If arts funding is âCOVID relief,â then itâs no surprise that child care is âinfrastructure.â In the Democratsâ lexicon â where abortion is âhealth care,â election reform is âracism,â and social justice is a âpublic worksâ project â the fact that Joe Biden is trying to reimagine another word to fit his agenda is just par for their delusional course. The Left played this same trick on the American people in February, Cameron Hilditch warns, shoe-horning every radical priority under the sun into âcoronavirus response.â Politically, itâs very âclever,â he agrees. Practically, it shouldnât stand a chance.
More Americans are wise to the Leftâs scam now, as evidenced by the massive blowback Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) got for tweeting âPaid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure.â Conservatives had a field day with the idea
On a party-line vote with Republican support, the Senate gave initial approval to a bill that would create the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act.
The bill would require health care providers to take all medically appropriate and reasonable actions to preserve the life and health of any child born as the result of natural, induced or cesarean labor or an abortion.
Thirty-one Republicans voted for the bill on a second reading, while 19 Democrats opposed. The bill faces a third reading before moving to the House.
SB 315 carried by Sen. David Howard, R-Park City, would be effective immediately upon passage and signing by the governor. An amendment to Howard s bill put on by the Senate on Monday would void the referendum if Howard bill passes.Â
I m actually terrified for women in the state of New Hampshire for what s on the agenda, said Minority Leader Renny Cushing.
Later in the day, when another controversial abortion bill was moved up on the agenda without notice to Democrats, Cushing told Speaker Sherman Packard that Democrats would be going home. They blindsided us at the end of the day, Cushing said.
Democrats rushed the doors as they tried to deny a quorum of 199 members to continue the day s work.
At that point, Packard, a Republican, decided to lock the doors to try and maintain the quorum and keep members inside.
02/09/2021 at 9:47 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Hadley Arkes, Catholic Thing, February 9, 2021
In the British comic Review in the 1960s, Beyond the Fringe, a commanding officer in the Royal Air Force sought to persuade a pilot to go on a kamikaze mission. “Smedley,” he said, “we need someone at this moment to make a [Grand] Futile Gesture.”
Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska has made his career with Grand Futile Gestures, not because his policies have been wanting in merit, but because he has shown little interest in doing the grinding work of a legislator in working out bills in committee and persuading his colleagues.