Month: November 2011
Huntsman Labels Women “Bimbos”
I’m not the first to note that it’s pretty sleazy for a man who puts three of his SEVEN children — his three oldest daughters — front and center in his campaign to call charges from several women who claim they were sexually harassed a “bimbo eruption.” But Jon Huntsman’s Mormon sexism is showing.
Huntsman was first quoted in the Boston Herald.
“We’ve got real issues to talk about not the latest bimbo eruption,” Huntsman told the Herald today.
Apparently to Huntsman, women are all alike
The recent ambassador to China was referring to an admission by a colleague of Herman Cain, the former head of the lobbying organization the National Restaurant Association, that she and Cain carried on a 13-year affair. She stepped forward after it was exposed that Cain’s lawyers had settled at least three sexual harassment cases against him while he lobbyied for the trade group. Cain’s explanation about the lawsuits shifted from denial to faulty memory, but he claimed he’s been true to his wife throughout their marriage.
As Gingrich Rises in Polls, Obama, Romney Fade
It is not hyperbolic to suggest that the future of America’s prosperity hangs in the balance in the next election. But less than a year out from the vote on Nov. 6, 2012, current polling finds 1) bad news, 2) theoretically better news but then 3) the worst development yet.
1. The bad news:
Gingrich on Individual Mandate in 2005: ‘I’m in Favor of 300 Million-Payer System’
“I am very opposed to a single-payer system,” Newt Gingrich says in the video above, “but I’m actually in favor of a 300 million payer system.” The “300 million payer system” he referred to then has come to be known now as the “individual mandate,” or, alternately, “Obamacare’s Kenyan socialist boot on the neck of freedom.”
Gingrich continues, “Because one of my conclusions in the last six years, and founding the Center for Health Transformation, and looking at the whole system is, unless you have a hundred percent coverage, you can’t have the right preventive care, and you can’t have a rational system, because the cost-shifts are so irrational, and create second-order problems.”
Gingrich made these remarks in 2005 at the annual “Health Care Ceasefire,” on a panel with then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and the moderator, former Louisiana Sen. John Breaux (DINO).
It should be pointed out that the individual mandate was developed by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing thimk tank, as an alternative to a single-payer, Medicare-for-everyone system, which would virtually put the health insurance industry — a key source of funding for the Republican Party — out of business.
Like Mitt Romney, Gingrich supported the individual mandate until the Democrats incorporated it into the Affordable Care Act.
Partial transcript:
