Dannenfelser at Wapo Chat: Asked About Abortion Coverage Lies, She Lies

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Tuesday March 16, 2010 · 11:52 AM PDT

2010/03/16 · 11:52

Marjorie Dannenfelser is the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which seeks to promote pro-life women in politics. She took part in a live chat at washingtonpost.com recently, and I was pleased to see the moderators chose my previously submitted question for her to answer.

I was not pleased to see the answer, however, because she did nothing but lie about the health care bills and abortion coverage. That's a shame, because my question was precisely about how she could lie about this issue.

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Tuesday November 10, 2009 · 2:36 AM PST

2009/11/10 · 02:36

For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician.

So reads part of the decision of Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that protects the right of women to a private decision with their doctor on the matter of abortion.

It is my opinion that this sentence conflicts with Stupak-Pitt as it now stands, because the "abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician."

The Stupak-Pitt amendment will add a second judgment to this decision for most women, an undue financial one. Women too poor to be able to afford insurance without government subsidy will have to decide if they can even afford a necessary procedure. It is precisely this burden in millions of other health care situations that H.R. 3962 was designed to alleviate. However, for this single set of procedures and medications, the financial decision is enshrined in law.

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 12:12 PM PDT

2009/08/31 · 12:12

Part of the problem with Washington is Washington. It's too easy for incumbents to win. They get all the money, they get all the free press, they get all the sway.

Yet term limits is a non-starter, and I agree with it. An electorate does have the power to limit someone's term in office. I fully accept the truth of that.

So maybe term limits aren't the way to go. How about a reset option?

This is what I'm calling the Incumbency Amendment to the Constitution.

The Incumbency Amendment

Section 1

All members of the House of Representatives sitting during a general election shall be ineligible for further re-election or appointment to the House, if in that election four-fifths of the sitting House of Representatives are re-elected.

Section 2

All members of the Senate sitting during a Federal election shall be ineligible for further re-election or appointment to the Senate, if in that election one-quarter of the sitting Senate is re-elected.

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What do you think of this amendment?

41 votes Vote Now!

What do you think of this amendment?

I like it - let's get it passed!

9 votes

I like the idea, but it needs work.

5 votes

I like the notion, but there are better ways to do this.

5 votes

I don't like this idea.

13 votes

We don't need term limits in any form.

9 votes

FOX News Smear: Dodd's Amendment Did Not Allow AIG Bonuses

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 10:06 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 10:06

Fox Business on the case:

While the Senate was constructing the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an "exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009" -- which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are now seeking to tax.

Of course, this is going all over the conservative blogosphere.

Yet the actual text of Dodd's amendment concerning executive compensation doesn't have this February 11th exception in the text.

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Saturday March 07, 2009 · 12:58 AM PST

2009/03/07 · 00:58

Among a lot of others, mind you.

It's in the WSJ today and branching out from there -- several of the counterparties receiving par payouts for their toxic CDOs now owned by the taxpayers have been identified. The first name on the list is Goldman Sachs:

Among those institutions are Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Germany's Deutsche Bank AG, each of which received roughly $6 billion in payments between mid-September and December 2008, according to a confidential document and people familiar with the matter.

Other banks that received large payouts from AIG late last year include Merrill Lynch, now part of Bank of America Corp., and French bank Société Générale SA.

More than a dozen firms with smaller exposures to AIG also received payouts, including Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and HSBC Holdings PLC, according to the confidential document.

This is big news because the vice chairman of the Fed, Donald Kohn, would not identify any of these companies when he appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday.

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 5:46 AM PDT

2008/10/05 · 05:46

A lot of trash is heading Barney Frank's way these days. One of the things being quote-mined right now is a statement that Barney Frank made in 2003 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac weren't in crisis and that's why he was opposing regulation of them.

The truth is he was opposing a specific type of "regulation," splitting the regulation away from HUD (while leaving the low-income housing mandate there) and giving it to Treasury. He decried a lot of "crisis" talk at the time.

And in a hearing before the House, Secretary John Snow agreed with Frank that there was no crisis facing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The money quote:

Mr. Frank: ...Are we in a crisis now with these entities?

Secretary Snow. No, that is a fair characterization, Congressman Frank, of our position. We are not putting this proposal before you because of some concern over some imminent danger to the financial system for housing; far from it.

Full quote after the jump.

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 5:23 PM PDT

2008/09/03 · 17:23

Yep, it's true. Barack Obama is going to be on The O'Reilly Factor right before McCain steps up and claims his FUBAR race for the White House:

Barack Obama will appear on Fox News with conservative Bill O’Reilly on Thursday, the same night John McCain gives his acceptance speech at the Republican convention here. What a coincidence!

The first-time appearance by the Illinois senator on O’Reilly’s show will likely be a ratings draw, although it will not go head-to-head with McCain’s speech.

Obama’s interview will air at 8:00 p.m. EDT, while McCain’s speech will air after 9:00 p.m.

O’Reilly will sit down with Obama Thursday in York, Pa., where he plans to question Obama on his "political career, domestic issues and foreign policy in Iran and Iraq," according to a statement by the network, which is owned by News Corp., which also owns The Wall Street Journal.

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What do you think about Obama appearing on O'Reilly?

It's the smartest thing Obama's done yet.

36 votes

It's a good move among many for Obama.

228 votes

Not sure if he should have, but I support him anyway

142 votes

This is a mistake.

60 votes

See my comment below -- I think it's good!

1 vote

See my comment below -- I think it's bad!

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Limbaugh's Atrocious Distraction - "Little Black Man-Child"

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 5:52 AM PDT

2008/08/21 · 05:52

Yesterday on the air, Rush Limbaugh stated the following:

Obama's patriotism is not being attacked in an ad. McCain's just out there saying he's putting his own personal political ambition ahead of the country's. It's -- you know, it's just -- it's just we can't hit the girl. I don't care how far feminism's saying, you can't hit the girl, and you can't -- you can't criticize the little black man-child. You just can't do it, 'cause it's just not right. It's not fair. He's such a victim.

There is so much that is foul about those paragraphs, but the reference I bolded is one more example of the racist Rush Limbaugh we've all come to know recently.

Rush was calling Obama "Little Black Sambo."

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Tuesday August 19, 2008 · 6:35 AM PDT

2008/08/19 · 06:35

Yesterday the McCain camp finally bit on the speculation that his Cross in the Dirt story did not actually occur to him. Despite quite a number of people mentioning this and providing evidence or not, the McCain Report blog at his campaign website hit Daily Kos as the sole source of the speculation.

When I learned of this over at DU, I checked here to see what the Kos response was. It had not been posted yet, so I did a quick search of McCain's new witness to an early telling of the story, Orson Swindle. His board membership in the group Citizens Against Government Waste was on the first page, and CAGW's participation in money laundering for Jack Abramoff was well known.

So I posted these few facts, reprinted the McCain Report post attacking the Kos, and published. I also added my suspicion that McCain was using this battleground to force Obama into renouncing this site.

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Monday August 18, 2008 · 3:17 PM PDT

2008/08/18 · 15:17

A kind of witness.

Orson Swindle, a fellow POW, says that he remembers McCain telling the story about the cross in the dirt sometime in 1971.

Orson Swindle's charity, Citizens Against Government Waste, laundered money for Jack Abramoff. The Senate Finance Committee report is here.

ETA: A correction is below and a mea culpa is in my next diary, The Battleground McCain Prefers.

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Sunday August 17, 2008 · 2:51 PM PDT

2008/08/17 · 14:51

An unusual charge appeared today, and it seems to hold together rather well: John McCain's story of the Vietnamese guard who drew a cross in the sand may possibly have come from The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

However, before we make and repeat the charge that McCain has been intentionally lying about this story for many years, there are a few things to take into account. We must be careful about this, because McCain's sacrifice during this period was real and cannot be denied him. No matter what his politics today, attacking him for this story could unleash a terrible backlash, and from what I can tell, there's just not enough here to convict McCain of lying, even if the story never happened.

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Saturday August 09, 2008 · 3:22 PM PDT

2008/08/09 · 15:22

The most damaging evidence I've seen thus far linking Dr. Bruce Ivins to the anthrax mailings is his uncharacteristic spike in night work in the days leading up to both mailings. I've also seen a lot of mischaracterization of this time in both directions.

Let me make my position clear from the beginning. We don't have all the evidence we need to conclude that Ivins is the anthrax mailer, nor that he was part of a group that did this. The FBI released a great deal of information in its release of search warrant affidavits, and I think they had a case for probable cause there. But contrary to their assertions, I've not seen anything like enough evidence to overcome a reasonable doubt defense, not if I was in the jury box. And the work hours, while the strongest evidence the FBI has got, is still just not enough.

In fact, their own release of evidence shows that there's more to the story that they haven't revealed.

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Stupak-Pitt Places An Undue Burden On Women

The Incumbency Amendment

FOX News Smear: Dodd's Amendment Did Not Allow AIG Bonuses

How Paulson Used AIG To Throw Goldman A Big Old Bone

John Snow Agreed With Frank in 2003: No GSE Crisis

Poll: Obama Appearing on O'Reilly Factor Before McCain Acceptance

Limbaugh's Atrocious Distraction - "Little Black Man-Child"

The Battleground McCain Prefers

JohnMcCain.com Slams Daily Kos for CiD Story, Produces Witness

McCain, The Merciful Guard, and False Memory

The Spike in Ivins' Work Habits -- Questionable But Inconclusive