Blunt Amendment is not merely an anti contraceptive bill

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Wednesday February 29, 2012 · 6:05 PM PST

2012/02/29 · 18:05

The TPM headline says

Romney Comes Out In Support Of Controversial Birth Cont

but this bill jeopardizes much more than that.

Sex (contraception, abortion, homosexuality) is not the only health-care related issue that religions oppose on moral grounds.

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Tuesday October 26, 2010 · 2:17 PM PDT

2010/10/26 · 14:17

Dear Unlikely Democratic Voter,

Fuck you!

cleomeo

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Tuesday August 10, 2010 · 1:38 PM PDT

2010/08/10 · 13:38

A few weeks ago my inbox was full of calls to action to boycott Target for giving $ to a Pac that supported anti gay and lesbian candidate Tom Emmer.

Yet today, as The Daily Beast and others have reported that corporations from 3M to Amazon.com to UPS have given money to a variety of PACs that have given money to Sharon Angle, the focus seems to be on the anti gay Angle's hypocrisy for taking money from companies that provide same sex benefits, rather than the fact that corporations from 3m to Amazon.com are giving money to PACs that are supporting someone like Sharon Angle.

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Wednesday February 10, 2010 · 4:08 PM PST

2010/02/10 · 16:08

Looking at the new Washington Post/ABC Poll, it's not surprising to see that Americans are losing faith in the Democratic Congress and President Obama. I count myself among those who by sheer force of will hold onto a modicum of hope despite my crushing disappointment at what has and has not transpired in Washington since Obama's inauguration. (Grow a pair, Dems)

But what I find amazing, and more than a bit appalling is that the GOP have somehow managed to gain the trust of the American people by spending the last twelves months, lying, obstructing, lying, voting no, lying and lying.

You read that right, today 37% of the American people trust the GOP more than the Dems to fix our country's problems. Before the inauguration that number was a still scary 30%.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 1:22 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 13:22

I'm someone who has been known to yell at the TV during sports events. A bad play or a bad call and I'm as vocal as any beer guzzling fan in the cheap seats. I've even been known to let the F-word fly. And fly. And fly.

Lately, I've found my loudest and most passionate outbursts coming not during a football game on Sunday, but while watching live political interviews on TV - like the one I just watched on MSNBC between David Shuster and McCain Campaign Spokesman Ben Porritt.

Basically Shuster just let this guy get away with the saying that McCain doesn't have any lobbyists working for his campaign. To Schuster's credit - and it is very minor credit - Shuster did bring up Charlie Black - but Porritt simply denied there were a lobbyists, attacked Obama's questionable connections, fillibustered till the end of the segement at which time Schuster thanked him for coming on. End of interview.

WTF?! Why can't these interviewers call a lie a lie? Why do they give these spokespeople wide berth to repeat their lies and then not correct the factually incorrect impression that they leave viewers with.

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They're not prepared

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They're incompetent

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They have an agenda that has nothing to do with truth, facts or news

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The McCain Camp's Disturbing Response to the "Deity Cage Match" Pastors's Invocation

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 8:36 PM PDT

2008/10/13 · 20:36

By now you probably heard about this weekends invocation at a McCain rally in Davenport, Iowa by one Pastor Arnold Conrad, the ungodly so-called man of God who sees religion as a cage match between higher beings and prayer as a locker room pep talk. In case you missed it you can listen to it here:

I would also add, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons. Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and election day.

Very disturbing to realize that hundreds, if not thousands have received spiritual guidance from this pathetic excuse for a Christian. Equally disturbing is the McCain campaign's official response to the invocation. Wendy Riemann, Midwest Regional Communications Director said the following:

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Sunday October 12, 2008 · 4:54 PM PDT

2008/10/12 · 16:54

Watching the McCain/Palin campaign devolve into ugliness this week and the enthusiastic and frightening response by their supporters, I couldn't help wondering whether the Republican establishment, in particular those who have spoken out against this ugliness, were self aware enough to realize that McCain was merely reaping what the GOP has sown for years.

For decades now the party has embraced bigotry and ignorance. They have kowtowed to what McCain himself once referred to as "agents of intolerance". People like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and John Hagee, et. al. who preach a divisive, judgmental, hate-filled message that would have Jesus spinning in his grave (if he hadn't risen from it.)

Earlier this week at a McCain rally in Davenport Iowa, Pastor Arnold Conrad, gave an invocation where he said the following (audio here):

I would also add, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons.

Wait! There's more...... and it's worse

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 11:36 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 11:36

I was just watching a little bit of today's Palin / McCain's riot incitement of the day™ - I mean political rally and really felt like I was watching some kind of twisted parody.

There before me stood a woman who:

Was unknown to 99% of the country until six weeks ago
Had almost no media contact since being put on the ticket.
Now refuses to do interviews with any media outlets that aren't totally in pocket of the repubs.
Refused to say what newspapers she reads
Refused to answer the debate questions she was asked.
Refused to cooperate with the troopergate investigation
Has been caught repeatedly in lie after lie after lie
And is running with a man who has flip-flopped on dozens of issues over the past few years in an effort to court the base.

Lashing out at Obama for being a flip-flopping, lying, unknown entity who is unwilling to answer questions.

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 6:11 PM PDT

2008/09/16 · 18:11

I'm confused. Something I don't like being. And I sincerely hope that John McCain, or one of his increasingly annoying surrogates or perhaps one of you kind readers will take the time to explain something to me.

If McCain sincerely believes that the "workers of America are the fundamentals of our economy, our strength and our future" then how is it possible that he voted for tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas?

I mean call me stupid if you must, but as far as I can tell you'd have to be a complete idiot to encourage companies to take jobs away from American Workers if you really believed that the American Workers were what made this economy work - or let's face it, if you cared about the American Workers at all.

Hmmm, perhaps McCain doesn't have the faith in the American Worker that he claims, in 2006 he suggested that no worker in America was tough enough to pick lettuce for an entire season.

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Cares about Corporate America

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Cares About Himself

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I'm Not Stupid but John Fund May Be

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Sunday September 14, 2008 · 1:50 PM PDT

2008/09/14 · 13:50

On Friday's edition of Real Time with Bill Maher Wall Street Journal political columnist John Fund defended Sarah Palin's clear lack of knowledge of the Bush Doctrine by pointing out that during the debates, when questions were asked about the Bush Doctrine or Sarbanes-Oxley the moderator gave a brief explanation of what they were. Apparently John Fund believes that some of the candidates were not necessarily familiar with either, but that's really no big deal to Mr. Fund as it is also his belief that the Bush Doctrine is "not something that you're ("you're" referring to Presidential or VP candidates) supposed to remember off the top of your head at every single moment " Really? Is Fund stupid or just totally disingenuous?

As a public service, I will venture to explain to Mr. Fund why the debate moderators explained what these things are, in deference to Mr. Fund's inability to grasp the obvious, I'll use small words.

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Is John Fund

Stupid

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Disingenuous

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Both

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I'm Not Stupid, I'm Insulted

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Saturday September 13, 2008 · 6:37 PM PDT

2008/09/13 · 18:37

Listening to McCain's avalanche of lies - which he continues to repeat even after they have been exposed as having no basis in fact - I'm insulted.

Hearing McCain claim with a straight face that Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience because Alaska is near Russia and has national security experience because she knows about energy - the actual assertion was "she knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America" I'm insulted.

I'm insulted that a man who wants to be my president thinks that it's okay to lie to me and misrepresent himself and his opponent to get my vote. I realize this is politics as usual, but I still find it insulting.

I'm insulted that McCain thinks that I and my fellow Americans are stupid enough to buy his lies. That he doesn't respect us or our political process enough to lay his policy and experience cards on the table and let the people decide which candidate they prefer, and instead smears and tries to villify his opponent without any regard for the truth or decency.

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Women

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Anyone with a Brain

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Blunt Amendment is not merely an anti contraceptive bill

Dear UNlikely Democratic Voter

The Real Outrage is 3M et. al. are supporting Angle thru PACS (updated w/links)

Repubs think Americans are retarded, and 57% may very well be

David Shuster just committed journalistic malpractice (UPDATED w/link)

The McCain Camp's Disturbing Response to the "Deity Cage Match" Pastors's Invocation

The Ugly Face of the Republican Base

Sarah Palin in Bizarro World

McCain Has Some 'Splainin' To Do

I'm Not Stupid but John Fund May Be

I'm Not Stupid, I'm Insulted