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kpete's JournalNikki Haley: ‘Women Don’t Care About Contraception’
Source: Think Progress
HALEY: Women don’t care about contraception, they care about jobs and the economy and raising their families and all those other things–
BEHAR: Well, they care about contraception too.
HALEY: But, that’s not the only thing they care about. The media wants to talk about contraception.
BEHAR: But when someone like Rick Santorum says he’s going to take it away, we care. (Applause)
HALEY: Well, while we care about contraception, let’s be care. All we’re saying is we don’t want government to mandate when we have to have it or when we don’t.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/03/457547/nikki-haley-women-dont-care-about-contraception/
Snowe re: GOP's War Against Women - "it's a retro debate. It took place in the 1950s."
Snowe, the famously moderate Republican senator from Maine who announced her retirement in February, citing excessive partisanship, spoke about her early years in Congress in an effort to underscore how much women's political rights have improved since she took office in the late 1970s.
"There was a time in America when husbands cancelled their pensions on their spouses without their knowing, only learning about it upon their death," said Snowe.
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"And now it comes to contraceptive coverage," said Snowe. "You know, it really is surprising, because I feel like it's a retro debate. It took place in the 1950s. It's sort of back to the future, isn't it? And it is surprising in the 21st century that we would be revisiting this issue."
Snowe urged the women in the room to "keep the fight up." She posed for a group photo and then yielded the stage back to Bennett, who led the remaining women in a pledge in order to "remind each other of the changes we're about to make in the world."
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5615166/womens-fund-event-sends-olympia-snowe-and-launches-sandra-fluke
Five Out Of Nine SCOTUS Judges Can Not Read
Five Out Of Nine SCOTUS Judges Can Not Read
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Text
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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches for Any Arrest
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html?_r=2&ref=us
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/04/five-out-of-nine-scotus-judges-can-not-read.html
Romney To Travel Back In Time To Kill Liberal Versions Of Himself
Romney To Travel Back In Time To Kill Liberal Versions Of Himself
Seeking to dispel accusations of flip-flopping, Romney unveiled plans to use a time machine to kill earlier versions of himself who believed in universal health care and gay rights.
(i never say this, MUST SEE VIDEO:
http://www.theonion.com/video/romney-to-travel-back-in-time-to-kill-liberal-vers,27788/
Zimmerman defender rants about ‘young black males’: “If you plant corn, you get corn."
Zimmerman defender rants about ‘young black males’
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“It sounds like you are saying that it made sense to you that George Zimmerman would be fearful of young black men,” O’Brien observed.
“No, it would be consistent that the perpetrators were all of the young black male ID,” Taaffe explained. “All of the perpetrators of the prior burglaries were young black males. … You know, there’s an old saying that if you plant corn, you get corn.”
“If you plant corn, you get corn. What does that mean?” O’Brien wondered.
“It is what it is,” Taaffe replied. “I would go on record stating, of the eight prior burglaries in the 15 months prior to the Trayvon Martin shooting, all of the perpetrators were young black males. … No disrespect to George Clooney, but it was a perfect storm. All the ingredients were set up. You know, the prior burglaries were committed or perpetrated by young black males, George was on his neighborhood watch rounds.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/03/zimmerman-defender-rants-about-young-black-males/
George W. Bush: Barack Obama’s Best Friend in the 2012 Election - by Michael Tomasky
So George W. Bush, reports Politico, is laying low these days, avoiding the spotlight that shone briefly on his father and his brother Jeb recently as they endorsed Mitt Romney’s candidacy. This whole subject of the post-Bush GOP and its relationship to No. 43 is pretty fascinating. Like a crazy, drunk uncle shooting an epileptic dog because he has fleas, the current GOP shuns him for all the wrong reasons. Since the GOP will presumably spend the next few months trying to pretend the man never existed, Democrats ought to remind people that he did. In fact, the Democratic Party should spend the next 20 years talking about Bush, turning him into the new Jimmy Carter and making the memory of those eight squalid years quadrennially fresh to everyone with living memory of them for as long as is humanly possible.
Bush, Politico notes, “is in a self-imposed political exile.” Perhaps predictably, Ari Fleischer pops up to note that that’s a lowdown dirty shame because Bush “kept us safe” through a perilous time and oversaw a booming economy in between two recessions. These claims aren’t even worth spitting out one’s cornflakes over, let alone rebutting. But merely as a point of information, people should know that the economy didn’t exactly boom from 2002 to 2008, except of course for the 1 percent of the population the policies were designed to aid. Bush’s job-growth record was the worst of any president going back to the Depression. The table you can see here goes back to Truman. Obviously, Roosevelt grew jobs at a fairly significant rate, since unemployment under him went from 24 percent to essentially zero during the height of the war. So you have to go back, I’d suppose, to Herbert Hoover to find someone who did worse than Bush’s .01 percent growth in jobs per year.
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Democrats really need to keep Bush in the frame here. And Dick Cheney. I know everyone says “but elections are about the future.” Well, maybe. But the Bush years were so uniquely bad, so plainly and emphatically horrible on so many fronts for such a vast majority of citizens, that to fail to mention the era would just be missing a free whack. It would be the equivalent of someone trying to slag Halle Berry without mentioning Catwoman. Very often, people—especially Democratic people—overthink politics and worry too much about how people are going to react. But this one is simple. Bush really just stank up the joint for eight years. Mention him, and the pundit class might bray about it, but most people will react by thinking: Yeah, that guy really just stank up the joint for eight years.
I often wonder about what Bush himself thinks. Does he know, deep down, what a failure he was? He must. We all tell ourselves stories that try to put a good face on things. And any president or governor can come up with a list of good deeds accomplished, so maybe he leans on those, waiting patiently for the day when, because people’s memories are short and because some rich Texas buddies undoubtedly stand ready to pour millions into a PR-rehabilitation campaign when they sense the time is right, he can reemerge in the public eye, smirk intact, smiting Democrats like in the good old days of 2002. Democrats must make sure that that rehabilitation never, ever happens.
MORE:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/03/george-w-bush-barack-obama-s-best-friend-in-the-2012-election.html
Mitt Romney tries to self-deport everything he's ever said about immigration reform
Mitt Romney on immigration: January 23, 2012 vs. April 2, 2012
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/03/1080190/-Mitt-Romney-tries-to-self-deport-everything-he-s-ever-said-about-immigration-reform
http://univisionnews.tumblr.com/post/20372584463/romney-obama-break-immigration-promise
Van Jones: We must challenge directly the flaws and limitations of cheap patriotism.
The 99 Percent for the 100 Percent: The Case for Deep Patriotism
Van Jones April 2, 2012
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Cheap Patriotism
We must challenge directly the flaws and limitations of cheap patriotism. Left unchallenged, this shrunken, negative and limited version of American values is perhaps the most dangerous ideology in the country.
Please note: the real fight is not between “liberals versus conservatives.” I purposely do not call the advocates of cheap patriotism “conservative.” After all, conservatives conserve things; they don’t smash things. These cheap patriots have taken a wrecking ball—painted it red, white and blue—and now are trying to smash down every institution that made America great. Our parents and grandparents fought for certain protections—for laborers, for the environment, to restrict corporations—because they saw the devastation that occurs without those safety measures. The cheap patriots want to destroy their achievements. They want to smash down the safety net, public schools, worker’s rights, civil rights, women’s rights—even the scientific method and rational discourse. They want to flush down the toilet all of the wisdom of the last century—and yet they still be called “conservatives.” I don’t think we should pay them that compliment.
They insist that the government is trying to take over the economy. In fact, the very opposite thing is happening: the corporations are trying to take over our government. And the ultra-libertarian ideology of the Tea Party offers us no defenses against that outcome. In other words, the real threat to our liberty is gathering around conference tables in the boardrooms of global corporations. A purely negative, “don’t tread on me” version of economic liberty—the unrestrained free market, at all costs—actually makes it harder for the country to defend itself from corporate domination.
Their agenda would essentially hand the United States over to global corporations to do with us as they will, in the name of the free market. Their version of liberty creates a society in which the market is free—and the people are not. Their version of liberty actually ensures and guarantees domination. Not domination on the part of the government, but an equally pernicious form of domination on the part of corporations that will quickly wind up owning the government.
the rest:
http://www.thenation.com/article/167172/99-percent-100-percent-case-deep-patriotism
Repealing ‘Obamacare’ Would Explode Debt, Says Government Auditor
Source: Talking Points Memo
Repealing ‘Obamacare’ Would Explode Debt, Says Government Auditor
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A new report by an independent government auditor concludes that implementing President Obama’s health care law as intended will make a significant dent in the long-term debt forecast.
The report comes as Supreme Court justices weigh striking some of “Obamacare’s” central provisions — and perhaps the law in its entirety — and as the Republican Party remains committed to repealing the law if it seizes control of government in November.
“If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is implemented as intended it would have a major effect on the (fiscal) gap but would not eliminate it,” the Government Accountability Office wrote in a Monday report — a conclusion in line with its own past research and similar research conducted by other government and non-government analysts.
Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/repealing-obamacare-would-explode-debt-government-auditor.php
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