Here's the Daily Kos community in action: today Senior Campaign Director Director Rachel Colyer represented Daily Kos in presenting 1,236,596 petition signatures to Sens. Harry Reid and Elizabeth Warren, urging Congress not to cut any federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
"The cold, hard fact is that a vote to defund Planned Parenthood is a vote to limit women's access to cancer screenings, contraceptives, and all the other important services Planned Parenthood provides." Senator Reid said at the event. "This Planned Parenthood bill isn't going anywhere here in the Senate." Reid added.
"No cuts, no compromises," added Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was also in attendance.
The signatures were collected and delivered by CREDO, MoveOn.org Civic Action, and Democracy for America along with Daily Kos. The petitions are not only a very strong show of support to Planned Parenthood for all the work it does for the nation's women, but also a signal to congressional Democrats that the progressive base of the Democratic party expects them to stand behind Planned Parenthood as well.
Sign if you agree: Democrats must stand strong. No cuts to Planned Parenthood. No government shutdowns
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2013—Michelle Obama—hugs and haters:
The right-wing racists in this country who still haven't recovered from the two-time installation of a black family in the White House have dredged up yet another reason to hate on the first lady. This last week it was about water. When I read about the manufactured controversy at Wonkette, I thought it was a joke. Rush-bloat got into the act, with his par-for-the-course bigot act, and so it went ... on and on ad nauseum, from one right-wing website to another. The FLOTUS has, as part of her goal to improve our children's health, simply suggested that they—gasp—drink more water.
The comments sections to the stories on those sites were predictably slime-filled. Usually, I can just brush the crud off of my psyche, shrug my shoulders and wonder who are these people who seem to spend an extraordinary amount of time on the internet inventing new ways to degrade and demean the FLOTUS?
The problem is that they are people, who own computers, who though faceless and sometimes anonymous, live real lives in my country. And though I may be able to withstand the filth and accept that my world is still full of too many hateful folks, I began to wonder what effect of all of this has on the Obama daughters. [...]
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On today's Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin is as shocked as you are that Walker is out. Rubio’s numbers up, mostly because the rest are so awful. With Perry & Walker out, less insiders left in. Fiorina climbs polls, was still a terrible CEO. Jack Shafer says Trump isn't a media creation, then explains how he is. Carson keeps digging, but thrills his base. This leads David Waldman to continue the discussion on how interpreting scripture, whether Torah, Bible, or Quran, depends on the perspective, and honesty, of the interpreter, as with stories about Taquiyya & Kol Nidre. David also attempts to show mercy to this jerk, who is raising a pill’s price by 5,500%. He isn't alone.
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