Binders Full of Women: Mitt the Phony Conservative

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Wednesday October 17, 2012 · 9:31 AM PDT

2012/10/17 · 09:31

Disclaimer: A conservative friend of mine wanted to share this with the Kos community, so I agreed to post it as one of my own diaries. He's a good guy, severely conservative, though. He wants to be heard and understood by those on the other side of the isle since he does not think that Mitt is being the ambassador of severe conservatism that he promised to be in the Republican primaries.

By Heliosun (his name at Red State):

Once again, Mitt proves himself to be a fake severe conservative and a liar, making stuff up during the second presidential debate of 2012 about some binder full of women that he seemed to suggest he commissioned himself, so that he would have a pool of qualified female applicants for positions in his MA cabinet. Here is an interesting article titled "Mind the Binder" by David S. Bernstein providing the facts on Mitt's binder full of women:

http://blog.thephoenix.com/...

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Monday August 27, 2012 · 1:47 PM PDT

2012/08/27 · 13:47

Our friends at gayco! first reported on the imminent and potentially cataclysmic collision of Tropical Storm Isaac and the fast moving GOP shitstorm about to hit Tampa:

“This is an unprecedented weather event,” said Dawn Patterson, director of the National Weather Service. “We have what looks like it will become a Level 2 or 3 hurricane hurtling straight toward a extremely hot cloud of hysterical, frothing bullshit.”
The shitstorm, which already covers much of the conservative south and large stretches of the Great Plains, will become exponentially stronger and more concentrated as Republican luminaries from across the country descend upon Tampa early next week to spread their ideas. This confluence of hot-headed, dangerous rhetoric will create an updraft of rabid, unbending nationalism and a high-pressure bubble of fear-mongering and vague hatred of everything, according to the National Weather Service.

Combined with 100-plus mile per hour winds, heavy rains and flood conditions, this could spell trouble for convention attendees.

“There’s going to be shit everywhere,” said convention janitor Lee Bukolski. “Just…so much shit.”

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Saturday August 18, 2012 · 7:32 AM PDT

2012/08/18 · 07:32

In light of all the "love" going out this past week to Romney and Ryan from artists like the incomparable Tom Morello and The Silversun Pickups, it's now down to just a few songs that the GOP and its presidential campaign can use without getting lambasted in the press and/or sued by the artists.

5. "Sussudio" by Pill Collins

4. "You're So Dumb" by Skrewdriver

3. "Countdown to Extinction" by Megadeth

2. "The Man with All the Toys" from the Beach Boys' Christmas album

1. "Great White Buffalo" by none other than The Nuge himself (Warning to GOP: lyrics may backfire, so read first!)

Which other songs can the GOP play without getting hissed at by the artists, or which songs would backfire or be ironic?

Sheldon Adelson Caucus Announcement

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Tuesday January 31, 2012 · 10:28 AM PST

2012/01/31 · 10:28

Here's a pic of the Clark County Republican Party Internet announcement for Sheldon Adelson's very own caucus:

Picture captured using Ping on 01/31/2012 from here.

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Sunday October 09, 2011 · 9:03 AM PDT

2011/10/09 · 09:03

--"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Mathew 19:24).

This past week we witnessed something that should prove disturbing to most Americans: all of the serious Republican contenders for the 2012 presidential election spoke at the Value Voters Summit, a function sponsored and attended by bigots; the SPLC lists both the Family Research Council and Bryan Fischer's American Family Association as anti-gay hate groups. The myriad smears of the LGBT community by these two groups based on discredited or junk science are out there for anyone to read, if you have the stomach for it. Certainly, the appearance of the republican field at this event begs the question: are all of the GOP contenders really bigots or courting the bigot demographic? Perhaps some more than others, and we should acknowledge the irony of Mitt Romney having to defend himself and the Mormon faith and also feeling the need publically to distance himself from Fischer, who spoke after him. Perhaps the best lens for interpreting all of this is one provided by Dave Niose (2011) in his Psychology Today article The Unseen Influence of the Religious Right: Big business is the big beneficiary of social conservative voters.

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 2:12 AM PST

2010/01/20 · 02:12

This from MSNBC on Wall Street's woody over the Scott Brown (Republican) upset, the much touted referendum election on "Obamacare" in Massachusetts (Use a spell checker next time, Martha!):

Wall Street watched the election closely. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 116 points, and analysts attributed the increase to hopes the election would make it harder for Obama to make his changes to health care [my italics]. That eased investor concerns that profits at companies such as insurers and drug makers would suffer.

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14 votes Show Results

What do you think would give Wall Street the bigest boner?

14 votes Vote Now!

What do you think would give Wall Street the bigest boner?

News of an increase in the IMF's interest rate on the loan to Haiti to 29.9 APR, this is a sub-prime loan if there ever was one!

3 votes

News that the hole in the ozone layer has stopped shrinking and is again increasing in size

0 votes

The extinction of the donkey

11 votes

Al Franken Outing Republican "Show-Legislation"

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 11:54 AM PST

2009/12/22 · 11:54

On December 15, 2009, MinistryOfTruth published powerfully on Senator Al Franken's (D-Minnesota) outing of Senator John Thune (regrettably and shamefully R-South Dakota) for disrespecting the facts about the health care bill, when Thune used the Senate floor to falsely claimed that no benefits would kick in until 2014. The republican use of mendacity as a rhetorical strategy does not belong on the floors of the Senate and House. They are turning real legislation into "show-legislation." I've posted the video again, for all those like me who just can't get enough of it :-)

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200 votes Show Results

How serious has mainstream republican mendacity become for politics in our nation?

200 votes Vote Now!

How serious has mainstream republican mendacity become for politics in our nation?

Disastrous--republican leaders are doing irreparable harm to our democratic republic.

113 votes

Harmful--the RNC have taken mendacity to new levels, but lying and politics have always gone hand-in-hand. The democratic republic will survive.

69 votes

No effect--This is business as usual on both sides of the isle, and what democratic republic ?!

18 votes

Senate Poised To Pass Healthcare Reform For The Middle People

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 9:40 PM PST

2009/12/15 · 21:40

It seems that the democrats in the Senate are near passing health care legislation without a public option and without expanding medicare. Neither of these giveaways, irritating and disappointing as they may be, water down the bill so badly that it should not pass. As much as I hate to admit it, Lieberman is right when he points out that the yet-to-be-challenged subsidies that will benefit those who cannot afford to pay for universal mandatory health insurance premiums on their own will do. Those subsidies, along with the yet unchallenged prohibitions against insurance company weaselry like denying people with preexisting conditions coverage, make the bill good enough to support. Here's Maddow interviewing Tom Harkin (D-IA), who makes the point well, elaborated metaphors notwithstanding:

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