Female Republican Senators go rogue, back Obama on contraceptives

@Studiusbagus,

As long as the Republicans are willing to put ideology over facts/common sense they will continue to provide fodder for Democrats and the election...

I wonder why women would want to associate with the misogynist rightie scum at all.

Did you guys catch the rightie Fox News commentator Liz whoever saying women in army should expect and accept being raped ?

There should be a mass exodus of women from this party of stupid mother@!$%#ing medieval sons of bitches.

You make a good point, and I 100% agree that we should end tax breaks for religious institutions in this country. Pay your taxes, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha or whatever/whoever you are.

Gilf Hunter - Well stated. I hope more righties were like you....then i wouldn't have to hate them so much....

By the way ...is Gilf in similar vain as Milf ?

Yes

Grandmother I'd like to F

Deryl is correct.

oh god ...

The issue is about Obama trying to dictate to the church how it should practice its religion, and the majority of Americans see that plain as day, but keep trying to throw crap at the wall, you might be able to get somthing to stick eventually.

No, its more like dictating how the church should act in its role as an Employer who accepts federal funding.

Neish - If the righties had the brains to understand the difference that you so eloquently articulated, they wouldn't be righties now ...would they ?

Neish-

If that were the case, then why has Obama given waviers to hundreds of other big businesses as to not burden them with the different mandates of Obamacare?

Mrlndia-

same question, since you are so smart.

ummmm ...Chumbkt ...could it have something to do with the fact that other big businesses don't demand nor receive any federal funding ?

If that were the case, then why has Obama given waviers to hundreds of other big businesses as to not burden them with the different mandates of Obamacare?

Do these businesses receive federal funding?

And could you cite an example of one of these "big businesses" you are speaking of?

Fact is that those two are real republicans and the tea party are the rhinos

Republicans of the past NEVER obstructed governance in the name of "purity" like these do.

TEA PARTY ARE THE RINO's

wait a minute, so now the left is saying big business doesn't recieve funding from the gov. I thought just last week you were all whinning about all the gov. subsidies these businesses are getting!

make up your mind.

fact is, obama is picking and chooseing who he will give waivers too based on who are his friends (big doners).

and if you want a list of who is getting waivers to obamacare, google it, it's not hard.

lol.... now I've seen everything Mrlndia saying big business doesn't get federal monies... No, I imagine solyndra was just a lie, right?

Subsidies and federal funding are two totally different things.

chumbkt:

Fact is, Republicans can't stand Snow or Collins. They are classic RINOs and we would love to see them out on their asses, but, like Murkowski of Alaska, we just can't get thier regional voters to get rid of them.

Senators Snowe and Collins are elected by the people who are represented by them. What a concept! It matters not one whit whether you think they are RINOs or not - their "regional" voters chose them because instead of representing rigid ideology, they are representing their constituents - all of their constituents, not just the ones who have bats in their belfries.

But perhaps you have reason to hope: Dick Armey, the puppet of the Koch brothers, is bringing his Tea Party AstroTurf organization to bear against them, as well as the Heritage Foundation (the Koch-backed Tea Party "think tank" - the epitome of an oxymoron).

The GOP/TP has a real idiot picked to succeed Senator Snowe, a birther creature by the name of Scott D’Amboise. A stupid, lying worm - perhaps you would like him. The Portland Press-Herald gave a good run-down on him back in May. He's not improved in the time since then.

Or maybe you'd like Andrew Ian Dodge, an ex-pat, former Tea Party Patriots coordinator, H. P. Lovecraft fan-boy, author of The Idiots Guide to Cthulhu. A true winner there, don't you think?

Neish1920 - No, its more like dictating how the church should act in its role as an Employer who accepts federal funding.

It’s even more complicated than that. If a school, any school, accepts a student on a Pell Grant, they are bound by the Federal terms and conditions which are just the same as if a school outright applied for any federal grant money, for any purpose."Affirmative Action" for example, would be a program anyone who accepts any federal dollars, must adhere to.

H.P. Lovecraft is only one of the most revered writers ever, but, ok, your point?

Arlen Benedict Spector was a Republican once as well.

Former Senator Arlen Specter is not from Maine nor has he ever represented Maine; therefore he is not germane to the discussion. Please feel free to seed or write an article about him if you wish.

To primary Senator Snowe, you have the choice between a worm and someone who is infatuated with worms. Which do you chose?

wait a minute, so now the left is saying big business doesn't recieve funding from the gov. I thought just last week you were all whinning about all the gov. subsidies these businesses are getting!

Federal funding with regard to medicare and medicaid. Industries other than healthcare may get subsidies, but the funding regarding the subject matter of this thread is tied to medicare and medicaid only.

By the left's standards, differing opinions are allowed, diversity is encouraged.

According to the left of course. You are not necessarily seen in the same perspective by others as you see yourself.

The right has only one perspective it uses when viewing others: "They're different, therefore bad"

You see the Democratic Party doesn't make you sign a pledge that says "You must think like this or you can't be in the club"

Get my drift Tyler? Your perspective is limited by MANDATE.

#7.3. No I don't.. A little less "drift" would be beneficial to the left.

Of course you didn't....you CAN'T because your world view doesn't allow you to.

#7.5. My view is the same as the media (including articles here on NBC) who say Obama stepped back and the White House itself who says they did not expect the back lash. Maybe you should broaden your horizons beyond what you tell yourself.

Your view is the same as every other cookie cutter, plastic, artificial, myopic conservative around Tyler.

#7.7 Fair enough since your view is the same as every other cookie cutter democrat around.

Let's take Global Warming for instance: You on the right deny it even exists, or that if it does, man has NO part in it, or that if we do....oh well, too late to do anything about it.

All this despite the FACT that you cannot find ONE actual scientific study to back up any of your assertions. You believe it because the party requires you to.

We, on the other hand WELCOME new information, so that our views will evolve RATIONALLY.

blue wolf:

All this despite the FACT that you cannot find ONE actual scientific study to back up any of your assertions.

But...but...but they have the Wall Street Journal!

(The link above is to an excellent article by Physicist-Retired about their "scientists".)

What do you expect? This is the same party that swears that being gay is a choice even though members of their party and of Congress in general are in fact openly gay. Now if everybody is saying "Being gay isn't a choice." wouldn't you think before they continued their usual BS they would ask one of the gay politicians if it was in fact a choice? No, can't do that. Have to continue down the spiral of stupidity because the evangelicals demand it. It would be funny if it wasn't true.

That link to Physicist-Retired is AMAZING. Thanks for posting it.

Burt Rutan is about the only person in the entire 16 that I would have much respect for and, as Physicist-Retired notes, he's talking outside his field of expertise.

I can see the Murdoch touch in this. The Wall Street Journal used to be a good paper ... before Murdoch got his claws into it.

And just like the rest of Nature (you can't get away from it..yaaaaaay!!!!) that which does not grow and change......dies.

#8. That was all done in 2008 remember? A lot of good it did you in 2010. You had it all and couldn't hold on to it.

You say that like it's a bad thing... :)

Actually, more true than we might like to believe. My wife's grandmother had 19 children. Back in those days, it was different because in many cases, nearly all of them died.

Now I see the logic in the tea party plan!! They're destroying the ability poor people to get health care in the US and insisting that women are continuously pregnant so they can return to the Good Ol' Days.

And Sancti-moron will bring back a good old fashioned Inquisition to go along with it.

Tyler. . .It seems the news media does not highlight certain stories unless the repubs start fighting with dems. Women will learn about it and will speak up.

#15.1. You think women don't know about it, it was all over the news for days. Do you even read the news? It's old news now and most everyone has moved on.

tyler...It may be old news, but if you have not noticed a senate republican congressman is sponsoring legislation and many of his colleagues have signed it in support. This bill will be going up for a vote shortly, so it ain't over cause the repubs think they have a winning strategy to turn this into some referendum on religious freedom. The repubs will do anything to cause chaos in their agenda to defeat Obama. But the women of America are too smart to be used as pawns. Thanks to their strategy, we have both republican candidates on the record supporting this absurd push by the republican congress with Mitch McConnell leading the charge. So go on and keep this going to rally the majority women voters to vote for Obama, thank you very much!! I repeat, we ain't going backwards!!!

"not that any of them would admit it publicly, especially if there's any chance it could get back to their husbands.."

I think your clairvoyant claim that you know what republican women will do is just deluding yourself.

It's not that they are trying to get back at their husbands, they are just trying to protect their own interests.

#16.2 Since you don't even know a percent of them that would show up on any scale, why not just quit pretending you know what they will do.

I know from experience. Many women in this nation don't vote the way they let their husbands believe they do. Especially when their own rights are on the line.

men might want women to have access to birth control as well...