I really wish Republicans would stop parsing their abortion views. We get it… babies, you love em…
Say you are pro-life no matter what, no further explanation is needed.
It is a loser, focus on economy, if you win the election you can attempt and fail to overturn Roe vs. Wade, for the 87544445 time.
Some on really needed to tell Rep. Akin this…
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, the conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate, quickly backed off comments that aired earlier Sunday, in which he told an interviewer that a woman’s body “has ways” to prevent pregnancy during rape and that such pregnancies are “really rare.”
Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview that aired Sunday on St. Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.
“It seems to me first of all from what I understand from doctors that’s really rare,” Akin said. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin said of a rape victim’s chances of becoming pregnant.
He misspoke….
“As a member of Congress, I believe that working to protect the most vulnerable in our society is one of my most important responsibilities, and that includes protecting both the unborn and victims of sexual assault. In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it’s clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year. Those who perpetrate these crimes are the lowest of the low in our society and their victims will have no stronger advocate in the Senate to help ensure they have the justice they deserve.
“I recognize that abortion, and particularly in the case of rape, is a very emotionally charged issue. But I believe deeply in the protection of all life and I do not believe that harming another innocent victim is the right course of action. I also recognize that there are those who, like my opponent, support abortion and I understand I may not have their support in this election.”
After Akin apparently realized the post fell short, he later tweeted a clarification (though still not an apology): “To be clear, all of us understand that rape can result in pregnancy & I have great empathy for all victims. I regret misspeaking.”
Bullshit.
Another note to the Republicans…. DO NOT DEFEND THIS IDIOT… Even if you can come up with a way to, I have no idea how you could, do not defend him.
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[...] Number 4 is the most important in an electoral perspective and that is here and this is a quote unrelated to the recent Rep. Todd Akin “legitimate rape” stupidity… [...]
RedEye’s Translation;
Dear republicans, please STHU about abortion and stop reminding women voters we are a bunch of rich, white, males who can’t get pregnant trying to keep POOR women from choosing to have a safe, legal, abortion so we can talk about them being on welfare before we cut them there “socialist” programs.
You need some help with reading and comprehension. I never said ignore it,I said accentuate what will help you win.
What exactly can they accentuate to help them win Dale?
“It is a loser, focus on economy”
Literally the last thing you read before you typed that. Whether you agree or not, it is clear to anyone with a brain what Dale meant. Wow, just wow.
I think Redeye was making the point that there is no issue that the Repubs can push that will help them win.
Their talking point last week was outrage over Obama cutting an entitlement program and how the Repubs were going to undo that spending cut, and perhaps create Medicare Part E, a Medicare benefit just for Florida voters.
You give Redeye too much credit, she was playing he normal “Huh? What… What is going on?” garbage,
GOP is ahead on the economy in a ll polls, these comments are a gift to Democrats.
The inability of some of you guys to have an honest discussion is maddening…
Dale I hate to you this. It the GOP is not ahead on the economy despite what all the right sing polls say.
How could the party that drove the economy into the ditching drunk frat boys, then obstructed the from pulling it out be ahead in all the polls on the economy?
Well the polls do say that, sorry.
Typo should read Dale I hate to tell you this
The Romney-Ryan handlers are not talking about the economy. If they were to explain how Romney is going to cut the top rate 10% and stay revenue neutral, I would like to hear it, but R-R is saying that the details of his plan wont be released until after he is elected.
R-R has to win either Florida or Ohio to have a mathematical chance. The Mediscare tactic is extremely important and will continue to be used.
That is appropriate and if anyone who argues from the left on this site had a memory longer than a gnat, you would know I said the Ryan pick was risky for just that reason.
USA Today/Gallop poll results released today. Collected from the 6th to the 13th of August 2012. Registered voters in key 2012 election swing states.
Furthermore:
Finally
http://www.gallup.com/poll/156776/swing-state-voters-say-no-better-off-2008.aspx
The economy for one, like I said in the post.
You are easily confused.
You mean the economy the republicans drove into the ditch like drunk frat boys?
And Obama hit with artillery and an airstrike.
Interesting that the one house of congress that the republicans currently control bears all the responsibillity for our current woes, while the president remains blameless. Yet the two houses controlled by the democrats that presided over the housing crisis remain blameless and the president was totally at fault. Double standard?
No, the economy the GOP obstructed Obama from hitting with the big guns Whitey.
Obama has been so ineffective and powerless, ELECT HIM AGAIN!
If the current congress is to blame for the economy, is the democratic congress under Bush at fault for the housing crisis?
More cliches please…
Unless the Repubs take the Senate, R-R will be 100% ineffectual, just like Obama.
Everything from 00-12 is Bush’s fault, when exactly does Obama take responsibility for anything.
Keep in mind he passed ObamaCare, so the GOP clearly wasn’t as effective at obstruction as you guys let on…
Obamacare was supposed to have a government single payer provision, so in that he failed to deliver, too. Congress can lead with or without an effective president, but only if the leadership in Congress is willing to put forth some effort into something other than maximizing partisan rancor. The Senate has been content to do nothing, while the House continues to vote for and pass senseless bills that wont even make it to a vote in the Senate.
So…. re-elect Obama?
If Bush got re-elected after sending our troops to war based on dead wrong intelligence and raiding the surplus to give the rich a tax break, Obama can be re-elected for saving the country from a recession/depression, bailing out the auto industry, signing the equal pay for women act and the Affordable Health Care Act.
The info was bad, totally his fault, right? You do realize the “surplus” was a yearly surplus, not a hey look at this money surplus? Is the recession over? People sure are fond of bailouts and ObamaCare? Good for the ladies, I hope it doesn’t “work” like Title IX has.
What a huge success… Too bad in the last post you argued he couldn’t do anything. Which is it?
In my last post I made the point despite the organized GOP obstruction President Obama still managed to enact legislation that helped the Anerican People and move our country forward. I forgot to add getting Osama to the list.
Bush said he was going to get Osama dead or alive then he invaded Iraq on dead wrong intelligence and he got a second term
Regan and Clinton both had congresses held by the opposing party. Neither of them were ineffective presidents, but I would agree, Obama has been a completely ineffective president.
Reagan and Clinton were white men. They didn’t have to deal with the level of organized obstruction the first African American President has to deal with. But I will admit a lot of this is President Obama’s fault, instead of extending an olive branch, he should have shot first, take no prisoners, and aim low for the midgets. republicans took his kindness for weakness because this is who they are and what they do.
Stopped reading right there… You are a one trick pony.
White men? The President of the United States is being oppressed because he’s black? Think about how stupid that sounds.
Obama never extended an olive branch that he wasn’t absolutely forced to, and he did it while gritting his teeth and faking a smile.
Think about how stupid it is to oppose the President because he is an AA Whitey.
And yet you are suggesting that it is being done. Just because we have a black(only on his father side) President and that the Republicans did not want to pass his agenda does not mean that they were doing it because he was black.
Yes, Obama extended olive branches over Obamacare in the first half of his term and over the budget in the second half, but where they really olive branches. His “olive branch” for Obamacare was for the opponents of Obamacare to bring their alternatives for a national health care system to the table but when you are against a national health care system, your not going to have an alternative national health care system. The budget olive branch was more to keep a shutdown from occurring which would have hurt most of the politicians in Washington.
October 2010
His comment about special interests brought up a memorable quote from Dennis Miller
Now before you attack Miller, here is the next paragraph that follows that line:
The democrats/liberals of today have so many special interest groups that they try to pander to, the middle class keeps getting pushed to the back.
More quotes from Obama:
August 2009 (from whitehouse.gov)
April 2010
You are absurd. His policies are opposite of what the GOP wants, that is why they oppose him.
Everyone who disagrees with Obama is racist. Great argument.
This is why no one takes you seriously. You have a racial chip on your shoulder that prevents you from dealing in reality. Get over yourself. No one, especially me, cares if you or the president or anyone else is black.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
What other reason would the republicans have to block/vote against everything Obama proposed Brian?
And those special interest groups the democratic party “panders” too are the middle class.
Because they disagree on what helps those groups the best. It’s quite simple.
Reasons have been posted ad-nauseum, ever since you graced this board with your presence. You, however, can only conceive that republicans are all racists. You are a world class idiot. Thinking the other side is wrong is one thing, but thinking that the other side secretly agrees with you and wants to sacrifice the country because they hate a black man it tinfoil hat-birther-truther-conspiracy worthy. This is how other people see you. You aren’t Martin Luther King Jr. pointing out inequities and trying to right wrongs. You are a bumbling, cartoonish caricature of a woman who has delusions of grandeur. As long as everything is black and white to you, you will continue to perpetuate the kind of racial strife that you propse to be fighting. The same strife that the rest of us put down a long time ago.
Maybe they don’t like his policies.
I would disagree that many of the special interests groups represent the middle class as a whole, and taken as a whole, there are too many special interest groups for the democrats to pander to successfully. It has become a juggling act and he who screams the loudest gets the democrats attention and rarely is it the middle class.
I trust businesses more that I trust the government to get the economy going strong again. Most businesses understand that you have to have a strong economy, have to have a population with disposable income to buy their products. Government has the power to help, but can’t do that on it’s own. It can make the playing field favorable for growth or it can stagnate growth. But it can’t create the wealth that businesses can. Government gets its wealth from those that live and work and shop in it’s borders.
My problem with the idea that you can make peoples lives better by redistributing wealth goes back to the adage “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Now if I take fish from you to feed somebody else, you might be alright with it for a while, but at a certain point, you will start to look elsewhere for a place that won’t take as much. You as the producer may have the means to go elsewhere. But the person I am giving the fish to is getting dependent on me and probably doesn’t have the means to go elsewhere. But if I get too many asking for fish from me, more than I have to give out, I might not be able to give a complete fish to everybody, I might have to start rationing, giving people portions of fish.
You want green technologies to advance. don’t throw money at companies hoping it sticks. Offer a reward or a prize to the first company that reaches a set goal like what has been done with the X Prize. Create the right carrot and businesses will do what you want.
You are correct Dale, President Obama’s policies are the direct opposite of GOP polices.
The President is for all Americans having access to quality affordable health care, repuiblicans are against it.
The President wants equal pay for equal work for women, republicans are against it.
The President is pro choice, republicans are pro life asong as it’s in the womb, after that all bets are off.
The President fights for the working class and the middle class, republicans want the rich to get richer, while the rest get the shaft.
The President stands for equal rights, civil rights and human rights, republicans are against them.
I could go on but I think you get my drift.
Ignoring the best of your idiocy, thanks for acknowledging the obvious. Good luck with the “they hate him because he is black” line that even you don’t believe.
I guess it depends on what your definition of a special interest group Is Brian. One parties special interest group is another parties base.
Businesses are not people but they are controlled by people who tend to put profit over people.
As far as the teach people to fish meme it’s kind of hard to teach people to fish without a pole and bait. Then they have to find a fish pond, then they have to get to said fish pond. Your party expects people to learn to fish without the tools.
Wow, smartest and sanest thing you have ever said.
You prefer to pretend some people are incapable of fishing so just give them fish, that is foolish.
You perfect to think people can fish without a fishing pole, bait, or a fishing hole.
Typo should read you prefer to believe some people can fish without a fishing pole, bait, a fishing hole or fishing lessons.
So just keep feeding them and telling generations they can’t do it without the government. We are voting for a form of government, not a daddy.
Feed “them”? I thought we were talking about teaching “them” to fish? Who are “them” ?
One trick pony…
Them is the people who are on assistance their whole lives, white, black, brown, purple. It’s a safety net. Living on government assistance for 30+ years is not the way this is supposed to work.
Your solution and Democrats appears to be more social spending, bad idea.
Lack of tools: higher prices due to taxation and regulations
Lack of places to fish: over-regulation
Hard to get to place to fish: high fuel prices
Its not republicans that are wanting more regulations. Its not republicans that are wanting higher fuel prices.
The republicans are against equal pay for women? Let me guess, your basing that off of June vote against an equal pay act. What was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for then. If the LLFPA didn’t ensure equal pay between men and women, why was it passed? Most people that follow politics understand that the Paycheck Fairness Act was a campaign year special designed to make republicans look bad.
When you look at salaries of men and women working the same job and take in account experience, education, skills, etc., women are paid at 96% of men are paid at. Most jobs men and women are paid equally. The jobs where there is a difference in pay rates are the upper management jobs(e.g., CEO, CFO, Sales Director, VP of Marketing, etc.).
The Paycheck Fairness Act was not “designed to make the repuicans look bad” Brian, it was designed so women would get equal pay for equal work. Republicans made themselves look bad by voting against the bill because they want the President to fail. Republicans don’t need any help making themselves look bad with women voters ask Todd Aikens
Typo should read the bill was not designed to make republicans look bad
So what was the Lily Ledbetter bill supposed to do? If the Paycheck Fairness Act was a follow-up to the Lily Ledbetter bill, why wait 3 years?
The Lilly Ledbetter Act is about the statue of limitations running out to file a lawsuit once they discovered the discrimination.
That is the closest to right you have ever been.