16 Replies to “Birth Canal [Dan Collins]”

1. Carin says:

   February 28, 2008 at 8:52 am

   It’s amazing, but to be “for the children” you have to be a bit of a socialist:

   1. Increase minimum wage (H.R. 2)
   2. Increase funding for children with disabilities (S. Con. Res. 21)
   3. Protect children from unsafe medications (S. 1082)
   5. SCHIP Reauthorization (H.R. 976)
   6. College Cost Reduction and Access Act (H.R. 2669)
   7. SCHIP (H.R. 976 – motion to concur)
   8. DREAM Act (S. 2205)
   9. Funding child health and education (H.R. 3043)
   10. Improving Head Start programs (H.R. 1429)

2. Education Guy says:

   February 28, 2008 at 9:16 am

   From the scorecard, you can certainly tell how nonpartisan it is. The votes used to compile the scorecard is interesting too. Make sure you check out the cartoon on pg 38.

   Both Links are PDF’s.

3. Carin says:

   February 28, 2008 at 10:01 am

   Education Guy – that first link was a hoot!

4. Carin says:

   February 28, 2008 at 10:04 am

   Ok, still having fun at those links. Here is one of those issues (#2 on my first comment) which rated those Dems so high, and the Rethugs so low:

   Increase Funding for Education for Children with Disabilities
   Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2008, S. Con. Res. 21,
   S. Amdt. 545 – Special Education
   Rejected 38-58 (R 0-47, D 36-11, I 2-0) on March 22, 2007.
   Vote Description: The amendment would have restored the top marginal tax rate on taxable
   income in excess of $1 million to pre-2001 levels and used the additional revenue to increase
   funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
   CDF Action Council Position: Yes. Adoption of the amendment would have provided
   a large increase for needed funding to help ensure a free appropriate education for children with
   disabilities. It would be funded by taxing the richest Americans.

5. Kevin says:

   February 28, 2008 at 10:08 am

   You should put more in the post so that we might click the link. I didn’t, but I made this comment! So don’t say I didn’t make an effort.

6. Dan Collins says:

   February 28, 2008 at 10:12 am

   Yeah. Because nothing’s better for kids than making their parents poor.

7. baldilocks says:

   February 28, 2008 at 10:31 am

   Our First Hispanic President

   That title could go to presumptive GOP front-runner John McCain who was born in the Panama Canal Zone. It would explain quite a bit. The New York Times is, yet again, banking on the historical ignorance of the majority of

8. ccs says:

   February 28, 2008 at 12:01 pm

   #2 E G
   It’s cool how all the ‘Best’ were D’s and all the ‘Worst’ were R’s

9. happyfeet says:

   February 28, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   What McCain needs to do I guess would be to reach down between his legs

   …n’ ease the seat back

10. Education Guy says:

    February 28, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    ccs

    It’s because Republicans hate children. Women and minorities too, but mostly children. It makes sense when you think about it, seeing as how they are nothing but a drain on the economy. They don’t work, they never vote and they whine a lot. Also, they are really not very clean.

    When was the last time you saw a toddler that did something to improve the human condition? That’s right, never. Little parasitic leeches, the lot of them.

    — This message brought to you by the citizens coalition to elect John McCain 2008.

11. thor says:

    February 28, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    You’re lucky he even performs for you people. Leave McCain Alone!

12. mojo says:

    February 28, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    “I’d like to help you, son, but you’re too young to vote.”

    The Who, “Summertime Blues”

13. bigbooner says:

    February 28, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Thought Eddie Cochran did Summertime Blues. And mebbe Blue Cheer. Don’t feel like Googlin’.

14. Joel says:

    February 28, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    I wonder if Obama’s campaign will try to make an issue of the Canal Zone thing. Had he been born two years earlier, Obama’s own eligibility could be called into question the same way.

15. McGehee says:

    February 28, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Teh Who did a version, and the line mojo quotes is how I remember it. Also Alan Jackson’s version as well.

16. Michael McNeil says:

    February 29, 2008 at 6:53 am

    Folks might like to check out Jim Lindgren‘s posting on “The Meaning of ‘Natural Born'” over at the Volokh Conspiracy. It turns out that was an 18th century term of art, and thus no mystery at all.

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