Originally published at: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Takes Credit For Arkansas Supreme Court Abortion Ballot Question Decision - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The Arkansas Supreme Court sided with state officials in a ruling on Thursday that will keep an abortion rights question off the ballot in November over what is, essentially, a paperwork issue. The court upheld state officials’ decision to reject certain signatures that were collected by paid petitioners. The officials had found that the organizers…
Good grief — is she still a thing?
What a despicable human being. Take away rights and then game the system so they can’t be restored.
Vote blue up and down every ticket nationwide.
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The Koch playbook.
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Fugly bitch.
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Some of the most anti-women people are, ironically, women.
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When they go low, they go subterranean.
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Love the framing of this group’s name – takes the juice right out of the reich-wing’s tank as George Lakoff recommended – with valence that really could translate into some downballot good news for blue in AR come election day bog willing.
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Both inside and out.
But she’s been going to Weight Watchers so looks like she’s got big ambitions.
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I hate Sarah Huckabee Sanders face. Both of them.
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Those aren’t her face.
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More children born + Arkansas’ crummy schools + struggling families = more child labor for that bill she signed into law!
Hey, win-win! She’ll take Arkansas back to the 1850s yet!
(And no need to invest in that pesky healthcare for mothers or children – they’re on their own!)
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I read that the organizers were told by the state officers that the documents were not needed as they had already submitted them before, and they also submitted them after when it became a question. So, the fix was really in here, the state made sure the submission was faulty under the rules by telling them the submission was fine, and then the court said that the actions by the state officers were irrelevant because they documents didn’t have this minor thing that was already available. It really was a move to make sure there was no initiative on the ballot…as with other states they tried to bend the rules to keep it off and this time they succeeded.
It’s a bad idea though, because nothing pisses people off more than cheating them, all this will do is energize a bunch of people in Arkansas to work harder to upend Republican rule of the state.
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The Republicans seem to only dig deeper to find ways to make the Democrat’s messaging more attractive to more and more people even in deeply red states like Arkansas.
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Irony isn’t just dead, it’s been dismembered and buried under the end zone at Giant Stadium.
(GOP: “We want to shrink government down to the size where it can fit in your womb.”)
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The “deep” south is quickly going back in time to 1850.
Anyone who can, will leave and the poor folks who can’t will live under the yoke under 19th century rules.
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The court and state attorney general (Timmeh Griffin, former voter cager for Shrub) tied themselves in knots to reach this ruling. Three separate cases involving different issues basically had three different rulings each contradicting each other.
This was Timmeh’s attempt to influence the court with some shitty video he released before they ruled.
Sorry if it’s behind a paywall.
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Hey, I can reply here! Still can’t reply to the DNC coverage. @kelaine
TPM: start a fund for decent tech. I’d give. I gave for journalists but would like the site to work – otherwise, why bother with support for journalists?
Okay, confession time. Vacationing with my daughter and her family this week at the Cape, I bitched in passing about google’s constant demand in the upper righthand corner that I connect to internet accounts via a google account I set up for some techie reason I can’t recall. I hit the x in the corner several times each day, as the box disappears and then reappears. She heaved sighs (she is a loving and dutiful 40+a little daughter, but sometimes I feel like we’re back when she was 15) and took over my laptop. Despite my pleas that she not fiddle, she fiddled with irrelevant things. But that flap aside, she “fixed” my problem! Until, the next day, the same google demand showed up. She acknowledged (not very gracefully, I felt, but then she has an 8 year old and a 5 year old, both smart, willful, and maybe “hyperactive,” and she was supposed to be “on vacation”) that my computer was cursed.
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Your not being able to comment has nothing to do with tech. A moderator closed the thread to comments, because things got really ugly in just 17 comments! Flags were flying. Comments were deleted. It got nuts.
The comment thread will reopen at 6:30 eastern time.
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I normally do not like commenting on someone’s looks, but someone engaging in such reprehensible conduct seems fair game — she is ghoulish inside and out.
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