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RSS Feed – White HouseIt’s good to see that Americans can see causes and effects, and we’re not the flatworms that Fox News and the Republican Party often take us for. A new poll by Quinnipiac University indicates that 54 percent of Americans think Bush is to blame for exploding the federal deficit and swelling unemployment, whereas just 27 percent believe it is President Obama’s fault.
Those figures are bad news for Republicans, who are hoping to use the nation’s poor economic state as a key issue in 2012.
Perhaps surprisingly, we’ve had many requests to turn this poster into a bumper sticker. So here it is! And, for you hardy souls brave enough to put this bumper sticker on your car, I salute you!
It’s available on our cafe press page, here.
Should rape and incest survivors be forced to prove that they were assaulted to the IRS? Amazingly, the Republicans in the House of Representatives have answered with a resounding “Yes!” HR 3, the bill that includes this provision, has now passed in the House.
Here’s how it would work: HR 3 imposes tax penalties on small businesses and individuals who buy abortion coverage with their OWN money—with exceptions only for cases of rape, incest, or when a woman’s life is in danger.
The result? Survivors of rape and incest who seek abortions could be forced to detail their assaults and provide proof to IRS investigators.
Tell the Senate to stand up against this terrible bill, and speak out against the Republican war on women. Please sign the MoveOn.org petition today.
To download a printable version of this poster, just click on the image above.
Ohio’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives is scared to pass SB 5, which ends collective bargaining rights, because of the people’s outcry and the fast-moving recall campaigns mounted in Wisconsin. DUH, WINNING!
If H.R. 3 becomes law, IRS agents conducting audits on women would have to figure out if they had ever used any tax credit or benefit to pay for an abortion. And if a woman had used any kind of tax benefit or credit to pay for an abortion, she would have to provide documentation that she was the victim of rape or incest, or that the termination was necessary to save her life. This measure now has 221 co-sponsors.
History is happening right before our eyes! Click the links below to see and hear live feeds.
See the LiveStream feed from the State Capitol in Madison, WI.
A choice of several Air Video Streams from around the Capitol in Madison.
Live monitoring of police, fire and EMS scanners in Wisconsin.
Many PL readers suggested this idea, and Aristophanes beat us to it by a couple millennia with Lysistrata. But we still managed to add a twist that reflects the current moment.
Click the poster above to download a printable version.
America voted them in. And now we’re stuck with them. Get your voting fingers ready for 2012. And in the meantime, try not to get eaten alive.
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