So Romney’s grand education plan is to lay off teachers, bankrupt unions, and substitute them by offering online courses to kids?

Really Mittens?

Really?

Your idea is to educate our kids by having them regurgitate an effing script on a computer screen, and somehow that’s supposed to prepare them to enter the job market and obtain a college education?

For me, the knowledge that Republicans cut funding for headstart, pre-k education, and are trying to cut billions for school lunch programs tells me all I need to know about how much they really value education. (And they blocked bills that would have eliminated tax benefits for Big Oil and NASCAR.)

4 ♥ 05.23.12

Uh oh, austerity has fucked up the UK Economy even worse than first estimated…

Not only did austerity give them a double-dip recession, record unemployment, and record inflation… but apparently it’s even worse than they estimated.

Thank you, radical conservatives. Tell me more about how cutting spending and not increasing revenue is going to fix the mess you created?

1 ♥ 05.12.12

Those 31 Republican men who voted against the Violence Against Women Act.

It seems to me that those votes are even more horrid in light of the fact that they pay lip service to a prophet that physically interceded himself to stop violence against women, according to the stories. (Not that it’s any surprise to see such hypocrisy from Republicans.)

And the same dumb jesus freaks are going to vote for these guys and buy the spin that voting against VAWA was okay because it was a strike back at lesbians.

2 ♥ 04.26.12

Dear Senator Blunt,

Why would any woman vote for you after you’ve voted against the Violence Against Women Act and engineered the effort to empower employers to deny them birth control?

You are a horrible person, and I can’t wait to see sputter when you try to rebut the campaign ads on this shit come reelection time.

3 ♥ 04.26.12

A short list of things that radical conservatives have done to piss me off in the past year and a half.

Refusing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act to spit in the face of lesbians.
Subverting cancer charities to ensure that women cannot receive information on how to prevent pregnancies, medicines that help them prevent said pregnancies, and abortions in an effort to punish them when the unprotected sex they have results in a pregnancy.
Using our legislative chambers to force the country not to pay its bills so they can blame invariable economic decline on Barack Obama and win the White House, economic decline that resulted from the policies of his predecessor.
Working to pass laws that censor discussion of gay people despite the fact that said policies endanger students, encourage bullying, and lead to a rise in teen suicides.
Blindly supporting laws that grant legal immunity to people who’d rather shoot someone than resolve an argument peacefully.
Doing their damndest to end bans on child labor, despite the fact that history has demonstrated such bans prevent child abuse.
Spending their time trying to redefine rape and pass laws encouraging the murder of abortion doctors, because they honestly believe women to be expendable.
Have put forth several presidential candidates who openly admit they do not care about the poor and starving in this country and will cut the social programs that help these people survive in favor of spreading American warfare and handing out more charitable tax benefits to their golf buddies.

If you are anything other than a rich person, I can’t for the life of me understand why you would vote Republican. I understand that the Democrats don’t always measure up either, but what justification is there for these laws?

5 ♥ 04.23.12

Another day in a Republican-Dominated State has me waking up to a state legislator endorsing hate speech.

Here’s the offending post. (It has such Republican staples as equating same-sex marriage with legalized perversion, equating taxes with legalized theft, and there’s a particular gem that equates ‘assault and battery’ with ‘attitude adjustment’.) That this person is a legislator in my state makes me particularly angry.

Here’s the letter I just sent Donna Lichtenegger in response to her pose:

Good morning, Ms. Lichtenegger.

I had the misfortune this morning to see the item you posted on your facebook page endorsing hate speech, and I am extremely disappointed to see statements like this receiving an endorsement from an elected official of the state in which I reside.

Would you be able to explain to me how you could possibly equate violence against someone as an ‘attitude adjustment’? According to the laws of Missouri, using violent means to settle a dispute is illegal in most cases. As adults, we have words and thoughts, and society largely expects that we should settle disputes using those, and for good reason. Endorsing vigilante violence, as we’ve seen recently, is an extremely slippery slope.

I’d also like to know how you equate taxes with ‘legalized theft’. I don’t know about you, but I rather enjoy the benefits that taxation brings. Better hospitals, roads, police and fire services, military protection, and in your case, a salary. Are you therefore stealing from me in accepting a taxpayer-funded salary, Ms. Lichtenegger? Being that your salary is funded by what you call ‘legalized theft’, I trust you will take every cent you receive from the state and return it so it can be distributed among the taxpayers from whom it was ‘stolen’.

And, equating multicultural areas with high-crime areas? Could you be more blatantly racist, and how is this at all acceptable for a legislator to say?

The cherry on top of this hate speech is your equating same-sex marriage with ‘legalized perversion’. I fail to see what’s perverted about two adults wanting to receive the same rights and privileges as their heterosexual counterparts when they enter into a lifelong, legal partnership. Furthermore, as someone who has had to pull a ‘Christian’ off of a gay person that they were assaulting in their hate, I know personally how damaging and harmful it is to say such things, especially in your position as an elected official. Your endorsement of this speech, to some, is a validation of their hate and prejudice.

Respectfully, you have the constitutional right to think and say what you wish, but I ask that you reconsider your blatant endorsement of hate speech.

I appreciate your time.

Sincerely,

Ryan Stevens

04.06.12

‘Huge shift’ among female voters gives Obama lead in battleground states

There is often a gender gap between the two political parties, with woman voters tending to favor the Democrats while a majority of men support Republican candidates. In recent weeks, however, as the Republican Party has become embroiled in the contraception issue, that gap has widened into an abyss.

Please please please keep attacking women as blatantly and hatefully as possible, Republicans. Your strategy is working swimmingly.

1919 ♥ 04.01.12

ohmisskay:
To everybody who says Obama inherited Bush’s “mess”. Your argument is invalid.

It’s cute when conservatives set aside their coloring books and crayons and try to make a point about politics. With that said, I can’t believe I have to counter this bullshit, but here goes:
Obama has no control over the national credit rating, and it’s a consensus that our national credit rating was lowered because of Republican gamesmanship regarding the debt ceiling negotiations. It’s a rather risky proposition to try and force the country to default on its bills, as the Republicans attempted to do.
Secondly, unemployment. Smear Obama’s job record all you want, but unemployment is directly correlated with the dismal economy that resulted from the Bush Administration, and Obama’s done something neither Bush did, he’s created jobs in energy and manufacturing throughout his entire presidency. As much as you want to blame Obama, he doesn’t own a recession that resulted directly from his predecessor’s actions.
Gas, yes. Both parties love to use this to smear the other, but as others have pointed out, the President has little to no affect on gas prices. The high gas prices we’re currently experiencing are the result of rampant speculation in the market.
$15 Trillion in debt. Can’t argue it, we’ve spent a shitload of money. However, we can argue that the spending has actually saved our economy, given the fact that the United Kingdom and other European countries that enacted ‘austerity’ policies are experiencing record unemployment and disastrously putrid economic activity. We should have spent more, but the Republicans fucked that up too.
Three wars? Really? Iraq is over, and you should be thankful to the president for cleaning up that god-awful mess. The Libyan operation is over, and the US strategy shortened that conflict and saved us billions of dollars. Afghanistan is winding down, and hopefully, that other mess Bush left us will soon be concluded.
99 weeks of unemployment: First off, BOTH PARTIES signed off on this, and secondly, I see nothing wrong with workers who spent decades in the work force receiving value for the taxes they paid in the form of unemployment. As you might recall, Republicans signed off on it because doing so gave them tax breaks that benefit the wealthiest classes the most, the tax cuts we’re driving ourselves further into debt to finance.
No annual budget: Call me when the Republican Party is willing to negotiate like fucking adults. Until they are, it isn’t happening.
Further, I should add that this bullshit is unnecessary. Mitch McConnell has already admitted, on national television no less, that all they care about is getting the black fella out of the White House, and they’ve demonstrated that they’re willing to destroy the country to do it, as evidenced by their attempt to force the government not to pay its fucking bills

ohmisskay:

To everybody who says Obama inherited Bush’s “mess”. Your argument is invalid.

It’s cute when conservatives set aside their coloring books and crayons and try to make a point about politics. With that said, I can’t believe I have to counter this bullshit, but here goes:

Obama has no control over the national credit rating, and it’s a consensus that our national credit rating was lowered because of Republican gamesmanship regarding the debt ceiling negotiations. It’s a rather risky proposition to try and force the country to default on its bills, as the Republicans attempted to do.
Secondly, unemployment. Smear Obama’s job record all you want, but unemployment is directly correlated with the dismal economy that resulted from the Bush Administration, and Obama’s done something neither Bush did, he’s created jobs in energy and manufacturing throughout his entire presidency. As much as you want to blame Obama, he doesn’t own a recession that resulted directly from his predecessor’s actions.
Gas, yes. Both parties love to use this to smear the other, but as others have pointed out, the President has little to no affect on gas prices. The high gas prices we’re currently experiencing are the result of rampant speculation in the market.
$15 Trillion in debt. Can’t argue it, we’ve spent a shitload of money. However, we can argue that the spending has actually saved our economy, given the fact that the United Kingdom and other European countries that enacted ‘austerity’ policies are experiencing record unemployment and disastrously putrid economic activity. We should have spent more, but the Republicans fucked that up too.
Three wars? Really? Iraq is over, and you should be thankful to the president for cleaning up that god-awful mess. The Libyan operation is over, and the US strategy shortened that conflict and saved us billions of dollars. Afghanistan is winding down, and hopefully, that other mess Bush left us will soon be concluded.
99 weeks of unemployment: First off, BOTH PARTIES signed off on this, and secondly, I see nothing wrong with workers who spent decades in the work force receiving value for the taxes they paid in the form of unemployment. As you might recall, Republicans signed off on it because doing so gave them tax breaks that benefit the wealthiest classes the most, the tax cuts we’re driving ourselves further into debt to finance.
No annual budget: Call me when the Republican Party is willing to negotiate like fucking adults. Until they are, it isn’t happening.

Further, I should add that this bullshit is unnecessary. Mitch McConnell has already admitted, on national television no less, that all they care about is getting the black fella out of the White House, and they’ve demonstrated that they’re willing to destroy the country to do it, as evidenced by their attempt to force the government not to pay its fucking bills

96 ♥ 03.17.12

"Gone are the days when the Republican party used to put forward big, bold, visionary stuff. You know, I thought about Eisenhower and the Interstate. I thought about 40 years ago, this month when Richard Nixon stepped off the plane in China and changed the world by that balance of power relationship. You think about Ronald Reagan, you know, bringing an end to the Cold War. A lot of big, bold, visionary stuff locked up in the history of the Republican party and I see zero evidence of people getting out there and addressing the economic deficit which is a national security problem for heaven’s sake and addressing the trust deficit."

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— Jon Huntsman

(via jonhuntsmanjr)

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It is extremely unfortunate that the Republican Party allowed it’s to be infiltrated and ultimately overrun by brainless, sociopathic demagogues, who would rather spend two years willfully driving the country into the ground to win one freaking election than doing everything in their power to help the tens of millions who’ve lost their jobs in the Bush Recession.

But that’s the Republican Party. If we want them out of power, we have to make it happen.

257 ♥ 03.08.12

Women, why do any of you vote Republican?

To me, it’s a wonder that any women vote GOP.

This year alone, we’ve seen a man who treated multiple ex-wives like dog poo polling high enough to be considered a serious contender for the Republican nomination. We’ve seen Republican lawmakers bar women from hearings on access to birth control at the federal and state level. What Rush did was vile and disgusting, but it’s part for the course with the Republican Party, so in the end, are you really that surprised at his behavior?

How can you be, when we’re seeing the Republican Party (yet again) purposefully, unilaterally, and unapologetically attacking womens rights?

7 ♥ 03.05.12

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