Republican Alan Simpson Calls Rick Santorum “Rigid and Homphobic” (VIDEO) | Addicting Info

Rick Santorum’s wildly dangerous and extremist positions on social issues are understood by most thinking people, or at least ones that actually care an iota about the constitution and basic rights for women, minorities and gays. President Obama has gotten to just sit back (and sing) and laugh as the Republican inane clown posse has resulted in a Republican party at war with itself. Well, the party appears to have just splintered worse than a door at Dog the Bounty’s house.

Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) recently called Rick Santorum “rigid and homophobic” during  an interview with CBS News’ Bob Schieffer. Simpson, no stranger to taking ultra-conservative stances and making controversial comments, castigated the republican presidential contenders for constantly exploiting same-sex marriage and reproductive issues. The crotchety conservative admonished them for doing so and warned that the Republican Party will see its members disappear if it keeps up.

“I am convinced that if you get into these social issues and just stay in there about abortion and homosexuality and even mental health they bring up, somehow they’re going to take us all to Alaska and float us out in the Bering Sea or something,” said Simpson, from the Huffington Post. “We won’t have a prayer.”

via Republican Alan Simpson Calls Rick Santorum “Rigid and Homphobic” (VIDEO) | Addicting Info.

GOP Hopefuls Would Pile on US Debt – …except for Ron Paul’s plan

The GOP presidential candidates do an awful lot of talking about fiscal conservativism, but when their budgets meet the road, there seems to be plenty of rubber involved. The budget plans of Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich would all greatly expand the national debt, independent analysts find. The shining exception to the rule is Ron Paul, whose plan for huge cuts to government services would cut future borrowing by $2 trillion, the Washington Post reports. Santorum and Gingrich, on the other hand, would probably force the US to borrow trillions of dollars.

Santorum and Gingrich would slash taxes, but don’t balance that with enough spending cuts. Santorum’s plan would prompt an extra $4.5 trillion in debt by 2021, while Gingrich’s would run up a $7 trillion tab in the same time. While Romney’s initial plan would have kept the debt rising at around its current rate, he recently floated tax cuts that could slash revenues by some $3.5 trillion over the next 10 years, says an expert. Paul, however, would shrink tax revenues to the tune of $5 trillion over the same period, but his $7 trillion in proposed cuts would easily cover that.

via GOP Hopefuls Would Pile on US Debt – …except for Ron Paul’s plan.

Frauds, liars, and crooks. Except for Ron Paul, but he’s also crazy in his way.

Media, Lawmakers Get ‘Pathogen’ Mail Threats – Powder found in letters threatening Congressmen, Jon Stewart

A mystery letter-writer is threatening to decimate Congress with biological agents. Letters, some of them containing a powdery substance found to be harmless, have been intercepted at the offices of several members of Congress, and at media organizations, including the Washington Post and Viacom, which received two letters addressed to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. “There is a 10% chance you have just been exposed to a lethal pathogen,” warn the letters, according to AP, which obtained a copy of one.

The letters, mailed from Portland, Oregon, were signed: “The MIB,” and bore a phony return address. The sender calls for “an end to corporate money and lobbying,” and an end to corporate “personhood.” Lawmakers and their aides have been warned to be on the alert. “So far, none of the letters have contained a hazardous substance,” an FBI special agent says. “We are working with those law enforcement agencies affected to determine if the mailings are related. We take these matters seriously, and will investigate fully.”

via Media, Lawmakers Get ‘Pathogen’ Mail Threats – Powder found in letters threatening Congressmen, Jon Stewart.

The men who own the GOP – Salon.com

Have you heard of William Dore, Foster Friess, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons, Peter Thiel or Bruce Kovner? If not, let me introduce them to you. They’re running for the Republican nomination for president.

I know, I know. You think Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are running. They are – but only because the people listed in the first paragraph have given them huge sums of money to do so. In a sense, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul and Romney are the fronts. Dore et al. are the real investors.

According to January’s Federal Election Commission report, William Dore and Foster Friess supplied more than three-fourths of the $2.1 million raked in by Rick Santorum’s super PAC in January. Dore, president of the Dore Energy Corp. in Lake Charles, La., gave $1 million; Freiss, a fund manager based in Jackson Hole, Wyo., gave $669,000 (he had given the Santorum super PAC $331,000 last year, bringing Freiss’ total to $1 million).

Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, provided $10 million of the $11 million that went into Gingrich’s super PAC in January. Adelson is chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. Texas billionaire Harold Simmons donated $500,000.

via The men who own the GOP – 2012 Elections – Salon.com.

Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh Says Debate Over Birth Control Has Nothing To Do With Women [video]

Deadbeat dad and Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh is at it again. Involving himself in issues he is woefully unqualified to be involved in, Walsh sat in his chair during the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on birth control last week and complained about President Obama’s new rules about contraceptives.

As part of Darrell Issa’s inquisition, no women were permitted to testify about birth control. Instead, the Republican head hunter invited a bunch of He-Man woman haters, also known as religious bigots, to speak on the issue of birth control, even though they lack the necessary anatomy to actually qualify to speak at such a hearing. According to Huffington Post:

“Walsh told the all-male panel that President Barack Obama’s plan to eliminate co-pays for birth control was an attack on religious freedom.

“This is not about women. This is not about contraceptives. We know, you’ve said it, we’ve said it up here. This is about religious freedom. This is about religious liberties,” Walsh told the panel.”

via Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh Says Debate Over Birth Control Has Nothing To Do With Women (VIDEO) | Addicting Info.

Vote Republican!

COLUMBUS, Ohio — With his candidacy surging, Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned the legitimacy of state-run public education systems and suggested that President Obama’s agenda sprang from a “phony theology.”

At one appearance here, he said the idea of schools run by the federal government or by state governments was “anachronistic.” Mr. Santorum did not say public schools were a bad idea, and he said that there was a role for government help in education.
via The New York Times

Clarence B. Jones: Rick Santorum, Have You No Shame?

When I wrote my last blog, “Demonizing Obama and the Politics of ‘Morality,’” I suspected there would probably be some effort by people opposed to the president’s programs to obscure and distort the administration’s initiatives on health care and unemployment.

We are not trying to carry President Obama’s political water. There were several instances during his presidency when those of us who voted for Obama were critical of one or more of his positions on an important domestic or foreign policy matter, or of his perceived lack of decisive leadership on certain critical issues. In short, we are not, nor have we ever been, nor do we seek to be, an Obama cheerleader. However, neither are we deaf, dumb or blind.

The assault on the legitimacy of the president’s personal Christian theology is nothing less than despicable. It is garbage politics; unworthy of serious political discourse.

Who determined that Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney or any other critic of the president’s policies are qualified to judge the integrity or “acceptability” of President Obama’s commitment to his Christian religion? Republicans, Fox News commentators, and right-wing radio should stop insinuating that the president’s religious commitment is less than theirs. Rick Santorum, in a wink and a nod to his conservative base says Obama ‘must be a Christian, if he says he is.’ But, he won’t acknowledge that the president, IS, IN FACT, A CHRISTIAN!! And, by the way, lest we forget, President Obama was for several years a member of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church in Chicago.

Rick Santorum has home schooled his children. By doing so, that does not mean, that public education is less worthy or appropriate for other parents who send their children to public schools. Santorum, however, suggests that the public schools are “controlled by the federal government” and subject to President Obama’s influence. Therefore, public schools today may no longer be an appropriate institution to educate our children. Is this really 2012?

Additionally, who appointed Santorum and other right-wing media talking heads as czars of what is appropriate for women to do or not do about birth control? Senator Santorum “says he is Catholic.” We respect his religious beliefs. President John F. Kennedy was also Catholic. In spite of some initial fears at the time, he assiduously honored our Constitutional mandate — separation of Church and State. He never sought to make his Catholic belief’s national government policy. And, with all due respect to Senator Santorum, “he is no Jack Kennedy.”

via Clarence B. Jones: Rick Santorum, Have You No Shame?.