The GOP's Worst Week

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Americans are finally realizing the damage of Republican fundamentalism. Fundamentalism in any form or shape opposes development and infringes on human free will. The echoes of their political evangelism are indeed very frightening. Rick Santorum inferred last week that the values of the church should govern the state; and Rush Limbaugh called a woman a prostitute for trying to protect herself. Aren’t these the ideologies the Talibans are fighting for? Republican Presidential candidates should maybe contact Talibans for more talking points.

Felix Un of MD 4:51AM March 03, 2012

mr. bill you won those seats granted.no your problem will be holding on to them. the american people are seeing through the g.o.p. facade.

bruce b of NV 2:55AM March 03, 2012

BRAVO that Susan Fluke is considering a legal suit! THIS IS A CLEARLY WINNABLE CASE. I think we are all missing one thing: This is not just an attack against Susan Fluke and her reputation (and must not be framed or understood simply as such). It is an attack against all women--and men whose girlfriends and spouses use contraceptives to achieve birth control and better health (such as preventing cancer)!!! I feel able to say that probably Rush Limbaugh's past wives and girlfriends have used birth control. The same goes for all Republican Presidential candidates. Limbaugh called Susan Fluke a “slut.” This implies that all women who use or have used contraceptives are “sluts.” He also implied that “sluts” have no right to speak on public issues or in the public square. Furthermore, our health system makes room for insurance companies to provide viagra for men for sex and medical reasons as judged by their doctors; now it is "bad" and "immoral" to do the same for women. The double standard is so glaring in Susan's case! That is so because men control virtually everything that matters in this country--insurance companies, religions, political representation in state houses and congress, money, banking and the boardrooms, including, ironically too, the bedrooms of the nation. Yet there are more women in this country and throughout the world. Women must not continue to allow this. Talking is not enough any more. They must use all legitimate activist activities to stop this nonsense--that means demonstrations, sit-ins, marches, petition-drives, the electoral process, legal challenge and more to stop America’s Talibans masquerading as “holy men.” These men are not more moral than women; they are just control freaks. They will not stop; all women and men of goodwill must rally on this issue. It is not a religious issue as some are making it to be. It is not a Republican or Democratic issue!

Dr. Sam of CA 12:28AM March 03, 2012

I remember back during Bush's second term how utterly arrogant the Republican Party had become, and how timid the Democratic Party had become. There was nothing Bush and Cheney wanted to do that they simply rammed down the throats of America. I was stunned at their audacity but what is now apparent is that period of arrogance must have been experienced as though it was the first high of a soon to be heroine addict. And then came Obama and the shock that they could not run rough shod over any and all of us just because they wanted to. They went into a state of withdrawal and delirium shakes, and have yet to recover. What else could explain their bizarre behavior and the near insanity of their inflexibility? Their arrogance ran our economy into the dirt and their war mongering ran us into bankruptcy, and here they are nearly four years later desperately attempting to convince the American public that the current President and his policies are failures. They have been blinded by the power they had and abused during the Bush presidency, delirious from withdrawal, and making utter fools of themselves. And OMG to have a tertiary leader such as Limbaugh leading the charge of the from the asylum. It don't get no better.

HAL SEELEY of NE 11:46PM March 02, 2012

Stop being depressed, people. There is a chance that in 2012 a Frankenstein Candidate like Gary Johnson or Ron Paul will run all the way to November. This is a candidate who would rather be forthright than President...politics will never be the same again after that.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=the+frankenstein+candidate

The Frankenstein Candidate of CA 11:32PM March 02, 2012

Olympia Snowe_ Was her vote that got bumacare out of committee.
I will not forget her nor miss her. We won many, many, many seats in D.C. and across this great nation Nov. 2, 2010. Seen little change by Democrats or buma since then. Will do well, no better, without Olympia Snowe...

Bill Hedges of MO 6:36PM March 02, 2012