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257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
When Romney becomes the official "Rominee" at the G.O.P. Convention in Tampa, will he finally have to accept personal responsibility for the lies and distortions of President Obama's statements put out by his RNC surrogates and PACs like "crossroads"??

Posts: 0 - ... After the convention in Tampa, any attack-ads against President Obama will be required by law to contain the catch-phrase, "I'm Mitt Romney, and I approve this message." ...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
While I agree that an "open reading" of The U.S. Constitution by incoming House Republicans is a nice idea, is it a foreshadowing of endless nitpicking about what the "Law of the Land" say about issues like health-care reform?

Posts: 0 - Reading the entire Constitution out loud isn't a bad idea, but - judging from the recorded comments of several of the new "Tea Party" House members - dissecting that document is actually...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
Are Romnet TV ads blatantly lying about President Obama's policies regarding Medicare?

Posts: 0 - Of course they are! The Romney/Ryan hucksters are saying that "Obama is 'gutting' Medicare" and that "Obama has stolen $716 billion from Medicare" ...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
Conservative pundit Naill Ferguson has written a column in this week's NEWSWEEK that claims "Obama Doesn't Deserve to be Re-elected". NY TIMES writer Paul Krugman says Ferguson's comments are "unethical". Who is right & who is "far right"?

Posts: 0 - Ferguson has claimed in his obviously biased article that the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) reported that the President's Affordable Care Act will "increase deficit spending" ...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
Will Paul Ryan's "Personhood" agenda, or (worse yet) Todd Akin's view that "women can't become pregnant from 'legitimate rape'" become part of the Republican Party platform at the G.O.P. convention in Tampa?

Posts: 0 - Ryan was co-sponsor of the House "Personhood Amendment", an attempt to put into national law what extremist lawmakers have tried to do on the state level - the mandate that...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
Has Ohio Governor Kasich "Lost All Sense of Decency" by his initial refusal of federal help for Ohio tornado victims?

Posts: 0 - Although later press releases from Kasich's people say he is "recconsidering it" (we have yet to see evidence of this), Ohio Governor John Kasich, in a statement Saturday in the wake of...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
How "representative" is motor-mouthed rocker Ted Nugent of the Republican base?

Posts: 0 - Far right rocker Ted Nugent spewed forth more of his violent threats at the recent NRA fibfest in St. Loui.

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
How will the rightwing Republicans and Tea Party fanatics handle it when tropical storm Isaac washes their Tampa fibfest out to sea?

Posts: 0 - Are there white sharks in the Gulf? Yes, they're hanging out in Tampa - for the time being! Shark-eats-shark! Poor Todd Akin's "Akin Breakin'Heart"!

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
How many favor the notion put forth by the head of "Tea Party Nation" that only property owners should have the right to vote?

Posts: 0 - Another interesting idea, recently proposed by Tea Party-backed Congressman Steve King of Kentucky, is that persons collecting Social Security or public assistance should also not be allowed to vot...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
As we ponder the questions in this year's Presidential election, perhaps the main question is this: "Which is more important - providing private equity and profits to a few company shareholders, OR providing jobs to unemployed Americans?"

Posts: 0 - Supporters of presidential wannabe Mitt Romney say that it is the job of government to provide what is needed - i.e. tax cuts, subsidies, loopholes - to those he calls "job-creators" ...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
While the Kasich administration is trying to eliminate worker rights in Ohio, is it also trying to give corporate polluters a pass by gutting the EPA?

Posts: 0 - It's definitely "payback" time, as Governor Kasich and his reactionary Statehouse cohorts are currently pushing the passage of no less than three pieces of legislation designed to allow...

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
Was the recent Iowa "Straw Poll" merely an exercise in self-indulgence. Do any of these out-of-touch right-wing zealots have what it takes to be President?

Posts: 0 - Like the often repeated "truths" in The Declaration of Independence, this question is pretty-much "self-evident"!

257 days ago.
by rikrab
oneill
Two weeks before the G.O.P. convention - what are Mitt Romney's views on his tax returns, Bain Capital, Romneycare, offshore bank accounts, gun-control, immigration, job-creation vs. job-outsourcing, foreign policy, contraception or anything?

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