i see theres a scandal involving prostitutes and the obama admin bye bye barry hello mitt

I see there is a trollish re reg making mountains out of ant hills. So can we blame GWB because Haliburton employees in the middle east video taped themselves drinking booze from each others asses? What don't you get unless Obama bought the hookers what the secret service does after work hours is none of Obama's business. FFS why don't you grow up instead of acting like a 10 year old that walked in on his little sisters shower.

as we know the secret service set up meetings with women for jfk. i never said obama used prostitutes. i said theres a scandal involving prostitutes and his admin. there is an investigation underway. by the way its not just the secret service involved as members of the military are involved. as obama is cic this involves his admin. also hillary must become involved in the investigation as this happened in a foreign country. do you think if this happened during the bush admin dems would ignore it? my god dems went ballistic when bush mispronounced a word! whether obama used prostitutes or not will be determined in the investigation. he is innocent until proven guilty. by the way, michele wasnt invited on the trip.

if hilary is right why did she apoligize, and why did dems stumble all over themselves, led by obama and biden to condem her obviously stupid comment?

I agree with you ksker. Michelle Obama takes attacks everyday and back in 2008 she was attacked when she spoke for her husband. If Ann Romney is going to be a public speaker she will have the take the bad as well as the good. So Ann Romney better ready if someone responds to what she says publicly negatively. She acted if someone questioned her motherhood but did she understand there are thousands of women that works and take care of their children. It may be that woman want to stay at home but in today's world, it is impossible to do and her husband is going to make it worse for low and middle income citizens. So Hilary Rosen should not have apologized. Michelle Obama handled it in 2008 and as First Lady she handles it everyday with the normal haters.

commie,

do you think repubs are sincere about every apology they put forth? do you think rush limbaugh should have apologized to Sandra Fluke?

repubs agreed with rush limbaugh, including rick santorum and mitt romney. or else they are afraid of him, the leader of the repub party.

both parties do this. sometimes people apologize because it is the right thing to do. i'm sure Hilary wishes she had phrased her thought in regard to ann romney better, but everyone understood/understands what Hilary was trying to say. repubs, mitt and ann want to take advantage of this to try to get women to vote for them.

its a shame it will all be for nothing.

suz you make some good points, rush is a scumbag for saying that about fluke. even though fluke lied to congress about bc costing 1 k a year as it can be bought at walmart walgreens and many other outlets for 9$ a month. notice she hasnt been seen on tv since #1 fox news proved she was lying. i see no reason for her to be sent to prison for lying to congress as shes been humiliated enough by her lying. as for rosens statement means nothing i disagree. she insulted and humiliated millions of women. of course reps will use this against in their campaign. as dems would do if the roles were reversed. even if this changes the mind of 1 or 2% of women in swing states this could easily cost obama the election. obama screwed up bigtime by saying "someone on tv" as she visited the wh 35 times and has 5 meetings with obama. obama acting as if he didnt know her was a bonehead move. but my best was carney saying he knows 3 hilary rosens. bol.even you must admit this is hilarious as it was proven it was the hilary who made the stupid statement that visited the wh. i would venture the average person who follows politics know who hilary rosen is. as in most cases people trying to spin a stupid statement just make it worse. i heard biden is mad at rosen. he says hes the one whos supposed to make stupid statements embarrassing the pres.

Really commie because I follow politics closely and have never heard of hilary rosen before and I'm about certain that you and basically everyone else hasn't either.....so she's hardly famous or well known

Even you think one or two change in the likely women voters numbers will cost obama the election the current polls where he leads by nearly 20% say different. Romney is not going to have a chance unless he cuts that in half and since the right wing talkers will be lucky if they can ride this into next week let alone november he's going to actually have to come up with a real strategy. That's not politics that's just math Karl Rove would probably tell you the same thing...in week or two after he's done trying to campaign on this.

Now you do realize the president meets with thousands of staffers in a given year....I doubt that they are are speaking terms since she's not part of his staff at the white house or his campaign. The GOP of course will try and drum up the fake outrage on this but as if this were the dems they will simply fail. Women I suspect will find the idea that they can use this issue to win them over to be an insult. Do you really think women are going to care more about the comments of one staffer or dozens, or even hundreds of peices of legislation across the country that will impact their reproductive lives....??? The ladies aren't stupid.

Ann Romney has worked a day in her life is about a statement about Ann Romney not millions of women and since the number of women who have had no choice but to work for a wage out numbers those who've not this really will fade in about a week. Ann Romney can pretend to be the surrogate for all stay at home moms but sadly most stay at home moms have not had housekeepers, chefs, maids, etc. so even as a hard working "stay at home mother" she's been quite privelaged.

cyn lol good one, you never heard of hilary rosen , i dont believe you. even if you hadnt heard of her you surely know her now. obama leads romney IN WOMEN NATIONWIDE. which means little as only states that count are the swingstates. obama biggest lead in women are in states he will surely win like calif ny nj wash and others. obama could get 100% of the women votes in these states and it means absolutely nothing. the gap is closer in the swingstates. if just 1 in 50 women change their minds in swingstates cause of rosens stupid remark say hello to president romney. as rosen insulted and humiliated millions of women obama is in bigtime trouble. by the way biden is mad at rosen, he said hes the one whos supposed to make stupid remarks embarrassing the president.

commie,

i had never heard of Hilary Rosen, either, so it doesn't surprise me that Cynical hasn't heard of her. she just made a name for herself from this MANUFACTURED controversy by the repubs. just like the MANUFACTURED debt controversy/crisis.

the repubs normal stance is that poor women who got welfare assistance to stay home and take care of their children IS NOT WORK. their stance is that poor women who stay home to take care of children are not working. their stance is that these poor women ARE GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING isn't it funny that when a rich woman stays home with her kids it is WORK, but when a poor mother wants to stay home with her kids, she is lazy and a slug?

Sandra Fluke did not lie about the cost of birth control. while it is true that you can get contraception at walmart for 9.00 a month, NOT EVERYONE CAN TAKE GENERIC DRUGS. the 9.00 drugs are NOT brand name. they have more side affects, and many women find generic birth control (and other generic drugs) impossible to take. this is why Fluke's friend couldn't afford the birth control needed to save her ovary. i know this to be true, and i also heard Fluke talk about it ON T.V. as usual, fox news didn't care enough about Fluke's position on contraception to find out the truth, or else they knew it and didn't report on it, which is common for fox news. Fluke was NOT LYING to congress.

fox news did not prove Fluke was lying, as usual they only reported the part of the story that MADE FLUKE LOOK LIKE SHE WAS LYING.

and while we are talking about Fluke, lets not forget that rush limbaugh went on and on for 3 hours a day for 3 days (9 hours) calling Sandra a slut and other disrespectful names before he apologized. Rosen apologized immediately.

as i stated to you in another post, do you think Rosen is the only reporter who has visited the white house 35 times, and had meetings with the President? i know this is what hannity reported when he was trying to make Rosen an insider in the Obama white house, when SHE IS NOT. many reporters have visited the white house 35 times OR MORE. many reporters have had meetings with the president. this does not make them insiders of the Obama administration.

the only women that Rosen may have humiliated (as you write above), are rich women like ann romney who have no idea what it is like to struggle to get by. the rest of us understand what Rosen was trying to say.

a reporter? LOL....now that is funny...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Rosen

I was a cook at a fast food restaurant when I was 16 years old, does that make me a chef?

Well Commie as you may I suspect I don't what you choose to believe. I doubt almost anyone in the country following politics has heard of Rosen before now. As I a person who closely follows politics has never heard her name before this fake outrage train got going. So because she is well known, not a high profile individual because people will have forgetten about this mostly by this time next week and that she does not work for any campaign the right won't be able to ride this into november. As I said before Romney will need a real strategy if he wants to close the gender gap by election day, this won't do it for him.

To say that Ann Romney represents millions of stay at home moms is an insult to stay at home moms. How many of you stay at home moms had maids, and housekeepers, and chefs?

so even as a stay at home mom, she hasn't had it all that hard.......so just sounds like another insult to women and their intelligence

Indepedents my dear commie friend are not easily swayed if Romney is going to win them he needs a real strategy counting on some political deus ex is not quite a strategy

Storm you're right she's not a reporter which makes her even less important

Hilary Rosen is a strategist who works for CNN. she is an employee of CNN, and appears often. i guess i should have put "quotes" around the word "reporter" when referring to her in that way.

she is also a democrat and supports the re-election of President Obama. this is why fox news and the romney campaign and other repubs will continue to LIE about Hilary Rosen by saying that she is an advisor to President Obama, and that visiting the white house MEANS ONLY THAT SHE WENT TO ADVISE THE PRESIDENT (it has yet to be determined if there is more than one Hilary Rosen).

stormguy, i hope you find it just as "funny" that when allen west referred to 78 to 81 democrats in the house as being communists, he refused to apologize, in fact he doubled down on his statement and not one repub denounced what he said. the same is true for rush limbaugh. and why? because the repubs agree with allen west and rush limbaugh.

the repubs will make the most of what Hilary Rosen said. i bet we will hear about this all the way to the election from ann and mitt and any repub who thinks they can improve their chances with women's vote. ann romney said that Rosen's statement was "an early birthday girt, and i loved it". they will hang on to this as long as they need to. it has nothing to do with Rosen not being "high profile". it has to do with, "does the romney campaign have anything else they can use to try to get women to vote for romney". this is a manufactered controversy by the romney campaign.

the romney campaign has to take full advantage of whatever they see as a "gift".

"The Romney Camp Will Keep Calling Hillary Rosen an Obama Advisor Because Shut Up That's Why".

if the roles were reversed would dems take advantage of it? lol in a minute. saying obama didnt know who she is was amusing. she had 5 meetings with him. she was at the wh 35 times. thats more times than gen. petraous. as for west who is a whackjob. if romney had to apoligize for every stupid remark west made he wouldnt have time to campaign. sen. sherrod brown dem from ohio stated reps in congress are nazis. obama was silent. biden was at a meeting where reps in congress were called terrorists. he said nothing andonce again obama was silent. this is a 2 way street. if rosens remark meant nothing why did she apoligize? why did dems led by obama and biden stumble all over themselves to throw rosen under the bus? on a scale of 1to 10 with ten being the worst rosens comment was a 100. obama and biden are seasoned politicians , they knew at once of the consequences of her remark. for rosen to insult and humiliate millions of women it will obviously have consequences now and up to election day. dems are banging reps over the head with a club over the silly war on women. bottom line is rosen by her stupid remark handed the reps a club.

You're far to stupid for you own good.

and their war on religion.

And the teabagger war on education. Their motto, 'The mind is a terrible thing'.

Their motto "the mind is a terrible thing to....taste" 'cuz college is for snobs

War on religion Mike why is it that when someone opposes theocracy it's a war on religion? How come when righties say religion it only applies to christianity....some forms of christianity remember morons you're not christian they say.....???? What gives????

If the GOP is defending all religion why aren't they helping the muslim community in murfreeboro tn, build a new place for their congregation to worship? Aren't they condemning the hate and vandalism they've faced?

Oh yeah and if secularism is a religion then how can you claim that the dems wnat to promote and have a war on religion....because according to mitt romney secularism is a religion

mike,

it is the repubs who are having a war on babies and women, especially the poor ones. the only babies that the repubs care about are the ones that have not yet been born.

after they leave the womb, according to repubs, they are on their own.

Like I said before 1) if its a rich trophy wife staying at home watching the nanny taking care of her children is work 2) a poor single woman getting food stamps staying at home taking care of her kids is a lazy bitch that needs to learn the work ethics and dignity of working a low wage job. Double standards of the tea bagged nit wits in action.

Hmmm I don't how does it feel to know the that side you claim has a war on stay at home moms is beating the righties amongst likely female voters by nearly 20 points......feels good

That difference between the right and the left on this issue. When the right wants to claim there's a war it's becaue of the comments of one women and because the right wing talkers have told them to think so. When the left says it it's because of the actions of congressman in state legislatures across the country mandating unnecessary procedures on women because of politics. It's because state republicans in arizona apparently think that it's okay to mandate transvaginal ultrasounds because those women have already consented to being sexually penetrated before. It's because some state republicans out there think women should just close their eyes during the politically mandated ultrasound. It's because the GOP claims to hold personal freedom in highest regard yet thinks it has the right to mandate procedures even if women and their doctors don't want them. It's because the GOP tried to politicize contraception. It's because sadly some republicans out there think that women don't need money like men do so it's okay to pay them less for equal work. It's because they refuse to admit that anything they've done will impact women's reproductive lives.

Texas already passed that extreme ultrasound law quietly last May, thanks to Rick Perry. But Va's Bob McDonnell is the one that got tagged for it because of the protests. Evidently the women of Texas didn't care enough to protest.

They did MJB but only a few. And I'll bet my retirement that you could pick any 1000 people in this city, as ask them if they know perry fixed a deal so one of his campaign contributors could bring in a nuclear waste dump right on top of our water supply and NOT ONE will know it. That kind of news is not reported here in Texas. Think of it as the Fox News state.

Mr. Waste Dump is Harold Simmons, right? Billionaire extraordinaire. The sad thing is, people don't even CARE if they know this stuff until it's too late to do anything about it. I can't believe they will let him put it right over the Ogallala Aquifer.

And from what I understand MJB he's the largest contributor of funds to the teabagger super pac's. Imagine that.

Don't worry everyone the GOP congress people who've invested in that company have told us that "experts" say the aquifer moved so no more danger......chuckle...nothing to worry about.

I'm thankful I don't live there.

Hopefully Obama will fight back......sigh of desperation

Correct CC, a FEW Texas lawmakers hinted they were slightly concerned that the waste dump was within 14 ft of the Ogallala Aquifer so perry sent his boys in to check it and like magic the bounderies were wrong. Rememeber folks, this is how our country will be if the teabaggers ever gain power.

You don't even need any evidence it's undeniably clear that Ann Romney has never needed to earn a wage to support the family at any point. She did choose to stay home but she's always been married to Mitt so it's not like she ever had to.

Gladys- the Democrats must make it clear which women they are for and which ones they are against. I agree with that part of your expose.

gladys as you stated rosens remark means nothing why did dems led by obama and biden stumble all over themselves to throw rosen under the bus. these men are seasoned politicians and realized immediatley rosens stupid remark could and probably will cost them the election. romney leads obama in men and obama will need every woman vote he can get. it didnt help when obama acted like he didnt know her. as rosen visited the wh 35 times and had 5 meetings with him. obama looked silly and theres 2 explanations, obama is stupid or hes lying, obama isnt stupid. dems opened this door with the silly rep war on women. as rosen insulted and humiliated millions of women , the door just smacked dems in the face.

Because of people like you. You can't take the heat so Democrats are always trying to make things right but people like you do not want things right. You want to jump on the slighted thing President Obama says and feed on it but let one of you right wing people say the same thing then you have stupid Rush saying something more stupid than the original statement.

Stay calm and focused here, Gladys. Bringing Rush, et al- your way of doing exactly what you are railing against- so let's stay focused upon which women you suggest the Democrats welcome and which ones they kick to the curb. Do you propose doing it the way they propose society at large- the 53% that pay taxes get frowned upon?

You are right Rusty. He got me on my second statement. Won't happen again. Thanks. Will be more careful in the future.

lol- yeah- we wouldn't want to manufacture any rage, now would we? How is the concept of the "War on Women" coming, anyway?

tx and virginia consider forced unnecessary ultrasounds for women seeking abortion

newt gingrich politicises contraception

republicans in az consider similar unnecessary ultrasound laws say a transvaginal ultrasound is fine since the women have already chosen to be sexually penetrated before....so I guess say yes once you lose your right to say no forever ladies

republican governor says women should just close their eyes during the forced unnecessary ultrasound which sounds to me like it would negate the point of the ultrasound in the first place

rick santorum continually discusses evils of contraception and saus he's concerned about women in combat

lisa murkowski votes yes on blunt amendment goes home and gets chewed out by constituents. Now says that those who don't see it as an attack should go home and ask their wives and daughters

liz trotta says stories of female combat heroism are a lie on fox news

republican state official says women don't really need money like men

GOP continues to chant federal money for abortion should be illegal even though it always and currently is in fact illegal, planned parenthood is to spend no tax dollars on abortion

GOP chants about personal freedom but says women don't have right to choose not to have forced ultrasounds

Trivial but worth noting the GOP has very few prominent female leaders that america takes seriously. When you see and think of the Republican congressional leadership it's all white men, this is of course not by choice, it is not on purpose however when the public sees prominent female leaders on the dem side on not the gop congressional side it becomes easier to work a war on women narrative. It's not on purpose but it's not helping either.

Thats all it is Rusty, manufactured rage by the teabaggers because you have nothing, so you people grab on any straw that comes along like a lil girl grabbing for rings on a carousel ride.. And weather you and the rest of your teabaggers 'intellectuals' realize it or not, or choose to just ignore it, there is a war on women by the CONservatives and don't think for a minute women in this country don't see it. Thats why the teabaggers are soiling themselves now, because the morons realized what they had done. Believe it, don't believe it, but come this November you will definitely find out the truth.

Tex- it is manufactured. Same as your side. Interesting article in the Newspaper this morning talking about the Buffett rule. Many liberals who actually think things through are saying it is terrible policy- like an Alternative Minimum Tax II- but that Team Obama has done such a great job manufacturing rage about "fairness" that it will probably be passed. War on women is non-existent. The marketing of it, though, is substantial. Look at CCs comments above. He normally thinks things through, but has grabbed a bunch of elements with little cause and effect aspects and packaged them as a war. To be fair to him, he didn't invent the concept- merely repeating it. I understand that all liberal women see it. I also understand that no other women see it.

In fact- the biggest determinates of women or men having financial success centers upon children and their own education and debt. If women (or men) get a college degree, maintain a living standard within their income at any given time, not have children until marriage, and then stay married- the correlations are huge regardless of working status. High income people who don't show the above attributes struggle financially as well as lower income people. Lower income people who have the above attributes have much better financial status than those who don't.

Interestingly- I sat and listened to a guy cripe about having to pay $7000 in a year for his kids education plus he had to send 27% of his bonus to his ex. I finally told him that he was lucky- I paid about $22,000 last year for my kids college and my spouse got 100% of my bonus (I did get a wood chipper- used of course- out of it). I would suggest that my family's financial status is much more stable than the other guy's, but he is a peer and our income levels are the same. That's what being married to the same person for 35 years, waiting about 10 years to have kids, and both spouses having educations will get. By the way- my wife doesn't think their is a war on women.

Fear not rusty, if the buffet rule dose'nt make it (And what chances do you think the teabaggers will not filibuster it), we can always wait till the bush tax cuts expire the end of this year and the rate goes back to 35%. BY the way, explain how this 'war on women' was manufactured by the Dems. The Teabaggers made the most idiotic move a party can make by alienating the women votes with their insane laws but hey, no one has ever accused the 'baggers to be smart anyway.

excuse me, 39%

To be fair to him, he didn't invent the concept- merely repeating it. I understand that all liberal women see it. I also understand that no other women see it.

If you don't believe this is an attack you need to go home and ask your wives and daughters.

Ultra Communist liberal Senator Lisa Murkowski(R-Alaska)

Of the GOP haven't planned this all together this is just the natural interception of all their different social ideology the root of the problem is that the right refuses to admit that this will affect women. The longer they continue to deny that the longer they will indeed have a gender gap. The dems winning likely female voters by over 15%(a huge margin) over republicans seems like maybe women do perhaps care about these things. They'd not have this problem if they had not gone down the social issues road once again as they promised in 2010

It doesn't matter whether you think it's legitimate or not Rusty but the right is having a sizable gender gap problem you can call that liberal trickery if you want but it seems quite real to me........the longer right denies that all these things have a common thread ie women the longer the problem will be.

All these errors are unforced. Seriously these are all things the GOP has done. Correct?(rhetorical but it's true). These will all have an impact specifically on those with female reproductive organs..correct? Who has forced the GOP to do all these things. Nobody made the republicans pursue all these issues. Perhaps if there was not a large gender gap you'd have some points there but sadly there is?

Why does the GOP continue to make all these moves on social issues yet say the economy is most important

From the secular perspective, abortion is the least regulated of all medical doctors/clinics.

Well the GOP is certainly working on that, by that I mena regulations which they believe to be the devil. In certain states you can close an entire clinic down if one of the broom closets are not of acceptable size. So this claim I suspect may not be entirely true but maybe not. However again in certain states the regulations are quite different which is certainly I think unique to this field. There isn't really a national review board for it. But abortions are generally quite safe and certainly don't become safer when its outlawed despite the fact that it will still happen.

The government should stop trying to tell people what to do with their bodies. Which is why I have little personal respect for the "pro-life" and "pro drug war" movements.

Farmer John- is this a cry on your part to lower the Capital Gains tax and allow money from foreign income to flow back into the US at a very low tax, along with a tax increase on all income levels including social security recipients and a recalibration of welfare benefits with tighter limits? That is what Clinton was able to do and how he was able to end with a surplus. And two other elements- tremendous spending on Y2K solutions and a Tech bubble that did burst.

John ;

Over the last 60 years, which party has controlled the House of Representatives all but 16 of those years?

Over the last 60 years, which party has controlled the Senate for all but 16 of those years?

DEMOCRATS!

Isn't it the Democrats who are screaming about how the president can't do anything without the cooperation of the members of Congress?

Who was in charge of both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the two years prior to Obama taking office?

DEMOCRATS!

Oh look its storm and his stupid post that means nothing. Who is the party that has ran up the deficit every time they took the white house, who is the party that crashed the stock market 5 times with there stupid trickle down nonsense. Oh thats right the GOP, great track record tea bagging republican.

Nice try Whom...but the facts are the facts...you guys have been in charge of the purse strings for this country about 65% of the time over the last 60 years and have screwed things up.

the best times we have had as a country were when there was a Democratic president and a Republican controlled HOR and Senate. That is what we need again....

Storm- I get more sense out of whom since I stuck him on "ignore"

Actually- very little. If you read and do some research- you will find Clinton & company had no clue they would get a balanced budget. What shocked them the most was how much they got by reducing the tax on moneys brought back in, and how much growth it allowed- also- when they lowered capital gains, it was an environment that had a lot of people getting stock options and they were able to cash in and pay a small capital gains vs nothing (they weren't selling) before. The other big thing was the huge amount of capital gains brought by the Dot.com bubble. Companies from Enron, World.com, Tyco and many other's long since forgotten were operating on the mantra that it was a "new economy" and the new profits were different than the old profits. NASDAQ over 5000 (and hasn't even come close since- as best measure of Tech Stocks).

The additional revenue from rich people on income tax from 35% to 39% was negligible. Very few people get rich from payroll income...

Poor rusty still getting history lesson from capt entitled.

Rusty relies on his cap gains whom, thats why it's so important to him.

Actually- I rely on working capital. When it dries up- my work tends to get short. That's why it is important to me. In 2008 and 2009, working capital became very scarce. I really don't want that again.

What do you liberal brains think about municipal bonds?

BTW Tex- I do get a kick out of the fact that you are incapable of responding to the facts and opinions of the statements. Much easier to just respond to substantive issues by saying "Rusty avoids the issues"- especially when they are hit head on.

You may be a light thinker- but you are fun.