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By David Edwards
Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum warned on Wednesday that President Barack Obama and other liberals are leading people of faith down a path that ends at the guillotine.
During a campaign event in Plano, Texas, the candidate charged Obama had an “overt hostility to faith.”
“When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches — trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles,” Santorum explained.
“As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong] — this is what the court said — that if believe that, if believe what’s taught in Genesis, if you believe what’s practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.”
He continued: “They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.”
Santorum admitted that the U.S. was “a long way from that,” but if Obama had his way then “we are headed down that road,” citing the Obama administration’s decision to require nearly all private health insurance policies to cover family planning, including female contraceptives.
“Now is the time for America to rise up and say enough!” the GOP hopeful exclaimed.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/santorum-obama-leading-christians-to-the-guillotine/
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"Why is this Guy always claiming that the other side is doing what his Party is Guilty Of???"By David Edwards
Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 EST
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Democrats had begun complaining in the past 24-hours after Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) caved to pressure from right-wing special interest groups, after a closed door meeting, and led Republicans to water-down the legislation as it relates to registration of lobbyists (what they refer to as 'political intelligence consultants.' )
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/09/house-approves-congressional-insider-trading-bill-417-to-2/Democrats had begun complaining in the past 24-hours after Majority Leader Eric Cantor... more
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The obscenely inflated ego known as The Donald didn't take long to avenge his crowned prince Mittens Romney from the triple loss in Tuesday's GOP contests by posting a video rant aimed squarely at yesterday's three-time loser winner Rick Santorum. But in typical Trump style, the (alleged) billionaire reality star's logic is flawed, baseless, and inadvertently exposes Romney's own failures.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/08/trumps-santorum-rant-backfires-actually-highlights-romney-failures-video/The obscenely inflated ego known as The Donald didn't take long to avenge his... more
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"El Rushbo" can't handle the good news happening without GOP help, so he accuses Obama of lying about the jobs figures."El Rushbo" can't handle the good news happening without GOP help, so... more
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While campaign laws strictly state that a Super PAC cannot coordinate or contact a political candidate directly, or strategize with that candidate, it is not against the law for the two individuals to be in the same room. But are we really to believe that Santorum’s right-wing sugar daddy, who has bankrolled his Super PAC, shared the same stage with him and the two weren’t strategizing or discussing the campaign? Do they really believe that the American voter is as dumb as all that?
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/08/santorum-shares-stage-with-super-pac-sugar-daddy/While campaign laws strictly state that a Super PAC cannot coordinate or contact a... more
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In his daily radio show the uber-conservative accuses the administration of making the unemployment numbers look better than they really are.In his daily radio show the uber-conservative accuses the administration of making the... more
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I'd like to think that most people in their right minds, if they've actually taken any time out of living their lives to watch a Republican debate probably has had enough. By now it's pretty apparent what the Republicans stand for and against and although it's fun to some of us who probably pay more attention than is healthy to watch them eat their own the time has come to face facts. Well at least my version of facts based upon hours of reading, watching and actually paying attention to history. Of course if enough people believe something and no one disputes it who's to say what a fact really is anyway? None the less I'll continue. Despite all the in fighting and name calling and their insistence that they they will somehow fix the nation by taking it back in time and that their version of so called "Family Values" is better than the other guys with three wives none of them are going to be President. Unless of course President Obamas secret Socialist, Muslim, Marxist, Communist, Nazi, Alien Overlords from the planet Zebo come to Earth and show us his real birth certificate and the truth is finally revealed. Which of course is entirely possible when you stop and think about all the other made up facts that have been tossed around this election cycle. After all perception is reality and as we all know some people will believe anything. Or so my evil Alien Overlords have said.I'd like to think that most people in their right minds, if they've actually... more
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The blow-up from the Christian and Catholic right-wingers shows that the fight over women’s sovereignty is shifting from abortion to contraception, as the anti-choice hardliners try to blur the lines and fortify their campaign for dominance over women’s reproductive rights. But as the recent furor over Susan G. Komen’s attempt to undermine Planned Parenthood proved, women are waking up to this war being waged on their rights, and they’re sick and tired of being the politically expedient whipping post of the regressive morons on the right.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/07/womens-rights-round-up-church-contraception-and-sonograms/The blow-up from the Christian and Catholic right-wingers shows that the fight over... more
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By Andrew Jones
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:51 EST
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly declared Monday evening that hatred for pro-life advocates is stronger in America than for gay people.
In a discussion about social issues, regular O’Reilly guest Bernie Goldberg condemned “the bigotry on the right” for attacking Ellen DeGeneres’ and the LGBT community.
“Reasonable people may disagree on gay marriage, that’s fine,” Goldberg said. “But to call on someone’s dismissal to be fired, to lose her job, because she’s gay, is bigotry. And I don’t care how many people listening to us right now don’t like that, it’s bigotry.”
But O’Reilly felt later on that another group received far more animosity throughout the nation.
“The bigotry against pro-life people is I think way more than the bigotry against gay people,” he said. “Particularly in the media because the media supports gay people in this country.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/07/oreilly-more-bigotry-against-pro-life-people-than-gay-people/
WATCH: Video from Fox News, which was broadcast on February 6, 2012.
"Man I wish folks would just live their own lives, and let others live theirs!!!"By Andrew Jones
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:51 EST
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Rick Santorum fabricates statistics about euthanasia in the US and Netherlands, appears nostalgic for days when abortions "were in the shadows."
Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago…60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, abortion is something to that is just accepted. This is the erosion. And it happens in the medical profession. It happened very fast. And I think Obamacare will lead us down that road.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101710875
"I am so sick of this Clown!!!"Rick Santorum fabricates statistics about euthanasia in the US and Netherlands,... more
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Class warfare is only as real as the People make it. Coalescing as a single voice we have the power to divest the Corporatists of the Ill gained position they currently hold. This is not a Patriarchy or a Monarchy – rather it is WE the People governing for the People and it happens by the People.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/07/2012-election-whats-it-all-about/Class warfare is only as real as the People make it. Coalescing as a single voice we... more
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The super PAC Restore Our Future has fundraised $30 million to Romney to the White House. The super PAC spent $800,000 on pro-Romney ads, but it has flooded his Republican opponents with attack ads totaling 17 million. Restore Our Future’s war chest comes from under 200 donors, 85 percent of whom had already donated the maximum amount to the Romney campaign.
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/06/big-oil-invests-1-2-million-in-romney-super-pac/The super PAC Restore Our Future has fundraised $30 million to Romney to the White... more
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By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday asserted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was “uniquely unqualified” for the GOP nomination because of the similarities between health care laws in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, including the repeatedly debunked claim that “death panels” would ration care to seniors.
Speaking at a ballroom across the street from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Santorum pointed to a report (PDF) from the the non-partisan organization Families USA that found at least 15 major similarities between Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the reforms Romney enacted in Massachusetts.
“Both create government panels to dictate quality and cost containment,” Santorum explained. “Some of you may be familiar with the Independent Payment Advisory Board — which is a board separate from Congress, independent of Congress — that President Obama created to control health care costs. How? By cutting reimbursements to doctors and hospitals under the Medicare program. Well, Gov. Romney has a similar program called the Council on Health Quality and Costs.”
“Some people refer to these types of boards as death panels,” he added. “Why? Because they ultimately decide to ration care to those procedures and people because they don’t believe these procedures are effective in providing care, that the utilization isn’t worth the costs.”
“So, again, you have government making decisions and rationing and apportioning care based on research that shows what outcomes are dictated by the research that’s out there.”
In 2009, Politifact named “death panels,” a term thought to have been first used by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), as their “Lie of the Year.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/06/santorum-romney-and-obama-both-created-death-panels/
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"Funny how he says "Some people refer to these types of boards as Death Panels" to the best of my recollection only His Party does!!!"By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
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If You Are Anti War Please Share This!
If you are Anti War, if you believe that the U.S., Great Britain and France should stay out of Iran, that there should be NO Sanctions NO War! Please Share this! Think of all the children that we WILL save by ENDING WARS!
http://freedividual.com/2012/02/06/if-you-are-anti-war-please-share-this/If You Are Anti War Please Share This!
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How do fat-cat Republicans get average citizens to vote for them? -- it’s actually not that difficult. You tell an uber-christian, homophobic, slightly more racist cross-section of the American populous that their president is a Muslim socialist and they will be considerably open to the idea. Tell those same voters that our president wants to kill God’s embryonic children, marry queers and give all your hard-earned money to pay for food stamps and welfare for minority crackheads and you will succeed in chalking up one more vote for the GOP…
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/06/the-gop-and-the-1-soulmates/How do fat-cat Republicans get average citizens to vote for them? -- it’s... more
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By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:31 EST
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of trying to “bribe the voters” with benefits and “checks from government.”
During his victory speech following the Nevada caucuses, the candidate told a crowd of supporters that voters shouldn’t expect a “free ticket” when he is president.
“I will not attempt to bribe the voters with promises of new programs and new subsidies and ever-increasing checks from government,” Romney declared. “If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most benefits then I’m not your president. You have that president today.”
“I’m asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an American. I want you to remember why it was that you or your ancestors, who sacrificed to come to America and to overcome the challenges of life in a new country, why they came here. It was not for a free ticket; it was for freedom.”
Last week, the former Massachusetts governor claimed he had misspoken when he said that he was “not concerned about the very poor.”
“We have a safety net there,” he had told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/romney-obama-trying-to-bribe-the-voters-with-benefits/
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'Sheeesh, all his talk about America and being an American, and he ends with 'God Bless this Great Land????'By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:31 EST
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By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:08 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested that Susan G. Komen for the Cure shouldn’t provide grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings because abortions cause breast cancer, a false claim that has been repeatedly debunked.
The candidate told Fox News host Chris Wallace that he didn’t agree with the Komen Foundation reversing itself last week and making Planned Parenthood eligible for future grants.
“I’ve taken the position as a presidential candidate and someone in Congress that Planned Parenthood funds and does abortions,” Santorum explained. “They’re a private organization they stand up and support what ever they want.”
“I don’t believe that breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization where you’ve seen ties to cancer and abortion,” he added. “So, I don’t think it’s a particularly healthy way of contributing money to further cause of breast cancer, but that’s for a private organization like Susan B. Komen to make that decision.”
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the several small flawed studies that suggested a link between abortion and breast cancer have been disproven.
“Since then, better-designed studies have been conducted,” the institute’s website said. “These newer studies examined large numbers of women, collected data before breast cancer was found, and gathered medical history information from medical records rather than simply from self-reports, thereby generating more reliable findings. The newer studies consistently showed no association between induced and spontaneous abortions and breast cancer risk.”
In 2002, the Bush administration temporarily altered NCI’s website to say that scientific evidence supported a possible link between abortion and breast cancer. After an outcry from the scientific community, NCI corrected its website with an accurate fact sheet.
A study released by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in 2006 found that the Bush administration also used pregnancy resource centers — commonly known as “crisis pregnancy centers” — to falsely inform pregnant teens that the risk of breast cancer increased by 80 percent after an abortion.
“This tactic may be effective in frightening pregnant teenagers and women and discouraging abortion,” the study concluded (PDF). “But it denies the teenagers and women vital health information, prevents them from making an informed decision, and is not an accepted public health practice.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/santorum-suggests-abortion-causes-breast-cancer/
Watch this video from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast Feb. 5, 2012.
"What an Odd thing to say!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:08 EST
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