Dems filibustering Texas abortion bill (live stream)

[Carlybee]

Please try to be nicer to people on this forum in the future. I do agree about I didn't have to comment on this thread. Oh, and you do make a good point. I find it very interesting that people are able to filibuster in the TX legislature.
+Rep

Well...you are the one who made the sarcastic remark about me starting the topic..just responding in kind...at least I took it to be sarcastic. At any rate..no harm/no foul and I am generally very nice. Except when I'm not.

 

[angelatc]

Apparently a third strike already happened for mentioning ultrasounds, but I believe the motion is being appealed, so there's a new Chair.

Interesting to see the comments on Huffington Post in strong support of the filibuster, which I'm guessing would be in stark contrast to what Paul got. Could be party affiliation, could be the subject matter, could be anything, but couldn't help but notice.

You're right!!! As I type this, the Statesman is reporting that the challenge has been upheld, so the filibuster is all but over. http://www.statesman.com/news/news/davis-starts-filibuster-to-stop-abortion-bill/nYTqs/

Now AP is reporting that the "kilibuster" has been broken,(ok, that's not the word they used) but the live stream seems to still be up?

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

I'm pretty sure I saw her sitting at one point- unless that was a different woman- but maybe the stream's up just to show the rest of the debate. Or maybe it's not over yet. Dunno.

Edit: And good luck to whatever person ends up running against her, because she will get so much support from her efforts on this.

 

[Carlybee]

The libs don't understand the rules of the filibuster...lots of comments on different sites accusing the Repubs of "cheating". One I saw "That was so mean of them to take away her chair." lol

 

[Rudeman]

All the Dems that were nowhere to be seen on Paul's filibuster are out in full force on twitter supporting this "great act of democracy in action", including their God/King Obama.

Some even comparing her to Rosa Parks.

 

[Antischism]

All the Dems that were nowhere to be seen on Paul's filibuster are out in full force on twitter supporting this "great act of democracy in action", including their God/King Obama.

Party politics are shit. But to be fair, I definitely saw a good amount of liberals who supported Rand's filibuster. People who normally bad-mouth Rand, even.

 

[Carlybee]

From Twitter #standwithwendy These will be the headlines tomorrow


"GOP decides to bypass rules - invokes wealthy white privilege and votes anyways!"

"Senate GOP is trying to cheat their way to passing #SB5 after midnight. they've ignored rules all night. this is not new"

"We are the people! We are the constituents! Listen to us!"

"The People are filibustering. This is so American, I just shat a bald eagle."

 

[angelatc]

The Illinois legislature has been known to do this, but they at least stop the clock to make it ok.

The way I saw it was that the protesters in the gallery started screaming so that the Senate couldn't vote, so they cleared the gallery, then voted. The left is an ugly mob.

 

[Carlybee]

The state troopers were called out. I'm betting there will be some arrests in Austin tonight although I saw one tweet that said the troopers were refusing to clear the gallery. I'm thinking I kind of like that.

 

[Carlybee]

Bill passed to close most clinics in Texas http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=9151839


Women and girls will now just do what they did before Roe v Wade and go over the border to get them or there will be the back alley butchers. It's not going to stop it and they may have really jeopardized themselves with young female voters. I am going to be pissed if Texas turns blue because of this because one thing the Dems do is they turn out. I hope it was worth being the morality police.

 

[supermario21]

Texas is not going to turn blue over this. The bill has greater than 60% support according to a poll taken 1 or 2 days ago. This is the Austin communist party mobilizing and that's it.

 

[angelatc]

Yes, because it's a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE thing to insist that abortion clinics are sanitary.

Making women decide to kill bastard child before they're 5 months along? INHUMANE!

Yeah, the right is soooooooo extreme.

 

[Carlybee]

Just stating what I believe will happen and based on the fact that I remember what it was like when abortion was illegal here. Texas is on the verge of if not already being majority hispanic...and yes while many hispanics are pro life, they also know which side their bread is buttered on. I would never take it for granted that the Texas legislature couldn't turn blue. That being said, apparently it looks like the vote was taken after midnight so it's being appealed.

 

[supermario21]

This makes me wonder why we didn't mobilize in places like Colorado over gun control. This was a militant extremist protest going on in the state house. And why I think people like Rand and Ron are right in saying we should have a national debate over the issue. At 20 weeks you can clearly see a well developed fetus. Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of third and second trimester abortions. This is something to expose the left on.

 

[Carlybee]

This makes me wonder why we didn't mobilize in places like Colorado over gun control. This was a militant extremist protest going on in the state house. And why I think people like Rand and Ron are right in saying we should have a national debate over the issue. At 20 weeks you can clearly see a well developed fetus. Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of third and second trimester abortions. This is something to expose the left on.

Expose them to who? People who support it, agree with them. People who don't, already know. How is that going to change anything but telling everyone something they already know?

 

[supermario21]

Expose them to who? People who support it, agree with them. People who don't, already know. How is that going to change anything but telling everyone something they already know?

The general public that doesn't pay attention hears WAR ON WOMEN being screamed by the feminazis constantly. This is being made to look like a trampling of democratic rights yet it is a bill that most Texans support.

 

[Carlybee]

The general public that doesn't pay attention hears WAR ON WOMEN being screamed by the feminazis constantly. This is being made to look like a trampling of democratic rights yet it is a bill that most Texans support.

Well, we'll just have to let it play out and see what happens.

 

[fr33]

Her election was a very ugly one from both sides. I don't live there but my tv stations do and the ads were very distasteful.

 

[James Madison]

A woman arguing for the mother's right to murder her child. Wow, what a hero.

 

[BamaAla]

A woman arguing for the mother's right to murder her child. Wow, what a hero.

According to her wikipedia page, she had a bastard child as a teen; I wonder if her kid is a big fan?