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Would you compare, say Charlie Rangle and Barney Franks? I'd bet the tax cheat and the gay prostitute ring leader vote alike 99% of the time.
Luckily women know how to mobilize (we, too, are proud community and family organizers no Palin sneer intended) in reaction to freedom destroyers; weve had a lot of practice. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is joining Nuns on the Bus and just about every other sane human with a beating heart in condemning Ryans cold-hearted, death panel budget. NOW isnt going to take the assault that is Romney/Ryan lying down, theyre going to be dogging Romney-Ryan on the campaign trail, mobilizing to expose the disproportionate impact on women of their positions on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the social programs they would slash.
NOW President Terry ONeill issued a statement this morning:
Republican Mitt Romney could not have picked a better running mate to telegraph the very essence of his campaign for president than Representative Paul Ryan. Together, these two candidates plan to lead the way in transferring even more wealth from the middle class, the working class and even the poor to the very rich in this country. Women should beware, because they are the targets or the disproportionate casualties in virtually every policy Romney and Ryan propose.
All we need to know about Ryan is written down in his infamous budget plan, which Romney has wholeheartedly embraced. Its most hated feature is that it converts Medicare to a private voucher system something that would be particularly harsh for women because they rely on Medicare to a greater degree than men. But it only gets worse from there. The Romney-Ryan budget plan places future cuts to Social Security benefits on a fast track that Congress could not slow down; makes Medicaid a state block grant program; repeals Obamacare, which makes health insurance affordable to tens of millions of women and their families; and slashes a whole range of social programs that disproportionately serve and employ women.
Members of the media will tell you that Ryan is smart and wonky. But what he has in store for this nation is not smart its doubling down on the disastrous policies of the Bush-Cheney years that not only wrecked the U.S. economy but pushed relentlessly to turn back the clock on womens basic rights. A Romney-Ryan administration would support anti-abortion efforts like personhood amendments, totally defund Planned Parenthood and all federally-funded family planning services, and use government to sanction religious opposition to birth control. Their vision is a threat to womens rights, public health and the economic security of the vast majority of people in the United States all for the benefit of the most fortunate among us.
In the coming days and weeks, right up until November 6, NOW will reach out to voters to drive home the message that a Romney-Ryan administration would be truly devastating to our economy and to women in particular. We will be dogging Romney-Ryan on the campaign trail, mobilizing to expose the disproportionate impact on women of their positions on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the social programs they would slash. We will also shine a spotlight on Romney-Ryans threats to equal pay, reproductive justice, protecting women from violence, and other issues that deserve greater attention in this deeply consequential election.
7 Reasons Why Romney-Ryan's Desperate Attempts to Spin Medicare Won't Work
1. The Big Lie
The Romney camp's big lie is that Obama raided $700 billion from Medicare to pay for his healthcare scheme. There are two big problems with this story. The first is that Obama hasn't taken a single red cent out of Medicare benefits, and the second is that the Ryan plan has the exact same $700 billion in cuts . Even the laziest political reporter can grasp the hypocrisy of attacking your opponent for something you've proposed yourself.
2. Shifts the tax burden onto the middle class
3. The Ryan plan does hurt CURRENT retirees (that it wouldn't is a lie--read the article)
4. The plan lines up with the interests of the wealthiest Americans
5. Romney won't give details of his plan
6. Democrats are more trusted to handle Medicare by the American people
7. Economic plan gives a whopping break to the wealthiest 1%
Romney & Ryan are way off the mark in their ideas about women's rights, especially when it comes to contraception and abortion.
Luckily women know how to mobilize (we, too, are proud community and family organizers no Palin sneer intended) in reaction to freedom destroyers; weve had a lot of practice. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is joining Nuns on the Bus and just about every other sane human with a beating heart in condemning Ryans cold-hearted, death panel budget. NOW isnt going to take the assault that is Romney/Ryan lying down, theyre going to be dogging Romney-Ryan on the campaign trail, mobilizing to expose the disproportionate impact on women of their positions on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the social programs they would slash.
NOW President Terry ONeill issued a statement this morning:
Republican Mitt Romney could not have picked a better running mate to telegraph the very essence of his campaign for president than Representative Paul Ryan. Together, these two candidates plan to lead the way in transferring even more wealth from the middle class, the working class and even the poor to the very rich in this country. Women should beware, because they are the targets or the disproportionate casualties in virtually every policy Romney and Ryan propose.
All we need to know about Ryan is written down in his infamous budget plan, which Romney has wholeheartedly embraced. Its most hated feature is that it converts Medicare to a private voucher system something that would be particularly harsh for women because they rely on Medicare to a greater degree than men. But it only gets worse from there. The Romney-Ryan budget plan places future cuts to Social Security benefits on a fast track that Congress could not slow down; makes Medicaid a state block grant program; repeals Obamacare, which makes health insurance affordable to tens of millions of women and their families; and slashes a whole range of social programs that disproportionately serve and employ women.
Members of the media will tell you that Ryan is smart and wonky. But what he has in store for this nation is not smart its doubling down on the disastrous policies of the Bush-Cheney years that not only wrecked the U.S. economy but pushed relentlessly to turn back the clock on womens basic rights. A Romney-Ryan administration would support anti-abortion efforts like personhood amendments, totally defund Planned Parenthood and all federally-funded family planning services, and use government to sanction religious opposition to birth control. Their vision is a threat to womens rights, public health and the economic security of the vast majority of people in the United States all for the benefit of the most fortunate among us.
In the coming days and weeks, right up until November 6, NOW will reach out to voters to drive home the message that a Romney-Ryan administration would be truly devastating to our economy and to women in particular. We will be dogging Romney-Ryan on the campaign trail, mobilizing to expose the disproportionate impact on women of their positions on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the social programs they would slash. We will also shine a spotlight on Romney-Ryans threats to equal pay, reproductive justice, protecting women from violence, and other issues that deserve greater attention in this deeply consequential election.
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For those who want to change the subject to the economy:
7 Reasons Why Romney-Ryan's Desperate Attempts to Spin Medicare Won't Work
1. The Big Lie
The Romney camp's big lie is that Obama raided $700 billion from Medicare to pay for his healthcare scheme. There are two big problems with this story. The first is that Obama hasn't taken a single red cent out of Medicare benefits, and the second is that the Ryan plan has the exact same $700 billion in cuts . Even the laziest political reporter can grasp the hypocrisy of attacking your opponent for something you've proposed yourself.
2. Shifts the tax burden onto the middle class
3. The Ryan plan does hurt CURRENT retirees (that it wouldn't is a lie--read the article)
4. The plan lines up with the interests of the wealthiest Americans
5. Romney won't give details of his plan
6. Democrats are more trusted to handle Medicare by the American people
7. Economic plan gives a whopping break to the wealthiest 1%
And in order keep funding the Defense Dept. as they said they would, other programs almost across the board would have to be cut by 40% in order to have any impact on the economy and that ain't gonna happen folks!
LINK
Romney & Ryan are way off the mark in their ideas about women's rights, especially when it comes to contraception and abortion.
Luckily women know how to mobilize (we, too, are proud community and family organizers no Palin sneer intended) in reaction to freedom destroyers; weve had a lot of practice. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is joining Nuns on the Bus and just about every other sane human with a beating heart in condemning Ryans cold-hearted, death panel budget. NOW isnt going to take the assault that is Romney/Ryan lying down, theyre going to be dogging Romney-Ryan on the campaign trail, mobilizing to expose the disproportionate impact on women of their positions on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the social programs they would slash.
NOW President Terry ONeill issued a statement this morning:
LINK
For those who want to change the subject to the economy:
7 Reasons Why Romney-Ryan's Desperate Attempts to Spin Medicare Won't Work
1. The Big Lie
The Romney camp's big lie is that Obama raided $700 billion from Medicare to pay for his healthcare scheme. There are two big problems with this story. The first is that Obama hasn't taken a single red cent out of Medicare benefits, and the second is that the Ryan plan has the exact same $700 billion in cuts . Even the laziest political reporter can grasp the hypocrisy of attacking your opponent for something you've proposed yourself.
2. Shifts the tax burden onto the middle class
3. The Ryan plan does hurt CURRENT retirees (that it wouldn't is a lie--read the article)
4. The plan lines up with the interests of the wealthiest Americans
5. Romney won't give details of his plan
6. Democrats are more trusted to handle Medicare by the American people
7. Economic plan gives a whopping break to the wealthiest 1%
And in order keep funding the Defense Dept. as they said they would, other programs almost across the board would have to be cut by 40% in order to have any impact on the economy and that ain't gonna happen folks!
LINK
NOW simply prostituted themselves to Bill Clinton because he voted their way. They aren't interested in women's rights or anything else. They have no moral high ground.
Substituting "Medicare" for "the economy" might work with a Democratic audience but these are Republicans and independents here. It wont wash.
Was just looking at the threads posted here and its true: The Rs bring it up every few weeks. Contraception, abortion, basic rights afforded and guaranteed by our constitution ... The R brings up their War On Women, over and over again. Why is that?
Because RobMe and Robin don't want to talk economy, jobs, education, infrastructure and how the GObP/pubs/pots have fought so hard against jobs and economic recovery.
While Obama is talking about his plans for the country's continuing recovery, Mittens has said he does not want to talk about his business experience as a vulture capitalist, won't discuss getting the biggest tax payer bail out in the history of the Olympics, and ain't no way he wants to talk about how happy the people of Mass are with affordable health care. And, of course, Mrs Mittens has looked down her nose at "you people" and then flipped us off.
While Mittens continues to refuse to release even one entire tax return, both he and Ryan say they will raise taxes on us peons and cut taxes even more for their 1% cronies.
If elected, their administration would be known from bringing back soup kitchens.
I see several lies in your post.
One of them is that the GOP is bringing up issues. Most of the time issues become hot-button items because the media is being directed to focus on it.
"The dust hasnt even settled on the Akin mess and already the GOP is preparing to unveil a tough, no exceptions anti-abortion platform at its convention next week. Want to lay odds on how many brave souls dare refute that platform? Ill give you a hint: it wont equal the numbers of fingers on one of your hands."
