OUCH! "The Mr. Bean of Prime Ministers" !!!!

DAYUM you're good, BlueEye!

I'd submit that the CONS really ought to rethink their "pro-life" positioning, because they AREN'T.

Anyone who strongly supports the death penalty CANNOT call themselves "pro-life."

Anyone who denies climate change (now ravaging the planet and impacting life on Earth) CANNOT call themselves "pro-life."

Anyone recklessly insisting that we need those coal-mining jobs back, and we don't have to conserve, and we don't have to recycle, and we don't have to stop being wasteful CANNOT call themselves "pro-life."

Anyone who yells "drill baby drill" CANNOT call themselves "pro-life.

Anyone whose first choice is war-making before negotiating or promoting peace treaties CANNOT call themselves "pro-life."

Anyone who hates immigrants and immigration and doesn't give a damn what happens to immigrants CANNOT call themselves "pro-life."

Anyone who wants to help Donald Trump build that ol' wall CANNOT call themselves "pro-life."

Anyone who defends the wanton, reckless "guns for anybody who wants 'em" position DEFINITELY CANNOT call themselves "pro-life."

I think we should start kicking the supports out from under this whole "pro-life" canard. Connect the dots and attack it at its roots.

Let's help people drill down a little farther below the meaningless talking-point or sloganeering. Let's examine what it REALLY means to be "pro-life."

The whole "pro-life" crap needs to be re-examined, attacked, and undermined.

If I gently may -

it's the DEMOCRATIC primary. NOT the "Democrat" primary. That's the GOP's bastardization of the name of our party. Seems to me we shouldn't be reinforcing it by using THEIR term for us.

Good point, Ilsa. He DID destabilize the Middle East, which certainly has given a whole new meaning

to the term "trickle down."

What really shocked me were the reports I've seen this morning about how many people who voted "Leave" are now wondering if they maybe should have voted the other way...

Nobody thinks about consequences anymore. Nobody thinks about the ramifications of extreme measures like this. Nobody!

Reminds me of what happened here in California in 1978, when nobody thought about the consequences of ramming that Proposition 13 bullshit down everyone's throats. Nobody listened to the cooler heads who tried to explain things in full and come up with alternatives that were much more workable. It spread like a cancer across the country and caused the "I Hate Taxes" revolt that still has a big hold on too many people. And NOBODY has successfully beaten that back. NOBODY realizes what those taxes pay for - like, for example, all the things they like and approve of, and that in many cases they've come to depend upon.

Here, too, the same thing. They voted with their hearts instead of their heads. They voted for the feeling, the quick fix, the dumbed-down assumptions, the pleasure of making an in-yer-face statement just for the sake of being in-yer-face, the "nobody tells ME what to do!" crap, the purported "righteous indignation" of IGMFU. And that won't serve them at all. It won't serve any of their needs. But it WILL serve them, alright. On a platter.

Oh brother...

You make several really good points here, Number23.

You saw things through a very clear lens. You WERE right.

Yes. You're correct. He wasn't on the no-fly list at the time of the massacre.

But he HAD been on it previously, and certainly within the last five years. That's what the Feinstein bill stipulated - at any time within the last five years.

Thank you, ThinkCritically.

Thank you, bernie_FTW! And Welcome to DU!

Very elegantly stated. I forget who said it but - the only thing that stands between us and the GOP is the Democratic Party.

I Love This Man. Andy Parker.

Very soon after his daughter was blown away by a gunner, live on morning television, he said he thought gun apologists should be "shamed" into making changes.

I heard that and started jumping up and down with joy. Literally. That is EXACTLY what we need to do at this point. They need to be NAMED. And they need to be SHAMED. The public needs to know who they are and how fiercely they stand in the way and refuse even to discuss things. They need to be dragged out into the proverbial public square.

NAME 'em and SHAME 'em.

I still want to know which Congressmembers refused to meet with the grieving Newtown parents awhile back.

NAME 'em and SHAME THEM, TOO.