HUMMMMMMM women have a magical power to prevent pregnancy when we are raped.....gee my mother forgot to teach me how that is done. I guess it is when you know your are about to be raped....You say, wait a minute, I need to put an aspirin between my knees......Republican men are really well informed aren't they?

Don't drop the aspirin!

Mmm mmm mmm mmm (me laughing at your comment, Mom)! I knew soon or later women were going to let him have it! Women, you put up with sO much from your "sons"!! These rascals would not even be here if not for a woman.

Women deserve respect. I mean this from the heart.

Yoder, yoder, yoder.......akin, akin akin......republican can't defend them anymore. And these are the people they want to vote into office to represent this country. No respect, no respect, nor respect......

LOL

I could never expect as an Army career NCO to be allowed to say things like Mr Akin said and not expect to be reprimanded and forced out of the service. You just can not talk anywhere in public like this. Women are human beings and as a male you just can not talk like this without something awful happening to you. Its worse for a public official because everyday you will face things that will make you angry but you can not speak angrily because you are in the Senate and represent many millions of people from a state. Mr. Akin has proven himself unqualified for public office. He should resign from Congress too. No one in the military can expect to say the things he said and expect to have a job the next day. Why does Missouri run a clown like this for the U.S. Senate?

Not all Missourians think like that..the scariest problem to me is the many, many, many, uptight & unforgiving views of 'over the edge' religious leaders in Kansas & Missouri. And YES..alot of them are completely nuts. We have to fight much harder than usual here to defend basic womens healthcare and women's rights & that is really sad. Many of their views are nothing more than a step above accusing free-thinking women of witchcraft. Those are the one's who spread more hate & intolerance than the people they target. They really are pretty scary because there are so many of them.

Biden was making a comment on the Republicans "unshackle industry" statements and went with "unchain industry...no they'll chain you." He should have gone with shackle instead of chain but it was a comment on a Republican commentary.

Akin was actually stating a belief that he has backed up with legislation that incidentally was co-sponsored by Paul Ryan. That wasn't a gaffe but an actual assault on women's rights and a justification of a policy of acceptance of violence towards women backed up by real legislation.

No misunderstanding there at all, just misdirection by guys like you.

Which apparently UnReal can't move on from, as he suggests.

One really stupid comment that he references to a doctor and cosponsors in written legislature with Paul Ryan does not count as one mistake. That counts as stupidity. A tremendous number of Republic men seem to believe an aspirin between your knees will keep you from getting pregnant.....which of course is just quaint way of describing an abstanence program...

Trust me, pal. You can get a woman pregnant with the aspirin firmly in place.

Experience? :)

No one says anything that ignorant with such details 'by accident'.....

They have a huge vat labeled REPUBLICAN WHACKOS and you have to climb down in there and scrape them off the bottom, bring 'em up, clean 'em off and program 'em with every Fox talking point ever uttered. Then turn 'em loose on an unsuspecting world!

10 Trillion of that which was from republican rule. How convenient you forget to mention that. You the party of no...Convenient that we were losing over 700,000 jobs in 2008 and now we have 34 straight months of job growth. We don't have to rehash what a horrible job Romney/Ryan will do as they are Bush on steroids. Get a life 2ez

Your statements are the typical gop distortions of reality on the debt?, on unemployment?, housing crisis?-is Obama now blamed for another Bush era debacle?

Get your limbaugh hip boots on for yet another excursion into Loony Swamp!

I haven't heard any Republican say, "I refused to vote for every single jobs bill that came across my desk and refused to propose any of my own, even though that's what I promised I'd do for you my fellow Republicans, 2 years ago," or "We Republicans are responsible for laying of 650,000 government workers over the last 2 years and now were at the same level of government workers that we were in 1968, which is a great thing when so many people are out of work and our population is almost double what it was back then right?" How about, "I refused to let the Bush tax cuts expire even though that's what we Republican's promised we'd do when we originally passed them 8 years ago and we know Clinton balanced our budget and gave us a surplus before we ruined all that with those tax cuts."

What about the fact that McConnell, Ryan and others met the night of Obama's inauguration to form a 'non-conformity' pact; to obstruct every effort of the Obama administration to save the economy? What about that? Doesn't that bother you at all? And how is that not treason? You Republicans just can't or won't take your blinders off, will you?

Barry increased the debt to a higher level in 3 years than GW Bush did in 8 years

and

Welcome to Obama’s America: nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return—almost exactly the same proportion that lives in a household where at least one member receives some type of government benefit. We are becoming the 50–50 nation—half of us paying the taxes, the other half receiving the benefits.

The POTUS has DECREASED spending more than any president going back to and including Reagan. The debt is high because the Republicans in Congress refuse to increase taxes, or pass jobs legislation as well as keep authorizing huge costs for our wars.

You seem to think the President controls the budget. Perhaps he should dissolve the Congress and do their job for them? Not such a bad idea since these Republicans in this Congress are the most worthless highest paid, pension/healthcare receiving government workers in our history!

You're right though, The middle class are paying all the taxes while the rich and the corporations are not only paying zero they are getting entitlements back.

@unreal: Here we go again with the much debunked talking points that just won't die, no matter how many times they're disproved.

Obama increased the nation debt more in 3 years than Bush did in 8. Wrong.

http://tinyurl.com/9zd9ovy

New York Times chart showing how the debt got to be $14 trillion and which president was responsible for what percentage.

http://tinyurl.com/8fopz4b

Politifact examines the claims that the national debt doubled under Bush, giving a rating of 'mostly true.' Good overall look at the national debt.

Fifty percent of Americans don't pay taxes. Again, that's wrong. If you add the words federal income to that, then it becomes true, but strangely enough, the normal perception that these are the poor, working or not, is not factual. While 60% of that number do make less than $20,000 a year, the greatest growing segment of those not paying federal income taxes are in the $75,000 to $100,000 annual income group. That same percentage of those not paying also includes 1,400 millionaires. Yes, the tax code needs reworked.

http://tinyurl.com/3z2klpu

USA Today look report on who pays and who doesn't.

As for the argument that the wealty pay more in taxes than the bottom 98%, that's only true if you look at actual dollar amounts. 1% of $1,000,000 is more in actual dollars than 12% of $50,000, but how do you argue that's a fair percentage of income paid?

I'm actually getting tired of posting this, but I decided I'd do it every time conservatives lie about the debt:

From the Wall Street Journal:

Obama spending binge never happened

Rex Nutting

Commentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s

May 22, 2012|Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.

As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.”

Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.

But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.

Even hapless Herbert Hoover managed to increase spending more than Obama has.

Here are the facts, according to the official government statistics:

• In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget.

• In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.

• In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.

• In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.

• Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO’s latest budget outlook.

Over Obama’s four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%.

There has been no huge increase in spending under the current president, despite what you hear.

Why do people think Obama has spent like a drunken sailor? It’s in part because of a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal budget.

What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress. The president only begins to shape the budget in his second year. It takes time to develop a budget and steer it through Congress — especially in these days of congressional gridlock.

The 2009 fiscal year, which Republicans count as part of Obama’s legacy, began four months before Obama moved into the White House. The major spending decisions in the 2009 fiscal year were made by George W. Bush and the previous Congress.

Like a relief pitcher who comes into the game with the bases loaded, Obama came in with a budget in place that called for spending to increase by hundreds of billions of dollars in response to the worst economic and financial calamity in generations.

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor

Rex Nutting has some credibility issues, he likes to twist the numbers to his advantage.

Funny how one moron attracts another. I guess you make each other feel safe.

The top five earning corporations (all with record earnings - thank you Obama), paid NEGATIVE taxes, that is zero in taxes and got back millions in taxpayer "entitlements."

The difference here is those are really entitlements since they paid NOTHING into the system.

Medicare and Medicaid are not entitlements. They are insurance policies we pay for. Social Security is a PENSION program we pay into.

Only the rich receive "entitlements," because they feel they are entitled to our taxes.

Further this issue has been long decided in Roe v. Wade but the Republican party keeps on refusing to acknowledge this by passing hundreds of pieces of legislation in violation of this decision simply to force other Americans to conform to their own religious beliefs. The Republican party has become a right wing theocratic institution plain and simple, just like any theocratic government in the middle east.

Roe v. Wade was a court decision that established a woman's right to an abortion in a specific context and regarding a specific case and a specific law. Supreme court decisions don't write legislation, and don't typically result in broad sweeps of legislative authority.

You saying that the GOP has "become a right wing theocratic institution" doesn't make that true. It makes it your opinion.

You don't have to be Christian, or religious at all, to believe that life begins at conception. You can be a complete atheist, a post-modernist, and even a (gasp!) democrat, and hold that belief quite dearly. And if you believe that life begins at conception, that those are "little people" that we kill by the hundreds of thousands as a society, then you feel a moral obligation to try and stop that within the bounds of our legal system.

That's Todd Akin. The problem with Todd Akin isn't that he believes that life begins at conception and that he feels that it's a moral obligation to protect those without a voice that others can so easily kill without any moral compunction. Todd Akin's problem is that he's an absolutist in only seeing those murders without having real empathy for the women who have unwanted pregnancies. Empathy matters. He showed that he's both an idiot, and an idealogue with his statement.

But your statement is just as absolute and idealogical as his.

The fact remains that the Republicans have passed hundreds of anti-abortion laws all of which get challenged in court and ALL of which get overturned BECAUSE Roe guarantees that the government is not allowed to restrict the right of women to have access to abortions.

You can believe what you want to believe. If you get pregnant don't get an abortion. For that matter don't use birth control and remain chaste until you get married or become a nun. I don't care. But when YOU start forcing others to follow your religious beliefs in violation of the courts findings and the freedoms of others than you are a theocrat. That IS the law, that IS the definition of theocracy.

YOU obviously have a problem with democracy, freedom and liberty.

Yes I am idealogical. I believe in American democracy. I and my family have fought for it for generations. That is the difference between me, you and your Republican party.

They most obviously don't "all get overturned", as many of them are standing law.

I'm so glad to have your permission to believe what I want to believe. Your tolerance of my right to believe what I want to believe is appreciated.

I had no idea you knew me and my family so well as to know what we have and haven't done, what we have and haven't fought for, what we believe in, etc. And you've very quickly decided what I "have problems" with. You seem to have a grasp of all things. I'll bow out now. You clearly know everything. What more is there to say?

Most intelligent comment from a right-winger I've ever read.

They are "standing law" while they are pending challenges in court. The fact is not a single one has actually withstood the challenge once they have gone to court.

Of course you have my permission to believe what you want to believe. Your welcome. I believe in the freedoms and liberties of America. Did you think that I like the Republicans wouldn't allow you to believe or follow your beliefs? I'm sorry, you've mistaken me for the theocratic party of the Republicans who don't want to extend those liberties to other Americans.

Do you actually think Democrats will FORCE people to have abortions or USE birth control? Now that WOULD be fascist or theocratic wouldn't it? So why isn't it for your side?

Red Dog: Its the 21st century and having lived four years of my life in Europe, I can not believe how stupid, parochial, and backwards many conservatives are in America. The Europeans do not talk about abortion because all Western industrialized countries have superior universal health care systems where family planning, birth control, women's reproductive health checks, and abortion services are provided by country's health care system. So why are conservatives wanting to bring back the United States back into the 1950's or even the 19th century. Germany has bullet trains, wind farms, solar panels, and smart grids that can produce upwards of 50% of Germany's electricity as of this May. The Germans can also hop on any number of buses and commuter rail trains that take them wherever they wish to go on time and with little waiting. Germans are typical of most Western European societies with large green energy programs and mass transit systems. Most Western Europeans drive cars that are increasingly highly efficient turbo-diesels that get 50 MPG. $8 per gallon fuel taxes have helped bring about a really pleasant way of getting around without driving. Europeans drive short distances for the most part and take their efficient mass transit systems wherever they need to go.

Our competitors in the non-OECD countries such as the Asian-Pacific rim and BRIC countries are moving rapidly towards a modern world of green energy, state of the art infrastructure including broad band everywhere, and efficient mass transit such as bullet trains. Conservatives are guaranteeing that America will decline except of course for the upper one percent that controls more income and wealth than the bottom half or 150 millions of Americans. But Romney/Ryan wants to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and increase military spending on Cold War era weapons systems that the Joint Chiefs of staff have said they do not need or want. The CBO has analyzed the Ryan budget and it will create budget deficits as far as the eye can see while decimating Medicare. This makes no macroeconomic sense but then Republicans do not understand macroeconomics only the microeconomics of short term quarterly corporate profits.

America needs a Medicare for all public option with corporations picking up a percentage of the tab to pay for it. The advantage to a Medicare for all public option is that American companies won't have to pay private health insurance premiums. Costs of doing business will be stabilized and worker productivity will be increased because all workers will get a family care provider with access to basic medical care. When we get a Medicare for all public option in America watch the quality of life go forward for the first time since the 1973 Yom Kippur war for the middle class in America. We pay twice as much for health care per capita but have 50 million uninsured. This is totally unacceptable and the only reason we still do it is that large corporate health insurance companies have bought off the Congress and many in the GOP party and some Democrats too. Like a dead man walking our for profit health care system is just going through its final convulsions before it comes crashing into the cemetery. No amount of GOP rhetoric can save our dying example of a failed, dysfunctional, and miserable for profit health care system.

You do realize Reagan was talking about himself, don't you?

XEP: aka "Jerry" the alcoholic: After serving during six different wars over 20 years I have been taking care of myself for all of my life. You never did see any action did you? Maybe its because you are someone like Mitt Romney who had better things to do than serve his country or if you were in the service you shunned combat action in Vietnam. Chuck Hagel you are not little Jerry. Poor Jerry does not belong in 21st American society but the John Birch Society would welcome you with open arms. So there is a place for poor Jerry after all.

Where is your GOP solution for health care crisis in America? Oh that's right the GOP has no plans or solutions except to let big corporations continue with their ripoff of the American middle class. We can no longer afford the exorbitant ripoff that is called American private health insurance. Here is a run down of America's failed private health care system:

1. We have 50 million uninsured. We also have many tens of millions more that are under-insured. Around 70 to 80 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured.

2. We have at least one million personal bankruptcy filings because of expensive medical bills. We have at least the highest number personal bankruptcies of any industrialized country because of expensive medical bills.

3. We have 45,000 unnecessary deaths of uninsured Americans from treatable medical conditions. This figure is from a Harvard School of Medicine study.

4. The U.S. ranks around 37th in public health care outcomes compared to other industrialized countries. Some rankings put us a little higher and some at 37th so take your pick. None of these can be classified as being good for the richest nation on earth. All major industrialized countries have some type of universal health care system.

5. The U.S. ranks first in costs with our health care system costing over $2.5 trillion or nearly 18% GDP. Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Germany all give excellent health care for about 9% to 10% GDP. France comes in at around 11% GDP for its excellent health care system.

I have recited these statistics over and over again for years to counter conservative crap about our inferior health care system. If you are a conservative go look up these numbers they are not hard to find. Maybe some of them have change somewhat but for the purposes of this blog that would be irrelevant. The U.S. health care system will improve under the Affordable Care Act. But my humble prediction is that the ACA will only be a beginning and we will need to rapidly move to a Medicare for all public option. Remember too, that a Medicare for all public option will be paid for out of premiums coming from every person's paycheck or retirement check. So you will pay for your Medicare its not welfare like many idiot conservatives call it. We know how to fix the U.S. health care system with a Medicare for all public option offered at the insurance exchanges in 2014. But I can not fix stupid conservatives who have their head stuck up their rectums in total denial of all facts about how abysmal and much of a ripoff our entire private health care system is. American doctors and nurses are fine but we must eliminate our corporate for profit health insurance companies with a Medicare for all public option at the insurance exchanges.

Reagan was also a paid spokesman for the insurance companies at the time he said that!

Single payor has a 3% overhead. Private Insurance has a 27% - 32% overhead paid to the executives and investors. That's a 24% - 29% savings in single payor insurance which is why every single westernized democracy other than us employs government provided single payor.

Only Republicans would want to reinvest all of our taxpayer money back into wall street after the Bush recession and the trillions of dollars of theft and losses by those thieves! But then again Republicans ain't very bright.

Why haven't the Tea partiers or the Republicans been criticized by guys like you for saying the President was born in Africa or calling him a traitor or calling him a liar while he was speaking to Congress and the American people?

Why are all the radio stations still playing Ted Nugents and Hank Williams music after all the vile things they've said when the Dixie Chicks only said they were embarrassed to be from Texas and were banned from all the radio stations for three years?

Why have no right wing talkers been fired for their birther crap and all the vile accusations they have made when Dan Rather was fired and he was far more qualified and in the business far longer than ANYONE at Fox?

Give me a break hypocrite I could do this ALL day long!

I don't recall any Democrats proposing legislation to stop stationing military bases on the island of Guam to stop it from capsizing.

Chris, Its as funny as it can be it could be. Hank Johnson a Representativefrom Georgia I believe, made the comment during a discussion on the size of the military contingent on Guam. He actually said he was afraid the island would capsize if more military were introduced. I laughed for a week, then started to wonder how many more people allegedly representing us were either crazy or just plain idiots. Its scary.

Chris, Check out You Tube

3-25-2010_Hank_Johnson_Guam_Tip_Over.wmv

Also please check out the Admirals reaction to his comments. I have to hand it to him for not falling on the flood laughing.

I see, Ed can apologies for his sexist comments and that is OK, but now apologies are unacceptable. Obama and Biden can't misspeak and that is acceptable, but not a Republican. Which one was the 57th State, I forget?

Already debunked.

http://www.businessinsider.com/niall-ferguson-has-been-wrong-on-economics-2012-8

Niall Ferguson has a huge piece in The Daily Beast saying Obama needs to get fired titled: "Hit The Road, Barack."

It's basically an ell-encompassing takedown of Obama's record on the economy (it still sucks), the deficit (it's getting bigger) and America's standing in the world (The Mideast has not gotten safer).

It even hits Obama for stuff like this, which seems totally inevitable at some point, regardless of who is President.

Anyway, as you read Niall Ferguson, it's worth noting that he has been wrong on economics ever since Obama took office.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/niall-ferguson-has-been-wrong-on-economics-2012-8#ixzz242StpZX0

Yep and barry has been so right, he is one and done.

Romney/Ryan 2012.....

The Nation magazine cover..."The Republican War Against Voters"

I think you meant President Obama has won, Mittens is done.

Obama 2012.

The only way robme hood and boy blunder are going to be elected is if every woman, black, Latino and democrat was to die. The GOP clown candidates can not win with grumpy old pervs alone. If you are hoping that the GOP rigging the vote is going to work just shows how un American you tea bagged republicans really are.

No one and I mean no one reads the nation magazine, but a hand full of far leftwingnuts.

Next vanden heuvel runs around with her tin cup begging for donation to keep that fish wrap alive.

Circulation 140K.

Mad Magazine 2 million.

More people read mad than the nation.

Hit the Road Barack: Newsweek cover calls out president on failed policy and proclaims all-but-certain Republican victory.

You people had better head to the store and see thsi for your self.

Week of the 20th Aug 2012.

I'm looking at it right now.

Oh look the reject from the insane clown posse is back. Cow man was even to insane for them.

Cow: 140,000 > 0 Republicans are not only fact deficient, and horrible at spelling but obviously can't do math either.

Here are some important groups that will not be voting for the Romney/Ryan ticket for a variety of reasons. Polls mean little except when measuring strong trends over a longer period of time say for months. President Obama has some strengths that are really going to be hard for Romney/Ryan to overcome in 80 days.

1. Independent women voters are angry with the GOP's war on women. Angry women have become determined voters. These women know that President Obama has been on their side for a long time. The GOP in state legislatures across America have introduced antiabortion bills in state after state all across America. This also includes anti-family planning and birth control bills as well. These issues were long settled but the GOP wants to take America back into the 1950's by waging war on women's reproductive health. Most young college educated women will not be supporting the GOP that wants to impose vaginal ultrasounds or take away birth control. The ACA makes funding for birth control and family planning by insurance companies mandatory. Many women will appreciate these benefits. Also the ACA allows adult children to be on their parents insurance until they are 26. This impacts millions of American families. President Obama has a strong double digit lead amongst independent women voters in many states that has not budged at all but shows signs of increasing overtime.

2. The President has strong support amongst Hispanic voters both for the policy change allowing Dream children to stay in America. The Hispanic community is upset with the GOP for filibustering the Dream Act back in December, 2010. This filibuster is one of the more bigoted and racist actions taken place in recent times by the GOP. The other thing is that many Hispanics trust Democrats more on the ACA and for getting a path for citizenship for 11 million Hispanics. The Hispanic polling for President Obama has been a strong 45% to 50% above Romney/Ryan. Romney would veto the Dream Act. This support amongst Hispanics will prove lethal to the Romney/Ryan ticket on November because Hispanics are not budging in fact the Obama/Biden lead is solidifying. Pundits are not talking about how important the Hispanic vote really is in Ohio, Virginia, and Florida but also in states like Colorado.

3. American corporations are doing very well even while Main Street remains sluggish. Most voters are grouchy about the economy with a 8.2% unemployment rate. But most voters know that President Obama was dealt the worse economy since the Great Depression. President Obama took many actions such as saving the automobile industry that will help him in Ohio and Michigan. We lost eight million jobs the moment President Obama walked into the White House along with two losing wars, a $1.3 trillion budget deficit, and a doubling of the national debt under the Bush administration. Corporate profits were $2 trillion last year a record, the stock market is over 13,000 today up from 6,000 in 2009, and Wall Street profits are set to also be records again this year. Also corporate taxes are at an all time low as well. Oil companies are drilling wells at record numbers. So no one can make the argument that President Obama has been bad for business. The numbers written above are all reported in the wire services so the conservatives can not manipulate an effective argument that President Obama has been bad for business. Studies have show the the stimulus bill from 2009 has been successful the problem with it is that it was not large enough to deal with the scale of the economic disaster before us. Main Street's economy is sluggish because too many home foreclosures happened retarding the construction industry for many years. Plus record numbers of GOP filibusters have reduced President Obama to making executive orders that are not nearly enough to deal with problems that require large fiscal outlays from a belligerent GOP House and filibustering GOP Senate that blocks everything. Voters know all of these things because Congress's approval rating is at 10% a record low. The GOP House failed to pass a Farm Bill that will hurt agriculture in the Midwest, South, and Western states. This is one of many GOP acts that have hurt the economy.

4. The GOP controlled House failed to pass the American Jobs Act in August, 2011. The American Jobs act would have created or saved 2 million jobs. The American Jobs Act would have created construction jobs by building infrastructure programs all across America like highways and bridges. The American Jobs Act would have saved around 600,000 public sector jobs by helping cash strapped states with budget shortfalls by keeping teachers, fire, and police on the job with low interest loans and financial aid. The GOP in the Senate filibustered the Small Business Tax credit bill that would have created at least one million jobs for hiring employees. Three million jobs are the figures for saved or created jobs all across the country. This would have lowered our unemployment rate to about 6%. We can thank the GOP obstructionist Congress for the loss of three million American jobs. The GOP would rather sabotage the country's economy in their hatred for President Obama to be made a one term president.

Voters are aware of the special circumstances in our economy and our highly polarized political culture. The Tea Party will ultimately implode because of the inherent radical programs where they want to gut the social safety net by eliminating Medicare as we know it, decimate the Food Stamp/SNAP program, and gut programs popular with middle class voters like student loans and Pell grants. The Tea Party also wants to give increased tax cuts that predominantly benefit millionaires and billionaires along with few if any military cuts. I am not sure many average Americans support such a radical agenda. Do Senior Citizens or their baby boomer kids really want to "voucherize" Medicare and increase premiums by $6,000 annually so the rich get more tax cuts? Do middle class voters want to see huge cuts in police, fire, city street crews, public teachers, and colleges? Something tells me that the American people will balk at these radical Tea Party initiatives.

So when you put all of this together I think that the GOP has much to worry about on November. I will be the first to tell you that President Obama and the Democrats will have to work hard, fight the GOP for every vote in the swing states. But voters understand the problems of our economy have no quick fixes and that Mitt Romney keeping his tax shelters overseas raises serious questions about his fitness for public office. Mitt Romney is a snob and the American people know it. Romney is his own worst enemy. No amount of Koch brothers or billionaire Super-PAC money will change the minds of independent women, Hispanics, and black voters on election day. There are not enough angry old white voters to pull the Romney/Ryan ticket across the 270 electoral vote finish line.

It is so good to see the truth in print. Thank you

I don't love Republican men. :)

LOL, MJB.

Oh I'm so sorry Cow. Did I hurt your feelings. Didn't you call us all Leftwingnuts? But you expect us to roll over and take it right? Sorry those were the old Dems. We fight back so boo hoo. Run to your mommy and tell her I called you "name back!" Ha Ha Ha!

Gave up on particle physics, huh?

What grade are you in ho-lee-cow? Are you trying to have someone do your homework for you? Your question is as stupid as your constant trick of voting for yourself!! Shoo!