[TheRealVille]

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[TheRealVille]

:lmao: Sorry that the Rasmussen Reports poll confused you. It shows that 41 percent of likely Catholic voters approve of Obama's job performance versus 46 percent approval by Catholics (no mention of likelihood of voting listed in the survey methods) in the Gallup poll results.

FYI, the intensity of approval and disapproval is as important, if not more so, than the total approval and disapproval numbers. Rasmussen conducts the presidential approval survey every day, except for a few holidays. He did the same during the Bush years. The roughly 40 percent of likely voters who strongly disapprove of Obama's job performance are very unlikely to change their mind before the election, as are the 29-percenters that can find no fault with the worst president in history. They may move from the "strongly" to the "somewhat" categories but in most cases their minds are already made up.

This whole issue is a campaign stunt by a desperate incumbent president. Picking a fight with the Catholic Church and pretending that it is a women's health issue was just a means to an end. What they really wanted to do was mischaracterize the issue as Republicans wanting to deny women access to contraceptive services, which is an outright lie. I have not heard a single Republican candidate proposing to outlaw contraception in this country and none of those running have any plans to do so. But that is the implication that Democrats want to imprint on the miniscule minds of the 29-percenters, who cannot even name their own VP.

Since you like Rasmussen numbers Hoot.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12 (see trends).

President Obama leads both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum by more than 20 points in California, as nearly six-out-of-10 voters approve of the way he's handling his job.The Arizona Republican Primary race has tightened dramatically over the past two weeks, but Romney remains in first place with Santorum close behind.

In a potential Election 2012 matchup, the president posts a 49% to 41% lead over Romney. If Santorum is the Republican nominee, the president leads 48% to 40%.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c...cking_poll

Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's approval rating is back to 50% for the first time in more than eight months, and he currently holds an edge against all the remaining Republican presidential candidates in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups, according to a new national survey.

And a CNN/ORC International Poll released Wednesday also indicates that the GOP's advantage on enthusiasm has been erased, and that the number of Americans who think things are going well in the country is on the rise. Six out of ten say things are going poorly in the country, but four out of ten say things are going well, up 15 points since November.


"Does that mean it's morning in America? It is for Democrats - a solid majority of them now say things are going well in the country. But overall, six in ten still have a gloomy outlook about the state of the country," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Optimism is on the rise among independent voters, with a notable increase among men as well, although a majority of both groups still think things are going poorly."

The rise of Americans who say things are going well appears to be helping the president, whose approval rating now stands at 50%, with 48% saying they disapprove of the job Obama's doing in the White House. The president's approval rating has edged up three points from last month and is up six points from November. The last time Obama's approval rating was at 50% or above was last May, as a result of the killing of Osama bin Laden, and it stayed there for about a month before fading.

"Independents now have a net-positive view of President Obama," says Holland. "His approval rating has also reached 50% in the suburbs."

Looking ahead to November, the poll indicates that the president's re-election chances are on the rise. In hypothetical matchups among registered voters, Obama holds a 51%-46% margin over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, leads both former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas by the same 52%-45% advantage, and beats former House Speaker Newt Gingrich 55%-42%.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/201...?hpt=hp_t1

[Hoot Gibson]

Obama's approval ratings are irrelevant at this point in the campaign. Reagan trailed Carter badly while he was battling for the GOP nomination and it is not unusual for incumbents to enjoy a free ride in the polls until the opposing party selects its nominee and begins attacking the incumbent's record.

Obama's record is a target rich environment. Gasoline prices have risen more than 90 percent since Obama took office and they have never been higher in the month of February than they are right now. Many experts are predicting that the average price for gasoline will be higher this summer than it has ever been and some are predicting that the $5/gallon barrier will be broken for the first time ever.

So, what happened to Obama's promise to punish oil companies for high gasoline prices? Remember the proposed windfall profits tax? Why did Democrats stop proposing "punishing" the big oil company's when they were given the power to do it?

Look forward to plenty of campaign ads with Obama, Hillary, Reid, and Pelosi proposing all sorts of loony legislation that would have driven prices even higher. Oil production from federal leases has dropped sharply in the past three years and Obama's energy policy as been an epic failure.

So, please continue to post updates of Obama's job approval ratings. I am looking forward to your updates as Obama's numbers inevitably slide toward unprecedented lows. Only our poor public education system, which continues to crank out idiots who will support this clown, will keep his approval numbers above 30 percent.

[TheRealVille]

Obama's approval ratings are irrelevant at this point in the campaign. Reagan trailed Carter badly while he was battling for the GOP nomination and it is not unusual for incumbents to enjoy a free ride in the polls until the opposing party selects its nominee and begins attacking the incumbent's record.

Obama's record is a target rich environment. Gasoline prices have risen more than 90 percent since Obama took office and they have never been higher in the month of February than they are right now. Many experts are predicting that the average price for gasoline will be higher this summer than it has ever been and some are predicting that the $5/gallon barrier will be broken for the first time ever.

So, what happened to Obama's promise to punish oil companies for high gasoline prices? Remember the proposed windfall profits tax? Why did Democrats stop proposing "punishing" the big oil company's when they were given the power to do it?

Look forward to plenty of campaign ads with Obama, Hillary, Reid, and Pelosi proposing all sorts of loony legislation that would have driven prices even higher. Oil production from federal leases has dropped sharply in the past three years and Obama's energy policy as been an epic failure.

So, please continue to post updates of Obama's job approval ratings. I am looking forward to your updates as Obama's numbers inevitably slide toward unprecedented lows. Only our poor public education system, which continues to crank out idiots who will support this clown, will keep his approval numbers above 30 percent.

I will keep you up to date, don't worry.

PS: I saved the bolded, so I can remind you later on in the year.

[Hoot Gibson]

I will keep you up to date, don't worry.


PS: I saved the bolded, so I can remind you later on in the year.

Thanks. I would appreciate that. I am sure that you will also trot it out if events prove me prophetic.

I am sure that Obama would appreciate your efforts as well, despite the fact that you don't support him.nicker:

[TheRealVille]

Thanks. I would appreciate that. I am sure that you will also trot it out if events prove me prophetic.

I am sure that Obama would appreciate your efforts as well, despite the fact that you don't support him.nicker:

Even your conservative guy is leaning a little, that's unprecedented during this Administration.

[Hoot Gibson]

Even your conservative guy is leaning a little, that's unprecedented during this Administration.

I don't understand your comment. What do you mean?

[TheRealThing]

Obama's approval ratings are irrelevant at this point in the campaign. Reagan trailed Carter badly while he was battling for the GOP nomination and it is not unusual for incumbents to enjoy a free ride in the polls until the opposing party selects its nominee and begins attacking the incumbent's record.

Obama's record is a target rich environment. Gasoline prices have risen more than 90 percent since Obama took office and they have never been higher in the month of February than they are right now. Many experts are predicting that the average price for gasoline will be higher this summer than it has ever been and some are predicting that the $5/gallon barrier will be broken for the first time ever.

So, what happened to Obama's promise to punish oil companies for high gasoline prices? Remember the proposed windfall profits tax? Why did Democrats stop proposing "punishing" the big oil company's when they were given the power to do it?

Look forward to plenty of campaign ads with Obama, Hillary, Reid, and Pelosi proposing all sorts of loony legislation that would have driven prices even higher. Oil production from federal leases has dropped sharply in the past three years and Obama's energy policy as been an epic failure.

So, please continue to post updates of Obama's job approval ratings. I am looking forward to your updates as Obama's numbers inevitably slide toward unprecedented lows. Only our poor public education system, which continues to crank out idiots who will support this clown, will keep his approval numbers above 30 percent.

Like a school of herring his errors, lapses in judgement, arrogant refusals to accept blame, legal indiscretions, extremist environmental and energy policies, unilateral foriegn policy failures such as the now blazing arab spring, exploding national debt, ill-advised troop draw downs and his plan to create a dish water weak military, including a moth-balled navy and a moth-balled national outlook, ObamaCare and the much ballyhooed social justice agenda. The preditor may have some problem locking on to his prey. I can easily see hundreds of jobs for research staffers, who must catagorize the long list of affronts against traditional America.

[TheRealVille]

A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday threw out a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, becoming the latest court to rule that the law passed by Congress to prohibit federal recognition of same-sex marriage violated the constitutional rights of same-sex couples.

Jeffrey S. White, a United States District Court judge appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, ruled that the act violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution by denying Blue Cross health benefits to the spouse of Karen Golinski, who works as a staff lawyer in the United States Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit. She married her partner of 20 years, Amy Cunninghis, in August 2008 during the brief period when same-sex marriages were permitted in California.

The decision is the latest in a string of federal court rulings against the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages conducted in states where it is legal. More challenges are moving through other federal courts, and the Supreme Court seems likely to take up the question.

Judge White ruled that the act did not provide “a justification that is substantially related to an important governmental objective” which would be necessary for a law that is aimed at one specific group of people, in this case gay men and lesbians.

“The imposition of subjective moral beliefs of a majority upon a minority cannot provide a justification for the legislation,” he said in his 43-page ruling.

The act was passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in the midst of his re-election campaign in 1996. President Obama instructed his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., not to defend the act, arguing that it was in fact unconstitutional. As a result, the case for the law was made on behalf of a lawyer hired by the House of Representatives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/us/rul....html?_r=1

The government's denial of all federal benefits to same-sex married couples is an irrational and unconstitutional act of discrimination, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, a step toward a likely Supreme Court test of the law known as the Defense of Marriage Act.

DOMA is based on unfounded assumptions about marriage and the suitability of gays and lesbians as parents and was enacted in 1996 by a Congress avid to show its disapproval of homosexuality, said U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of San Francisco.

He quoted numerous statements by backers of the act during congressional debate over it, including one by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., that "the moral and spiritual survival of this nation" were at stake. Another supporter, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. - who has since turned against DOMA - said in 1996 that marriage was "under assault by homosexual extremists."

The law "treats gay men and lesbians differently on the basis of their sexual orientation" without any legal basis, said White, an appointee of former President George W. Bush. "The imposition of subjective moral beliefs of a majority on a minority cannot provide a justification."

His ruling is the second in the nation to declare the law unconstitutional, and the first since President Obama abandoned defense of DOMA a year ago. It adds momentum to an issue that could bring the question of same-sex marriage before the U.S. Supreme Court.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...z1nDHwN7Hf

[RunItUpTheGut]

Its funny how gays are having there constitutional rights "threatened" by these acts, when at the same time there is not one single part of the U.S. constitution that speaks of a homo.
Dems doing what they do best.....trying to change the constitution.

[TheRealVille]

Its funny how gays are having there constitutional rights "threatened" by these acts, when at the same time there is not one single part of the U.S. constitution that speaks of a homo.
Dems doing what they do best.....trying to change the constitution.

Exactly.

[vundy33]

^^^

And not all gays are democrats, lol..

[TheRealThing]

^^^

And not all gays are democrats, lol..

I read somewhere that as many as 25% vote Republican. They're not likely to line up with the Republicans normally if they have come 'out'. Haven't seen a whole lot of Republicans pushing pro gay legislation since they tend to take a more traditional view when it comes to extending 'special' laws based on sexual orientation. The Democrats, on the other hand, think laws tailored specifically to the homosexual are so important they trump even the need to submit a federal budget, choosing instead to ram though the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, in the face of threats from Standard & Poor's to downgrade our credit rating. What's the budget of the United States of America when compared to gay rights? Obama's entire presidency will have come and gone and our nation's business community will still be languishing in uncnertainty due to a four year dereliction of duty by the Harry Reid led Senate. Who would have thunk it? Four years without a Federal budget.

[nky]

^^^

And not all gays are democrats, lol..

Log Cabin Republicans
http://www.logcabin.org/site/c.nsKSL7PML...C/Home.htm

[Ashland Diomedes]

The will of the majority is what matters in America. We are not a theocracy, we are a democracy. That's what the christian right can't get through their heads. If they don't want to be in a country that is ruled by the vote of the people, they should move to a country that is ruled by the bible.

RealVille, "Truth" wouldn't know the will of God if it hit Scooterbob in the face!

[TheRealVille]

Add Maryland to the list of states moving forward.

(CNN) -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will sign into law Thursday a bill legalizing same-sex marriage.

"All children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed and stable home, protected equally under the law," O'Malley said in a statement after last week's vote.

"Maryland will now be able to protect individual civil marriage rights and religious freedom equally."

The Maryland House of Delegates approved the measure less than two weeks after Washington legislators voted to legalize same-sex marriage. That measure will take effect in the summer if it survives a likely court challenge.

Six states and the District of Columbia already issue same-sex marriage licenses -- Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Five states -- Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey and Rhode Island -- allow civil unions that provide rights similar to marriage.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/241732/...riage-bill

[TheRealVille]

Rush Limbaugh wants the women to post videos of them having sex online, if we are going to have to pay for birth control.


http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201203010010

[Hoot Gibson]

Rush Limbaugh wants the women to post videos of them having sex online, if we are going to have to pay for birth control.


http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201203010010

Great political satire. Thanks for sharing.

[TheRealVille]

Great political satire. Thanks for sharing.

He said it. It's political satire when the right say ridiculous things, huh? Rush is the right's poster child.

[Hoot Gibson]

He said it. It's political satire when the right say ridiculous things, huh? Rush is the right's poster child.

Media Matters needs guys like you to sit around and listen to conservative talk shows and then report satirical comments as serious opinions. Not understanding satire makes the job even easier. I doubt that Media Matters pays very well though - I think most of its reporters work in their parents' basements. :biggrin:

[TheRealVille]

Media Matters needs guys like you to sit around and listen to conservative talk shows and then report satirical comments as serious opinions. Not understanding satire makes the job even easier. I doubt that Media Matters pays very well though - I think most of its reporters work in their parents' basements. :biggrin:

Why are people demanding that Washington republicans to pressure him into an apology?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5...testimony/

[Hoot Gibson]

Why are people demanding that Washington republicans to pressure him into an apology?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5...testimony/

Because most far left liberals have no sense of humor. Just looking at the url of your link, I see "democrats-urge-boehner-to-repudiate-comments-by-limbaugh-on-contraception-testimony". Why do you think Democrats are pressuing Borhner to repudiate Limbaugh? Moral outrage? :please:

[TheRealVille]

The social issues debate re-ignited on Capitol Hill today when senators killed a proposal to throw out President Obama's contraception mandate. Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh was thrust into the center of the debate after he called the woman who was denied the right to speak on the controversial all-male conception panel at a hearing last month a "slut" on his show Wednesday. The issue heated up more today when Limbaugh took his comments even further.
The conservative radio host's remarks sparked an angry backlash from House Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. But instead of heeding their requests for an apology, Limbaugh doubled down against what he called the "conniption fit" of the House Democrats.
Echoing Foster Friess, the single largest donor to the pro- Rick Santorum's super PAC, Limbaugh said that he would "happily buy [Fluke] all the aspirin she wants."
Limbaugh was referencing the comment Friess made in February when he said the "gals" in "his day" put aspirin between their legs in lieu of contraception. Limbaugh then expanded his offer to include the university's entire female student body.
"I will buy all of the women at Georgetown University as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want," he said.
Sandra Fluke, a third-year student at Georgetown University Law School, was barred from testifying by Rep. Darrell Issa, the committee chair at the faith-based hearing on Capitol Hill, because he deemed her unqualified. Issa said the panel was supposed to focus on religious freedom and Fluke is not a member of any clergy.
She eventually spoke to a Democratic hearing spearheaded by Pelosi on Feb. 23, where she talked about the need for birth control coverage. Fluke spoke of one friend in particular who needed contraception to prevent ovarian cysts.
Rush Limbaugh, though, had a different take on Fluke's testimony. On his show Wednesday, he suggested that the reason Fluke cannot afford birth control is because she is having too much sex.
"Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be?" he said. "Your daughter…testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the pope."
Fluke testified that without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman as much as $3,000 during law school.
"Three thousand dollars for birth control in three years? That's a thousand dollars a year of sex - and, she wants us to pay for it," Limbaugh said, adding that high school boys applying to college should consider Georgetown. "They're admitting before congressional committee that they're having so much sex they can't afford the birth control pills!"
The conservative radio host continued: "What does it say about the college co-ed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps."
Limbaugh shied away from his word choice towards the end of his show, saying "So, she's not a slut. She's round-heeled. I take it back." Round-heeled, though, is a euphemism for the same thing, an old-fashioned term for a " promiscuous woman."
On today's show, Limbaugh turned up the heat and suggested that women who use insurance-covered birth control should post sex tapes online: "So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here's the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch," he said.
Limbaugh's comments today came on the same day of the rejection of the "Blunt Amendment," which would have repealed Obama's controversial contraception rule.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee drafted a petition today to ask Republican leaders to denounce Limbaugh's "repulsive attacks on women," DCCC spokesman Jesse Ferguson said.
"When it comes to Limbaugh," Ferguson said, "expect the unexpected. But what should be expected is for Republican leaders to stand up and say they don't want him to defend them anymore."
More than 75 Democratic House Members signed a letter to House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday urging him to condemn Limbaugh's remarks. Read the DCCC's letter to Speaker Boehner here. And here is the list of signatures the petition has received so far.

http://news.yahoo.com/rush-limbaugh-sand...-news.html

[vundy33]

lol...well, she kind of made herself look just like that to be honest.

[TheRealVille]

Media Matters needs guys like you to sit around and listen to conservative talk shows and then report satirical comments as serious opinions. Not understanding satire makes the job even easier. I doubt that Media Matters pays very well though - I think most of its reporters work in their parents' basements. :biggrin:

Because most far left liberals have no sense of humor. Just looking at the url of your link, I see "democrats-urge-boehner-to-repudiate-comments-by-limbaugh-on-contraception-testimony". Why do you think Democrats are pressuing Borhner to repudiate Limbaugh? Moral outrage? :please:

So you condone this kind of trash talk, to and about women, in the name of "satire"?

[Hoot Gibson]

So you condone this kind of trash talk, to and about women, in the name of "satire"?

Millions of women listen to Rush's show every day. As for his comments about the slut who claims to be going broke trying to buy contraceptives and wants the 50 percent of us who pay taxes to buy them for her so she can have more sex - yes I certainly do condone Rush's comments. In fact, I applaud him for cutting through all the liberal BS and demonstrating what a ridiculous issue this is.

Obama created this issue to divert attention away from his miserable economic record and away from the fact that he and his Democratic accomplices have compiled about one-third of the entire US public debt in only three years. Those are going to be the issue this fall - not some manufactured crisis caused by Obama once again stomping on the US Constitution. Do you think that women on birth control pills really believe that Fluke is going to be out more than $3,000 paying for her own contraception?

Rush is just poking fun at the woman to make a point but she fits my definition of a slut very well. There is no reason that the rest of us should pay her bills so that she can have sex.

[vundy33]

I'll pay her bills but only if I'm the one receiving her services...


:notbad:

[Hoot Gibson]

I'll pay her bills but only if I'm the one receiving her services...


:notbad:

It sounds like a win-win proposition to me and it won't cost me a dime. :biggrin:

[nky]

condoms would be cheaper and I bet her schools health center gives them out free

[TheRealVille]

Millions of women listen to Rush's show every day. As for his comments about the slut who claims to be going broke trying to buy contraceptives and wants the 50 percent of us who pay taxes to buy them for her so she can have more sex - yes I certainly do condone Rush's comments. In fact, I applaud him for cutting through all the liberal BS and demonstrating what a ridiculous issue this is.

Obama created this issue to divert attention away from his miserable economic record and away from the fact that he and his Democratic accomplices have compiled about one-third of the entire US public debt in only three years. Those are going to be the issue this fall - not some manufactured crisis caused by Obama once again stomping on the US Constitution. Do you think that women on birth control pills really believe that Fluke is going to be out more than $3,000 paying for her own contraception?

Rush is just poking fun at the woman to make a point but she fits my definition of a slut very well. There is no reason that the rest of us should pay her bills so that she can have sex.

No doubt you haven't listened to her testimony, only Rush's version of it. If you had you would know she doesn't name anything about her sex life, for you to say she fits the description of a slut.