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Why are women in Virginia getting screwed by Republicans? |  More than a 1,000 people – most of whom were women – took to the streets outside the Virginia state capital on Monday – locked arm in arm and silently protested against anti-abortion legislation working it’s way through the state legislature. The bill that the women are protesting against would define a fertilized egg as a person, thus criminalizing most birth control and IVF for infertile couples – slash state aid to poor women – and requi
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CNN's Jack Cafferty | Cafferty File Blog
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Can President Obama win re-election if unemployment goes back up to nine percent? | FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Unemployment could be headed back up to 9% again - not what President Obama wants to hear as he faces re-election. Gallup reports that the unemployment rate in mid-February stood at 9% - up from 8.3% in mid-January. Gallup's monthly report serves as a preliminary estimate of what the U.S. government [...] | | 2/22/2012 5:00:12 PM |
Rick Santorum said Satan is attacking America. Is he right? | FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: The moral of the story is: If you think you’ll ever run for president of the United States, watch your mouth. President Obama should be sending Rick Santorum flowers. The Republican presidential candidate is under fire for a 2008 speech in which he said Satan is attacking the great institutions of [...] | | 2/22/2012 4:00:46 PM |
What would you suggest for President Obama's new campaign slogan? | FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: It's time for a change from Change We Can Believe In. President Obama's re-election campaign is looking for a new slogan to replace his 2008 mantras of hope and change. Reuters reports that some of the contenders include Winning the Future, Greater Together and We Don't Quit. His campaign posters still [...] | | 2/21/2012 5:00:47 PM |
How close is Mitt Romney to becoming toast? | FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: There's growing concern among Republicans that Mitt Romney can't deliver. If he loses his home state of Michigan next week, expect those whispers to become shouts. Rick Santorum has opened a 10-percentage point lead over Romney in one national poll - his largest lead ever. Gallup's latest daily tracking poll shows [...] | | 2/21/2012 4:00:58 PM |
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The Billionaires' Brokered GOP Convention | | by: Greg Palast, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Plan is working.
Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win.
We know that Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Romney's Daddy Warbucks, organized the "grassroots" campaign to replace Romney with Gov. Chris Christie back in September.
That flopped, so Singer and the billionaire boys' club that courted Christie moved [...] | | 2/9/2012 4:10:00 PM |
Queen of Angels' Condoms | | by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post
I arrived into this world at the Queen of Angels hospital in Los Angeles into the hands of Dr. Sidney Kolodny.
Queen of Angels, judging by the number of nun-nurses running about, is a Catholic hospital.
Dr. Kolodny was Jewish.
Last night, I heard Senator Rick Santorum tell us that [...] | | 2/8/2012 5:16:21 PM |
Romney's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the GOP's Baddie Sugar Daddie | | The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House
by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash - update
Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book is Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates [...] | | 2/3/2012 3:39:37 PM |
Romney's Billionaire Funder ThreatensBBC Investigative Reporter"We have a File on Palast" | | by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash - update
Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores.
The call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer and "advisor" Paul Singer.
Singer, top donor to the Republican Senate Campaign Committee had a message [...] | | 2/3/2012 2:22:04 PM |
Palast on C-Span's BookTV | |
See Palast on TV breaking through the US airwaves. If you missed his 20 city book tour, here's your chance to hear the stories from Vultures' Picnic - his acclaimed new book out in stores now.
Check out the CSPAN listings here for times - and make sure to spread the word. | | 2/2/2012 7:02:23 PM |
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Government Is a Reflection of the People
Government Is a Reflection of the People
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Ron Paul 2012 | Restore America Now
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“Consistent” | | What Ron Paul said when the candidates were asked to explain themselves in one word. No other candidate on that stage tonight can say this. And they know it. | | 2/22/2012 9:23:10 PM |
Santorum’s Big Government Record | | Santorum is No Fiscal Hawk Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12 Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art [...] | | 2/22/2012 8:32:50 PM |
Santorum’s “Conservative Ratings” | | First, Sen. Lindsey Graham from my own home state of South Carolina, always touts his high “conservative ratings” whenever he is attacked by conservatives. I know few conservatives who consider Graham one of their own. Obviously, when it comes to these ratings the devil(s) is in the details. Second, about those details. Writes The American [...] | | 2/22/2012 8:28:59 PM |
Remedial Math for Rick | | Rick Santorum says anyone who thinks defense spending is part of our debt problem needs “remedial math.” As it turns out, Santorum needs remedial math. Explains former deputy assistant attorney for Ronald Reagan Bruce Fein: Below are some figures from President Obama’s 2012 official budget request. The baseline request for the Department of Defense (DOD) [...] | | 2/22/2012 8:15:15 PM |
Ron Paul to Hold Campaign Rally in Oklahoma City | | Rally at Sooner State’s Capitol to feature legislator endorsements and a media availability LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold a major campaign rally in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The rally will take place on the plaza facing the Oklahoma State Capitol on Saturday, February 25th. In addition to a speech by the 12-term [...] | | 2/22/2012 4:32:29 PM |
Ron Paul at Debate Watch Party | | Presidential candidate Ron Paul will attend a Debate Watch Party at the New Life Bible Church, 200 E. 1st Street Mesa, Mesa, AZ on Wednesday, February 22 at 8:30 pm Mountain Standard Time. | | 2/22/2012 4:16:40 PM |
Ron Paul Leading Obama in New Poll of Arizona Voters | | Beats the President in head-to-head matchup LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul bests President Obama in a head-to-head matchup in the state of Arizona according to a new NBC/ Marist Poll. Paul beats the President 43 percent to 41 percent among Arizona voters according to the poll.“Ron Paul is the only candidate for president [...] | | 2/22/2012 1:10:23 PM |
Ron Paul Adds Two Additional Stops in Michigan | | Stops will highlight Paul’s support from doctors and members of the military LAKE JACKSON, Texas– The Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign announced today Congressman Paul will make two additional stops in his three-day visit to Michigan in the lead up to the state’s primary on February 28th. On February 25th Paul will address a “Soldiers, Airmen, [...] | | 2/22/2012 10:04:39 AM |
Overspending on National Security Threatens National Security | | Ron Paul writes: The administration recently released its 2013 budget proposal, and conservatives are correctly alarmed that it calls for unprecedented spending and continued annual deficits exceeding $1 trillion. But the same conservatives complain that the budget does not devote enough funds to overseas adventurism. I continue to be dismayed that in spite of our [...] | | 2/22/2012 12:12:27 AM |
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Wall Street Journal Politics and Campaign
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Romney Tax Plan Sets Stage for Fight | | Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for cutting income-tax rates for all Americans and eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax, seeking to reassert his credentials as a tax-cutter on the cusp of two critical primary elections. | | 2/22/2012 9:39:11 PM |
Gingrich Focuses on Gas Prices | | Gingrich has seized on a potent pocketbook issue to try to re-energize his campaign: If he's elected president, gasoline prices could fall as low as $2 a gallon. | | 2/21/2012 8:40:45 PM |
Defining Debate on Contraception | | In political debate, the side that prevails often is the side that manages to define the issue in the way it prefers. | | 2/21/2012 5:49:55 PM |
Swing Nation | | The Wall Street Journal is visiting three swing counties in swing states—Florida, Ohio and Colorado—periodically this year to gauge how the election campaign is unfolding. | | 2/9/2012 3:22:59 PM |
What January Says About February | | With January behind them, the remaining Republican presidential hopefuls move on to a scattered set of caucuses and primaries in states where the terrain seems to offer clear advantage to Mitt Romney, Dante Chinni writes. | | 2/3/2012 12:53:53 PM |
Florida Exit Polls | | See who voted and how in Florida's Republican primary. | | 2/1/2012 5:02:37 PM |
Gingrich Surges Past Romney | | Jan. 22-24 Newt Gingrich is outpacing Mitt Romney by a comfortable margin among GOP voters, but also is showing evidence of vulnerabilities that could hurt him in a general election, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. | | 1/31/2012 9:49:02 AM |
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The Washington Post | Editorials
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Opinions from the Blogosphere | The Political Brief
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Opinions from the Blogosphere | The Political Brief
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"Hoist on Their Own Petards" | | There's an old expression, folks! Basically, it means "you got into this mess for personal reasons". Somehow it seems an appropriate way to describe lots of voters this year. Wonder... | | 1/31/2012 8:12:00 AM |
Painting an Outhouse | | For those of you too young to have ever actually used an "outhouse", allow me to describe one. An outhouse was a bathroom before indoor plumbing. It had a flat... | | 1/2/2012 2:09:00 PM |
Goodbye 2011 | | The good, the bad and the ugly have been on display this past year, in the world, the country and in my own life. May 2012 be filled with more... | | 12/30/2011 6:44:00 AM |
Soylent Green, Anyone? | | I recall an old Charlton Heston movie called "Soylent Green" about a "futuristic" society where they developed a new "wonder food" that people were eating when other food sources ran... | | 11/18/2011 7:27:00 PM |
The "Broken" Heartland | | It isn't hard to see where priorities are when the "chips are down". Topeka, Kansas has shown who matters and who doesn't with a graphic display of insanity. Budget cuts... | | 10/13/2011 1:39:00 PM |
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OccuPodcast: 99% Movement Call to Action – A Conversation with David DeGraw | OccuPodcast with host Dennis Trainor, Jr:
Two years ago, David DeGraw called for the 99% to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms. This past week, AmpedStatus published a two-year anniversary edition of his report, complete with some personal history and context for the events that lead up to September 17th, 2011 and the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action Two Year Anniversary Book Release | 
| Editor's Note: History should record that the birth of the 99% Movement was on September 17, 2011. That was when the movement became a household name known to the masses. However, the 99% Movement was conceived exactly two years ago, with the release of an online report and call to action titled "The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America." The report was originally released as a six-part series. The first part was published on February 15, 2010 and the last part was published on February 27, 2010.
To celebrate the two year anniversary, we are reissuing the report with a new introduction recapping the history and evolution of the movement, from the experience of researching and writing the original call to action, to building up the movement online and organizing occupations worldwide. At the end of the book, we feature statements from occupiers, organizers and supporters of the 99%. |
February 2012 Introduction
By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report
I: Respect to the Leaders & Support the Troops
II: On Writing the 99% Call to Action: Economic Elite Vs. The People
III: Time for a Second American Revolution - The 99% Movement
IV: Decentralized Global Rebellion
V: A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion
VI: Occupy Wall Street 1.0
VII: Anonymous & Occupy Wall Street Leaders Exposed
VIII: Get Money Out of Politics & Bernanke Must Go
IX: Disclaimer On the Original Report & Call to Action
X: Mic Check: The People Speak
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Get Ready for OWSnews.org | 
Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/.
An amazing group of people are working on this project. Many very popular journalists / bloggers and activists will be contributing. If you want to be one of the first people to join, you can create your own profile by registering here: OWSnews.org/register.
We are using the same publishing system that is being used on http://AmpedStatus.org/network and http://www.NYCGA.net/. | | 10/31/2011 7:48:05 PM |
Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOakland |
By Ken Knabb
This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a few marchers start pushing a dumpster, as if to start a barricade. A guy hugs one of them and pleads with them, “Oh, no, guys, come on, let’s be civil.” One of the others says, “Are they [the police] being fuckin’ civil?!” Hugging that second guy, he says, “I know, brother, they’re savages, they’re fuckin’ savages. But don’t be like them! Don’t be like them!” If you think that rhetoric is excessive, note the very end of the video, where lots of people are running away and one of them is hit by a tear gas canister and falls to the ground. Several of the others run back to help him, and as they are all crowding around, the police throw a flash-bang grenade right down into the group which explodes in the injured man’s face. Here is a clearer view of the same incident. The young man, an Iraq war veteran, has a fractured skull and is in critical condition. But I guess this sort of thing has to be done in order to maintain “public peace” and keep the Plaza nice and “hygienic” . . . | | 10/27/2011 12:52:37 PM |
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Senate panel votes, 11-7, to open Supreme Court to cameras | The Senate Judiciary Committee voted, 11-7, Thursday morning for legislation that would open Supreme Court arguments to television coverage.
The vote was largely along party lines. The only Democrat to oppose the measure was Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who said she feared showboating by lawyers and a slippery slope leading to a reprise of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Other senators noted that televising trial court proceedings, while common in many states, is a more complicated matter than televising Supreme Court arguments, where there are no witnesses or juries.
Two Republicans with a history of supporting transparency measures voted for cameras, Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Cornyn of Texas.
The bill has a provision which would allow a majority of justices to close arguments in a specific case if due process required it. Many justices have resisted opening the court to cameras, though they now release audio recordings of arguments.
Video of the Judiciary Committee session is available here, via C-SPAN.
One side note: after Simpson's acquittal in 1995, the Clinton White House considered endorsing legislation to ban or limit camera coverage in trial courts. It never formally endorsed such a measure, which could raise constitutional questions by regulating state court proceedings.
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Wikileaks' suspect Bradley Manning's arraignment set for Feb. 23 | Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks, will be arraigned before a military judge on Feb. 23, the military said Thursday.
Manning is charged with aiding the enemy, disclosing classified information to a person not authorized to receive it, violating various Army rules related to computer use, and other violations. He faces the possibility of life imprisonment if convicted on the aiding the enemy charge.
Another military lawyer, acting as an official investigator, held a preliminary hearing for Manning in December. That investigator, Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, approved all of the military's tentative charges in the case without any alteration despite defense requests to streamline the charges. Last week, Maj. Gen Michael Linnington ordered that Manning be referred to a court martial.
An Army spokesperson declined Thursday to identify the judge who ordered and will conduct the arraignment, which is to be held at Ft. Meade, Md., the same site where Manning's so-called Article 32 hearing took place. The judge will be identified at the arraignment, the spokesperson said.
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Ex-CIA officer may be exploring guilty plea in leak case | A former CIA officer charged last month with leaking the identities of other CIA officers involved in the interrogation of terrorism suspects may be exploring the possibility of entering a guilty plea in the case, court records suggest.
John Kiriakou, 47, was accused of the leaks in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Alexandria, Va. on Jan. 23. He surrendered and was released on bond the same day.
Normally, prosecutors have 30 days to obtain a grand jury indictment after filing a complaint. However, on Tuesday, the government and Kiriakou's defense attorney, Plato Cacheris, filed a joint motion seeking to extend that deadline until April 7.
"Defense counsel has requested the opportunity to discuss the case with the government after reviewing the matter in greater depth and prior to an indictment being filed. The government does not object to a modest delay for this purpose," the motion said.
The motion contained no mention of plea discussions, but such extensions are often sought to accomodate plea negotiations. While a guilty plea can be negotiated after an indictment is returned, prosecutors often prefer to do so before indicting a suspect, since the indictment and ensuing motions can put evidence in the public record that the government might prefer to keep under wraps. That desire is often particularly intense in espionage and intelligence-related cases.
The motion filed Tuesday indicates that prosecutors plan to provide some classified information to the defense before an indictment is filed. There is little reason to do that except to try to induce the defendant to enter a guilty plea. "The government anticipates providing certain limited pre-indictment discovery once defense counsel obtains the requisite security clearances," the motion said.
Cacheris did not return a phone call and e-mail message seeking comment for this post.
The case against Kiriakou is being prosecuted by lawyers from the office of the U.S. Attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald, who was appointed to investigate the matter because of a potential conflict of interest at the Justice Department's National Security Division, which is involved in making prosecution decisions about the terror suspects involved in the interrogations.
A spokesman for Fitzgerald declined to comment on Tuesday's filing or any possible plea talks.
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Second South Park threats suspect to plead guilty | A second man alleged to have made illegal threats against "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone has agreed to plead guilty, according to a defense lawyer.
Jesse Morton, also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, was detained in Morocco last May in connection with alleged threats posted on the Revolution Muslim website after "South Park" depicted Mohammad as a man in a bear suit. Prosecutors allege that Morton helped write a "clarification statement" that amounted to a further threat against the "South Park" creators by praying for their deaths and suggesting that they were likely to face the violent demise of other critics of Islam.
Some Muslims view any visual depiction of Mohammad as offensive. The "South Park" episode was considered a commentary on an earlier controversy over a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons of the Muslim prophet.
Morton was transferred to U.S. custody in Rabat in October and returned to the U.S. later that month.
A lawyer for Morton, James Hundley, said his client plans to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Va. on Thursday to plead guilty to three felonies: conspiracy, communicating threats, and internet stalking. Each carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria had no immediate comment on the development.
Hundley said the case against Morton presented free speech issues, but his client ultimately decided to take the plea the government offered rather than risk trial on more serious charges that could carry an even longer sentence.
"Certainly, this case had that question: at what point are you exercising free speech and at what point are you verging into prohibited speech of a threatening or inciting nature?" Hundley told POLITICO Wednesday. "That was something we obviously looked at very closely."
"If [Morton] had rejected the plea offer, he'd be facing substantially more than 15 years," Hundley said.
In February, another man who worked on the "Revolution Muslim" website with Morton, Zachary Chesser, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the threats against Parker and Stone, as well as efforts to plant abandoned packages in public areas to divert emergency responders.
"Revolution Muslim," a site Morton helped found, became a font for radical Islamic propaganda but also a useful tool for law enforcement trying to track potential jihadists in the U.S. and abroad, according to an NPR report in 2010.
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Liveblogging Rickmittgeddon: #8 | 
Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 6:49 PM PT: Last segment of the last GOP debate coming up. Last chance for John King to ask Rick Santorum about his Satan warning.
6:50 PM PT: I've seen two ads for Rick Santorum here in Ohio during the debate. And one ad for Joyce Beatty, a congressional candidate, who pledges in the ad to fight back against the tea party.
6:51 PM PT: Dumb final question: John King asks the candidates to name the biggest misconception about their candidacies.
6:52 PM PT: Ron Paul says the biggest myth is that he can't win. Uh, he can't.
6:52 PM PT: Newt: I wish people knew how hard I worked to accomplish what I have accomplished.
6:53 PM PT: Mitt Romney basically refuses to answer the question, and gets some jeers from the audience, I think. John King, wuss, says "fair enough" when Romney declines to directly answer.
6:54 PM PT: Santorum seems to be saying the biggest misconception about him is that he can't beat Barack Obama. Uh, he can't.
6:55 PM PT:
 Romney tells John King he doesn't have to answer his question. King, naturally, says "Fair enough." And there you are, folks.
— @GregMitch via web
6:57 PM PT: Debate's over—I can't believe John King didn't ask about the Satan stuff, and I imagine Rick Santorum is happy about that. So what did you guys think? I'm not sure that either Santorum or Romney "won" but the GOP certainly looked bad.
6:59 PM PT: Let's say that Romney wins the nomination: one big impact of tonight is that he went on record saying Arizona's immigration law is a model for the nation. That's going to be a big problem for him in the general.
7:00 PM PT:
 TONIGHT'S WINNER: No one. TONIGHT'S LOSER: Grimace from McDonaldland, who had to die to make Newt Gingrich's tie.
— @HuffPostHill via TweetDeck
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Liveblogging Rickmittgeddon: #7 |
Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com.
6:33 PM PT:
 Boy, is Mitt off base on sanctions. POTUS has led the world in imposing most withering economic sanctions ever.
— @davidaxelrod via Twitter for Mac
6:39 PM PT: Off the top of my head, the main issues that these guys have talked about in this debate have been birth control (Romney saying Santorum too liberal), war with Syria and Iran, women in combat, and how to keep brown people out of America.
6:40 PM PT:
 Gingrich on Obama: "As long as your America's enemy your safe." Osama bin-Laden says what? Oh, he says nothing. Due to being dead.
— @ezraklein via web
6:42 PM PT: RIck Santorum admits voting "against the principles I believed in" because "politics is a team sport." I'm not sure how that will go over.
6:45 PM PT: Now we've moved onto the portion of the debate where the candidates all agree that teachers really suck. And the crowd loves it. Also it looks like John King won't ask Santorum about the Satan warning. I guess he's afraid of the audience.
6:46 PM PT: Newt Gingrich just said "missionary." He was talking about education, but I don't want to know what he was thinking about.
6:47 PM PT: Ron Paul is attacking Rick Santorum again. How much is Mitt Romney paying him? Seriously, it's weird how he always attacks Romney's chief rival.
6:48 PM PT:
6:49 PM PT (Barbara Morrill): New thread is up here.
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Liveblogging Rickmittgeddon: #6 |
Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com.
6:10 PM PT: Mitt Romney says Arizona is a model for how to handle immigration throughout the country. Papers please!
6:10 PM PT:
 Newt: if we hire illegals, we can build the border fence really cheap.
— @HunterDK via TweetDeck
6:15 PM PT: Mitt Romney may have packed the audience tonight, but I still think he's coming off as an arrogant dick. But I guess I'm biased. Santorum has been double teamed by Romney and Paul, and hasn't always handled it well, but he has remained more composed, I think, than Romney. And he really schooled Romney over the Specter bullshit. That attack might have worked coming from Michele Bachmann ... but not Mitt Romney.
6:20 PM PT: For the sake of the Republic, I'll pretend that John King didn't just ask these yokels to describe themselves in one word and one word only.
6:25 PM PT: Shorter GOP debate: Women aren't competent to use birth control or fight in wars, but we need more wars.
6:27 PM PT: Famous quotes from Newt Gingrich: "I'm inclined to believe dictators."
6:28 PM PT:
 RT @Goldberg3000: Memo to Newt: Ahmadinejad isn't the dictator. The Supreme Leader, Khamenei, is the dictator.
— @chucktodd via TweetDeck
6:30 PM PT: Mitt Romney says that reelecting Barack Obama will lead to nuclear war with Iran. So he wants to have a regular war instead.
6:31 PM PT (Barbara Morrill): New thread is up here.
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Liveblogging Rickmittgeddon: #5 |
Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com.
5:57 PM PT: This debate is like traveling back to the 13th century.
5:59 PM PT: Regarding Mitt Romney, the morning after pill, and Catholic hospitals, here's a flashback:
ov. Mitt Romney abandoned plans Thursday to exempt Roman Catholic and other private hospitals from a new law requiring them to dispense emergency contraception to rape victims.
Romney had initially backed regulations proposed earlier this week by his public health commissioner, Paul Cote, who said the new law conflicted with an older law barring the state from forcing private hospitals to dispense contraceptive devices or information.
The Republican governor, who is considering a run for president in 2008, said at a news conference Thursday morning that he asked his legal advisers to review the matter after members of both parties criticized the regulations. He said the lawyers determined that the new law superseded the old law and that all hospitals should be required to offer the so-called "morning-after pill."
"On that basis I have instructed the Department of Public Health to follow the conclusion of my own legal counsel and to adopt that sounder view," Romney said.
"I think it's, in my personal view, it's the right thing for hospitals to provide information and access to emergency contraception to anyone who is a victim of rape," he added.
6:00 PM PT: Something strange is happening in this debate. Rick Santorum is getting pummeled for being TOO FUCKING LEFT WING ON BIRTH CONTROL.
6:00 PM PT: These assclowns are an embarrassment to America.
6:02 PM PT: Do Republicans buy this stuff? Mitt Romney just blamed Rick Santorum for the passage of Obamacare...because he didn't back Pat Toomey in the GOP primary.
6:04 PM PT: Santorum, I think, is finally having a good moment in the debate.
6:07 PM PT:
 RT @davidaxelrod: Honest question: Did Mitt support Toomey over Spector?
— @markos via TweetDeck
 You know it's funny, in that whole exchange about birth control I don't think anyone said the word 'women' once. #CNNDebate
— @JessicaValenti via web
6:10 PM PT (Barbara Morrill): New thread is up here.
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Liveblogging Rickmittgeddon: #4 |
Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com.
5:44 PM PT: We're on break now, but I'm thinking maybe I got the theme of this debate wrong. Instead of Rickmittgeddon, it's GOPocalypse.
5:45 PM PT: I'm watching in Ohio—and the Rombo ad is playing during the break. Not sure if it's on the national feed or not.
5:46 PM PT: I'm pretty sure the Santorum ad was local here in Ohio—on Time Warner Cable.
5:46 PM PT: Crowd boos at the following question: "Which candidate believes in birth control?" Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich vie with each other to attack John King for asking it.
5:48 PM PT: Oh Lord. Mitt Romney just said never before in American history has religious liberty faced the kind of attack it faces today from Barack Obama. Crazy stuff.
5:50 PM PT: Rick Santorum explains the reason why he speaks out against birth control is that teen and out of wedlock birth rates are skyrocketing. I don't think he understands what the point of birth control is.
5:50 PM PT: Rick Santorum doubles down on his pledge to be the first president to speak out against birth control.
5:51 PM PT:
RT @pourmecoffee: Santorum: We must get the government out of people's economic lives and into lady parts.
— @markos via TweetDeck
5:53 PM PT: Romney, for his part, goes on a rant about how abstinence must be taught.
5:54 PM PT:
 John King: Ask them why birth control prevents people from marrying! sheesh! #cnndebate
— @KathaPollitt via web
5:57 PM PT (Barbara Morrill): New thread is up here.
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