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46025. judithathome - 9/18/2015 9:26:31 PM

Fiorina sticks to her lies about Planned Parenthood, and all republicans believe her

At Wednesday’s second Republican debate, Carly Fiorina described a secretly recorded video from an anti-abortion group, part of a series that includes Planned Parenthood executives, as showing “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” She challenged Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama to watch the tapes for themselves.

One problem: No such video exists.

What does exist is a video interview of a former employee of StemExpress, a tissue procurement agency like the fictitious group represented by the anti-abortion activists behind the video. In it, she claims she saw a fetus with a heartbeat, and says her supervisor planned to procure the fetus’s brain for medical research. The video also includes unrelated stock footage of a fetus outside the womb that purports to be from an abortion, although the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind the videos, was also caught using, without attribution or permission, a photo from a woman’s stillbirth as if it showed an aborted fetus. No one in the videos has even alleged that a fetus was kept alive to harvest a brain, nor is there footage of it.

Why are people believing these lies from someone who doesn't even have an "on the ground" committee in ANY of the early primary states?

At least Rick Perry had some...and when he ran out of money/support, he QUIT.

Carly is the "female attack dog" who is doing all the "Hillary" denigration work...so the GUYS in the Republican Party don't have to...give me an effing break.

46026. Ms. No - 9/24/2015 3:45:00 PM

My government classes have been watching the last debate all this week. 16 year old kids can smell the bullshit.

Some of the choicer comments:


"Ms. No, did she just say that Iraq is linked to Planned Parenthood?"

"Trump just said he has respect for women. Is he high?"

"How 'come they're all so racist against Mexicans?"

"The only candidate making any sense up there is whichever one isn't talking!"



How the hell am I supposed to give my students a fair view of conservative politics when all I've got is this clown-show to present them with?

46027. iiibbb - 9/24/2015 3:54:38 PM

Show them a debate from 40 years ago as a comparison.

46028. Ms. No - 9/24/2015 3:57:05 PM

That's an excellent idea! Thanks!

46029. judithathome - 9/25/2015 7:40:36 PM

House Speaker John Boehner is resigning as the top House Republican and from Congress at the end of October, two House Republicans said today.

Boehner announced his decision to colleagues this morning.

The abrupt decision comes after he faced heavy pressure from conservatives in his party to take a harder line on their causes.



God only knows who the Republicans will select to replace him...we may be weeping for his return before this is over....

46030. judithathome - 10/1/2015 9:50:49 PM

And here we ARE...Boehner seems like Einstein compared to THIS yahoo: Kevin, We Hardly Knew Ya!

46031. arkymalarky - 10/2/2015 12:33:10 AM

Obama is great. We will look back on that fact with regret at the opportunity we took in voting for him and then threw away by not electing legislators worthy of his leadership and intelligence. That blown opportunity won't come again.

46032. judithathome - 10/2/2015 6:43:59 PM

No kidding...not with the crop(s) of yahoos we seem content to elect these days.

On another note, re: Kevin McCarthy: much as I loathed Newt Gingrich at the time, when he made pronouncements as Speaker of the House, he was at least literate and well-versed in history, grammar, etc...he didn't sound like Balki from Perfect Strangers.

46033. judithathome - 10/2/2015 6:46:44 PM

oops!

46034. judithathome - 10/3/2015 5:25:08 PM

Boy, those Republicans! I told y'all the other day that one day, we'd be longing for the return of John Boehner!

Now Jason Chaffetz is going to run against "hopeful MisSpeaker of the House" Kevin McCarthy. Chaffetz is the guy who led the charge against Cecile Richards in the hearings recently and made a fool of himself therein by pointing to a chart he claimed was from HER organization. She corrected him by pointing out that the name of the organization which actually produced the (faulty) chart was in clear view at the bottom of said chart.

Meanwhile, future MisSpeaker McCarthy has bragged about visiting "Hungaria" and other foreign "-ias" recently...one can only pray he kept his malapropisms to himself while there but at least he could claim unfamiliarity with the language.

Here's Rachel Maddow's Take On Mr. Malaprop

46035. judithathome - 10/20/2015 9:10:26 PM

This is a great video about Canadian (and now, American) politics...please note the guy introducing it.

Mouseland

46036. robertjayb - 10/21/2015 7:35:41 PM

Good move, Joe. Thanks...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden will not run for president in 2016, he said Wednesday, ending a months-long flirtation with a third White House campaign and setting him on a glide path toward the end of his decades-long political career.

46037. judithathome - 10/21/2015 7:54:35 PM

I agree...this move just shows he DOES have common sense.

46038. judithathome - 10/21/2015 8:36:41 PM

Saw a clip from Wolf Bitzer playing "mean girl" to Lincoln Chaffee in an interview...Wolf was absolutely brutal to the man.

I already cringe when I see the poor guy...why beat him down even further? It just broke my heart.

I blame Chaffee's family for not committing him to a "home" when he walked in and told them he was going to run for President...

46039. judithathome - 10/21/2015 8:38:14 PM

I'll see if I can find it...it played last night on
The Daily Show...

Here It Is

46040. judithathome - 10/22/2015 10:31:42 PM

All these many months I've watched Investigation Discovery channel for crime shows...I could have seen the same thing by watching C-SPAN...and the Benghazi hearings.

46041. arkymalarky - 10/23/2015 6:26:02 AM

So nice of the House GOP to provide Hilary an 11 hour infomercial.

46042. iiibbb - 10/23/2015 4:32:20 PM

Too bad Biden bowing out is the most demonstrative thing he could do to show that he really did have the chops to be President.

I literally don't care.... none of the Republicans are qualified.... period.

46043. Ms. No - 10/23/2015 8:41:07 PM

And that terrifies me. What is it, like 80% of the time or more that Democratic administrations are followed by Republican ones?

Here's to hoping we're in the 20% this time around.

46044. judithathome - 10/23/2015 9:41:14 PM

Seriously, is there ANY Republican running that any of you could see voting for? (I mean if suddenly, there were NO Democrats running?)

If there were ONLY Republicans to choose from...who would it be?

For me, it would be Kasich...if someone held a gun to my head.

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