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Subscribe to RSSARIZONA: “A bill that would let more Arizona employers drop coverage for birth control drugs stalled Monday in the state Senate because of increasing opposition from women who feared they would have to reveal private health information to employers,” the New York Daily News writes.
VIRGINIA: A Quinnipiac poll shows a majority of voters still approve of the job Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (and veepstakes contender) is doing by a 53%-42% margin, but that represents a 25-point shift from last month, when it was 58%-24%. The drop for McDonnell is a shift by women. They gave him a 49%-34% approval this month, down from 54%-25% last month.
The state legislature is under water with just a 38%-47% approval. Quinnipiac writes, “Virginia voters disagree 52 - 41 percent with a new law that requires women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound examination at least 24 hours before the procedure. Voters say 72 - 21 percent that government should not make laws which try to convince women seeking an abortion to change their minds. Voters also prefer 53 - 40 percent Virginia's old law which limited an individual's handgun purchases to one per month, over the new law which has no limits.”
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In real news....
Of all people, Noah O’Donnell of MSNBC at yesterday’s press briefing asked Jay Carney for comment on Joe Biden describing the bin Laden raid as “the most audacious” military operation in 500 years.
The entire press corps erupted in laughter. Looks like the press have figured out what most of us already knew.
This administration is a LAUGHING STOCK!
there you go, Rob, proving my point (see below) Keep "hitting" the Obama administration on the fact they authorized a daring excursion into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Yeah! You'll be replacing Obama real soon!
Amy B. Portland, ME
Rob in ma has a hard time facing the fact that Gov. McDonnell's approval ratings are slipping due to his VP (Vaginal Probing) law. The very law that he said he really wasn't familiar with even though he signed it.
The Republican party is agianst the government's right to dictate your life. They are 100% for freedoms as long as you are NOT a woman, a Gay, a non-Christian, and/or poor.
Because Rob in ma has a hard time facing the facts, he constantly posts his delusional version of reality.
Hate to burst your bubble but this is non-news.
Rob, your desperate way of trying to redirect attention from what this article is really about to something that really is not that important is obvious. It's kind of like comparing Bush's "Mission Accomplished" statement to the actual war in Iraq.
You go Amy. I could not have said it better.
One minute it is government out of our business and the next not just in our business but in our bodies. Oh the hypocrisy of it all.
Yesterday, the rightwing posters here decided to push two story lines: the administration asking the press not to publicize their 13 year old daughter's summer travel plans and actor Robert DeNiro's joke about the country "not being ready for" a white First Lady, comparing it Rush Limbaugh ridiculing law student Ms Fluke, calling her a slut.
And they wonder why support for Republicans among women has dropped? I mean, setting aside the merits of any of these stories, does it make political sense for the rightwing to bring up Rush and Obama's family, as if this would appeal to women? I swear I could run a better Republican campaign than than these yahoos. Karl Rove has lost his touch. What's the matter, Karl, did you forget to pay back the Devil?
Women will make the differnce in this election. There are a lot of men who link beer, Nascar, buck huntin' and the republican party together. These men are incapable of independent thought, and couldn't care less what the woman in thier lives thinks, if one will have them.
Well, Governor this development shouldn't surprise you: you lied to your constituents. You promised them a smaller government and then proceeded to take government in places it hasn't been for over 50 years - namely, a woman's womb.
You, and the oh so many others like you who were elected under a banner of falsehoods and rhetoric, are on your way out!
The Republicans can keep saying the War Against Women is a mere political ploy, but apparently women don't seem to think so.
Perhaps that is part of the underlying problem from the start - the Republicans has consistently downplayed the value of women to the extent they don't think women are worth listening to(even concerning their own bodies).
Gov. Vaginal Probe McDonald can kiss that VP position good-bye if the Republicans listen to polls better than they listen to women.
You just nailed it! It's always been a good ol' boys club. Even Sarah Palin knows that.
He's already took the VP (vaginal probe) position Katheryn. He's suck with it.
These tea people Koch republicans are a piece of work. On one hand they yell smaller government, get government out of our lives, get government out of the way, then after elected they start introducing bills for a bigger intrusive government, putting government in everyone's life, and their minions just follow along without having a clue what their supporting. But that's what you tea people Koch republicans want, is someone to tell you what to do and what to say and how to do it and how to say it. You can't think for yourselves. That's the best thing about being a Democratic Liberal, you can think for yourself.
What a St Louis idiot. Please remove the emblem from your posts. You are embarrassing Mo. If you ever thought of anyone but yourself you might come up with an iintelligent thought. I doubt it though. Put down the pipe and the Kool aid.
Sorry rukidding I don't live in or near St Louis. Besides I enjoy the Kool aid. It beats the Poisson the tea people Koch republicans are feeding you. The emblem (avatar)suites me pretty well, I'm a Missourian through and through. I think I'll keep it.
...mysteriously missing from this thread is Bob in Virginia...you all know Bob...he's the guy with the "McD VP" avatar....