Year: 2012
Florida Republican Legislators Give Themselves “Absolute Shield”
If you noticed an avalanche of lawsuits over your decisions, would you:
a) Take a moment to consider objectively what you’ve been doing and adjust your actions going forward, or
b) Pass legislation that says you can no longer be sued.
If you’re a Florida lawmaker, you will pick option B in a heartbeat. And so, Florida’s super-majority Republican legislature, facing court challenges to ALEC-written laws, is now shielding its members from giving testimony or depositions explaining their intentions.
Republicans on the panel [committee] said the move was necessary because more and more groups – teachers, unions, and others – are filing lawsuits against the Legislature and attempting to compel lawmakers and their staff to testify about the “legislative intent” behind what they’ve passed…
Boehner Tries to Spin Payroll Tax Capitulation
This is an economic relief bill – not a growth bill. The only reason the provisions at the core of this measure are even necessary is because the President’s economic policies have failed.
— House Speaker John Boehner, in a statement on passing an extension of the payroll tax cut.
Santorum Gets in a Froth, Uses ‘C’ Word
This is just crap.
— Rick Santorum, in an interview with National Review, on the media firestorm over comments on contraception made by Santorum Super PAC donor Foster Freiss.
Rick’s Parthenogenesis Thesis
In the debate over forced contraception,
The question is, when is conception?
Some stand firm —
It’s when the egg meets the sperm.
But for Rick Santorum, life starts at … erection!
h/t to Bill Maher
Santorum Supporter Suggests Aspirin Is a Contraceptive
Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.
— Santorum Super PAC donor Foster Freiss, in an interview on MSNBC, defending his candidate’s position on contraception while demonstrating his own sensitive understanding of a complex, emotional issue.
Romney-bot Suffers Motherboard Meltdown in Michigan: ‘Trees Are the Right Height’ … ‘I Love Cars’ … ‘Dais-ee, Dais-ee, Give Me Your Ansuurrrrhhh…’
ROMNEY-BOT: A little history. I was born and raised here. I love this state. It seems right here. The trees are the right height. I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. There’s something very special here. The Great Lakes, but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan. I love cars. I dunno, I mean, I grew up totally in love with cars. It used to be in the fifties and sixties, if you showed me one square foot of almost any part of a car, I could tell you what brand it was — the model and so forth. Now, with all the Japanese cars I’m not so good at it. But I still know the American cars pretty well. And, uh, drive a Mustang. I love cars. I love American cars. And long may they rule the world, let me tell you. I want to do well.
Helen Radkey Interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell about Mormons’ Posthumous Baptism of Noted Holocaust Survivors
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In the 1990s, Radkey discovered that Mormons were routinely baptizing survivors of the Holocaust — in other words, they were unilaterally Christianizing people who had been slaughtered because they were not Christians. After they’d been found out, Mormon leaders promised that the practice of baptizing Holocaust survivors would end. However, it did not. In fact, in her most recent findings, Radkey discovered that the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal — for whom the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles is named –had received posthumous rites, as had relatives of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel.
In an email Radkey forwarded to us and others this week, she wrote:
Romney, Santorum and Paul Undercut Gingrich by Pulling Out of March 1 CNN Debate
The fact that there haven’t been any debates in a while is starting to have an effect on the Gingrich campaign. Recent polling puts him in fourth place among the four candidates. Now the campaigns of other three candidates — Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul — have made a joint decision that could spell the end for the Gingrich campaign:
More Lies from Breitbart: Charges of Rape by Occupiers Debunked
Keith Olbermann condemns right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart for promoting an inaccurate roundup of 17 alleged rapes at Occupy protests on his websites. The list, which fails to mention that the legitimate rape victims were Occupy supporters, comes on the heels of Breitbart screaming, “Stop raping people!” to a group of Occupy protestors at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference last weekend. “What Mr. Breitbart and his fellow propagandists have done, in fact, is to take at least eight women — eight members of Occupy who were raped or otherwise assaulted — and blame them for being raped,” says Keith.
