Monday, April 30, 2012
Republicans vs. Women at every level
* Would you vote for Mitt Romney or any Republican knowing their beliefs on the rights of women?
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Republicans Cut Women's Health Screenings
* Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi (OH-12) is the Chair of a House Ways and Means Committee. Tiberi, who has successfully worked in the shadow of other Republicans (like John Kasich) stays out of sight, has been hearing testimony this week on tax breaks. Unfortunately, Tiberi seems to be embracing extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.
WallStreetJournal:
....Rep. Pat Tiberi (R, Ohio), the chairman of a House Ways and Means
Committee subcommittee, told reporters on Thursday that the goal remains
to come up with a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code that lowers
rates while bringing more parts of the tax base back into the system.
But "in the interim, that may mean that some of these extenders have to
be extended," Tiberi told reporters. "It may mean that the 01-03 have to
be extended."
....One hitch: Mr. Tiberi said that Congress must find a way to pay for
extending any of the tax breaks. That means either spending cuts or tax
increases elsewhere--options that tend to run into opposition.....
Tiberi, Boehner, Cantor, and other GOPers have already indicated how they'd get the things they want. Just this week, the Republican-dominated House pushed to keep college loan interest rates low by removing preventive care for women from the Obama health care bill. The Republicans are telling you that you will get your student loan, but your mother won't be able to get her yearly cancer screenings. (Yet Republicans say there is no "war on women.")
Here is the vote (The "ayes" voted to extend lower interest rates for college loans, but take away your mother's cancer screenings.) from Friday, April 27, 2012, for
H R 4628 from the clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll195.xml:
Ayes:
| Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Amodei Austria Bachmann Bachus BarlettaBarrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Biggert Bilbray BilirakisBishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Boehner Bonner Bono MackBoren Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Campbell Cantor Capito Carter Chabot Chaffetz Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart DoldDonnelly (IN) Dreier Duffy Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gardner Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) | Gohmert Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera BeutlerHigginsHochul Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kelly King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger (IL)Kissell Kline Lance Landry Lankford Latham LaTourette Latta Lewis (CA)Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo MarchantMatheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McCotterMcIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meehan Mica Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Myrick Noem Nugent Nunnelee OlsonOwens | Palazzo Paulsen Pearce PencePeterson Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Ribble Rigell Rivera Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (FL) Royce Runyan Ryan (WI) Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schock Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stearns Stivers Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Turner (NY) Turner (OH) Upton WaldenWalz (MN) Webster West Whitfield Wittman Wolf Womack Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN) |
If you read the list, you'll notice that Pat Tiberi (OH-12), Steve Chabot (OH-1),
Jean Schmidt (OH-2), Mike Turner (OH-3), Jim Jordan (OH-4), Bob Latta (OH-5),
Bill Johnson (OH-6), Steve Austria (OH-7), Steve LaTourette (OH-14),
Steve Stivers (OH-15), Jim Renacci (OH-16), Bob Gibbs (OH-18).
If you'd like to contact these Ohio Republicans, I've provided contact info from the
House Directory and the individual campaign/Ohio office numbers:
Official House of Rep #'s --------------------- campaign or Ohio contact:
| 1 | Chabot, Steve | R | 2351 RHOB | 202-225-2216 (campaign tel: (513) 662-8000) |
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Romney wasn't concerned in 2007
* I saw this over at Daily Kos:
....Mitt Romney saying in April 2007 that it was not worth going after Osama Bin Laden:
It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.
Hmmmmmm.
Here is the original 2007 story from TalkingPointsMemo:
Yesterday we flagged an Associated Press story
quoting Mitt Romney saying the following about Osama Bin Laden: "It's
not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just
trying to catch one person."
....Indeed, the only condemnation we can find of Romney's remark comes in a single post on the National Review's group blog, The Corner. Byron York writes: "Perhaps Romney should watch the tape of the planes hitting the towers again."
A page capture of TPM Cafe (http://tinyurl.com/cor8ukd) shows this-
Quote Of The Day
"It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
— Mitt Romney, in an interview with the Associated Press,
saying that the country's safety would not benefit significantly from
catching Osama Bin Laden. This quote was buried in the AP article. One
wonders what the reaction would be if a Democrat said this.
Here is the original Associated Press story from an interview and published in SFGate.com and captured by web.archive.org :
....In the interview, Romney also:
_Said the country would be safer by only "a small percentage"
and would see "a very insignificant increase in safety" if al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist would rise
to power. "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of
dollars just trying to catch one person," Romney said. Instead, he said
he supports a broader strategy to defeat the Islamic jihad movement.
_Said "the jury's still out" on whether Iraqis, with U.S.
help, will successfully rebuild their nation, and establish the rule of
law and a permanent government. He ridiculed Democratic efforts to set a
public date for withdrawal. "There's certainly nothing wrong with
having milestones that we hope to achieve and having the military
evaluating whether we're making progress or not, but to set a public
deadline for departure makes no military sense at all."
For months, Romney has faced criticism for changing his
positions on abortion and gay rights, and equivocating on a series of
other policy issues, including immigration and gun control. He has cast
himself as the conservative choice for voters, a contrast to the
moderate views he voiced in an unsuccessful 1994 Senate race and a
victorious 2002 governor's race in liberal-leaning Massachusetts.....
Of Romney's 5 sons, not one of them served in the military, but in this interview he is willing for your sons and your daughters to be in wars forever.
I wonder what other Romney quotes will be found.
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