GOP Rep Tiahrt (KS) Asks Whether Obama's Mother Would Have Had An Abortion
By Nicole Belle Friday Jul 17, 2009 2:00pmYet another gem from the "Party of Family Values":
Arguing to restrict the public funding of abortions within the District of Columbia, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) suggested on Thursday afternoon that if such "financial incentives" were available some 47 years ago, President Barack Obama himself may never have been born.
"If you think of it in human terms, there is a financial incentive that will be put in place, paid for by tax dollars, that will encourage women who are -- single parents, living below the poverty level, to have the opportunity for a free abortion," said Tiahrt. "If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in a similar circumstance."
"If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it?" Tiahrt asked. "Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible that we would be denied his great mind? The opportunity to have tax-funded abortions, a financial incentive, is something that I think most of us want to oppose in America and it's certainly deserves a clean up or down vote."
So is Tiahrt suggesting that only black babies get aborted? Has Tiahrt been spending time with Bill Bennett? It's a little horrifying to me that more than 45 years after MLK's March on Washington, the GOP still feels no shame in expressing their abject racism so openly. It is a small comfort that Tiahrt was booed by his colleagues.
Tiahrt is running for Sam Brownback's Senate seat in 2010, and given the tenor of his comments, I'd say he's attempting to reach out to the same base.
However, such sickening allusions--can you imagine the GOP uproar if a Congressman had suggested that Barbara Bush might have wanted to consider an abortion?--should not go unchallenged. The Kansas Democratic Party has put together a petition demanding an apology from Tiahrt: Take it back, Todd.
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Wha?
for fear of being censured or deleted as usual
i will just say the entire gop/conservative
populace have gone over the cliff and are just
f#{king nuts.
we should be afraid of this group and their
fanaticism.
Like Bill Maher said, "Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into a mental hospital.”
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Are statements like this made by the republicans even repeated and given news space..
Palin or Joe the Bummer would not be a household name if this was true..
Do they put meth into the water in Kansas? I think this guy could be the biggest A$$hole in the the U.S Government. This guy makes Michelle Bachmann look crazy, but just crazy. This A$$hole is dangerous.
The GOP: Always keeping it classy.
How much better off we and Iraq would have been if barb and george had used birth control!
republicanism is a mental illness!
Barbara Bush had two abortions.
don't forget Neil and his criminal fuckups.
and then did in the father and moved to... hell, herself.
Sounds like he is threatening me with a good time.
great mind? he wants teachers to strip search your child over school policy.
concerning over-the-counter medication!
IBUPROFEN, for cryin' out loud.
good nazi. They are beneath contempt.
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That's gotta be one the damned stupidest things ever said since the day began. Of course tomorrow another repubican will try to top it.
Clarence Thomas may have a great mind but he sure hides it well.
thomas
but he sure hides it well
Like 'w' bush looking 4 WMDs
"Not here"
"Not under here"
heh.heh smirk
I recall back in the day when Anita Hill testified UNDER OATH about what Clarence Thomas did to her that I wore a button for many months after that:
I BELIEVE ANITA HILL
My understanding of Clarence Thomas is that he has practically NEVER written either a majority or minority position paper for the court. From what I've read here and there, he's a real gem of a dunce, (morally/legally speaking).
Not that I think it would have been better had his mother aborted him.
Afterall, those hearings with him and Anita Hill were first rate teevee!
why it is constitutional to strip and cavity search a teen girl in hs for drugs
he is a true piece of work
and his mom shouldve aborted him
he has a ghost writer. The only thing he can write is bad pornography. Talk about Buchanan's version of "affirmative action." Thomas is educated beyond his intelligence and is clearly unsuitable for SCOTUS. Or any court. He is a joke.
Now they're going after his mother. First his wife, then his kids, now his mother. Republicans: truly the party of Nixon.
I swear, if the Republican party as it is makes a comeback after the nihilistic destruction they have pulled these last eight years...
Well, apparently, Nixon did say that the abortion option should remain open for those inter-racial pregnancies.
And we all know only black people are poor.
these idiots don't care about abortion, they only want to have something to talk about. Can anyone remember when they were ramming everything they wanted through the house and senate? well how many bills addressing abortion were passed? None? Oh, well, how many were brought before the house? None? Oh, well I'm sure it was a dirty democrat who prevented the rethugs from outlawing abortion when they had total control of all three branches of government.
They really don't want to outlaw abortion because if they did, they would no longer have that cause to drag out every time one of them is running for office.
have us queers to kick around don't ya forget. What with our agenda and all.
...What's this gay agenda? that everybody sho9uld live in a nicelyl-decorated apartment and dress well?
we want from you PEOPLE!!!
;)
I thought the only reason you "chose" to be gay was to break up heterosexual marriages.
At least, that's what the Christianists have been telling us.......
It's a secret.
Besides it's rather easy to convert y'awl. I've had to get extra storage for all my toaster ovens.
I'm picturing an entire storage unit filled with toaster ovens!
Ellen
There will always be somebody or something that they can use to fire up and or scare the base.
I just doubt they're that creative or interested in coming up with something besides abortion or "teh gay" or gun control or tax cuts or..... Why change before they've completely exhausted these options?
Trailer trash rules the planet. Whodda thunk?
By appealing to this particular brand of spawn, they get enough people into Congress to decide the fate of thinking people everyhwere.
Nothing surprise me anymore about the racist rants that come out of these repubs mouths. What they discuss in their conservative social circles, they now feel free, for whatever reasons, to say out loud now. What's pathetic is is that this is all they have to work with now.
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There is no excuse to insinuate that the USA would be better off if the mother of the President had an abortion.
NO EXCUSE!
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What of the women who didn't get to realize their own potential because they had to put their plans and dreams aside because they had a child to care for? What of those missing brains and famous people?
The "Who will cure cancer if you don't bear that child" argument falls flat if you see women as people, and not walking incubators.
...you're looking at it logically.
District of Columbia wants. Oh, wait.
Fucking racist douche nozzle.
Are they sure they want to bring up the President's mother right now? If I recall correctly from reading Obama's books, his mother was on her death bed and still fighting with the insurance companies for her coverage.
How do these dolts get elected..Call him: tell him we want an immediate apology or we will begin a recall! 1.800.828.0498
It is not even a coherent argument---oh I forgot it is a republican!
to have sexual intercourse for the purpose of propagation that's how they get elected.
10% or more of the population to which the above statement does not apply.
from its powerful programming so I'm free.
... the boys at the house on C-Street.
(And you thought that humpa-humpa-humpa sound late at night was kids driving by with their stereos blaring hip-hop tunes ...)
corporations have passed on the lucrative opportunity to market a safe drug that suppresses the sex drive?
a "headache"?
or cold shower?
A drug that supresses sex drive?? What for? Isn't that what hetero marriage does?
Just imagining a lot of people I see, naked, works for me.
" "Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, if those circumstances were in place, is it possible that we would be denied his great mind? "
Yeah, what a shame that would be /snark
Dodge Pickup!!!
with every Prius?
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the government doesn't have a financial interest in Toyota.
What if Hitler's mom had had an abortion? Or Charles Manson's mom? or the Jackal that spawned Dick Cheney? I mean you can speculate all you want on imaginary scenarios but it's all BS in the long run. And that's all these a-holes of the right-whine can offer now.
What if Obama's mother had decided to be a nun and not had kids? This guy want to outlaw celibacy?
Yet another mental giant graces the halls of Congress...
He and his buddies would dress up as nuns and go bar hopping.
;)
I guarantee he's a cheerleader for the war in Iraq. I also guarantee that we have caused some unwanted abortions amongst all of the Iraqi casualties we been the cause of. He knows this is true too. Correct me if I'm wrong but, I believe the war is paid for by the taxpayers. Therefore, I don't think his commitment to zero taxpayer-funded abortions is exactly 100%.
...the logic of the 'ifs and buts were candy and nuts' of the Right? How about if we try this one...'what if Perry Smith and Dick Hickock had happened on the Tiahrt family home instead of the Clutters way back then, we wouldn't have had this great mind amongst us either.
Yes the possibilities are endless. Which is what makes this diatribe so incredibly insane in the first place.
repubs' racism is so deep they totally dont realize how bizarre the things they say are. or they're just complete damn fools.
not both?
ok both.
I mean you sound like them.
the homophobic rhetoric.
Thanks Site Mon!
I wish you wouldn't call them cocksuckers. Some of my best friends are cocksuckers. including me.
HEEEEELLLLLLOOOOOOO NURSE!
;)
As my friend said when I pointed out the photograph of him with a hot carshow femmebot and raised an eyebrow in query, "Hey, everybody's a little bit straight."
:^D
may hang out with the hotties of the "wrong" gender, but it doesn't mean we wanna schtup 'em.
;)
No doubt about it!
(btw, I know that only barely related, but the conversation just reminded me of that exchange)
Cheers!
I am the resident nurse on this thread!!
Abbybwood, R.N.
Hello Nurse!
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She does kinda remind me of myself....
is what I thought.
;)
filthy, foul puss filled white MEN SOB's a-hole, shweinhund, descpicable pukes have gotten on my last nerve! I Hate their guts! Tell ya what dirt bags, just crawl back under the rocks you came from under!!!!
Dirty misogynist punk s$$ turds! And if you reich wing boils on the butt of humanity, open up your pasty faced pie holes one more time about "abortion" one of these days, you are going to run into a strong woman (who you are obviously afraid of) you will get your pasty faced butts kicked so hard you breath will smell like Shinola!
You descpicable reich-wing- punk worms!
I'm sorry, but my head just exploded over this one.
like jazz musicians.
Rep. Tiahrt seems to be implying that aborting Obama would be a bad thing.
The Ed Show just did this story and he said the same thing about it that Nicole said. Cool!
can you imagine the GOP uproar if a Congressman had suggested that Barbara Bush might have wanted to consider an abortion?
Being from a fabulously wealthy old money family, she could have afforded one anyway, whether it was illegal or not.
...Clarence Thomas' mother did have an abortion. Nobody told him.
[pratfall backwards with hand over face]
No, no he didn't...
LOL
It would look as though someone read Freakonomics, and took it seriously. Too bad. Pinche Pendejo!
What is this fool saying. Doesn't he realize that Obama's parents were married. Mr. Obama would have taken Mrs. Obama back to Kenya to live. However, he did have another wife. That is an entirely different issue than single mothers raising children. I don't see how his little story applies to President Obama at all. I really don't.
... why not bring on gun control?
Who knows, MLK would be a supreme court justice....
I am going to stop using the word racism from now on. I am going to use "Buchananism" with what both Herr Pat and Frau Bay have said recently. Buchananism is a form of Caucasian racism that hates anything nonCaucasian. These people are becoming unhinged not only because there is a half-African-American in the Presidency but because so many educated Caucasians support most (not all) of his policies. They know they are becoming more and more irrelevant, and that loss of power, I fear, is making them more and more dangerous. This lack of fear of showing their absolute Buchananism spurs the uneducated fearful to lash out in absolute ugliness. God help us all if they are allowed to continue this vitriolic behavior.
To bad Todd's Momma didn't have an abortion.
What's the matter with Kansas? This is what happens when stupid people get too much religion.
Rep Todd Tiahrt,
With dumb ass comments like this your political career may wind up an abortion.
You sir are even dumber than Pat Roberts... who I guess you are trying to emulate?
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Tiahrt is a sick man. Republicanism is indeed a disease
lets NOT offer funding help to poor single (or otherwise for that matter) women for abortions so that their decicsion to not have an abortion will be a purely financial one, and those who can least aford to rear a child will bring one into this world under (much) less than advantageous circumstances or they'll be maimed or killed while frantically searching for and finding some hack to perform an illegal abortion.
Yea, what was I thinking by having that pesky bleeding heart trait called empathy playing a role in my sense of right and wrong.
Gotta get my head outta my butt.
Would have opted for an abortion if she knew her vagina would give birth to an asshole!
It's obvious to me that his mother made the wrong choice.
1. At least there were some in the Chamber that booed this ass-hat. And 2. Why the woman seated directly behind said ass-hat, didn't just get up and smack him on the back of his head, is beyond me.
Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) must be some sort of terrorist that hates America. He doesn't seem to show any respect for the President of the United States. I would wager that he believes he should be addressed with respect as a U.S. Congressman all the same.
Is he a distant cousin of Tom Delay?
My only question is How does Al Quaida capture these guys and brain wash them into acting like Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) ????
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