GOP War on Women

And the stakes couldn't be higher:

“In their fervor to impose their ideological views on the people of the state of North Carolina, they weakened the safety net for women and children in our state at the very time when we should be working to strengthen it,” Rep. Jennifer Weiss of Cary said of the legislature.

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The only way to stop the clock from rolling backwards is to remove these idiots from office, or at least put them back in the minority where their crazy 19th Century ideas won't do any harm.

There's more than one way to get around the open meetings law:

Rob_Schofield 11:15am via Mobile Web
Senate Commerce Cmte. moves meeting to small room. Hundreds of anti-fracking activists denied entry #ncga #ncpol #bluenc

I was going to refer to this as the "Margiotta Gambit", but methinks Ray wasn't smart enough to come up with it on his own. And here's another one that begs a question to which I don't want the answer:

Gov. Nikki Haley On The View: ‘Women Don’t Care About Contraception’

Nikki Haley, the young Indian-American governor of South Carolina, was on The View to talk about her new book Can’t Is Not An Option, but the segment ended up going in a surprising number of directions. First, Barbara Walters asked Haley about rumors that Mitt Romney may be considering her as his running mate in the 2012 election. She deflected the rumors by saying that if asked, she would refuse, since she “made a promise to the people of [South Carolina]” to serve her term through 2015.

It used to be that Republicans were just these misguided people that pretended that they had tightly held beliefs; simply to hide the fact that they were simply interested in running interference for the very rich.

They courted the votes of the uneducated and the lottery hope-minded, to maintain the financial inequality in our system of government.

Now, however, it seems clear that as they found themselves with unchallenged majorities in the statehouses and in the House, they've opened up the floodgates of radical wish lists of the crazy fringe that heretofore has been kept at bay.

William Gray of Mint Hill posted on NC Women's Political Caucus Facebook page at 11:00am:

If you live in NC House Districts 106 (M.Alexander), 102 (Carney), 99 (Moore), 24 (Farmer Butterfield), 32 (Crawford), 48 (Pierce), 1 (Owens), 2 (Speir), 4 (Dixon), 30 (Luebke), 45 (Glazer), 49 (Bradley), 51 (Stone), 59 (Jeffus), 66 (Goodman) or NC Senate District 38 (Dannely), 7 (D.Berger), 18 (Atwater), 19 (Meredith), 22 (Blake), 27 (Vaughn), 31 (Brunstetter) please contact me.

I would like to talk to you about a redistricting lawsuit that has been filed by the NAACP, Democracy NC and the League of Women Voters