QUOTE OF THE DAY
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors {pregnancy from rape} is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
Republican congressman, lizard-brained mouth breather {and candidate for the U.S. Senate} Todd Akin in a TV interview this week.
And that right there is probably the stupidest thing a politician running for office has said in any of our lifetime’s.
That just cost the GOP the U.S. Senate.
Akin
August 21st, 2012 at 7:53 am
What’s with all the rape qualifiers lately? Statutory is understandable, but Reps. Akin and Ryan tried to push a bill about “forcible rape,” Whoopie Goldberg sticks her foot in it with “rape rape” and Akin doubles down with “legitimate rape.”
Rape is rape folks.
August 21st, 2012 at 7:54 am
“That just cost the GOP the U.S. Senate.” … we can only hope …
August 21st, 2012 at 8:42 am
He is, as of noon today, refusing to step down from his campaign. There has been massive pressure from big wigs in his own Party and he will lose $7 Mil, two million having come from Karl Rove. Of course, he will maintain his hero status with the Tea Party, but I do hope he stays in the race because I think it will make it much easier for his female Democratic opponent to take the seat.
But, Todd, the next time you decide to spew from your vacuous brain through your lying mouth, ANYTHING about women, do a little research — like talking to one and maybe actually listening.
August 21st, 2012 at 9:28 am
The people of Missouri appear to be standing with Akin. In some polls today he’s ahead in others he tied with McCaskill. It would seem the only way the people of Missouri will dump Akin is if he’s caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy. Probably more the latter. There is something seriously wrong with Missouri and Kansas and Indiana and Nebraska and Idaho and Iowa and, well I suppose America in general. I’m so glad I’m old, in poor health and won’t be around much longer. I really don’t like what my country has become.
August 21st, 2012 at 9:50 am
You missed another Republican doubling down on stupid.
This is headline from today’s Talking Points Memo blog: Rep. Steve King: I’ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest.
The GOP, collectively as a national party, just seems to have entirely, totally, fucking awesomely lost any semblance of reason and reality.
And, yet these white, wanna-be middle class, schmucks still vote for these Republican jerks.
More and more, Canadaland is looking mighty good.
August 21st, 2012 at 10:13 am
Rape isn’t even about sex. It’s about power. But try telling these dimwits that
August 21st, 2012 at 11:03 am
He was just stupid enough to actually say in the media what most of the other Republicans are thinking anyway. They are all now throwing him ‘under the bus’. Good!
except the crazies in the religious right….they are coming to Akin’s defense. I hope people who are planning on voting Republican will start to wake up before any more of these idiots get in office. Probably not…. we’re doomed.
August 21st, 2012 at 11:06 am
Yes, major case of hoof in mouth disease!
My only hope is that the Senate majority will be wider than to be decided by this race.
August 21st, 2012 at 2:54 pm
The Republicans are really scared of Akin and his remarks. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and the Tea Party Express are now calling for him to withdraw. I imagine the RNC is sending out instructions for no Republicans to say ANYTHING. Wouldn’t THAT be a treat!
August 21st, 2012 at 6:22 pm
I wish I could believe you, Scott, but Missouri’s got this way of doing stupid shit…and I can just see them sending this asshole to the Senate, even after his comment. Because he just verbalized what most of the GOP believes…and the Tea Parties don’t care. A woman’s place is barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.
August 21st, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Strange is it not that a few months ago Rep. Paul Ryan was arm in arm with this nut bag Akin and had authored the “forcible” rape bill with him that included no exceptions for rape or incest and a personhood bill. Now that Ryan is Nitwit’s VP pick he has magically changed his position. Regardless of what Nitwit and Nitwit Jr now say the Repuke’s party platform says no abortions except to save the life of the mother so unless they reject their party’s platform that is their position. I can just see Nitwit appointing all those “personhood” judges to the Federal judgeships after all Dubya appointed one to the Arkansas Federal bench.
August 22nd, 2012 at 4:03 am
In any civilized country this remark would have cost him the election, but this is the American Midwest. This is where they murder doctors who perform legal abortions while the doctors are in church on a Sunday morning. This is where states attorneys general get confidential medical records of people, and turn them over to political groups who then use the information to publicly harass the patients. This is where people believe Adam and Eve (NEVER Adam and Steve) cavorted with dinosaurs and that a Magical, Invisible Man in the Sky will make everything okay if they just please him enough.
Cost the Republicans the Senate? Nah…he just won it for them. And maybe got Romney the White House.
August 22nd, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Scott, it SHOULD cost them the Senate, but who knows what dirty tricks are on the horizon? Today on HuffPo, a commenter on the Bin Laden raid/upcoming Seal book accused Obama of being on the golf course and learning of the kill by phone. Too much out there is of the “We just have to get rid of that dammed uppity Nxgger at any cost” ilk.
And I am blaming the abortion/contraception stupidity on republican women, who need to read Lysistrata rather than stupid “Christian” texts written by MEN.
……..The ”conjugal duty” is this : women must satisfy their husbands’s requests whenever they are fertile. This is the sacred law of Jesus Christ, it is demanded by his Church. It is the best possible course of life for a woman, Amen !
August 22nd, 2012 at 3:42 pm
Oh, shit, caught myself being “holier than thou” — as I would expect my bf to put out whenever I needed some, assuming I ever get another bf.
August 22nd, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Yesterday, Maureen Dowd was at her usual best. In case ya missed it, here’s a snippet:
“The biological facts are perhaps inconvenient, but whether the egg meets the sperm is a matter of luck or prevention,” says Dr. Paul Blumenthal, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology who directs the Stanford Program for International Reproductive Education and Services. “If wishing that ‘I won’t get pregnant right now’ made it so, we wouldn’t need contraceptives.”
When you wish upon a rape.
Dr. Blumenthal is alarmed that Akin is a member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
“What is very disturbing to me is that people like Mr. Akin who have postulated this secret mechanism for avoiding pregnancy have developed their own make-believe world of science based on entirely self-serving beliefs of convenience or just ignorance,” he said. “I don’t think we want these people to be responsible for the lives of others.”
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Honestly, it’s like they just bait the media and us, because hey, who really wants to talk about endless war, banksters, and such. So much simpler now. Right on target, Ryan!