CONTRACEPTIVE CLASH

I feel a bit dizzy from all the spin this has received recently.
The attempt by the Catholic Church to maintain its myths is simply stunning. It is so ludicrous.

Actually though, this public brawl should move them a few years or even maybe just steps - toward the twenty-first century. They are getting desperate about losing their POWER.

Not about contraception availability or even the appearance of approval by having insurers provide choice.

graysmoke

"SEVERELY?"

Let's create an award for the most awkward political phrase in the 2012 presidential election campaigns.....so I nominate Mr. Romney's "severely conservative" description of his right wing position. Frank Luntz must be feeling sick to his stomach.......and Newt must be busy digging up his list of one hundred words to memorize and use in political rhetoric. I saw that somewhere recently - apparently Mr Romney must not have been on the mailing list way back when that was circulated.

This is only going to increase the public's view that Mr. Romney is irretrievably disconnected from ordinary life.

Let's all send him a Valentine Card. It could read, Mitt we love you severely.

graysmoke

BOPP'd

Ever wonder why the Supreme Court took the Citizens United case? Ever do some digging on the internet about how that group managed to hook the court into hearing this?

Here is what I understand. There is this attorney who has polished up a scheme to tailor cases to get selected for top court decisions.

It amounts to filing minor similar cases in as many lower courts as possible - thereby assuring that there will be conflicting decisions, and this latter is one of the conditions by which cases are selected for the Supreme Court. That's it. Of course there are some curious case connections among those on this subject of money equating speech and political figures. But I am not going to hand all this to you, go dig.

You have been emasculated, courtesy of Atty Jim Bopp!

graysmoke

PRETZEL POLITICS

The top contortionist featured in the circus now appearing in the House of Reprehensives is no less than Mr Boehner. His multiple spins have really screwed things up, most of all, him. Just try to apply reason or logic to any of the changing positions regarding the payroll tax extension and the traditional Republican eagerness for any tax reduction, but they are really into pretzel politics in a big way because of this being presidential election season.

Now Mr. B has to twist the insurance coverage regarding equality for women wishing to have a choice about choosing contraceptives into a war on religion, even digging up that old claim, when all else fail, say it is unconstitutional.

Yeah.......expecting everyone to respect individual rights to insurance coverage that does not exclude such is quite a trick.......I think Mr. B needs to go back to Florida, skip the golf at Naples swank hotel he favors and instead enroll in a class at Barnum & Bailey to learn more about juggling and plate spinning and acrobat skills.

graysmoke

?WAR On RELIGION?

Watch out for the spin on this one.........and the proclaimed opposition to the health care ruling isn't going to subside .......it is going to be a tsunami goaded along by the election year.

Churches already benefit from many exemptions not available to individuals. The property tax is one that is at the top of the heap.

If a religion wants to run a corporation then they must be treated the same as other corporations. I think the HHS ruling regarding conception is fine.......it must be applied equally across the board, it is not a war against the Catholic Church as Newt proclaims. If members weren't already practicing some form of contraception, there would be many more Catholics, and families with passels of children, this is only true where there reproduction information is suppressed. And is what keeps so many in those areas in state of extreme poverty. The Vatican wealth is obscene under these facts.......they hide behind the charitable operations and keep accumulating more wealth in many tax privileged ways.

It is time for them to pony up and not use emotional religious rhetoric to inflame the ignorant.

COURTING POLITICS

Ah, another hurdle jumped in Nevada......and the inevitable happened, money does it again. Is Romney sending thank you notes to Judge Alito and pals on the court for enabling all those negative ads financed with the dollars permitted by the Citizens United decision? If rightsies ever had an inclination to re-think a subject - this should qualify.

and it is one of the HUGE reasons to keep them out of the WH and from naming any more leaners to the Supreme Court, it is tippled badly as is.

ROMNEY'S QUIRK

Almost daily there is prove that Romney is not a "people" person. And why are we not surprised?

He is a dollar person, that is his true focus and has been for so many years, he will never be able to relate to the ninety-niners, maybe if we all were green and made of paper and had numbers on like, big, big numbers, he would sense our life situations.

Alas, that doesn't happen to be the case. In some ways I feel sorry for him. He probably has few true friends. Just acquaintances among the one percenters.