Thanks to Mike for the heads-up.

Newt Gingrich owes fundraising consultants $39,889.91.  If that ain’t irony, nothing is.

Damn, he would have made a great President.  He’s just one financial genius, ain’t he?

Thanks to Ralph for the heads-up.

Texas Democrats have a great candidate for senate to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison.   Customer Marcey captured Paul Sadler this weekend.  I wanted to let y’all know that he’s ready to Woman Up!

Customer Ralph sent me an interesting quote from Mega Evangelist Rick Warren.

When asked about President Obama saying that God commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves and that we should be concerned about seniors on a fixed income or students trying to go to college, Warren wrote new scripture —

Well certainly the Bible says we are to care about the poor. There’s over 2,000 versus in the Bible about the poor. And God says that those who care about the poor, God will care about them and God will bless them. But there’s a fundamental question on the meaning of “fairness.” Does fairness mean everybody makes the same amount of money? Or does fairness mean everybody gets the opportunity to make the same amount of money? I do not believe in wealth redistribution, I believe in wealth creation.

So Sweet Jesus mentions the poor 2,000 times, and how many times did he mention “fairness?”  Exactly never.  The only time fair is mentioned in the New Testament when not talking pretty girls of the weather is – ironically – this one.

Hey Rick, Saint Paul is talking to you.

You know, you’d think these teevee preachers would read the Bible before they say things that Sweet Jesus never said, intended, or even meant.  Love your neighbor as yourself.  Period.  The end.  No addendum.  No political add ons.

Do you ever wonder if Rick warren knows he’s being hateful and sacrilegious, or if he is totally batcrap crazy?  I wonder about those things.

Thanks to Ralph, who also wonders.

I haven’t said much about the whole Ann Romney / Hillary Rosen thingy because I think it’s manufactured hullabaloo.

Hillary Rosen said that Mitt Romney should not rely on his wife about economic issues facing women.  I agree, and apparently so does Mitt Romney.

But video from earlier this year, aired today on Up w/ Chris Hayes, shows Romney campaigning on the proposition that meaningful welfare reform should require parents with children to get out of the home and into the workforce. Responding to a question at a town hall event in Manchester, New Hampshire on January 4th, Romney described his position on work requirements for welfare recipients as governor of Massachusetts.

So, only rich women should be stay at home Moms?

I , too, was a stay at home Mom for 15 years, raising almost as many boys as Ann Romney.  Never during that time did I have to worry about paying for their doctor’s visits or fretting over paying the grocery bill.  I have the deepest respect for women who raise children while having to work outside the home.  I had it much easier than they did.  I know that.  I admit it.  Yes, it was hard work to get dinner on the table but I didn’t have to do it dead tired after working all day.

Romney talks about his flip before he flopped.

“I wanted to increase the work requirement,” Romney said. “I said, for instance, that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well that’s heartless,’ and I said ‘No, no, I’m willing to spend more giving daycare to allow those parents to go back to work. It’ll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.’”

The dignity of work?  Did he just say that his wife never had the dignity of work?

If Ann Romney does not realize that she had it much easier than a woman raising children while having to work to food on the table, then she is delusional.  You’re not a victim, Ann; you, like me, are very lucky.

And then there’s my continuing battle with the Catholic Church —

Once again we are offered proof that the Catholic Church is not pro-life.  They are simply pro making women be baby machines.

Hey, Catholic League, who do you think takes care of all those unwanted children you seem to quit caring about the minute they pass the fetus stage?

Thanks to Deb for the heads-up.

I dunno. For some odd reason, I kinda figured that the woman who chairs the House Subcommittee on Higher Education would be vaguely aware of what a college education costs now days.

Ha!

North Carolina Republican Virginia Fox says she worked her way through college in 7 years and she thinks people with student loans are … well, perfectly awful.

FOXX: I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money. He borrowed a little bit because we both were totally on our own when we went to college, totally. […] I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” You don’t have it dumped in your lap.

Uh, owing $100,000 when you graduate does not qualify for lap dumping.

So when the youngster at the grocery store takes her 17 sacks of groceries to the car, I am certain that he appreciates the quarter she gives him toward his college education.