Who would Shapiro pick to replace Fetterman? (Harrisburg, Braddock: unemployed, school)

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by gg

Just take the pill if you are a moron and have unprotected sex. Or if you get raped, there should be that in place for the VERY rare case when it happens. VERY rare indeed. All of this is rare and morons vote due to that and forget the MUCH more important issues at hand. Like world peace, which clearly is in turmoil with this bunch of dopes running things. Look at Fetterman! OMG! You can get a worse lazy idiot than that. Lived off his republican parents all his adult life and then got into selling himself as some hooded idiot that the emotional people that never watch news voted in. WOW! If you don't watch your local news, stop voting!

LOL. You appear to be forgetting that the abortion issue was brought back from the dead by the right-wing zealots in your very own Republican Party. It would've been a non-issue if not for activist Supreme Court justices that upended decades of legal precedent (after misleading Congress during their confirmations, no less).

And the laments about "important issues" is really rich. Perhaps you should direct your frustrations to the party that thinks our most important political priorities are demonizing transgender people and drag queens, criticizing public school teachers for teaching about (GASP!) empathy and inclusion, and manufacturing moral outrage with the latest rallying cry for those with fragile conservative sensibilities: "wokeness."

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by gg

Just take the pill if you are a moron and have unprotected sex. Or if you get raped, there should be that in place for the VERY rare case when it happens. VERY rare indeed. All of this is rare and morons vote due to that and forget the MUCH more important issues at hand. Like world peace, which clearly is in turmoil with this bunch of dopes running things. Look at Fetterman! OMG! You can get a worse lazy idiot than that. Lived off his republican parents all his adult life and then got into selling himself as some hooded idiot that the emotional people that never watch news voted in. WOW! If you don't watch your local news, stop voting!

Funny thing is, none of your response addressed the specific case I mentioned.

This actually happened to an Oklahoma woman recently. No clinic in Oklahoma City would perform the abortion because of that state's total ban on the procedure. She was put in an ambulance and taken to a clinic in Wichita, Kan., where the procedure remains legal thanks to that referendum in which Sunflower State women especially voted down a constitutional ban. (She was so close to death that instead of going to the clinic, she was admitted to a hospital where she got her pregnancy terminated.)

She then sued the state, whose Supreme Court struck down the total ban as violating the state Constitution while leaving in place a 1910 law that outlawed abortion except when needed to save the life of the mother.

And as Duderino pointed out, even though we have all sorts of programs, incentives and disincentives in place to encourage people not to make bad choices, we do not then deny them medical care when they make them anyway. Abortion needs to remain at the very least a last resort for those occasions, and banning it in all but those cases will mean that, as happened to that woman in OKC, it will still be unavailable to those very women when they need it, for there will be no local practitioners available.

Moving to your other subject: I'm not sure that watching your local TV newscast will make you a better-informed voter, though it definitely will make you a more fearful one. Reading your local newspaper or online news outlet, however, should. (And for purposes of this discussion, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the other social media platforms are no more "local news outlets" than this discussion board is.). And as for your characterization of Fetterman: I heard a good bit of criticism of him from people on the left who basically said he was engaging in blue-collar cosplay. Of all the candidates tainted by the Trump touch, Oz was closest to the mainstream, but that gaffe he made on, ahem, abortion, cost him dearly among the very suburban moderate voters who might have been willing to vote for him but not Mastriano.

[jtab4994]

Personally I think Gov. Shapiro will pick someone who is both a Democrat and pro-abortion. So that excludes Dr. Oz and Doug Mastriano.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by jtab4994

Personally I think Gov. Shapiro will pick someone who is both a Democrat and pro-abortion. So that excludes Dr. Oz and Doug Mastriano.

Well, duh. Shapiro's both himself. That's stating the obvious.

[jtab4994]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

Well, duh. Shapiro's both himself. That's stating the obvious.

It's been almost 6 weeks now. Even the groundhog thinks that's a bit much.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pe...-20230324.html

[anthony_c55]

The fake outrage in this thread is off the charts. Look at history (even recent). Many members of Congress have had health issues, just like everywhere else.

[jtab4994]

Originally Posted by anthony_c55

The fake outrage in this thread is off the charts. Look at history (even recent). Many members of Congress have had health issues, just like everywhere else.

Well, has Governor Shapiro addressed the health issues of "many members of Congress"? No. He has been asked about John Fetterman, the guy who had a stroke before the primary, beat a weak candidate in the general election while unable to speak coherently, checked into a psych ward within days of being sworn in, and remains there to this day.

For the record I'm not outraged that Fetterman managed to pull his election off, just curious about who the replacement would/will be. I can't believe no professional reporters are bothering to read the tea leaves in Harrisburg or at least not bothering to talk about it.

[anthony_c55]

Originally Posted by jtab4994

Well, has Governor Shapiro addressed the health issues of "many members of Congress"? No. He has been asked about John Fetterman, the guy who had a stroke before the primary, beat a weak candidate in the general election while unable to speak coherently, checked into a psych ward within days of being sworn in, and remains there to this day.

For the record I'm not outraged that Fetterman managed to pull his election off, just curious about who the replacement would/will be. I can't believe no professional reporters are bothering to read the tea leaves in Harrisburg or at least not bothering to talk about it.

Of course you deflect.

[jtab4994]

Originally Posted by anthony_c55

Of course you deflect.

This thread is about who Gov. Shapiro might choose to replace Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who hasn't shown up for work lately.

[anthony_c55]

Originally Posted by jtab4994

This thread is about who Gov. Shapiro might choose to replace Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who hasn't shown up for work lately.

Ok