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By Andrew Jones
Saturday, April 14, 2012 17:30 EDT
If someone is looking for sympathy for their high student loans, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) would not be among those providing any support.
According to audio obtained by Think Progress, the congresswoman appeared on G. Gordon Libby show Friday afternoon, saying she “never borrowed a dime of money” during her time in college before lashing out at those burdened with heavy loans.
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that,” Foxx said. “We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that.”
Despite her disgust for high student loans, Foxx is somehow content with high mortgage notes. Think Progress reported that Foxx owed two individual notes up to $250,000.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/14/gop-rep-i-have-little-tolerance-for-those-with-high-student-loans/
Listen: Audio from Think Progress, which was from April 13, 2012.
"I wonder what College Tuition was back in her day, or should I say 5 or 6 decades ago???" =)By Andrew Jones
Saturday, April 14, 2012 17:30 EDT
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By David Edwards
Sunday, April 8, 2012 12:06 EDT
Evangelical Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren says that Christians have a disagreement with Mormonism because it “denies” certain fundamental Christian beliefs.
In an Easter Sunday interview on ABC, Jake Tapper noted that Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was almost certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
“Are Mormons Christians?” Tapper asked Warren.
“Well, the key sticking point for evangelicals and actually for many is the issue of the Trinity,” the evangelical pastor explained. “Orthodox Christians, Catholic Christians, Protestant Christians, evangelical Christians and Pentecostal Christians all believe in the Trinity; that’s the historic doctrine of the church, that God is three-in-one. Not three gods; one God in Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”
“Mormonism denies that. That’s a sticking point for a lot of Catholic Christians, evangelical Christians, Pentecostal Christians, because they don’t — they don’t believe that.”
“Now they’ll use the same terminology, but they don’t believe in the historic doctrine of the Trinity,” Warren added. “And people have tried to make it other issues. But that’s really one of the fundamental differences.”
Throughout the primary season, Romney has had a problem getting support from evangelicals. He lost the evangelical vote by double digits in Tennessee, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Georgia and South Carolina.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/08/rick-warren-mormonism-denies-christian-doctrine/
Watch the video from ABC’s This Week, broadcast on April 8, 2012.
"UhOh, I was wondering when Mitt's faith will be called to light!!! So let's have at it!!! Is the GOP gonna Bitch about Mitt's choice of Religion??? They sure as Heck could not shut the Hell up about or whether BO was Christian, for at least his first two years in Office!!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, April 8, 2012 12:06 EDT
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Thom Hartmann talks with Steve Bucci, Ph.D. , Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security-the Heritage Foundation Website: www.heritage.org about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), introduced by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD). Under CISPA, the U.S. government will be able to share information about incoming cyber attacks — that includes providing American companies details on malware, viruses, and other malicious code that pose a threat to their security. But will it mean the end to our online privacy?Thom Hartmann talks with Steve Bucci, Ph.D. , Senior Research Fellow, Defense... more
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"Yes!!! Please share with all you know, there is much at stake and we need BO for for more years, not Mitt Romney!!!"Edit to ask you guys and gals to spread it far and wide on facebook and anywhere else.... more
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Campaign Manager Ms. Cutter says to "share" this so I am - hope you enjoy and it helps when you see inaccuracies on Facebook, etc.
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The video outlines the challenges America faced as President Obama took office at the height of the worst recession in almost a century and details the progress that has been made reclaiming the security of the middle class and building an economy that's meant to last, where hard work pays and responsibility is rewarded.
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By David Edwards
Friday, April 27, 2012 11:28 EDT
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign is accusing President Barack Obama of dividing the country when his campaign talks about killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
In a new web advertisement, President Bill Clinton says that Obama chose the “more honorable path” by ordering the 2011 attack that resulted in the death of bin Laden.
“Look, he knew what would happen,” Clinton explains. “Suppose the Navy Seals had gone in there and it hadn’t been bin Laden. Suppose they had been captured or killed. The downside would have been horrible for him, but he reasoned I cannot in good conscience do nothing.”
The ad goes on to ask if Romney would have made the same decision.
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul on Friday pushed back by saying the ad was being used to “divide” the country.
“The killing of Osama bin Laden was a momentous day for all Americans and the world, and Governor Romney congratulated the military, our intelligence agencies, and the President,” Saul said in a statement.
“It’s now sad to see the Obama campaign seek to use an event that unified our country to once again divide us, in order to try to distract voters’ attention from the failures of his administration.”
In a major speech on Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden recalled that Obama had “made one of the most courageous decisions” he had ever seen a president make by ordering the strike on Osama bin Laden.
“This guy has a got a backbone like a ramrod,” the vice president said. “For real. For real. On this gut issue, we know what President Obama did. We can’t say for certain what Governor Romney would have done.”
“Thanks to President Obama, bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive,” Biden continued. “You have to ask yourself had Governor Romney been president, could he have used the same slogan in reverse?”
The Associated Press quoted Romney in 2007 as saying that there would be only “a very insignificant increase in safety” if bin Laden were killed.
“It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person,” Romney reportedly said.
But speaking to Fox News late last year, Romney insisted that “any president” would have given the order to take out the 9/11 mastermind.
“We’re delighted that he gave the order to take out Osama bin Laden,” the former Massachusetts governor told host Chris Wallace. “Any president would have done that, but this one did, and that’s a good thing. I’m not going to say everything he’s done is wrong.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/27/romney-campaign-obama-divides-america-by-talking-about-bin-laden/
Watch this video from BarackObama.com, broadcast April 27, 2012.
"Mitt has some Nerve!!!"By David Edwards
Friday, April 27, 2012 11:28 EDT
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By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, April 26, 2012 18:12 EDT
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) on Thursday compared controversial cyber security legislation to George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would authorize Internet companies, such as Internet service providers and social networking sites, to share private online communications and other data about possible attacks with federal agencies.
“This bill would grant the government broad authority to share information between intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and use it for virtually any purpose defined as important to ‘cyber security or national security,’” Johnson said on the House floor. “I know it’s 2012, but it sure feels like 1984 in this House today.”
The legislation is meant to address the growing threat of cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure. But critics like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation say the bill goes too far and essentially permits mass surveillance.
“If you value liberty, privacy and the Constitution, then you will vote no on CISPA,” Johnson said.
The House passed the bill on Thursday night.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/26/rep-hank-johnson-compares-cispa-to-1984/
Watch video, uploaded to YouTube...
"Thanks for your effort Mr. Johnson, it seems it's All over but the Crying, and BO is asking for four more Years???" =(By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, April 26, 2012 18:12 EDT
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By David Ferguson
Saturday, April 21, 2012 14:21 EDT
And now, Gentle Readers, it’s time for another edition of Tea Party Republicans Say the Darnedest Things. On Thursday, April 19 at a Tea Party rally in Lamoni, Iowa, Think Progress reports that Republican Congressional candidate Dan Dolan declared that President Obama’s support of the so-called “Buffett Rule” is proof that he “does not love” the United States of America.
It is Dolan’s contention, apparently, that the president is using public support of the Buffett Rule, named for billionaire Warren Buffett, an adjustment designed to bring tax rates on millionaires in line with the rates normal citizens pay, as a wedge issue to divide the country against itself.
Dolan said, “I have a hard time thinking that he loves this country if he’s willing to turn them against themselves for his own advancement.”
Public opinion polling shows that the Buffett Rule enjoys a wide margin of support among American citizens, with 72 percent in favor, including 53 percent of Republicans.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/21/iowa-republican-buffet-rule-proof-obama-doesnt-love-this-country/
Watch video of Dolan’s statement, embedded via YouTube...
"I wonder how this Guy and others will feel when BO is reelected and lets the Bush Tax Cuts expire, Oh I am gonna LMFAO!!!" =)By David Ferguson
Saturday, April 21, 2012 14:21 EDT
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By David Edwards
Monday, April 16, 2012 14:56 EDT
Conservative rocker Ted Nugent, a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, over the weekend encouraged members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to defeat Democrats and “chop their heads off in November” because “our government is wiping its ass with the Constitution.”
“Your goal should be to get a couple of thousand people per person who’s here to vote for Mitt Romney in November,” Nugent told the crowd. “If you don’t know that our government is wiping its ass with the Constitution, you’re living under a rock some place. And that there’s a dead soldier, an airman, a Marine, a seaman, a hero of the military that just got his legs blown off for the U.S. Constitution, and we got a president and an attorney general who doesn’t even like the Constitution.”
“We got four Supreme Court justices who don’t believe in the Constitution,” he added. “Four Supreme Court justices signed their name to a declaration that Americans have no fundamental rights to self defense. That sounds like a stoned hippy! That doesn’t sound like a Supreme Court anything. It sounds like a supremely intellectually vacuous punk.”
“And if you want more of those kinds of evil, anti-American people in the Supreme Court then don’t get involved and let Obama take office again. Because I’ll tell you this right now, if Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
Nugent continued by urging attendees to get everyone they knew to vote for Romney and against “this vile, evil, America-hating administration” or “we’ll be a suburb of Indonesia next year.”
“We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November!” he exclaimed. “Any questions?”
In March, Nugent announced on Twitter that he had endorsed the former Massachusetts governor.
“[A]fter a long heart&soul conversation with MittRomney today I concluded this goodman will properly represent we the people & I endorsed him,” Nugent wrote.
Romney’s son, Tagg Romney, quickly praised the rocker.
“Ted Nugent endorsed my Dad today,” the younger Romney tweeted. “Ted Nugent? How cool is that?! He joins Kid Rock as great Detroit musicians on team Mitt!”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/16/ted-nugent-on-democrats-chop-their-heads-off-in-november/
Watch this video from the NRA convention, uploaded by Right Wing Watch on April 16, 2012.
"Wow!!! I wonder if his Fans carry Guns at his concerts???"By David Edwards
Monday, April 16, 2012 14:56 EDT
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"Hahaaa, I am still in Awe at how the GOP worships this Fella, but for some reason forgot about where he stood on the issue of Taxing!!!"
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By David Ferguson
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 16:06 EDT
President Obama made the case today for the so-called “Buffet Rule,” which would mandate that the wealthy pay the same percentage of their income in taxes as middle class families.
He described for the audience the actions of one of his predecessors in the Oval Office, a president who “gave a speech where he talked about a letter he had received from a wealthy executive who paid lower tax rates than his secretary, and wanted to come to Washington and tell Congress why that was wrong. So this president gave another speech where he said it was ‘crazy’—that’s a quote—that certain tax loopholes make it possible for multimillionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary.”
“That wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior,” he said, “was Ronald Reagan.”
Reagan, said the president, believed that everyone in the U.S. should pay their fair share, a position that would “disqualify him from the Republican primaries these days.” He even suggested changing the name from the “Buffet Rule” to the “Reagan Rule” if that would make it a little easier for Republicans to bear.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/11/obama-calls-ronald-reagan-a-wild-eyed-socialist-tax-hiking-class-warrior/
Watch this video of President Obama’s remarks, embedded via CBS news:
"Holy Makerel!!! Them's Fightin' Words!!!" =)
Please click link to view entire video... =)By David Ferguson
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 16:06 EDT
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Do nothing at your own peril. Fight Discrimination. Heal the world.
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By Muriel Kane
Sunday, April 8, 2012 18:52 EDT
In a send-up of Mitt Romney’s presidential aspirations, Saturday Night Live mocked the Republican frontrunner by displaying parody clips of a campaign tour in which “he claimed to be interested in things we know he is not interested in.”
Speaking before the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the fake Romney proclaims, “There is one issue on which I will never compromise … because it’s the core of who I am: cat-spaying. It’s simply the right thing to do — and, quite frankly, the reason I got into this race. I want to be known as the cat-neutering president.”
In Oklahoma, he tells the Kiamichi Country Sportsman’s Association, “Unfortunately, with our schedules, Ann and I don’t get to nearly as many cockfights as we’d like. But let me tell you, cockfighting has brought us more sheer enjoyment in our marriage than anything we have ever experienced. And that’s why, frankly, I want to be the cockfighting president.”
But he is perhaps least convincing in a speech before the National Roleplaying Game Association Convention, where he appears with cape and lightsaber to insist woodenly, “I can’t remember a time when Dungeons and Dragons wasn’t an important part of my life.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/08/snl-mocks-romney-for-pandering-to-everyone/
Video from NBC via Mediaite, uploaded April 7, 2012.
"Funny how he never made a Word in Spanish, No???!!!" =))=By Muriel Kane
Sunday, April 8, 2012 18:52 EDT
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