Last night the Regressive republicans got their teeth kicked in all over the country as Americans went to the polls. Rightwing extremist ideas were soundly rejected all across the country:
- In Maine, same-day registration and voting will be reinstated after Regressive republicans legislated to eliminate the popular practice as a way to suppress the vote (fewer people voting always means better results for republicans);
- Mississippi's "personhood" law, making all forms of birth control illegal, making all forms of abortion illegal, including in the cases of rape or incest, and making a fertilized egg "a person" at the moment of conception failed. If a far rightwing law like this can fail in a bright red, goober-filled, moronic state like Mississippi, it has no chance to pass anywhere else;
- in Arizona, the Repressive republican president of the Senate, and the architect of the harsh anti-immigration law in that state, was recalled;
- In Michigan, Regressive republican representative Paul Scott lost his seat after backing policies that weakened teacher tenure and cut education spending;
- And the biggest win for Liberals was in Ohio, where, by a huge margin, voters overturned Gov John Kasich's anti-collective bargaining legislation. Voters said loudly and clearly they wouldn't stand for Kasich's war on the American worker.
I generally like your page, but as a citizen of a neighboring “goober” state I’m offended by your remarks re: Mississippi. They did the right thing; you can’t just give them an “attaboy” without adding a gratuitous insult? Mississippians are goobers, every one, just as black can sing and dance but tend to steal and Jews are clever but avaricious and unscrupulous. I was in Mississippi for a week working on the Katrina cleanup, and I can tell you there are some wonderful people in that state, many of them at least as progressive as yourself. Regionalism is no better than racism.
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