Ha! They never made any measurable progress let alone be "unstoppable" - perhaps the flapping of their glossy lips. Democrats always find a way to make themselves appear irrelevant to the American people with their lame theatrics. I'm actually glad they play these childish, ridiculous and wacky leftist games because that tells me they all still "don't get it". Completely aloof as America rallies against Progressives and their failed polices while ignoring jobs and the economy. Remember Obama said, "employment in the private sector is just fine." HAHA! :-) You're providing us great fodder for ads!

Childish games? When is standing up for a persons rights childish games? 2 elected officials were denied their legal right to speak on the house floor. Is that childish games? if so, is you radical right wingers playing them.

Since you're a whiny liberal, you probably don't understand there is a Code of Conduct and Rules of the House when you speak on the floor of any state House, Senate or Congress. If you chose to break those rules, there are penalties; has nothing to do with restricting freedom of speech. This is about assuming responsibility according to the rules while using your freedom of speech. Here is a recent example of an idiot Democrat in Congress, Rep. Bobby Rush, that was escorted from House floor for wearing hoodie in honor of Trayvon Martin.

cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57405846-503544/dem-rep-bobby-rush-escorted-from-house-floor-for-wearing-hoodie-in-honor-of-trayvon-martin/

Oh look the dude that did 3 tours in the Nam..

larry74 you have yet to tell us all just part of the military you were in...

III MAF 3rd Marines 68'-70' here...

stupida

You just weren't paying attention. You got there after it was over. I was there Nov. '65. First major battle the US was involved in. But then you wouldn't know about battles.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/06/13/498186/michigan-anti-abortion-bill-passes-house/

Five Reasons Why Michigan’s Anti-Abortion Bill Is The Nation’s Worst (UPDATED

1) Bans Abortions After 20 Weeks, Even For Rape And Incest Victims: A woman would not be able to have an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation based on the widely disputed idea that a fetus can feel pain after that point. The only exception would be if a woman’s life was in danger.

2) Transforms Doctors Into Detectives: The Republican-backed legislation would make it a crime for anyone to coerce a woman into having an abortion. Doctors will have to give their patients a questionnaire to inform them of the illegality of coercion and determine if the woman had been coerced or is the victim of domestic abuse before the abortion procedure.

3) Limits Access For Rural Women: Under the omnibus bill, doctors would have to be physically present to perform a medication abortion, thus preventing a doctor from administering abortion-inducing medication by consulting via telephone or internet. This would especially hurt rural women, who may have to travel hours to meet in-person with a specialist.

4) Requires Doctors To Purchase Costly Malpractice Insurance: If HB 5711 goes into effect, then doctors would be required to carry $1 million in liability insurance if they perform five or more abortions each month or have been subject to two more more civil suits in the past seven years, among other requirements. But the qualifications are so vague that almost all doctors who perform abortions could be required to carry the additional liability insurance at

a potential cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

5) Regulates Clinics Out Of Existence: HB 5711 would create new regulations so that any clinic that provides six or more abortions in a month or one which advertises abortion services would have to be licensed as a “freestanding surgical outpatient facility.” That means that even if a clinic does not offer surgical abortions, it would be required to have a full surgical suite.

Now that the state House has passed the largest of the three bills, it will likely approve the two companion measures as well. Even though lawmakers rushed the bill through the House, the state Senate is not expected to vote on the measure until September. The body is composed of 26 Republicans and 12 Democrats.

Annie-Rose Strasser contributed to this report.

Thank you GOP for defending human LIFE (babies) vs. the Democrat Pro DEATH platform of using abortions as birth control. The leftist radicals worry more about the rights of animals than they do of newborns. :-)

Maybe you you should realize there are rules of conduct on the vine that you agreed to uphold when you came to the vine.

Since you're a whiny liberal, you probably don't understand there is a Code of Conduct and Rules of the House when you speak on the floor of any state House, Senate or Congress. If you chose to break those rules, there are penalties; has nothing to do with restricting freedom of speech. This is about assuming responsibility according to the rules while using your freedom of speechd realize there is a rule of conduct on the vine.

Put a leash on Whom and we'll talk about rules and code of conduct. I'm happy to play by the same rules as you all. :-)

Democrats are not pro-death-they are pro choice!! and vagina is an anatomy term. how is that banned from the house floor???

Democrats are largely Pro Death (Baby Killers) that embrace abortion as a means of birth control. She was 'educated' on the house floor for the same reason why a Democratic Congressman was escorted from the Congressional House floor for wearing a hoodie. Follow the Code of Conduct and Rules of the House; and you can exercise your speech responsibility vs. idiotic theatrics of the left that have no respect for the political forum where they conduct the people's business. Occupy Nuts.

Hey Vatican,,,,,, The repubs want to end anything that will help the poor.. Most of these women that have babies are poor... So make them have all the babies that they can have then the rpubs can starve them to death.. You are soooooo dumb!!!!! The poor don't have a chance with you people.....

Looks like Obama is doing a great job creating more poor in America as we now have a record number on food stamps, social security disability, unemployment and welfare. The Democrats have done a great job at killing the poor while creating more of them with their failed policies. The GOP will turn this nation around and provide opportunities for the poor to join the middle class. You're a typical Liberal that believes Democrats support the poor by making them comfortable in their poverty vs. helping them out of their poverty. :-)

Sorry but again no storm that is the direct results of the Reagan legacy. Funny how you just can't grasp that you earn the same as you did in 1979 while the wealthy have been jacking up the costs of everything you buy and somehow you believe you are going to be wealthy, talk about delusional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohB922c2uQ == KISS = Shout it Out Loud -- V-A-G-I-N-A !!

Democrats love to use dead people as political props. They used the death of young Travyon for their political agenda and were quick to use the death of Rodney King for an Al Sharpton led rally to advance a racist agenda. Liberals prove that the only politically useful liberal is a dead liberal. :-)

Massive Crowd Gathers For Reading Of Vagina Monologues At Michigan Capitol

By Judd Legum on Jun 18, 2012 at 7:36 pm

After two female legislators were banned from the Michigan House floor last week after saying “vagina” during a debate about an anti-abortion measure, a massive crowd has gathered at the state capitol for a reading of “The Vagina Monologues.” There are an estimated 5,000 people in attendance.

The Michigan House has passed HB 5711, the nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion bill that combines some of the worst attacks on women’s access to abortion care into one bill. The massive 45-page, Republican-backed legislation limits when a woman could have an abortion and puts a greater, unnecessary burden on abortion providers.

Opponents have loudly protested against the measure that has been jammed through the legislature — it was introduced on May 31 and a committee approved it last week — and Democratic lawmakers spoke out against it before the House passed the bill 70-39. “This bill is not about protecting women’s health,” said state Rep. Kate Segal (D).

Here’s what you should know about these far-reaching anti-abortion bills:

Boring... more Liberal theatrics to deflect from Obama's failed economy and unemployment numbers. You people think this really matters to most Americans? Wow, you really live in an alternate reality, but we'll wake you up this November. :-)

Please tell us how the GOP is "suppressing" women's rights when MSNBC once again tells only part of the actual story (they have a record of doing that time and time again....), which was schooling another radical unprofessional Democrat that attempted to make the State House... leftist theater where there is an expected level of decorum. A concept foreign to Liberals. :-) You people are jokes.

Women have the right to make a choice. Women have a mind to make their own decissions about their situation. Women don't like men or the government deciding what they should do. Give us back our voice. We are tired of being treated like second class citizens by the gop. Drive us bo commit suiside, or to go to some back ally doctor. Thank you for proving to me you go to fake noise for her right sided rehtoric. You seem to think it is ok, to just shut women up. Not going to happen.

Yawn. Your rights have not changed one iota between the GW Bush administration and the Obama administration. You sound like a desperate liberal looking for a wedge issue where there isn't one. Go fish! :-) Give us an example of a legal "right" you gained under the Obama administration. HA!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sick of reading Pope Boy's babbling. I say we either ignore him or ban him. What do you think? I already have stupid on ignore.

Why is it that women have the right in NYC to decide if they want to abort a baby under the philosophy that it her body and she should have the right to do with it what she wants, but I don't have the right to buy a 32 oz soda because the city can dictate what I am allowed to drink?

Something isn't right about that...

just saying..

MJB, I say you have no power in the matter except your delusions in your frail liberal mind. Enjoy! :-)

Crickets...

just saying...

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I'm not a professional troll like you two. I have a life life.

Their problem is all the leaks their blow up mates get means they have to patch them up and because they are in closed spaces the glue gets the better of them. In their minds glue sniffing is better then paint huffing.

Absolutely. The average man and women that can't find a job during Obama's four years of record sustained unemployment since the Great Depression are concerned about 'vaginas'. Yes, you liberals are definitely in tune with the average citizen while Obama has dinner with the 1%ers. I want to thank you and MSNBC for making you all out to be such fools that are out of touch with the average middle class citizen. Thank you! :-) You're going to be surprised again this November.

"THE SIX MOST IMPORTANT
ISSUES IN 2012 AMERICA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS"

As the American 2012 presidential elections draw closer
daily, the key players in this game of politics from both political parties are
all very busy criss-crossing the 50 states and making their cases and
their positions known on the most important issues to the all American
voters who will elect the next occupant of the White House.

The most
important question to be asked about 2012 presidential election is this:What are
the most important issues to the American voters today? The following is

(i) Jobs, Jobs and Jobs:The national unemployment rate
today stands at 9% at the moment with 14 million Americans unemployed and
another 10 million Americans are under-employed. The economy must produce at
least 200,000 new jobs to bring down the present unemployment rate to below
5%.
(ii) Economy, Huge Debt and Deficits:America's foreign
debt today stands at $14.5 trillion with yearly huge deficits that are no longer
sustainable. The revenue that is generated today by the government through the
IRS is far less that government spending. The biggest challenge to the next
occupier of the Oval Office is how to generate more revenue. The two political
parties are divided about this issue. GOP wants cut to Medicaid, Medicare,
Social Security and all government financed entitlement programs. The Democrat
wants tax increase on the top 1% of the richest Americans and the corporations
as well as a deep cut to defence spending.
(iii) Fair Tax
Systems:The top 1% of the richest Americans and the corporations
control more than 70% of the nation's wealth and their incomes have grown by
more than 200% in the last 30 years compared with the middle-class and the poor
Americans who had a mere growth of about 30%. The top income earners and
corporations pay less in taxes and have enjoyed tax break that they did not need
or asked for in the first instance since 2002

iv) Immigration:America's immigration system is totally broken
and needed an immediate reform to fix it. Today, there are between 12-20 million
illegal immigrants in this country according to many reliable estimates. The
illegal aliens are not paying taxes, not in our national systems and putting
financial pressure on our social services and public infrastructures.
(v)
Terrorism and Foreign Wars:Who can truly keep this country safe
from the domestic and international terrorists who plan daily on attacking
Americans and our national interests around the world? How do will bring these
two foreign wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to a final end? America has spent over
$1 trillion in these two wars and lost about 5,000 precious Americans.
(vi)
Occupy Wall Street:These political protests against corporate
greed that started about 5 weeks ago have now reached close to 300 America's
major cities and commercial nerve centers and with no sign of it abating. These
protesters will definitely have a say in the midterm and the presidential
elections of 2012.
(vii) Abortion and Gay Rights:Americans
are heavily divided politically along pro-choice, pro-life and the gay rights
issues in this country. These issues listed above will play a major role in the
way Americans will vote in 2012 for their
president.

The battle line is now drawn and these six
issues are the key factors to look out for in the 2012 presidential election
slated for November 11, 2011. For now the race for the White House is in full
swing and only time will tell who will be the next occupier of the Oval Office.
(i) Jobs, Jobs and Jobs:The national unemployment rate
today stands at 9% at the moment with 14 million Americans unemployed and
another 10 million Americans are under-employed. The economy must produce at
least 200,000 new jobs to bring down the present unemployment rate to below
5%.
(ii) Economy, Huge Debt and Deficits:America's foreign
debt today stands at $14.5 trillion with yearly huge deficits that are no longer
sustainable. The revenue that is generated today by the government through the
IRS is far less that government spending. The biggest challenge to the next
occupier of the Oval Office is how to generate more revenue. The two political
parties are divided about this issue. GOP wants cut to Medicaid, Medicare,
Social Security and all government financed entitlement programs. The Democrat
wants tax increase on the top 1% of the richest Americans and the corporations
as well as a deep cut to defence spending.
(iii) Fair Tax
Systems:The top 1% of the richest Americans and the corporations
control more than 70% of the nation's wealth and their incomes have grown by
more than 200% in the last 30 years compared with the middle-class and the poor
Americans who had a mere growth of about 30%. The top income earners and
corporations pay less in taxes and have enjoyed tax break that they did not need
or asked for in the first instance since 2002

Exactly...Liberals don't know. Nice list. A perfect Liberal post on this blog. The following is:.......? :-) I didn't see vaginas listed. We know its a BS list when it contains the Occupy Wall Street movement and Gay Rights as a "top priority" for most Americans. HAHA!

34 years of GOP economic failures that have kept the workers wages at the same place they were in 1979 while the cost of living has climbed higher and higher yet you believe you are going to be wealthy. BOL delusional at best.

Yes, your "talk over" tactics worked so well in the Wisconsin capital that you had your butts kicked during the recall election. Please keep up your lunatic "creativity" because you're helping us this November. :-)

You have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason...

So do you. Too bad you don't know when or how to use them.

.......

Health Care Insurers Spent $100 Million To Defeat Obamacare

By Annie-Rose Strasser on Jun 13, 2012 at 1:04 pm

As the Supreme Court readies to announce their decision on the individual mandate portion of the health reform, it has emerged that the largest health care lobbying group in the country spent a total of $102.4 million in just 15 months to prevent Obamacare from becoming law in the first place.

In 2009 alone, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) pumped $86.2 million into a conservative lobbying group, the US Chamber of Commerce, to combat President Obama’s health care reform plan. But with the added months of 2010 prior to the ACA’s March passage, AHIP piled on an additional $16 million to be used against the bill.

That staggering total, which the National Journal’s Influence Alley uncovered today, was not out in the open — rather, the funds were transferred through a secretive process and listed only by the organization as ‘advocacy’ spending:

The backchannel spending allowed insurers to publicly stake out a pro-reform position while privately funding the leading anti-reform lobbying group in Washington. The chamber spent tens of millions of dollars bankrolling efforts to kill health care reform.

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The behind-the-scenes transfers were particularly hard to track because the law does not require groups to publicly disclose where they are sending the money or who they are receiving it from. [...]

The next year followed a similar pattern. In 2010, AHIP reported giving $16.5 million to unnamed advocacy organizations working on health care reform and the chamber reported receiving about $16.2 million from an undisclosed source, which the Alley has learned was AHIP. The $16.2 million accounted for about 8.6 percent of the total contributions and grants the chamber received that year.

This funneling scheme allowed health groups like AHIP to save face no matter whether the bill passed or not — if the bill failed, the groups figured, they would be able to point to their lobbying efforts against it. When it succeeded, AHIP and others remained quiet about any efforts against the legislation.

With the ruling coming down in the coming weeks from the Supreme Court, and with all the money spent to defeat the law, AHIP may be all to happy if it’s overturned.

vatican....if your sooooo sure about yourself and who's gonna win.....what are you doin on a liberal progressive blog trying to convince people by your logic?

tell me, what is so positive about your logic that compells you to come to ED's blog and waste your time since you already have it in the bag?

Even Rubio knows he has to talk of immigration apart from the economy. what was it said....I'd would sneak in the country if I had to.

wait for a little bit and woman's concerns will bite you righties again.....keep up your lunatic creativity of obstruction and irritation where ever you go.....it's helping us...............

Romney and the GOP will discuss their immigration reform plans in good time, not on your timetable. I'm not trying to convince you of my logic. I'm here to provide truth to your nonsense for the rest of the nation to read that might be curious of this obscure blog. :-) I called the Wisconsin recall election, and I'll call the November election too. You are your own worst enemies because you're a bunch of ideologues.

Vatican probably doesn't have a life or a job remember it's poor southerns in republican states with little education sucking off the government teet

You'll never know how independently wealthy I am, but you can keep on guessing. I sure enjoy it. :-)

And you have no way of knowing how independently wealthy each of us who post here are. Because we can tell you anything we want to or not. So we don't care about it.

Cynical just made the mistake of treating you like you do every one else who post here you don't agree with. Your cynical attitude makes you treat all of us here as if we are low life that you have no respect for. There are many conservatives that have come here daily for months, yet they come here respectfully.

Not that many.

Wrong again. FORD took zero federal bailout dollars and they're doing just fine. GM and Chrysler still went through bankruptcy procedures - the same procedures they would have gone through without the tax payer "pay offs" to the labor unions while screwing shareholders. The GOP is doing just fine with women and their votes for this November while Liberals keep promoting fake wars and other nonsense. Leave it to the Democrats to see Americans by color, race, religion, sex while the GOP only sees red, white and blue. It's very telling about your racist class warfare party of lunatics.

Not the subject! Wrong again!

Hundreds of protestors gathered on the lawn of the Michigan statehouse to listen to a performance of "The Vagina Monologues". Eleven state congresswomen participated in the performance. The demonstration follows the Republican censure order which silenced two state representatives after a debate about an abortion bill last week. We talk to one of the women who was shut down after the abortion debate, Representative Barb Byrum.

(vii) Abortion and Gay Rights:Americans
are heavily divided politically along pro-choice, pro-life and the gay rights
issues in this country. These issues listed above will play a major role in the
way Americans will vote in 2012 for their
president.

What is the source of your list? I'll place a bet it's a Progressive Democratic list vs. one that reflects mainstream America. :-)

Just above you head my dear. Pay attention. Go back to the top of the page and read down. Didn't you see the quotation mark? I just used my copy and paste to move it to get your attention. ROTFFL.

I was right: sunday1967.blogspot.com/2011/11/six-most-important-issues-in-2012.html

The last sentence exposed the liberal nature of that blog:

The battle line is now drawn and these six issues are the key factors to look out for in the 2012 presidential election slated for November 11, 2011. For now the race for the White House is in full swing and only time will tell who will be the next occupier of the Oval Office.

Since you know everything about me, you already know LZ's don't use numbers, but it was X-RAY. You probably know who the worthless major was. You probably believe I give a Rats a$$ what you think. OH, since you know everything about me, when and where was I wounded? How many of us were there? How many enemy were there? s I said, I don't give a rats a$$ what you think so have fun.

Again no unit number, no divison number, no LZ umber...

You were never in Veitnam.

You do not live in the USA....

One more time larry74, what company were you in? where did you inter the country?

You don't read real well. LZ's don't have numbers. X-RAY was our LZ. ZEBRA was 5 miles away. And once again, I don't give a rats a$$ what you think. Once again you don't answer my questions. Who was the worthless major? And FYI, 1st Battalion of the 7th cavalry. How many of us were there? How many of them? But sinse you want to continue your BS about all this. You can kiss the tail end of a frog. Don't bother answering, as I know you won't, you are now on ignore. Bye!!!!!!

Democrats love to call babies a choice just as they believe in moral relativism and live by hypocrisy. You place such little value on human life, which is why you're easy to manipulate through your own self-interest and materialism by the radical left. As Bill Clinton said, "If it feels good; do it." :-) moral?

Republicans want to end the increase of babies to ensure that minorities don't out breed them but they miss out that

1) by forcing their views they are causing the down fall of white majority because unlike them minorities are having sex meaning more minority babies

2) they can't find any woman that will put up with their woman hating ways

The only debate on a woman's vagina is coming from the left in their desperate attempt to advance their fantasy GOP War on Women, which continues to gain no traction. America however sees the left for what they are; no substance, all theatrics and out of touch with reality. :-) Radicals only know how to make headlines, but not govern. Obama is living proof.

Just ignore that the right are waging a war to repeal womens rights that were granted in the 1920's, they really hate that women can say no to their perversions.

Give Obama a big wet kiss good night. What a pathetic person to "Love Obama" vs. respecting a President. :-)

He has a blow-up doll he's engaged to.

Chris isn't it funny how they always judge others by their own failings? They have no clue about the other posters inn here and if you noticed they have misconceptions of liberals made up mostly in their own minds as well as rewrites of the 1960's, they call liberals weak yet ignore facts like liberals faced guns and tear gas unarmed. Remember most of these tea baggers hide in their gated communities never deal with the scary world outside of their gated communities all they know is what their TV's tell them, whats rather telling is they watch Fox news which plays on their fears of a world they never deal with.

For every man who denies there is a war on women, in spite of the massive onslaught of bills in Congress and in numerous state legislatures around the country, there are several more intelligent and advanced men who understand and side with women.

That or listen to some of the recent comments by Lisa Murkowski and ask the women in their lives. Even republican women don't care about these alleged social mandates of the current GOP

And these more "evolved" gentlemen are so confident of their maleness they can utter the words that seen to frighten the GOP extreme rightists.

Well they're certainly not more "evolved", remember the Republicans don't believe in evolution either

All these actions are time-wasting messes so they look as if they are doing something when actually they are doing nothing. No gumption, as my grandpa would say.

Indeed. Meanwhile this is the congressional republican serious job policy efforts:

(nothing)

Clearly the GOP is more concerned about getting into the vaginas of our wives, mothers, sisters, neices, aunts, girlfriends, platonic friends, and daughters to get anything real done

Wow, another clueless teenager that has no clue about living in the real world except for what he sees on X-Box. You're in for a rude awakening when you leave your parents house and compete against others more prepared and educated. Keep calling women, "vagina's" and see how most women across America will react to your Liberal nonsense. Please keep it up. I'm counting on it! Thanks! :-)

Yet he knows more about whats going on them you how surprising is that. NOT.

Republicans hate they can't control vagina's. There I said it.