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By David Edwards
Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:50 EDT
Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain is still adamant that no one was more qualified than Sarah Palin to be vice president in 2008.
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday asked the Arizona senator to respond to HBO’s movie “Game Change,” which implies that he only selected Palin because she was a woman.
“I thought she was the best qualified person,” McCain insisted. “I thought she had the ability to excite our party, and the kind of person that I wanted to see succeed in the political arena. She was a very effective and successful governor [of Alaska]. Again, I look forward and not back.”
“What I don’t understand, even in the tough world of politics, why there continues to be such assaults on a good and decent person, Sarah Palin, a fine family person, a person whose nomination energized our campaign,” he said. “We were in the lead and they continue to attack and disparage her character and her person.”
But it was the way he was portrayed by actor Ed Harris that seemed to most get under McCain’s skin.
“I’m portrayed as using an exceeding amount of coarse language,” the failed nominee explained. “I don’t use course language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.”
“I was going to say that in the movie — which I watched part of — you swear like a sailor,” Wallace noted. “But I guess that would be unfair to sailors.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/11/mccain-palin-was-best-qualified-for-vice-president/
Watch this video from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast March. 11, 2012.
"I can actually see the hair on the back of his neck standing straight up, having to say all that he does not actually believe, Poor Fella!!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:50 EDT
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Matt Taibbi tells it like it is!!!
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"I told my father after 911 that this was Fraud and that these folks who believed and went out and bought a house would live to regret it... Sadly I was Correct!!!" =(Matt Taibbi tells it like it is!!!
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By David Edwards
Friday, March 9, 2012 13:02 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Friday blasted rivals former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for their past support of legislation to combat global warming, saying that politicians shouldn’t change “when the climate changes.”
“When the climate changed about man-made global warming in this country and everybody rushed to say we need to do something now about this huge problem, I didn’t change,” the former Pennsylvania proudly declared at an event at the USS Alabama Battleship Park. “This climate science of man-made global warming is not climate science, it was political science.”
“I didn’t sit on a couch with anybody,” Santorum added, referring to an ad Gingrich had made with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling for mandatory carbon caps.
“I didn’t go out and crow as Gov. Romney did when he was governor of Massachusetts about imposing the first CO2 cap, the first CO2 cap in the country,” Santorum continued. “Both of them say, ‘Yeah, we have to do something about man-made global warming.’”
“We don’t need somebody who changes when the climate changes,” the candidate remarked. “We need somebody who looks at science with a clear head and a level eye.”
In their quest to woo GOP voters, both Gingrich and Romney have tempered their support for climate change legislation in the past year.
Late last year, Gingrich admitted that appearing in the ad with Pelosi was “the dumbest single thing I’ve done in the last few years.”
In October, Romney told voters in Pittsburgh that “the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.”
Santorum, however, has said he never believed the global warming “hoax.”
“I’ve never supported even the hoax of global warming,” he insisted last month, adding that Gingrich and Romney “bought into the science of man-made global warming, and they bought into the remedy, both of which are bogus.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/santorum-global-warming-is-political-science/
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Friday, March 9, 2012 13:02 EST
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By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, March 8, 2012 19:15 EST
Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) on Thursday voiced his support for legislation that would prohibit individuals detained in the United States from being indefinitely detained or transferred to a foreign country.
“Our Constitution is in many ways the most powerful weapon we have against those who mean us harm,” he said.
Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011 was proposed in response to controversial sections of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 regarding the detention of terrorism suspects.
“While this administration has said it won’t hold American citizens or lawful permanent residents in military custody, that is the interpretation of only one president,” said Udall, who sits the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees
“That policy won’t tie the hands of future administrations,” he noted. “The indefinite detention provisions threaten to undo much of the progress the FBI and law enforcement have made to stop terrorists plotting in the United States and overseas, and it seems to make it more difficult to collaboratively gather intelligence on domestic terror cells at all. The last thing we should be doing is preventing local, state and federal authorities from investigating and acting on threats to our safety.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/08/sen-udall-calls-for-repeal-of-indefinite-detention-provisions/
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"Hooray for my Senator!!! I wonder what his take is on a Fellow democrat, ie BO, signing it into Law???"By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, March 8, 2012 19:15 EST
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Sen. Sanders discusses the initiatives in 60 Vermont towns to overturn the Citizens United decision.
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By Megan Carpentier
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 21:58 EST
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) got caught by CNN’s “caucus cam” in Wasilla — and the whole CNN team to the opportunity to quiz her about the the GOP primary, her potential candidacy and, of course, her opinion on the Sandra Fluke affair. Unsurprisingly, Palin used the opportunity to call the liberal media hypocrites. “I think the definition of hypocrisy is for Rush Limbaugh to have been called out, force to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his first amendment rights,” she said, “and never is the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, the defenseless.”
Palin was not ready to tell the cameras her choice for the GOP nomination, telling CNN, “I want to see the process continue, more debate about who it is that can bust through the Orwellian Obama rhetoric and pandering that we see in the incumbent, who can bust through that with facts, with history, with logic, with common sense in order for American voters to understand we have a choice,” indicating that she likely didn’t cast a ballot for former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-AK).
When asked, as she inevitably is, about her potential candidacy in 2016, she said, “Anything in this life, in this world is possible. Anything is possible for an American,” and declined to say that she wasn’t interested. “I would seriously consider whatever I can do to help our country,” she added.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/06/palin-criticizing-rush-over-his-fluke-comments-is-the-definition-of-hypocrisy/
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"If she really wants to help our country, maybe she should consider getting out of Politics!!!" =)By Megan Carpentier
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 21:58 EST
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By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 18:28 EST
President Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized the Republican presidential candidates who have openly advocated military action against Iran if they refused to dismantle their nuclear program.
He said there was still time to work on resolving the issue diplomatically, and that the new stricter sanctions placed on the country would force them back to the negotiating table.
“What’s said on the campaign trail, you know, those folks don’t have a lot of responsibilities,” Obama said. “They’re not commander in chief. And when I see the casualness with which some of these folks talk about war, I’m reminded of the costs involved in war. I’m reminded of the decision that I have to make, in terms of sending our young men and women into battle, and the impacts that has on their lives, the impact it has on our national security, the impact it has on our economy.”
Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have all repeatedly criticized Obama for allegedly being too soft on Iran.
“This is not a game,” Obama continued. “And there’s nothing casual about it. And, you know, when I see some of these folks who had a lot of bluster and a lot of big talk, but when you actually ask them, specifically, what they would do, it turns out they repeat the things that we’ve been doing over the last three years. It indicates to me that that’s more about politics than actually trying to solve a difficult problem.”
Gingrich has said that as president he would bomb Iran if they refused to halt their nuclear program. Likewise, Santorum has said the U.S. should destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, while Romney has said the U.S. “cannot afford to wait much longer” for diplomacy to work.
“Now, the one thing that we have not done, is we haven’t launched a war,” he said. “If some of these folks think that it’s time to launch a war, they should say so. And they should explain to the American people exactly why they would do that and what the consequences would be. Everything else is just talk.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/06/obama-slams-casual-gop-talk-of-war-with-iran/
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"Right On BO, I Totally Agree!!!" =)By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 18:28 EST
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By David Edwards
Monday, March 5, 2012 13:19 EST
Republican presidential Rick Santorum is advising President Barack Obama not to raise taxes on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans because “higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t want to.”
“Once we defeat Barack Obama this economy will start turning around,” the former Pennsylvania senator told a crowd in Miamisburg, Ohio. “Because you’ll know you have someone in there who’s going to unshackle businesses, reduce rates, not increase them. The president’s promised increased taxes if he’s re-elected.”
“All he wants to do to solve the deficit problem is increase taxes on people, particularly higher-income people,” Santorum continued. “You see, that sounds very populist. Go after the 1 percent. It’s interesting because the British just did this. They went after the 1 percent in Britain. They dramatically increased taxes on the highest-income Brits. And guess what? It failed.”
“What happened? Well, higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don’t need to work. They’re higher-income people.”
DeAnne Julius, the former chairwoman of Chatham House in London, has explained that Britain’s 50 percent marginal tax rate on high-income earners should not be compared to 35 percent rate imposed on wealthiest Americans, who can take advantage of loopholes in the U.S. tax system.
“[R]elative to other countries, the U.K.’s 50 percent tax rate for high earners is uncompetitive, while the U.S. top rate of 35 percent is still highly competitive,” Julius wrote in an October 2011 op-ed for The New York Times.
“These factors led 20 British economists to warn that the 50 percent top tax rate is doing lasting damage to the British economy and is unlikely to raise much if any additional revenue,” she added. “However, these factors do not apply to the United States, where the current tax regime allows many high earners to escape paying even their proportional share of taxes and where both average and marginal tax rates are low by international standards.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/05/santorum-higher-income-people-dont-have-to-pay-taxes/
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"Man this Guy is a Friggen' IDIOT!!!!"By David Edwards
Monday, March 5, 2012 13:19 EST
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By David Edwards
Monday, March 5, 2012 14:16 EST
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday told a high school senior not to expect any help from the government for college tuition unless he joined the military.
At a town hall-style campaign event in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, a student who was hoping to go to college next year asked the candidate what assistance he would provide “with regards to college tuition.”
“Recognize that college is expensive,” Romney explained. “You don’t want to have huge debts. I know that it would be popular for me to stand up and say I’m going to give you government money to make sure you pay for your college. But I’m not going to promise that. What I’m going to tell you is shop around, get a good price.”
“I feel that if you are willing to serve your country in the military for instance, that’s a place where we’re going to say, ‘Yeah, we’ll give you help,’” the candidate added.
“Don’t take on too much debt, and don’t expect the government to forgive the debt that you take on. Recognize that you’re going to have to pay it back. I want to make sure that every kid in this country that wants to go to college gets a chance to go to college.”
In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Barack Obama outlined his own plan to make college more affordable by restraining tuition growth, keeping interest rates for college loans low, doubling the number of work-study jobs and creating a permanent a tax credit of $10,000 over four years of school.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/05/romney-on-student-debt-join-the-military/
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"Sounds Reasonable, if you want to feed your Family, join the Military, want to get an education??? Join the Military!!! Folks are being pushed from the actions of his party to have no other Choice, I really can't stand the GOP!!!!"By David Edwards
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In what some experts are calling a strong indicator of improvement in the economy, Republicans in recent weeks have begun renewing their claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
While most economists agree that any significant improvement in the US economy is generally accompanied by an uptick in GOP questions about Mr. Obama’s place of birth, there is now an econometric tool for measuring the increase in those claims: the so-called S & P Birther Index.
The Birther Index, established in 2008, measures the occurrences of such words as “birth certificate,” “Kenya,” and “wasn’t born here” in Republican statements about the President, and has proven to be a surprisingly reliable tool for tracking improvements in the economy.
Harland Dorinson, the economist who devised the S & P Birther Index, said that as the economy recovers the index also shows a strong surge in statements questioning the President’s Christianity.
“As unemployment started going down, we saw an increase in references to Mr. Obama being a Muslim,” he said. “This is generally a very bullish sign for the economy.”
But Mr. Dorinson was quick to add that while the surge in references to Mr. Obama being “an Islamic socialist born in a mud-hut in Nairobi” is encouraging, the economy is not out of the woods yet.
“We won’t be fully in a recovery until the Republicans start calling him a Wiccan,” he said. “And if they start saying he’s a Satanist who practices human sacrifice
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By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, March 2, 2012 9:44 EST
At a recent rally against a so-called “personhood” bill currently favored by Oklahoma lawmakers, state senator Judy McIntyre (D) was photographed holding a sign that read: “IF I WANTED THE GOVERNMENT IN MY WOMB, I’D FUCK A SENATOR.”
Explaining to a local reporter that she’d just borrowed the sign from a protester, she remarked: “I was like, I’ve got to have a picture of it.”
“I thought if my 87-year-old mother sees this, I’m going to get hell this weekend, but it was too late,” McIntyre added, according to NewsOK.com.
The protest, held Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma, took issue with a so-called “personhood” bill that would define human life as beginning at conception, effectively banning all abortions.
The Oklahoma State Medical Association is opposed to the bill because it may jeopardize the practice of reproductive medicine and criminalize acts that might harm an embryo, potentially sparking criminal investigations of women who miscarry. The bill was overwhelmingly approved by the state Senate last month, and a vote in the lower chamber is expected soon. It is not clear if the governor will sign it into law.
McIntyre acknowledged that some in Oklahoma, which is overwhelmingly Christian, may find her sign’s language offensive, but she wasn’t much concerned about them.
“I would hope they would have that same passion about how offensive it is for the Republican Party of Oklahoma to ramrod, because they have the votes to do so, bills that are offensive to women and take away the rights of women,” she reportedly said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/02/oklahoma-state-senators-sign-if-i-wanted-the-government-in-my-womb-id-fck-a-senator/
This video is from NewsOK.com, published Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012.
"Perhaps the sign should have read 'Republican Senator'???By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, March 2, 2012 9:44 EST
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By David Edwards
Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:15 EST
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned voters on Wednesday that President Barack Obama might eventually curb the rights of gun owners since he is also requiring all health insurers to cover contraception for women.
A man at an event in Fargo, North Dakota asked the candidate how he would “protect our right to the Second Amendment and our right to bear arms.”
“I like all the amendments,” Romney replied. “And I like the Second Amendment. And I like the Constitution. It is my blueprint and I will protect the right to bear arms in this country for any lawful purpose — self protection, hunting, what ever purpose people have. I have a couple of guns myself. Shotguns, that is.”
“I know there will be an attack on the Second Amendment, just as there was recently attack on the First Amendment,” the former Massachusetts governor asserted. “Obamacare is interpreted by this administration to say, for instance, to the Catholic Church that they have to provide to the employees — let’s say universities that are in the Catholic Church — they have to provide to them sterilization treatment free, contraceptives and morning-after pills. And that violates the conscience of the church, the conscience of the individuals. And fortunately, there is an effort in Washington to stop that, to reverse that.”
“But this is a president, I agree, who is attacking the principles of the Constitution: the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and there will be more. And by the way, the Tenth Amendment is the one most constantly under attack.”
On Wednesday, Romney calmed the fears of one supporter in Ohio who worried that the candidate was going prevent gun owners from protecting themselves from a “tyrannical government.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/01/romney-obama-mandated-contraception-so-he-might-take-your-guns-too/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast March 1, 2012.
"I think I would want ObamaCare, being how there are so many Gun Freaks in your party Mitt!!!"By David Edwards
Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:15 EST
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By David Edwards
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 14:50 EST
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich recently told a story about a “transvestite” he met to explain why he doesn’t agree with “San Francisco values.”
Gingrich explained a 2006 fundraising pitch, in which had asked for donations so that conservative accomplishments were not “lost to the San Francisco values of would-be Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
Last month, the Georgia Republican accused Pelosi of living “in a San Francisco environment of strange fantasies and strange understandings of reality.”
The San Francisco Chronicle caught up with Gingrich at the Republican Party convention Saturday in Burlingame and asked him what he meant.
“I’ll tell you a true story,” the former House Speaker began. “I’m here in 1984 and I’m part of a truth squad. It’s at the convention. … And we’re down at Union Square and CBS is interviewing me and this guy tosses me this perfect softball: ‘The Republicans are going to Dallas, which has the largest Baptist church in the country. Democrats are going to San Francisco, which has the largest gay movement in the country. Does this say something about the two parties?’”
“Literally, at that moment a 6-foot-2 transvestite walks up and hands me an invitation to an exorcism of Jerry Falwell,” Gingrich recalled. “I just cite that as some vague — I really mean the Sierra Club, which has gone off the deep end as a general rule. Basically very, very left-wing values.”
An Associated Press report dated July, 14, 1984 said that gay activist Sister Boom Boom and five members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence did perform a mock exorcism of actors dressed as Rev. Jerry Falwell and anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly in Union Square.
“They are here in the name or morality,” Sister Boom Boom reportedly the said of the two conservative icons. “To equate morality with sexual behavior takes a filthy, prurient mind.”
The Falwell character was then stripped of his business suit to reveal a corset and fishnet hose.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/28/gingrich-transvestite-invited-me-to-exorcism-of-jerry-falwell/
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But Was Dismantled (one service at a time) And Became An Oligarchy
Going Anti-Postal
What kind of nation won’t fund a Post Office?
http://thehumanist.org/march-april-2012/going-anti-postal/
{{{EXCERPT}}}The Postal Service is not a mere delivery service, an outdated, inefficient alternative to FedEx or UPS. It’s a public service that every nation on earth, except for Somalia, maintains. In fact the United States joins Somalia as one of the only nations that doesn’t fund a postal system. We used to fund it, from the birth of our nation until Ronald Reagan’s presidency. It’s one of the only public services specifically addressed in the U.S. Constitution—right in Article One. Its genesis dates back to the Second Continental Congress, which appointed Benjamin Franklin as our first postmaster general.
The original purpose of the Postal Service was not to deliver Christmas gifts or iPads but to deliver democracy. It was the conduit for political discussion and debate, tying a geographically dispersed population into a single, somewhat informed electorate. That’s why magazines and newspapers historically enjoyed a low, government-subsidized rate. The Founding Fathers realized that a large nation must communicate through media, and that privately funded media would skew the national debate toward the interests of the rich. Hence, they established the Postal Service and gave it a mandate to subsidize independent media with deeply discounted media mail rates. That’s why its formation was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution—for the same reason the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and names journalism as the only profession that it specifically safeguards. A free press, including a means for disseminating that press, are paramount necessities for a democracy to function.
Notice how it reads "WE USE TO FUND IT, FROM THE BIRTH OF OUR NATION UNTIL RONALD REAGAN... That says it all, our Republic has been going down, down, down since the Ronald Reagan administration decided that we (our nation) needs to become THE UNITED CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA where all services, from education to prisons to health insurance (bye bye Medicare/caid) and now the Postal Service needs to be privatized (by the 1% few). The Republican party's vision to drown our republic form of government in a bathtub is almost a reality. I hope it's not too late to turn it around... But I can't help feeling like it is... :-( thinkingblue
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The panicked emails and texts sounded like a prank worthy of the Yes Men. Occupy Wall Street — which like some comic book character only grew stronger after each attack by nefarious forces, whether pepper spray, mass arrests or New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s threat to close the park for cleaning – had finally been brought to its knees.The panicked emails and texts sounded like a prank worthy of the Yes Men. Occupy Wall... more
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By David Edwards
Monday, February 27, 2012 16:19 EST
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has a simple solution for women who work for religious institutions that refuse to cover birth control: Find a new job.
During a call-in show on C-SPAN Monday morning, a woman named Doris from Osawatomie, Kansas told Brownback that she was worried that he wanted to turn back the clock on women’s rights.
“No, goodness,” Brownback replied. “That’s not true.”
“I am concerned that — along with lots of other red states — Gov. Brownback feels that we should be the reddest state in the country,” Doris explained. “Women’s rights are being trampled. He was talking about what President Obama is requiring insurance companies to do, to cover birth control. You know you are taking away the individual woman’s right to decide if they need birth control.”
“Ninety-eight percent of women have used birth control in their lives,” she added. “Now, we can pay for vasectomies, we can pay for Viagra, but we cannot pay for birth control for women? I think it’s a shame.”
Brownback immediately disagreed.
“What the president basically said is if you are church that does not believe in this — and the Catholic Church has problems with, the official Catholic Church, amongst other institutions, have problems with paying for contraceptives,” the Kansas governor explained. “You have a number of religious groups who saying, ‘We don’t want to pay for so-called abortifacients, these have morning after pill-type effects. And this is against our religious beliefs.’ And the president was saying, ‘You got to pay for it.’ And they were saying, ‘This is against our view life is sacred.’”
“That’s not denying women’s rights,” he insisted. “If a woman then wants birth control, go work somewhere else.”
A coalition of rights groups including Planned Parenthood, MainStream Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union recently criticized Brownback for an “assault on women’s health.”
“In 2011, 5 bills limiting access to abortion services and affordable contraception were passed by the Kansas Legislature and signed by Governor Brownback and the legislature spent over 25 public hours on these bills,” MainStream Coalition board member Gail James said in a media advisory. “This divisive social agenda does not reflect the values or priorities of the majority of Kansans.”
For his part, Brownback on Monday denied wanting to limit the rights of women.
“Having three very good, strong daughters that are doing quite well, I — and I want them to have every opportunity and every possibility in this country and they’re going to have it,” he said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/27/brownback-go-work-somewhere-else-if-you-want-contraception/
Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast Feb. 27, 2012.
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By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, February 27, 2012 19:40 EST
Comedian Bill Maher on Monday defended his donation to Priorities USA Action, warning liberals that President Barack Obama’s victory in the 2012 elections wasn’t “in the bag.”
Maher shocked audiences around the world last week when he announced he’d be donating $1 million to the pro-Obama super PAC.
“I promise you when it comes to election night, it’s going to be neck and neck,” Maher said Monday on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews.
“Obama had a giant money advantage last time because the most anybody could give was $2,300. Now Sheldon Adelson talks about giving $100 million. The game has changed from small contributions to large contributions, in the millions, the many millions. He is going to have a tremendous financial disadvantage.”
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in January 2010 gave rise to super PACS, which can raise an unlimited amount of money to influence federal elections, so long as they do not directly coordinate with a candidate’s campaign.
“I always talk about the Republican bubble that they live in. But there’s a bit of a liberal bubble too,” Maher added. “They hear Rick Santorum talking about the father of lies and how college is bad and they think ‘these people are nuts’ but half the country doesn’t think its nuts.”
He also said Republicans were running against “a fictional president.”
“A president who has slashed defense, who has raised taxes, who goes around the world apologizing, who coddles terrorists, all of which of course never happened,” Maher explained. “But that’s who they think the president is.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/27/bill-maher-defends-super-pac-donation-obamas-victory-not-in-the-bag/
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"I agree with Bill Maher, any contributions will help!!!"By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, February 27, 2012 19:40 EST
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By Megan Carpentier
Monday, February 27, 2012 11:50 EST
It isn’t every day that you’ll catch Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas advocating for Democrats to vote for Rick Santorum — but that’s just what he did earlier this month in an effort to extend the Republican primary to help President Obama’s chances next fall.
In a new video, comedian Andy Cobb doubles down on Kos’s idea: “Do you want this primary season to be over,” he asks rhetorically, “Or do you want it to be hilarious?” He calls Santorum “as electable as Mike Huckabee or herpes,” adding, “A vote for Santorum keeps this circular firing squad of jerkos alive.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/27/andy-cobb-to-democrats-dirty-your-hands-with-santorum/
Watch the whole video, first uploaded to YouTube on February 27, 2012...
"LMFAO!!!!" =)By Megan Carpentier
Monday, February 27, 2012 11:50 EST
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