"My wife actually went online here in Wisconsin and typed in, 'what if I can’t afford birth control,'" the freshman Tea Party senator told ThinkProgress. "Came up, bam. If you can’t afford it, you can get birth control in this country.”
Republican/Conservative males still don't know how to apologize.
His supposed apology:
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who notoriously presided over a mostly-male hearing on President Barack Obama's contraception mandate and rejected Democrats' one female witness, apologized to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday for accusing her of lying about the gender breakdown of the panel.
I am very pleased with Ms. Maloney's response to Rep. Issa's "apology."
"I am encouraged by his actions, and I accept his apology," Maloney said. "In the fallout from that unfortunate hearing, women were called far worse than 'liars.' I know what I said and I know it to be true. But I do think the women of America are owed an apology ... an apology for denying them a voice ... and an apology for denying them a place at the table. It was wrong then. It is wrong each time it happens ... And to cavalierly dismiss or deny that fact does greater damage to the fabric of democracy than words can ever redress."
Lies, lies, and more lies. 9 + lies, to be exact.
... [P]lenty of real lies remain in the debate over women's health. Some are promoted by Republican lawmakers as they push legislation that limits reproductive rights. Others come from GOP presidential candidates and their surrogates.
1. Birth Control Causes Prostate Cancer.
2. Abortion Causes Breast Cancer.
3. Birth Control is a Sex Pill.
4. Abortion Industry is "Selling Abortions."
5. Women Can't Get Pregnant from Rape.
6. Prenatal Testing Leads to Abortion.
7. HPV Vaccine Causes Retardation.
8. Plan B Causes Abortions.
9. Your Fetus is Just Fine.
Conservatives are not so much bullies as big baby wusses ...
... who happen to have recruited some of the most evilly-clever minds.
If losing, distract! Re-direct! And while the enemy is distracted ... RUN AWAY!
Political strategy is bleeding all over the place. If you can’t win the fight you’re in, start another fight completely un-related fight. And if that fight also fails, start another fight. Etc.
I am incredibly un-surprised that a right-wing advocacy group conducts itself as a hate group, but I am incredibly surprised that one has finally been labeled as such.
Saaanitorium!
The Sanitorium excitedly uses a naughty curse word, and he's a hero for going at the media. Damn those pesky media who give present a temptation too delicious to refuse!
What happened to being nice, brown-nosing, and catering to the news outlets that will portray whatever image they choose to the general public? Isn’t this sort of counter-intuitive: lambasting and vilifying and cursing the very people who have the power and the freedom to make you into whatever they would like? Ah, yes, but politics is largely counter-intuitive. Sometimes their movements are so lifelike I forget they’re not real people!
The Mittster strikes again ...
Oh, Mitt, can’t you go just one day without saying something completely foolish/tonedeaf???
"If he's planning on doing more and suggests to Russia that he has things he's willing to do with them, he's not willing to tell the American people - this is to Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe," Mr Romney said.
In response, Mr Medvedev said: "I recommend that all US presidential candidates... do at least two things: that they use their head and consult their reason when they formulate their positions, and that they check the time - it is now 2012, not the mid-1970s.
"As for ideological cliches, I always get nervous when one side or the other starts using phrases such as 'enemy number one' and so on."
Moscow is used to being singled out as "the wicked witch of the east" by American politicians, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
And in case you need some more terrifying humor, here are some of Romney's greatest gifts (er, i mean gaffes): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/mitt-romney-soundboard_n_1382333.html?ref=politics
Jan Brewer = tasteless, disrespectful, un-thinking, dangerous to herself, her party, her constituents, her state, and her nation.
I wish I had sent a letter. Though I more than likely would not have been quite as eloquent as I would have liked.
Many of the writers were disgusted with the governor, calling her "trashy" and "tasteless." Others offered etiquette tips on how to behave when welcoming a head of state.
"If you approached me like you did the president I would have taken great comfort by poking you in the nose," wrote Eleanor Tafolla from Cathedral City, Calif. "You might want to work on you (sic) prissy attitude you project. Whoa lady you did not deserve a talk with the president or anyone else for that matter."
Some questioned whether Brewer would have pointed her finger at a White president and behaved as though she were in the Old South.
Deborah Gross of Michigan wrote, "Your racism and crude behavior is typical of the GOP. Karma will not be kind to you and your fellow regressive, racist Republican friends."
Still others said they would never again visit Arizona or support the state while Brewer is governor. "The stamp I use to mail this message will be the last cent I ever spend on anything related to the state of Arizona," Linda Bowers of Ohio wrote. "I suppose a populace that would elect the likes of you deserves the contempt and disbelief with which the rest of the nation views you and your state."
I must agree with this last quoted writer: I will do my best to avoid anything and everything Arizona. What a shame that she is who she is and is doing what she is doing.
And it's even more of a shame that her supporters are just as rude and tasteless as she is being accused of being.
Brewer's supporters, however, praised her for standing up to Obama, saying she will go down in American history. Others thanked her for her faithful support on illegal-immigration issues and praised her for acting like a "real American." One writer lamented it was "too bad you couldn't have slapped him instead."
Agnes Brunetti of Shenandoah, Iowa, wrote that she was "so very proud" of the governor for "standing up to that narcissist, egotistical, smug, puffed up President!!"
Chuck Bower of Indiana, meanwhile, congratulated the governor on the incident: "The only thing you did wrong was wave the 'wrong' finger in his face," he wrote.
It seems that the faithful supporters who say that she acts like a "real American" forget that their ancestors were once immigrants, and that to "be American" is to be non-native to the land-masses that are now known as The United States of America (because *sarcasm* of course Native Americans don't count as they are neither white nor real people).
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