Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's Journalesp. what is going on in Michigan right now
I'm glad that Maddow is keeping an eye on what is going on up there. It's not enough to just let the Republicans completely self-immolate themselves. We need to be fighting back against some of the stuff that right-wing is cramming down OUR throats and telling people what WE plan to do to if elected back into power as well.
Wonder
how the right-wingers will somehow implicate President Obama in this? Because you know they will (try).
Not AFAIK
but now we will have to hold her and her husband and the rest of the GOP to the same (very) high standards that they have demanded IMHO. Also, since Ann Romney has announced her support for "freedom of choice" for women, we'll have to ask what their view is on the next law(s) gets signed that takes away more "freedom of choice" for women IMHO. When they try to squirm out it, we can remind them that "Ann Romney says she is for freedom of choice for women, so what's up with this?" The Republicans are going to have to do a LOT of work before they can credibly claim that they're not waging a war on women.
No
If Zimmerman is duly acquitted in a court of law that is managed appropriately, then justice will have been served IMHO. The point of seeking "justice" via a trial is not to necessarily convict somebody. It's to examine the facts in a given case in order to determine whether or not a crime was committed and judge accordingly.
Faux outrage from the Republicans
is as certain as the sun rising every day. I heard about this last night and figured that it would be all over the news today and the Republicans and their allies would be in full-blown "outrage" mode all day long. I am owed a Coke. That being said, in regards to the OP, you are exactly correct. The Republicans knew they fumbled badly yesterday and jumped all over Rosen's comment for an attempted recovery. It will, however, by no means change the Republican war on caterpillars.....er.....women. Rosen's comments won't suddenly erase the existence of reams of legislation nationwide attacking abortion rights, birth control, Planned Parenthood, and everything else that they are doing to humiliate women, etc. Plus, now that Ann Romney is out there saying that she believes in "freedom of choice" for women, we can now expect her and/or the Romney campaign to have to repudiate every piece of anti-choice legislation that pops up wherever instigated by Republicans.
I have a problem
with people (not here) whom suggest that having one parent stay-at-home with the kids instead of working is a simple matter of foregoing expensive things like vacations and other "luxuries". From my perspective (please correct me if I'm wrong), being a stay-at-home requires either a very high income or EXTREMELY low expenses, neither of which are a very likely situation for most people even if they were to cut their household budget down to the bare bones- without vacations and other "luxuries". This is the biggest problem I have with people like the Romneys and Republicans in general. They only seem able and/or willing to respond to others through the prism of their own experiences and seem incapable and/or unwilling to see through other people's lives and experiences.
The "base" must be pretty depressed right now (we should hope)
After all of their gun-toting, tri-cornered hat(e) rallies against everything Obama for the past 3+ years and the 2010 midterm elections that swept teabaggers into office nationwide (and in Congress), they STILL wind up with a Republican "moderate" for their party's nominee for their 2012 rematch against the Kenyan Socialist Alinskyite usurper! I wonder how they're going to make lemonade with those lemons?
What I don't get
is how they think "Obamacare" + a "public option" is fine for the elderly but not o.k. for everybody else? If anything, the situation should actually be reversed. Although I think that a "Medicare-for-all" single payer system should be implemented for EVERYBODY, "Obamacare" makes way more sense for younger adults because medical expenses are, in most cases, much less (in terms of need) than for the elderly, and they can afford to pay more out of their pockets for health insurance than retired elderly persons living on a fixed income can. Medicare- in its current form- is plenty fixable if you had people working together whom actually agree that preserving Medicare in its current form is the desired outcome. Republicans have wanted to kill Medicare for decades and they are eager to declare that Medicare is broken and just kill it. The Republicans, as usual, have everything a**-backwards. 
How about:
"Congratulations. Your Republican Party has once again spat in your face by nominating a Massachusetts RINO who signed a healthcare law just like Obamacare. You should show them how you feel by organizing a write-in campaign for (insert your friends' favorite politician)."
Could Mitt Romney explain why he wants to be POTUS if asked?
I honestly don't know why he's running for POTUS and/or what he plans to do if elected. Has he ever offered an explanation to anybody anywhere?
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