“Mitt Gets Worse,” a new campaign attacking GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, sees LGBT activists sharing their personal stories of confronting the former governor’s extreme anti-gay rhetoric.
Launched yesterday, it’s the combined effort of the Courage Campaign Super PAC and American Bridge 21st Century, which publicizes Republican candidates’ records when their words don’t match their deeds. (So, like, all the time.)
The idea, a twist on Dan Savage’s It Gets Better campaign, is to have activists and leaders share how Romney’s political agenda has steamrolled over LGBT equality.
Above, Julie Goodridge— a plaintiff in the lawsuit that led to marriage equality in Massachusetts—recalls meeting the Mormon politico: “I looked him in the eye as we were leaving the meeting and I said in exasperation, ‘Governor Romney, tell me, what would you suggest I say to my 8-year-old daughter about why her mommy and her ma can’t get married? Because you, the governor of her state, is going to block our marriage.’ ”
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“He kind of looked over my shoulder with this blank stare and said, ‘I don’t really care what you tell your adopted daughter,'” Goodridge recalls. “‘Why don’t you just tell her what you’ve been telling her for the last eight years?'”
The Romney campaign likes to act its all about the economy but, Goodridge says, dismantling LGBT rights would actually “become a core focus of a Romney presidency.” Ugh, don’t let the Republican base hear that—they’ll start pulling out their checkbooks.
Below, the Family Equality Council’s Jennifer Chrisler recalls going toe-to-toe with then-Gov. Romney.
the other Greg
“When the MITT hits the fan.” Romney would attempt to dismantle EVERY improvement in gay rights of the past twenty years. Also he would completely ruin the economy by a war with Iran — a demand of certain of his major donors. Of course his “ideas” about the economy consist of: 1) cutting taxes for the job “cremators” (off-shorers), 2) cutting taxes again for the job “cremators” and 3) cutting taxes yet again for the job “cremators.” This is all that Republican economic “policy” ever consists of, so there’s no reason to suppose it would be any different this time.
Spike
@the other Greg: Cutting taxes for the Job Cremators, great line!
KARUADAM
I am an X Mormonite. The lie and hate that bloody Christian cult have to others unquestionable come from Christianity. They even got it, so good that the Israeli, government let the bastard build a center in Jerusalem, shame on you Israel 🙁 (but I still support you) I urge the Israelis, to stop Christian entering Israel. Israel is for Jews, not bloody Christian.
KARUADAM
PS: The USA is not bloody Christian, country!!.
jeff4justice
Romney will haul us off to the FEMA camps built while Obama has been President. Since Obama thinks NDAA and the right for a President to kill anyone he wants Romney will indeed make things worse right?
You know who else it gets worse for?
-Obama’s drone attack victims (far more than the number of LGBT bullies)
-the troops in needless wars committing suicide (far more than the number of LGBT bullies)
-The tortured prisoners (including teens) in Guantanamo Bay
-the medical marijuana users shut down by the Justice Department
-the drug war Fast & Furious victims
-the prison industrial complex victims
-the unemployed, the 50% of Americans in poverty, the majority of grads unable to find employment
-the future victims of the effects of GMO foods after Obama appoints Monsanto heads to the FDA
-the future cancer victims after Obama’s EPA raises acceptable radiation standards after the Japanese nuclear meltdown
STOP VOTING FOR THE 2PARTY SYTEM OF WAR & POVERTY
STOP VOTING FOR THE 2PARTY SYTEM OF WAR & POVERTY
STOP VOTING FOR THE 2PARTY SYTEM OF WAR & POVERTY
Or should I say the corporate 1party system 2party system charade?
Woman’s rights, racial equality, LGBT equality have all been uphill battles that appeared impossible at the start.
If we can spur an Occupy and Tea Party movement then we can spur an alternative party movement to:
1) Combat unfair election laws
2) Combat media bias/media blackout
3) Educate voters of alternative party options
How lowly of a single issue voter must you be to buy into this fear-based BS from the LGBT mega groups and LGBT media?
If you do not have the power to contribute to enabling alternative political parties to topple the 2party system then what makes you think you can attain equality? You DO have the power for both!
Just as we work to change the minds of anti-equality people, we need to work to change the minds of people who are stuck with the 2-party system blinders on and show them how evil it is to contribute to the 2party system charade…. How evil is it to justify Obama and his acting as GWBs third term.
Remember: Obama awarded Bush senior a medal, Pelosi said impeachment and investigation of Bush was off the table, and there are still anti-equality Democrats. They’re all cronies working for the 1%.
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Gay Activist Rips Up Obama Photo In Protest
http://youtu.be/kQ0SXIWA8ao
Gays Supporting Obama Instead Of 3rd Party Candidates
http://youtu.be/8rK3Jvd0TOw
Insist Obama & Romney Debate 3rd Party Opponents
http://youtu.be/nCZuasjnXOA
Out Singer Linda Perry Not Into Obama
http://youtu.be/GwukjdRlQOI
Coming Soon:
Insist LGBT Media Report On Alternative Party Candidates
Buggsy
@the other Greg: Dude, your predictions are as nutty as when people said Sarah Palin would start WWIII if she was elected VP. Stop believing all the scare tactics the liberal media throws at you, because it only lessens your intelligence when you repeat such absurdities.
the other Greg
@Buggsy: Actually I expect we’d have TWO major, unfunded wars in a Romney administration since Mitt is so sure that Russia is our “No. 1 geopolitical foe,” and his acolytes say that Obama has failed to protect “Czechoslovakia” (which hasn’t existed since 1993) and are sure the “Soviets” are trying to take over Arctic resources. So it’s quite possible we’ll be going to war against a country that hasn’t existed since 1991. You’d think that going to war against a non-existent country might at least be CHEAP, but I’m guessing not. We will probably need more tax cuts to pay for it, like Bush did.
But I see on the news right now, the Romney folks promise he will balance the budget by 2020!
Plus, Romney will do all this and bring back DADT too! It’s not like the military is short-handed or anything with all these endless wars, so he can just throw all those pesky, openly gay people out of there.
Chuck
Romney is wacko, and voting him into office will be worse than voting Bush into office. Obama is the best president we’ve had in decades, and he is the only choice. =] Obama 2012
Daez
@the other Greg: Blaming the “job cremators” because they are trying to make a profit is a little extreme. Here is an idea, if you want a job how about you train for an available position. There are many positions available in this country. Hell, many of them are even in the manufacturing section; however, people lack the training for them, and people are to stubborn to retrain or take a job they feel is beneath them.
It is not the job of the government, or the people that actually work hard for what they have (sometimes upwards of 60-80 hours a week by some “professional” positions) to support those that knocked up their baby mama a 16 and want to live on welfare until their child turns 18.
Daez
@jeff4justice: I’m sorry, but I fail to see how Obama should be blamed for drone attacks that killed KNOWN traitors from this country that were in bed with terrorist regimes. The very fact that the ACLU is taking this case is reprehensible. Next they will be back to defending NAMBLA members.
Barefoot Accountant
I have become very disenchanted with President Barack Obama even though I voted for him in 2008. Obama has failed progressives.
1. He did not even propose the public option healthcare system: he had campaigned on that system, promising to propose it. (Wikipedia: ”President Barack Obama promoted the idea of the public option while running for election.[3] After becoming President, Obama downplayed the need for a public health insurance option including calling it a “sliver” of health care reform,[4] but had not given up pursuing the idea before the health care reform was passed.[5] The preceding statement is disputed by evidence that the Obama administration had agreed to drop the public option from the final plan in the summer of 2009[6] in a back room deal with representatives of the for-profit hospital lobby[7]“)
2. He has appointed countless Wall Streeters to his top economic team, failing to appoint labor voices like Robert Reich.
3. He has bailed out Wall Street instead of Main Street: remember TARP? And then the banks dispensed $6 billion in bonuses in that year to its executives.
4. He failed to attack the mortgage crisis, leaving an elephant still in our “room”, with one-third of home mortgages now underwater.
5. He failed to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, doing away with habeous corpus, allowing the government to arrest and detain indefinitely without a trial or hearing.
6. He agreed to an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich, and on top of that, he agreed to an egregious reduction of the estate taxes on the rich, exempting as much as $10 million from any estate taxes and lowering the estate tax rate down to a ridiculous rate of 35%, when our country has a $15 trillion debt. That alone saved the Walton heirs $17 billion in taxes.
7. He has failed to indict and imprison any of those banksters involved in all of that fraud on Wall Street from the subprime mortgage, including robo-signing, and selling shit-backed mortgage securities known to be worthless.
8. He appointed Jeffrey Immelt to head his Jobs Council when GE has been saying “China, China, China,” and shipping all jobs overseas while closing plants here in the US.
9. President Obama is now considering and proposing to lower the corporate tax rate to 26%, when corporations are not only at a low-time rate of paying taxes but getting billions in tax subsidies from our government and opening up offices on the 19th floor of one building on the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes altogether.
10. President Obama spoke in favor of PIPA and SOPA, when the internet is the last vestige of free speech and the availability of free information to the general public.
11. There were no indictments by President Obama of all the contractor fraud reported on by Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul in a Congressional Report released over a year ago. Whenever the rich and big corporations are caught in fraud, Eric Holder adopts a policy of “looking forward”, instead of holding them accountable.
12. President Obama agreed to the “grand bargain” (thank, God, Boehner did not accept it) to cut over $2 trillion in spending, including social security, medicare, medicaid, and other social safety-net programs merely in return for hypothetical “revenue increases” of $800 billion relying on “dynamic scoring”.
13. President Obama has done nothing to level the trade treaties, where corporations are shipping labor to Cambodia (22.5 cents per hour), China, Philippines, etc., where labor is paid 25 cents per hour. This is exporting slavery to other countries. Where is the level playing field for Americans?
14. President Obama in 2009 only proposed $140 billion in infrastructure spending when Paul Krugman and other economists predicted that $1.5 trillion was needed for our economy to recover. And last year only proposed a paltry $108 billion in infrastructure spending.
15. President Obama praised the recent JOBS Act, which allows corporations to go public and raise capital without audited financial information in their public presentations for the first five years, allowing them to present fictitious numbers and defraud investors?
16. President Obama has failed to propose the return of Glass-Steagall, separating commercial and investment banking, which will soon plunge us back into another mega-bailout of Wall Street.
17. President Obama has failed to propose the break up of the big banks and corporations. What ever happened to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
18. President Obama touted a $25 billion robo-signing settlement when a trillion dollars of our pension and retirement funds were stolen.
19. While campaigning, President Obama promised to put on his walking shoes for labor, but failed to even show up in Wisconsin and walk the picket line against Governor Walker.
20. President Obama has not declared war on the Supreme Court, as President Roosevelt did, to oppose the corporate/rich posture of Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts. Why not take them on?
21. President Obama has arrested and raided more marijuana users in less than four years than George Bush did in eight years. Why is President Obama proposing cuts to social security, medicare, and medicaid while spending more on marijuana arrests and raids, especially when a majority of Americans are for legalization of pot and for the open sale of marijuana for medical use?
Time and time again President Obama did not fight the good fight for working Americans, who are losing their jobs, health insurance, homes, dignity, etc.
I am tired of the lame excuse of how we must vote for Obama because of the Supreme Court. How can anyone believe that Obama would not disappoint progressives on that issue after he failed to undertake a recess appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a position to which she was more entitled to direct than any other American?
I am done with President Obama.
Barefoot Accountant
For a more complete list, see Hugh’s list at http://obamascandalslist.blogspot.com/2009/10/table-of-contents.html:
1. Reneged on pledge to filibuster FISA Amendments Act (July 2008)
2. Lobbied for $700 billion Paulson TARP bank bailout
3. Pushed for no sanctions against Lieberman despite his support for John McCain
4. Nominated healthcare company lobbyist Tom Daschle as Secretary of HHS
5. Had neoliberal Robert Rubin as his chief economics adviser
6. Then had the equally neoliberal Larry Summers assume this role
7. Chose the failing upwards Timothy Geithner to head Treasury
8. AIG bonuses and money to Goldman under Obama
9. Doubling down in Afghanistan
10. Delay and reduction of withdrawal from Iraq
11. Moving Guantanamo activities to Bagram
12. Military commissions for some detainees
13. Support for indefinite detention
14. Refusal to release torture photos under FOIA
15. Refusal to investigate and prosecute Bush era criminality
16. Geithner’s DOA economic rescue programs: the PPIP and TALF
17. Minimal help for homeowners and no cramdowns
18. Treatment of Chrysler and GM with bankrupcy compared to bank no fail “stress tests”
19. Kabuki of TARP repayment by banks while still dependent on government credit lines
20. Extra-Constitutional use of the Fed by the Executive for fiscal policy
21. Credit Card bill without usury caps and with 9 month delay for other reforms
22. Business friendly Mary Schapiro named to head SEC
23. Gary Gensler who helped deregulate derivatives named to head CFTC
24. $787 billion stimulus: too little, too late, poorly structured
25. Use of financial crisis to attack Social Security and Medicare
26. The great healthcare non-debate
27. Continued use of state secrets argument in ongoing Bush era cases
28. Use of signing statements, including one to punish whistleblowers
29. Vetting process problems, especially tax related ones
30. Leaving Dawn Johnsen’s nomination to head OLC twisting in the wind
31. Eric Holder, failure to reform DOJ, not removing worst of Bush USAs
32. Failure to move against new oil bubble
33. Retention of Bush Defense team: Gates, Patraeus, and Odierno
34. Continued missile strikes inside Pakistan
35. Keeping Bush’s domestic spying programs and adding a new one, cybersecurity
36. Choice of Elena Kagan who favors expansive Presidential powers as Sollicitor General, her subsequent nomination to the Supreme Court
37. Leaving EFCA (to help counter anti-union companies) to wither in Congress
38. Welcoming Arlen Specter who brings nothing to the Democrats into the party
39. Weak ineffective proposals for financial reform
40. Obama wanted John Brennan at CIA but settled for making him his counter- terrorism adviser
41. Chas Freeman with broader Mideast perspective done in by AIPAC
42. Dennis Blair made DNI; failed to act to stop atrocities in East Timor
43. Choice of McChrystal involved in torture in Iraq to head Afghanistan command
44. Obama threat to suspend intelligence cooperation with UK over Binyam Mohamed case
45. Efforts to keep Bush and Obama White House logs secret
46. Playing games with “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
47. Filing a brief to overturn Jackson (access to lawyer) in the Montejo case
48. Not withdrawing Bush brief in Osborne DNA case
49. Egregious brief in challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
50. The Supplemental which made Iraq and Afghanistan Democratic wars
51. Choice of Rahm Emanuel as the President’s Chief of Staff
52. Choice of Dennis Ross as Iran envoy and then his move to the White House
53. Politically embarrassing processes to fill Obama and Clinton’s Senate seats
54. Choice of Bill Richardson, then Judd Gregg to head Commerce Department
55. Reneging on pledge to re-negotiate NAFTA
56. Obama’s throwing his pastor Jeremiah Wright to the curb, then reaching out to religious conservative Rick Warren
57. Continued challenges to habeas corpus petitions over indefinite detention, the Janko case
58. The Obama White House website
59. Continuing an ineffective program that Iran can exploit politically
60. Going slow on climate change when there is no time to
61. Not withdrawing a Bush-era amicus brief in the Ricci v. DeStefano reverse discrimination case and supporting a rollback of Title VII
62. Appointment of a CIA General Counsel who doesn’t know if waterboarding is torture
63. Appointment of a DNI General Counsel who doesn’t know if waterboarding is torture
64. CIA delay in a FOIA request concerning torture
65. The influence of Goldman Sachs in the Obama Administration
66. Attempt to keep secret the Cheney interview on the Plame affair
67. Mountaintop removal under Obama
68. Attempt to restrict Congressional notification on intelligence matters
69. Opposition to a second stimulus
70. Another egregious attempt to fight a habeas corpus petition in the Jawad case
71. Continuing charter schools and standardized tests
72. Holder’s decision to support a weak, narrow review of torture
73. Re-appointment of Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman
74. Continuing renditions
75. Politically dubious company was used to vet reporters in Afghanistan
76. Judge vetoes a too weak SEC plea bargain with Bank of America
77. Justice’s argument for making Bagram a new Guantanamo, the al Maqaleh case
78. Defense to turn over databases to poorly controlled fusion centers
79. Obama changes but keeps Bush’s Star Wars program
80. Failure to win an Israeli freeze on settlements
81. White House refuses to back its own staffer environmentalist Van Jones
82. Politicized US Attorney in the Siegelman case cleared by Office of Special Counsel
83. Criticism of Iranian nuclear program; support of Israeli nuclear weapons
84. Support for a weakened reporter’s shield law
85. Use of the Zazi case to retain broad Patriot Act surveillance provisions
86. Wilner v. NSA, continuing the coverup of warrantless surveillance of communications between attorneys and detainees
87. Attempt to spike the Goldstone report on Israeli-Hamas war crimes in Gaza
88. Slowness in filling federal judgeships
89. Inadequate aid to overwhelmed state budgets
90. Attempting to dodge the Supreme Court deciding whether innocent Guantanamo detainees can be resettled in the US
91. Allowing drilling in the waters off the north coast of Alaska
92. Keeping detainee accounts of CIA torture secret
93. Current FBI manual allows for widespread domestic spying
94. Securitization invalidates most foreclosures
95. Geithner wanting unlimited powers to save large banks
96. Another state secrets defense to conceal domestic spying
97. Circuit Court dismissal of Maher Arar suit
98. Weakening Sarbanes-Oxley and calling it financial reform
99. Unemployment
100. Inspector General for Fannie and Freddie ousted for investigating fraud
101. Gaming courts to convict Guantanamo detainees
102. White House counsel removed for his principled stands on torture and Guantanamo
103. US seizes mosques claiming Iranian connection
104. Howard Dean removed as head of the DNC
105. Scientist with close ties to Monsanto put in charge of all governmental agricultural research
106. Pesticide lobbyist nominated as Chief Agricultural Negotiator for trade
107. Effort to let some government contractors avoid paying taxes
108. A bad US Attorney nomination for Northern Iowa
109. Hunger in America
110. The breast cancer recommendations fiasco
111. Ongoing confusion and disorganization in the military commissions process
112. Phillip Carter another official in closing Guantanamo resigns
113. Refusal to sign anti-land mine treaty
114. The Ghizzawi case and the legal limbo of “cleared for release”
115. Black prisons at Balad and Bagram
116. Delay in declassifying historic documents
117. Max Baucus’ conflicts of interest in healthcare and with his girlfriend
118. Major security breach at a White House party and a ridiculous assertion of “executive privilege”
119. Dana “Pig Missile” Perino nominated to the Broadcasting Board of Governors
120. Cass Sunstein, an anti-regulator in a regulatory position
121. Warrantless for profit electronic surveillance by telecoms and search engines
122. The government sides with torture lawyer John Yoo and attacks Bevins actions again
123. The TSA publishes its security manual online
124. Toxic legal arguments in al Zahrani v. Rumsfeld, yet another Bevins action
125. The Nobel Peace Prize and a neocon acceptance speech
126. Blackwater’s involvement in military and CIA assassination and drone programs
127. Congressional Research Service censorship in the firing of Morris Davis
128. AIG writes off $25 billion in debt and sticks taxpayers with the bill
129. The Administration plays hardball to kill an amendment that would lower drug costs
130. A poorly considered blank check to Fannie and Freddie
131. Continuing a Bush botch in the Nisoor Square massacre case
132. Jonathan Gruber, a major defender of Obamacare was also a paid consultant for it
133. A Geithner related cover up of the AIG at par payments on swaps
134. Adoption of stealth signing statements
135. al Bihani, more bad legal reasoning in another Guantanamo habeas case
136. Cutting Medicare and Social Security by deficit commission proposed
137. A 3 year non-freeze budget freeze proposed
138. NASA flights privatized
139. OPR report on Yoo and Bybee watered down and its relation to the Padilla case
140. Government targeting of US citizens for assassination
141. Abuse of informants by ICE agents
142. Obama leaves Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board empty
143. Obama backs firing of teachers in Rhode Island
144. Irish human rights advocate Edward Horgan has US visa pulled
145. Threatened veto of 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act over Congressional notifications
146. Obama Administration intimidation of whistleblowing site: wikileaks
147. Fish and Wildlife Service continues to ignore science on endangered species
148. Senate vacation more important than jobless benefits
149. Government seeks to compel turnover of emails without a warrant
150. Obama goes after an NSA whistleblower: the Thomas Drake case
151. Obama goes after a CIA whistleblower: the James Risen case
152. Weakening Miranda rights in national security cases
153. Advocating the privatizing of public housing
154. Another step in making Bagram the new Guantanamo, the al Maqaleh case, the appeals court edition
155. Massey mining disaster, 29 die because of corporate greed and poor regulation
156. Obama proposal for a line item veto
157. A military commander allowed to use military forces for intelligence operations without Presidential approval
158. Political pandering in sending 1200 National Guardsmen to the Southwest border
159. A sad record on resisting Guantanamo habeas petitions
160. Israel attacks an aid convoy for Gaza; Obama punts
161. A further erosion of Miranda: Berghius v. Thompkins
162. Naming James Clapper, a Bush appointee, to be the next DNI
163. DOJ seeks to protect Vatican in sex abuse scandal
164. Yahya Wehelie, an American exiled without charge
165. Failure to replace National Labor Relations Board members means hundreds of decisions must be reviewed
166. SCOTUS opts for overly broad definition of material support to terrorist groups
167. Speaker Pelosi backstabs Social Security
168. Complaints by government scientists of political interference at Bush era levels
169. Flip flop on free trade agreement with Colombia
170. SEC declares major victory but lets Goldman off easy
171. Private contracting of intelligence continues under Obama
172. Two Guantanamo prisoners to be deported back to Algeria against their will
173. The Shirley Sherrod affair: trumped up charges of racism and a bungled response 174. Whitewash report on Bush era US Attorney firings
175. Despite its record, Blackwater still gets big US government contracts
176. Wikileaks releases government files showing Pakistan involvement with Taliban and admission that things are going poorly in Afghanistan
177. Obama seeks to get access to everyone’s web histories without a court order
178. Teacher funding sacrificed to keep Education Secretary Arne Duncan happy
179. State’s top Iran hand resigns over Obama’s Iran policy
180. Citizens United: validation of unlimited corporate political funding
181. Push to expand US arms sales around the world
182. Project Vigilant, Infragard and “volunteer” corporate spying for the government
183. Obama’s approval hits Bush levels in Arab world
184. Effort to pre-empt state environmental lawsuits involving green house gases
185. Justice’s Anti-trust division asleep at the wheel
186. Kagan’s recusals render her even more ineffective on the Supreme Court
187. Poverty level highest since 1994
188. Courts run interference for corporate violators of international law
189. Warren named to set up but not to run Consumer Financial Protection Board
190. Chief economic adviser Larry Summers leaves; Obama looks for someone even more pro-business to replace him
191. DOJ IG report goes soft on Bush era surveillance against peace groups and other activists; meanwhile the Obama Administration conducts raids against similar groups
192. Move to put backdoors in the internet to facilitate spying and more requirements on banks on international money transfers of any size
193. HHS Secretary Sebelius delays for at least two years required insurance coverage for contraception
194. Americans on Medicaid increased to 48.5 million in 2009
195. Big home lenders suspend foreclosures as their documentation gets challenged in court
196. HR 3808, a bill passed by Congress, to facilitate the acceptance of false documentation by banks in foreclosure proceedings
197. ICE raids and deportations increase under Obama
198. Social Security COLA frozen for second straight year; no action taken
199. Waivers for military aid to countries with child soldiers
200. Big and deserved losses in the 2010 elections
201. 42 million Americans on food stamps at the end of FY 2010
202. No indictments for those involved in the CIA destruction of the torture tapes
203. The Bowles-Simpson Cat Food Commission proposals
204. $3 billion in aid for Israel for a 90 day settlement freeze
205. No change in Democratic Congressional leadership after 2010 election disaster
206. Forced proselytizing still prevalent at US Air Force Academy
207. TSA harassment and violation of the 4th Amendment
208. More TSA idiocy: full body scans and invasive pat downs
209. The response to the 2009 coup in Honduras
210. Use of diplomatic personnel to spy at the UN
211. Fed proposes rule change to Truth in Lending Act to protect bank fraud
212. FCC head Genachowski takes an axe to net neutrality
213. Lieberman and Amazon.com seek to censor wikileaks
214. Pressuring the Spanish government into dropping torture prosecutions against 6 high level Bush officials
215. Neoliberal free trade deal with South Korea at a time of high unemployment
216. Hamfisted banning access to wikileaks by government departments
217. Massive screwup in printing $100 bills
218. Extending tax cuts for the rich in a poor compromise on jobless benefits
219. Dancing boys of Afghanistan paid for by US contractor Dyncorp
220. EPA backtracks on smog standards
221. Former OMB director Peter Orszag goes to Citigroup
222. Obama breaks the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to supply Israel with nuclear fuel
223. DREAM Act for children of illegal immigrants done in by Senate Democrats
224. DOJ drops investigations of corrupt members of Congress
225. The FBI’s Guardian database, another useless, intrusive surveillance program
226. Pentagon weakens rules on contractor conflicts of interest
227. Investigation by state Attorney Generals into foreclosuregate: no criminal charges
228. Obama names Mr. NAFTA Bill Daley as his new Chief of Staff
229. Obama names neoliberal free trader Gene Sperling to replace Larry Summers
230. Executive Order to make regulations more business-friendly
231. Gulet Mohamed: Detention and torture of US citizens by proxy
232. Nelson v. NASA: government can demand intrusive, unnecessary information about its employees
233. Choice of GE’s outsourcing CEO Jeffrey Immelt as Obama’s Jobs Czar
234. Failure to weaken or eliminate the filibuster
235. Corporate targeting of Wikileaks and liberal organizations
236. Reaction to the popular revolution in Egypt
237. HHS Secretary Sebelius helps states cut Medicaid rolls and funding
238. Petraeus accuses parents not US attacks for burns to children in Afghanistan
239. US general in Afghanistan sets up illegal propaganda program targeting Americans
240. Obama plans to devastate small block grants program for the poor
241. Silence on the Wisconsin labor protests
242. Former Senator Christopher Dodd quickly becomes lobbyist after promising not to
243. Obama reinstitutes sham review tribunals at Guantanamo
244. DOJ colludes with Bush era official Scott Bloch to keep him out of jail
245. The treatment of Bradley Manning
246. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley forced to resign over Manning comments
247. Massive conflicts of interest in David Stevens at HUD and soon to be head of main lobbying group for the mortgage industry
248. Mild reaction to bloody anti-democratic repression in Bahrain and Yemen
249. Torture psychologist appointed to White House task force
250. FBI program which allows them to investigate anyone doesn’t work (surprise)
251. In his Libya war, Obama has completed the unconstitutional process of Presidents’ usurpation of Congress’ power to make war
252. Obama accepts award for transparency in secret
253. Democrats create PACs to receive unlimited contributions from anonymous donors 254. 2011 government shutdown threat as Shock Doctrine
254. The 2011 “great” biprtisan budget deal
255. The OCC deal to cover for banks in foreclosuregate
256. Reshuffling neocons at DOD and the CIA
257. Leak of Detainee Assessments shines light on the weakness of cases against many Guantanamo inmates
258. Geithner shields foreign exchange derivatives from Dodd-Frank regulation
259. Crazy new application for some US passports
260. DOJ wants SCOTUS to allow for GPS tracking without a warrant
261. An industry stacked panel to study fracking
262. SCOTUS attacks small claim class actions
263. SCOTUS okays fraud in financial presentations
264. SCOTUS attacks large class actions and Title VII
265. DOJ’s non-investigation of torture produces few results
266. Department of State threatens participants of Gaza flotilla with terrorism charges
267. Detainees now held on ships to avoid judicial scrutiny
268. CIA operating a black site prison in Somalia
269. SCOTUS and DC Appeals Court torpedoing detainee habeas petitions
270. SCOTUS greatly expands warrantless searches; Obama DOJ approves
271. Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after the 2011 spike in gasoline prices
272. Christine Varney, head of DOJ Anti-Trust Division, goes to law firm that had case before her
273. Senseless 2011 debt ceiling crisis, budget cutting, and attacks on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
274. TSA closes US airspace to Mexican human rights activist
275. DHS guts its unit monitoring right wing terrorism in US
276. “Recovery” benefited corporations, not workers
277. Harassment of a government scientist Charles Monett because his work clashes with drilling in the Arctic
278. African Americans and Hispanic wealth took hardest hit from financial crises
279. Cass Sunstein sitting on labor rules to protect child workers
280. Oil leasing in Gulf resumes
281. Administration pressures NY AG Schneiderman to go along with bogus mortgage settlement
282. DOJ dumps responsibility for its bungled gun running sting on handy US Attorney
283. US ranks 41st in the world in infant mortality
284. White House engages in selective prosecution of Dan Choi over DADT protest
285. COBRA extension ditched
286. Obama spikes EPA ozone limits
287. 2011 Obama fictional jobs plan
288. Contractors cost twice as much as unionized federal workers doing the same work
289. New EPA greenhouse gas limits also being drawn out
290. CFTC proposes ineffectual limits on commodity speculation
291. State Department targets career officer Peter Van Buren for writing critical book
292. Secret Law and the OLC legal justification for killing a US citizen abroad
293. US incomes fall more after recession than during it
294. Another Afghanistan fail: torture rampant in Afghan prisons
295. Bank of America dumps derivative exposure on to the FDIC with Fed approval
296. New rule to legitimize government lying in response to FOIA requests
297. Cronyism and the Keystone XL pipeline
298. Despite pledge, Obama still taking money from lobbyists
299. Secure Communities and deportation as a business
300. The Occupy movement and the attacks upon it
301. DOJ prosecuting financial fraud at the lowest rate in 20 years
302. US stops funding of UNESCO
303. 42% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck
304. The Post Office facing cuts because of unnecessary prefunding mandates
305. Arab Spring and allowing Orthrodox Islam to take power in Egypt.
Truth Wins
Jeff4Justice and Barefoot Accountant are the same person. Just sayin.’ He freeps all political Queerty stories with cut and pasting of nonsense.
Vote 3rd party, Roseanne has a chance, yeah!
Truth Wins
@Barefoot Accountant: Stop cutting and pasting, you loon.
Vic
I’m just waiting for the 3rd alias, “GOProudest” to tell us why devolving by Mitt is really better for LGBTs than Obama’s evolving. DADT repeal, Matthew Shepherd Act, & support for Marriage Equality and ENDA actually isn’t as good as wanting a Constitutional Amendment against us. These people are Michele Bachman level cray cray. LOL.
jeff4justice
@Daez: Known traitors? BS!! Tons of innocent people have been killed in the drone attacks including children.
They can do targeted assassination as show in the movie with real Navy Seals “Act of Valor.”
I’m supposed to believe that the threat of imminent catastrophe has happened hundreds of times to justify drone attacks?
Also, you’re cool with no jury, no trial when US citizens are killed? Insane.
jeff4justice
@Truth Wins: I guess you and I are also the same person too since by your account we’re on the same stories.
We are not the same person but if we were the truth would still be the truth.
The truth loses when people like you are in willful derail.
Vic
@jeff4justice: Ok, your first point was incoherent. Anyhoo, I’m with ya man. Everybody should send money to Bernie Sanders, the only third party candidate in national office today!
jeff4justice
@Vic: And why is Obama better than Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson or Gary Johnson?
Chuck
We might as well consider this a dead link. Jeff4Justice/Barefoot Accountant/GOProudest will attack anyone who disagrees with it and cut and paste a bunch of nonsense. I particularly enjoyed the personal attach about a dildo the last time he/she/it did this. How can so much hate be in one person? Who cares, but we shouldn’t take them seriously.
jeff4justice
@Barefoot Accountant: Thanks for reminding them.
Sadly many people like to conform, be popular, be willfully ignorant and be politically lazy rather than do the right thing.
Vic
@jeff4justice: Gary Johnson dropped out. The others aren’t on the ballot in my state. Send money to Roseanne and Bernie Sanders today!
Truth Wins
@jeff4justice: Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.
Truth Wins
I wonder if all the hate in Jeff4Justice/Barefoot Accountant/GOProudest is equal to the hate in Marsha Blackburn and Jean Schmidt. Well, if we can hot 150 comments again, then we know it is!
Truth Wins
Before any conservative or crazy person like Jeff4Justice/Barefoot Accountant/GOProudest says anything, shout out loud, “It’s the end of freedom!” Either they’ll live up to their own insanity or they will fall short in which case they will prove to themselves that they are not a true American. Anybody want your taxes done by Barefoot Accountant? I hear he moves his lips when he reads.
Chuck
We haven’t had any long, incoherent lists cut and pasted as if they were comments in awhile, I’m sure Jeff4Justice/Barefoot Accountant/GOProudest will remedy that in a moment. Anxiously awaiting 🙂
Truth Wins
@jeff4justice: Whoah. I’m the same person as me because I call you on your sad, pathetic freeping/list pasting. Well, yes I am the same Truth Wins that called you out on the other thread. Wow, does that pass for thought in your redneck exurb?
Well Healed Accountant
Barefoot Accountant is not an accountant. We had to fire her for cutting and posting long, incoherent lists about a 3rd party or something. FYI, Orly Tates thinks she’s insane.
tjr101
Gotta love the 3rd party promoters. Anytime you ask a 3rd party promoter to name a viable candidate that can win an election all they do is go off on how bad Obama and the two party system has been bad for America. Quite a funny bunch.
Truth Wins
@tjr101: Exactly. It’s almost as if they know the GOP is so bad on every LGBT issue and the Dems are sponsors of every pro-LGBT issue so they are trying to diminish the impact of our vote or something. Kinda like what they’re doing to blacks and Hispanics in Florida. One might think that one of their aliases is GOProud. Oh, that’s right. It is.
Chuck
Since either a Republican or a Democrat will be the next president, if your only idea to improve the economy is: “Do what George W. Bush did” then go with the other guy.
Michael
We must end Medicare to provide more tax cuts for billionaires so that said billionaires can afford their dancing horses. -GOP
jeff4justice
@Truth Wins: Aw sticks and stones.
When you have no way to justify your Obama worship and 2party system intelligence I can understated how you have to resort to petty name calling. And if I am insane why are you spending time engaging with me?
I know if must hurt you to know you support an illusion of democracy. I know it must hurt to know how Obama has acted as GWBs third term in so many ways.
You love you some NDAA? You love you some war? You love you some attack on internet freedom from both parties? You love you some kids being blown apart by drone attacks? You love you some Monsanto? Love you some Japanese radiation? Love you some drug war victims?
What a humanitarian.
Oh well. At least my vote will cancel yours out.
Truth Wins
@jeff4justice: Your vote would only cancel mine out if you are not voting 3rd party as you pretend to be but vote for Romney. Thanks for reveling your true self again. Fool.
jeff4justice
Once again, you resort to petty name calling and diversion becuase you cannot defend the 2party system you blindly follow.
Thanks for revealing how you willfully ignore Obama’s killing US citizens including a Coronado teen with no trial no jury, his unconstitutional wars in places like Libya, his keeping Tantamount Bay open where teens are tortured, his Justice Departments attack on medial marijuana users, his EPA’s raising of acceptable radiation limits after the Japanese nuclear meltdown, his appointing Monsanto heads to the FDA, the bipartisan attack on internet freedom, the spike in troops committing suicide, the 50% in Americans in poverty.
God bless the USA. God bless the LGBT media and mega groups that ignore Obama’s evils and willfully ignore the alternative party options the same way the ignored Democrats Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich.
What has been your proudest 2party system moment:
Nancy Pelosi saying Bush impeachment was off the table?
Obama refusing to investigate the Bush war crimes?
Obama giving a Presidential medal to Bush senior?
Dennis Kucinich being thrown under the bus by the Dems after he tried to impeach Obama?
jeff4justice
@jeff4justice: Pardon me. Guantanamo Bay.
Truth Wins
@jeff4justice: Take off the tin had and breath. Just breath. You’re not helping your argument with crazy conspiracy posts like that. Better you should just go back to posting inane lists under ‘Barefoot Accountant’ handle.
Truth Wins
@jeff4justice: I agree with you that Bush should have been prosecuted and Poppi Bush did not deserve a medal. But don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
jeff4justice
@jeff4justice: Yeah you know the 2party system is wrong.
Bushs’ crimes are bad but you refer to calling out Obama’s evils out as a tin hat conspiracy.
Again: You love you some NDAA? You love you some war? You love you some attack on internet freedom from both parties? You love you some kids being blown apart by drone attacks? You love you some Monsanto? Love you some Japanese radiation? Love you some drug war victims?
But I know, to your lazy ass these are conspiracies even though this is mainstream news.
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I dedicate this song to you:
Got up this morning things weren’t working right
I said i wanna make a change I said I wanna fight
Obama walked up and said yes we can
I said i wanna ride your nuts cause I think your the man
Now I’m dick riding.
Obama Obama.
Now I’m dick riding.
Obama Obama
Now I’m dick riding.
Obama Obama
Dick riding for tomorrow
Dick riding for today
Dick riding for the straight
Dick riding for the gay
Dick riding for America
Dick riding for Iraq
It’s ok to ride that dick just as long as it’s Baracks
And now were dick riding dick riding
http://youtu.be/08S4poMGvwA
Truth Wins
@jeff4justice: Replying to yourself? Come on dude. Quit proving my points.
Patsy Stoned
Truth Wins is right – every Romney story brings out the whacko morons. Why don’t these “third party” people start at lower levels of government? Representatives, Governors, Senators even. No, they jump right to Presidential elections. Might be because they are all Romney shills. Two party system isn’t ideal, but a Romney presidency is unthinkable. And these “alternate party” types have NEVER been able to parlay that into anything other than a waste of a vote.
jeff4justice
@Patsy Stoned: By the standards of Truth Wins you’re the same person.
Notice as usual people like you have no defense of Obama’s evils other than Romney is bad + anti-LGBT.
So by this standard you must love Dick Cheney since he’s ok with gay marriage too. Maybe Obama can give him a medal too.
What makes you think alternative party candidate do not try to win local elections? They do run local candidates. I know the 1party system corporately controlled media does not explain to people like you that the 2party system charade creates unfair election laws hindering alternative party ballot access, the media often only refers to alternatives in a derogatory context (the same way the treated Democrats Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich when they ran), and most voters are too stupid and lazy to know who they are since the media blacks out alternative party candidates.
Thinking there is no way better than the 2party system is as moronic as people who think marriage = 1 man, 1 woman since that’s the way it’s always been.
What to you to to help get out of the 2party system tyranny?
Gay Democrats who defend Obama’s evils are no better than Log Cabin Republicans who justify their party’s evils. How you’re so self righteous in thinking you’re better by voting for a gay friendly warmonger is amazing.
hassia
@jeff4justice: you need a hug.
jeff4justice
@hassia: Love is a basic human need ; )
Noam Chomsky – The Political 1party system in the USA
http://youtu.be/tN6ZZ9KvlHM
The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20081010.htm
Truth Wins
The reason we know that Jeff4Justice/Barefoot Accountant/GOProudest are the same person is because after a thread had been dead for a week, each of those aliases replied in neat, 2 minutes of each other, all making the same points and attacking anyone who disagreed with he/she/it.
KARUADAM
I am calling to the Israeli, govenment to stop the IDIOT Romney, intering Israel. The state of Israel, is for Jews, not fucking Christian.
KARUADAM
@Barefoot Accountant: Man don`t worry about a thing! we will exterminate you in concentration camp ASAP: