Rep. Todd Akin is done apologizing and ready to get back to attacking his opponent in Missouri's senate race, incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill. In his latest ad, "Six Seconds - Six Years," Akin tells viewers that his "six second" flub (where he said raped women cannot get pregnant) is nothing compared to Sen. McCaskill's six years in office.
"My six second mistake is well-known," he smiles. "But Claire McCaskill's six-year record is something you should know."
The video then goes on to outline the "mistakes" of McCaskill that he has outlined in previous ads, namely voting with President Obama, including for "Obamacare," and the federal stimulus.
"What's this election about?" Akin wraps up. "Saving our country."
It is the fourth video pumped out in the last four days by the congressman who has stubbornly refused to drop out of race despite pleas from the highest level of his party following his discredited and much lambasted remarks on rape and female biology.
The prior daily Akin video, "Case against Claire," featured Mike Huckabee, one of the few conservatives who came to Akin's defense, and complained about McCaskill's "100% pro-choice" record and an 'F' rating from the NRA.
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I hope the people of MO say no thanks.
Six second mistake! That's what his father sad after finding out his wife was pregnant.
I always like it how the GOP feels that treating American adult women and girls like doormats will improve America's competitiveness in the global economy of the 21st century. Western European countries and Japan have a huge cost advantage over the United States for manufacturing costs. All of these countries have single payer health care systems of varying types. The Germans, British, French, and most others in Western Europe provide universal health care for all of its citizens at about 9% to 10% GDP. Canada also provides excellent universal health care for about 10% GDP. The United States spends nearly 18% GDP for healthcare while 50 million Americans are uninsured. The U.S. ranks 37th in public health care outcomes but is first in costs for health care. This state of affairs is an economic and societal abomination for Americans.
Nearly all of America's industrial competitors provide family planning, birth control, and other reproductive health services for all their women and girls paid for by their single payer system. There are some variations in between countries but this statement is generally true. General Motors has about $1500-$2000 extra per car cost penalty because of our expensive health care system that privately nearly all CEO's loath because of the expense to their business bottom line. When are American conservatives going to figure out that getting a Medicare for all public option with all reproductive health care services paid by the single payer system is an absolute necessity for economic growth in the global economy of the 21st century?
We must have a Medicare for all public option with all women's reproductive health care services paid for by that system to stay economically competitive in the global economy. If we fail in this task, we will continue to see continued economic decline with stagnant sluggish job growth. We will continue to watch our industrial plants and jobs go overseas to other countries that have more cost effective single payer systems. All women's reproductive health care needs, including abortions, must be paid for by that Medicare for all public option system. It not only is important for our business bottom line, it is critical to stop treating American women and girls like doormats. Conservatives are suffering from delusional cultural lag and the Western Europeans and Asians will steal all our jobs because of this conservative cultural lag. We have to live in the 21st century global economy. We can not afford to live in the 19th century as American conservatives would like us to live in.
Eh right you are......I might say for slightly different reasons but yes accurate. I think education fits in perfectly here. The conservatives are still living in this world where schools are just dandy and if we just fire bad teachers and close the department of education everything will improve........just because.........they still are dumb enough to believe privatization will make a difference. It's so laughable. They refuse to look around the world and learn from what works that's why they're still peddling Reaganomics. These people refuse to understand the world we live in it's insane.
I mean closing the dep of education aren't we behind enouh already? Do these people not realize the federal government has no education standards that are strong to begin with so they're free form federal demands song falls flat here.........
We've got to stop letting everyone have their own facts ad call idiot ideas idiotic. If we don't this nation will die, you think unemployment is high now wait till the conservatives have their way with their antiquated social values retrograde social engineering.
Conservatives think they can deny the world and just be exempt from how it works. Just like they don't think they have to be beholden to fact checking.
Rex, you are soooo right!!!!!!!!!
Cynical Citizen: I support year around school for all American students. I also support more Pell grants and aid for Community Colleges and four year colleges as well. The GOP House failed to pass the American Jobs Act that would have saved many hundreds of thousands of public school teaching jobs. So now we will have larger class sizes in many of our public schools. This is a known cause for increasing the work load for American school teachers while making it humanly impossible for the teacher to spend time individually with students who need more help. The Romney/Ryan budget will not improve our public school system in America.
To heck with the over 8% unemployment rate for the past 3 years.
Forgetabout the over 41 million people on food stamps.
Who cares about the over 12 million out of work.
Lets beat this dead horse.
hey ho-lee-@!$%#, your party started it
Yep good old moocow mooing at the moon again. Pretty soon moocow will make another attempt at jumping over the moon to collect green cheese. moocow is related to Akins because moocow says the most misinformed things same as Akins. Btw moocow want to change those numbers vote democrat because as long as the GOP is in either house they will continue to make sure the country stays a mess and if they get any power they will make an even bigger mess.
Recession....you built that
gridlock in congress....you built that
hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.....you built that too
If you people actually tried with a small amount of the energy you put into bitching about the problem your economic philosophy caused and used that to fixing things we'd be in alot better shape. But that's right you don't give a damn about the nation just your lying extremist party.
very good, Cynical!
hope you don't mind if i "borrow" your concept.
what else have they built?
I haven't been on this blog in a week, and what's the first thing I see? The same post Wholly Crap's been posting for a month, word for word.
Can anyone say spamming?
cow,
lets beat this dead horse
damn right. lets beat the "akin" dead horse, and the "mitt won't show his taxes" dead horse.
No economic policy is going to fix anything if it uses worthless currency and depends on the manufacture of it to hold up debt. That is exactly where we are right now and it is not fixable.
If everyone tried with a small amount of energy to understand that there is no economic philosophy that can "fix things" maybe the outrage and blame could be for once directed at the right people. That's not going to solve it, but there's not much point in being mad if you're not going to bother being mad at what's really responsible for the fix we're in.
To suggest that a Democrat is going to fix the monetary policy is ludicrous.
To suggest that a Republican is going to fix the monetary policy is ludicrous.
Since they all use and depend on this worthless currency to operate, to suggest that either of them are going to reform it is ludicrous.
We are never going to be in "better shape" until our monetary policy is fixed. Since it will never be reformed from the top, the only thing anybody can do at this point is wait for it to collapse on itself.
If you're sick of crony capitalism, just remember that without our failed monetary policy it wouldn't be possible. If you're sick of corruption, just remember that the mechanism for bribery comes from central banking and our failed monetary policy.
Big changes coming soon. Same outcome no matter who is in office.
There's nothing to argue about here that hasn't been dreamed up for you as a diversion from the fact that it's almost over by virtue of mathematical certainty.
Obummers Hoax & Chains ain't getting it done, thats for sure.
You've used that repetitive phrase for a month now, too.
All done thinking?
That may be true, but neither Romney nor Obama have any intention of fixing it.
What's puzzling to me is that as much as everyone here is complaining that the middle class is being squeezed, nobody seems to recognize that the biggest thing squeezing the middle class is inflation and currency devaluation.
Every time there is a quantitative easement or more currency is introduced into the money supply, the middle class gets squeezed a little more.
No President can or will do anything about either one of these problems because it's outside of their influence. Central banking controls all of it and now we are in a situation where the only way to stave off current interest payments and pay for operating expenses, even if we don't spend another dime on anything, is to expand the money supply.
If you look at the current debt and what we're projecting in terms of expenses in the next five to ten years, while compounding interest on top of it, you will see it's already over. The only open question now is when will it all collapse?
Afghanistan, a war lasting a decade.....you built that
pulling out of Iraq.....you didn't build tat
withdrawing from Afghanistan....you didn't build that
4 million jobs added in spite of the GOP......you of course didn't build that either Republicans
a mountain of race baiting, religious, and deeply personal attack.....you built that
the decrease in the full faith and credit of the United States.....you built that
a plan to add some further years of solvency to medicare...remember Republicans you didn't build that
lies on medicare though....yeah you built that
the tea party......you built that
the right wing element of the birther movement....you built that
appeasing dictators like Qaddafi...you did built that apparatus
a political climate that makes patriotic muslim americans feel unwanted....you built that
an entire ridiculous campaign blatantly taking someone's words our of context.....you built that
Akin made a statement about saving our country. We really need to save our country from him! He keeps putting his foot in his mouth. No wonder we have so many anti-women laws. These men (Republicans) have no business making decisions about our bodies and our health. Do we bother them about Viagra and Cialis?
You are a six term mistake mr akin.
Okay folks, I think I might be able to participate in this discussion, but honest, I'm still reeling over that Akin groupie Huckabee's program that spoke of "Extraordinary individuals conceived of as a result of rape."
Republican's always get into trouble when they tell the truth. This is why (R)Money hasn't said what he thinks for 6 months.
Like cabbie...i am still reeling....but over using the words republicans and truth in the same sentence.
Rmoney is a puppet, his rich supporters own him , he is bought and paid for and so is Ryan. They will do as they are told by the tea-party and the 1%.They are Buying the United States of America We must all vote and stop this disaster. Great liars, I watched all the speakers OMG how they lie with a straight face, it scares the H##l out of me!
Remember that Grover Nordquist really only wants a puppet to rubberstamp what the Republicans want.
Akin is akin to an desperate ass*ole.
At this point, it's way more than a six-second mistake. It's more like a month now.