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God Mitt Romney Politics

Romney Supporter Claims That God Will Punish America For Re-Electing President Obama

Remember when Mitt Romney appeared to be leading in all the polls and Republicans began celebrating their imminent victory? Then  hurricane Sandy happened across the east coast and Americans gravitated back to the president after seeing the way he handled the aftermath of the storm. Republicans immediately began blaming the hurricane for Obama’s new-found popularity, some even saying that Sandy as an act of God, stopped Romney’s rise in the polls.

Well it seems that Republicans cannot make up their mind which way they want to go. Before the election, they blamed God and the hurricane for slowing Romney’s rise to the presidency and now, they’re claiming that God will punish America for re-electing President Obama.

Yesterday, John Hagee opened up the “Hagee Hotline” to answer questions from parishioners about the election; questions like “do you believe [President Obama] is the precursor to the Anti-Christ?”  Hagee never really answered the question, simply predicting that an economic crash is coming that will result in the rise of a global economic czar who will, in fact, be the Anti-Christ.

But as for the election, Hagee warned that “America chose a leader who is for men marrying men” and who is “pro-abortion” and who has “attacked freedom of religion” and so this nation is “about to face the consequences of our choices” because “God will hold America responsible for that choice”:

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Mitt Romney Politics

Mitt Romney’s “Gift” Statement Shows That Republicans Still Don’t Get It

On Wednesday, both the President and Mr. Romney spoke in length about the presidential election that took place a week before. But the style of the two men and the things they had to say showed the vast contrast between them, as one extended an invitation to the other to move the country forward, while the other man continued in divisive politics guaranteed to divide this country along racial and social lines.

Can you guess who would like that division? If you said Mitt Romney, you’d be correct.

In his first press conference since winning reelection, President Obama was asked whether he had followed up on a statement he made in his victory speech about inviting Mitt Romney and finding a way to work together. The President replied that he was giving Romney some time to come to terms with the outcome of the election, but would make that invitation in the future.

The President;

“I do think he did a terrific job running the Olympics, and that skill set of trying to figure out how do we make something work better applies to the federal government.

There are a lot of ideas that I don’t think are partisan ideas but are just smart ideas about how can we make the federal government more customer friendly. How can we make sure that we’re consolidating programs that are duplicative; how can we eliminate additional waste. He presented some ideas during the course of the campaign that I actually agree with. So it would be interesting to talk to him about something like that. There may be ideas that he has with respect to jobs and growth that can help middle-class families that I want to hear. So I’m not either prejudging what he’s interested in doing, nor am I suggesting I’ve got some specific assignment. But what I want to do is to get ideas from him and see if there are some ways that we can potentially work together.”

But around the same time that Mr. Obama was promising to work with the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney was busy with a conference call of his own. Speaking to his donors, Romney continued the same politics of division his campaign embraced in the final weeks of his run for president. Explaining why he lost the election, Romney attempted to remove himself and his failed ideas from the equation and credited “gifts” from the Obama administration to certain ethnic and socioeconomic groups as the reason for his loss.

Mr. Romney:

“With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest was a big gift. Free contraceptives were very big with young, college-aged women. And then, finally, Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents’ plan, and that was a big gift to young people. They turned out in large numbers, a larger share in this election even than in 2008.

You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity — I mean, this is huge. Likewise with Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus. But in addition with regards to Hispanic voters, the amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called Dream Act kids, was a huge plus for that voting group.”

Of course, if Mitt Romney had won the election, getting rid of healthcare would have been his number one priority – he said it numerous times in his campaign. And when it came to women and their healthcare decisions, Romney was/is in favor of inserting the Government in the middle of those private decisions a women make about her own life. It was also no secret that he was against the Dream Act and favored the ludicrous idea that anyone found illegally in the country must “self deport” back to the country of their birth.

Yes, those were all policy ideas of the Romney/Ryan Republican ticket, and all those ideas sucked.

In a nation that considers itself the greatest nation on earth, what’s wrong with making sure that the citizens have affordable healthcare instead of going to the emergency room when it’s too late? What’s wrong with allowing women their right to make their own healthcare decisions? And what’s wrong with implementing smart and necessary immigration policies to ensure that children brought to this country at a very young age be allowed to stay in the only country they know.

Those are some of the policies President Obama implemented in his first term – affordable healthcare, allowing women to make their own decisions and The Dream Act that provided a legal status to children brought to this country through no fault of their own. People voted based on what helped their situations, and calling those policies “gifts” exemplifies the problem with Mitt Romney and the Republicans in general – they just don’t get it!

Two different men, two different governing styles, two different sets of policies. And if what these two men said on Wednesday was any indication, Americans chose the right man for the job of President.

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Politics

Miss This? President Obama Holds His First Press Conference – Video

Fresh off his presidential win, President Obama held his first press conference of his second term today. He spoke about his mandate, Benghazi, the so-called Fiscal Cliff and the Republican manufactured controversy surrounding General Petraeus, among other items.

Watch the President’s first Press Conference below.

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Planned Parenthood Politics war on women

Ohio Senator Nina Turner To GOP – Get Out Of My Panties

Republicans just lost the presidential election partly because of their very public war against women. You would think that this loss would have been a wake up call to these Republicans to stay out of women’s private decision making regarding their own health decisions, but no, not these Republicans. A week after the American people overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama, Republicans went to Ohio to continue their War.

Their latest attack on women would ravish Planned Parenthood in Ohio, taking away some $2 million federal dollars from the organization. In a response to these attacks, Democratic Ohio state Senator Nina Turner came to a press conference prepared. She wore a t-shirt with one simple message for the Republicans – Get Out Of My Panties – another meaning for the acronym GOP.

During the Tuesday press conference, Stephanie Knight, Ohio CEO of Planned Parenthood, echoed the message emblazoned on Turner’s shirt, saying in part that the state ‘does not want to turn the clock backward and hand over to politicians the personal medical decisions that belong to a woman.’

Huffington Post reported that Turner, who made headlines earlier this year after introducing a protest legislation that would restrict men’s ability to get prescriptions for Viagra, said that her fellow lawmakers across the aisle need to ‘get a grip.’

‘We are not going back to the dark ages. We are not going to suppress our voice or our choice. And we are not going to forget,’ she warned, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

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Paul Ryan Politics

Ryan Blames “Urban” Votes For The Republican Loss – It Had Nothing To Do With The GOP Crazies

Climbing out of the woodshed for his first interview since his ticket lost the presidential election to Barack Obama last Tuesday, Paul Ryan emerged with a new epiphany – the reason the Republicans lost the elections had nothing to do with the crazy policies they were proposing. No. Their loss had everything to do with the “urban” voters who voted overwhelmingly for the President.

In an interview with WISC-TV, the Republican vice president candidate explained;

We were surprised at the outcome. We knew this was gonna be a close race. We thought we had a very good chance of winning it.

I think the surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the big margin to win this race,’ he said. ‘When we watched Virginia and Ohio coming in, and those ones coming in as tight as they were, and looking like we were going to lose them, that’s when it became clear we weren’t going to win.

See folks? And all along you thought the loss was a result of his party’s crazy adaptation on economic policies, like repealing ObamaCare and putting families back to at mercy of the insurance companies. Apparently, the Romney/Ryan ticket never heard of Americans going bankrupt because insurance carriers dropped policy holders at the exact time they needed those policies most. So repealing ObamaCare was their “number one priority,” according to Mitt Romney.

And you thought Republicans’ Neanderthal view on women’s issues could have been a reason women voted for Obama in almost record numbers? Well according to Paul Ryan you would be wrong. And issues didn’t cause over 70% of the Latino votes for the president either.

And apparently, seniors were tired of all the great benefits they received from Medicare, so their vote for Obama had absolutely nothing to do with Ryan’s budget proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

If this is the message Ryan took from the shellacking he took in Tuesday’s election, then maybe he needs to go back to the woodshed and wait for a different message.

And what’s up with this “urban” language anyway? Ronan Farrow, Writer, human rights lawyer and diplomat, most recently Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues, had this to say;

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failed Mitt Romney Politics

Romney Losing Facebook Friends Faster Than You Can Say “Unlike”

Often the people who friend or like others on Facebook aren’t friends at all. Perhaps there’s a common interest, and with the click of a mouse, a Facebook friendship is born.

According to the Washington Post, Mitt Romney lost nearly 593 Facebook friends between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning. The losses are happening so quickly, the drop in numbers can actually be watched. A click can launch a friendship as well as end one.

A two-minute study was conducted on Romney’s Facebook page at 4:42 a.m., CT, on Sun., Nov. 11, 2012, and he had 12,053,104 likes.

The page was refreshed at 4:44 a.m., CT, and he had 12,053,097, totaling seven unlikes within a two-minute time span. If the “unlikes” continue at the above rate, within 60 minutes, Romney would lose 210 “friends.”

If you want to join in the fun and watch the mass exodus from Romney’s page, disappearing Romney is a site set up just for that purpose. The site gives a live feed to Romney’s Facebook statistics, as Americans abandons the failed Republican presidential candidate.

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fail Politics

Wipeout! The GOP Wave Crashes.

It’s funny how elections make clear what is already in plain sight. The decline of the Republican Party and the discrediting of its radical right-wing has been evident for the past 3 to 4 years. Instead of following an agenda, they’ve focused on obstruction. When they deigned to speak about policy, it was usually in the negative: anti-abortion, anti-marriage equality, anti-tax for millionaires and anti-immigrant. It’s no wonder that women, African-Americans, Latinos and Asian-Americans were anti-GOP.

It’s also appropriate that the final stake in the right’s collective heart came in the form of a nasty, windy, watery, power-sapping weather event called Sandy. I’ve been warning about the conservative wave crashing on the beach for most of the year, including after Hurricane Isaac in August.

It is ever thus. And now comes the figurative cleanup. From Sean Hannity’s epiphany on immigration, to Bill Kristol’s rebirth on taxes (and the answer is no, raising taxes on the wealthy will not kill anyone), to the rejection of the religious right’s message of exclusion and false piety, this election will very quickly result in the Republican’s changing their tune in order to avoid complete irrelevancy.

Oh yes, there will still be Tea Partiers and other conservatives in Congress, but they will be marginalized and will vote against anything that smacks of compromise or common sense. Others, though, will see the light. Lindsay Graham has already shown his grace by working with New York’s Charles Schumer on an immigration bill that could come in the lame duck session. There’s even talk that the environment and climate change could enable this Congress, or the next one, to come to grips with what’s been obvious to the rest of us for over a decade. Along with tax reform, that could make these next seven weeks the most productive of this eminently forgettable Congressional session.

And it’s all because of an election that highlighted a get-out-the-vote machine that will become an instant classic in the next edition of Political Science textbooks across the nation. President Obama’s team was able to turn a bad economy and a seemingly insurmountable deficit of enthusiasm into a convincing win, in large part because the Romney campaign aligned itself with the anti-math crowd and convinced itself that Obama couldn’t win.

But this was an election about ideas, and Obama won that battle as well. Most voters agreed with the president on taxes, marriage equality, women’s reproductive rights, immigration and investing in education and research. Medicare, which was supposed to be the GOP’s winning issue, was a dud. Paul Ryan was forced early on to abandon both this issue and his meat cleaver budget, leaving him with little to say except to parrot Romney’s ultimately failed ideas. That the election was close is a testament to how divided the country is, but the ever-decreasing white vote that went for Romney was no match for the rainbow coalition that came out for the president.

Is it an enduring coalition for Democrats? It will be if the Republicans don’t shed some of their antiquated ideas. I expect we’ll see a lot more of Marco Rubio over the next two years and a little more of Chris Christie, who raised his profile as someone willing to work with the other party to get things done during the devastation caused by Sandy and Obama’s visit to New Jersey. (Memo to the GOP: Sandy meant very little to your electoral loss. Did women and Latinos decide to vote Obama after a hurricane, or after your minions savaged themselves by equating rape with God’s plan?) We might even see some moderates peeking over the curtain from time to time.

The main lesson we all need to take from the election is that the people want the government to help solve our problems. They don’t want government completely out of the way, but would rather that it do what it’s supposed to do: keep us safe, keep us working, and taking care that the safety net catches those who need it. We’ll take care of the rest. The Democrats can’t get too full of themselves and their message because this was not a mandate election. It was a reaffirmation election that told Barack Obama to complete the job he started in 2009 and to work with the other side to fix the system. The GOP will obstruct and filibuster at its peril. They need to work with the president on all issues and not wait until the next election to see if they can outflank him. That didn’t work for the past two years and it won’t work in the future.

I am optimistic for the first time in a while. It might be misplaced, or I might be more naive than the next guy, but I really think we’ll get the government unplugged and start to see some real progress.

The wave has crashed. Now let’s hope the tide has turned.

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nigger Politics

Republican Calls Obama a “Nigger” – Hopes For His Assassination “This Term”

As if to personify the panic brought on by President Obama‘s demographically overwhelming reelection victory, a California woman named Denise Helms took to Facebook Tuesday night to commiserate with fellow embittered white people, posting “Another 4 years of this nigger. Maybe he will get assassinated this term.”

She was subsequently fired from her job at Cold Stone Creamery, but insisted to a local news crew that, although “the assassination part is kind of harsh,” she’s not a racist. Asked “But you equate the President with the n-word?” Helms replied, “Sure.”

Helms told Fox 40, outside her soon-to-be former place of employment, that “the assassination part is kind of harsh … and I’m not saying I would go do that by any means, but if it were to happen, I don’t think I would care one bit.”

She also claimed that she wasn’t a racist, and that she has friends of “many different nationalities.”

h/t Mediaite

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Politics

President Obama Back To Work – Let’s Cut Taxes For 98% Of Americans

After his reelection on Tuesday, President Obama continued his push to take this country forward. He continued his call to Congress to extend the tax cuts for 98% of Americans, while allowing taxes on the rich to go back to what they were under President Bill Clinton.

Last year, I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars’ worth of spending, and I intend to work with both parties to do more. But as I said over and over again on the campaign trail, we can’t just cut our way to prosperity. If we’re serious about reducing the deficit, we have to combine spending cuts with revenue – and that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes. That’s how we did it when Bill Clinton was President. And that’s the only way we can afford to invest in education and job training and manufacturing – all the ingredients of a strong middle class and a strong economy.

Already, I’ve put forward a detailed plan that allows us to make these investments while reducing our deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade.  Now, I’m open to compromise and new ideas.  But I refuse to accept any approach that isn’t balanced. I will not ask students or seniors or middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people making over $250,000 aren’t asked to pay a dime more in taxes. This was a central question in the election. And on Tuesday, we found out that the majority of Americans agree with my approach – that includes Democrats, Independents, and Republicans.

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Bush Politics

How To Increase The Debt – A Republican Tale – Graph

Next time you find yourself in a debt debate with someone who only gets their news from Fox, use this graph to prove your point. We all know they have limited attention span for words and facts, so this will come in handy.

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Barack Obama Politics

A Very Emotional President Sheds Tears While Thanking Campaign – Video

President Obama shares his story of being a community organizer with the young people who propelled his campaign through volunteering, knocking on doors and organizing the get out the vote drives. And a tear ran down his face as he expressed his hope for the future. “I’m really proud of you,” the President said, as he wiped his tear away.

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Mitt Romney Politics

Republicans Line Up For Their Chance To Throw Romney Under The Bus

We knew this was going to happen, we just didn’t expect it this soon. Usually, the party would wait until the humiliation of a defeat subsides before discussing the reason for their loss, but not now.

Just hours after President Obama hammered Mitt Romney in both the Electoral and popular vote, Republicans have lined up to throw Romney and his campaign from the train… ah, under the bus.

“They ran a 20th century campaign in the 21st century,” said one Romney bundler, frustrated that the campaign made assumptions about the youth vote and voter intensity that didn’t pan out. “The anger is that they were entrusted to do certain things. It’s not like they were paid a $5,000 retainer to get a few dozen articles in an inside-the-Beltway paper. This is the major leagues.”

Another Republican outside the Romney campaign but privy to its thinking described the defeat as a complete pummeling, with Senate losses adding salt to the wound.

Romney supporters point to a series of brash statements made by advisers that seem out of touch with reality in retrospect. Inside the Beltway, Republicans trained their fire on senior Romney advisers like Ed Gillespie and political director Rich Beeson for appearances on last weekend’s Sunday shows. Gillespie said the electoral map was expanding, and Beeson predicted a 300 electoral vote win for Romney.

“There were a lot of Republicans who were on calls that the campaign was having led to believe we had shots in Pennsylvania and Minnesota,” one Republican operative supporting Romney said. “I think Republicans are split right now between confused and shocked, and also I think they are wondering did the Romney campaign have numbers we didn’t have.”

In starker terms, the source questioned: “Was last week a head fake, or were they just not that smart?”

And according to the Teaparty;

“For those of us who believe that America, as founded, is the greatest country in the history of the world – a ‘Shining city upon a hill’ – we wanted someone who would fight for us,” Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin wrote in an e-mail, quoting 40th president and conservative hero Ronald Reagan. “We wanted a fighter like Ronald Reagan who boldly championed America’s founding principles… What we got was a weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment.”

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