What War On Women? cont...

April 10th, 2012

As a result of the ongoing war on women, which exists no matter how much senior Republicans are now scrambling to deny it, the gap between support among American women voters for President Obama and Mitt Romney has grown wildly. Yesterday, Herman Cain was asked about this on Fox and explained the numbers as follows:

"I think many men are much more familiar with the failed policies than a lot of other people, as well as the general public."

You read that right.

What War On Women?

April 9th, 2012

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That's the official GOP line; there is no "war on women."

Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called it a "manufactured issue".

He went so far as to presume that high ranking Republican women agree with him:

"There is no issue. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine, I think, would be the first to say — and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — ‘We don’t see any evidence of this.' "

Really?

Rush Limbaugh's "70 Sexist Smears"

March 9th, 2012

I thought it would be more.

Not Good Enough, Rush. Not Good Enough At All

March 5th, 2012

Frum's Bullshit-Detector is pinned

Again, one of my conservative heroes steps up to the plate. He also hits it out of the park.

Regarding Rush's phony "apology," David Frum gives what may be the most dignified smackdown in recent political history.

He has four points over at CNN regarding the Limbaugh/Fluke spectacle that all ring true:

"Point 1: Even by the rough standards of cable/talk radio/digital talk, Limbaugh's verbal abuse of Sandra Fluke set a new kind of low. I can't recall anything as brutal, ugly and deliberate ever being said by such a prominent person and so emphatically repeated. This was not a case of a bad "word choice." It was a brutally sexualized accusation, against a specific person, prolonged over three days.

Rush's Rank Hubris

March 5th, 2012

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Well. Apparently poor, little Rush is quite saddened that no one fell for his "apology."

He took to the air today to tell everyone that he really, really, honest to goodness meant it.

Really.

But, being the slop-swilling propagandist, egomaniac and narcissistic fiend that he is, he had to explain that his real transgression last week was, in the words of Politico's MJ Lee, "stooping down to the level of Democrats in discussing the issue of contraception coverage."

Uh huh. Right. It's really the fault of the left that he couldn't contain himself. So much for the party of "personal responsibility."

Limbaugh: "In fighting them on this issue last week, I became like them. Against my own instincts, against my own knowledge, against everything I know to be right and wrong, I descended to their level when I used those two words to describe Sandra Fluke. That was my error. I became like them."

Sure, he "apologized" for calling her "those two words."

You know? "Slut" and "prostitute?"

That just leaves the other fifty individual smears upon Sandra Fluke's character and humanity he has yet to address. Yeah, some folks are counting.

Also, when you follow an apology with a "but?" It's not an apology.

The sponsors continue to flee and the pressure isn't letting up. Nor should it. With any luck, this is the beginning of the end for his vicious, over-ripe festival of lies.

One more time, remember how this all started:

An educated and informed American woman had the audacity to speak publicly after the elected GOP leadership said she was "not qualified" to do so.