Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP's War on Women

1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't yet. Shocker.

2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."

3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)

4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids. 

5) In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life. 

6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working. 

7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.

8) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.

9) Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.

10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

Sources: 

1. "'Forcible Rape' Language Remains In Bill To Restrict Abortion Funding," The Huffington Post, February 9, 2011 
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206084 

"Extreme Abortion Coverage Ban Introduced," Center for American Progress, January 20, 2011 
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=205961 

2. "Georgia State Lawmaker Seeks To Redefine Rape Victims As 'Accusers,'" The Huffington Post, February 4, 2011 
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206007 

3. "South Dakota bill would legalize killing abortion doctors," Salon, February 15, 2011 
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/02/15/south_dakota_abortion_killing_bill 

4. "House GOP Proposes Cuts to Scores of Sacred Cows," National Journal, February 9, 2011 
http://nationaljournal.com/house-gop-proposes-cuts-to-scores-of-sacred-cows-20110209 

5. "New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion," Talking Points Memo, February 4, 2011 

GOP's War on Women

Republicans are trying to destroy the middle class, women are the keepers and holders of families if you can denigrate them and keep them under control the best way to do this is by stepping on women and call it something else. At every turn they are working at all levels to achieve their stated mission they are changing the legal term of being a victim now they want to call them accuser. But get this, they want to continue calling others who have encountered a dangerous crime a victims. Does this make any sense to anyone or have these guys and gals all have lost their ever loving minds?

It get better, there are at least one state where Republicans legislators has proposed a new bill that makes it legal to kill a doctor who provides abortion services. There are plenty of people who disagree with aborting the life of the unborn but never in a million years would they ever condom murdering a doctor for participating in this horrific act. They still believe in the laws of the land Roe V Wade Republicans think Roe V Wade should be overturned.

Here is more another example of law making; Republicans have voted to cut almost a billion dollars from aid to low-income pregnant women, babies, mother and kids. Have they offered any solution to this problems, I am sure they are some who have ideas but will never be forthcoming with those ideas because if they did they would be ostrich size for their ideas.  I am going to go on records of stating that some of these births should never have happened. If you want to reduce the budget for feeding those less fortunate than yourself you must get out in front of this with some kind of birth control. There is house resolution main objective is to eliminate support of Title X, the federal planning program for low income women. The federal family programs that provide birth control, breast, cervical cancer screening, H.I.V. testing and other sexually transmitted diseases. This law will surely increase the number of women who will meet their demise. A leading authority on reproductive health says a rise in unintended pregnancies would result in some 400,000 more abortions a year. I thought the goal was to stop abortion not to increase it but as you can tell by the numbers the opposite result will occur more abortions not less. 

I can’t believe this but it just keeps getting worse, Republicans in the US Congress are advocating with a bill that hospitals allow woman to die rather than perform a life saving abortion to save the woman life. I have always been of the opinion that if I had ever been faced with this choice to save my wife life or save the kid live to me this is a no brainer for me my decision will always be with the mother. If I have a new born baby without its birth mother my wife, how am I going to move forward with the most important person on our team. If she is gone and I have to earn an income to support this new born it would be extremely difficult without the birth mother and my wife being available to take care of the baby.

Here is another cockamamie idea; Republicans in the great state of Maryland have ended the county money for low income kid’s preschool program. Listen to the reason they have given. Republicans believe women should really be home with the kids, not out working. Ok that sound great, but in the real world things are just a bit different than what these right wing Republicans think. Children are not exempt from the GOP wrath right now; a Republican lawmaker in Missouri has proposed a bill eliminating the prohibition on employment of children under 14. State Senator (R) Jane Cunningham from district 7 defends the bill, saying that it’s important to cultivate a work ethic in young people. It seems to me that parents can give their young children jobs around their home that will keep them gainful employed and teach them about a work ethic. Republicans are even working on repealing minimum wage laws. Nevada and Missouri are the state’s leading this charge.

The Republicans at the federal level are engaged in the same folly not only do they want to cut the same program but they are raising the stakes. Head Start has been added to the Republicans hit list with a cut of 1 billion dollars. What does this mean to real people on the ground about 200,000 thousand kids could lose their spots in this preschools program. Women, Infants and children better known as WIC, this program serve 9.6. million low-income women, new mothers and infants each month.

So far the Republicans have been aiming at women and children but they can’t stop there they want to include their grandmothers and grandfathers. Two third of the elderly are poor women because they live longer than their men. Republicans are trying to cut funding for employment services, meals and housing for senior citizens.

You thought you have read enough about these mean right wing Republicans well read this; Congress has just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers.  This is one of the most important basic health care and family planning in the US.  

So far this isn’t nearly enough they must add this to cap off their move to become the most hated people in the United States. Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funding for the only federal family planning program for humans. Congressman Dan Burton Republican, Indiana 5th District has a bill to provide contraception for wild horse. Republican thinks more of wild horses than they do of people; I have concluded from this example is Republicans think more of their horses than they do of the people who they represent. They only need you when they come by to shake your hand, kiss a few babies and reassure you they are one of us. All they are looking for your vote and nothing else.  

For all the TEA Party republicans who want government out of our lives

If they think about what they are really trying to do. I hope they would change their minds (NOT!!) I am going to try and describe to each of you some of the things government do for us at all levels of governments. They protect us from outside forces who want to destroy our country. Here are a few things governments do to keep our nation safe and working:

Build new bridges: Repair bridges already built: Build Roads

Collect taxes to pay their workers:  Investigate crimes committed against the people:  Keep our food supply safe for our consumptions 

Keep our money supply safe from counterfeiters: Keep our roads safe Protect our animals: Protect our Boarders: Protect our rain forests

Protect our businesses where possible: Protect our children from harm while away from their homes : Protect our children while shopping at the malls

Protect our environment: Protect our homes: Protect our jobs: Protect our online services: Protect our parks: Protect our places to keep us safe

Protect our waters: Protect our wild life: Protect us from crooked businesses: Protect us from illegal drugs: Provide a trained police force to secure the population as needed

Provide aircraft safety inspections: Provide airport passenger safety inspections: Provide airport security: Provide highway security systems

Provide inspection of our rivers, lakes and streams: Provide parks for our enjoyment: Provide port protection, inspections and control: Provide security from crooks in our streets

Provide us a quick respond to any problems we may be having: Provide us a safer highway transportation system: Provide us a world class copyright system

Provide us an outstanding library system: Provide us safety inspections of 18 wheelers, trucks on our highways: Provide us trained fire fighters: Provide us with a border patrol security: Provide us with a justice system: Provide us with a world class highway system: Provide us with a world class military: Provide us with driver licenses

Run most of our jails: Run our school systems

So Letting Businesses Pollute the Air and Water Is How the Administration Believes We'll Create Jobs?

This is kind of an insane conversation to have. Businesses are essentially arguing that it's okay to kill people if they can also hire people. That's really what this "job-killing regulation" debate is all about. Let's be clear: One side is arguing that job creation is such an absolute good, businesses should be allowed to kill people. The other side is saying, "Please don't let them kill us." Which side has the stronger moral position?

“My view is that the Republican claim that ‘job-killing regulation’ is a redundancy is as ridiculous as the left-wing view that ‘job-killing regulation’ is an oxymoron,” said Cass Sunstein, head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. “Both are silly political claims that have no place in a serious discussion.”

Notice the sleight of hand there? Leftists are arguing for the very existence of our planet, not that regulations don't ever cost jobs. The "silly political claim" is that it's now perfectly okay to value money over human life. Remember, this is not simply a bottom line-oriented private business cheerleading this principle -- it's the U.S. government, who's supposed to be protecting the rights of its citizens. And it's not just silly, but plain immoral to imply that letting businesses pollute our air and water is the best way to create jobs.

If all we really care about is job creation, why not legalize drugs? Nope, we can't have that discussion because it's not really about jobs. It's about Republican bullies mowing down a compliant president. I suppose the next move will be to abolish OSHA regulations. The Republicans are lining up citizen protections and knocking them down, one after the other. And a Democratic administration is helping them do it:

Rep Darrell Issa Committee in Congress

That's Darrell Issa's committee he made his fortune selling Viper and Python car alarms. This explains the bizarre connection between unregulated serpents and jobs growth. “I told you these guys and gals are crazy”.  Seriously, wouldn't it be better to working on the President plan to create American jobs by building things in America instead of importing more enormous snakes? May you outrun one of the monster before he kill the family pet.

Democrats and Republicans all agree that the nation needs to move on a jobs agenda. And Republicans have a new plan: unleash the reins of snake commerce. GOP members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today called attention to a proposed regulation that would restrict the transportation and importation of nine types of snakes, including the Burmese Python. In a new report entitled "Broken Government: How the Administrative State has Broken President Obama's Promise of Regulatory Reform," GOP members cited the proposed snake ban as one of seven examples of red tape choking off job growth in an already ailing economy.

One witness invited to testify, snake breeder David Barke, told lawmakers that the rules "threatens as many as a million law-abiding American citizens and their families with the penalty of a felony conviction for pursuing their livelihoods, for pursuing their hobby, or for simply moving with their pet to new state."

Politico reports that Florida officials, led by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), are pushing for the new rules because the Everglades are under attack by 100,000 gigantic Burmese pythons who have been accidentally introduced by negligent pet owners. The outside invaders have been on a rampage, devouring native birds and other creatures. One python grew so big that it managed to devour a six-foot alligator before exploding. No really. This actually happened. There's a photo. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9600151/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/gator-guzzling-python-comes-messy-end/#.TnZSRrLlYao

In the on-going battle over the dismal state of the jobs market, Republicans argue that a "regulatory tsunami" from the Obama administration is choking off jobs growth. Committee members say the free market should handle the giant pythons and that government tampering would "devastate a small but thriving sector of the economy." 

Republicans are trying to steal the next elections by changing the voting rules

"Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. "What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century," says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C. Republicans have long tried to drive Democratic voters away from the polls. "I don't want everybody to vote," the influential conservative activist Paul Weyrich told a gathering of evangelical leaders in 1980. "As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." The only way Republicans can win is if we stay home or go brain dead and forget what they have said and continue to say.

Republicans Presidential Candidates New Ten Commandments

They seem to believe -- or at least dare not say that they DON'T believe -- in a new Ten Commandments. Ironically, there is plenty of "Big, Big Government" on their stone tablets, at least in the form of proposed new constitutional amendments that would override the freedom of the states to set their own rules on social behavior. "States rights" is no longer necessarily a high priority in every or even most respects.

Instead, the Republicans Presidential candidates contenders are adhering to the following guidelines:

Thou Shalt Not Raise ANY Taxes

Thou Shalt Pass a Constitutional Amendment to Make Abortion Illegal

Thou Shalt Pass a Constitutional Amendment to Define Marriage as the Union of a Man and a Woman

Thou Shalt Repeal "ObamaCare," AKA the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Thou Shalt Repeal The Dodd-Frank Banking Regulation Act

Thou Shalt Pass a Constitutional Amendment to Balance the Federal Budget

Thou Shalt Only Give Military Support to "Our Friends"

Thou Shalt Limit the Power of -- If Not Entirely Abolish -- the EPA

Thou Shalt Drill, Mine and Frak to the Widest Extent Possible

Thou Shalt Take the Name of President Obama in Vain

Do most Republicans believe in these New Ten Commandments? Maybe not a majority, and maybe not even a minority. But there is little doubt that almost all of the people who voted in the straw poll -- and most of the activist core of the GOP today -- believe in the list.

Schultz: Republicans Don't Give a Damn About You

MSNBC host Ed Schultz blasted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and his "cronies" for forcing President Barack Obama to delay his speech on jobs from Sept. 7 to Sept. 8.

Schultz speculated that Republicans wanted the speech moved until the next day to give the maximum exposure to a Republican presidential debate that is scheduled for Sept. 7. "Boehner and the Republicans have been hounding President Obama to lay out a jobs plan for months," the MSNBC host noted. "Now, the very same people want the president to keep his powder dry so Rick Perry can have the spotlight to say stupid stuff?"

He continued: "Once again, this President has smoked 'em out. He has proven to the country one more time that he can't even schedule a speech to the joint session of the Congress without it being obstructed, that he one more time has proven to the country that the Republicans, their number one priority is not in line with the priorities of the American people and that is jobs. They're priority is their schedule, their tee time, their debate, their tax cuts, their deregulation, and they don't give a damn, nor do they respect the president of the United States or the office."

"Even when it comes to a joint session of Congress, the Republicans want to lower the bar when it comes to class and respect and priorities in this country. Now, you tell me who is on your side tonight, folks. Is it Boehner? Is he on your side or is he on the side of his cronies in the House who are more concerned about their hectic schedule? Fact: They don't give a damn about you working folks in America. And they don't give a damn about creating jobs. And that's why they've just been heckling from the stands and they've never been a player. And they proved it big time again tonight."

Most companies are not hiring because they have been squeezing their current work force to increase their productivity. This has enabled them to not hire new employees this will allow companies profit to raise to some outrageous level. The mantra espoused by republicans’ politicians that lowing taxes will allow companies to hire new people that has never been true. In defense of these companies, if there is a defense, is they don’t see any new customers coming through their doors they are not going to hire more employees. What is missing in this equation is jobs, new jobs some of these jobs have been move off shore other jobs have been lost because they have been out dated and will never be replaced.
The President has spoken to some on this as he has tried unsuccessful I might add, to get our congress to change their thinking and appropriate funding support for what he calls green jobs. I am of the opinion that large American corporations must step up to the plate and start investing in some of these green companies who are working on some of these ideas that can help put American people back to work.

What could possibly go wrong? 

I haven't read much on this, so I'm no expert and it would be nice to hear more from anyone who is in the comments section, but this just looks to this layman as another way to draw money out of another one of our social safety nets in the name of "personal responsibility." Romney said this would "make the system work better by giving people responsibility for their own employment opportunities." That's rich since they don't have much control over those "opportunities" if there are no jobs to be found in the first place. Not everyone's got a rich family and the "opportunity" to become some multimillionaire vulture capitalist like our friend Mitt here did. Some of us have to make money the old fashioned way, like actually working for it. 

I am of the opinion that the only way we will ever solved our financial problems are to clean house in Washington, DC. 

Most people focus on the president but allow me to educate you; the President of the United Sates can’t be in office life, he can only be elected to two four years terms. Congress on the other hand thinks they were elected for life. Let me recap, the House of Representatives is elected for two years term every two years. The senate on the other hand is elected for six years terms and the only way we can get them out of office is feet first. Once these millionaires are elected they believe that office they hold belong to them. They only have time for the people who voted for them are elections. Otherwise, they don’t know you yes its true, they will send you a letter or email when they want some money from you. As a voter they consider you an afterthought.  These politicians are always trying to hand off to the President because they know you can’t remember 535 member names. That way they can hide in the weeds unless they do something stupid and quit often they do but, it kept off the public radar screen. The public seems to allow these guys and gals to get away with everything except murder as long as they bring home the special interest earmarks.

Outsourcing an American story; Americans companies are out to destroy our country seeking the almighty dollars.

The issue of outsourcing is difficult to comprehend because there are people who feel very strongly about each side of the issue. That is to say, large corporations, which make huge profits from outsourcing, feel very strongly that it is important to our economy, whereas American workers, who are constantly losing their jobs, and retirement savings because of outsourcing, feel very strongly that we must put an end to it. State governments are now outsourcing much of their computer work to India in order to save money for the taxpayers. According to CPJR and others this practice is “shortsighted,” because “people who don’t work don’t pay taxes”. In other words, by laying off taxpayers in order to save tax money, you end up losing tax revenue because of unemployment, and other social programs. I hell the same view when I attended graduate school in Texas and got into some major heated discussing with my professor and classmates.

Outsourcing is not good for the American economy. The people arguing in favor of outsourcing are the small percentage that profit because of it. Unfortunately, in this country, that small percentage has a lot of say about what laws get passed because they have the money to lobby our Republicans Congress.

Rather than aiming for a “Free Trade Agreement,” we as Americans must demand a “Fair Trade” agreement from our government.  According to Dobbs, we must follow the example set by Ronald Regan, who fought for American automakers by limiting the number of Japanese cars that could be imported per year, during the 1980’s. Proponents of outsourcing claim that free trade is good for every country that participates, however, according to Dobbs, there are “clear winners” and “clear losers”.   One of those losers is the United States.

The allure of inexpensive high quality labor is proving more and more tempting to American companies. Many companies have not been able to pass up this temptation, claiming that moving jobs overseas is necessary for them to make a profit. These companies are effectively crippling the future economy of the United States, in order to make a quick profit. Foreign-based firms sold more products in America, while America benefited from the creation of new manufacturing operations and jobs”. In order to succeed in a global economy we, as Americans, must force Congress to allow us to compete by implementing laws that allow us to trade “fairly,” rather than “freely.” We must demand that our elected officials run from the free trade agreements that we are in now, and renegotiate trade agreements, keeping America’s interests in mind. We need agreements that allow our country to grow and stay competitive.

Disrespecting the office of the President and the office holder:

I have been listening to a number of these high profile pundits who are always in the news on the front page or my TV screen blabbing about something. I will give them it’s their right to have free speech but it’s also their responsibilities to get it correctly and speak the truth. All too often what they are saying is totally wrong.

Most of this “coded hate speech” maybe directed to their caucus or right wing hate base.  I would like to think that most people on the right are not “hate mongers” and just have a different of opinions. This has been the most incidents directed against President Barack Obama that I recall during my life time. To my knowledge no other President has been disrespected by so many fruits and nuts during their tenure. This President at every turn no matter what he says or does to help get the country back on track. Most of these fruits and nuts don’t have any ideas about the subjects they are talking about.

Some of you think I am crazy or overly sensitive about being a person of color. I say to those of you who have not been denied or have the doors of opportunity slam in your faces don’t have a clue on what I am talking about. Everything I have done has been a major struggle, nothing has come easy. I keep hoping that some time I will get a great break without getting the shaft first, so far no such luck.

 Here are just a few examples of people and organization that disrespected the President: first out of the barrel is Governor (R) Jan Brewer of Arizona pointing her finger at the leader of the free world. She said one thing on camera when she left the Whitehouse after her meeting with the President. She wrote something else in her book, I guess that was to play to her right wing caucus. She also stated to FOX right wing TV and several other media outlet that she was intimidated by the President presence. People who were close enough to hear the conversation stated that the President was not intimidating nor did he say or do anything disrespectful to GOV Brewer. Most people who have been observing Gov Brewer believe that her display of finger pointing was designed to generate sales for her book(S).

Speaker (R) Newt Gingrich: The Speaker never calls the President he always call him “Obama” in my mind that speakers volumes about the Former Speaker. He is doing this to play to his base however; he is distance himself for his base. He call the President the “Food Stamp” President then he went on to state that President Obama has put more people on food stamp than any other President in our history and her is why he is wrong; None. Well, actually 7.7 million FEWER people needed food stamps when Gingrich and Republicans took over house in 1994 and the time he left in 1998. When Bill Clinton entered office 20 million people were on food stamps. By 1994, that number had risen to 27.5 million. By 1998, after 4 years of Republican control of house only 19.8 million needed food stamps–a decrease of 7.7 million people.

Before the 2008 financial crisis, 26 million people needed food stamps. Today, 44.7 million people are on food stamps. That is an increase of 18.4 million people.

So has Obama made it better? When Obama entered office in 2008, 28.2 million people were on food stamps. So the number of people on Food stamps has increased by 16.5 million. To be fair, we have to give his economic policies a chance to work, so let’s just look at the number on food stamps since 2010. In 2010, 40 million people were on food stamps. By end of 2011, 44.7 million–another 4.7 million just between these years. But if the economy was getting better FEWER people should need food stamps.

Mr. Gingrich can not only say that Obama is the Food Stamp President, but that when Republicans gained control of the house food stamp use was still increasing. But after 4 years of Republican control in the house, 7.7 million fewer people needed food stamps. Republicans kick them off the rolls for food stamps.

There were 312,240,000 people in the United States, mid May. 45,753,078 of them were on food stamps. That's 14.7% of all Americans on food stamps get the average monthly amount of $133.80. This is the new economic metric, how many people are so poor, so broke, they qualify and use food stamps. The data is hard to find, not explained and located on the USDA site. That's 2.5% increase from just last month and a 12.1% increase from May of last year!

Even more telling the amount of people on food stamps has increased 69.4% since October 2007. Since the so-called end of the Great Recession, people on food stamps has increased 28.5%. Alabama food stamp usage increased 102.9% in one month or by 893,668 people. That's right, after tornadoes swept through the region and the press leaves the area, devastation rolls on. Without Alabama the food stamp monthly increase would have been 0.5% from last month.

Regardless of the emergency assistance for Alabama pushing up the numbers, the statistics are still bleak and damning across the board. Below is the yearly percentage increase in food stamps for each State. 22 States had > 10% increases in food stamps usage and only North Dakota showed a decline of -0.1%. Every other State's food stamp participation increased from a year ago.

Speaker Gingrich says people of color don’t want to work because they have never been trained how to work; nothing future from the truth is true. Most people with income under $25K must work because at least fifty percent of these people can’t afford days off or afford to get sick. Most don’t have health care for their children or them self nor do they have a retirement plan so they must work all of their lives. Lots of these people have a house full of kids that adds to their problems. Another idea the Speaker suggested in one of his campaign speeches that janitors in schools should be fired so students could replace them saving the school districts lots of money and teaching the students about work and earning a pay check. According to the Speaker Gingrich people in the low income neighborhood don’t have jobs and can’t teach their offspring’s about working. I really hate when these multimillionaires have it made because someone has given them a helping hand. Most of these people need a helping hand. Having said that’s there is an element who is up to no good just as there are in every neighborhood, the bad guys  like to hide in good neighborhoods hoping they will not be spotted by the police. They are hoping the code of silence will protect them so they can continue to do their bad deeds in the open without being concerned about the policeman.  

Speaker Gingrich has also stated President Obama want to see the nation failed however, the only people who is not pulling their full weight are the 1%. They aren’t paying their fair share of the taxes to support the nation. The Republicans politicians at the state and federal level have all signed the “no new tax pledge”. Any ideas that was previously supported by Republicans are now bad ideas if President Obama support them. We have even heard ideas that Speaker Gingrich supported such as health care with the personal mandate now because President Obama got healthcare passed now it’s a bad ideas, “poppy cock” Mr Speaker.

Speaker Gingrich is constantly referring to Saul D Alinsky most American don’t have any ideas about who Mr Alinsky is well I am going to give you a brief synopsis of who this man was what he stood for and who he supported. Who is Saul Alinsky, and why is Newt Gingrich so obsessed with him? Newt Gingrich keeps likening President Obama to radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. But Gingrich seems to have adopted Alinsky's tactics himself, as has the tea party. Mainstream Republicans aren't happy.

He was born in 1909 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and graduated from the University of Chicago. He dropped out of graduate school there to organize poor people in the city's slums. He organized against inhumane working conditions in the Back of the Yards area in Chicago, made infamous by Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. He later spread his organizing efforts to other cities around the country.

Rudy Giuliani recently turned the tables on Gingrich's Alinsky rhetoric. "What the hell are you doing, Newt?" said the former New York City mayor recently on Fox News. "I expect this from Saul Alinsky! This is what Saul Alinsky taught Barack Obama, and what you're saying is part of the reason we're in so much trouble right now."

As an historian, Gingrich should know better than to confuse compromise with consensus. There was little all-encompassing agreement among the Founding Fathers. Does Gingrich mean to stake his campaign on Alexander Hamilton's proposal of a life term for the president? James Madison's idea that the federal legislature should be able to veto state laws? Would he have preferred Benjamin Harrison's proposal that slaves should be counted as half a person for purposes of representation, or is he satisfied with the three-fifths compromise?  

As to Saul Alinsky, the Chicago organizer who died when Barack Obama was a 10-year old boy in Hawaii, it is hard to figure out why Gingrich is so fixated on a man whose most notable achievement was organizing Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood in the 1930s to combat inhumane working conditions. You would think from Gingrich's allusions that Alinsky must have been a Marxist, maybe even a Communist. His biographer Sanford Horwitt is clear: Alinsky was neither. Or you can just read Alinsky himself -- has Gingrich? -- who wrote in his 1971 Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals,"

Donald Trump multibillionaires: Mr Trump has been on the birther band wagon for quite some time. He used it when he was trying to run for President or should I say what he was really doing was selling his TV show and his books. I guess like all people that have been blessed with more than they could every want or need that’s not enough. This to me clearly indicate to me greedy people wants it all, in that effort Mr Trump knew that the birther issues had been put to rest after President Obama’s staff released his long form birth  certificate. To my knowledge, this President, is the only President in our history who has been confronted with this non sense. President Obama web site has mug for sale for with his birth certificate printed on it for those of you who still don’t get it. Mr Trump isn’t the only one who is still drunk on this issue. To my absolute astonishment there are crazies all over the country wasting the courts time with this nonsense. Senator (R) Santorum was greets by one of the attendees in his meeting with this birther mess and he chose to do nothing to correct the speaker. Shame on you Senator Santorum… In my mind none of the Republicans Presidential Candidates have the courage to set the records straight.