GET ME REWRITE: One-woman clown show from Mississippi confirms GOP's deep-seated animus toward reproductive rights

 

Yet another Republican reminds us why it's important to vote Democratic this November!

 

Headline:  New York Times, 2/28/2024

And Cindy swallows the bait -- hook, line and sinker.

Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, sought to pass the bill on Wednesday under a procedure that allows any one senator to object and stop it in its tracks, effectively daring Republicans to oppose it and highlighting divisions within the G.O.P. on how to handle the issue. 

“The bill before us today is a vast overreach that is full of poison pills that go way too far — far beyond ensuring legal access to I.V.F.,” Ms. Hyde-Smith said on the Senate floor, adding that she supported access to I.V.F. but that “this bill misses the mark." 

[snip] 

Democrats orchestrated the attempt to pass the bill as they sought to point out the hypocrisy of Republicans who have rushed to voice support for I.V.F. after the Alabama ruling, even though many of them have sponsored legislation that declares that life begins at the moment of fertilization. Such a bill could severely curtail or even outlaw aspects of the treatments.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'hook, line and sinker', as in without hesitation or reservation, occurred in 1838,

 

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. befuddled
2. comedy drama
3. eyeblink
4. maladjusted
5. miscue
6. semiliterate

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