Usually Yahoo boards are full of yahoos - but look at this
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110408/ts_yblog_theticket/abortion-becomes-flashpoint-in-shutdown-battle The Hyde Amendment outlaws the use of federal fund for abortions. It has been on the books for years (1976)...but they won't tell you that. They need to keep you riled up.
honestly I think there acting like a bunch of children and need to grow up a bit. How hard is it to sit down and make a decision?
a huge mistake to not pay the military!
Making a mockery of democracy.
Notice that decisions about women issues are being decided by a bunch of old white men on both sides. Men need to shut the hell up and let the women work out this issue. Please, one man step forward and tell me what it is like to have an abortion. I have no idea and I do not want to know. I believe in the Consistent Life Ethic, but I will never pretend to know what any woman has to go through.
I've read story after story about social opinions on Planned Parenthood funding, but nobody ever reports the dollar value of defunding the program. Would someone please remind congress that we are trying to balance a budget here, not render moral judgement on any person or program. Pencils, erasers and calculators only, please.
This is not a political issue it is a personal and moral issue. Do your jobs, serve the people that elected you instead of whoever payed you off (or has pictures) and stop politicizing everything. Your tactics are despicable, devisive and pushing the envelope of common civility. Shut down the country over Abortion - how about shutting it down over 2 illegal wars, corporate rape and pillage, political and moral corruption, economic terrorism (Fraud St version). You are a disgusting and despicable lot.
Laughing stock of the world. Our leaders are a joke.
And the thumbs-ups are way way higher than the thumbs-down.