How did it give Democrats and President Obama heartburn? How can anyone possibly justify voting in favor of letting defense contractors protect rapists via “arbitration”?
Because a lot of defense contractors use arbitration, and by design most Senators represent major defense contractors. The arbitration issue wasn’t the biggest outrage, it was the rape, and franken’s bill wouldn’t have reduced rape so much as give lawyers a new opportunity to make some cash. So calling it an anti-rape bill was manipulative and dishonest. But it was brilliant politics, because it not only did Republicans get hurt by the debate, they also failed to stop it.
I found plenty, using this as my source.
I think those who are concerned about the deficit would be opposed to making permanent the major cause of the deficit. Those who support fairness would oppose elimination of the Estate Tax.
Whine whine whine. What they don’t say is how many corporations don’t pay a dime in taxes, despite the rates.
If you’re a gold bug, music to your ears. If you realize the hazards of the gold standard, not so much.
Union members would beg to differ.
We want to be on the wrong side of history.
We want to put barriers in place to discourage Democratic voters.
We want our mass murderers to be the best-equipped mass murderers in the world.
We want compulsory pregnancies.
A piece of cloth is more important than free speech.
Ta ta to Medicare.
We believe in the form of racism known as American exceptionalism.
There of course is much much more in this despicable platform for any thinking person to be offended by.
I assume by “stepped in it” you’re referring to Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock’s now-infamous statements, which the Democrats capitalized on.
If this was all there was to the perception of the GOP being anti-woman, I might be sympathetic, but the record shows otherwise. For the past 30 years, the GOP line on social ills has revolved around the breakdown of the American family–specifically, that women needed to reject feminism in order to assume their role in the family as a civilizing influence on husbands and sons (ever heard of George Gilder?).
More recently, the GOP House acted to de-fund Planned Parenthood in 2010, and while Mississippi placed a personhood proposition on the state ballot in 2011, 63 House GOP members sponsored the Sanctity of Human Life Act. Whether or not one agrees with the aim of these measures, they are clearly an attempt to deny women specifically rights that were guaranteed under Roe v. Wade.
Just this weekend, the GOP nominated VA state senator Mark Obenshain for state AG, a man who proposed the following state bill in 2009, which would essentially force women to report miscarriages or face a criminal penalty:
It seems you want to believe that the characterization of the GOP as anti-woman comes wholly from a few “bad apples” with wacky ideas and the rhetoric of Democrats who unfairly demagogue them. It seems more likely that there is a quiet assumption about the role of women that is dominant in the GOP–one that many of them might not even recognize as anti-woman–that occasionally flares into view when one of them forgets the political consequences of following their assumptions to a logical conclusion.
But…but…but…
Those fucking whores of Babylon should face consequences for their sluttish choices.
After all, they might have misled good Christian men* into straying from the purity of their marriages. Fortunately, those men are generally married to good Christian women who are too obedient to God’s holy will to leave their husband.
- Who, being only human (and men) should be forgiven their transgressions and reelected - lest the godless heathen Democrats take over and…something bad. Really, REALLY bad!
Whoaahhhh Nelly!!!
Republicans want their butts stomped in Virginia Governor race.
Here’s their candidate for Lt Governor alongside Cuccinnelli who is quite right wing extreme his self.
Jackson on gays and lesbians:
Referred to gays and lesbians as “perverted,” “degenerate,” “spiritually darkened” and “frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally.”
Said regarding homosexuality: “it poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of.”
Argued that gays seek to “sexualize [children] at the earliest possible age” and use “totalitarian” tactics.
Claimed gays are hurting black women: “I’ve heard a lot of young black ladies that a lot of young black men seem to be gay. I’ve heard them complain about it, they say ‘so many of these guys are homosexuals’ and they are frankly frustrated by it.”
Demanded the reinstitution of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell : “The military has been decimated by this lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender policy that has now been implemented. It’s an abomination and it’s only going to weaken us militarily and they need to undo it,” warning that the policy’s repeal is a “disaster of historic proportions.”
Contended that homosexuality is “killing black men by the thousands” and said of gay rights advocates: “what they’re promoting is killing people.”
Called GLSEN founder and anti-bullying activist Kevin Jennings a “radical homosexual activist” who should have been “imprisoned” in a letter demanding he resign as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.
Said there is a “direct connection” between gays and pedophilia.
Jackson on Obama and Democrats:
Wondered how the Democratic Party “managed to hold on to black Christians in spite of an agenda worthy of the Antichrist.”
Proclaimed that “the Democrat Party has shown itself to be anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-family, anti-life and anti-God… We’re calling people to come out of the Democrat Party and not support candidates who represent its values and the rebellion that it represents against God. That certainly would include President Barack Obama.”
Claimed that Democratic Party supporters are “insulting their faith and blaspheming their God” by supporting a “coalition of the godless.”
Warned that ministers who support Obama “are going to have to answer to God” if they encourage “their congregations to support this abomination.”
Said Democrats believe “that the Bible is a lie and indeed they are saying that God is a liar.”
Argued that “liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.”
Maintained that Obama “seems to have a lot of sympathy for even radical Islam” and argued that Obama “certainly does have a lot of affection and favor for Islam, that seems to be his priority…Christianity, I don’t really think about that with him, I really don’t, that’s a joke.”
Compared Democratic leaders to “slave masters” who make sure that black people who disagree with them are “punished.”
Insisted that Planned Parenthood “has been far more lethal to Black lives than the KKK ever was.”
Predicted that African Americans will “overwhelmingly” vote against Obama as a result of his endorsement of marriage equality and a move of God to “stir the hearts of His people” and push them against the Democrats.
This isn’t true. The GOP’s position is far to the right of a majority of women as they believe in right to life legislation. Women are overwhelmingly for contraception including the pill, and the GOP is against it. It’s not just a few Republicans makes stupid rape comments it’s all of them pushing legislation women aren’t OK with.
Leaving aside this silly attempt to rewrite history regarding when African-Americans completely abandoned the Republican Party, to answer the OP, since polls show the scandals have done nothing to hurt Obama, there’s no reason to think it will hurt the Democrats in the mid-term elections.
Not sure that’s actually true. While it hasn’t hurt Obama directly, things like this can have effects on down-ticket races (mostly related to turnout numbers that tend to get diluted in national contests). You can’t automatically translate Obama’s approval numbers to Senate and House races (good or ill).
Further, the impact of continued GOP gerrymandering has not yet fully been felt. We’ll see but this will be a tough election for the Democrats.
So senators opposed it because of their conflict of interest, therefore you opposed it?
Speaking of manipulative and dishonest, how about forcing rape victims through arbitration instead of being able to take their attackers to court because you think some lawyers might make money?
In the 1998 Congressional elections, there was a Democratic President (Clinton), but the Democrats gained five seats.
Major reason: people were sick of Monica-gate and impeachment. People would generally prefer if the folks in Congress would just do their jobs. When W was President, nobody wanted to hear about Alberto Gonzalez firing any prosecutor who wouldn’t bring a politically-based prosecution for voter fraud, or criticize W’s preposterous failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, or cry about the feds secretly reading a reporter’s emails. But now, sure, Republicans “really care” about the IRS, Benghazi consulate attacks, and press freedom?
Scandal-mongering is a dead-end for the Republicans, as demonstrated by recent history, and these “scandals” are clearly just targets of opportunity for Republicans, who would otherwise be on the complete opposite side of these very same issues, as also demonstrated by recent history. It’s not just LIKE they think we’re stupid.
Boo hoo, “special preferences.” The narrative of White Southern Christian victimhood hasn’t changed since the “Lost Cause” years of the 19th Century.
“They’re comin’ down here with their miscegenation, integration, equal rights, socialized medicine, gay marriage, welfare queens, illegal immigrants, takin’ our guns, interfering with our worship, DESTROYING OUR WAY OF LIFE!!! WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION!!!”
Does it ever get OLD?
It’s just the same old selfserving lie - portraying the removal of one’s systemic advantages as being the *imposition *of systemic disadvantages.
And every white or Asian person who gets denied a spot in the school they wanted despite excellent test scores and grades becomes a Republican.
Do they get a notice in the mail telling them that?
I find it hard to believe that being denied for a position in school somehow destroys a person’s ability to reason so bad that they become Republican.
This depends on whether the Left and the main stream journalists ever decide to stand up and fight against right wing lies and falsehoods which are now proven to be lies and falsehoods that come not from the right wing mobs but at the very top.
The following was printed in the Washington Times on October 3, 2012 and it falls in with the right wing hysteria and attacks on Susan Rice’s visit to the Sunday talk show circuit.
On another thread Adahar agrees that Susan Rice did not blame the attacks on the movie, She blamed it on Extremists.
That is a judgment that Co. Ken Allard could have made immediately … no need to be entirely wrong.
We do know that Allard is wrong about Susan Rice don’t we?
This is why Benghazi is dead as a scandal. It is mostly made up of right wing fabrications and has nowhere to go because of it.
If you had higher scores than someone who did get in because of racial preferences, that will tend to make you dislike racial preferences. that’s perfectly rational.
Same goes for promotions in companies. get passed over enough despite being better qualified and that will change your views as well.
What, did you think whites moving steadily more and more into the GOP camp was coincidence? A statistical abberation?
Kinda depends, doesn’t it? Are Hispanics “white”? How about Asians? Jews? If you are not willing to define your terms, perhaps you shouldn’t use them?
Well, white Hispanics are white. We saw that with the Zimmerman case. Jews have been the victims of quotas for over 150 years.
Oh, well, sure, white Hispanics are white. Nobody doubts that. White asians are white too, I suppose. Jews are technically white… No, no, don’t put the shovel down, this is just getting good…