“You’ve confused a ‘war on your religion’ with ‘not always getting everything you want.’”
— JON STEWART, The Daily Show.
Yep, conservatives.
Jon Stewart returns from break and drops some truth bombs.
(Source: inothernews)
New Hampshire’s GOP legislature has come up with all manner of absurd bills recently, including a proposal making public school curriculum optional, another to prevent police from protecting domestic abuse victims, and even a measure mandating that new laws be based on the Magna Carta. Some of the Granite State’s GOP lawmakers have even proposed doing away with the law that requires employers to give their workers time off for lunch, under the rationale that all employers will simply grant lunch breaks out of the goodness of their hearts
Seriously?!?!?! You have nothing better to do with your time and positions? How it is not clear to most citizens that Republicans care nothing - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! - about average citizens, I just don’t get.
(via occupyallstreets)
Carole Belver, executive director of Community Action Inc. of Central Texas, spent Tuesday, Jan. 24, closing up the CAI women’s health clinic in Elgin. As she packed up supplies and prepared files to be moved to Lockhart, the closest of the group’s two remaining clinics, “the phone was ringing off the wall,” she says. Three staff members have been terminated, and hundreds of clients have been left wondering where they’ll go to receive basic reproductive and preventative health care.
Belver doesn’t know what to tell them. CAI, which until recently operated 13 clinics in medium- and small-sized communities in Central Texas, now has just two, in Lockhart and San Marcos. “It’s horrible; it’s just devastating,” she says. “And there’s really no place for these clients to go.”
And it’s not just happening in North Carolina. In virtually every state in the South, at the Congressional and state level, Republicans—to protect and expand their gains in 2010—have increased the number of minority voters in majority-minority districts represented overwhelmingly by black Democrats while diluting the minority vote in swing or crossover districts held by white Democrats.
“What’s uniform across the South is that Republicans are using race as a central basis in drawing districts for partisan advantage,” says Anita Earls, a prominent civil rights lawyer and executive director of the Durham-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice. “The bigger picture is to ultimately make the Democratic Party in the South be represented only by people of color.”
The GOP’s long-term goal is to enshrine a system of racially polarized voting that will make it harder for Democrats to win races on local, state, federal and presidential levels. Four years after the election of Barack Obama, which offered the promise of a new day of postracial politics in states like North Carolina, Republicans are once again employing a Southern Strategy that would make Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater proud.
(Source: azspot, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
"In American politics, women’s bodies are not bodies, but parts."
— - Jill Lepore, “Komen’s Choice,” The New Yorker (via jessicavalenti)
Get to it. Click here and see what mud Tweeples have slung already: #preparethem
(Source: drunkonstevphen)
Robert Reich writes in “The Republican Myth of Obama’s ‘Entitlement Society’ “: robertreich:
The reason for the rise in food stamps, unemployment insurance, and other safety-net programs is Americans got clobbered in 2008 with the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. They and their families have needed whatever helping hands they could get.
If anything, America’s safety nets have been too small and shot through with holes. That’s why the number and percentage of Americans in poverty has increased dramatically over the past three years. According to a study by Northeastern University, a third of families with young children are now in poverty.
(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
[The Power of the 99%!!]
NEW YORK — Planned Parenthood said Wednesday that it received more than $400,000 from 6,000 donors in the 24 hours after news broke that its affiliates would be losing grants for breast screenings from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer foundation.
Komen, meanwhile, incurred heated criticism from some members of Congress, numerous liberal advocacy groups and some newspaper editorial writers. But it was applauded by many conservative religious and anti-abortion groups that abhor Planned Parenthood for its role as the leading U.S. abortion provider.
Planned Parenthood says the funding cutoff was a result of Komen succumbing to pressure from anti-abortion activists. Komen, in a statement issued Wednesday evening, denied that politics played a role and reiterated that its decision was based on newly adopted criteria for issuing grants.
The criteria bar grants to any organization that’s under local, state or federal investigation. Planned Parenthood is being investigated for alleged financial improprieties by a Republican congressman acting with the encouragement of anti-abortion groups.
The Times tracked donors to “super PACs” as they filed reports on Tuesday detailing their activities in the final three months of 2011. Unlike candidates, who can raise a maximum of $2,500 per person for each election, super PACs are independent from candidates and can raise unlimited amounts from individuals, corporations and labor unions, and spend unlimited amounts to support or oppose a candidate.
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