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Here We Go Again: GOP Lawmaker Says Rape Can Make Beautiful Children
West Virginia Delegate Brian Kurcaba says rape is awful, but remarks that it can create a beautiful child.
Tagged Todd Akin
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House Republicans Collapse Under The Weight Of Their Own Bickering Over Abortion Bill
House Republican leaders withdrew a controversial anti-abortion bill late Wednesday night, after a contentious dispute over rape reporting.
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GOP Senate Candidate Thinks White People Are The Only ‘Traditional’ Americans
In a story posted by Daniel Strauss of Talking Points Memo on Tuesday, Thom Tillis, North Carolina’s State House Speaker and Republican nominee for US Senate, did an interview in 2012 where he suggested that Hispanics and blacks are not ‘traditional’ Americans.
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Conservative Columnist George Will Claims Rape Victim is a ‘Coveted Status’ on Campus
George Will attacks college campuses for rape prevention efforts, mocking them as political correctness gone too far.
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No Global Warming? NOAA Says January Was Fourth Warmest on Record
You have to go all the way back to 1976 – the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to #1 with “Silly Love Songs” and Elton John and Kiki Dee followed close on their heels with #2’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, to find a below average temperature for January.
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GOP Receives Shock To The System As Democrat Michelle Nunn Leads In Georgia Senate Race
PPP released a poll on Wednesday that shows Democrat Michelle Nunn ahead of all four GOP candidates in Georgia’s open Senate race. Republican Saxby Chambliss is retiring at the end of his term.
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GOP Can’t Lay Down Arms in War Against Women
It’s been difficult to ignore the Republican Party’s insistence, subsequent to its November 2012 shellacking at the national ballot box, that it offers modern appeal to female voters.
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Republicans Worried About Another Akin-like Gaffe Fail to See Real Problem
Republicans simply never learn. They always view their problems as cosmetic rather than core.
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Far-Right Senate Candidate Phil Gingrey Loses His Entire Campaign Staff
Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA), who is running for Senate to replace the retiring Saxby Chambliss, is going to have to do some mass hiring today.
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Christian Nationalism Defines the Rhetoric of Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio
The tenets of Christian nationalism – control of the government for Jesus – is behind the political aspirations of Rand Paul and others
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President of the ‘Conscience Of the Republican Party’ Says Pregnancy by Rape is Rare
President of the Calfiornia Republican Assembly, Celeste Greig, said pregnancies by rape are rare ‘because it’s an act of violence, because the body is traumatized.’
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House Republican and OBGYN Says Akin Was Partly Right About Legitimate Rape
A pro-fetus House Republican from Georgia is defending legitimate rape Todd Akin of Missouri and the gift of rape Richard Mourdock of Indiana.
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The Republicans Have Quit on America; It’s Time for Americans to Quit on Them
Republicans have quit on America. They’re putting forth no effort, and most importantly at all, they haven’t even bothered to show up for the past two years.
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The Top Ten Dumbest Republican Quotes of 2012
It was not easy to pare down to ten a list from literally hundreds of dumb Republican quote candidates, but out of patriotism and love of country I have decided to take on the challenge.
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Was Election Night a Mandate for the Status Quo?
America won four more years for President Obama, but did we issue a mandate for change or for the status quo?
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Binders of Women Bring Down the GOP’s Pro Rape Senate Candidates
The Republican rape triplets running for the senate took a big hit last night. The War on Women was a bad move for Republicans.
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Richard Mourdock’s Extremist Views Are Shared by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan
Richard Mourdock’s so-called extremist view is the mainstream position of the Republican Party including the party’s presidential ticket.
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Mourdock Loses Ground in Senate Race But GOP Party of Rape Not Even Close to Getting It
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
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Even Scarborough Sees that Romney Needs to Demand Mourdock Take Down the Ad
Even Joe Scarborough slammed Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s rape comments and said that Romney should come out stronger against them.
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National Organization for Women Says Richard Mourdock is Romney Unmasked
NOW issued a statement Wednesday saying that Richard Mourdock (pregnancies from rape are ‘God’s will’) is ‘Romney Unmasked’.
Romney’s Endorsement of Rape Enthusiast Richard Mourdock
Mitt Romney wants Richard Mourdock, who thinks rape pregnancies are a gift from God, changing things in Washington, D.C.
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Failure to Teach Christianity in Public Schools is Mental Molestation
Fundies claim failure to teach Christianity in public schools is mental molestation – say it ought to be punished like physical molestation
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Paul Ryan Outed the GOP Ticket’s Extremism on Abortion in VP Debate
Paul Ryan said that elected officials should be in charge of Row V Wade, raising the alarm bell that a Romney/Ryan admin intends to implement the Personhood Amendment.
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Pro Life Women Condemn Republican Todd Akin for His Beliefs
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has a brutal new series of ads running against Republican Representative Todd Akin (of legitimate rape infamy) in Missouri.
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I Would Like to Say Goodbye to Patriarchy
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
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Todd Akin Throws a Tantrum and Whines that Claire McCaskill isn’t Ladylike
Todd Akin thinks he’s gonna win because Claire McCaskill wasn’t ‘ladylike’ at the debate. She was ‘aggressive’.
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Claire McCaskill Crushes Todd Akin with One 30 Second Ad
Now that the deadline has passed for Todd Akin to drop out of the race Sen. Claire McCaskill is hitting him hard on his legitimate rape comments.
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Tea Party Deadbeat Joe Walsh Tells Sandra Fluke to get a Job
Tea Party hero Joe Walsh told a diner full of old white folks that Sandra Fluke needs to get a job, equating healthcare with’entitlement
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75% of Americans Oppose the Republican Convention’s Abortion Plank
The Todd Akin, Tom Smith one-two media gut punch is hiding the fact that three quarters of those polled oppose the Republican Party’s no exceptions anti-abortion plank.
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Marco Rubio Touts GOP Abortion Platform That Suggests Women Are Not Humans
Rubio claimed Republicans were ‘protecting the rights of a human being to live,’ suggesting that pregnant women are not human beings.
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Todd Akin Tells the GOP to Kiss The Missouri Senate Seat Goodbye
In a brief statement, Todd Akin essentially told the Republican Party to forget about defeating Claire McCaskill because he is going to be in the race until November.
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Why Won’t Sarah Palin Admit Her Body Has Magic Powers
Bryan Fischer is upset that his word isn’t good enough; that his Christian male voice does not invalidate a woman’s experience and science
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Paul Ryan Insults Women Voters, Calls Forcible Rape a ‘Side Issue’
Paul Ryan says women won’t be distracted by ‘side issues’ of Ryan’s positions on rape, which align closely with Republican Representative Todd Akin’s views.
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Romney Busted – Proud to Have Endorsement of Akin Rape Doctor in 2007
The insincerity of GOP Akin-rebukes have become apparent with the revelation that Romney accepted the endorsement of the doctor behind Todd Akin
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Todd Akin Claims He’s the Real Victim and Raises Money Off Legitimate Rape
Todd Akin is claiming that he is the victim of his legitimate rape scandal, and now he is circulating a petition of support and trying to raise money off his comments.
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A Mountain of Legislation Proves Legitimate Rape is a Republican Policy, Not a Gaffe
As Akin begs forgiveness for his words, not one Republican apologizes for the mountain of legislation that proves ‘legitimate rape’ is a GOP policy, not a gaffe.
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Legitimate Rape is the Tip of the Republican War on Women Iceberg
There has been a firestorm over comments made by Todd Akin regarding what he calls ‘legitimate rape,’ and although it is a big story, it is just a microcosm of the entire GOP’s overall view of women.
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Withering Support for Todd Akin, and Karl Rove Pulls His Ads
Todd Akin is running out of friends. Even an anti-abortion group wants him to quit. But his biggest loss will be Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS
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Fox News Freaks Out Over Todd Akin’s Refusal to Quit MO Senate Race
Fox News is starting to freak out over Todd ‘Legitimate Rape’ Akin’s refusal to quit the Missouri Senate race.
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Todd Akin Says Raped Women Do Not Get Pregnant So No Abortions
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don’t get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child, not the rapist
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Twisted Republicans Dream of Repeating the Lunacy of George W. Bush
Republicans seek to return to the Bush Administration’s disastrous events that nearly crashed the world’s economy and embroiled America in two Middle East wars.
The Daily Show Mocks Republicans for Invoking the Rapture to Stop Healthcare Reform
On The Daily Show last night host Jon Stewart and correspondent John Oliver satirized Republicans like Rep. Todd Akin for invoking the rapture and asking God to stop healthcare reform. Oliver said that the rapture would, “link healthcare reform with lakes of fire, marauding demons, and the destruction of mankind on earth in the minds of surviving swing voters.”
