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I bet it drives you nuts that the economy keeps improving and unemployment nosedives while the car industry that your traitor republicans opposed has hit record sales...LMFAO... too funny... get ready for 4 more years of Obama baby....
Wrong! Refining changes pre-date Obama. The quote is more fringe wacko republican crap. Not unlike Rush Limbaugh.
U.S. Auto Sales Pace Hits Four-Year High on Broad-Based Gains
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/03/01/bloomberg_articlesM06EWN0UQVIB01-M08B2.DTL#ixzz1oCI7R8U9
March 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. auto sales accelerated to the fastest pace in four years, led by Chrysler Group LLC and a surprise gain from General Motors Co., as demand strengthened throughout automakers' lineups.
GM deliveries rose 1.1 percent to 209,306 cars and light trucks, beating analysts' estimates for a 4.8 percent decrease. Chrysler sales increased 40 percent to 133,521 and Ford Motor Co.'s climbed 14 percent to 178,644. Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. deliveries each gained 12 percent, while Nissan Motor Co. sales rose 16 percent.
Light-vehicle sales in February accelerated to a 15.1 million seasonally adjusted annual rate, exceeding the 14.2 million pace that was the average of 17 analysts' estimates. The results were the best since February 2008 when U.S. sales ran at a 15.5 million rate, according to Autodata Corp.
"Everyone's kind of blowing us out of the water," Alec Gutierrez, an analyst for Kelley Blue Book, said yesterday in a phone interview. "For fuel-efficient vehicles, we expected to see demand as gasoline prices really surged through the month, but the big surprise is on the truck front. It speaks to the broad-based nature of this recovery."
The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for a 26 percent gain for Chrysler and 9.4 increase for Ford. The average of seven estimates was for an 8.2 percent increase for Toyota, 4.5 percent gain for Honda and 6.1 percent rise for Nissan. U.S. auto sales ran at a 13.3 million pace in February 2011, according to Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based researcher Autodata.
Consumer Confidence
Consumers gained confidence in February as the Dow Jones Industrial Average exceeded 13,000 for the first time since May 2008 and the unemployment rate fell to the lowest in three years. The improving economy may have blunted the impact of rising gasoline prices. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded increased 14 percent through the first two months of the year to $3.74, according to AAA, the nation's largest motoring group.
"It seems we've all underestimated the strength in the retail numbers," Jesse Toprak, an analyst for the auto-pricing website TrueCar.com, said yesterday in a phone interview. "There's pent-up demand being met even for larger vehicles because consumers are feeling more comfortable."
Ford plans to increase second-quarter production in North America by 2.8 percent to 730,000 cars and trucks, the Dearborn, Michigan-based company said in a statement. The company's forecast exceeds IHS Automotive's estimate that Ford would cut output to 686,000 vehicles.
Chrysler Cars
Chrysler's car sales more than doubled to 40,024 from 17,745 a year earlier. Deliveries of the 200 more than quadrupled to 9,717, and 300 sedan sales climbed to 7,670, almost six times more than a year earlier, Auburn Hills, Michigan-based Chrysler said in a statement.
Total industry sales rose 16 percent to 1.15 million cars and light trucks, according to Autodata. The results included a 24 percent increase for car deliveries and a 7.6 percent gain for light trucks.
"It's been a long time since we've sold more than 1 million cars in the month of February," Maryann Keller, principal of a self-named consulting firm in Stamford, Connecticut, said yesterday in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. "It's been a function of a very warm winter. It's also helped that lenders are now competing for the business."
GM increased sales of the Chevrolet Equinox small sport- utility vehicle by 16 percent to 17,851, according to a statement. The Detroit-based automaker's deliveries of Cruze compacts gained 10 percent to 20,427.
'Quite Healthy'
GM lowered incentive spending by 4.2 percent from a year earlier to $2,895 per vehicle, according to an e-mailed statement that cited data from Westlake Village, California- based J.D. Power & Associates.
"Given that incentive spend is responsible and we still had a pretty solid year-over-year increase, the industry looks quite healthy," David Whiston, an analyst at Morningstar Inc. in Chicago, said yesterday in a phone interview.
GM shares rose 1.7 percent to $26.47 at the close in New York. They have gained 31 percent so far this year. Ford gained 2.3 percent to $12.66.
Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp., the affiliates that operate separately, combined to increase sales 26 percent from a year earlier. The Seoul-based companies beat the average of five analysts' estimates for a 19 percent gain.
Volkswagen AG, which is targeting U.S. sales growth of more than 10 percent this year, said combined deliveries of its namesake and Audi-branded vehicles rose 34 percent to 39,108. The average estimate of three analysts was for a 33 percent gain.
Supply Rebounds
Japan's tsunami limited Toyota and Honda's production and depleted their inventories for almost half of 2011. With supplies rebounding, the industry sales rate has exceeded 14 million in consecutive months for the first time since May 2008.
Toyota delivered 20,589 Prius hybrids in February, a 52 percent increase from a year earlier. The Toyota City, Japan- based automaker also boosted sales of Camry, its top-selling model, by 27 percent to 34,542.
Honda's Civic deliveries climbed 42 percent to 27,087. The Tokyo-based automaker followed a monthly sales increase for January that was its first since the Tokyo-based automaker's inventory plunged following Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March.
"February felt great," Al Castignetti, vice president of U.S. sales for Yokohama, Japan-based Nissan, said yesterday in a phone interview. "Consumer demand is coming back, and I think it's coming back fairly aggressively."
Hogwash! Refining has not changed one bit when oil was at $145 in 2008 and 4 years later. Speculators are just driving the prices higher cause an improving economy and more employment as we have now means more gas demand going forward. The 4 year record sales of cars, cars that if POS Republicans had any saying would have cost us millions of jobs and lost US manufacturing, prove that. You guys got nothing. Republicans are a dying breed. Get ready for 4 more years of Obama.
Ron Paul: Limbaugh apology insincere; did it for personal gain
March 4, 2012 1:15 PM
By Leigh Ann Caldwell
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57390236/paul-limbaugh-apologized-for-personal-gain/
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, on "Face the Nation," March 4, 2012. (CBS)
(CBS News) Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul said an apology by conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute" was not sincere, and was made only because it best served Limbaugh.
On CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Texas congressman told host Bob Schieffer that Limbaugh's apology "was in his best interest."
"He's doing it because some people were taking their advertisements off of his program. It was his bottom line he was concerned about," Paul said.
Paul referred to three companies that pulled advertisements from Limbaugh's show following incendiary remarks Limbaugh made about Fluke for testifying before a mock Congressional committee in favor of free contraception insurance coverage at Georgetown, a Jesuit university. [One company's spokesman said that Limbaugh's comments "do not align [with] our values." Another pulled out "Due to continued inflammatory comments - along with valuable feedback from clients and team members" about the remarks.]
"I don't think he's very apologetic," Paul said. "It's in his best interest, that's why he did it."
Although Paul disagreed with Limbaugh's remarks and called them "over the top," he said the government should not mandate that insurance companies provide contraception coverage.
"This is philosophically and politically important because, does the government have a mandate to tell insurance (companies) what to give?" Paul asked, and then responded to his own question: "So they're saying that the insurance companies should give everybody free birth control pill, that strikes me as rather odd."
Paul told Schieffer that the problem is not about social issues but about the government. "It's this mandate, this is an obsession with Obama on mandating," Paul said, then moving on to critique the Republicans as well. "Of course the Republicans aren't a whole lot better on this, either," he said, without specifying to what policy he was referring.
However, Paul was specific in his attack against former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and his support (as Senator) for Planned Parenthood dollars in a government funding bill.
"He pretends to be the champion of social values," Paul told Schieffer. "That to me is rather bizarre, and that's why I call him a fake conservative."
99% of the time they all sound like fringe shrill moron idiots to me... Santorum and Limbaugh a perfect example...
Personal attacks are common for idiots with low IQ while the facts are slapping them in the face. And that's been common for the past 3 years of the racist bigoted hypocritical morons of the republican party.
Please explain why oil prices would not correspond to gas prices like they always have. In March 2008 oil prices were 20% higher than they are now and ended up being 45% higher than they are now. Then add 4 years of inflation. Oil AND gas prices were higher during your hero POS republican Bush than they are now. It's a FACT!
Then explain why the price of oil was higher during March 2008 than it is now in March 2012.
Yet the same POS republicans voted for every debt raising POS plan of Bush and bigger government and doubled the deficit to 12 trillion. Do you remember the phrase "deficits don't matter"?? Republicans said that over and over and over.... the same aholes that are still there... Other than Ron Paul, the rest of them pukes are all lying hypocrites... and so is their base... all you have to look is where Ron Paul is at the polls...
In Texas price was 3.99 under big oil whore Bush, now 3.44. I know cause I was here in 2008. And we have 4 years of inflation on top of that so price when adjusted for inflation is even lower now compared to under POS Bush. And oil prices were up to 45% higher under POS Republican Bush.
You are wrong as usual. In March 2008 when your POS hero Bush was president, oil was at $125 on its way to $145 in june 2008. That is as much as 45% higher. And if you account for inflation then it is even higher.
BTW, you violated your own rule about capital case... LMFAO... too funny....
Actually gas prices were higher under big oil whore POS Bush... bet you were happy then...
Taking Control of Our Energy Future
Taking Control of Our Energy Future
The fact that this disgusting racist conservative POS is the top federal judge in a US state says a lot about how screwed up of a country Obama found when he took office in 2009. That judge should kill himself and rid the state and the country of a complete racist pos ahole... in power no less... this also puts his many decisions and verdicts in question now...
Wave goodbye to POS Walker... LMFAO... too funny...
WI GOP Gov. Walker imploding...
This is nothing short of amazing. Walker promised he would create 250K jobs during his first term in office. He has been in office a little over a year and WI could have less jobs than when he started even as the recovery is picking up steam. Instead, all he has done is divide WI in a way I have never seen before.
March release of employment situation highly anticipated
11:49 AM, Feb. 21, 2012 |
The state Department of Workforce Development will release job numbers next month that could be the most anticipated statistics of Gov. Scott Walker's short tenure.
If the January and February numbers show Wisconsin lost another 4,500 positions, the state will — on paper — have fewer jobs now than before Walker took office.
That could be a big blow for a governor who once joked that he'd tattoo "250,000 jobs" on the foreheads of his cabinet secretaries to remind them of the administration's reason to exist.
If this comes to pass, Republicans likely will downplay the numbers, and contend their reforms are working and only require more time before the benefits are clear.
Democrats, on the other hand, will seize the numbers as proof the governor's efforts have failed.
But over at the agency that puts out those numbers, Nelse Grundvig will just shake his head and keep plugging away. Grundvig is DWD's labor market information director — a job that requires a skill in high math and a tolerance for partisan bickering.
He is the kind of person who can add two plus two and end up with three. Or five, depending on the margin of error. The kind of person for whom "accurate" and "precise" hold different meanings. In short, a numbers person.
Every month, DWD jobs numbers are snatched up and bandied about as proof of either our salvation, or ruination, depending on your political persuasion. Problem is, those numbers were never meant to be taken as gospel.
"They have become lightning rods," he says. "People don't realize, they're basically just a poll. They're not meant to be taken as a census of jobs in the state."
Welcoming new jobs When Walker took office, Wisconsin had about 2.74 million jobs. For the next six months, the state ticked upward slightly, increasing the official tally to about 2.77 million. But beginning in June, the state started a six-month slide that cost 35,000 jobs and left it about where it started.
Walker visited manufacturing sites in Greenville and Peshtigo on Monday, pushing the creation of nearly 100 jobs by two businesses.
During his visit to Industrial Ventilation Inc. in Greenville, Walker pushed the need for the state to generate more family-sustaining jobs.
Industrial Ventilation, a mechanical contractor that employs 127 people, said Monday it plans to build a 27,000-square-foot facility that, when finished in late summer, will create 30 new jobs, including engineering and assorted manufacturing positions.
"We're pleased (Industrial Ventilation) decided to expand here," Walker said Monday. "We need more stories like IVI."
He said the Greenville company chose to expand in Wisconsin because it preferred the state's business climate. It did not receive any state assistance or other incentives to expand, he said.
Walker said the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., the former state Department of Commerce, can be effective in helping other companies succeed in Wisconsin as well as luring business away from neighboring states.
Earlier Monday in Peshtigo, Walker welcomed Precision Iceblast Corp. to the state. That business is relocating from Wallace, Mich., and is expected to bring 64 new jobs.
"They also preferred Wisconsin's business climate," Walker said. "To make the move happen, we had to help with tax credits, which the WEDC was able to provide. We have to be good stewards of the taxpayer's dollars and do things that will create jobs … it's a careful balance."
WEDC is providing Precision Iceblast with up to $400,000 in tax credits over three years to support its relocation. Precision IceBlast plans to invest more than $1.45 million to construct its production and product-training facility.
Assessing the job market When trying to determine Wisconsin's job market, officials employ a methodology similar to the one pollsters use to chart a politician's popularity. The approach is uniform among the states and has been used — with some tweaks — for more than 100 years.
In Wisconsin, labor officials poll 6,000 employers, about 4 percent of the total. These businesses represent types of industry, which means changes at one plant or company can color the results for an entire sector.
But whenever experts like Grundvig look at these numbers, they keep in mind that these monthly estimates carry a margin of error of plus or minus 9,400 this year. This means that when they see a report showing the state added 6,000 jobs, they know the reality could be the state lost 3,400.
A similar approach is used to gauge the state's unemployment rate. To get that data, the U.S. Census Bureau surveys a group of about 54,000 homes across the country, about 1,450 of them from Wisconsin.
The unemployment numbers have a margin of error that decreases when the jobless rate gets higher. An unemployment rate of 5 percent has a margin of error of plus or minus 0.5 percent.
Sometimes the unemployment numbers do not match the job numbers, which can seem counter-intuitive. In December, the state experienced an official drop in jobs at the same time as the unemployment rate dipped from 7.3 to 7.1 percent.
"They measure similar things but use two different approaches to tell what is happening with the economy," said Dennis Winters, DWD's chief economic adviser. "Usually, eventually, they fall in line at some point."
Charles Franklin, a Marquette University Law School political scientist and longtime pollster, said this approach is a logical one.
"We like to say those kinds of numbers are accurate, but not precise," he said. "But in the long run, they can give you a fairly clear picture of what's going on (in) the state."
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases job numbers in its monthly preliminary report, a set of numbers that are often incomplete and misleading. Participants do not always reply by the deadline, causing fluctuations.
DWD releases "revised" numbers the next month, which are more accurate. But those numbers rarely generate the kind of media attention the early ones do.
In 2011, the difference between preliminary and revised numbers averaged more than 1,400 a month. The worst example was in October, when the preliminary numbers were off by 7,300. That month the Bureau of Labor Statistics originally said the state lost 9,700 jobs; the revised number was a loss of 2,400.
"Sometimes it can just be noise," Grundvig said. "That's why you can't make too much out of any set of numbers."
read more...............
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120221/APC010401/202210400/Job-numbers-not-census-employment-Wisconsin
What is scary is that near half the country will vote for these GOP morons, no matter which one will get the GOP nomination.... Romney, Santorum or Gingrich... it's like Freddy Kruger the 3rd, Freddy Kruger the 2nd or Freddy Kruger the 1st... pick your nightmare... that says more about our country of fascist racist bigoted religious fundamentalism morons, than them... it's like Al-Qaida and Mulahs are already here... and they are POS Americans...
GOP Congressional Candidate Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'
Art Jones, who hopes to challenge Democrat Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District, neither denies nor repudiates his past affiliation with the neo-Nazi Party.
By Lorraine SwansonEmail the author6:00 am
http://oaklawn.patch.com/articles/republican-congressional-candidate-says-holocaust-never-happened#c
A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says the “Holocaust never happened.”
Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler’s birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run againstDemocratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District.
“As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Jones said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.
"The more survivors, the more lies that are told."
A member of the Nationalist Socialist Party in his younger days, Jones took part in the Nazis’ march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978. While he doesn’t deny nor repudiate his “past affiliations,” he says he votes Republican “90 percent of the time.”
“Philosophically, I’m a National Socialist,” Jones said. “Officially, I don’t belong to any party except my own, the America First Committee.”
Jones hopes three’s a charm after blowing his retirement savings on two prior congressional runs. He hopes to win the Republican primary and go on to challenge Lipinski this November. The 3rd District covers portions of Chicago's South Side and a large swath of the south suburbs.
Part of the reason he’s jumping in again is what he describes as Lipinski’s strange affiliation with the American Israel Pro Israel Affairs Committee.
“(The committee) was bragging on their website how (Lipinski) is ‘spearheading’ the effort in the House of Representatives with a Jewish congressman from Virginia named Frank Wolf,” Jones said. “The two are spearheading an effort in the House to get tough with Iran, including closing off any oil exports to China that could lead to World War III.”
While Jones said Wolf was Jewish, he is Presbyterian.
Jones compares today's conditions in the United States to Germany following the end of World War I.
“Our country is falling apart economically, politically, culturally, militarily,” he said. “We are going down.”
A veteran of the Vietnam War with all of its modern horrors, he sees the same betrayal in the “so-called War on Terrorism.”
“These war-mongering fools in congress like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney—we can’t let Iran have one nuclear weapon but we let Israel have all the nuclear weapons they want,” Jones said. “This is ridiculous.”
Jones is on the ballot against Jim Falvey and Richard Grabowski in a district that has sent a conservative Democrat to Congress for decades. The district includes sizable ethnic populations, primarily the descendants of Irish, German, Polish and Czech immigrants.
In his Patch candidate questionnaire, Jones submitted that he's not been convicted of a felony but has been arrested for "minor street skirmishes with Leftists."
While U worship this...GOP Congressional Candidate Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'
Art Jones, who hopes to challenge Democrat Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District, neither denies nor repudiates his past affiliation with the neo-Nazi Party.
By Lorraine SwansonEmail the author6:00 am
http://oaklawn.patch.com/articles/republican-congressional-candidate-says-holocaust-never-happened#c
A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says the “Holocaust never happened.”
Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler’s birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run againstDemocratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District.
“As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Jones said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.
"The more survivors, the more lies that are told."
A member of the Nationalist Socialist Party in his younger days, Jones took part in the Nazis’ march on Chicago’s Marquette Park in 1978. While he doesn’t deny nor repudiate his “past affiliations,” he says he votes Republican “90 percent of the time.”
“Philosophically, I’m a National Socialist,” Jones said. “Officially, I don’t belong to any party except my own, the America First Committee.”
Jones hopes three’s a charm after blowing his retirement savings on two prior congressional runs. He hopes to win the Republican primary and go on to challenge Lipinski this November. The 3rd District covers portions of Chicago's South Side and a large swath of the south suburbs.
Part of the reason he’s jumping in again is what he describes as Lipinski’s strange affiliation with the American Israel Pro Israel Affairs Committee.
“(The committee) was bragging on their website how (Lipinski) is ‘spearheading’ the effort in the House of Representatives with a Jewish congressman from Virginia named Frank Wolf,” Jones said. “The two are spearheading an effort in the House to get tough with Iran, including closing off any oil exports to China that could lead to World War III.”
While Jones said Wolf was Jewish, he is Presbyterian.
Jones compares today's conditions in the United States to Germany following the end of World War I.
“Our country is falling apart economically, politically, culturally, militarily,” he said. “We are going down.”
A veteran of the Vietnam War with all of its modern horrors, he sees the same betrayal in the “so-called War on Terrorism.”
“These war-mongering fools in congress like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney—we can’t let Iran have one nuclear weapon but we let Israel have all the nuclear weapons they want,” Jones said. “This is ridiculous.”
Jones is on the ballot against Jim Falvey and Richard Grabowski in a district that has sent a conservative Democrat to Congress for decades. The district includes sizable ethnic populations, primarily the descendants of Irish, German, Polish and Czech immigrants.
In his Patch candidate questionnaire, Jones submitted that he's not been convicted of a felony but has been arrested for "minor street skirmishes with Leftists."
Romney Thanks State He Was Born And Raised In For Just Barely Giving Him Enough Votes To Beat Total Maniac
http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-thanks-state-he-was-born-and-raised-in-for,27496/
Romney Thanks State He Was Born And Raised In For Just Barely Giving Him Enough Votes To Beat Total Maniac
http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-thanks-state-he-was-born-and-raised-in-for,27496/
North Korea Agrees to Stop Nuclear Work
What Repukes and Bush could not do in 8 years, Obama did in 3.
#1 - He decimated AlQaida and killed Bin Laden
and now #2 - Get rid of the North Korea threat
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/world/asia/us-says-north-korea-agrees-to-curb-nuclear-work.html
North Korea Agrees to Stop Nuclear Work
What Repukes and Bush could not do in 8 years, Obama did in 3.
#1 - He decimated AlQaida and killed Bin Laden
and now #2 - Get rid of the North Korea threat
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/world/asia/us-says-north-korea-agrees-to-curb-nuclear-work.html
As Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum slug it out in Michigan, President Obama's numbers go up
Romney and Santorum nearly even in Wolverine State but Obama leads both in head-to-head matchup by at least 10 points
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/mitt-romney-rick-santorum-slug-michigan-president-obama-numbers-article-1.1029656#ixzz1neEy8ffb
BY CELESTE KATZ / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, February 27, 2012, 10:53 PM
DETROIT — Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum crisscrossed Michigan Monday in a pre-primary frenzy as polls showed the former Massachusetts governor with a cushy lead in Arizona — and a narrow edge in the Wolverine State.
The winner of this to-the-death duel? President Obama.
As Romney and Santorum slugged it out for victory in Michigan, a Politico/George Washington University Battleground poll showed Obama’s approval rating jumping to 53%.
He now leads Romney by 10 points in a head-to-head matchup, and Santorum by 11.
Romney, who has strained to win the confidence of conservatives in the state where he was born and where his father served as governor, hyped his business experience ahead of voting in Michigan and Arizona on Tuesday.
“Sen. Santorum is a nice guy, but he’s never had a job in the private sector. He’s worked as a lobbyist, worked as an elected official, and that’s fine,” Romney told a crowd in Rockford. “But if the issue of the day is the economy, I think to create jobs it helps to have a guy as President who’s had a job, and I have.”
Santorum, who has seen his standing slip in recent days, is neck-and-neck in Michigan, trailing Romney 39% to 37% in the latest Public Policy Polling survey.
He lashed Romney to President Obama on health care reform, unpopular with conservatives.
“It’s about government control of your life — forcing you to buy things [and\] then forcing their values on you and your religion — which, by the way, Gov. Romney did in Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts by forcing them to distribute the ‘morning-after’ pill,” he said. “Why would we give those issues away in this general election? [Why] would we put someone up there who is uniquely unqualified to make that case?”
At the same time, Santorum was hardly ready to give up talking passionately about his faith.
“You hear so much about separation of church and state. I’m for separation of church and state — the state has no business telling the church what to do,” he said to applause at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast in the Detroit suburb of Livonia.
Team Obama characterized the GOP slugfest as dividing voters instead of addressing their real worries.
“While the Republicans continue to race to the right, the President and his supporters are campaigning on a vision for a job-creating economy that’s built to last — one where hard work pays, responsibility is rewarded, and everyone does their fair share and plays by the same rules,” campaign spokesman Michael Czin told the Daily News.
you are uninformed and just plain stupid beyond comprehension.....
I know you like to parrot the right wing line.....but, please, offer some substance......
Stock market at 4 year high... It is becoming a nightmare for Republicans.... LMFAO... too funny...
Jon Stewart Rips GOP's Obama Fear-Mongering: 'Y'all Have Lost Your Damn Minds' (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/jon-stewart-gop-obama-fear-mongering_n_1296123.html
Jon Stewart Rips GOP's Obama Fear-Mongering: 'Y'all Have Lost Your Damn Minds' (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/jon-stewart-gop-obama-fear-mongering_n_1296123.html
"I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress," - Rick Santorum, in a 1995 interview.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/rick-santorum-abortion_n_1291634.html
Hitler Finds Out Romney Strapped His Dog to the Car Roof
Mitt Romney strapped his dog to the car roof for 12 hour drive
The Mutt Romney Blues
Unemployment nosedives... say hello to 4 more years
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/us-usa-economy-idUSTRE7BM0AB20120203