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The Insanity of the Sanctity of Lifers
This should never happen to another woman. Religion and medicine should never mix.
— A doctor in Ireland calling for an investigation into the death of a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion even though her life was at risk. Her husband said they were told, “This is a Catholic country,” and that doctors let his wife die in agony in the hospital as they watched for three days because they thought they could detect a fetal heartbeat.
Karl Rove Was a Bigger Loser Than Mitt Romney on Election Day
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The return on investment (ROI) from Karl Rove’s American Crossroads super PAC in the 2012 elections, since almost every candidate for which the group ran ads lost. Rove’s Crossroads GPS, which is not required to disclose its donors, had a 13% ROI. Together, the two groups spent about $176 million, mostly on TV ads. By contrast, Priorities USA Action, a Democratic super PAC, had a 100% ROI, since it put its $67 million behind Pres. Obama. Majority PAC, which supported Democratic Senate candidates, produced a 70% ROI, and House Majority PAC, a 44% ROI.
Time For Mitch McConnell to Get a New Hobby
McConnell realizes he can count to two.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) famously declared that the most important goal of the Republican party for the past few years was to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
But even after tirelessly obstructing each and every initiative put forward by the president; and with the economy improving despite every Republican attempt — including having rightwing CEOs threaten their employees that they would cut jobs if Obama won — to keep it in the Bush recession; and causing such inertia in Congress that its approval numbers nearly imperil democracy…even after all this, McConnell failed in his number one goal.
So with your help, we’d like to develop some new goals for Mitch. Please leave your suggestions in the comments.
- Have surgery to remove turtle chin
- Read a book on how to govern, and what the point of being in the Senate is
- Announce you will not run for re-election in 2014
- Announce that you will retire early to spend more time with your family
- Announce that you are actually stepping down today and then go back to your old Kentucky home and never be heard from again
Why “Independent” Doesn’t Equate to “Idiot”
It’s hard for those of us who have absolutely no trouble whatsoever figuring out how to vote to understand what’s going on in the heads of “the undecideds.” It’s also easy to believe that they’re like the folks in this video, clueless morons distracted by irrelevant issues — and not all that bright.
When the dust settled, the choice given was Romney, a candidate McCain himself considered a poorer choice than Palin in 2008
But an essay* from a retired cop in Jacksonville named Jim Crosby, who’s changed parties several times, shows that not all independents are self-absorbed halfwits. In fact, some of them do a more thorough job of thinking through the issues and making a decision than those of us whose leanings in one direction or the other allow us to get there faster. For proof, read on.
I defected…I changed my voter’s registration from Republican to Democrat.
Were We This Crazy When Bush Was in Office?
I don’t think BLS cooked numbers. I think a bunch of Dems lied about getting jobs. That would have same effect.
— One of many nutty tweets expressing rightwing suspicion over new unemployment numbers that show the biggest month to month drop in nine years at the end of September, 2012. Some, like Jack Welch, CEO of GE and Obama critic, claim the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the lower figures to throw the election.
Breaking: Unemployment Drops to 7.8% in September
You could hear the collective Republican “rut-roh” from here. The last thing Romney and the GOP want is for the economy to improve. Sorry guys but your worst nightmare is happening.
…the Labor Department reported Friday that U.S. employers added 114,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 7.8 percent, the first time the rate dropped below 8 percent in three years…
This time, the improvement was not due to people dropping out of the workforce but “actually reflects a substantial increase in employment…”
If Even One Woman in Missouri Votes for Todd Akin, I Would Like a 500-Word Essay Explaining Why
She had a confidence and was much more ladylike (in 2006), but in the debate on Friday she came out swinging, and I think that’s because she feels threatened.
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), describing Sen. Claire McCaskill, the incumbent Democrat whose seat Akin is running for. Akin is still in the race, despite his parsing of rape and legitimate rape, and disclosing his complete lack of understanding of how the female body works.
Republican Path to Victory: Just Don’t Let Florida Democrats Vote
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Number of young minority voters who will be disenfranchised in the general election under Florida’s photo ID law, according to a study by the University of Chicago and Washington University. Florida already disenfranchised more voters, for a variety of reasons, in 2010 than did any other state.
Latest Republican Dirty Trick Could Keep Democrats Home Voluntarily
Florida Republicans are redefining the word “dirty” in the phrase “dirty politics.” Their latest trick is intended to keep Democrats away from the polls — voluntarily.
Mailers were sent to Democrats calling out candidates, like state Sen. Audrey Gibson, for not being progressive enough — especially for working or compromising with Republicans — and the pieces appear to come from fellow Democrats.
“Progressives” is run by a group of Republican operatives who are using mailers designed to look like they are from a Democratic-leaning group to attack Democrats across the state…
Guess who wins if Democrats stay home?The group is chaired by Alachua County Republican Party Chairman Stafford Jones, who runs several other fund-raising groups that pay for political advertisements. It shares an address with the law firm of Richard Coates, general counsel for the Republican Party of Florida…
