I Didn't Say It ....

President Obama, on Congressman Todd Akin's claim that there is such a thing as "legitimate" rape:

"Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we’re talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people and doesn’t make sense to me. What I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians – the majority of whom are men – making decisions about women’s health."

It’s comforting to know that one man, and one party, understands. The GOP, even after Todd Akin’s foot-in-mouth stupidity, still seems to want to ‘qualify’ rape.

This is not the party of the people.

Brian Brown, NOMs Hound from Hell, on Starbucks alleged fall after supporting marriage equality:

"Starbucks supported same sex marriage, saw their support from Republicans dwindle, missed sales projections, and watched the company lose $4.4 billion overnight and over $10 billion from their 2012 high. While executives of publicly traded companies have had a wonderful time claiming that not supporting same-sex marriage hurts their employee recruitment and retention efforts, we now have a case study in how alienating millions of customers can directly affect the bottom line of a public company and damage shareholder value."

Tis true, Starbucks did not meet its growth forecast, but sales have actually increased worldwide…World.Wide…resulting in a 19% rise in profits for the just-ended quarter.

So, yeah, Brian Brown is once again lying.

Scott Brown, the senator from Massachusetts, responding to the Todd Akin flap:

"As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin's comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong. There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking. Not only should he apologize, but I believe Rep. Akin's statement was so far out of bounds that he should resign the nomination for US Senate in Missouri."

When some in your own party are telling you that you’re out of line—especially in the GOP—then it’s time to move on.

Sadly, Todd Akin has gotten the support of a few wingnuts and will be staying in the race.

For now.

Kirk Cameron, former child star and religious wingnut, defending Todd Akin:

“He clearly is a pro-life advocate, and for that, I respect him...He said that he misspoke and that he misphrased something and that he apologized...I’m the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for. So he’s in a tough spot.”

You’re an ass. There is pro-life, and there is qualifying rape. Two different things, moron. Don’t turn this into a discussion of abortion because that’s not what it is. It’s a discussion about a man, and his party, who believe there are such things as “legitimate” rape and “forcible” rape.

And that party is clearly out of touch.

Todd Akin, trying to salvage his political career:

"Rape is an evil act. I used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that I apologize. As the father of two daughters, I want tough justice for predators. I have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault. I pray for them. The fact is, rape can lead to pregnancy. The truth is, rape has many victims. The mistake I made was in the words I said, not in the heart I hold. I ask for your forgiveness."

Um, maybe you misspoke when you said “legitimate” but you didn’t do so when you said you had talked to doctors who told you that a woman’s body can “fend off” the sperm of their rapists so they don’t get pregnant.

That was stupid and it’s exactly what you said.

Bob Kerrey, the Nebraska Democrat who in 1996 as Senator voted to oppose DOMA when his own party refused to stand up to it, is doing it again, running for Senate with a pitch for marriage equality:

“What I usually say is, ‘Let me talk to you about the issue of homosexuality. People are born the way they are and deserve a full complement of civil rights, including the right to marry. It’s that simple. People who are opposed to it are going to have to be explaining to their grandkids: why, why, why was that the rationale? We're going to be embarrassed in 25 years.”

I hope you’re right, and I hope it doesn’t take twenty-five years.

Hugh Hefner, on marriage equality:

“The fight for gay marriage is, in reality, a fight for all of our rights. Without it, we will turn back the sexual revolution and return to an earlier, puritanical time. Today, in every instance of sexual rights falling under attack, you’ll find legislation forced into place by people who practice discrimination disguised as religious freedom. Their goal is to dehumanize everyone’s sexuality and reduce us to using sex for the sole purpose of perpetuating our species. To that end, they will criminalize your entire sex life...This is a religious nation, but it is also a secular one. … No one should have to subjugate their religious freedom, and no one should have their personal freedoms infringed. This is America and we must protect the rights of all Americans.”

Word, Hef. Word.

The Height Of GOP Stupidity, Part One: Todd Akin .... And Paul Ryan

Todd Akin is a Republican congressman from Missouri. He's also a delusional moronic fuck.
This past week he told a local TV channel that "legitimate rape" rarely produces pregnancy because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” He said he'd gotten his information from, um, "doctors," yet couldn't remember a single name,
Akin apparently believes that when a woman is raped, her body can determine that she's going to get pregnant and just stop it from happening. I mean, if it's a "legitimate" rape and not all those illegitimate rapes where the woman is just playing hard to get. So, by virtue of his pronouncement, if a woman is raped, and ends up pregnant, then she wasn't really raped at all.
Yeah. I know.
Rabidly anti-choice, Akin has sponsored legislation that would redefine rape--as legitimate, I guess, or illegitimate--in federal law to limit funding for abortion providers; he also wants to ban the morning after pill, and has expressed concern that criminalizing marital rape gives women “a legal weapon to beat up on the husband” during a divorce. See, married woman don't get raped; they're just denying sex to their husbands who then have to force themselves on their womenfolk; that's not rape, y'all, that's GOP foreplay.
Of course, after the outcry over his special brand of idiocy, Akin claims he misspoke, though he didn't apologize. The Romney/Ryan camp instantly distanced themselves from Akin, though they still remain addicted to the GOP which holds a very Old World view on woman's health issues, a woman's right to choose, and, well, anything to control women.
Todd Akin. The height of GOP stupidity. Or, as Frank Rich says:

Oops, but there's a sidenote which I find interesting.
See, the GOP is trying to distance themselves now from Todd Akin; to say that, while they are indeed Pro-Life, they do not feel at all like Todd Akin feels. But then I heard that the little GOP Veep candidate, Paulie Ryan, once worked on an anti-abortion bill in which he discussed "forcible" rape.
Oh, but he did. See, it looks like Ryan thinks that some rapes are "forcible" but other times a woman getting raped agrees to it, so it's not forced. I know. WTF? 
All of this makes me wonder when the GOP will try to distance them,selves from Paul Ryan and "forcible" rape as they are doing with Todd Akin's "legitimate" rape. And it makes me wonder when women will back away from the GOP and its anti-woman stance and vote for Obama, who plainly said, "Rape is rape."

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The 7 Most Anti-Gay Representatives, And .... Big Surprise .... They're All Republican

Remember when the GOP stormed Congress during the last election on the rallying cry that Obama had done nothing to fix the economy so they would step in and make everything right for America?

Yeah. Didn’t happen. But what did happen was that a group of anti-LGBT Republicans introduced ten major anti-gay bills, resolutions, and amendments in the U.S. House of Representatives. While 144 Members of Congress have sponsored or co-sponsored at least one of these anti-LGBT proposals, seven members of Congress signed on to five or more of the pro-discrimination measures.

So, who are these homophobic--all Republican, all the time--Representatives?

• Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Republican from Kansas authored his state’s constitutional amendment that banned both same-sex marriage and civil unions; he authored an amendment to ban a directive that would allow not force military chaplains to voluntarily solemnize same-sex union; he authored an amendment to “prohibit the use of funds to be used in contravention of the Defense of Marriage Act,” and authored a bill to ban the use of military facilities for any same-sex unions. And he didn't stop there, because, you know, he was all done fixing the economy and stuff; he also co-sponsored three measures just to criticize the Obama administration for not defending the Defense of Marriage Act, to direct the Speaker of the House to defend the law instead, and to delay implementation of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal.
• Rep. W. Todd Akin, a sixth-term Republican Congressman from Missouri, warned us all in 2006 that “anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.”
• Rep. Dan Burton, a fifteenth-term GOP Congressman from Indiana, who is thankfully retiring at the end of 2012, loves to say that “Marriage between a man and a woman has been the foundation of human civilization for thousands of years all around the world.”
• Rep. Phil Gingrey, a fifth-term Georgia GOP  Congressman, often cites God a s his reasons for supporting an anti-gay constitutional amendment--he's never heard of Separation of Church and State--and has said, "I don't like the secularism that’s occurring in this country one bit and I think it is incumbent upon those of us [that] stand strong, to stand very strong, in regard to that and say ‘look, [my wife] and I believe that marriage is a sacrament.’”
• Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a first-term GOP Congresswoman from Missouri, was spokes-bigot for that anti-gay constitutional amendment effort in Missouri and has compared same-sex marriage to pedophilia and letting three-year-olds drive cars.
• Rep. Doug Lamborn, a third-term Republican from Colorado, came under fire for racially insensitive comments that associating with President Obama was like “touching a tar-baby.”
• Rep. Donald A. Manzullo, a tenth-term GOP Congressman from Illinois, recently lost re-nomination after reportedly telling House Republican Leader Eric Cantor--another anti-LGBT GOP goose-stepping fool--that the devout Jew was not “saved.”

And there are fourteen more House Republicans who either sponsored or co-sponsored at least four of these anti-LGBT proposals, and just one Democrat; and he is Mike McIntyre from, big surprise, North Carolina, who co-sponsored a proposed constitutional amendment to anti-gay marriage. 

All of the other 143 anti-gay activists were Republicans who have also committed $1.5 million in taxpayer funds to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. 

This is all funny, sick, sad and twisted, when you hear crybaby GOP goose-stepper-in-chief, and Speaker of the House, John Boehner, downplay the Republican focus on social issues and say he'd rather talk about jobs.

Yeah, I'd rather the GOP talk about jobs, but they aren't. They're too busy being homophobes and bigots and haters; they continue to be a Do-Nothing Congress.

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