Congressional Quarterly reporter Emily Ethridge offers firsthand knowledge of anti-choice Rep. Steve King’s (R-Iowa) ignorance on women’s health. This comes after King said earlier this morning that he’d never heard of a girl getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest, which was a roundabout way of defending Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who last weekend asserted that women who are the victims of “legitimate rape” have bodily defenses to avoid pregnancy.
It’s par for the course for conservatives, including Akin, King, and Paul Ryan, who have long sought to redefine “rape.”
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Look! Someone else committed journalism and called out the Romney campaign on the facts.
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Someone who’s not CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.
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Surprise! Bachmann's Iowa Campaign Chair Endorses Ron Paul
Just when you think the GOP primary race can’t get any weirder…
Kent Sorenson just announced he was endorsing Ron Paul, then resigned as Michele Bachmann’s Iowa co-chair.
You suggested it. I created it. I give you the bingo board for a spectacular drinking game involving the GOP debate/discussion hosted by The Family Leader, Iowa’s premier anti-gay and anti-choice group. It’s this Saturday from 4-6 p.m. CST and will be live-streamed here. I’ll be live-tweeting it. Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul are all confirmed to attend. Mitt Romney was invited, and Jon Huntsman was snubbed.
The Family Leader is that heinous group of folks who brought you the misogynistic, anti-marriage equality pledge that claimed blacks were better off under slavery, and pornography should be banned.
Should be a good time… and seriously, I’m pretty sure this can be reused after the 19th.
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FDR Went to Wisconsin To Battle ‘Economic Royalists’ But Obama Avoids Both The State and the Fight.
The last pair of recall elections will be held today and two Democratic State Senators are fighting to keep their seats. Obama will be within 20 miles of Wisconsin, but he refuses to cross the state line. The Nation has a great piece comparing Obama’s approach to that of another great Democratic leader, FDR. Like Obama, FDR had been elected on a promise of “hope” and “change.” Like Obama, FDR had tried with mixed success to deliver on that promise. The thirty-second president went to Green Bay to explain to a crowd of sympathetic but worried Wisconsinites that the economic battles of the moment needed to be seen in the perspective of the great American contest between a privileged few that engaged in the “private means of exploitation” and the great many that had “waged a long and bitter fight for [their] rights.” Read the complete article here.
Gallup recently released the results of its cumulative state-by-state polling on political party identification for the first six months of 2011. The polling revealed that 44% of Americans identified as Democrats and 40% identified as Republicans. The chart above profiles the states that most clearly mirrored the national numbers.
According to Craig Gilbert:
If Wisconsin has returned to something like a 50/50 state, that suggests 2012 will be a furious partisan trench war – for president, for Herb Kohl’s vacant US Senate seat and for governor if Democrats try and succeed in forcing a recall election against Walker.
This state is indispensable to a winning electoral majority for President Obama and his party, and it now sits very close to the 50-yard line of American politics.
Wisconsin was almost a perfect microcosm of the country in its partisan makeup: 45% of Wisconsinites called themselves Democrats, 40% called themselves Republicans.
