TagsTagsToday, the Washington Post weighs in on the absolutely vile remarks made by Rush Limbaugh this week, calling law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" and demanding that she post videos of herself having sex online: The GOP Can No Longer Avoid Its Rush Limbaugh Problem. For the good ...
Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Hate Speech, Right Wing, Bad Craziness
This is just pathetic. The strongest words GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney can dredge up to describe Rush Limbaugh's disgusting remarks: "not the language I would have used." Mitt Romney, on a rope line on Ohio a short time ago, was asked about Rush Limbaugh's "slut" verbiage about a young ...
Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, Cowardice, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Republican Party
In a career filled with ugliness of all kinds, Rush Limbaugh, de facto head of the right wing, may have finally crossed a line by saying something so blatantly repulsive and hateful that even his advertisers are bailing out. We don't condone negative comments directed toward any group. In response, we ...
Rush Limbaugh, Misogyny, Hate Speech, Slut-Shaming, Women's Rights, Birth Control, Contraception, Republican Party
A new poll from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation shows that a large majority of Americans support requiring private health insurance to cover contraception, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone except a Republican; looks like Americans aren't eager to return to the 1800s after all. Even more interesting: less ...
Republican Party, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Birth Control, Contraception, Atavism, Polls
Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who testified at a hearing about women's health and contraception and was then viciously attacked by Rush Limbaugh in base misogynistic terms, has issued a statement. "I thank the thousands of women and men, including members of Congress, Georgetown University students and faculty, and total ...
Rush Limbaugh, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Birth Control, Contraception, Republican Party, Right Wing
Here's an open thread to keep up on news from the Republican primaries taking place in Michigan and Arizona. Arizona's probably going to go for Mitt Romney; he's way ahead of Rick "Torquemada Jr." Santorum there. But Michigan's going down to the wire... Meanwhile, here's a video clip of President Obama's rousing ...
Election 2012, Michigan, Arizona, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, President Obama, Primaries, Republican Party
The polling in Michigan is too close to call; Nate Silver says Romney and Santorum are essentially tied. People sometimes apply the term “tossup” a bit too broadly, using it to refer to anything close enough that they don’t want to render a prediction about it. In Michigan, however, the term ...
Republican Party, Election 2012, Michigan, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum
The most extreme religious fanatic in the Republican presidential race, Rick Santorum, is not going to back down on his crazed statement that John F. Kennedy makes him want to puke. It's hard to believe that this kind of hateful, childish ranting is going to get Santorum elected. But it might ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Religious Right, JFK, Separation of Church and State, Bad Craziness
The Republican Party is promoting (or has already gotten signed into law) their Neanderthal "mandatory invasive ultrasound" laws in Virginia, Alabama, N. Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. And as of today, we can add Idaho to the list: Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Bill Introduced in Idaho. The Idaho bill was ...
Slut-Shaming, Abortion, Ultrasound, State Rape, Bad Craziness, Atavism, Cavemen, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Idaho, Republican Party
The GOP's uterus inspection device Here we go again. Now the Republican Party's slut-shaming craze has spread to Alabama, with yet another uterus inspection bill requiring women seeking abortions to undergo trans-vaginal ultrasounds. And notice that State Sen. Clay Scofield openly admits there's no medical reason whatsoever; the only reason for this insane ...
Slut-Shaming, Abortion, Ultrasound, State Rape, Bad Craziness, Atavism, Cavemen, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Alabama, Republican Party
Here's Virginia Republican State Delegate David Albo, describing how his support for the GOP's slut-shaming uterus inspection bill cost him a night of sweet, sweet right-wing lovin' with his wife. And he had her all warmed up, too; turned on the Redskins channel and everything. Notice how he's unable to say ...
Virginia, Republican Party, Atavism, Social Conservatives, Ultrasound, Right Wing, Blue Nose, Vagina
As Rick Santorum's star continues to rise, his rhetoric just keeps getting more and more extreme. Today on ABC News, Santorum said that John F. Kennedy's famous 1960 speech on the separation of church and state makes him want to puke. And in Santorum's opinion, every American should feel just as ...
Rick Santorum, Election 2012, Republican Party, JFK, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Far Right, Religious Right
Texas Gov. Rick Perry's administration continues their all-out war against women's rights, by signing into law a bill that bans Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from participating in the Texas' Women's Health Program -- effectively killing the program altogether. If there was any hope that the state was seeking ...
Texas, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Republican Party, Planned Parenthood, Abortion
Pat Buchanan: voice of reason. Wait, what? I think if you get down into where [Santorum's] been discussing it on the merits and demerits of contraception...that’s a moral issue. [...] We talked about that in college endlessly, but I think you move into an area where people don’t understand yet and ...
Pat Buchanan, Republican Party, Bad Craziness, Birth Control, Contraception, Atavism, Women's Rights, Cavemen
Here's Mitt Romney in Detroit, casually mentioning the many automobiles he and his wife own. Maybe even more embarrassing: this CSPAN clip, that pans across the 65,000-seat stadium, with about 64,000 empty seats.
Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Election 2012, Detroit, Super-Rich, Gaffe
Image credit: Shutterstock In Utah, Republicans are putting in place another right wing social engineering program -- a bill that will require all sex education classes to follow an abstinence-only curriculum prohibiting any instruction in contraception. A bill requiring sex education classes to teach an abstinence-only curriculum moved closer to becoming ...
Utah, Republican Party, Social Engineering, Religious Right, Contraception, Birth Control, Sex Education, Bad Craziness
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock Like many religious right wing fanatics, Rick Santorum sees conspiracies everywhere. He can turn absolutely anything into a secret plot to persecute Christians, especially if it's endorsed by President Obama. The latest example: President Obama advocates for getting more young Americans into college -- Rick Santorum says it's ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Election 2012, Atavism, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Bad Craziness, Persecution Complex
You've heard about Virginia's mandatory ultrasound law (several other states have already passed ultrasound laws too), and you've heard about the "Personhood" bill that's now being pushed in several states, but the Republican Party is also staging an attack on another front in their war on women's rights. In several states, ...
War on Women, GOP, Republican Party, South Dakota, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Religious Right, Abortion, Cavemen
Here's a second live-snarking thread for the CNN Republican Party debate, as they approach the last few minutes with a deluge of xenophobia and atavism, but not a single question about science education, evolution, or climate change...
It's time for the final appearance of the GOP Clown Car before Super Tuesday, as the remaining four candidates try to make the American public believe there's a single ounce of difference between any of them. Tonight's debate may go down in history as the first time a Presidential candidate was ...
For the second day in a row, the Virginia House of Delegates has put off voting on the Republican Party's uterus inspection bill: Va. Vote on Abortion Ultrasound Bill Pushed Back a Day. A House of Delegates vote on a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound test ...
Republican Party, Ultrasound, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Cavemen, Virginia, Gay Rights
The GOP's uterus inspection device Virginia isn't the only state in which Republicans are trying to pass vicious slut-shaming mandatory ultrasound laws, of course; the GOP is also pushing this misogynistic legislation in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and now Pennsylvania. A bill that would require women to have an ultrasound at ...
Republican Party, Ultrasound, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Pennsylvania, Cavemen
Male Republican religious fanatics in Idaho are now trying to pass a measure that would allow any employer to deny women contraception coverage, and once again seeking to equate contraception with abortion: Idaho Bill Targets Contraceptive Rules. Republican caveman Carlos BilbaoBOISE — A measure to allow Idaho employers to ignore ...
Republican Party, Idaho, Women's Rights, Contraceptives, Birth Control, Atavism, Cavemen
Rick Santorum's rhetoric just keeps getting wilder, and today he's trying to deny that he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler, one day after explicitly comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Video (CNN) - Rick Santorum on Monday denied he was comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler while using a ...
Rick Santorum, Republican Party, Hate Speech, Election 2012, Dishonesty
The Virginia House was scheduled to vote today on the unbelievably insane Republican bill that would make it compulsory for women seeking abortions to first be penetrated by a vaginal ultrasound probe, but after this demonstration developed they decided to postpone the vote: Silent Protest Outside, Virginia House Puts Off ...
Virginia, Ultrasound, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Republican Party, Bad Craziness