G.I. Bill Cuts: Veterans Enrolled In College Face Uncertain Futures

This is a rotten deal!! Everyone of our veterans volunteere­d to serve their country, they were not drafted, the VOLUNTEERE­D! This is no way to repay them, cutting their promised benefits! With Republican­s in control of Congress, chances are they will never get their benefits back. This is an outrage. Most of these vets have probably served in a war zone. They deserve the assistance­. They put their lives on the line for us and we need to recognize their service in concrete ways. Saying that we support the troops may feel good or sound good; putting decals on our vehicles makes it look like we support them, but what we need to do is to honor their service with real benefits..
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Obama Wants Big 2012 Campaign Map, GOP Wants Small

Demographi­cs are very important. Republican governors in many states are as unpopular as acne on a debutante. If Obama cannot carry those states it will be because he has not put the focus on their unpopular actions since gaining power. Their spending cuts would create more unemployme­nt all across the country. States that have suffered through the Bush recession have been given a big leg up by the Obama stimulus plan that has saved hundreds of thousands of jobs. The Republican­s are pushing for more budget cuts that will devastate states all across the United States. The “business friendly” Republican­s have kept the economy on the ropes and hurt small businesses­.



As I see it, Obama has been playing rope a dope with the Republican­s. He has let them swing at him until they are punch drunk. When they get power, they abuse it; that is clear from the actions of governors in those states where they have total control, like Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Missouri and other states where the Republican­s have focused on denying women the right to health and family planning services instead of focusing on job creation. Their ploy has been obvious. If they can keep the economy on the ropes, they think they can blame it on Obama, but if Obama makes a point of exposing them for what they have and are doing, he can beat them like a drum. He should start exposing them now while the iron is hot.
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Rachel Maddow: Anthony Weiner Resignation Will Damage Democrats 'For A Generation' (VIDEO)

I think the world of Racehel, she is a voice for those of us who have little voice except for those on MSNBC and, now that Keith Olberman is coming back on cable with Current TV, we will have two strong sources of informatio­n about the many crimes committed by Republican­s who now occupy and control the United States Congress. Although they may not be breaking the law by doing it, but the legislatio­n that they want to pass to destroy Social Securit, Medicare and Medicaid are moral crimes against the American people.



Anthony Weiner stood on the floor of the House and put those more perverts in their place when they made their many attacks against the American public. I was highly dissapoint­ed that he sent those photos, but those perversion­s were minor compared to what the Republican­s do every day that the House of Representa­tives is in session.
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Mitch McConnell: Paul Ryan Medicare Plan 'On The Table' In Debt Ceiling Discussions

rg27603 I don't suppose you know that the United States produced more oil in each of the first two years of the Obama administra­tion than any of the last four years of the Bush administra­tion, do you? The peak fuel prices were reached in 1998 when Bush was president. Prices were high every year of the Bush administra­tion, especially during the the period between 2007 and the middle of 2008. They only dropped during the last few months of the Bush administra­tion. The moratorium was put in place to insure that oil companies would take measures to insure that there would be no more major spills. The President has been loudly criticized for his plan to end the moratorium and to allow more offshore drilling. rg, wake up and smell the roses!
About Paul Ryan
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Mitch McConnell: Paul Ryan Medicare Plan 'On The Table' In Debt Ceiling Discussions

The Republican­s are determined to roll back every social program that helps the average American. They are on a Medi-Scare campaign to scare Americans into thinking that Medicare and Social Security are part of the deficit problem when, in fact, neither of those two programs add one dime to our current deficits. The Medicare trust fund is projected to be solvent until 2027 and Social Security to 2037. The Cons are trying to use the debt ceiling to scare the American people into thinking that these two essential programs are adding to the deficits, they are not. The Bush tax cuts the two wars, Iraq and Afghanista­n, and the Bush recession led by the financial meltdown during the Bush administra­tion are the driving forces behind our budget deficits. It is time to roll back the Bush tax cuts and stop this non-sense.
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Vatican Invites AIDS Experts To Talk Prevention

Maybe, in this century, the Catholic Church will at least come into the 19th Century. The church finally accepted that Galileo was right; the sun does not revolve around the earth. Maybe, given a hundred years, they will also realize that women should have access to birth control and the right to decide their own health care choices. The Catholic Church has that in common with the Islamists and some Protestant­s who believe that women must be subservien­t to men. It would be nice if the church would lend its vast influence to get an Equal Rights amendment to the U.S. Constituti­on that would insure that women and gays of both sexes would be treated in the same manner as all other American citizens. If there was equality between the sexes, there would be no questions that need an expert opinion on the use of condoms. Neither the church nor anyone else should take it upon themselves to dictate sex practices and reproducti­ve rights among consenting adults. And, since marriage is a legal contract between individual­s which is sanctioned by the “state” in which marriage takes place, banning a marriage between individual­s of the same sex, is, in effect, applying a religious test to the union. The First Amendment clearly prohibits making any law "respectin­g an establishm­ent of religion". I hope that the Catholic Church will, one day, catch up to modern times. .
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Ratko Mladic Arrested: Key Serbian War Crimes Suspect Reportedly In Custody

If he had been president or vice president of the United States, he might never have been charged. Bush and Cheney are still running around free. They took us to war on false charges of WMD in Iraq when they knew there were none. There is a great movie that everyone should see; it's called, "The Green Zone". It's the story of our soldiers risking their lives to find non-existe­nt WMD in Iraq.
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