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Subscribe to RSS227,000 jobs created in February, unemployment rate remains unchanged at 8.3%... Santorum’s goal next week: to knock out Gingrich… Breaking down Romney’s cash-flow situation (and the problems he could have later this spring/summer)… But Romney will have cavalry that could ride to his help… Keep an eye on the Republicans standing on the sidelines in the GOP race… Rock chalk, Jayhawk: Kansas caucuses take place on Saturday… And Santorum to appear on “Meet.”
*** 227,000 jobs created last month: Another month, another positive jobs report. The breaking news from the AP: “U.S. employers added 227,000 jobs in January to complete three of the best months of hiring since the recession began. The unemployment rate was unchanged, largely because more people streamed into the work force… And hiring in January and December was better than first thought. The government revised those figures to show 61,000 an additional jobs. The economy has now generated an average of 245,000 jobs in the past three months. The only stretch better was since the recession began was in early 2010, when temporary Census jobs lifted payrolls.” The current trajectory for the economy and the labor market is pretty unmistakable. Then again, we still have eight more jobs reports until the November presidential election. President Obama speaks on the economy in Prince George, VA at 12:30 pm ET, while the RNC holds a conference call to pre-but it.
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during the Alabama Policy Institute 2012 Presidential Candidate Forum, Thursday, March 8, 2012, in Mobile, Alabama.
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*** Santorum’s goal: to knock out Gingrich: As the GOP primary campaign has moved to the South -- to Alabama and Mississippi -- Rick Santorum has excellent chance to win both contests this Tuesday, as well as Saturday’s caucuses in Kansas (more on that Kansas race below). But as msnbc.com’s Mike O’Brien pointed out yesterday, Santorum has a more immediate goal with these contests: push Newt Gingrich out of the race. So campaigning in Alabama yesterday, per NBC’s Jay Rankin, Santorum made a pitch for a two-man race: “If you go out and deliver a conservative victory for us on Tuesday, this race will become a two-person race. And when it becomes a two-person race for the Republican nomination, the conservative will win that nomination.” And the pro-Santorum Super PAC, Red White and Blue Fund, released a new TV ad (in Alabama and Mississippi) that hits BOTH Mitt Romney and Gingrich.
*** Romney’s cash-flow situation: Yesterday, the Romney campaign revealed it raised $11.5 million in February and had $7.3 million in the bank as of Feb. 29. But when you consider that the campaign spent nearly $1.3 million on TV ads from March 1-6, per the ad-tracking firm Smart Media, it really has $6 million in the bank -- or even less when you consider payroll and travel expenses. Of course, that doesn’t count whatever the campaign has raised in March, but it does raise a cash-flow question for Team Romney: It has money (and more than its GOP rivals), yet is it enough to withstand another two more months of this primary race? And more importantly, will it be enough to withstand a potential offensive from the Obama camp and Democrats whenever Romney wraps up the primary? Remember, a presidential candidate CAN’T use general-election funds until after his party’s convention. So for the folks who have already maxed out to Romney with primary funds -- representing about two-thirds of his money to date -- the $2,500 they might be able to donate for the general couldn’t be spent until late August.
Terry McAuliffe of Greentech Automotive and The Last Word's Lawrence share their thoughts on the latest jobs report. O'Donnell predicts that President Barack Obama will get re-elected if they unemployment rate drops to 8 percent.
*** Send the cavalry! Buy if Romney essentially wraps up the nomination later this spring, there would be plenty of cavalry that could ride to his help -- the Republican National Committee (which last night reported having $26.5 million in the bank), the Karl Rove-backed American Crossroads groups, the Koch Brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity, and the pro-Romney Super PAC (which has spent a whopping $28 million on ads so far). And, of course, you’d imagine that Romney would be able to raise A LOT more money from Republican donors once he becomes the presumptive nominee. But at the moment he does, Team Obama would start with a clear money advantage. The question is: How quickly would Team Romney (and its allies) be able to reach parity?
*** Republicans standing on the sidelines: Here’s another question we have: When will we see more prominent figures of the GOP establishment -- like Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Paul Ryan, Haley Barbour, and Mitch Daniels -- step up and endorse the former Massachusetts governor? In the past few days, we’ve seen more and more members of the establishment (Eric Cantor over the weekend, and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant last night) back Romney. But the others have stayed on the sidelines for now. It will be interesting to see if/when they get on the field.
*** Rock chalk, Jayhawk: By the way, we have another contest this weekend: Saturday’s Kansas caucuses. According to NBC’s John Bailey, caucusing begins in the Sunflower State at 11:00 am ET (10:00 am local) and wraps up at 2:00 pm ET (1:00 pm local). Ballots will be counted at each caucus sit, and then results will be called in to party headquarters. The Kansas GOP expects the first results to come in around 2:30 pm ET and hopes to have all results in between 5:00 pm ET and 6:00 pm ET. Bailey adds that 40 delegates are at stake: 12 are congressional-district delegates awarded on a winner-take-all basis within each district; 25 are at-large delegates awarded proportionally based on the statewide vote (but a candidate must get at least 20% support to qualify); and all three national committee delegates go to the statewide winner. In 2008, Mike Huckabee won the caucuses with 60% of the vote, besting runner-up John McCain by 36 points. Mitt Romney had already left the race at that point and got negligible support. Also on Saturday, we'll find out the preference of seven more Wyoming delegates.
*** On the trail: Romney campaigns in Jackson, MS then heads to Birmingham, AL…Gingrich makes three stops in Mississippi (Meridian, Ellisville, and Gulfport) then hosts a rally in Mobile, AL… Santorum campaigns in Alabama and then heads to Kansas, where he holds two events… And Paul -- back on the trail -- also campaigns in Kansas.
*** On “Meet the Press” this Sunday: NBC’s David Gregory interviews Santorum, as well as Govs. Martin O’Malley (D) and Bob McDonnell (R).
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*gasp*
This good news is sure to cause some discomfort amongst the rooting for America to fail mob!
How dare the economy continue to improve?
Despite the best efforts of the GNOP to keep it in the toilet!
You may now resume crying in your Cheerio's!
Women's rights, reproductive health, contraception & abortion are more than big news. We are not talking subtle abuse of power over women's bodies:
Women understand that given the chance, Governor Ultra McDonnell (R-VA) would enforce 'transvaginal ultrasounds" on them AND without their doctors' permission.
Such extreme GOP agendas are so retrograde for women, that New York Republican lawmaker Teresa Sayward (R) says she does not support any of the GOP Presidential candidates.
Ms. Sayward says if she had to vote today:
"I'd vote for Obama. Absolutely...Because I really, truly think that the candidates that are out there today for the Republican side would take women back decades."
"It's disheartening for me to see our party move away from what it was always about and that is to stay out of people's lives, let them live their lives, don't impose their religion on anybody else. Don't impose their feelings, let them live, and uphold the Constitution."
**The Futuristic Nightmare for American Families**
GOP's demonstrated narrow, narrow vision on behalf of the affluent and transnationals:
Cutting women's health, reproductive & family planning rights; getting rid of safety nets; cutting state budgets on the backs of women, new mothers, Headstart, low-income, the middle class and seniors and shifting those monies to corporations; getting rid of the minimum wage, worker protections, child labor laws; getting rid of voting rights; Anti-education at all levels (e.g. cutting teachers: GOP Governors already cut 700.000 public sector jobs -- over 200,000 teachers), anti-R&D investments, anti-job-creation (voting against the American Jobs Act, GOP governors refusing highspeed rail monies and FEMA), anti-worker rights, anti-health reform, anti-financial reform, anti-taxes for the wealthy, anti-infrastructure for the 21st century = anti-'nation building' at home.
Looks like new job growth in February is leveling off after decent reports in December and January. The unemployment rate stayed stuck at an historically high 8.3%. It looks like the slow-bama recovery is still stuck in first gear. That’s not an unexpected or surprising result. If America is going to become more like the Old-Europe socialist countries, the price the country is going to have to pay is going to be slower economic growth and higher unemployment rates.
From CNBC.com:
Jobless Rate Flat at 8.3% Even as Payrolls Grow 227,000
The slow melt-up in employment continued during February as the economy added 227,000 new jobs while the unemployment rate held flat at 8.3 percent.
With warm weather helping to spur activity and as the European sovereign debt crisis receded into the background, the American economic engine continued its slow but steady drive toward recovery.
Economists had expected 210,000 net new jobs and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 8.3 percent.
Private payrolls in February grew by 233,000. Manufacturing added 31,000 jobs and services 203,000. Government subtracted 6,000 jobs from the total.
Job creation fell well short of the January totals, when the economy saw an upwardly revised 284,000 new jobs and a drop in the jobless rate.
Despite the upward trend in job creation, there remained strong doubts about whether the drop in the unemployment rate could continue.
The administration would like to have us think that a 8.3% unemployment rate is the new norm! That spin will only work with the wacko left koolaid drinkers!
Cause a stir?
This is treading water, honey. Only until we have sustained month after month growth of 300k plus job per month there's nothing to be tooting any horns about.
Not to mention manufacturing jobs are not increasing at all. What we have is an increase in the old hamburger flipping jobs.
Anybody, remember when Kerry ran against Bush and the media was blasting Bush for only creating low paying jobs back when his unemployment rate was at 5.3%?
Of course you do. Where is that criticism from the press today?
Kirsten Powers has written another tough piece calling out the professional left for their hypocrisy regarding their repeated use of language insulting to women. As predicted, she has become the target of ferocious attacks from the left for daring to expose that they systematically practice the very same misogyny they so sanctimoniously denounce in others. Fortunately, Ms Powers is not intimidated by these slugs and has the courage to share the truth with anyone who has the integrity to hear the truth.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/08/critics-of-rush-limbaugh-ignore-bill-maher-matt-taibbi-misogyny.html
Dear Sheldon Adelson,
With regard to your recent pledge of 100 MILLION DOLLARS to assist the Republican Party in winning back the White House and ending the cratering effects of Obama's governance on the US citizenry and the national economy, I would like to make a suggestion on how you could help most.
There are SIX different campaign commercials from 2008 in which Obama appears on screen railing then President Bush, John McCain, and Repulicans for high gas prices. Please acquire these commercials and create a loop TV ad and play them is swing states NONSTOP or whatever your 100 MIL will get you.
The media certainly won't report or point out how much of a hipocritical double speaker this failure in the White House is but you can!
Today, the President shot himself in the foot. He personally called over a dozen democrats and asked them to vote against the keystone pipeline. The pipeline that has the approval of about 70% of Americans. Now I and maybe most Americans understand that the pipeline may not lead to lower prices in the short term but it does show Americans that the President's "all of the above" strategy is nothing but more LIES.
Americans don't appreciate LYING Presidents. Remember Bill Clinton? He was a very successful President. But boy oh boy did his approval ratings go down the drain when he was proven to be a LIAR.
It's time for this LIAR to go and fade away into the ash heap of failed Presidents.
Thank you for all due consideration to my suggestion.
Rob in MA
Feisty, top o' the morning!
"Employers ...took on more than 200,000 workers in February for a third straight month, indicating an improving labor market will support the U.S. expansion, economists said before a report today.
Payrolls increased by 210,000 after rising 243,000 in January, according to the median projection of 94 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
Such a gain would cap the strongest six-month hiring stretch since 2006." (Kowalski.)
It must suck that all of their delay, block and diversion tactics in Congress and the RWNJ Radio Screamers preaching he's a Muslim, terrorist, socialist, Kenya I would say any improvement in our economy is huge accomplishment. That's not even mention the oil speculators and the rest of the world's economic turmoil.
Obama/Biden They've earned it!
It doesn't take the Radical Right, Anti-American gang long to show here with their hate all post. Remember, they hate everyone.
Bill, I also Kirsten Powers' piece... the hipocisy of the left is staggering.
Steve H - of course Obama wants to reset unemploymnet standards.... that's the only way he can make his dismal record look even marginal! Lowering standards across the board is the goal of creeping socialism.
I heard on the news today that Obama's grant of $10 million to a 'green' company has resulted in a low output light bulb that costs $50 a piece! That too the administration will call a success! lmao!
Perhaps Sheldon doesn't consider requests from admitted felons. While thuggery is the norm from the GOP/TP right wing nut jobs, it is possible that the ones with the bucks prefer to donate responsibly.
Backhouse, well said. In red states like ID, TX, AL, GA women and men are protesting the GOP attacks on women's health care and reproductive rights.
It is so typical of the right to rally around their hate mongers like Rush by claiming the other side does it, too. Rush Limbaugh repeatedly denigrates women, he attacked two more this week just because he didn't like what they said. There is no excuse for either side to be disrespectful or use hate speech but trying to blame liberals in defense of their own loud-mouthed "femi-Nazi" screamer is the perfect example of deflection which conservatives do so well. How about conservatives tell their own to stop it, too, instead of pointing at the other side and yelling "foul". Rush Limbaugh spends 3 hours a day preaching hate and no one on the GOP side has the courage to tell him to shut the heck up. He began the incivility in public discourse so do not try to blame the other side for what he and FOX have been doing for over a decade.
"Obama / 2012" Guaranteed, The Tea Retards are Choking, maybe the Retards need to go back to the Fox and get a Aspirin ?
The tea people GOP Koch republicans even hate themselves Job1.
The more desperate the tea people GOP Koch republicans get, the worse their hate posts get. I see their still praying for the country to fail. All I can say is if they don't calm down a little they'll never make it to November.
Tea people GOP Koch republicans, it's going to get worse, so get ready.
Great job Backhouse! I love how the jobs numbers are chugging upwards, it makes for another day of 'hair on fire' for the right.
It must be tough, to be a republican these days, with all the positive turns in the polls, market continuing to climb upwards, the jobs numbers increase and positive outlook from investors. These are all things the Republicans use to welcome, but along the way as they have followed the Pied Piper of Hate, Limbaugh, they lost their moral compass.
Now they are reduced to bullying women and peddling hate. Where's the future in that?
Another tough day for Green Energy:
From Consumers Reports:
Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it’s broken.
Seems the Karma couldn't even get through the CR Check In process. First time in the History of CR that a car didn't even make it through the check in process.
Here's the whole story:
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/bad-karma--our-fisker-karma-plug-in-hybrid-breaks-down.html
Backhouse - Gov. McDonnell won't just try to force every women who goes to her private doctor to terminate a pregnancy to undergo invasive actions upon her body. He will do it. It does not matter how early in the pregnancy you are, you must now have an ultrasound at the tune of almost $400. If that can not determine the gestational age of the fetus (and experts say it can't), you must be verbally asked if you would like to also have an invasive transvaginal probe ultrasound, which you would also have to pay for. What they are refusing to answer - is if you decline the request, are you refused an abortion? He refuses to allow the women and men of Virginia to vote whether they want this new legislation. This is the man who wants to be the VP of all women? As was pointed out - even Republican women are starting to speak out against this type of aggressive legislation against women. They don't call him Vaginal Probe McDonnell for nothin'.
Yes, of course, Bill Fairfax: the " he did it first" excuse ALWAYS justifies misogynistic behavior. At least in the mind of a 10 year old.
See, Bill, that excuse didn't work for my cherubs when they were little and tattling on each other. It sure doesn't work NOW, when we are talking about disturbing and disturbed behavior from a shock jock that is the titular head of the Republican Party.
The questions are simple: is calling a woman a "slut" right or wrong? Is going on a three day rant about it, 3 hours a day, right or wrong? Is the refusal to come out from behind a microphone owned by Limbaugh, and be questioned by his betters right or wrong? Is scrubbing those segments from Limbaugh's website, attempting to hide his behavior, right or wrong?
There is ONLY one answer to these questions, and by making excuses for it, Bill, you condone the behavior.
The continuing good news in the jobs market is driving the Repugs crazy. Their entire "game plan" for the 2012 election was the continuation of the Economy that President Bush created. They would now sell it as President Obama's failure. Everyone would blame and hate the Democrats and they would just walk right back into the White House. Just keep saying NO to everything the President proposes and it'll be a slam dunk. Ahh, life will be good again and we'll be rid of that Uppity Black Man who is just not "One Of Us".
Well, guess what? It didn't work. Their whole plan has fallen apart. The economy is not only getting better but improving every month. So what do they have to pursue today? What is the Repugs platform for 2012 now? SEX. Yes, let's do away with contraceptives and abortions. Let's breed more Repugs. Yes, that's the answer for our new Platform.
These guys are insane. I love it.
Obama in 2012.
So Kirsten writes a faux pro-defense Limbaugh piece. No surprise there, considering she will write anything to land a lucrative job at Faux News, just to get a rallying yippee from Bill 'in your vagina' Fairfaux, VA guy.
"Warning about desperate right-wing extremist like the Tea Retards are looking to Norway for help from Anders Breivik the massacre Nut"
newday,
You're wasting your time with Bill Fairfax. He's as much a coward as Romney is.
The Right can try to spin this all they want and it won't do any good. They just keep digging themselves in deeper. If they had any integrity whatsoever (not to mention smarts) they would condemn Limbaugh's actions and move on.
No kidding, Jack. But couldn't let that go unanswered!
Psychos for failure. Need I say more?
FR:
Oh, no! More bad news for Willard Mittens. Maybe he can get Mitch McConnell to filibuster something to stop this terrible trend!
I'll never understand why the Left thinks it's OK to use, day after day, such an inflammatory phrase as "Tea-Tard" and "Retard".
Hey, what gives? Rush Limbaugh is STILL on the air. Have you all moved on to a NEW Boogeyman to pee your pants over, or has your campaign to destroy him failed?
Typical left wing claptrap. Who's making excuses for it? Certainly not Powers, read her piece. And by all means, show me the post of where I made excuses for it. You people just make stuff up to fit your narrative.
More excuses from Bill, and he hides behind a women to justify it.
Repeating, trying to make it simple enough for Bill to understand:
The "he did it first" defense makes you WRONG!
Now, go find a 10 year old and have her explain that to you.
To those of you (who can stand to) talk to Feisty Dumbfux:
Has she taken me up on my offer yet?
Remember the other day when she said Sandra Fluke is the ROSA PARKS of the ...um...whatever...movement? Hahahaha. Every time I type that my sides hurt from laughing!
Anyway. I suggested Feisty go out into her neighborhood and survey the Black folk there and see if they agree with her that Sandra Fluke = Rosa Parks LOL!!! (There go my sides hurting again!)
She may need some help getting up out of her chair but, once she does, it should be interesting. She's gonna have to walk a long way since Wikipedia says there are virtually NO Black people in Roselle, Ill, but when she finds one I wanna see if they even know who Sandra Fluke is.
Snadra Fluke = Rosa Pa...Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
White Collar Auto Ignoring author
I'll never understand why the Left thinks it's OK to use, day after day, such an inflammatory phrase as "Tea-Tard" and "Retard".
thought I'd take a peek.....here's $1 wca, buy a vowel, get a clue.....does libtard ring a bell einstein?
Through omission, Bill. Through omission.
Good gosh ND, are you vying for the biggest idiot award around here? Trying to wrestle it away from Dumb Fux? The only ones I see making excuses are the ones defending Bill Maher for his misogyny because he's a "comedian". That's odd, I thought comedians were supposed to be funny. Maher is no comedian though. He is a true women hater.
Rush is still on the air but he has no sponsers. Thats not a real successful business model. I would think it is only a matter of time. Dead air is no way to run a radio station.
Yeah Damage: Now that's he lost close to 20 advertisers, Limbaugh has new BIG NAME sponsors like the web site for cheating spouses and Hustler magazine.....hey jerks need a place to spend their time too! Attacking women just gets tougher and tougher these days, poor babies. Put your big boy panties on and deal with it...
Katheryn,
Yes, the gel-on-belly ultrasound mostly does not determine gestational age.
And as most, if not all women will refuse an invasive State Rape procedure like the transvaginal ultrasound just to please the mad power-crazed like McDonnell, what is the point of the ultrasound requirement?
Is it, 'we will because we can, so lie down and shut up.'
'And now pay for it.'
Yeah he's on, but he's got as much dead air at commercial time as he does his blowhard bit! How long will he last with that?
Only simpletons waste their time listening to that jackass! It never occurs to them he's the 1 percenter that couldn't care less about you 40K (or less) people. That's why he advocates for the rich and is the quasi leader of the Party of NO!
And now comes poor JoAnna, who demonstrates, yet again, her inability to understand simple sentences.
It must be difficult to operate in a world, JoAnna, that expects you to be able to read and comprehend.
I do feel sorry for you.
By the way, JoAnna, don't you remember...they retired the "biggest idiot" award when they gave to you for the gazillionth time.
@Joe in Albany, Joe if you were an Indian, your name would be "Dark Cloud"
AP- You're a liar. The story about the show accepting advertisments from the cheating husband website has been disproved. Try again.
Damage: Sorry, the NYTimes says they're now a sponsor. Try again.
Santorum's goal? Stop being a Shiite Cleric.
Really, Iran is the country just for him, and I mean the Revolutionary Guard part. Gingrich has just as much reason to get Santorum out, if not more. People who listen to Santorum are bonkers and/or would love it if we brought back witch hunts and the Spanish Inquisition (nobody would expect it, right?) Santorum could actually be the worst thing for the Republican party during this election. He can't win the Presidency, but he can make Republicans lose.
Nice going, Santorum. Your peers are so thanking you for letting all those crazy thoughts you have out of your mouth.
Good morning and happy Friday to you all.
My 2 cents worth.
I don't see Gingrich getting out of the race as long as he can add to his delegate count. He knows he can't win. He's too far behind and without Edelson he would already be roadkill.
So maybe it's time to ask, "What does Newt want?"
At first I thought it was all about selling books and getting speaker's fees. Raise his personal standard and sell more books. Get on all the news shows and look forward to getting more paid speaking gigs after he finally drops out. Maybe he's looking for a permanent paid gig on FOX.
Newt obviously doesn't care that he's damaging the GOP brand. It's all about Newt and nobody else.
But what the heck does he want?
This is a serious question folks and not one to be answered with talking points or witty (or witless) quips. This is the question the GOP establishment has got to asking itself right now. What the HELL is going on here? What does he want?
Does he want to be Vice President? It can be a do nothing, ceremonial job. Maybe that's what he is angling for. I think he's burned too many bridges for that.
Does he want to be "Kingmaker"? I don't think he's going to have enough delegates for that. Does he think if they go to a brokered convention his delegates could put Santorum or Romney over the top and give him leverage? But for what? Ambassador to France? Secretary of State? What?
Barring a shocker at the convention Romney is the guy and the President's re-election is in the bag.
But what does Newt want out of all this? Enquiring minds want to know.
Obama/Biden 2012
newday,
Smiff is riding a tricycle with a broken rear wheel (the one on the right, of course). She just keeps pedaling as fast as she can, going around and around and around. . . .
AP you are wrong. The New York times is wrong.
The New York Times won't bother to correct itself.
Will you?
Hey Bill in Fairfax -- I'll consider reading your link when you answer my post from Wednesday.
Care to answer or will the silence mean you approve????
Bill,Fairfax - I do not like the repeated use of language insulting to women that is used by both sides and certainly on this forum - it's sophomoric, where ever it occurs.
But this goes beyond Rush Limbaugh. He is merely the one who created such a bellicose episode that women who formally were not politically involved -have now become aware of the attitude and legislation that has and will continue to reduce women to second class citizens. Latest ones - McDonnell in Virgina requiring a (vaginal probe) invasive procedure on women seeking to terminate a pregnancy and GA deciding that women who have state benefits can not have abortions covered even if it is a result of rape or incest.
And the attacks on women's rights go on... Beyond contraceptives and abortions -
Maryland schoolboard cut funding for Head Start because women should be married and stay home with their kids so the program would not be necessary - Republican Commissioners
House Rep.Chris Smith proposed legislation that would redefine rape to "forcible rape", so women must prove they fought their assailant or it's not rape
2010 Senate Republicans voted unanimously against the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Republicans voted down party line against reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act
WI Republican Senator Glenn Grothman proposed bill that labels single parenthood as child abuse
GA bill to redefine victims of rape,stalking and domestic violence as "accusers" instead of victims of abuse
It's not about these loons displaying school boy humor and language - that is merely symbolic of a deeper issue and that is the war on women's rights that is being waged against the women of this country by an element in the Republican Party. Not the whole Republican Party - but the whole Republican Party is allowing it to occur and not standing up for women.
Gingerbread, you are one insightful Mamma!
You also wrote: Now GOP is "reduced to bullying women and peddling hate. Where's the future in that?"
From http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/03/iwd_reproductive_health.html :
"Before widespread access to contraception, our birth and mortality rates were much closer to those in today's global south.
At the beginning of the 20th century, our maternal mortality rate was approximately 65 times higher than the current rate. And in the 17th and 18th centuries, one in eight U.S women died from childbirth and the average woman had five to eight children."
Oh, Katheryn Brandy, didn't you know unfair paychecks are part of capitalism? How can you have a fully capitalistic society and all the wealth that comes with it when you are handcuffed by things like human rights and stuff?
*yes that's sarcasm*
Note, I see you have one party picked out for this. But I've seen my fair share of bigotry in the Dems, too. Just sayin'
Here's how it works AP. Although, I doubt you will believe it:
From the Rush Limbaugh Program:
Yesterday I explained to you how it is that we have not lost whatever the number is today, 45 or 43 advertisers. Today there's a more blatant example of what journalism has become, and it's in the Washington Post. It's a story written by a woman named Alexandra Petri. I don't know how it's pronounced. Alexandra Petri. And let me read you the headline of this news story. I don't know if it's in the newspaper or just on their website, but here's the headline: "Rush Limbaugh’s Show Targets Jerks, Judging From the Latest Ads -- Advertisers learned something about Rush Limbaugh’s demographic this week. 'Here we thought lots of pleasant, upstanding people were listening to and enjoying the rational things Rush had to say,' dozens of companies said. 'Apparently not.' It turns out that people who really, truly still enjoy Rush Limbaugh’s show are -- how do I put this? -- jerks."
This is the Washington Post characterizing you. "At least that’s what the new advertisements moving into the vast empty lot of Rush Limbaugh, Inc., implies. ... So far, he’s picked up AshleyMadison.com, the site where you go to cheat on your wife, and another website that is explicitly for sugar-daddy matchmaking." There's only one problem. We are not running spots or commercials from AshleyMadison.com. In fact, when we find that they are running in our program in local markets we call the local affiliate and tell them, "Don't run these ads in our show." We do not sponsor companies that help people cheat on their spouses. And right here it is in the Washington Post, claiming that we are.
Now, the people that run Ashley Madison are out saying they're willing to advertise on our program. There are stories and advertising blogs about this, but we have not accepted it. Right here in the Washington Post. Ms. Petri, I don't know who feeds you your information -- I have a pretty good guess -- but you might want to double-check here because you've written something that's patently false, it's an out-and-out lie complete with your b-i-itchy opinion in it, and it is untrue. We are not running commercials. We wouldn't accept commercials. We have rejected their offers from outfits that do this kind of thing, provide a way for you to cheat on your spouse. We have never knowingly had this company in our program.
And again, there are two ways you can get on this program. You can come and be an official EIB sponsor, or you can buy commercial time on one of our local affiliates and become one of 18,000-plus advertisers that we will never know about, except with things like this. When we find out, we do our best to clear this inventory. So I wanted to set this straight. It is an out-and-out lie, just like every other report about lost advertisers and everything else that you're seeing. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have new sponsors coming on in the next week two weeks, three of them at least. As I said yesterday current advertisers that canceled, had a couple meetings with them, they're asking to come back in. There's literally nothing factual being reported about this.
Skippy The Okie--
Really enjoyed your sad story the other day about how your your poor, misguided brother is a conservative and has been duped into NOT being an Obama groupie by the evil, brainwashing Fox News. Whatever OBVIOUS issues of inferiority/superiority you have left over from childhood that caused you to be a mindless liberal should best be taken care of with your therapist(don't pretend you don't have one). But that being said, does your brother know that you've gone on record on this site as saying that ANYONE who dares criticize Obama should be jailed for a hate crime? Does he? Do you still believe that? Do you include your brother in that group (people who should be imprisoned for criticizing the Prez...)
Do you even realize what that means when you say something like that? No wonder you lefties were such big fans/supporters of the Soviet Union back during the Cold War.
I did read about one company that pulled ad time during Rush's show. The stock cratered the very next day.
Backlash to the backlash. Anybody, have see his rating lately? My guess - way up.
Rush is fun to listen too for the comedic value. So funny but sad that there are so many carny people out there. However, yesterday the local station that airs Rush had a different show in his place.
Skip - Newt is greedy and wants money, pure and simple, nothing more - nothing less, just good old fashioned money. Now, I love a good conspiracy theory - so I suggest that Romney's SuperPacs are funding Newt to keep delegates from flowing to Santorum. Crazy, you might say, but not completely out of this world. Had Newt been out of the picture on Super Tuesday, Santorum would likely have out performed Mitts in several primaries.
Anyone who knows anything about rape knows that in the greater majority of cases when a woman fights back the violence on the part of the male attacker escalates.
What is truly disturbing is that all these laws--whether related to rape or abortion or women's health--are promoted by men who are totally unable and/or unwilling to attempt to see the issues from a woman's perspective. They lack empathy. They don't care about other points of view. It's all about them. Their power and control status is threatened, and they're digging in their heels.
By contrast, President Obama gets it. How refreshing and uplifting it is to have a man like that in the White House.
Maybe the Koch Brothers can fill up the dead air on Limbaugh's show running public service ads promoting the health benefits of carbon monoxide, mercury, and other byproducts their industries produced.
Jack: THAT explains why poor JoAnna is always so dizzy!
Followers unite! Rush has spoken, fall in line. March to his drum, the circus needs you.
Meanwhile, those of us that march to our own drum, we will carry our own water. At least we will know where from which it came.
Job1,
And here I thought I was special. Why you gotta rain on my parade like that?
Derek,
I mean, how can they expect us to provide work equal to that of a man when we're barefoot and have probes stuck up our whoo-haws, right? It's only fair that we get paid less, then. We don't want to be Socialists now, do we?
No, that's not "out of this world", RedDev. It's par for the course in the GOP's world.
Remember Rod Shealy?:
The only funny thing about Rush's rant is that it is doing incredible damage to the republican party, by mobilizing millions of women against them, he still has plenty of sponsers and will still be on the radio, but he cannot undo the damage he has done to republicans. He gave the entire democratic party a huge solid gold political gift, and it will be a gift that keeps on giving, he knows it, republicans know it, and that is his greatest punishment, the fact that he is the driving force that encourage millions of women and the men who respect them to vote democratic in the November election. Thanks Rush!
I'll break this down so that even you can understand it. Kirsten Powers is not arguing that because someone "did it first" it was OK for someone else to do it second. She's making the case for the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to misogyny. Deal with it.
I'd like to know what 20 sponsors have completely pulled their advertising from Rush's show. Considering he's the highest rated radio show mid-day, it would be completely foolish for any advertiser to pull their advertising. Do you liberals actually think business works this way? Rush is supposed to be controversial so he's doing his job.
We know the liberals were all crying and whining because of Rush's statement... boo hoo... let's attack his sponsors... What the Fu*k else is new with the liberals? They've been trying to get Rush off the air for years... but keep on failing... I guess they really suck at their methods and are especially poor at accomplishment. But, I digress, those on the right already know that.
White Collar: Limbaugh does not control the media buys the way you think he does...that's why he's going to these lengths to convince you (as though that were hard) that he only controls advertisers when it's convenient for him to insist he does. For the advertisers that bought time on Clear Channel and didn't bother tracking that time appeared on the Limbaugh show...he's always taken credit for them as "Limbaugh" sponsors. When they pull their advertising now that they know where their dollars were spent, he now says well, they never really counted anyway....He knows folks like you actually believe he has the kind of power to call any station and the entire parent company at whim and tell them what to run or not run regardless of their ad contracts. No wonder you buy his 'contraceptives are for sluts' stuff...geez you're easy.
Skip: I liked your post. Well reasoned and I'm inclined to agree.
*turns sarcasm back on*
Well, Sarah, its not that they don't like women, its just that women should know their place is having babies. Its only liberals and RINOS who lie to you and make you think there is something wrong with being strictly a baby factory.
*end sarcasm*
This line of humor, making fun of neanderthals, is potentially endless. It certainly is when one neanderthal named Santorum keeps on insisting that he and his cult represent real conservatives.
Really, Santorum? Is that why you approve of big government that inflicts Christian laws upon everybody? No shellfish in America! Vote Santorum!
Bill_Fairfax:
Did you say there was an article by Austin Powers? And you like it?
Don't ya'll have a problem with the "lifestyle choices" involved there?
Yep Billy, by arguing that someone else did it first. So much fun watching you try to dig yourself out.
Time for a straight answer Billy.. do you condemn Rush Limbaugh for his misogynistic comments?
Kinda like the right and ACORN, eh Brianb?
That line swings both ways. Enjoy.
AP - ...geez you're easy.
...and you're an idiot.
Derek,
Since God also hates cotton-poly blends, what are they going to do about all those multi-national corporations that are trying to enact their cheap clothing agendas?
Forrest said: The only funny thing about Rush's rant is that it is doing incredible damage to the republican party, by mobilizing millions of women against them, he still has plenty of sponsers and will still be on the radio, but he cannot undo the damage he has done to republicans. He gave the entire democratic party a huge solid gold political gift, and it will be a gift that keeps on giving, he knows it, republicans know it, and that is his greatest punishment, the fact that he is the driving force that encourage millions of women and the men who respect them to vote democratic in the November election. Thanks Rush!
What millions of women are mobilizing against the republican party Forrest? If you consider millions of liberal women mobilizing, no foul, no harm. They were against the republicans anyway. Simply stated, that's the status quo. I know plenty of conservative women that weren't against what Rush said because they felt the "
slut" Fluke, deserved what she got. Ideologies don't change much because of a single statement Forrest. Even a rant from a conservative doesn't change the conservative mindset.The only gift Rush gave you was the indignation of people that already hate him. It played big to those that listen to liberal media anyway... so in all actuality, it was pretty much contained within your own ideology. It didn't do any damage to the conservative opinion, or those leaning to the right.
When measured in levels, what Rush said only deepened the hatred level of those on the left. Big deal! What's one more level deeper applied to people that already hate him anyway?
Poll Finds Americans Want Keystone Pipeline
Adam Peshek
February 24, 2012, 9:59am
A new poll by Pew Research found that for people who have heard about the Keystone pipeline, 66% want the government to approve it, with only 23% saying it should not.
/sarcasm
Well, Sarah, if you want to get back to racist America, you can have 'Godless creatures' pick that cotton for you!
Now let's not get hasty here. Lincoln was a Republican. Therefore we just gotta use huge machines to go pickin that cotton! They ain't got no Bible and don't need one either.
Then, well, its obvious that machines make polyester. And machines mix them two together in a magical, only God could have figured it out way.
Once the cotton is picked and that magic machine puts the poly all up in it, well, God meant it to be. He works in mysterious ways, so, feel free to wear your cotton poly while bendin on your knees and prayin for a government that recognizes
the Catholicmy local evangelists rule of law!Remember, only a Heathen thinks that all answers aren't in the Bible.
/end sarcasm
Yeah, you know, I like to read medieval fantasy stories sometimes. And then when it comes to real life, I'm very happy to be promotional about advancing equality for all people.
Rob -- And seventy something percent want taxes raised on the top two percent. How do you like that poll!
God, Bill, you are so dense! Let's see if we can break this down so that you understand it.
The point is not that Power is arguing someone "did it first"; it's because you are trying to argue that someone else "did it first". You continually post arguments that attempt to minimize Limbaugh's (dare I say it?) crime against women.
Hey, Jack, where did Bill go? Isn't he going to condemn Limbaugh as all honest people must?
TO: White Collar Auto who wrote:
I could say that we don't understand why the Right thinks it's OK to tell bold lies about the President of the United States day after day AND use inflamatory (and false) phrases such as President Obama is some kind of "failure" when the right knows that's a blatant lie.
As to "Tea-Tard" and "Retard", it just fits. Folks who are falling for the crap Republicans have laid out must have some kind of "thing" wrong with them. What kind of person listens to a politician tell them point blank "Hey, if I get in office I'm going to rob you blind. First I'm going to lower your wages, then I'm going to steal your retirement money that you've been saving all your working life, and then I absolutely guarantee you that I'm going to MAKE SURE you CANNOT get ANY affordable health care" and Republicans actually vote for that person?
You really would have to be crazy out your mind to do that, but that's exactly what Republican followers are doing and/or talking about doing.
So yes, I think "Tea-Tard" and "Retard" fits just fine.
Obama / Biden 2012
RealAmericansFirst said: Kinda like the right and ACORN, eh Brianb?
I guess it's the age old battle of right versus left. Go after those that do the most harm to the opposition.
Koch vs Soros
Maher vs Limbaugh
Maher vs Palin
Maher vs Colter
Maher vs Malkin
Schultz vs Ingraham
I guess the battles will continue as long as the ideologies can't agree.
And you and your attack dog buds continue to lie about what I've actually said. What is it with you people?
Good morning my fellow leftie First Thoughts and tea-turd posters
It's wonderfully, GOOD NEWS to read 227,000 jobs created couple that with just a few of his accomplishments and the GOP/TEA BAGGER opposition you can see nothing but positive results. That whole sit on 1.2 trillion jobs due to uncertainty, obstruction and "Make Barack Obama a one term president " has blown up in the GOP/TEA BAGGER face. Whose UNCERTAIN now? Undoubtedly the GOP/TEA BAGGER so much so they have started to cannibalize each other and attack women and minorities.
A few of President Obama's accomplishments:
Appointment of two Supreme Court Judges one being the first Latina to the Supreme Court
Passed health care reform
Financial industry reform legislation
Prevented a 2nd Great Depression
Nuclear non-proliferation agreement
Repairing Our Image Abroad
DADT
Did I mention he killed bin Laden?
Keep on whistling Dixie you re-turd GOP/TEA BAGGERs the land of King Cotton went out with industrialization. Oh, and that attack on women's bodies went out with the cave men. ☺
newday,
Well, I guess that says something about his honesty, doesn't it? I borrowed your "minimize". Hope you don't mind.
Hey, Brianb: Last week you said you "evolved" from a Leftist and became a Right Winger. I think the word you were searching for is "entropied". They both begin with an "e" and end with a "d", so I can see how that might have confused you.
Should we post Bill's orginal thoughts on the Limbaugh matter? No, i guess not, as it would take up perfectly good space so I direct anyone interested to last Friday's First Thoughts to see his views yourself. Draw your own conclusion.
Little Jackie now wants misogamy to be a crime. Listen Little Jackie, Bill is making a point on something about 10 levels above your comprehension level. Now get back to the playpen with ND so you can babble on endlessly about "Republicans bad, Democrats good".
These dopes on the left continue to get more shrill.
Please congratulate the following US Democratic Senators that voted yesterday in favor of the Keystone Pipeline
Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jim Webb of Virginia
These senators and five other democratic senators concerned about the effect of high gas prices on the American consumer and the economy. These senator understand what an "all of the above" approach really is.
Barack Obama is FOR higher gas prices. The other day in a press conference he back pedaled from his previous statements in which he stated that he WANTS gas prices to go higher because he is "heading into an election". This is one of his few honest moments. He only cares about re-election.
Gas prices are already hitting $6.00 a gallon is parts Florida and California and $5.00 across many other states.
OBAMA OWNS THESE HIGH GAS PRICES.
Production is up on private lands out of Obama's control Federal land production is way down. Off shore exploration is halted by Obama. How many democrat legislatures and democrat governors have proposed raising taxes on gasoline in the past year when prices weren't so high. Can you imagine if they were successful in their attempts?
OBAMA OWNS THESE HIG GAS PRICES!
If you want affordable gasoline support the Republican Party or those brave Democrat Senators named above that told this most arrogant President that they are on the side of the people.
American Girl said: AND use such inflamatory (and false) phrases as President Obama is some kind of "failure" when the right knows that's a blatant lie.
I happen to agree with you in one sense. Obama is anything but a failure at setting his agenda in place. He has been highly successful at it. He came on board saying he plans to fundamentally change the United States and that he has done, handily.
The problem lies in his successes. What has he fundamentally changed and is it actually good for America?
The ACA - The hallmark legislation of the Obama administration. What does the ACA do? It provides for more control of people. It opens the door for further government intervention in everyone's lives, like it or not. It gives the government control over the most important aspect of individual freedom, our health. Tell me American Girl, is this a lie? Do you actually trust others to make decisions over the things you need to live a life full of freedom?
We don't know fully what is contained in the 2000 pages of this healthcare bill. We haven't a clue what provisions they have placed in there. In Nancy Pelosi's own words... pass the bill so we know what is in it. Even Congress didn't know everything they put in that legislation before they approved it. I'm sorry, but I don't trust others making decisions over my life that I should control myself. Is this a "false" premise? If so, tell me why.
I suppose back in the 80s when personal computers cost $5-6,000 apiece (in 1980s dollars), we should have just given up.
Technology takes time and money to get going, but we must continue to try. Otherwise, we will not advance.
Skip, "But what the heck does he want?
Mr Grinch's function is to split up the vote for Santorum....thus Mr. Romney wins.
Mr. Romney has beaten SantaO'Rum by just a few points in many states. Without the Grinch, the results would be very different.
Re: The "Tea-tard" dispute. Since most gays are liberals, it's safe to say that people who actually practice "teabagging" are Democrats. "Tea Partiers" is the correct name for the rightwingers that the lefties have so much hatred for.
And re Limbaugh: Are you all wondering why Rush's advertisers didn't pull out YEARS ago when he was playing that hysterical song "Barack The Magic Negro?" I'm not, but I figure I would bring it up just to inflame you pissy-pants libs a little more. You seem way to tired today.
Obama / Biden 2012
Well Felden, How about Henrik Fisker and Tom Lasorda figure out how to do it with their own money?
Kind of like Bill Gates did.
And what do you think Virginia's new law about ultrasounds for women does?
Derek and Sarah - I love both your posts! Gave me a chuckle today.
On a serious note - no side has a monopoly on bigotry - it seems to be equal opportunity all the way - politically,religiously,gender,payscale - you name, I've seen bigotry displayed in all of it's ugly glory.
Forrest - You hit the nail on the head. I know you don't agree with me brian.:) But I do think the Republican establishment and the RNC is worried. I've said before, we are starting to see people like McCain, George Will,Rove,Jeb,O'Reilly,Lowry,Craig Smith express concern about what is happening in the Republican Party. Young women and independents are watching how the Republican Party handles this assault on women, particularly the legislation proposed. It may not hurt Rush in the long run,but I think it will hurt the Republican Party in Nov.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs started out not wealthy and as college dropouts. They got their startup money from investors.
No Brian it is not just liberals who were prediposed, John Boehner even tried to meekly address it, and if the Speaker of the House is publically trying to mildly denounce Rush's statement that is proof positive that republicans are taking plenty of heat from their own. Rush is still talking about it as well, he has lost in the neighborhood of 43 sponsors, which will not put him under by any stretch, but it is a big problem for republicans, you may not think so, but it is. Take a look at the way Obama's approval numbers have shot up in the last two weeks with women voters of every demographic, especially southern white women. Rush is now Obama's Secret Santa! Women all over the country are now engaged and enraged, they are railing against republican state legislators and governors on a whole range of womens health issues. Rush lit a fuse and the bomb is going off in republicans faces.
DCIA,
Where Bill is concerned, "original thoughts" is an oxymoron.
Smiff,
You keep proving why you wear a helmet when you're on that tricycle. Come to think of it, I bet you wear one when you're sitting on the sofa.
Skip, enjoyed your post....as always. You might be on to something regarding New and Faux, I think he would make a wonderful contributor for them, he tends to remind me of that other bigoted windbag Pat Buchanan.
Nice to see you hear again, hope you are feeling well. And not too lonely out there in OK, how many Dems are there in your area?
Great word, minimize, isn't it Jack?
And Bill just told us all we need to know. He does not condemn Rush. Which means he supports misogyny. Apparently vile hate speech is just fine with Bill, that is, as long as it comes from Rush.
Poor JoAnna: still trying to make yourself relevant. Really having a tough time with that, aren't you?
Katheryn,
Sometimes, with the really over zealous wing nuts (on either side) it's like a game of vollyball. They set me up and I just gotta spike the ball, lol.
Regarding Republicans, well you all can't win without two key demographics. Those being women and latinos. Now, I don't know about you all, but things like double electric fences, self deportation, and transvaginal ultrasounds, don't seem to me, like attractive options for those demographics.
TO: Damage123 who wrote:
Gays are most definately welcome in the Democrat Party, as are anybody and everybody else no matter what, even former Republicans.
If you believe in freedom and you love this country, no doubt you are a Democrat.
Obama / Biden 2012.
Wow. Reading everyone's comments here this morning and this is what I get. WCA and BB think all liberals are liars and Rush walks on water. Not to mention I do believe they feel all women should be barefoot and pregnant, and women's opinions do not matter. Hey guys! Looked at any polls lately? Your team is not looking very good to independent women and Latinos. Guess you don't really need votes from that sector, right? After all, they may be sluts who need to put their sex videos on line because they might have taken birth control pills - even if the reason they took the pill was for some other reason than contraception, but hey, let's not let facts get in the way - after all I am just another liar, right? (Yet, I am one of those independent women, funny how that works.)
To my friends on the left - Bill Mahar was WRONG for his comments. Admit it. Language against women you disagee with should not be the words he used. Kind of the pot/kettle thing. And just because you don't agree with the right, don't lower yourself to name calling. It hurts your credibility.
Here's hoping you all (I would say ya'all since I can legally, I am a southerner but Romney has made that seem dirty although I will still eat my grits) have a good weekend.
What I continue to not be able to understand is the ever present dicotomy of the Republican mindset. On the one hand Republicans repeatedly tell us that the government has no right to be involved in the personal, private business between a doctor and a patient. At the same time, they are saying that the government should be able to tell a woman and her doctor what legal medicines she is allowed to take and what legal procedures she can have and what extra charges the doctor has to do in order for the doctor to conduct those procedures.
I just don't understand, does the GOP want goverment out of our lives or does the GOP just want government to be getting into a woman's vagina ?
Rob in ma-3189632
As always, a Republican trying to give the impression that the jobless rate was somehow Bush's doing. When in reality the Clinton Administration brought the country a thriving economy which George W. Bush and the Republican Party turned into the worst financial disaster since the first Great Republican Depression
Dear Friends:
We will be heading to the Dew Drop Inn later to celebrate a good week on First Read. We had decided to have the DDI award for the most ludicrous post.
I submit for candidacy WCA, who apparently does not like name calling from the left and then uses name calling himself.
It just doesn't get much better than that!
Jack in liberalsmouth said: Hey, Brianb: Last week you said you "evolved" from a Leftist and became a Right Winger. I think the word you were searching for is "entropied". They both begin with an "e" and end with a "d", so I can see how that might have confused you.
Hey Jack, you can try to emulate the language anyway you like... that doesn't change the fact that you haven't entropied one iota. You are stuck on stupid... just like you are stuck on being a liberal. Feel better now?
John Devine,
Actually, the housing bubble and home loans to people that couldn't afford them was the result of Clinton policy and the likes of Barney Frank. It just took years for that bubble to grow and explode!
Bush wanted to enact changes to lending practices but the democrat control committee shut him down. Even the New York Times had to report that little tidbit.
But good try all the same.
Jack -- Huh! Great play on that. As for where Bill's original thoughts originated, that would be another type of moron. Once addicted to "oxy"in the past ; )
Anyone of yours will do. And do have fun at your imaginary "bar" with your imaginary friends. After that, be sure to get a life.
Phew!
Anyone of yours will do. And do have fun at your imaginary "bar" with your imaginary friends. After that, be sure to get a life.
Worth repeating. That's funny stuff!
Forrest said: Rush is still talking about it as well, he has lost in the neighborhood of 43 sponsors
What sponsors Forrest? Those on the left keep saying he's lost sponsors but they haven't named one sponsor he's allegedly lost. Rush didn't have 43 sponsors nationally. If you are talking local affiliates... so what! If you know anything about radio, it's a weekly occurrence to have 43 sponsors on a national basis shift their advertising around. Businesses come and they go on radio... Rush has over 600 national affiliates and if 43 local sponsors shifted off his show, that happens already ... so this is nothing.
but it is a big problem for republicans, you may not think so, but it is
Everything from the slant of the left is a big problem for republicans. If they sneeze wrong, it's a big problem. If they glance in the wrong direction, it's a big problem. Really Forrest, I couldn't care less. It's nothing new, nor is it something the left doesn't harp on, on a daily basis. Personally I believe it's wishful thinking on the part of the left.
Take a look at the way Obama's approval numbers have shot up in the last two weeks with women voters of every demographic, especially southern white women. Rush is now Obama's Secret Santa! Women all over the country are now engaged and enraged, they are railing against republican state legislators and governors on a whole range of womens health issues. Rush lit a fuse and the bomb is going off in republicans faces.
Here again, wishful thinking from the left. Do you know how long this will last? It will last only until the price of gasoline rises nationwide above $4.10 a gallon... then off to the next item... defending Obama for doing nothing to help lower the price. How about the price of food... It will go up even more over the next few months... transportation costs are rising. Then electricity will rise due to the oil prices.... it's not looking good for Obama, no matter what Rush says.
When it comes to people's wallets, they will be looking to blame someone... and that someone usually is the president.
WCA ...
Simple, if you can't present reasonable observations then dazzle us with BS. Regardless, the FR left does provide for good comedic relief.
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I get a charge out of them trying to paint the right as being women haters, get rid of obama and wanting to destroy America just to get rid of obama.
Interesting on how we have so many intelligent and bright conservative women in our society and how we welcome more of the same in both the private and public sectors.
Defeat obama by wanting and creating bad economic growth?
Flies in the face of their accusations that the right, wealthy and businesses are all greedy. We want growth. This morning the WH chief economic adviser reported on our good jobs report numbers but that obama has now started laying blame on the size of the economic hole we had. Hmmmm, didn't seem to be that important for obama in his first 3 years, but now it is? Oh wait, obama wants to be re-elected.
Destroy America? Couldn't be further from the truth. Can any of them illustrate to us that larger government has given any countries populace a better life? Can they even show us that the european governments needed large government entities to provide their populace with social benefits?
The poor FR lefties are unable to look down the road to see that we are not on a path of fiscal sustainability with all of our spending habits. That is fine for them, just slap another bandaid on, don't bother to fix the wound or change the previous bandaid. Carry on with business as usual. Cheney may have said "deficits don't matter" but the left sure wants to embrace it.
I have no problem with tax reform, but fix the spending first.
kool-aid's on me ndd :)
Damage123
Rush Limbaugh is STILL on the air.
You idiot, I see why your post got collapsed. You don don't know W-T-F you are talking about.
Those are Superpac which means his losses are more than a few french fries. Plus his show has been dropped in some cities.
http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/as_advertisers_flee_limbaugh_pro_gingrich_superpac_buys_more_time_npr
I hardy call losing 50 advertisers as profitable. Neither is listening to over 5 minutes of dead air .
Yay keep 'em coming!!! ☺ ☺ ☺
Rush Limbaugh Show Includes Over 5 Minutes Of Dead Air As Advertiser Exodus Continues
As Media Matters reports, of the 86 ads that made it on the air today, 77 of them were free public service announcements donated by the Ad Council. An additional seven ads were from companies that are in the process of pulling their spots from the show, leaving just two ads during the entire three hour broadcast that were purposefully paid to appear during the program
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/08/441172/rush-limbaugh-radio-silence/
Myth: Please, let's just stop with it: That your favorite political party wasn't completely complicit in the financial disaster.
Really, if you can't beging to comprehend that, you are totally on drugs for your favorite political party. And to paint a picture that one party was more responsible than another, is to continue to make complete lies and fiction about what happened.
You know what politicians weren't involved? The ones who got no lobby money from the banks. Oh, I'm sorry, that means none that matter or that you know of.
Duh. These were multinational banks. Did you think they were so stupid as to only send money to one party and not the other? Oh, wait, I forgot, the onus is totally on the borrower and not the lender, right? Please, please never pretend to know anything about banks ever, then. Because if you decided that it isn't your job to know who you are lending money to and know if they can pay you back, then you are Full of Flying Bulls**t.
I'm not absolving the borrower. I'm just saying please stop with the children's book version of the story. Time to grow up and realize that all your favorite politicians of the time had at some role in what happened. And then they realized they'd need to be finding new jobs. Except for those of us dumb enough to keep on electing the same Democrats and Republicans, because we live in fantasy land about who was at fault.
Nope JAS1 -- My bar is real! Cheers! Those friends, they are real too. Seeing as kindness is not your forte I can understand why you do not recognize the concept of having a friend as something real and tangible.
brian - I do agree that there are a number of issues that can trip up Obama - the economy - a war - both of those will do it. So far, we're looking good,but who knows.... Gas prices will always do it in the summer and I expect when they go up, the heat for Obama will go up too. But the prices tend to go down after summer,so we'll see where that ends up.
But young women(and their parents and the men that support them) - this whole issue of anti-women legislation will stick for them - and I think that will hurt the GOP. As a matter of fact -I think once Romney can tie this primary up, you're going to start seeing a big push to curry favor with women voters.But they can't change the legislation they've already proposed.
It will be interesting.
Felden said: And what do you think Virginia's new law about ultrasounds for women does?
This is but a taste of what is ahead of us. If you feel VA's new law encroaches upon our freedom, sit tight and hold onto your hat. You haven't seen anything yet.
Welcome to the New World people. The world where government will control your health, make decisions for you and force you to comply or you won't get any health assistance... if you fail to comply with anything they tell you - you will be banished to the netherworld of being totally alone. Didn't know they could do that to you, did ya? Just wait until they force you to receive the RFI chip provisioned in the ACA.
BrianB - Morning...
But the left keeps blaming bush2, just this morning the WH repeatably commented on what bush2 left behind. Sure seems that even after 3 years of supposed leadership even obama wants to play the victim, and he says he deserves a second term?
PRIVATE investors Felden.
Hence, their own money.
Fisker has plenty of Private money.
Why does he need the US Government?
JohnDevine said: When in reality the Clinton Administration brought the country a thriving economy which George W. Bush and the Republican Party turned into the worst financial disaster since the first Great Republican Depression
It's very entertaining to read the re-writing of history by JohnDevine. Who controlled the spending arm of the government during the latter Clinton years John? What party? Why, I believe it was the Republicans. Maybe you'd better go back and research who actually improved the economy. You might also want to go back and see what party controlled congress after 2006 when the economy started tanking... Why, I believe it was the democrats...
Thanks for playing.
phine you are going around the bend.
Please point to where I either said or intimated that ALL liberals are liars or that Rush walks on water.
Pointing out that some here lie and then proving that they did, does not infer in any way, support for one side or another. It simply points out the lack of credibility of those posters statements.
Really?
Johndevine - thanks for the laugh and showing us your ignorance.
By what stretch of your imagination can you declare that any party or even clinton brought us the tech boom of the 90's? Seems more likely that the consumer and changing tech changes had more to do with it than any politician. If I follow your thinking then the dot com bust which followed was clintons fault.
Want a better argument? Then look at Americas social-economic development from the 60's going forward.
Katheryn said: But young women(and their parents and the men that support them) - this whole issue of anti-women legislation will stick for them - and I think that will hurt the GOP. As a matter of fact -I think once Romney can tie this primary up, you're going to start seeing a big push to curry favor with women voters.But they can't change the legislation they've already proposed.
It will be interesting.
The whole issue of anti-women legislation is a smoke screen Katheryn. It was the counter to Obama denying the Catholic Church their religious freedom by having government dictate to them what they can and cannot do religiously. The left wing media morphed it into anti-women propaganda in order to protect Obama. Ask yourself the question, how did this all start? Actually this was prefaced in the debates. The one with George Stephanopolis as the moderator. He asked Santorum if the government should pay for birth control... This was about a month and a half before the whole eruption of this issue came about. It's funny how the subject matter was deflected into a woman's rights issue... when the question of birth control isn't even a topic of what women's rights really are. Not one single person on the right ever denied that women can't use or obtain birth control.
The left is using the issue and the right isn't countering it. Why? Because it's a nontraversy. What legislation has been proposed to deny women's rights? As intelligent as you are, I'll bet even you can't answer that question. This should lead to the fact that it's a lie emanating from the left.
It's about attitudes and legislation that has been both proposed and enacted by the Republican Party both federal and state. Taken as a whole, it is not friendly toward women.
Rep.Wayne Christian said,"Well,of course, it's war on birth control and abortions and everything. That's what family planning is suppose to be about."
Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania - proposed new GOP bill to allow hospitals to refuse to provide an abortion even when the procedure is necessary to save women's lives.
GA bill - to redefine victims of rape,stalking, and domestic violence as "accusers" instead of victims of abuse
Wendy Rogers - Women should not have an abortion even to prevent the unfortunate death of the mother.
Thomas White - Baptist Theological Seminary - declared use of birth control pills is murder of a life
Mitt Romney - "I hope to reclassify the most commonly used forms of contraceptives as abortions."
House Rep. Chris Smith proposes legislation that would redefine rape to "forcible rape" must be proven
Maryland schoolboard -cut funding for HeadStart because, as two republican commissioners said -women should be married and home with their kids so the program would be unnecessary.
Santorum has said states have the right to outlaw contraceptives.
2010 -Republicans voted unanimously against the Paycheck Fairness Act (which would ensure women equal pay)
For the first time since it was enacted, the vote was down party lines - Republicans voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
WI Republican Senator Glenn Grothman proposes bill that labels single parenthood as child abuse
The trend is scary for women. They feel very threatened - perception is reality. And the above doesn't help.
Brianb,You can add Sears
This is from 2 days ago and the number has gone up.
from ABC News- Here is the list of confirmed companies who have officially pulled their advertisements from the Rush Limbaugh radio show.
These companies say their ads were mistakenly run during Limbaugh's program and have contacted radio stations and media buyers to ensure their ads do not run during his program again.
Add to the above list-
Just checked out some polls, from the most conservative leaning that have Obama beating any republican candidate by 7 points to some of the left leaning that have him beating them by 27 points. On average he is ahead of republicans by double digits, so it is not just wish full thinking on my part, republicans are not in good shape that's a numerical fact.
5 minutes of dead air for Limbaugh may not be profitable but his facts are finally accurate.
what amazed me is the picture of women supporting Santorum ... their husbands must have forced them to do that
Newt knows that he is not numerically eliminated yet. However, he needs to yield to Santorum sooner rather than later. Word is that Santorum would consider him to be VP. That would be an awesome slot for Newt. But the, with Newt, that could be more trouble that it's worth.
vwterry - those that have abandoned Rush are experiencing a loss in revenue in sales, and a decrease in value on the stock market.
BTW - those that pulled - were owned by liberals. Yeah that's right, they were making a killing by advertising during Limbaugh's hours.
Thanks Ron, Ginger, and all the rest who read my post. I appreciate your feedback.
I hadn't considered the conspiratorial possibility that Mitt is bankrolling Newt to keep him sucking away Santorum's votes. I guess that could have happened about the time Newt eased up on Mitt a bit and started talking trash about Santorum. The ads we saw here in Oklahoma from Newt seemed to be aimed pretty much at Santorum exclusively, so maybe you're on to something.
But Newt didn't get into the race just to be a spoiler. Newt is about Newt and $$$. BIG $$$. All that nonsense about colonies and mining operations on the moon and $2.50 gas is malarkey but the MSM is too dumb to see the joke.
No, Newt wants something. Maybe he's cut a deal with Mitt to get it? I don't know what it is. Somebody who knows Newt and his history, motivations, etc. needs to give this some serious thought. I'm beginning to think he just wants to sell books, get speaking gigs and a FOX show.
In the meantime,
Obama/Biden 2012
Oh PS, Dear RWNJ's I have been informed that some of you are addressing your vitriol-filled quips at me. Poor RWNJ's. I've got you all on "ignore" and I don't bother to read your clap-trap. So save yourself some trouble, just put me on "ignore" as well and don't waste your time responding to me. I won't see it, so you're just shooting blanks. But you're used to that I'm sure.
again, with feeling
Obama/Biden 2012
vwterry said: from ABC News- Here is the list of confirmed companies who have officially pulled their advertisements from the Rush Limbaugh radio show.
Do you know how many do that on a weekly basis? This is spin from ABC news. How many liberals actually know how radio advertising works? I dare say not many of you. Out of 600+ affiliates there are hundreds of advertisers that pull or change their line up on a weekly basis. Just because this list of advertisers pulled their advertising, it means absolutely nothing. This does not effect anything. In the middle of November, on any given year, 50 pull and 50 add. It's a rolling figure every week.
The liberals are thinking, by hearing this, they have done damage to Rush's show. Little do they realize that for every advertiser that is pulled, one is added. There's usually a waiting list for ad slots during Rush's show... so all they did was replace those that pulled ads with those that want ads. Next week those that pulled ads will put them back.
I used to work in radio... this is exactly a normal amount of business and means nothing. But you liberals keep on thinking that businesses that pull ads one week, don't replace them with new ads the next week. Most of the time, on local affiliates, the advertisers don't get to name their spots. They rotate on a number basis during certain business hours of the day.
For those that think that national advertisers are hurting Rush's show... be deluded. There is no shortage of businesses wanting to buy time during 12PM and 3PM eastern, every work day of the week. You have no understanding of how the system works and what advertisers gain from their airtime.
Ah skip, what they have said is not worth reading. It's like poor JoAnna, she says I should get a life. What upsets her SO much is that I have a life. One with friendships, something that she is incapable of having.
Which is why I call her "poor JoAnna."
Independent Jim - what sort of implement did they use to force their wives to support him? Think it might be a knuckle lock, or leg irons? How about a dog choker around their necks? Maybe they horse whipped them... Or do you think a simple beating took place? I'd like to hear your imaginative torture method.... I mean since you brought it up... it's only fair that we be enlightened as to what your warped brain whips out.
Brianb. From your post #1.112
"What sponsors Forrest? Those on the left keep saying he's lost sponsors but they haven't named one sponsor he's allegedly lost."
My posts #1.127 and #1.128 were in response to your question. How you interrupt this info is up to you and DB i guess.
It very well may be a normal number but what is not normal is the reason that these advertisers have left Rush.
I would just like to take a moment to call out "SteveH USA" and the comment about drinking kool-aid. This is in reference to the tragedy in Guyana when the evangelical pentacostal Jim Jones conned/forced his followers to commit mass suicide. Most of the dead were children, Steve. More than 200 children were murdered by drinking poisoned kool-aid, Steve.
First of all - the "kool-aid" drinkers were evangelical christians, Steve - you know, the brainwashed minions that make up your beloved "tea" party (remember Michelle Bachman???). Second of all, why on earth would you make light of hundreds of dead children to put down those you disagree with? Are you that disgusting, or are you parroting a phrase without knowing what you are talking about?
Either way, you should be very ashamed of yourself.
Shocked - So all evangelical christians promote suicide?
How droll...
They transvaginally ultrasounded them.
Brian: oh I get it...the vaginal probe, ultrasound, don't listen to your doctor order, and that attempt to make sure contraceptives can't be covered by your insurance thing are all a cleverly disguised PRO-woman gambit!! OH!!...and here I thought women were capable of making decisions on their own without government intrusion mandated by the party of less government intrusion?? I had no idea you want the Federal government ordering probes of vaginas because you're here to HELP. Well, good thing you're around to explain that all this is really just PRO woman, and has just been, um...'misinterprelated'. Gee, I sure hope you can get this thing straightened out in time to do something about that HUGE gender gap Republicans are facing....good luck with that, guy.
Katheryn - I feel sorry for you to live in such fear. I know the left paints the right with boogy-man colors... and although your list seems to indict the right, I can assure you it does no such thing... but who am I that you should believe me.
vwterry said: It very well may be a normal number but what is not normal is the reason that these advertisers have left Rush.
Prove it. With the likes of the sponsors mentioned on these boards, this is the course of doing normal business with radio advertisers. Just because ABC new's says it, doesn't make it so... after all, they didn't even vet Obama in 2008.
Sarah - just wait until that becomes a national thing when ACA takes over... All this blaming the right stuff will come to a swift and sudden end when the democrat health care plan takes over and you are going to have to endure much more invasive procedures in order to keep your health care. Try to blame the right when that happens... impossible... it will come courtesy of your friendly democrat party.
AP - is the vaginal probe a mandate from the federal government or the state government? You do realize the difference don't you? States have different and varying rules of engagement... unlike the feds, that want to control everything. If you think for one moment that I support any intrusive political medical procedure, you are sadly mistaken. Unfortunately I will have no choice in a couple of years... neither will you... when ACA takes over the entire system and becomes self-aware in 2014.
"american" - You can not change the fact that Jim Jones was an evangelical pentacostal. Using the incident for a political opinion is not only disgusting, it is also inappropriate to use it in a lame argument against "liberals". I did not write that all evangelicals promote what happened in Guyana...I wrote that Jim Jones was an evangelical. I can understand how you would get confused.....
Politico reports this list of advertisers dropped from Flush's show
AccuQuote Life Insurance, Allstate Insurance, American Heart Association, AOL, Aquarium of the Pacific, Bare Escentuals, Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Bonobos, Capital One, Carbonite, Cascades Dental, Citrix, Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Constant Contact, Cunningham Security, Freedom Debt Relief, Geico, Girl Scouts, Goodwill Industries, Hadeed Carpet, JCPenney, Legal Zoom, Matrix Direct, Netflix, New York Lottery, Norway Savings Bank, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Philadelphia Orchestra, PolyCom, Portland Ovations, ProFlowers, Quicken Loans, Regal Assets, Reputation Rhino, RSVP Discount Beverage, Sears, Sensa, Service Magic, Sleep Train, Sleep Number, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Tax Resolution, Thompson Creek Windows, TurboTax and Vitacost.
Now we need a list of advertisers still there so that we can work on them next.
It will be interesting to see how many of them try to get back on, like Sleep Train did. Of course, it seems that they were turned down by Limbaugh. Apparently they realized too late that a knee jerk reaction is not a good way to run a business, especially when you pull your ads from a show that is sending you a lot of business.
Sleep Train says that's a lie....Like they and 49 other advertisers can't find other ad buys on shows that don't trash their women customers??
Sarah/A lot of males mentally and/or physically control their females.It has been so throughout history and even before.I personally know of two and have been associated with a few more in my younger ,single daysIt has taken many woman a long and painful journey to advance from that stage and even now I would guess that the majority still conscede to their oppinion that my partner knows best, even when it is obvious to all,including themselves that that is incorrect. D.B .I would be doubtful if a true liberal would have much,if anything to do with someone from the far right wing politically. Just because a person claims to be liberal only means that they perceive that of themselves ,and as for the comments that we liberals are always making false claim/ from someone else. I leave that to the party of the right,they are better at it as they have much more practce at it.
White Collar Auto (1.26) - Hey, if the shoe fits, wear it! They earn the names that they're called unfortunately.
Dawn,
Thanks, I don't read them, I don't even know about them unless someone tells me because they are all on "ignore". No need for me to read them, just as there is not need for me to listen to Limbaugn or watch Fox. Waste of my precious time.
Like you I have a life and a pretty full one at that.
Have a great weekend, we're going on a little road trip this weekend, should be a lot of fun.
Obama/Biden 2012
AP - I don't know if the story is accurate or not, but I haven't heard any indication that it isn't. If you were rejected, wouldn't you spin it as positively as possible and deny it happened? Be that as it may, although they can certainly buy ads on other shows, none of them has anywhere near the number of listeners that Limbaugh does.
As to comment #1, which definitely is not Number One. Yup, that kind of outlook and public remark can only come from those that truly do not understand.
And that is why we have what we have right now - crap.
Poor skip, he has us all on ignore, so sad that his self image is so low that he refuses/can't defend his position.
That's cool skip, putting others on ignore does nothing for your credibility. Keep it up, we all now know that what you say is irrelevent.
When you right wing nitwits manage to come up with an original thought, it will bolster YOUR credibility...
Until then, read one of your comments you've read them all - see the idiot from Albany & yourself for classic examples... Same @!$%# different day! lol
Liberals practice time management and wasting it on you & your rubbish is not on the agenda!
Have a nice weekend sweetie!
Poor "american". Reduced to defending those who enjoy using dead children for political insults. Republicans like yourself are easy to ignore - your information comes from the same source, your true leader, Rush Limbaugh. One simply has to read one of your posts to know exactly what Rush is saying today and what the rest of you will be posting.
It truly is sad to see what your party has become....
brian -for you it is ACA, for me -it's women's rights.
I do read your posts, and I may not agree - but it broadens my understanding,yes?
"And that's the way it is..." this week.
Newt Gingrich called President Obama a "weirdo" on energy--this from the guy who pledged to colonize the moon! Newt alone provides enough hot air to fuel President Obama's wind energy program to power a couple dozen homes.
Not to be left out on energy weirdness, Mitt Romney said President Obama is trying to "stifle oil production". Shades of Archie Bunker--ignoring, of course, that under the Obama administration oil production has quadrupled and the US now exports more oil than it imports. "Stifle", really?
Montana Federal Judge Richard Cebull forwarded a disgusting, racist e-mail about President Obama and his mother. Cebull issued the usual "if I offended anyone" non-apology but the outcry continued so he sent a letter of apology to President Obama. The question isn't whether or not he should apologize but rather is he fit to serve as a federal judge; can he fairly judge all people or is he predisposed to bias? Bill O'Reilly said Cebull "can't walk this back", and he's right. Justice must be blind.
Maryland's Governor O'Malley signed same-sex marriage into law. The usual right-wing groups plan to fight to overturn it--they just love taking away rights from those who aren't like them!
Gingrich's Georgia robo-call said Santorum "cozied up to union bosses and voted for the AFL-CIO". Oh, the shame of supporting American workers.
Edna Milton Chadwell, madam of Texas's "Best Little Whorehouse" died at 84. Ever wonder how the place survived in a state so full of self-righteous evangelicals unless....well, there was the study that said the states accessing the most pornography were very red, very religious states not to mention David Vitter.
Rush Limbaugh called himself a "credible critic" while tripling down on his vile comments regarding public citizen Sandra Fluke. Monday he apologized on air but only for two words he used in his 3-day assault, the rest of his rant he thought was fine, a "credible critic" and blamed democrats for the words that came from his mouth! That drip, drip, drip is the sound of Rush's tears--libel and slander does that even to a wind bag.
Speaker Boehner said Limbaugh's comments were "inappropriate"; Santorum muttered "absurd" over and over and "entertainer"; Romney tried to hide, then accepted Limbaugh's apology and blamed President Obama (huh?). The real John McCain emerged with strong words for Rush including "totally unacceptable". Ron Paul hit the nail on the head with "he's not very apologetic; it's his bottom line he's concerned about." Cheers to McCain and Paul. Jeers to the cowardly lions.
George Will, a genuine conservative, gets a Gold Star for honesty regarding GOP lawmakers and candidates, "inappropriate is using a salad fork for your entree....they're willing to bomb Iran but are afraid of Rush Limbaugh!"
Sara Palin thinks Florida's GOP Rep Allen West is VP material. Okie, dokie--you betcha!
Ann Coulter appeared at George Washington University to debate Lawrence O'Donnell for the KIND charity. Even republican supporters decided she was odd; one tweeted he should have been sitting on the other side (democrats). Ann thinks the voting age should be 26; and women should not be able to vote--that way, republicans can win! Beyond that, Coulter gets credit for being a good sport and debating O'Donnell for charity--even if she is a "quarter bubble off level".
Ohio Governor John Kasich turned down FEMA aid for tornado-ravaged areas in southern Ohio which means homeowners won't be able to take advantage of low-interest federal loans to help them recover. We are the United States for a reason--we come to the aid of each other when disaster strikes including with shared tax money. Sometimes conservatives are so stuck on stupid, they allow their rigid ideology to overrule common sense--Mr. Kasich, that's you.
The Koch Brothers are suing the Cato Institute in a fight for control of the libertarian think tank. What with all the colleges the Kochs are buying and now think tanks--won't be long before Santorum's claim about indoctrination is complete, conservative style, which should make little Ricky happy.
The war monger "real" John McCain appeared this week, too, when he called for "US-led air strikes against government forces in Syria". He really does not get the difference between Syria and Libya. Let's just say, thank goodness, McCain lost in 2008 because we would now have boots on the ground in Libya, Syria, Iran and who knows where else--military lives, the deficit and debt be damned.
Meanwhile back in the saner world, the Saudis, Qataris are pushing the Arab League to arm the Syrian rebels; Turkey is considering its options. The World's Powers will resume talks with Iran which has agreed to allow IAEA inspectors to visit a site suspected of secret atomic development. Both make more sense.
As he has often done, President Obama gave us two more The American President moments this week. He made a call of "conscience" to Sandra Fluke because her character and reputation were being viciously attacked by a right-wing media hate monger and blow hard because she testified on Capital Hill. The second came when he reminded the GOP presidential candidates, and journalists who fail to challenge them, that "I am Commander in Chief....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." Got that Mitt, Newt, Rick--et tu McCain?
Super Tuesday came and went with mixed results but overall Romney won. Nothing was locked up and the GOP talking heads, strategists and analysts are hyperventilating over whether or not Romney's narrow win in Ohio is good, bad or irrelevant. Michael Moore quipped "what's it say about Romney if he can't beat the guy who forgot to file his papers?"
During his "I won Massachusetts" speech, Mitt Romney used a teleprompter. Where is the GOP outrage--a teleprompter? The horror of it. Oh, wait, he uses a teleprompter for nearly all his speeches.
Newt Gingrich gave is "I won Georgia" speech. He droned on forever because he didn't use a teleprompter to keep him focused. He really should because he spoke about how as President he will make the US energy independent with drill, drill and drill more for $2.50 gas and he'll tell China and India to fight for their own oil--oh, by the way, if the Iranians block the Strait of Hormuz, "we'll obliterate them" in another War for Oil which Newt said we won't need because he'll make us "energy independent". Got that?!!!
Rick Santorum gave his "I didn't win Ohio yet but I'm here anyway" speech with the usual President Obama "apologizes" to the world nonsense along with a lot of other outright lies. Just once would someone ask these guys to provide the exact quote of this "apology" in its entirety, not a snipet, because guess what, it doesn't exist.
In describing Mitt Romney's inability to seal the GOP deal, Martin Bashir provided the Best Quote of the week, Romney "could very well be the Prince Charles of the GOP". That understated British humor hit the sweet spot.
The real winner in Ohio was President Obama who received 547,588 "symbolic" votes, over 91,000 more than Romney. Ohio voters did not need to show up for Obama but over half a million did anyway.
In Florida, Bain Capital's Outback Steakhouse franchise is lobbying the State legislature to lower the minimum wage from $4.65 to $2.13 per hour. Perhaps the Bain Capital and Outback shysters should try living on $17.04 for an 8-hour work day while they whine about the 48% of American workers who do not pay federal income taxes--because they don't earn enough to live on. Rich folks looking to slash the minimum wage because fictional Gordon Gekko told them "greed is good".
Vice President Joe Biden weighed in on the GOP primary while in Tampa Bay, "God love them, as my mother would say, I hope they have another 20 debates."
Andrew Breitbart's last "scoop" turned out to be a giant, stink bomb of a dud. It was hyped as a "media conspiracy to hide a never before seen video" of a young, Barack Obama speaking at a Harvard rally in support of law professor Derrick Bell. On Hannity, Breitbart's spokesman said that if the media wanted to find this video, they could have. Ha! These guys are dumber than dirt. PBS ran the video in 2008 as part of a documentary on Candidate Obama--apparently Breitbart and friends missed it. Even dumber was the idea expressed by Breitbart's numnuts that it was "radical" in 1991 to protest for more diversity in the Harvard professorial staff! There's a point where pushing the same radical, racist button over and over results in malfunction.
Thursday, Rick Santorum went on a "radical" religious and war threatening rant ending with "he (President Obama) thinks he's Emperor instead of President"--and Rick apparently thinks he's the "second coming".
This week's Bachmann "Chitspa" Award goes to Mitt Romney for President Obama is the "most feckless president since Carter." This coming from a presidential wannabee who ran from the press and is afraid to criticize radio-hate talker Rush Limbaugh--that's a foot wide yellow streak running down Willard's back. Talk is cheap, Mitt, it's character that counts and yours is AWOL.
Food for Thought: It is safer to have the whole people respectfully enlightened than a few in a high science and many in ignorance. Wonder if Rick Santorum thinks Thomas Jefferson was a "snob"?
: It is safer to have the whole people respectfully enlightened than a few in a high science and many in ignorance
I've never heard this quote before, but it is amazingly relevant to the issues of the day, with Republicans attacking the concept of quality public schooling for all. I still can't believe Santorum "homeschooled" his kids and his district had to pay over $70,000 to an online school for him to do it.
@Jody - Priceless as always.
As a former bowler, there was always the crazy one that would repeatedly hit the reset button until it would break. You perfectly described the GOP/TP in this election cycle.
@Amy
Further proof that those who scream the loudest about Welfare Queens are indeed, the biggest benefactors. I would love me some scheme to get 70k from the gubment. Heck - I'd settle for 10k.
Dear Jody, brilliant absolutely brilliant!
There are two things that we learn from this past week or so:
1. Mitt Romney is a moral coward, twice given the opportunity to speak out against Rush Limbaugh, he weaseled his way out. Ladies remember that come November, not is he not on your side, no Republican is either,
2. Barack Obama is not a radical, much as the right keep trying to paint him as such, among other things. His voice sounds exactly the same today as in 1991, and his thoughts are very much the same on matters of fairness that go to his core. Ladies, remember that come November and vote for President and your best interest, he is on your side.
Obama/Biden 2012
Yeah real cozy that Rick seeing as how he has never voted for nor support any Union causes or issues.
Great wrap Jody! I don't know how you do it but it seems to get better every week.
Hi Jody,
Wonderful, as always.
Another great wrap up, Jody. You have your work cut out to pick the Chitspa award each week from so many worthy candidates.
Funny thing about the tape of then-student Obama at Harvard. He showed more courage then in speaking out against an injustice than Mitt Romney did today as a candidate for President in his failure to call out Rush Limbaugh. In fact Romney said "I would have used different words" which implies to me that he approves of the message of Limbaugh's words.
American President is one of my favorite movies!
Jody,
Great post, as always. And, as always, so much to report that this got overlooked. . . You gotta love it!
""""Meanwhile back in the saner world, the Saudis, Qataris are pushing the Arab League to arm the Syrian rebels;"""""
WTF???? Only a liberal would consider the backwards-ass Middle East and it's backwards-ass people the "saner" world. Yeah. Arm the Syrian rebels and create more Al Qeadas. Maybe those "Freedom Fighters" can gang rape another CBS reporter like their Egyptian brothers did.
"Every-time Santorum opens his mouth he draws flies, Ricky boy talks out of his Butt"
Try again. . .
Don't know why this didn't post the first time.
Hmm. For some reason the story I want to post keeps disappearing. The gremlins are at work again. Here's the essence of it:
Damaged is right...the Syrians need to accept the rule of their tyrant and get over this whole silly idea of revolution.
Jody, fabulous commentary, thank you.
Ann Coulter "thinks the voting age should be 26; and women should not be able to vote--"
Does she want women to compete with Somalia? Does she want women to undo 100 years of fighting to get the vote? What status does she think children would have with that scenario?
Ms. Coulter = The lights are on, but nobody's home.
Jody; thanks for a great wrap up.
Thanks, friends. The sheer volume of absurd, serious and crazy this week made it hard to pick what to leave on the cutting room floor.
Unreported here (as far as I know): Far-left liberal icon, Dennis Kucinich is no longer in congress. Gee, what a shame. He was entertaining in a "follow the yellow brick road" sort of way, and also was a constant reminder of how naive and ridiculous peaceniks are. The big question now is; since he is no longer in a prominent position of power, will his hot-ass wife leave him?
Jody,
If Mitt Romney truly believes that such an accomplished President in a time of a deficit run up by 2 unpaid-for wars and unpaid-for tax breaks for the rich: A President who has recussitated the US economy from a Great Recession against all odds, in spite of a GOP congressional membership that openly pledged to obstruct him every step of the way - is the "most feckless president since Carter."
Then I believe Romney is the the most 'feck... no-nothing presidential candidate since the Charter.'
"The GOPigs are choking on Aspirins running for help from the Kocheads"
@Jody...Great post!!
Jack, Portsmouth, thanks for adding that. There are several states where women lawmakers are taking similar action.
Damage, "saner world" refers to allowing the Arab League and the nations in the middle east to fight their own battles; to stand up for their own people. Libya was a unique situation, it had an organized rebel opposition which controlled large parts of the country. There is no equivalent to that in Syria. Syria has a strong air military and has air defense systems in place. There is no way the US should do as McCain wants and start carpet-bombing on the off chance we hit Assad forces. The situation in Syria requires global, multi-lateral action with the help of the Arab League--Russia and China are currently blocking any efforts by the UN. A US go it alone attack on Syrian forces would inflame the Iranian situation even more.
Reported 2 days ago...
...and, no, he's not out of Congress yet as he still has a term to finish.
Jody-
You forgot to mention Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher running for congress. You remember him, right? He was the ordinary citizen who, back in 2008, asked candidate Obama a question when Saint Barack was touring his neighborhood. He flustered The Chosen One and inadvertantly caused Hussein to accidentally reveal his desire for wealth redistribution in America. Within HOURS, the liberal media and liberal citizens on blogas and message boards like this one, set out to destroy him. How DARE he stand in the way of The Chosen One???!!! They dug into his personal life, his past etc...All for being a regular citizen daring to question Obama.
The point is, do you people feel even a little bit HYPOCRITICAL for flailing around this past week in fake outrage over the Limbaugh/Fluke issue, especially when you all are screaming that she is NOT a public figure and doesn't deserve to be attacked?
Should I dig back into the 2008 archives of this site and see what you hypocrites were saying about Joe The Plumber and the leftwing media's campaign to destroy him? I KNOW what I'll find. More hypocrisy from you people, that's what.
Jody -- Wonderful wrap up as usual. The policies some republicans are pursuing, i.e. lower wage standards, is an attempt to control the masses. If anyone would like a visual of that type of control, I recommend watching In Time, with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. It's a sci-fi type movie, but a broad parallel is presented concerning living wages and control. Not a great movie but something worth renting.
Thanks Jody for wrapping it up so well!
LOL Jack! Thanks for posting. To which I say.... go girls! ; )
Hey, Jody - great work as always. Here's one from yesterday you may have missed - after Rush calling Sandra Fluke a slut and Andrew Breitbart attempting to smear Harvard student Barack Obama from the afterlife, Chris Christie yesterday continued the GOP celebration of "Let's Attack Law Students Month" by getting into a shouting match with a second-year law student at Rutgers' Camden campus at a town hall discussion over the upcoming merger Christie favors between the Rutgers campus and Rowan University. Both parties got out of hand, but as the guy was escorted out by police, Christie just couldn't quit while he was ahead and yelled at him "And let me tell you something. After you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in court, your rear end's going to end up thrown in jail, idiot."
The good news is that once he had a chance to cool down, Christie defended his actions with this unique version of an apology:
"Damn man, I'm the governor, just shut up for a second."
The better news is that at least he wasn't picking on a young female student. No, this guy was a former Navy Seal, Iraq veteran, and works as a legislative representative for the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign War - so it's not like he actually deserved any respect, right?
Christie 2016 - 'Cause you thought THESE debates have been fun!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46675870
Thank you Jody, as always your wit enhances your post.
Damage: This is no victory for the wing nuts. Kucinich still may run for one of two open seats, having been "redistricted" out of his by the Republican controlled legislature. Hate to break it to you, but not only may Kucinich run again, he was beaten in the primary by a fellow progressive.
Steeler Fan-380417
Mittens is as big a liar and slanderer as Limbaugh, but he prefers to use more genteel language suitable to his high station in society.
Great Post Jody - I'm so glad I discovered your Friday Wrap Up. What a delight
No time for the full "what else happend last week", but. . .
The deficit was announced as the worst in, well, ever. Looks like Obama is going to need to try to raise the debt ceiling-again- before the election, and
The trade deficit is worse than it was in 2008, and
We taxpayers just made an at least $400 million investment- in Peugeot.
http://www.ihs.com/products/global-insight/industry-economic-report.aspx?id=1065932380
Nobody who knows anything at all about the car market can understand this. GM lost $700 million in Europe last year, and this company's hallmark is lousy cara that run sporadically, at best.
So, what's the deal? No one knows- but I guess this is what you get when politicians and union leaders are making the investment decisions.
Thanks Da Noid for pointing out why I left off Dennis Kucinich; it was talked about a lot on FR.
Hey, Damage, I also left off that Ohio republican Jean Schmidt also lost her re-election bid!
JoAnne, good one!
Well in defense of the Mad Trapper, the Maverick thought she was VP material... of course that didn't turn out so well now did it?
Katheryn Brandy, glad you enjoy it. There's probably about a year's worth of these in FR Archives if you ever get bored.
Good thing IR left the backhoe, there's a couple loads on aisle 5; some conservatives lose all control when they see even a partial week's worth GOP whack-a-do in one place.
Jody,
I liked your statement about John McCain "showing his true colors." I am not comfortable with the blistering disrespect Mr. McCain recieves on this board, I do not think he deserves it. The Syrian proposal he made this week was not for all-out war, but select support for rebels, much like we did in Libya but from some of the reaction here it was like he proposed a full invasion.
I recognize Mr. McCain would not have made a good president, especially after choosing Ms. Palin. I sat '08 out.
I know it is difficult for many far-right and ultra-left posters here to comprehend, but it is possible to disagree yet respect. Thanks, Jody.
There is a disturbing new trend with the right wing over vaginas and Volts. It is almost like they will vivaciously vilify anything for victory. And when victory is out of reach, they play the role of vacuous victim. Can someone give me a V?
Jody, Iowa
Katheryn Brandy
Great Post Jody - I'm so glad I discovered your Friday Wrap Up. What a delight
Jody, I echo Katheryn, plus it's so informative if you didn't have time to keep up with went on during the week.
You go girl!!!
You deserve an Emmy for outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a blog site.
For the righties it's kinda like the psychological thriller "Mayan Calender". Righties are so scary and uncertain.
As if I didn't already enjoy your original thoughts, Mark in SoCal, you come here and post another reasoned perspective. ; ) Carry on friend.
Jody, Iowa:
What's compliments are left? I'm going to have to piggyback on Devie's comment. Unbelievably, you just keep getting better every week.
However, you did forget to mention some particularly bad news for Republicans. MORE THAN 200,000 JOBS WERE ADDED TO THE WORK FORCE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Gingerbred Mamma @2.4 Barack Obama is not a radical, much as the right keep trying to paint him as such
It amazes me how the term "radical" is so often used by the Republicans against the left, while never recognizing the extreme and radical actions of their own right wing.
Mark - I agree with you on McCain (except I happen to think he would have made a good president- but he lost my husband and I when he went with Palin).
I don't happen to agree with his Syrian approach,but would hope many would agree he is a man of character. And that's a rare commodity nowadays.
I remember watching when someone at a rally spoke disparagingly about Obama and he said,"Wait a minute...not true". That took a lot of guts - it was instinct. Not --- I need to save my own political ass,so how should I word this. He just stood up for what's decent and right.
Difference between him and Romney.
RedDev: "Can someone give me a V?"
Sure, RedDev - how 'bout those "vainglorious victories" Martin Bashir came up with to describe Romney's just barely sqeaking by wins like Ohio?
For my own part, I'll see your vacuous victims and raise you some virulent venom from Santorum and some good old verbose and vacillating vulture venture-ism from Romney.
Still waiting to see some of the "vision thing" from any of them, so for now I guess I'd have to go with plain old "vaccum".
Okay, I'm gonna "vamoose" now...... :)
Touche JoAnne, touche!! How did I forget the line by Martin that spoke volumes about the vermin populating the void of our vast political spectrum.
Damage123
Jody-
Should I dig back into the 2008 archives of this site and see what you hypocrites were saying about Joe The Plumber and the leftwing media's campaign to destroy him? I KNOW what I'll find. More hypocrisy from you people, that's what.
Damaged,
There is no need to go back to 2008 for comments, you can get them right here and now. Joe the Plumber is a Republican stooge and moron who only a Republican would think of as a Real American. He didn't know what he was talking about then and since he is a Republican he certainly will not have educated himself since then, since education is for Liberal Snobs.
I'm looking forward to another bountiful harvest from my Victory garden this fall!
Vlounteering to get out the Vote!
Obama/Biden 2012
Jody: genrally well written. You seem to be tilting more to the left in your commentary than usual. I usually see your Friday wrap up as a (mostly) unbiased and unopinionated review of "the week that was." Perhaps it is the outrageous opinions and women hating coming from the far right bringing out the reaction.
Personally, I do hope Santorum wins the GOP nomination. I would love to see Pope Ricky's super-ultra-right conservative teavangelical right wing women haters go up against the "communist, socialist, facist, nazi, 1/2 black, Kenyan, non-US Citizen" known as President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama. I would love to see the Tea Party and its ideals crushed for the last time. Maybe then the GOP would return to being the "Grand Old Party" it once was.
Arggggg First Read gremlins again!
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Mark in So Cal. I always read your posts even when I disagree. I have a lot of respect for Senator McCain; one of my favorite moments in the 2008 campaign was when he told that lady that President Obama was not a terrorist. That was classic McCain and the McCain this democrat respects. I try hard to find good things to say about conservatives in this weekly wrap but these days it is a challenge because so few show much courage or intellect.
I understand what McCain was talking about in Syria but the dynamics of Syria are very different from Libya. What troubles me with McCain is that too often he lets his disappointment in losing in 2008 cloud his talk in the Senate; he does not like President Obama and every chance he gets, he does what he can to make a fuss when there should be none. The region is complex, one size does not fit all which I think he misses perhaps because the days of clearly defined enemies and wars are a thing of the past. I just do not think we should go it alone which is what McCain always seems to advocate--just go do it. That's what he wanted in Libya plus he was ready to put boots on the ground because it wasn't happening fast enough to suit him.
Mark in SoCal,
Yes, we can show respect, but unlike yourself many of the "conservative" (and that is giving them way to much credit) posters on FR they don't give it so they reap what they sow.
Mark, I'm sorry to hear that you sat on the sidelines because of McCain's choice for VP, voting is important especially on the state and local level. Strange but thoughtful I must say from my liberal view point. Palin now there is the poster girl for what's wrong with the GOP.
Morgan51....rather like the way they rail against 'Big Government', while passing laws that are against women, children and families. What hypocrites and such a charming bunch.
Have a good weekend, thank you for posting..... keep doing it your voice is very welcome.
devie,
I sat out the presidential in '08, but most definitely participated in the state and local.
I am more disappointed with Sara Palin than anything else. She blew multiple opportunities (on so many levels) to be a great woman. What a waste. And yes, very poster-child in many aspects for what is ailing the GOP these days.
Jody,
I will agree it is time for Mr. McCain to retire from the political arena.
Have fine weekend!
Joe? Joe is that you? Nice one David. That is the best part of Joe's posts. But I think you left a few HAHAs off.
Mark, I'm glad you haven't gave up on the process.
Jody: Great post. By the way, the word is "chutzpah".
And, off point, but a loss for the "jerk" mob this week. 50 advertisers havve now pulled ads from Limbaugh's show after his personal attack on the young GW student who dared to speak out for contraceptives.
"Think Progress has kept daily tabs on Limbaugh's fleeing advertisers and those sticking with him. AOL—the parent company of The Huffington Post—announced last week that the company pulled its ads from Limbaugh's show. According to Reports about Limbaugh's Thursday program showed that 77 of the 86 spots that aired were "free public service announcements donated by the Ad Council." Additionally, seven ads were from companies "in the process of pulling their spots." This apparently left only two paid advertisements.
with Republicans attacking the concept of quality public schooling for all. I still can't believe Santorum "homeschooled" his kids and his district had to pay over $70,000 to an online school for him to do it.
Can you spell I-R-O-N-Y??
Quotes from Santorum:
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.
Where did Satan start? According to Santorum, "The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first -- first successful was in academia. He understood pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest. They were in fact smarter than everybody else and could come up with something new and different -- pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth, play with it because they’re smart. And so academia a long time ago fell."
Santorum was interviewed by the apparently still-alive Glenn Beck, to whom he explained that "Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills," which process would-be Christian soldiers into godless heathens."
Get rid of all of the federal money that goes to primary and secondary education . Not just get the federal government out but let's get the state government out...
Now, what makes this particularly ironic is that Santorum was willing to steal from the state of Pa to educate his own kids (from Wkipedia):
Critics also complained that Pennsylvania taxpayers were paying 80% of the tuition for five of Santorum's children to attend an online "cyber school"–a benefit available only to Pennsylvania residents. After the Penn Hills school district challenged the Santorum's residency and billed Santorum $73,000, he withdrew the children from the cyber school, and suggested they were being used as political pawns by his opponents.
So, I guess it is OK that his kids be schooled at state expense and, in fact, it is OK if he bends the rules and steals state money to educate his kids, but everyone else's kids should be ignorant!
Yeah, I want this idiot as president!
Jody,
There may be some nostalgia for a long-ago McCain.
And John McCain may have apologized to someone about the 'terrorist' thing. Why not?
Meanwhile, McCain and Palin sent hundreds of thousands of robocalls in 2008 claiming that their opponent (who at the time was McCain's colleague in the Senate).....was a 'terr.....t'.
Unforgiveable. And still today, I find it so disgraceful in the extreme - that I have no use for anything McCain says.
AP. I know it's spellled chutzpah. the Bachmann "Chitspa" Award is mocking Michele Bachmann's telling people President Obama had a lot of "chitspa"; that's the way she pronouned it while campaigning. It's a double poking fun on my part when I give the "Chitspa" Award.
The GOP will hate this news! They do not want the United States to get better over President Obama!! So here comes the hate from the right in 5..4..3..2..1
President Obama 2012!!!!
Actually Tommy, anybody getting a job is good news. I'm not republican but I am conservative. The interesting part of this is, even though the job increases, in numbers, appears better, it didn't change the unemployment rate. There are still 23 million people out of work in this country.
Now as far as your assertion of hate - Where is it? Why would there be hate over good news? Maybe it's you liberals that expect it because you dish so much of it out. Surprise... no hate!
The latest polling info in Maine shows Obama's approval ratings have gone up as voters have gotten a look at the Republican opposition. Obama would beat Romney by more than he beat McCain in 2008. Mainers want to replace the legislature with a Democratic majority, and 52% disapprove of Tea Party Gov. LePage. (Olympia had a 69% approval rating.) Independent Angus King has a 60% approval rating (likely to be our next senator) and most Mainers want him to caucus with the Democrats. This is ALL GOOD NEWS today!
Amy, yes, it is all good news.
Fired up, ready to go! Obama/Biden 2012.
Amy,
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on Maine!
Barack/Joe 2012
The numbers on the economy are getting better and I am glad - any sign of improvement is welcome. And I realize it takes more to stop a downward spiral,so the numbers show a hard fought turnaround. But on a "real" basis, I'm still not seeing it much. So I'm waiting and hoping it continues.
Amy,
Seems a bit early to be getting so excited. Any chance those numbers could change over the next eight months? A week in politics can seem like an eternity, with eight months left things are likely to change at least 10 or 12 times minimum.
Yes, we do have a lot of republicans voter suppression to deal with.
I can't see women voting to become second class citizens which voting for any republican will bring. Then they want to kill social security and medicare so they can make the bush tax cuts permanent for the rich 1%.
Republicans want to kill education and especially higher education. Something about education that makes people no longer believe the far right faux propaganda.
Republicans as stated by Ann Couter, you young men should not be able to vote until you are 26. You can die at the age of 18 for your country, but republicans don't think you should not have the right to vote for another 8 years. Only a republican would ask someone to die for their country while they are denied the right to vote.
Also republicans like Ann don't think women should even be allowed the vote. The republican taliban is moving in the direction of Iran and then the republicans want you to beleive that is freedom.
For the America you love, Obama/Biden 2012
americans first, nice links! Is everyone expected to believe you as being one of the oracles of FR?
Americans First said:
Yes, we do have a lot of republicans voter suppression to deal with. We do? Where?
I can't see women voting to become second class citizens which voting for any republican will bring. Then they want to kill social security and medicare so they can make the bush tax cuts permanent for the rich 1%. This is an outright lie. It's nothing but liberal propaganda without any basis of fact.
Republicans want to kill education and especially higher education. Something about education that makes people no longer believe the far right faux propaganda. Another lie. What conservatives feel is the Federal Department of Education does, is absolutely nothing to enhance education. It is headed by a second class moron who knows nothing about education, or education standards. Eliminate the federal education department. Education is a local entity and shouldn't have anything to do with the federal government.
Republicans as stated by Ann Couter, you young men should not be able to vote until you are 26. You can die at the age of 18 for your country, but republicans don't think you should not have the right to vote for another 8 years. Only a republican would ask someone to die for their country while they are denied the right to vote. Complete misunderstanding of Ann Couter's meaning. Of course leave it to a liberal to twist the meaning. People that vote should have understanding of who they are voting for. The youth don't... They are more interested in social issues surrounding their personal lives. I noticed you didn't mention drinking age... and the military is all volunteer anyway. They don't have to volunteer until they are 26... so that counters your point. No one is forcing anyone to die for their country at 18... pure obfuscation.
Also republicans like Ann don't think women should even be allowed the vote. The republican taliban is moving in the direction of Iran and then the republicans want you to beleive that is freedom. Again a lie. Complete skewing of what Ann's meaning was.
Leave it to a liberal pea brain to try to change meanings, make up their own meanings for what conservatives say. Trying to win points with your liberal buds AF? Maybe you should enter the circus.
BrianB - you don't really think that american first will understand do you? If he/she had a smidgen of common sense he/she would know that education is the key to prosperity. Interesting that the left wants to declare the right as being for profits but against a system that will provide the pathway for profits.
The saddest part of it all is that obama and many on the left think that simply by throwing money into education is the answer. We need to correct the structural issues that has led to our decline in k-12 educational global rankings. So far we still have the best university and graduate programs and the foreign students are willing to spend more to get that education.
Db Akron - now can you really imagine Gingrich as Santorum's VP ?!
Like Santorum's politics or not, he's exactly what you see (yes, I know they are all political animals - but Santorum and Newt are entirely different species of politician animals). Gingrich would constantly try to take the reins away from Santorum. Nope - noone wants Gingrich at their back. And Santorum is a bit too independent for Romney. I think we will have to look elsewhere for Romney's VP. (and I'm not even going to speculate - I'm not fond of the names I keep coming up with)
american: NOW you want your party to embrace education as an issue?? LOL...have you shared that with Mr. Santorum??
I don't mind speculating Katheryn :) Although I doubt it's a realistic possibility, I think Condoleeza Rice would make a fantastic VP and an excellent addition to a Romney ticket. Extremely smart, brings foreign affairs experience, and even knows football.
Interesting JC - that is good. She would add the foreign policy factor to his economic factor. That would pretty much cover most people's concerns. And -da,da - the women factor,and a two for one - person of color factor. I like it. The football - eh-that's gotta just be to appeal to the guy factor,cause it's not doing much for me.
I have to say JC - that is one I had not thought of,I keep thinking it's gotta be a southerner or even better a conservative.But I do believe your choice is a far better criteria to use.(well,except for the football thing)
Worth repeating:
BREAKING NEWS: US employers add 227,000 jobs in Feb., unemployment rate steady at 8.3 percent
for all my fellow sheep :) Obaaahhhhma 2012
can I get a shot of kool-aid please
:o)
Obahhhhhhhhhma 2012 kind of has a ring to it . . . a round of red koolaid on me! :o)
Pass me the Liberal koolaid. I prefer grape.
Mo:
I enjoy grape koolaid as well . . . but red looks better on my lips! :o)
waves to MO
Go Tigers! whoo hoo!
Chris, good one. Obahhhhhhhhma! Obahhhhhhma! Much better ring to it than "Mitt is it" which sounded like....you know; and "Newt, Newt, Newt" which sounded like grunts.
Any flavor of liberal kool aid is just fine.
Yep, driving in neutral really gets us moving forward faster.
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have the greatest argument as to why contraception and abortion should and must remain legal...
Snooki is pregnant!
(Memo to the dude who knocked her up...remember, flare-ups can be controlled!)
Pizza Boy- Surely you're not implying that Snooki is a slut?
She's certainly no Georgetown law student.
We'll continue this discussion when you find your sense of humor.
Uh, Noid? Who said anything about making contraception illegal?
No one- well, except democrats, who are lying about it.
no-joe - Mitt has said he hopes to reclassify the most commonly used forms of contraceptives as abortions,
Santorum has said states should be allowed to outlaw contraceptives.
First it's abortion,then contraceptives.
No-Jo all the candidates have signed the person-hood amendment pledge. The pledge vows to make contraception illegal with the passing of the amendment.
It also plans to overturn Roe v Wade and being you are human from the moment of conception now all miscarriages would be a murder investigation. Being that heavy women have more miscarriages caused by their weight, can we fill our prisons with over weight women? What are they to do if they aren't allowed birth control to keep from having miscarriages?
The pledge basically makes women into second class citizens with someone else in charge of her reproductive rights, even to contraception.
How am I a free person if I am not allowed by the religious republican taliban to make choices about my own body?
How does telling my doctor what medically unecessary procedures he or she has to perform by state law freedom? If the religious republican taliban can step between you and your doctor, no telling what they want to do next.
nojoe: try to follow along. What do you think is meant by "personhood" amendments that all Republicans now running for President say they support? Not only would they criminalize all abortions, they would criminalize many types of contraceptives. You know, perhaps if you found a woman and talked about how contraceptives work, you'd begin to understand the discussion??
Congratulations to Sean Hannity for exposing the Derrick Bell Non-Troversy. What's next...he dressed as Darth Vader for Halloween back in 1977?
Santorum does need to knock Gingrich out, just to retain a flicker of hope. What's more, he needs Gingrich's delegates. For all the criticism Romney has taken over making the math argument - and it was a dumb thing for a candidate to do - he is right about that.
For Santorum to actually be the nominee, he needs to prevent Romney from getting to the convention with a majority, and then he needs to win in that first convention vote. For that to happen, he would have to get there with a respectable delegate total, and seem to be on the upswing - seem to have momentum. And he would have to maintain that sense of momentum while most likely seeing Romney walk away with huge numbers of delegates from California and New York. In other words, Santorum has to win a bunch of other states. The only way that happens is for him to be the only Romney alternative.
That's a tight set of needle eyes to thread.
Now, we're still talking about the party operating within its rules. There's nothing legally binding about those rules. For obvious reasons, the GOP would rather not deal with the PR nightmare of just tossing those rules in waste basket. A lot of people have donated a lot of money, and to tell them those donations basically were wasted on campaign strategies playing to a certain set of rules when in the end the party might just pick someone else to nominate obviously would be problemmatic.
But, if things get bad enough, as in the nominee not just losing the general election but also seen as likely to cause nationwide losses down the ticket, it is possible. Being stuck with an unloved frontrunner who people don't like and don't trust arguably could create that 'bad enough' situation.
Perhaps. And, then again, perhaps not. If you wanted both of your opponents to stay in the race, can you think of a better way than to get their egos involved in the decision making process. And, since Romney already knows that he is unlikely to win either Mississippi or Alabama (all he needs is to place well enough to scoop up some delegates), he can spend much less and allow the two of them to empty their war chests trying to out "conservative" the other in the south.
Personally I would like to see Gingrich drop out. For all that I do not care for Santorum he states his convictions and he has run a grass roots campaign and done well even with his deficiencies in money and organization. And he making Romney work for his money.
But on the other hand - the RNC says Gingrich has 107 candidates to Santorum's 95 (yes, and it doesn't seem quite right to not include Iowa) - by that tally Gingrich is still in mathematically.
Lot of maneuvering in the RNC. I think they are actually afraid Santorum just might pull it off.
Thank God The Republicans got control of the House and put confidence back in the American people. Please call your Republican Representative and thank them for putting a stop to the $400 billion Obama wanted to throw away on Stimulus II aka they second bribe to AFSCME. We need a better leader in the White House. Vote for change in 2012......
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. YOur funny UAW.
UAW Pleeeeeeeease - You have just won the lamest comment award in the history of mankind! LMAO+pissed my pants
Oh this is rich!! UAW touting the STIMULUS!!!! LOL!!!!!!
Only an idiot would consider a 10% approval rating a vote of confidence.
Thanks Red, my sentiments exactly.
The republicans think that the 1% are the only ones who counts. So to them 10% is a high number of approval.
Very funny American .. sort of like a white, fat, Newtonian style republican, male, trying to convince everyone that 6 inches does indeed equal a foot.
Interesting Reddevps, and democrat congressional members do so much better? Thanks for proving the old adage of "figures won't lie, but liars figure"
I think we all know that Weiner wasn't run out office because he lied about 6 inches being a foot, but we know that Vitter was given a pass even though he lied about the number of times he visited brothel.
RedDev - once again thanks for the strawman argument. The subject matter dealt with poll rankings, not on how weiner shorted you on 6 inches.
This weekend I listened to Ira Glass interview Grover Norquist on This American Life and it affected me for hours afterwards. Norquist is the lobbyist who hypnotized Republican leaders into making low taxes the centerpiece of their political agenda. To listen to this guy chortle over his effect on our country is chilling. In NJ, the Republicans have cut public spending to the point that one third of the police force in Trenton had to be laid off. What happens when you fire cops? Oh, the crime rate climbs. Younger cops are cut first, so there goes the next generation. Norquist doesn't care, he lives in a gated community elsewhere. Seems to reflect the attitude of today's Republican Party.
I couldn't help thinking about our founding fathers and their commitment to the common good. So called 'Tea Partiers' seem to have forgotten Benjamin Franklin's role in creating public libraries and volunteer fire departments. Ayn Rand did not found this country - she started as a scriptwriter in Hollywood. It's time Republicans woke up from their Norquist-induced sleep and rediscovered what it means to love your country.
Arming law abiding citizens is cheaper than hiring a union police officer. I think our founding fathers would see the logic in that. Have you seen what union fireman get paid? I wonder what Ben Franklin would think happened to his Volunteer fire departments today??
So, you suggest that we, as a nation, become a pack of vigilantes?
Amy,
you havent a clue.
Immigrants came to America to escape government tyranny. Which is why the Founding Fathers based our Constitution on the notion of limited government. The federal government was given few powers, and the rest left to the people.
Now you statists are destroying that notion. You worship Big Government.
Have you seen what union fireman get paid?
Have you seen what Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum got paid as lobbyists after they left public office? I'd rather pay firemen what they are worth than see anymore Republicans get paid millions for advising corporations how to get the most in tax payer dollars. In practical terms, Republicans love Big Government the most - and make the most money funneling public money to corporations.
Yall hear about that "lady" that one $1 million in the lotto and thought she still deserved to use her food stamps? Afterall, she said "I have two houses to pay for." That's a straight-up liberal entitlement mentality. Was anyone here pissed about this story or do you all see nothing wrong with her doing that?
Amy---is this the interview where Norquist said he came up with the no tax increase pledge when he was in 7th grade?
The folks on the right always come up with these ideas that can sound OK in theory----we should have less government, for example. Supply side economics is another. In practice, however, they don't work. We do need police and firefighters and we need to regulate certain industries. And 30 years of trickle down economics has shown us that it just doesn't work.
Boob in Va.........They came to escape government tyranny, and now here we are in 2012 back fighting government tyranny as republicans push tyrannical legislation against women, led by your Vagina Probe (VP) Governor O'Donnell.
Yeah, we've sure come a long way from government tyranny!!!!!!. Republicans love BIG Government when it suits them.
Damage123
Of course it's outrageous a lottery winner tried to keep her food stamps. Just as outrageous as Romney bragging he only pays 14% in taxes and "not a dollar more," while exhorting the government to buy more destroyers, jet fighters, tanks, et al. He wants a big military, but he doesn't want to personally pay for it. He thinks the money should come from kicking sick people off Medicaid.
An entitlement mentality is disgusting where ever you find it.
When Obama was elected my biggest fear was the expansion of the entitlement mentality. The belief that someone else is saving for your life's needs has lead so many people into poverty it is sickening. Imagine how the people in Greece feel now that they are begging other countries for support now that their entitlement society has run dry. I am encouraged by the number of 2008 first time voters who are taking a far more educated approach to their ballots in 2012. Please help keep Americans strong and independent. Vote for better leadership in 2012....
When Bush was elected my biggest fear was that he'd take us to war in Iraq, the one his father stopped short of...didn't forsee he'd also begin a war in Afghanistan and bring the nation to the brink of financial meltdown with a wallstreet entitlement mentality of unbridled greed. Now that President Obama has ended the Iraq war, winding down the Afghanistan war and turned us back from the brink of financial disaster, KEEP America strong and independent by turning back the Republican war on women, on education, and on reason itself. Vote for better leadership in Congress in 2012 and steady, educated leadership to be retained in the White House. Obama/Biden 2012.
Wall Street paid back the bail out AP. How much of your money do you think Obama is going to get back from the people who stopped making payments on thier federally backed mortgages?? Although it was nice of him to settle with the big banks for $25 billion and entitle $1200 to the people who already stopped paying their mortgages. Remember 90% of us have always paid our debt and always will. Regardless of who is elected Santa of Washington....
So when is El Duce going to get rid of Bush's Patriot Act like he promised? or close Guantanamo like he promised? It's easy to keep going on and on so I'll just sum it up. Obama is nothing more than Bush III. Same sh-t, different piles.
Arming law abiding citizens tends to circumvent "innocent until proven otherwise."
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Amy, thanks. Wall Street Lobbyist Norquist has a lot to answer for. His anti-tax plan that began 30 years ago under President Reagan is hurting the 21st century prospects of the USA, hurting ordinary Americans big-time and the economic future of our globe.
Recently lobbyist Norquist said that GOP only requires a President who can rubber stamp (e.g. A.L.E.C.) corporate-approved legislation. He doesn't want a President who can think for himself:
"We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Paul Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff."
UAW - that's right, it is called government assistance for a reason. Most Americans believe in providing a foothold to Vets, students, victims of natural disasters. It is only a few like you that would take these groups, line them up in ditches, shoot them through the head, and use the backhoe to cover your tracks.
Why the GOP ever let this guy Norquist hamstring them like he has done, I will never understand.
UAW - Firemen and Cops are worth every penny and then some.
UAW: Wallstreet "paid back the bailout"??? I think you're confused..it's main street that's done the paying not Wall Street. Only HALF of the TARP relief has been paid back and that half is mainly from folks like the automakers (GM, Chrysler, and GMAC) not "Wall Street" --Bank of America has paid ZILCH on the $97 billion set aside load to insure against losses from the Merrill Lynch merger--Citibank hasn't paid any of the $224 BILLION it received...AIG is at about half....It's the STIMULUS that worked well...not the Wallstreet bail out. Your CONSERVATIVE guide to denial is fully in tact: Whine about a pittance spent to encourage adoptions...but say NOTHING in your long whine about one of the biggest government relief prgorams out there?? by any chance, do you take a mortgage deduction? Welcome to government relief...
That is touching RedDev, I think we can all agree widows and orphans should be helped. But how did we ever get to the point that contraception coverage is mandated by the president and the tax payers liability? How did we get to the point that able bodied Americans need soooo many programs? Expanding entitlements doesn't help Americans grow stronger it helps us grow weaker.
Come on board with us. Let's get the entitlement programs controlled so we are helping people that really need help. Let's increase subsidy to them and decrease it for the rest.....
Republicans want "limited government" - because that model's worked so well in Mexico, Haiti and the Sudan.
Personally, I prefer the government model of Japan, a country ravished by a natural disaster a year ago, yet it's people are not still sleeping in tents. Call me an Eisenhower Moderate, or a Benjamin Franklin acolyte, but I believe in good government, not drowned, dysfunctional, shrunken government.
UAW: ...Well at least you are consistent...consistently wrong. Contraceptives are of course NOT covered by taxpayers--they are covered by insurance, which is not taxpayer funded. Try and keep up. That's what the argument is about. Women work. They pay for their insurance. They should not be prohibited from having contraceptive coverage in that insurance that they already pay for (and in fact, that's why 28 states MANDATE coverage for the insurance women already pay for, so they are not paying TWICE). Contraceptives are now "entitlements"??? Good grief..what's next...an argument that insurance is only called insurance if you're not female?
Amy, well said. Grover Norquist is a disgusting shyster protecting his personal wealth with no regard for this country. The right call themselves "patriots", claim they love this country yet they have systematically undermined the very government they claim to love by believing Grover's notion that tax cuts do not reduce revenues. When conservatives drown government in a bathtub, what kind of country will remain? These fools and the sheep who cling to their every word do not even understand that failure to provide revenue for Government means that Government becomes weak both militarily and economically; we starve democracy for personal wealth and greed. Starving the beast also starves the very liberty and freedom conservatives like Grover claim to love.
AP, I had that same fear about President Bush and Iraq.
UAW - this is how far out of touch you are . At no point, in any way, has the president mandated tax payers should be liable for contraception. This misconception is the product of the right's out of control adrenal gland. That is the same adrenal gland that supports arming citizens and blowing out each other's brains vs. relying upon law enforcement. The same mind set that believes home schooling is more valuable than public education. The same mind set that will kill a human to save a fetus. Contributions to society by you and your ilk are non-existent. Fortunately for you and unfortunately for the rest of us, our Constitution protects your right to breathe, spew your misinformation, and occupy meaningless space.
Katheryn,
The supposed threat from Norquist is that he will use his Koch cash (he is a Koch lobbyist) to boot the offenders out of office, if they renage on their anti-tax pledge to him/them.
These same GOPers signed an Oath of Office to the American people. So it is an insight into their standard of non-ethics, the degree to which GOP congressionals will not act to undo 30 years of Ayn Rand and get out of the trap -- that is working against American recovery & hurting GOP constituents beyond all reckoning.
RedDev Says: Contributions to society by you and your ilk are non-existent.
Wow Red, since my contributions to society are "non-existent" do you think you could get the $32,113.43 I paid in FICA, SS, Fed, State, Local, Property taxes last year back to me??? Multiply this x's 2 so I can get my wife's back as well. Thanks Buddy!
UAW - I agree Entitlements have gotten out of hand. They need to have a serious look at each program. But not every program and of course, we seem to disagree on what is an entitlement. No one considers what helps them an entitlement (and that includes conservatives and Republicans) - it's always someone else's entitlement.
I realize the list is alphabetical; but it struck me as one more Republican Rant against the unintended pregnancy issue.
They don't want promiscuity of any kind, ever, no matter what - unless Newt falls out of love with his wife, or John McCain, same.
They don't want Birth Control of any kind, because it condones promiscuity,...see above.
They don't want to 'pay' for Birth Control - EVER! and seem to be anti birth control, ever!
They don't want Abortions performed - EVER! (even in the case of rape and incest - those bonus gifts from G-d, thank you Santorum).
They don't want an entitled society - EVER!
And that includes ADOPTION Tax Credits? (hence my reference to the 'list')
So,...will someone who claims to be a Christian PLEASE for the love of all things holy explain to me How to handle the UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES?
You can start with the ones from RAPE and INCEST,...and then work your way up from the Genetic Disorders, and all the way to PROMISCUITY of the Females? (And please, if you would be so kind, can you point me to the legislation that mandates CASTRATION for EVERY SINGLE RAPIST?
m'kay, thanks!
Bob -- Immigrants came here for many reasons, including fleeing government tyranny. Starvation, hope and escape from religious persecution, to name a few. The very first settler's here were fleeing religious persecution. Once here they began to practice what they had fled from, religious persecution. We are a varied group of immigrants, Bob. But one thing we Americans have in common is we all have immigrant ancestors.
RedDev - I see you only brought up the few that would justify government outlays. Apparently you agree with UAW that the rest don't deserve the handouts.
I got a great game called Twister where you can spin the dial to your hearts content and stick your foot in yellow mouth as many times as necessary. Feeble attempt there - now back to the drawing board.
Oh Come on Clara get off the Republicans are hee men woman haters band wagon. If we subsidize anything where is my "short fat bald guy" subsidy?? Study after study has shown that men who are short, fat and bald earn less and generally end up with a poorer lot in life. Thru no fault of my own I can't get over 5'6" and my hair has been gone since I was a young man, No matter what I try my pants just keep getting bigger. I am truly a victim and society owes me...... :P
AmyB...
Please give an example of any large government (world wide) bureaucracy has been efficient enough to accomplish what you desire? Neither eisenhower or franklin dealt with large governments, although franklin was likely motivated by the british use of mandated controls.
I commend you for believing in "good government", but hardly proves that bigger is better. We all know that obama advocates more government control in all of our lives.
Interesting on how you use the terms drowned and dysfunctional. From a historical standpoint, smaller government doesn't drown their citizens in regulations beyond basic rights or by being dysfunctional by having so many departments that trip over each other with conflicting rules and regulations.
RedDev - said...
Hardly spin as it is your words. As for...
Nice to see you try to use a strawman argument.
Let me keep it simple... outside of vets, k-12 fundamental education and natural disasters by what extent do you think that government spending couldn't decline as revenue declines, or even that we shouldn't spend more than we take in?
I will even throw you a bone by saying that in recessionary times increased government $$$ wisely spent is beneficial to society.
UAW: forcing women into vaginal probes and sonograms and excluding birth control from insurance, supporting laws that say the constitution's right to privacy clause does not include women, apparantly ought to be overlooked by women voters, but then you'd have better luck making that argument to women who are not of child bearing age, don't care about those who are, or who had been raped, or who were poor. I guess you might try to put a coalition together like that, and lord knows it's being tried, but to argue it'll be successful and that it isn't "a war on women"??? I don't know what someone like you WOULD call a war on women...guess, as long as the burkas aren't being handed out, it's all just "suggestions" by a concerned, caring government nanny? As to your own government "entitlements"...you can refuse that mortgage interest deduction on your home any time you like...AND make sure you refuse and give back your social security check. I'm guessing neither will be high up to take off your list of "handouts"..
AP you are correct. Our political system isnt based on what is right or fair any more. The bottom line is: If you want to get elected or re-elected teh easist way is to promise to take as much as you can away from the smallest voting block and give away as much of that as you can to the largest voting block.
You don't have to try and sweeten it up by using words like rape victims, burkas, vaginal probes, poor, wars on women etc. Just tell me that you are taking my money and giving it to someone else for votes. I'm a big boy I can handle the truth.
Honestly I make no secret of my desire to pay less of my money in taxes. If you want to call keeping my money an entitlement I am ok with that to. I do feel entitled to keep what was mine in the first place.
UAW: No, you can't handle the truth or recognize it. Anything that benefits you is to be called "fair" and anything that benefits anyone else who lives in this country is "socialism". You apparently build the roads you travel on by yourself, pay for the school you attended (by yourself)? I sure as hell don't want any of my substantial tax dollars used for mandatory vaginal probes and useless ultrasounds until the American Taliban wing of the Republican party figures out how they can keep women out of the US Constitution's right to privacy clause altogether. You don't comprehend the obvious: mortgage deductions are done by "entitlements", the same way feeding hungry children who happened to pick the wrong parents are "entitlements". The argument that only the one that benefits you is moral is not a winning one, although heaven knows you make it often enough. Personally, I'd at least like to make sure my tax dollars go for something besides making sure Exxon has higher profits next year. That way you and I can keep our mortgage deductions AND fill some bellies, all the while turning attention to something besides obsession with legislating women's vaginas.
Again we find a little common ground AP. Schools, Roads, Sewer Systems, water systems, Truly disabled all worthy investments for our tax dollars. But come one paying for your own contraception might cause you to miss nickle beer night. Let's let insurance pay for the major expenses so everyone's premiums are lower. No sense giving that money to an insurance company and let them take 15-20% just for providing coverage for a routine expense we can budget ourselves.....
It's not a war on women it's just common sense.
UAW -- Why is it you have a problem with government mandating insurance to include coverage for women's healthcare but never complain about the government mandating hospitals to care for anyone using the emergency room, regardless of ability to pay? Both are mandates that require business pick up the tab. Healthcare insurance in general is socializing the costs amongst all participating. And the bill from a hospital has huge mark ups to cover the costs of those not able to pay for their care. Whether insurance pays the hospital bill or someone pays cash both pick up the tab for others who are unable to afford healthcare.
UAW - half of the 6 million pregnancies in this country are unintended pregnancies. The cost of contraceptives is $1 to nearly $4 it costs insurers or tax funded medicaid for prenatal care and delivery.And that does not even include government assistance programs for mother and child if the mother is on the lower end of the payscale.You end up paying one way or the other - it's just cheaper on the front end than the back.
"Another month, another positive jobs report"
Another month, another lame jobs report spun as wonderful news by Obama-poodle MSNBC.....
8.3% unemployment is now the new normal, under leftist Obama economic policies.
It's amazing how good news drives you tea people GOP Koch republicans crazy.
Yes, Bob...
...where, oh, where are your mighty "Job Creators"?
Cant wait for the Obama campaign's "Victory Tour", bragging on their economic record...
Hubris is a bitch...
Yes, Noid......
...where, oh, where are your mighty "stimulus jobs", promised 2 years ago to sink unemployment below 8%?
...where, oh, where, are your mighty "green energy" jobs? Bankrupt?
..where oh where, is your 2011 "Recovery Summer"?
Okay Vaginal Probe Bob, drink your kool aid.
Bob in Va. I don't know who "Hubris" is, but you better watch what you call her. These dimwits on here will accuse you of waging a "War On Women."
Where are those JOBS promised by the tea sipping, state sanctified vaginal probing, pansies elected in 2010? Only you and Cantor .. can't figure out where to dip your fingers; coffee, tea, or .....
Again a voice from the right brings up the stimulus and the misrepresentation that first it was "Obama's stimulus" and second that it failed.
The original Obama stimulus was significantly more than the watered down numbers that the Republicans demanded. All respectable economists said that the stimulus was too small to create a long term meaningful result.
The country was losing upwards of 700,000 jobs a month at the end of Bushes term. That cannot be argued. We are now seeing PRIVATE SECTOR jobs coming on line at a rate of roughly 200,000 a month. That alone is an improvement that is making a huge difference to those getting those jobs.
From - Kimberly Amadeo, About.com Guide
"The $787 billion economic stimulus package was approved by Congress in February, 2009. The package was designed to quickly jumpstart economic growth, and save between 900,000-2.3 million jobs. The package allocated funds as follows:
By most economic indicators, the Economic Stimulus Package was a success. In March 2009, before it was launched, Q1 GDP was -6.4% (it has since been revised to -4.9%)and the Dow had slid to 6,500. By Q4 2009, GDP was +5% and the Dow had risen to 10,428. Not all of that success can be attributed to the Stimulus Package, since expansive monetary policy and strong emerging markets also helped boost the economy. However, those were all in place in March 2009. No doubt, the economic stimulus package inspired the confidence needed turn the economy around."
Bob In Virginia-5210392: All you do is complain about the unemployment rate and how negative everything is, why don't you try to figure out why those dick head republicans in congress refuse to help President Obama make the economy grow faster? Why don't you get your head out of Bob McDonald's butt so you can breath and see that the gop are no more than southern dixiecrates with an 1850's intellect. But for some reason i think you already know that by your post and by your denial of facts concerning anything that deals with progress.
Hawk - 227K jobs barely exceeds population growth nor does it do anything for all those millions underemployed, giving up looking for a job or those forced to leave the job market and go on SS.
The best part of this report were the revised figures upward for january and december. I would hope that the jobs report in may, june and july would be significantly higher, especially with all the service sector jobs added for summer work.
Yep, stimulas l did such a great job with another 800 billion added to our debt for temporary jobs and you think stimulas ll would have been better? Good luck with that thinking. At least the private sector and consumers are leading the parade for job growth, obama and congress sure aren't. BTW didn't the democrats also shoot down obamas AJA?
vwterry, to bad for America that the stimulas only saved jobs for a year, rather than creating jobs. Without sustainability it ultimately was a failure. QE 1 and 2 probably did more good.
So what ever happenned to that inspired confidence in 2010 and 2011?
american,
You need to work on your reading comprehension and come back later. 24 consecutive months of PRIVATE SECTOR job growth seems pretty well sustained to me. About 3.5 million jobs over that time period can hardly be considered a failure to the 3.5 million people who got those jobs. Just stopping the 700,00 jobs lost every month is an accomplishment.
I finally found something that Mitt Romney and I have in common . . . we both like to enjoy a bowl of cereal after a hard days work . . . a cereal eatin' man can't be all bad, right? Out of touch and awkward, but just a big old cereal eatin' softie underneath . . . maybe there is hope for this guy after all . . . not as President of the United States, but maybe he can sell his own line of cereal or something . . . I'd buy it! :o)
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/erin-burnett-cracks-up-over-romneys-cereal-interview-full-tummy-sounds-strange-from-a-grown-man/
Nash---I tend to put in long hours this time of year and at the end of the day, I'm fond of a bowl of cereal. I'm fond of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios myself.
If you as a Southerner enjoy grits, you have something else in common with the President---he is learning to say "y'all" and like grits. I always like the cheesy kind myself. No breaking news on what kind Mitt prefers.
Happy Friday Steeler Fan!
Apple Cinnamon Cheerios is an excellent choice, although right now I am on a bit of a Quaker Oat Squares kick! lol
P.S. Cheese grits are yummy, but bacon grits are my favorite! :o)
Vanilla Almond Crunch from Trader Joe's is my new cereal 'bestie'!
Waves to good friends!
Happy Friday!
Steeler Fan - yea - that apple cinnamon cheerios are awesome.....and as for Mitt....wellll me thinks he is still trying to decide what cereal he really likes....let's see,,,if in the south - must be grits....up in the NE maybe a bagel and cream cheese....but maybe he hasn't decided if he reallly likes it...or maybe he'll flip flop and decide it really isn't for him.....I know....he'll take a poll and then decide.,..
Never tried that one Clara . . . but I do love Almond cereals, so I'll bet it is good! :o)
Paul, here's hoping that Mitt stands behind his decision to reveal his favorite cereals and doesn't bow to pressure from the right now that it has been revealed that many on the left enjoy cereal as well! lol
Happy Friday to all!
Paul---I did hear the clip from Romney about cereal and he named at least 3 kinds---he even has trouble making his mind up about cereal. And don't get him started on hot cereals!
Nashville Fan. Quaker Oat Squares are my favorite--brown sugar, cinnamon and the new honey nut--all good; I sometimes just snack on them without the milk.
Okay Nashville,Jody and Steeler - my hubby and I are going to vote for old fashioned oatmeal - it's not flashy,but it has stood the test of time. And of course,being a child of the South,I will never give up my grits. Yum. Just like my mama use to make.
Cheese grits with Tabasco. Nuff said.
Katheryn B, I like good, old fashioned oatmeal, too, especially in the winter.
Katheryn,
I am down with "oatmeal classic" as well . . . just had a bowl of maple and brown sugar this very morning!
Jody,
Great job as always with your weekly recap . . . I have been known to eat my Oatmeal Squares without milk . . . but only in an emergency! :o)
P.S. vwterry, I am loving your cheese grits recipe as well! :o)
vwterry - with Tabasco sauce - lord, where were you raised?!!
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And my son won't eat grits at all...., nor collards or black eyed peas!!!! where did I fail this boy. But at least he has my taste for that sickening sweet tea we love in the South!
Oh come on hun. If a person wants to be comfy in Louisiana, you must add Tabasco to your grits. I put it on eggs too.
vwterry - LOL Ha! Love it!
America remains mired in the longest jobs recession since the Great Depression. It's been 49 months since the U.S. hit peak employment in January 2008. And with nonfarm payrolls still 5.33 million below their old high, the jobs slump will continue for several more years.
The previous jobs recession record — 47 months — came during and after the comparatively mild 2001 recession, which saw unemployment climb to only 6.3%. The average job recovery time since 1980 is 29 months, not including the current slump.
The labor market won't truly return to health until some 10 million positions are created to rehire all those who lost their jobs and to absorb new workers.
Bob the voice of doom and gloom. It ain't working Bob, every body but you and the tea people GOP Koch republicans know the economy is improving.
You hit the nail perfectly the economy is not improving and this latest BS from the Left wing media is not fooling people that sre not LEFTYS ie: STUPID LOL
Okay Vaginal Probe Bob, you should work on your math skills. You numbers just don't add up.
the reports are improving...they wouldn't LIE would they?
Oh no AMerican Citizen..we all know corporations only report REAL hires and real payroll numbers when there is a Republican in the White House....otherwise, they participate in the vast, left wing conspiracy to convince amazingly perceptive citizens like you that the sky is not indeed falling. (you might open a window and look outside though just to check.)
Mo - what would you consider the new "normal" unemployment rate should be?
Job1 - Mathematically speaking, how many years will it take to rehire all those who lost jobs in the recession? You know, those that are currently not a part of the current unemployment rolls. Given a low ball estimate that 150K potential new (never before hired) job applicants are entering the workforce every month, how long job1?
What's the lefts answer to questions? Crickets? Excuses?
I wonder how many college graduates will want to enter the workforce in May? Of course, they don't show up on the unemployment statistics because they haven't actually lost a job. They will just be fighting for the openings that do come along.
Mitt Romney will never be the POTUS:
Get ready for a GOP domination over 12-16 yrs LOL
frank: no, you missed it. We're talking about THIS planet...LOL!
You folks in here are so used to rubbing each other's fannys that you beleive what is said in here is what is going to happen in November.
man, are you guys going to be disappointed...you all remind me of what was going on in here before the 2010 elections when dems were stomped into dust. In 2012 we'll finish you off...maybe for 20 years!
Poor American Citizen...all you've got is hope from an off year election after one of the worst recessions in recent memory? Your side lost Hispanics by 67% last go around and that was BEFORE all that electric fence stuff...Lost women by almost 15%...and that was BEFORE all that vaginal probe/contraceptives are for sluts stuff...lost those most educated...you're now losing badly on the issues of foreign policy, on the economy...not doing too well on that scrap Social Security and Medicare thing...and where exactly is this "stomping" going to occur?? At the hands of the "corporations are people too, my friend" and "my wife drives two cadillacs" guy?? The corporate takeover artist with the Cayman Island accounts with the worse negatives than even GW?? LOL... Better start holding out hope you can find an actual candidate by 2017...
AP - seems that obama did very well on only promoting "hope and change" in 2008. Rightly or wrongly, the right wannabees are offering more than just a rhetorical plan that obama gave us in 2008. To top it off, obama has to campaign on his record, the right not so much.
Regardless of the outcome in november the right will have to redefine their message, something that the left should do as well, but probably won't if by chance obama carries the day.
So Mr. Santorum wants to knock Mr. Gingrich out of the race? Dream on! Mr. Gingrich is a tough, street fighting politician. No way is he going to get "kicked out" of the race by anybody, especially Mr. Santorum. The Republicans are too busy running against one another and they'll continue to do so until the convention. By then, it'll be too late and President Obama will be re-elected.
Peace and God's blessings to all this day.
LOL Keep Dreaming LOL
Yeah, maybe that 10 point lead Obama has over Romney will double or triple by then. But you're right..it's probably too early to predict the size of this landslide election for Obama...
Missy - what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger... Friedrich Nietzsche
Santorum could easily win Kansas. I consider it one of the half dozen or so most stupid states in the country. Outisde of the Kansas City area, check your brain at the door religion is rampant. It's basically OK to blow a man's brains out when he's sitting next to his wife in church. In other words, it's Santorum country. I should know; I have the misfortune of living there.
Why don't you move if you find it so intolerable? Seems like you are making a lot of general comments about an entire state.
I can only ask ksw. Why is it you come to this site if you find all of our views so intolerable?
I have lived in states I didn't like. I lived in Georgia for a year while my husband was in training to go to Vietnam. Could I have moved, yes, but I chose to stay with my family.
Unlike you, not everyone can just move because they don't like the state they are living in. But you have the freedom to leave here anytime you please.
@Calling yourself "Americans First". My comment was meant to show how ludicrous it is to group an entire state's politics, religion or anything you want to call it by the actions of few. That would be like saying for example all people of a certain religion or hair color or political party behave exactly the same way. I never once said ALL of the views expressed on this site were intolerable.
ksw - american first considers herself to be the oracle of newsvine, best to humor the poor old girl...NOT!
At least I am smart enough to not vote to take my own rights away.
Want to end social security and medicare vote for a republican.
Want to end your right to choose vote for a republican.
Want to end your right to birth control vote for a republican.
Want to end your right to clean air and water vote for a republican.
Want to end your right to health care vote for a republican.
Want to end your right to freedom from religion vote for a republican.
Want to end your right to unions and having a say so in the work place vote for a repulican.
Want to end the laws that are stopping wall street from robbing us again vote for a republican.
Want to bankrupt America so the rich 1% can have another tax cut vote for a republican.
With all the good things that republicans offer us, I just don't understand why I am not stupid enough to vote for one of them.
Obama/Biden 2012
americans first...
Yes, you're selfish, your handle says it. I see you have no problem with taking others rights away.
Great, so obama didn't take away $500 billion over ten years from medicare to fund obamacare or offer up another cut of $600 billion from medicare last fall as part of a "balanced" approach to reduce our debt and get the debt ceiling raised? Putting these little tidbits to the side, both SS and medicare are not sustainable with its present funding and outlays. It seems that you favor the plan of "business as usual" Nice to see that your selfishness and greed takes precedence over sustainability.
Cool, so now you want to eliminate everyones choice on who to vote for. I imagine next that you will want to change the presidential term limits so that obama can be leader for life. Lmao!
Really? If you had any common sense you would realize the fallacy of this. Seems like you are confusing "free birth control pills" with everyone carrying insurance paying for them.
Obviously, you believe that everyone is just like yourself in willing to follow someone off a cliff. Good luck with that. Even obama has said that there are bad regulations.
There has never been a "right to healthcare". It has always been optional. I find it interesting that obama touts "affordable" healthcare, but doesn't define "affordable". Also even his plan will have those "evil vouchers" and require all taxpayers to pay income tax on what the employer contributes to health insurance.
Yet obama was more than willing to force the catholic church to change a long established doctrine. BTW - the wording is actually...
Unless you are supporting changing the 1st amendment to eliminate the reference to religion, your argument has no merit. Of course, feel free to provide the links where any republican presidential hopeful wants to change the 1st amendment.
Dept of labor has negated the need for unions with regards to safety, work hours and pay. The nice thing about private sector unions is that they still have to compete with non-union workers for jobs. On the other hand, public sector unions (and I will exempt, in part the protective services) hold the taxpayer hostage to wages and bennies not always available in the private sector. You know, the sector that provides all the income to pay for all government programs and government jobs. I wonder how long you expect the poor and middle class to tolerate such an injustice?
Robbing us? How droll... To an extent they did follow the laws of the land at the time. Laws that both the left and right created over the years. Let's see, the finacial reform act was passed in 2010, right? Yet it is now 2012 and the regs are still being written. Not a real good sign that everything in it will work as intended.
Oh boy, all those rich democrats like gates and buffet will now support the right.
So sweetie, what will reduce our deficit and debt faster? Eliminating the obama (bush) tax cuts for the 2% to give government an additional revenue stream of $800 billion over 10 years or eliminating the tax cuts for the other 98% that will add about $2.6 TRILLION to our revenue stream. Personally, I am in favor of reducing government spending and eliminating the obama (bush) tax cuts across the board. You?
Yet you are stupid enough to blindly accept what the left feeds you. Go figure...
Sorry could not read your blather.
Just open your eyes and your brain and know that the republicans will make all women into second class citizens with men controlling womens reproductive organs.
Republicans may call that freedom, but I don't.
The country is suffering from GOP/TEA/Dumb FUX NEWS Party fatique.
Look what the GOP has done since taking control of the House of Reps in 2010???
The USA deserves better than a party that can't do anything, not even make Obama a one term president...
Actually it was jan 2011. Allowing for new member orientation and first trying to get obamacare repeled the dmocrats effectively tied up the house to create a FY 2011 budget that obama and company were to incompetent to pass in 2010.
Then we have the FY2011 budget proposal that senate leader reid tabled with no senate alternative and obama cherry picking items for ridicule.
Moving on, obama and company wanted a blank check to raise the debt ceiling without any thought for fiscal responsibility and always with the condition of "my way or the highway", while disregarding S&P's warning for a credit downgrade in april 2011.
Then we have obamas AJA which failed to gain traction in either the senate or house.
Then we have obama and the senate only interested in a two month extension of the payroll tax cuts while the house wanted a full year passage prior to jan 2012. Not exactly a shining moment for either obama or the senate.
Sure seems like the left liked playing obstructionists in 2011
The Republicans are dead!! These bozo candidates are a gift to President Obama, can't help but love it. The only result that can come out of this debacle is ROMNEY/SANTORUM ticket. Both cults are covered.
OBAMA 2012 / DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS 2012
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!! Nuff said!!!
overconfidence has ruined many plans
better have a plan B.....obama is going back to chicago
American: Yeah, that overconfidence of Romney's isn't pretty is it...begging Santorum and Gingrich to drop out...but ya never know, the "i'm better than nothing' slogan might start catching on yet. Obama? He will go back to Chicago..for the victory lap after the landslide.
WOW!--what a ticket--Santorum/Romney or vice/versa. Maybe the two cults combined can stop the cover-up of thousands of young children being sexually abused. It might get Rick s mind off of vaginas and Mitt can baptize all the dead Jews he wants.
Jody - brilliant post!!! I salute you. As for Santorum, I would like to see him knock himself out!
Jennifer, thank you. I think Santorum will do just that. Still, I'm inclined to agree with Lawrence O'Donnell. It would be a good thing for the country to have a real debate between a conservative like Santorum who really does represent what the GOP has become and President Obama who is a pragmatic, moderate on some things and liberal on others democrat--like many Americans. As VP Biden said in Tampa, the GOP used to "hide the ball" by claiming they supported social security, etc; now they aren't even trying to "hide the ball", what they are up to is out for everyone to see. We see it especially in the GOP controlled state houses with all the anti-women legislation, and it spread right to Federal Government with the anti-contraception talk, the Blunt-Rubio amendment. They aren't hiding the ball any more.
If you notice now that Obama is almost assured to be defeated in Nov the Left wing media is spinning Jobs LOL Sure there were 227,000 Jobs created But the UE is still 8.3% because we lost about 300,000 jobs this is total media bias as they are trying to hide Obamas horrid economic performance BUT the American people arnt that stupid The real UE numbers including people that are under employed ie: part time is 19% If Bush were still POTUS that would be the media focus. NOV 6 NOBAMA
frank: you missed your wing nut talking points for the week, didn't you? If you had read them, you'd realize your fellow bottom dwellers have now given up arguing that we're still in a recession or that all the numbers filed by payrolls across the country are the result of left wing vast media conspiracies. You're supposed to be saying the job creation is all due to Republican efforts at holding the line on obama. Come on, get with it...you're really falling behind...(you didn't even get the memo on never mentioning the guy "whose name must never be spoken??? You actually referred to the hilariously bumbling 'decider'???? You can do better than that!)
You don't need a weather man to see which way the wind is blowin'....and you sure as hell don't need the obama a55-kissing media to see that the "improvements" are half-truths.
American Citizen: LOL...because it was SO much better when we were on the brink of financial ruin losing jobs at the rate of tens of thousands and your guy launched two wars, kept them off the accounting books and convinced you "mission accomplished"?? Gee if you could just SOMEHOW convince any American without short term memory loss that everything started when the guy you hate took office...This recovery is really playing havoc with your story line...
frank brown, that's the funniest post I've read today--jobs being created is "spin". I've never seen a party such as the current GOP who seem to relish gloom, doom and a bad economy. Guess all the fear and lies they've been fed for so long has made them incapable of actually seeing good news as good news. We're all Americans, frank brown, whether conservative or liberal we should be cheering the fact the economy is getting better regardless of who occupies the White House. Try wrapping your head around that.
I am an independent, self employed old college graduate. We have not seen real wages rise in this country since Ronald Reagan invented supply side economics (previously call trickle down). G. W. Bush lowered taxes and promised it would create jobs. Santorum and Romney are selling more of the same crap. We have some real problems that need to be addressed but they put forth programs that increase the debt from where it would be now (and say the consequences of their tax policies can't be measured as a response), Gingrich wants to put a colony on the moon (and deliver $2.50 per gallon gasoline) and Santorum does not believe in separation of church and state. Ron Paul is the only honest one in the bunch and he has no chance. They are making Obama look pretty good.
UE 5% under Bush Stupid LOL
frankbrown, you are kidding, right? 5% is a great number when the economy is at its peek, and we all know how many jobs were shipped over seas by bush and how many jobs were lost in his last 4 years and how many jobs were lost from the crash and how many jobs were lost from the morgage crisis and how many are still under employed.
now, those are true facts!
...except presidents do not create or ship jobs anywhere. Companies do
Companies ship jobs anywhere when they are encouraged to by presidential policies....
Ron Brock, nice post. I was a republican until Ronald Reagan's presidency. Supply-side was just one reason I left the GOP. It was also the massive deficit and debt he created and then tried to fix by raising taxes but most of the taxes raised were on the middle class. He talked of small government yet he grew the size of government, his anti-union, anti-teacher rhetoric, the lies about welfare queens, the shift to the social/cultural wedge issues, the attacks on women's rights. Ronald Reagan turned this country from a creditor nation to a debtor nation. Clinton was on the road to turning that around until Bush 43 was elected. We are where we are today because of policies Reagan began and the modern GOP drove those policies to an even more extreme level. The hole the GOP dug for this country will take a couple decades to climb out.
Jody, Of course the democrats fought reagan and bush1&2 tooth and nail. Right? I suppose the banks went out and held up the populace at gunpoint to buy houses, right? Naturally the left didn't pressure bush2 to open up more housing for minorities or support government backing for loans that fannie and freddy made.
Yep, clinton was turning us around, his administration only added $1.1 trillion to our public debt while reagan only added billions to it. Who can forget the dot com bust?No wonder why obama reads up on reagan and even supports trickle down economics. I must say I find it interesting that the left hasn't recognized this yet and bitched.
Obama would be miles ahead if he remained focused on the economy rather than pushing through likidy split a massive healthcare and financial reform plan. Who will ever forget pelosi saying that the healthcare plan was so good, that it didn't need to be read.
You are quite the humorist jody.
The Republican party is doing everything they can to assure an Obama victory in November
did all the republicans quit?
No, the R's are still limping along with the worst negatives of any individual candidates in recent memory, searching for a new slogan. (That "vaginal probe" thing wasn't quite the catchy campaign they thought it might be.) Maybe the DNC can help them come up with some better ones so it at least LOOKS like a real race (I hear the "moon colony" thing didn't work so well either).
And let’s make no mistake about it — when Pennsylvanians sent Rick packing from the Senate, we made him THE BIGGEST LOSER in recent Senate history.
We were unequivocal in our rejection of Santorum. He lost by 18 points, the biggest loss for a sitting U.S. Senator since 1980.
So can Santorum — a politician who engenders such strong and negative feelings in the voters of his home state — truly believe that those home state voters are going to sit quietly on the sidelines while he tries to persuade Republican primary voters in other states that he’s their best choice the be the leader of the free world, when we didn’t even think he was our best choice to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate?
Let’s just cut to the chase here — he’s underestimated our resolve to spread the truth about Rick Santorum’s record and his agenda for America.
Oh-Oh--it is Joe Smith from the planet of Kolub reporting again.
Here it comes again - duck your head the pigeon is loose! He will crap all over everything and then fly away....
I still think USHonor is really Mitt Romney, or maybe one of Mitt's kids during recess.....
Santorum supported, the Benedict Arnold of the Republican party, Arlen Specter for reelection. Specter once a Republican switched to be a democrat. Specter became the culminating and final vote for ObamaCare. For you conservatives out there, Specter then went on to call for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. ObamaCare depending on the source states that it will cost between $400 billion and $1.2 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office states that the cost will be $829 billion with job losses totaling around 1.6 million. All because Santorum willingly supported the Specter. In fact, read the PA articles he was on a crusade to get Specter reelected. Watch Santorum the Enemy Within
@FEISTY DEADHEAD: If you believe these numbers then you are dumber than I give you credit for, I'll bet your mother is rolling over in her grave unable to believe she raised such a ID 10 T.
Exactly, only FOX and NRA numbers are the truth!!!
cliff, can't stand it, then give us your take. but please, honest numbers not fox deceit.
Ciff: so how exactly does this vast left wing conspiracy of payroll numbers across the nation work...I mean..how does everyone in corporate America get the same memo to now suddenly change their reporting as soon as the guy you hate takes office in the White House...or did your tin foil hat brigade not explain the fine inner workings of this conspiracy to you just yet?