama, you just go right ahead, because here is the rope and you run as far as you like in your heathen dictatorship for at the end of your rope you will find furious Muslims who aren't keen on your sinful policies and Christians in America who aren't giving the liberals from faux Peggy Noonan to Kenyan Obama any cover.
Your sins Barack, heap them up Mahdi and heap them high because judgment will come.
My babies will not be aborted, my children will not be raped by pedophiles, my family will be educated in moral Law from God and His Grace and we will not partake of your blasphemy as we trust in God's protection and care. America will still be here after Obamerika is long the mass grave of God's Kingdom come.
Come Lord Jesus. It is a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Amen
agtG
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MB, "Change" is Obama's code
November 10, 2008 - 14:08 ET by semolina_filcherMB, "Change" is Obama's code word for rehiring old Clinton hacks. So much for that...but too late for the fools who voted for him. The Change we are going to get indeed!
Planned Parenthood got the president they wanted.
November 10, 2008 - 14:09 ET by vrwc13And during obama's 4 years 1,500,000 potential voters will never get their chance to vote...
Abortions and ethnicity
Abortions are much more common among minority women in the U.S. In 2000-2001, the rates among black and Hispanic women were 49 per 1,000 and 33 per 1,000, respectively, vs. 13 per 1,000 among non-Hispanic white women.
Reasons for abortions
In 2000, cases of rape or incest accounted for 1% of abortions. Another study, in 1998, revealed that in 1987-1988 women reported the following reasons for choosing an abortion:
92% made a "choice"...in otherwords, a mother chose to eliminate her own child because, well because she...
6% were concerned with health issues
v
Regardless of who sits in the Whitehouse, I know who still sits on His throne in heaven...and He isn't happy about this...
vrwc...Excellent ... the "Dirty Secret" about abortion
November 10, 2008 - 14:27 ET by LionKingMargaret Sanger is an elitist and probably a bigot. She is an advocate of eugenics. Since this practice was stopped, she had moved to the "next best thing" -- abortion.
As vrwc's post reveals, minorities are most affected by abortion. I wish I had the income levels also, but regardless, this is the "dirty secret" of abortion. To find out more about this and Margaret Sanger's role, click on the above link -- goes to Blackgenocide.org/sanger.
LionKing, That is the
November 11, 2008 - 11:01 ET by msh1973LionKing,
That is the thing about evil, it likes to distort the truth for its own good. Abortion makes a lot of people wealthy.
This about hits the nail on
November 10, 2008 - 14:30 ET by lotrThis about hits the nail on the head...
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Washington ComPost: No
November 10, 2008 - 14:13 ET by semolina_filcherWashington ComPost: No respect for those who value a human life...these are the double standards for liberal tolerance. OK for gays to be equally accepted in society but not babies who are about to be born. Are you freakin' telling me EllendeGeneres' life is more important than the life of a baby about to be born?
OK, pro-lifers who voted for Obama
November 10, 2008 - 14:16 ET by Mary Louise TurnerOK, you pro-lifers and other conservatives who voted for Mr. Obama simply because of the rotten economy....are you happy now? How many of you realized what a radical this man is when it comes to life issues?
....are you happy now?
November 10, 2008 - 14:26 ET by vrwc13MLT, if you look at the voting statics, three glaring facts are apparent:
Other than the first stat, it's apparent our "youth" and especially "young, single woman" "feel" their reproductive rights are more important than the "rights" of their own un-born children....sad, very sad.
v
I pity the poor fools who
November 10, 2008 - 15:04 ET by Tim the EnchanterI pity the poor fools who have drunk the "pro-choice" Kool-Aid. They've set themselves up for a lifetime of shame and regret. Their consciences will not allow them one minute of peace of mind, no matter how hard they try to justify what they have done.
I pity the poor fools who have drunk the "pro-choice" Kool-Aid.
November 10, 2008 - 15:30 ET by vrwc13To use your "tag", I separate the "pro-choice" folks into two catagories:
The enchanted are the ones who have been "schooled", "convinced", "debated", "lead", or "deceived" into believing it was the "right" or "o.k." thing to do. They have been duped. They need our sympathy. They have killed their own child, endanged their own lives (cancer, depression, etc.). They need comfort, prayer, and forgiveness.
The enchantors on the otherhand, are the enablers, practioners (against their own code of ethics), the promoters, the deceivers. Unless they repent, and seek foregivenes from the "ONE" who gave them their very own lives, they are condemned. But not condemened by us but by God. They need our prayers too, but of a different kind.
v
support the baby's choice
November 10, 2008 - 16:58 ET by TruthMongerif the abortion lovers can call themselves pro-choice we sure as hell can call the conservative movement "progressive" instead
and it would actually be correct - very unlike pro-choice
Stop the Controversial, Onerous & Ideologically offensive Obama
November 10, 2008 - 14:32 ET by lotrFight the "Freedom of Choice" [sic] Act (FOCA)
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The first thing I’d do as President is sign...
November 10, 2008 - 14:45 ET by vrwc13The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do. - obama
The second thing he will probably do in his "rule" is install a national healthcare plan...translates into "free abortion".
This dove-tails the two into free-and-easy kill-your-own-child laws that will:
...watch and see if they both don't happen...
v
Remember, China has a
November 10, 2008 - 14:49 ET by semolina_filcherRemember, China has a two-child policy. Who knows what will happen when "their" President Obama signs into law FOCA? That would mean every pregnant liberal woman must subject herself to making the choice her country chooses for her: abort or be terminated by the NSF.
FOCA ... who cares?
November 10, 2008 - 14:49 ET by LionKingAbortion is and should be handled at the state level. The 10th Amendment allows states this right and conservative states should exercise it. A state law/amendment would supercede this Act -- FOCA.
Remember the Defense of Marriage Act -- how many states have allowed "gay marriage" inspite of this act?
What are "rights"
November 10, 2008 - 15:08 ET by moderncommentaries83Quite frankly, liberals who bemoan that we need to do things "for the children" are - in my opinion - full of sh*t.
You can't be "for the children" when you've condoned - nay, applauded - the murder of 50 million of them over the past 35 years, or voted for a president who thinks its a "right" to allow a butcher (read: abortionist) to leave a born, living infant in a soiled linen closet to die.
And don't think for a moment it stops there. FOCA clearly wipes away all conscience laws, meaning any nurse/doctor/pharmacist who objects to abortion will be out of a job. Period. Fill those positions with pro-aborts and you know what's next, right? Mandatory abortion for the "unfit" (disabled), and forced sterilization of undesireables (conservatives). Indeed, this is how the left views Trig Palin and, by extension, all disabled persons: http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2008/11/feel-love.html.
Just a summary of some of the comments about disabled children and those who adopt them:
Make no mistake: the imperfect will be destroyed. Whether by abortion or euthanasia, we can't have them ruining Obama's utopia. The unwanted will be eliminated.
We will pay - all of us - for the blood of the innocents that's on our hands. And the price will be heavy.
had to get in here
November 10, 2008 - 15:06 ET by RowaneNo, killing innocent babies is ideologically Offensive,
just sickening that anyone would see it any other way
Oh CiCi
November 10, 2008 - 16:37 ET by JillCWGoodness, I thought she would certainly value life . . . well, I was wrong.
I met her when she was a lowly reporter in a small (very small city) just starting out. She promised that everything I told her was off the record. I wouldn't have spoken with her otherwise and I was looking for anonymity for my then pre-school-age son. She showed no respect for us and wrote the story using my name, which was the same as using my son's name. Kind of like "Absence of Malice."
She caused great harm to my son, so it's no surprise that harming the unborn doesn't phase her. She is an opportunist and when she was on Fox News, I stopped watching the program when she was on air. The kicker is she was pregnant at the time.
Dear Cici, what would you have done if you'd been forced to abort your baby? Oh, but yours would, of course, have permission to survive, right? That, my opportunistic woman, if what folks like you will bring to fruition. Just a little Chinese-type population control?
I wish I could be a fly on the wall at the White Throne Judgment, but God knows how much it would break our hearts to see almost all of the MSM on the line destined for a nasty eternity.
CiCi, People find
November 10, 2008 - 17:20 ET by SlicksterCiCi,
People find the wapo idealogically offensive and the subscription rates prove it.