Matt Wuerker, “Off among the ice floes…”
Yes, Ann Romney is exactly the type of woman to be advising her husband on issues facing working mothers. NOT.
Often the most conservative states are the least family-friendly. The National Partnership for Women and Families made this map report card to show which states have the worst policies for families and new parents. So much for “traditional family values”!
(Source: nationalpartnership.org)
(via think-progress)
But don’t call it class warfare, or you’ll hurt the Republican Party’s feelings!
Mitt Romney has claimed that he wants to keep his campaign’s focus away from absurd distractions like birtherism, but his campaign has kept close ties with many who refuse to abandon the conspiracy theories.
Here are six notable birthers on Team Romney.
Dissecting the GOP Brain: Why can’t Republicans handle the truth?
There is suggestive but not definitive evidence that the size of the amygdala – “an almond-shaped bunch of neurons located in an evolutionarily older part of the brain, the limbic system” – may play a role in one’s political orientation. The amygdala is strongly associated with fear; one of its tasks is to “structure our life-preserving defense responses.” Experiments have shown that conservatives tend to have bigger and more active amygdalas, but the field of “neuropolitics” is in its early stages, as Mooney notes. It’s clear, though, that genetics helps shape our political beliefs. According to Mooney, “40 percent or more of the variability in our political outlooks is ultimately attributable to genetic influences.”
It’s also clear that, whatever the extent of its physiological origin, fear is a major motivator in the GOP’s drive to deny reality.
Conservative super-PACs are attempting to gin up disillusionment among President Obama’s supporters and keep their turnout low in November’s election, in part by highlighting his ties to Wall Street.
Within the past month, three separate ads — two from the American Future Fund and one from Crossroads GPS — have assailed Obama from broadly comparable perspectives. Especially striking are the American Future Fund ads which make the kind of anti-Wall Street argument heard largely on the left.
The outside groups’ message contrasts with the one being pushed by Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate, who has called the Obama’s “the most anti-business administration” since President Carter’s.
Super-PAC ads look to tie Obama to Wall Street, turn off his base
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
Sixteen lies this week.
(Source: quickhits)
Republican opposition to nearly every one of President Obama’s programs derives not from ideology but out of a desire to ensure the administration’s failure, authors Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann tell Chrystia Freeland.
“As soon as Obama or a Democratic leader embraces a Republican position, they deny it and move onto something else,” Mann says.
Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is trying to hide just how devastating his budget plans would be for seniors on Medicare. Recently he falsely claimed House Republicans “passed a budget to save Medicare.” The reality is exactly the opposite.
Experts say the budget Ryan proposed last year would have ended Medicare as we know it, and now Ryan has pledged that this year’s House Republican budget will be the same as last year’s — one that ends Medicare.
In fact, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says that elderly people would pay more for health care under the Republican plan.
Too many seniors are already struggling - they can’t afford a plan that could almost double their health care costs.
Get Your Facts Straight, Paul Ryan, and Stop Trying to Gut Medicare!
Not exactly a fiscally responsible move, is it?
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