Since when is Rush Limbaugh a politician?

And what do you know about Mao?

I laughed.

Definitely funnier than the dude who doesn't know the difference between a president and a dictator.

Rush Limbaugh = Satan with a Microphone
I agree that Chuck is pretty funny!

Atlanticat, "president" and "dictator" have been pretty much the same thing in the US since 2009!

Ms Fluke was not speaking about her needs ,she was speaking for a friend and people that have similar medical problems that birth control drugs can help eliminate.

Dictator is strong terms when you consider real world dictators. I hope you are kidding. But some say Obama is to passive. You and others suggest his actions make him a dictator. He could be a passive dictator. Or just a lazy dictator?
Genvieve I have had at least two close relatives die because of no health insurance. One died because a hospital only provided minimum service and one died because of pride. They had zero coverage. Ms Fluke was not asking for a hand out. She simply wanted contraception covered by insurance. Some health insurance policies cover eyes and dental and chiropractic services. Some don't cover any of those. No matter what happens someone pays for it. Usually the insured and the employer split the costs or in cases where the health insurance benefit is fully covered by the employer it would be absorbed into the health plan. This is the way it works. This is the business of health insurance in the US. This has nothing to do with other people paying for someone else's contraception. Rush embellished, lied to get attention. Ms Fluke went before congress to testify about the need for contraception the hormonal pill method and how it goes beyond preventing pregnancy. Because it help to stabilize hormonal periodicity and hormonal levels it is effective in preventing reproductive diseases and problems. Ms Fluke attempted to make the case that insurers include birth control pills under standard coverage because of the collateral health benefits.

genvieve - when your insurance or pharmacist won't refill your medication for let's say blood pressure pills because they feel it's against their religion, then you might have something to say about it. The things Rush said, not just the two words he 'apologized' for, I'm talking about asking her who bought her condoms in jr. high...kind of comments, put your own child's face or yours even where hers is. See how differently you feel about it.

I was on birth control at age 17 for health reasons. Being in high school full time and working part time job, it cost over a week's worth of pay to cover my 1 month supply. Now before you go jumping off the "I must have been a slut" train, I was a virgin when I went on it and remained so well after. I would have loved to have my insurance cover my doctor prescribed medication so I could have saved more of the money I earned.

Genvieve,
I would say if it needs to be prescribed for your good health your insurance company should pay for it ,if they pay for other prescriptions for your health.

Genvieve
If you truly lack the money to purchase the necessary treatment what would you do? Because you have to understand that people die every day because they lack the funds to purchase what they need to Stay alive. Please don't say that they need to do this and whatever.....and spend money wisely. Would you tell them to man up and die like a man. Now I agree with you for people who have money but take advantage of an overly generous system. People aren't pathetic they are people. Should people work for 30 - 40 years and end up homeless because the corp. decides to improve their profit outlook by getting rid of employees before they retire to cut costs?
That's why we have entitlements. They are there to protect people from joblessness, catastrophic events, homelessness and inability to pay for health care.

If you are on Dr. prescribed medication, your insurance should cover it. But if you are on Dr. Recommended (which I am of 2,000 iu's daily) I get mine at Vitamin Shoppe. No, my insurance does not pay for that. But that level is not prescription only.

The argument is a constitutional one. Politicians are making it a birth control issue. No one's rights are being violated, no one is being denied access to birth control.

does that mean it is bad to be self reliant? Why do you always look to others to pay for your stuff? Where does it end? I need food to live also, so should someone else have to pay for it? Ms wawa does not even have the guts to use her name!

I agree with Genevieve. The main issue is about circumventing the Constitution, not about birth control. It is only being framed as a female birth control issue for politics. Birth control is not a right, it is an option available to males and females. And Ms. Fluke referred to her expenses over three years for her choice of birth control while going to law school. Her expenses should remain just that - hers.

Genevieve,
Health insurance is a not a gift from an employer. Benefits are part of salary, therefore people work for their health insurance coverage. Your insurance should pay for your prescriptions, just like any woman should have birth control covered if prescribed by her doctor.

On a side note, do you really think you rely on no one? Do you believe that anyone is completely self-reliant? Where did you learn to read? I'll bet someone taught you, perhaps even in public schools paid for by other people. How did you get to work today? I'll guess on roads built and paid for by others, patrolled by others, and plowed (occasionally this winter) by others. Where did you get your news today? From an Internet or radio station or television station whose infrastructures were--you see where I'm going here?--built by others. Self-reliance is a myth and expecting health care coverage that we pay for is NOT "pathetic." (And I would guess that Vitamin D thing bugs you or you wouldn't have brought it up. You should call your insurance company and complain).

Genvieve - are you claiming you pay for everything completely out of pocket? All your medical bills come right out of your own checkbook or does your insurance cover it? So if you had to go on heart medication and your insurance said "ah, no, pay for it yourself" what would your response be to that? "That's ok, I'm self sufficient and I will pay for it myself?"

I really doubt that those two made the same slurs (the words that gentlemen don't use, beginning with 's' and 'w') that Limbaugh did. If you've got a link to them doing so, I'd be interested in seeing it.

Ed Shultz was suspended for a week without pay from his show and he apologized.

The difference, of course, is that Laura Ingraham is a despicable, nasty, horrible person and Schultz said something he should not have out of anger. Fluke is a law student who gave a compelling argument for birth control coverage, and the only thing that Rush could do--in a calm, pre-planned manner--was to twist her message from the fact that women deserve all healthcare covered to "she wants to be paid for having sex."

So, Denise, if someone decides that another person is a "despicable, nasty, horrible person" that justifies any insult or demeaning slur? Some of us think that Obama, Holder, (and perhaps you) fit that description, but we have too much respect for other citizens of this country and reasoned debate to degenerate the coversation into insults. It's counterproductive.

Perhaps that's the difference between the TRUE conservative and lefty mindset!

No, it is never okay to call a woman a slut. I've made that more than clear. If a woman is a horrible, despicable, nasty person, fine, say so, but demonizing her for her sexuality is not okay. I have never called Laura Ingraham a slut, and I don't support anyone doing so.

You are above insults, Bob? So I imagined the insults you hurled at me in a previous comment? As I recall, you said I had nothing between my ears and that I wasn't a critical thinker. That doesn't qualify as "degenerate the conversation into insults"? Interesting. And you DO realize that telling me that you think President Obama, Holder, and I fit the description I made of Ingraham being a despicable, nasty, horrible person is exactly the same as calling us despicable, nasty, horrible people, right?

Yes, you clearly are superior to me with your conservative values.

Bob, there is a difference between a public figure that like yourself regularly insults liberals and a private citizen offering a thoughtful opinion without once degrading conservatives. You like to dish it out but you can't take it. And the difference is Shultz and Maher were correct.

The problem is that many people, called "Dittoheads," do like what Rush has to say and because they are incapable of thinking for themselves, they embrace and repeat his words. Then suddenly, it seems okay to demonize women. It's Victorian England to his listeners.

Rush doesn't make people think a certain way any more (or less) than anyone else. Rush's fans listen to him because they already agree with his thinking, not the other way around. That's true for other talk show hosts too. Same for columnists and bloggers. I'd like to think that my blog on the Patch sways the way people think about various issues, but the fact is most of the people that like it already suscribe to the those views.

Whether it's Rush or Glenn Beck or Bill Mahar and Ed Schultz. They articulate a viewpoint that their respective fans already hold.

I understand your point. But where does it end. Why does everyone fixate on fox. You contribute to their relevancy. Can't you come up with anything better than blaming a news channel? Don't you have your own thoughts?

It is NOT okay to call a woman a slut or a prostitute, even if he "doesn't really mean it"--especially if he doesn't mean it! His audience is not known for critical thinking skills. Rush is perpetuating misogyny and the ridiculous idea that women who use birth control are morally bankrupt. The war on women is going to destroy the GOP's chances in the fall (if only because women, much to Rush's chagrin, have the right to vote).

Denise, there is no war on women. This is an election year. The issue is not birth control, as the Democrats, and you, want to portray it. The issue is circumventing the Constitution. The only war on women is the one waged by the liberals and Democrats - by USING women to win an election by fabricating a birth control issue.

Yes, you're right Marie. It's all about the Democrats. Sure. But, wait:
1. A Republican called the Girl Scouts a "tactical arm of Planned Parenthood" and a "radicalized organization that supports abortion and promotes homosexuality."
2. The Republicans are angry at the President for a mandate that would require employers to cover women's healthcare, including birth control.
3. Republicans have legislation in several states that would require a trans-vaginal ultrasound before an abortion.
4. Republicans are trying to change the term "rape victim" to "accuser."
5. In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6. Republicans want to cut Head Start and WIC. (Why? Because mothers should be home with their children, of course).
7. Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program (while Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses.)
8. Republicans introduced a spending bill that would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens (2/3 of whom are women).
9. Rick Santorum, a Republican, said that if a woman's rapist impregnates her, she should think of the pregnancy as "a gift from God."
10. Santorum is campaigning on “the dangers of contraception in this country"-- that it is “a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

Still think there's no Republican war on women?
The facts would disagree.

Again, there is no war against women, Denise. This is an election year, and it is the ugliest I've seen in a long time. The issue is the Constitution. No one is taking away birth control options. But if you want to believe that, go ahead.

"His audience is not known for critical thinking skills."

Certainly not known by YOU, Denise. But it's becoming quite clear from your post that there's quite a bit you don't know.

IF YOU had any critical thinking skills you'd understand that he has no problem with women practicing contraception, just with the government forcing others to pay for it.

Do you have a "Rush" like hearing problem, or does your problem lie BETWEEN your ears?

Marie and Bob, I've given ten examples that clearly illustrate recent Republican actions intended to harm women and women's health. You've offered empty catchphrases and personal attacks. How convincing.

Denise, no one is taking away birth control options.

Denise, your "clear" 10 points are about AS CLEAR, an MURKY as MUD! Here's the TRUTH:
1) A Girls scout group was politicized into supporting "Planned Parenthood", a corrupt and profiteering organization. A Republican found out and took action to depoliticize the scouts. I'm good with that.
2) The GOP is angry about ANY Government tyrrany regarding what we should buy in health insurance. It's not in their constitutional powers. This ISN'T just regarding birth control.
3) The ultrasound gives important information regarding the unborn child some are asking a mother to kill. I guess you support ignorance of potentially abortive Mom's before they kill their baby. I prefer knowledge to ignorance. I guess that's why I'm not a "progressive".
4)Denise, there's this funny thing in the US jurisprudence called "presumption of innocence". Just SAYING something doesn't make it so. Just ask those LaCrosse players at Duke. ONce the EVIDENCE shows that a rape occurred and a rapist is found guilty of the crime, no one objects to the term "rape victim".

5) Bill number please? IF what you say is true, this is a violation of Judeo Christian tenets which state the life of the Mother is a higher priority than the life of the child.
6) Head start has been shown to be a costly failure in the long term. It's essentially very expensive day care. Any advantages are lost after a few years in the heavily unionized public education system. WIC? It's one of the most fraudulent and abused program ever created. We need to help those who can't help themselves, but this is mostly a rip off.

7) Fine. We shouldn't be funding it at the Federal level. If a state or community thinks its needed, they can fund it..

More later

"They can't win on job creation'? We now have the lowest rate of job participation in the last 30 years due to failed Obama policies.We now have the longest length of unemployment fro individuals in since the great depression. The failed "stimulus" plan cost $600,000 per job "the Obama way" when encouraging private sector job growth would have produced one job for every $70,000 invested.
The middle class has been devastated by rising fuel and food costs caused by Obama's ill conceived energy and economic policies.

We can't win on these points? YOU WISH!

Your logic doesn't work, Bob. President Obama is to blame for the economy? I suppose you think your hangover is caused by your morning coffee, too.

Plus, the unemployment rate has shown a slow but steady decline since Nov. 2009, gas prices have nothing to do with President Obama (you might want to watch the news--there's some stuff going on in the Middle East), and in November, it was estimated that the stimulus added 3.3 million jobs.

And as for food prices, if you can blame the President for worldwide natural disasters and strange weather patterns (as well as central banks all over the globe printing worthless money), well, you're more imaginative than I.

Denise, whether high gas prices are Obama's fault or not, he'll get blamed for them. Let's face it, when gas prices spiked under Bush, Democrats blamed him for it. The same goes for the economy; one of the main reasons that Obama was elected is that the economy took a dive under Bush. If the economy was solid in 2008, we'd be talking about McCain's re-election right now.

Regardless of how "fair" it is, incumbents get the credit when things go well and they get blamed when they go bad.

Denise, I know your "historically challenged" but I didn't blame Obama for the intitial "bubble burst" in 2008. except for his poor Senatorial votes. The cause of the real estate crash was the "Community Reinvestment Act" that forced banks to give loans to unqualified borrowers becasue they fit into the "right" racial profiles. House banking oversight committee members Chris Dodd and Barney Frank allowed the corrupt Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac organizations to buy up garbage loans from mortgage lenders, after which the lenders expanded this policy to EVERYONE insteas of just the financially unqualified borrowers Frank and Dodd wanted to subsidize. The Dem campaign contributors made fortunes, then "kicked back" a lot of ill gotten gains to get their buddy Obama elected and icnrease the power of Reid and Pelosi. Eventually, the American people found out how they were betrayed and made an historic change in Congressional power in 2010. There's a few more "house cleaning" acts for America to perform in 2012, starting in the White House!

Russ I don't like fox either. I just laugh at folks who always use them in arguments. No media outlet is to blame for anything. I have never blamed anyone or anything in any of my comments. I do not lash out at this president or any other.

Exacly, John. They get a real kick out getting the attention,and the ratings.

...people like Rush know that many people are bigots, racists and think women have gone to far".

Reply: Yes, Rush does know his liberal "seminar callers" very well!

"It was personal, vicious, had no bearing on reality."

Reply: Ummm...what exactly would you call someone who wants others to pay for her needing birth control costing $3,000 per year? Let's see...$1 per "protection", 365 days per year...that's over 8 times per day!If that's just with one, committed partner, my hat's off to him! BTW, does she want government funding for treating "nymphomania"?

"Rush Limbaugh's attack is of relevance because it was a revelation of the republican leadership."

Reply: Gee, what exactly is the GOP leadership position Rush holds?

"Rush called Ms Fluke a slut and prostitute. "

Reply: Define "slut". Averaging 8 times per day year in and year out certainly puts her into SOME category... perhaps the "Guiness Book of World Records"?LOL Seriously, if she WERE doing it for pay that many times, she'd probably be making an incredible amount of money...enough to afford law school at a top institution like Georgetown....wait....WHERE does she go to school again?

Bob, you need to hear Rush's and Fluke's comments for yourself--you're embarrassing yourself here defending what he said with no context and attacking her based on what you think Rush said.

Also, and this might shock you, people who have sex are not sluts. You want a definition for "slut"? All you need to know is that It is a degrading, misogynistic term and you and Rush should be ashamed of yourselves for using it. Stop.

Gary explained in his comment what he meant by "Republican Leadership," and it wasn't about Rush Limbaugh. You should read people's comments more clearly before you respond to them.

Also, you seem to not understand how birth control works--it's doesn't cost money per sexual encounter. A woman doesn't have to take more pills when she has more sex. Plus, much of what Fluke discussed was a colleague of hers who needed oral contraception to keep an ovarian problem at bay. You're displaying one of the many problems of having men discuss women's health--a complete lack of empathy along with an ignorance of women's health issues. Many of us have been put on birth control as medical treatment in place of (or to hold off on) surgery.

Also, it's not having "others" pay for birth control, it's having OUR health insurance plans (most of which cover Viagra, whose purpose, you might know, is ONLY to enable the user to have sex. You gonna call those men "sluts"?) cover all parts of the insureds' bodies, not just the ones they feel like.

Actually, Denise, I DID hear what he said verbatim and in context. He shouldn't have said it. He made a mistake. He apologized. That should be it. If he gets fired, so should Ed Schultz and the rest of those MSNBC and "Progressive Radio" clowns (yes, I DO listen 820AM!)

Oh, I forgot. Their ratings are so low because there's little honest or accurate about what they say that firing them would be a mercy killing. Is that where you work, Denise?LOL

It seems I know quite a bit more about birth control than you. Taking "pills" is NOT safe sex. Using "defense in depth" mechanical techniques protects both against pregnancy AND STDs is. If you don't know that, I know a good sixth grade teacher who can explain it to you!

Okay, in this section, Bob, you're having an argument with someone about something, but dang if I know who or what it is. I've said nothing about "safe sex" and I am certain I don't need sex advice from you or anyone you recommend.

Russ, you obviously know noting about the energy industry or energy pricing. let alone economics. Actually, it's becoming pretty clear that what little economic growth there's been in the US has been IN SPITE of Obama's policies, rather than becuase of them. After as big a hit in the economy was taken as was the case from the Pelosi-Dodd-Frank "subprime" abuses when they took power in 2006, our economy tyically bottoms out within a year and then robustly grows at 4-6% GDP annually. That didn't happen this time because of the ill conceived and anti-business (except for crony capitalism) policies of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. It's been estimated that Obama's policies have retarded US economic growth by 2-4% per year. So much for an "Obama" recovery!

Here's another reason our gas prices are skyrocketing. The price of crude oil is benchmarked against the US dollar, and it is commodity governed by by supply and demand....and the VALUE of a dollar.

Obama has supported high deficit spending, the highest in history, and has been "monetarizing" that debt by printing dollars. When economic growth is far less than the rate of increase in money supply, as it is under Obama, the "value" of the dollar is less which means the price of commodities such as oil and gold increase dramatically. The only thing keeping inflation from running wild is the high REAL unemployment rate (including Americans who've left the labor force cince there are no jobs) Speculation is the result of government action, supply and demand. Demand overall is flat. Supply is increasing worldwide. US monetary "weak dollar" policy is what's causing this huge rise in oil prices. Ill conceived ethanol policy is what's causing a worldwide food shortage, and we can discuss that later.

FYI, Bill Maher's show is on HBO and he has no sponsors.

Rush is taken much more seriously by the Republican party. It seems that Rush has had a long time hatred of of womens rights. See part copy and pasted from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/12/us/republicans-get-a-pep-talk-from-rush-limbaugh.html Republicans Get a Pep Talk From Rush Limbaugh To all the advice for the new Republicans coming to Congress, add this from Rush Limbaugh: A hostile press corps lurks inside the Beltway. "You will never ever be their friends," the talk-show host warned most of the 73 Republican freshmen at a dinner here tonight. "They don't want to be your friends. Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch. And you'll think, 'Wow! I'm only a freshman. Cokie Roberts wants to take me to lunch. I've really made it!' " The audience laughed.

"Seriously," he added. "Don't fall for this. This is not the time to get moderate. This is not the time to start trying to be liked." The freshman class, which included not a single "femi-Nazi," one of Mr. Limbaugh's favorite epithets for supporters of women's rights, whooped and applauded, proving itself one big fan club of the man it believes was primarily responsible for the Republican avalanche in November.
Mr. Limbaugh was made an honorary member of the class as its members tonight finished a three-day orientation here sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and Empower America, two conservative Washington research organizations.
Barbara Cubin, an incoming freshman from Wyoming, told Mr. Limbaugh that because 74 percent of the nation's newspapers had endorsed Democrats, "talk radio, with you in the lead, is what turned the tide." On behalf of the women in the class, she gave him a plaque that said, "Rush Was Right." He also received a pin like the ones the freshmen wore, saying, "Majority Maker."

Russ, this is just revisionist garbage on that link. The rag is a progressive propaganda tool,and makes no apology for it. If you want to be taken seriously, find some link from an unbiased source that serves investors and your claims might be taken seriously.

BTW, you notice how they cleverly avoided running the graphs back to 200 and when the Dems took over Congress in 2006? If they had theywould have shown where the REAL cause of the economic meltdown occurred...when the Dems regained power.

Actually, if you read my post, I didn't say the 2010 bill CAUSED the crisis. The crisis was caused when the Dems took back the House in 2006 and Barney Frank was put in charge of the banking committee. It was Frank's responsibility,not the Presidents, to monitor what was going on in the subprime market, and provide oversight to protect the American public from the scam that was played with "Bundling" of toxic assests. which Fannie and Freddie bought without sufficient scrutiny. This "easy money" practice of giving many billions to unqualified borrowers, and the "flipping" of bad paper to Fannie and Freddie, is what caused the "bubble", an irrational, government driven run up of real estate prices and the collapse of the market which sent us into the spiral of economic crisis. Economists agree that timely action by the House Banking Committee to slow down Freddie and Fannie could've prevented this meltdown from happening. Why wasn't it stopped? Frank's Wall street buddies, and campaign contributors, were makiong money hand over fist flipping this house of cards. Frank, Pelosi, Reid and later Obama all got their cut in 2008.

CRA required bad lending practices to allow bank mergers, Fannie and Freddie bought and expanded the garbage in loans, Frank protected this system until it was too late in 2007, then Obama blamed Bush and the people bought it in 2008. They wised up in 2010 and hopefully in 2012.

Regarding the Dodd Frank Act, Russ, it's had a bigfreezing effect on lending and recovery in the real estate market. The cash reserve and billions in extra reporting costshave made it practically impossibel to get a business loan, or purchase investment preperty, from a bank. It didn't brinig back Glas Stegal in any way...investment banks are still owning retail banks. I wish we could put the genie back in the bottle, but I can't see how that'll happen.

Fair enough, Genevieve. Improving the economy is important. I too was raised to work hard and do things for myself, but I also understand and respect the way that we are all connected. People have helped me along the way and I find joy in helping others.

Fred, I've heard different Rabinical interpretations about the issue that life starts at birth from the womb. Abortion really isn't discussed in the Torah or Talmud to my knowledge, which I admit is limited. I guess we can argue about which interpretation we believe. Personally, I believe in sanctity of human life, and believe that once somethings in motion, that life shouldn't be taken unless it's a choice between the life of the Mom or baby.

I also object to capital punishment for two reasons; I don't believe in the infalibility of our judical system and I don't believe the government should have the right to take the lives of its citizens in cold blood. Pretty simple.

Russ, I read the article and it was not a "report", it was a biased advocacy piece fro the Democratic Party. It was also deeply flawed with regards to our discussion. The Bush era effectively ended on 1/20/2007. All data should be comared as to that point when the Dems took over. I'll look for that data and try to post a link.

Lest you think I'm Bush apologist and a GOP "blind" supporter. While Bush was a SOCIAL conservative, he was DEFINTELY a Big Government liberal when it came to economic policy and crony capitalism. His enacting the massive prescription benefit without raising medicare rates tio pay for it was inexcusable. His prosecution of the most expensive wars in history against really minor oppostion was a travesty. I initially thought he was going to pursue military action similar to that executed by Clinton in Yugoslavia...blow up virtually anything that could be used to make war and produce and transport war materials.

I believe his incredibly costly "nation building" approaches wil prove eventually to be ineffective, and the corrupt crooks who took trillions from it had no interest in either serving justice or freedom.

Russ, here's a link to the real data regarding what happened to the US growth rates. There's no "spin" like you've posted here, just the facts:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth

What this graph shows is that the Bush tax cuts where dramatically successful in growing the economy and creating jobs. towrds the end of 2007, when the damage to the economy caused by Reid and Pelosi policies began to take hold, it caused a precipitating event that led to disaster in 2008, and the failed policies adn regulatory environment created by Obama turned what should have been a minor recessioino into a full blown depression. Please note that through history big drops in growth area typically erased within a year or so if sound economic policy is implemented. We still aren't there, and clearly won't be until there's a new resident in the White House.

As JFK understood and impleneted policy, the best way to create jobs and grow the economy for GOOD jobs is to reduce the burden of inefficient and ineffective government on the people.

If you want to prolong unemeployment and poor economic growth, you follow the poltically tainted policies of FDR and Obama.

That;s the REAL issue in this POTUS campaign, NOT free contraception! that's why the MSM is making such a big distracting deal about it. They don't win on economic or interntational policy.

Russ, I guess your memory is a little short. Obama had a FILIBUSTER PROOF SENATE and control of teh house until 2011. That's how he was able to pass teh most destructive health care bill in US history.

I guess you're right about us never being able to agree. If you can't understand the clear cause and effect between the downturn and Dem control of the House and Senate,and the way Obama's actions accelerated economic decline and unemployment, there's little I can teach you.

BTW, do you have ANY background in economics or math?

Quite the pathetic post - it proves something alright.

I'm not seeing anything pathetic about Resident's post . . . just sad. Marie, instead of saying that posts you don't like "pathetic" and repeating that there is no Republican war on women, why not give us something to go on? Explain how Republicans introducing over 1,000 recent pieces of legislation that limit women's access to birth control, abortion, and preventative health care is somehow a good (or even neutral) thing. And if you can do it without insulting anyone, that'd be great.

Denise, those pathetic comments as well as others on here are nothing more than cut and paste, fabricated stories from Huffington Post (is the Patch affiliated with HuffPo?), DCCC, Baltimore Sun, Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, Nancy Pelosi, etc. It proves to me that the Democrats were able to take a non-issue and fabricate it into one during an election year, and they hoped that there were enough undaunted believers out there to fall for it (and apparently there are).

There is no war on women, there is no prevention of access to birth control.

Marie - you are so off base thinking there is not a war on women.

Personhood Bill - three major components 1) Abolishes Abortion Rights for Women 2) Abolishes all forms of contraceptives (condoms, sponges, etc) making sex for procreation only, 3) Gives ability to criminalize a woman who suffers a miscarriage

The bills in some states regarding abortions where a woman (even those victims of rape) have an ultrasound performed prior to the abortion (In hopes she changes her mind) all the while having to have a 10" wand inserted in the vagina against her will. Basically raping her with this wand. While any woman who is keeping their child, gets the regular form of ultrasound.

Terry England Representative (Georgia) - compared women to LIVESTOCK! Sponsored a bill that will force women to carry fetuses they miscarry to term to deliver naturally because that is what cows and pigs do. Endangering the life of the mother since she will have a decomposing fetus inside her.

This is just three examples. If you'd like more evidence, I will happy to supply you.

It is laughable! Hit the nail on the head, Russ.

Marie, let us all know how you like having that transvaginal probe inserted in you.

LOL Baba! You're all so consistent with your ideological, fear-mongering, baseless, talking points about a non-issue.

Really, Marie?? Fear mongering? Baseless talking points, a non-issue? It was a non-issue until you Repugnantcans made it INTO an issue.

You see what Tennessee wants to do to abortion providers and patients? This is from the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who owns News Corp. which begat Faux News Channel.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/03/20/tenn-bill-would-reveal-names-of-abortion-doctors-and-more/

Give it up Russ. Reminds me of the old saying. Don't try to teach pig to sing, it wastes your time and frustrates the pig.

Oak Lawn Bill is right. You may want to "like" this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Republicansareidiots1