Let's talk about where you and I will find ourselves if we don't roll up our sleeves, get the vote out, and re-elect Democratic women to Congress: we'll be living in John Boehner's America. Make no mistake -- if Republicans succeed in their efforts, discouraging women voters and taking away the gavel from Nancy Pelosi, then we'll get Speaker Boehner.
November 2 is less than a month away. We have less than a month to prevent a takeover from the party of "no." Less than a month to stop someone with legendary ties to lobbyists, special interests, and far-right cronies. Less than a month to stop John Boehner, who would lead a majority dominated by backwards-looking extremists, from becoming Speaker of the House.
The GOP has made it clear that the interests of women and families don't matter to them. If they win on November 2, Speaker Boehner and the Republican majority would start right away at gutting our progress and protections: They would repeal health care reform. Abandon Social Security. Protect big corporations. And chip away at our reproductive rights at every turn.
Need more alarm bells? Take a look at Senator Jim DeMint, a powerful kingmaker among the very right wing, who would return us to a seemingly bygone era. He says unmarried women should not be allowed to be teachers if they are sexually active. He said that just this past weekend -- 2010. Can you imagine anyone saying that about a man?
In Boehner and DeMint's America, all the ground we have gained to make health care affordable and accessible would be rolled back. Forget about the right to make our own decisions about our reproductive choices in private -- government would legislate that. Women could be forced to bear their rapists' child; doctors would be criminalized. Corporations -- like the ones funding the big money attacks on our elected women -- would call the shots.
This is why EMILY's List is saying not so fast to John Boehner's plan. We're taking his vision of America to women -- and ensuring voters have the tools they need to fight back. We're telling the story of what Boehner and his conservative cronies have up their sleeves with a new website, BoehnersAmerica.org. We want voters to find out the reality of what it would be like to have that speaker's gavel handed over to John Boehner.
I can't emphasize this enough: our EMILY's List candidates are the firewall against this extremist agenda. And we're fighting for them because they fight for women, for our families, and for communities -- everyone who'd lose in Boehner's America. We have less than a month, but there's still time -- and we're pulling out all the stops to protect our values and our rights when they're most vulnerable.
1. Obama and the Democrats allowed the HMOs write the law because it was a form of bail out.
2. Obama and the Democrats CONTINUED the very bail out policy started under Bush/Paulson
3. Obama and the Democrats agreed to a 'deficit commision' on how to cut social security.
As much damage to our economy as Reagan and the Republicans did, it was Billl Clinton, a Democrat who did more devestation to our economy, then all worse presidents combined, with the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
Partisan arguments don't fly anymore except only with partisans.
It's partisan....its dirty and our country is at stake.
that would be Haiti.
the other example that conservatives often cite as a model for their vision of America is Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
thats what they want to bring to America. a country that can't survive an earthquake combined with all the benefits of a military dictatorship.
thanks. but no thanks.
just say no to conservatism, and say yes to America.
Repeal of Obamacare needs to be replaced with a plan that addresses quality, availability and cost of which Obamacare addresses only availability and does that only by mandate and expansion of the internal revenue service further into the lives of ordinary Americans.
As far as protection of big corporations, liberals seem to get confused about exactly who it was that sponsored Chrysler and GM bailouts and the Wall Street firms that he deemed to big to fail.
As for abortion, given the current shape of the country, I don't believe it is on anybody's radar screen other than one issue groups that exist on both the left and the right.
In short, there is more disinformation in this article than in the Communist Manisfesto.
Based on his language - I am afraid of the change to our country that he would bring.
He wants to privitize you social security, cut all of the Health Care Policy just passed by the Democrats, cut welfare and unemployment insurance. He wants to cut the benefits for the poor while enriching the wealthy.
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The arrogance and ignorance of the GOTP will drive us right back into the ditch--given the chance to implement the agenda they are not talking about:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017649-503544.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
to your posts.
Fanned & faved
If this system is allowed to keep going it will synthesize down to this in California but is creeping in nationwide.
1) Rightfully and lawfully continuing the benefits promised to state, federal and union workers, pre and post retirement or
2) The paring down or elimination of badly needed public sector social programs.
California has approximately $500 billion in unfunded public pension liability according to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research’s - Going for Broke: Reforming California’s Public Employee Pension Systems
CalPERS sets a different amount but whatever figure this is will have to be paid before a dime is spent on California’s public services of the future.
Budgets for both cannot be sustained. I feel that give and take in both categories will save the day but social services I think will be hardest hit.
in women, families, minorities, gays, unemployed, underemployed, education, seniors
GOP Tea baggers only have interest in:
Wall Street, special interests, corporations, war, tax cuts and well, other rich white men
Notice how the GOP wants to cut spending on Social programs but wont touch out of control Military spending. Our bloated Military spending will sink us before any Social programs will.