Month: April 2012

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Citizens United Politics

The Supreme Court Will Reconsider ‘Citizens United’

The Supreme Court has agreed to take a case that justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer say will give it a chance to rethink its infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision. The court is being asked to look into a Montana Supreme Court decision stating that its law restricting corporate election spending in state elections is fine, because it “arises from Montana history,” UPI reports. Essentially, Montana is arguing that Citizens United only applies to federal laws and elections, not state ones.

Two Montana corporations are asking the court to make a summary judgment to the contrary; their lead counsel argues that otherwise, “free speech will be seriously harmed,” because states anywhere could “ban core political speech.” But Ginsburg and Breyer earlier wrote that the case “will give the Court an opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates’ allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway.”

Source: Newser

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contraception Rush Limbaugh

Another Radio Station Just Dropped Rush Limbaugh

Another radio station dropped Rush Limbaugh’s program on Monday.

Philadelphia CBS affiliate WPHT replaced Limbaugh’s show with the more moderate radio host Michael Smerconish. The New York Times reported that the move did not appear to be related to the controversy surrounding Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke, who Limbaugh repeatedly attacked on air for days, calling her a slut and a prostitute for advocating for insurance-covered health care.

In wake of Limbaugh’s offensive comments, two radio stations dropped his show last month, stating that the host crossed the line. More than 100 advertisers disassociated themselves with Limbaugh—including AOL, the parent company of The Huffington Post—and pulled content from his program.

Source: The Huffington Post

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Politics

Report Finds Republican Gov. Chris Christie Lied – What Else Is New?

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey exaggerated when he declared that unforeseen costs to the state were forcing him to cancel the new train tunnel planned to relieve congested routes across the Hudson River, according to a long-awaited report by independent Congressional investigators.

The report by the Government Accountability Office, to be released this week, found that while Mr. Christie said that state transportation officials had revised cost estimates for the tunnel to at least $11 billion and potentially more than $14 billion, the range of estimates had in fact remained unchanged in the two years before he announced in 2010 that he was shutting down the project. And state transportation officials, the report says, had said the cost would be no more than $10 billion.

Mr. Christie also misstated New Jersey’s share of the costs: he said the state would pay 70 percent of the project; the report found that New Jersey was paying 14.4 percent. And while the governor said that an agreement with the federal government would require the state to pay all cost overruns, the report found that there was no final agreement, and that the federal government had made several offers to share those costs.

Source: The New York Times

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Barack Obama Politics Ronald Reagan

These People are Not Reagan Republicans, These People Are Impostors

Ronald Reagan, the god of the Conservative agenda, said this, “do you think the millionaire ought to pay more than the bus driver or less?” The audience is heard in the background screaming, “MORE!”

The clip below compares what was said back in the 1980’s under the Reagan Republican presidency, to what is said now under the Obama Democratic presidency. The similarities between the two presidents on the issue of taxes are uncanny, and those similarities are what we now refer to as the Buffett Rule – asking the wealthiest among us to pay more in taxes than the average bus driver or secretary.

Today’s version of the Republican party believes that the poor should pay more than the rich and they go out of their way – even signing various pledges – to make sure the rich gets more at the expense of the poor… a move often called class warfare.

So while praising their leader, we will never hear today’s Republicans talk about Reagan’s position on taxes because these people are of a totally different breed than Reagan. The people we see  masquerading around as Republicans are what we can affectionately call impostors!

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Eric Holder eric holder News trayvon martin

Zimmerman Family Member Says Eric Holder Not Arresting Black Panthers Because He is Black

The Conservative Website The Daily Caller revealed this Exclusive letter from a member of the Zimmerman Family. The letter is addressed to the Attorney General Eric Holder, and asked Holder why he has not arrested members of the  new Black Panthers, suggesting that recent actions by the Panthers qualifies them as a “hate group.”

Leaders of the new Black Panthers have called for George Zimmerman to be captured, “dead or alive.”

The writer of the letter then asked if the arrests weren’t being made because Eric Holder is “black.”

The letter continued;

“George has done more for the black community than a lot of the black individual/organizations that are calling for his arrest (or death),” the family member assures, and refuses to “go into the intricacies of the case.” Instead, they ask, “why, when the law of the land is crystal clear, is your office not arresting the New Black Panthers for hate crimes?” The letter goes on to quote the legal definition of a hate crime and ask, “Since when can a group of people put a bounty on someone’s head, circulate Wanted posters publicly, and still be walking the streets?”

Strange enough, the question asked by the Zimmerman family member makes me remember what happened in Florida the night Trayvon Martin was killed and his killer is still “walking the streets.”

The letter is posted below.

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Mitt Romney Politics

Saturday Night Live Discovers Mitt Romney… The Chameleon

The good people at Saturday Night Live brings us Mitt Romney just the way we have seen him before – as the Republican presidential campaigner who have mastered the art of determining what his audience wants to hear, then magically transform himself into what that particular audience is looking for.

Ladies and gentleman, the Chameleon… Mitt Romney… as portrayed by Saturday Night Live.

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Elizabeth Warren Politics

Elizabeth Warren Raises Twice as Much as Scott Brown in Quarter

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) has posted another mammoth fundraising quarter, raising $6.9 million in the first three months of the year, more than double the $3.4 million haul of Republican Sen. Scott Brown.

Warren raised $5.7 million in the fourth quarter on 2011, teeing up sky-high expectations for the first three months of 2012. But once, again, she’s set a new precedent for fundraising prowess.

Warren campaign manager Mindy Myers said that 83 percent of Warren’s donations since Jan. 1 have been $50 or less.

Source: Hotline On Call

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News trayvon martin

No Grand Jury in the Trayvon Martin Case

A special prosecutor has decided not to use a grand jury in the Trayvon Martin case.

State Attorney Angela Corey’s decision is not to be considered a factor in whether charges are eventually brought against George Zimmerman, Corey’s office said in a statement.

The grand jury, which was previously scheduled by a previous prosecutor, was set to convene on Tuesday in Sanford, Fla.

That means the decision now rests solely with Corey.

Martin, a 17-year-old from Miami Gardens, was shot to death by Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, at a gated community in Sanford on Feb. 26.

Source: MSNBC

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contraception Politics war on women

The Catholic Church Vows to Continue Fighting the Contraception Issue

This is one fight the Catholic Church is up for. They have found their voice and are determined to make the Contraception issue their main goal.

The issue – for those who have already moved on to more important things – is a policy that many Republican governors and the last Republican president have maintained over the last decade. It deals with providing contraception to women as part of their insurance coverage without a co-pay. This issue was not a problem for the Church when Republicans brought it up and in some cases demanded the Church pay for the coverage. But now that President Obama is continuing the policy, suddenly, the Bishops are up in arms.

Their argument it seems, states that requiring Religious organizations to provide contraception to their employees without a co-pay is immoral. So to satisfy the Bishops’ concern, the administration removed the requirement that religious organizations must pay for this benefit and placed that requirement on the insurance providers themselves.

But apparently, this move by the administration was not enough as Cardinal Timothy Dolan told CBS’s Face The Nation on Sunday, “we didn’t ask for the fight, but we’re not going to back away from it.”

Meanwhile, Republican Paul Ryan and Congressional Republicans have all agreed on a budget that will strip needed services from the poor and put more money into the pockets of the rich. If Ryan’s budget passes, medicare as we know it along with other services that benefits the poor will end.

So far, these same Bishops and the Catholic Church are silent on the Ryan Budget.

The conclusion: Giving women the right to have contraception – something over 90% of Catholic women already enjoy – is a big no-no and the Church is willing to fight with everything they have to keep the dreaded contraception out of their hands. However, take away life saving benefits from the poor and the Catholic Church is apparently okay with that!

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Politics

President’s Job Approval Ratings Goes Up a Notch

The Gallop Polling shows an increase in President Obama’s job approval ratings. According to the poll, “President Obama’s job approval rating averaged 46% in March, up from 45% in January and February, and significantly improved over his term-low 41% monthly averages recorded last summer and fall.”

Results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking March 1-31, 2012, with a random sample of 16,037 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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Politics Unemployment

To Win an Election, Republicans are Changing The Rules in the Middle Of The Game

The economy is getting better and we can all see it. In the 12 months before President Obama took office – from January 2008 to January 2009, 4.1 million Americans joined the ranks of the unemployed. This all happened in 1 year and it happened under a Republican administration.

Over the last 25 consecutive months, due mainly to the economic policies of this Administration, the private sector have added millions of jobs, resulting in millions of Americans rejoining the workforce. And although the 8.2% unemployment figure is still unacceptable, we can all admit that we are headed in the right direction.

This is great news for economy and everyone should be happy that the country is beginning to rebound from what is being classified as a great depression. Everyone that is, except Republicans. In their never-ending effort to always make things seem worse than it really is, Republicans are now trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.

The Hill Reports:

A Republican lawmaker is intensifying his push for legislation that would change how the government measures the unemployment rate.

Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) intends to press GOP leaders to move his bill to include the number of individuals who gave up looking for work in the percentage of jobless claims.

Should the government measure unemployment with Hunter’s figure, the unemployment rate would be higher than the current rate of approximately 8 percent– a potentially devastating assessment for the White House, especially in an election year.

Instead of pushing legislation that will create jobs and get people back to work, Mr. Hunter and his Republican buddies choose instead to play politics, and they are willing to change the rules of the game to remove any glimmer of hope the American people are feeling.

Yes, things are getting better, but the Republicans are working hard to change that!

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Chuck Grassley Calls The President “Stupid,” And He’s Not Talking about George Bush

Senator Chuck Grassley took to the Twitter machine yesterday and called the President of the United States, “stupid.” Mr. Grassley – the Republican Senator from Iowa – is just one of a long and growing list of elected officials who take pleasure in disrespecting the Office of the Presidency… well, maybe just the office of this particular presidency.

Here is the interpretation of the Grassley tweet below (for those who are not a 16 years old).

Constituents asked why I am not outraged at President Obama’s attack on the Supreme Court independence. Because American people are not stupid as this ex-professor of Constitution Law.

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