I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!
After months of Republican opposition to the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, it finally passed the Senate yesterday on a 68-31 vote. All 31 votes against the re-authorization of the bill came from Senate Republicans. For the other Republicans who joined with the Democrats to pass the bill, maybe it was this emotional plea from Sen Al Franken that did it.
The bill now goes to the Republican controlled House of Representatives where it will face a much harder time.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – The attorney for the Florida man charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black teen said Friday he didn’t know his client had raised $200,000 before a bond hearing last week in which his client was granted $150,000 bond.
George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin after weeks without an arrest led to protests nationwide over racial profiling and controversial self-defense laws in Florida and other states. Martin was black; Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is from Peru.
Zimmerman has gone into hiding since his release this week after paying 10 percent of his bail, though he has to wear a GPS ankle bracelet that authorities can use to track his location.
Zimmerman’s lawyer, Mark O’Mara told a judge Friday that Zimmerman’s family hadn’t told him about the money raised before his client was granted $150,000 bond.
Source: USA Today
We recently brought you Part 1, where some of the lies Mitt Romney have told over the last few years were easily debunked by President Obama.
Now, we bring you Part 2 – Even more Romney lies and misinformation debunked!
After saying that Mitt Romney was the “worst Republican to put up against Barack Obama,” Rick Santorum went on CNN’s Piers Morgan last-night and still tried to convince viewers that he [Santorum] was the right man for the job. But since he’s not running anymore, then… whatever!
MORGAN: You believe that Mitt Romney’s the right guy?
SANTORUM: I believe he’s the better — obviously I believed I was the better choice. But I’m not in the race anymore.
MORGAN: He has won the race. Is he therefor the right guy?
SANTORUM: Absolutely. He is the person that is going to go up against Barack Obama. It’s pretty clear. We need to win this race.
MORGAN: Unless I’m mishearing things, you just endorsed Mitt Romney.
SANTORUM: If that’s what you want to call it, you can call it whatever you want.
“What we’ve said is simple: now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people.” No, that’s not President Obama giving one of his speeches to Congress, that’s President Obama “singing” one of his speeches to Congress.
Jimmy Fallon chimed in using his best impression of Barry White;
“Awww yeah, you should listen to The President, or as I like to call him, ‘The Preezy of the United Steezy.”
If this presidential thing don’t work out, I see concert tickets with Obama’s name on them. Maybe with Beyoncé as his opening act.
Gallop Polling reports that the 50% approval mark is notable because all incumbent presidents since Eisenhower who were at or above 50% approval at the time of the election were re-elected. Obama’s job approval rating has typically been in the mid-40% range for the last three months.
The poll shows that over the last two days, the President’s approval rating stayed at 50%. The poll also shows that President leads Mitt Romney – the presumptive Republican nominee – by 7 points, 49% to 42%.
Her name is Sarah Steelman and she is running for the Missouri’s Congress as a Republican. She will fit in perfectly with today’s other Congressional Republicans.
According to this website, Sarah Steelman serves on the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan Board of Trustees; the Missouri Public Service Commission’s Gas Cost Recovery Task Force; the Joint Committee on Terrorism, Bioterrorism & Homeland Security; and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. She is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce and Environment; a member of the Senate Committee on Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health; a member of the Senate Committee on Education; and a member of the Senate Committee on Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight.
With all that knowledge, Ms Steelman was asked a very simple question – what do you think about the Violence Against Women Act?
We’re still waiting for a sensible answer.
President Obama was willing to put up with a lot of Anthony Weiner’s antics — the bad boy congressman’s sexting with women he never met, tweeting pics of his own penis, and acid tongue.
But the White House finally got fed up when reports emerged that the pol was in contact with an underage girl.
According to a new book, the cold shoulder from the White House was the beginning of the end of Weiner’s career in Congress.
“We were willing to stand by him before, but I don’t see how we can do it any longer,” White House political director Patrick Gaspard is quoted as telling Weiner’s advisers.
With that, Weiner — who thought he could weather the scandal that started when he accidentally tweeted a crotch shot — lost his trademark bravado.
“I just can’t figure out what I should do,” Weiner told advisers.
Source: New York Post
Mitt Romney and the Republicans have built a reputation – a false reputation that is – fighting for “small government.” They often pride themselves in saying they want government “out of our lives.”
But based on the recent contraception fight and the Republican’s war on women, it seems that what these Republicans mean is government should only stay out of our lives if that government is a Democratic government.
While campaigning for President in 2007, Mitt Romney proved this point perfectly when he told an audience that when he becomes president all new computers would be built with a pornography filter on them. Can you imagine the “big government” outcry if a Democratic president had said this? We would have heard calls of communism and “too much regulation” on the private market if this was said by a non-Republican.
What’s next for the “small government” Romney, a government-run media like North Korea or China, where what we see and hear is dictated by a Romney administration?
I’ve always liked Jon Huntsman because he spoke the truth, and that is something you can’t say about members of today’s Republican party. Over the weekend, Huntsman stuck to this uncommon trait of telling the truth and called out the Republican party for what they really are… Communists!
Former Republican candidate Jon Huntsman took a battle axe to his own party, comparing it to China’s Communist Party and criticizing it’s standard bearer in a wide-ranging interview at the 92nd Street Y Sunday night.
Recounting his first experience on the presidential debate stage in Iowa last August, Huntsman says he was struck by the question “Is this the best we could do?”
Huntsman, the former Utah governor and once President Barack Obama’s Ambassador to China, expressed disappointment that the Republican Party disinvited him from a Florida fundraiser in March after he publicly called for a third party.
“This is what they do in China on party matters if you talk off script,” he said.
Huntsman said he regrets his decision to oppose a 10-to-1 spending cuts to tax increase deal to cut the deficit at the Iowa debate lamenting: “if you can only do certain things over again in life.”
“What went through my head was if I veer at all from my pledge not to raise any taxes…then I’m going to have to do a lot of explaining,” he explained. “What was going through my mind was ‘don’t I just want to get through this?'”
That decision, Huntsman said, “has caused me a lot of heartburn.”
Huntsman jokingly blamed his failed candidacy in part on his wife, Mary Kaye, who told him she’d leave him if he abandoned his principles.
“She said if you pandered, if you sign any of those damn pledges, I’ll leave you,” Huntsman recounted.
“So I had to say I believe in science — and people on stage look at you quizzically as though you’re was an oddball,” Huntsman said, explaining why he was “toast” in Iowa.
Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney‘s way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.
Romney also promises budget increases for the Pentagon, above those sought by some GOP defense hawks, meaning that the rest of the government would have to shrink even more. Nonmilitary programs would incur still larger cuts than those called for in the tightfisted GOP budget that the House passed last month.
Differences over the government’s budget and spiraling deficits are among the starkest that separate Republican Romney and Democratic President Barack Obama. Obama’s budget generally avoids risk, with minimal cuts to rapidly growing health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid while socking wealthier people with tax increases. It’s all part of an effort to close trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
Romney, by contrast, proposes broad cuts in government spending, possibly overpromising on reductions that even a Congress stuffed with conservatives might find hard to deliver.
Source: Seattle PI
A new poll finds that President Obama continues to lead presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the key battleground state of Ohio but by a slightly narrower margin.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Obama with 46% support to Romney’s 42%. Five percent (5%) prefers some other candidate, while eight percent (8%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
This Ohio survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on April 18, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports.
