Amazed that TEABAGGERS can be soooo hipocritical and that more people don't see it!!!

Until Mokena Voter and Dome Home learn to spell, their irrevalent posts cannot be taken seriously.

ANTI WOMEN???
Please explain? This should be interesting!

Trying? Hardly.

GOP Kills Paycheck Fairness Act, Equal Pay for Women, Today, the Senate Republican minority filibustered to block passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act in a 52 to 47 tally, successfully killing the bill.
Beatriz, i'm assuming you don't need to be paid equal to men?
Then I guess we could get into The Family Medical & Leave Act which was vetoed numerous times by Reagan & Bush 1.
Spell check for me Beatriz!

It would help if you did not confuse the Tea Party with the Republican Party. They are not one and the same.

Going back to Reagan and Bush would seem a bit of a reach. They've been gone a while.

Using one example of a recent bill as proof that Republicans are anti-women is even more of a stretch. Wasn't it someone associated with Obama that claimed that Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life? How many stay at home moms would appreciate that slap?

I love the hipocrisy claim. Let a woman or a black candidate run as a Republican and they are vilified by the Democrats.

How about the Democrat attacks on Romney for not releasing years of tax returns? How many of those Democratic legislators have released those same tax returns? None.

How about Ried's allegations against Romney, based on an anonymous source, which he himself said he doesn't know is true?

The tea party is very much a part of the Republican Party just look at the make-up of the current tea party caucus. Reagan is used by Republicans at every opportune moment to wave the flag of all things conservative so “Mokena voter” has every right to use him as proof to her argument. Furthering her discourse would be the recent legislation brought up in Virginia to vaginally rape a women looking to get an abortion or the Republican-led house panel on women’s health that consisted of zero women. Apparently according to Republicans men know what’s best for women. And please stop crying about the Democrats attempt to get Romney to release his tax returns. This has been done consistently by candidates from both parties for some time.

Beatriz, I hope
your post was a joke, if not,
it's irrelevant...

Hey Mokena Voter, Actually, I make more than most men. But then, I'm not an unmarried waitress with a couple of kids who blames everyone else for their problems.

Mokena voter...you know the paycheck fairness act was just another election year ploy to garner the female vote. Check this out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/income-gap-women-make-more-men_n_1368328.html

The GOP's support of women's rights goes back to its founding in 1854. I would like to remind you and other female voters that their very ability to cast a ballot was won for them by the Republicans over the vehement objections of the Democrats.

Most educated Americans vaguely remember that the amendment granting women the right to vote was passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified by the states in 1920. But the number of people who know anything about the forty-year legislative war that preceded that victory is smaller than the audience of MSNBC. That war began in 1878, when a California Republican named A.A. Sargent introduced the 19th Amendment only to see it voted down by a Democrat-controlled Congress. It finally ended four decades later, when the Republicans won landslide victories in the House and the Senate, giving them the power to pass the amendment despite continued opposition from most elected Democrats -- including President Woodrow Wilson, to whom the suffragettes frequently referred as "Kaiser Wilson."

Mokena voter, you need to go back to history. Reagan was responsible for some of the largest income tax cuts in decades. The left-wingers cry because he wasn't punitive enough on the wealthy.

The left wing loves to call names and make irrelevent personal accusations, since they have little else to rely on.

If the democrats really wanted to help the middle class and the poor, then why haven't they passed income tax reform during their exclusive control of the presidency and legislature? Why, because they are the biggest elitists. Gun control is great for them, while they have armed bodyguards. Gun control which originated after the civil war, with attempts to disarm blacks. Yeah, they're real concerned for minorities.

And they're so concerned for women and minorities that they make vicious personal attacks on female and minority Republican candidates. Not issues, personal attacks.

Alex, if you check (rather than assume) you'll find that the Tea Party is in fact an independent organization, not aligned with either or any political party. Most tea party supporters probably would vote Republican, since they want a return to Constitution-based government rather than intrusions into our lives. Democrats want to ban fast food, sweet drinks, plastic shopping bags, and on and on. Citizens are not to have the right to make choices, left-wing government will do it for them!

@hazelgreen, Say what??? I can't believe that you said. "GOP seems to be more worried about taking away people's right to vote"
That is pure garbage, and you know it!
Is it because, they want voters to have proof of ID?

By golly, hazelgreen, lies abound in the world of politics, and especially during a campaign season. Nobody is taking away voting rights from eligible voters, there is no war on women, and Congress can amend the tax code if they really wanted to, but they don't. Seems to me the Dems are worried - look at the hysterical posts on this board? Now Trumka is mobilizing his propaganda ground forces to try to convince citizens that they are being victimized by those nasty Republicans.

Us poor women - what are we to do? Sheesh.

Vote Republican.

Hi hazelgreen! It appears you are just regurgitating the Democrats' and Obama's campaign rhetoric, and that's okay. No point after this in responding to you in future posts, since you offer nothing but partisan rhetoric and no intellectual reasoning.

I would have voted for Hillary over McCain the last election cycle. Interesting to again listen to Hillary's viewpoints on Obama's hypocrisy while she was running against him in 2008. Those same viewpoints are shared by the Republicans and conservatives today. In fact, I think it would be a wonderful ad for the RNC to use Hillary's own words against Obama.

Good luck.

Hazel, I think Marie is messing with you. Nobody in their right mind thinks it's the democrats creating class/sex/ethnic wars. If she is telling the truth, it's one of the top 5 dumbest statements ever made on the Patch.
Republicans openly target uneducated white people to help build their numbers. Romney's tax plan actually raises taxes on everyone making less than 200k while lowering taxes on those making over that.
What's funny is the people who say that if Obama gets re-elected, they'll move to Canada. That will be fun for them. With the evil "health care for everyone" and FoxNews being banned because it isn't considered news.

Ahh Brandon, I see the moveon.org trolls are out in force today on the HuffPatch with comments smacking of desperation.

Brandon,
Actually you'll find that the Republican party "openly targets" white, black, Hispanic, Asian, uneducated, educated, poor, middle-class, rich, pretty much everybody.

I'd love to see something that show's Romney's plan to increase taxes on the middle-class, since this is a left-wing fiction. And why would you want to raise taxes on all those small--business owners who make more than $200K? You know, the ones that everybody says we need to turn the economy around.

If you think that Republicans are actually waging the "wars" on groups and individuals that the Democrats and left-wingers accuse them of, you need to take another look.

Sorry, that should be "I'm excited," not "I'm exciting." :)

Emily, do you think a woman should be paid as much as a man doing the same job?

Mokena voter,
You really think the Paycheck Fairness Act would guarantee equal pay for both genders? You think it would not have significant negative consequences on businesses, even if they are providing equal pay? You think now is the best time to make running a business more complicated and expensive?

Read the whole piece of legislation.

I'll take the bait, Mokena Voter. Yes, given an identical job and identical candidates (as impossible of a situation that is), I see no reason why a woman should be paid less than a man. I do not, however, support the Paycheck Fairness Act. It simply encourages more litigation and makes it more difficult for companies to challenge any allegations. It was a bill brought forward to serve a political purpose, to support the Democrats' fabricated claims of a "war on women" being waged by Republicans.

I don't buy into the "war on women" rhetoric. I think there are far better ways to have an intelligent conversation about birth control, health care, and abortion than to accuse those of an opposing opinion as waging some kind of "war." It pretty much guarantees no progress on the public conversation and, in my opinion, distracts us all from a much scarier and more important issue: how are we going to fix this economy?

As a note, I also find your comment above about the Tea Party disrespectful and ignorant. You clearly did not comment on this forum with the intent of an intelligent debate.

Shame on Patch for allowing its commenters to refer to a group of people using a disgusting, derogatory term describing a sexual act with intent only to insult.

Unequal pay for women is a thing of the past. It's just another election year ploy used by democrats. Heres the real story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/income-gap-women-make-more-men_n_1368328.html

@Moe - this was a really funny post. I know you must be kidding, right?
Anytime you divide anything by quintiles you will come up with 5 groups of 20% each.
That doesn't mean the 20% in the middle are the only ones in the middle class.

Here is a definition of quintiles for you.
Definition of 'Quintiles'
A statistical value of a data set that represents 20% of a given population. The first quartile represents the lowest fifth of the data (1-20%); the second quartile represents the second fifth (21% - 40%) etc.

Read more: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quintile.asp#ixzz23ARvIlef

Wow, Brandon that's really convincing. A left-wing analysis, and even an article showing what Obama is saying about Romney's plan.

No really, Brandon. I'm interested in an AUTHORITATIVE source which can back up what you said, not one of a thousand left-wing sources parroting the party line.

@RB,

Nice try, but no matter how hard you try to spin it, you can't distort real facts/figures.
Bottom line, The numbers do not lie.
No matter how you look at it, or explain it the real "Middle Class" does not make up 90% of the country..

Here something interesting:
An April 2007 poll by CBS News found that of 994 adults surveyed only 2 percent said they were "upper class," and 7 percent said they were "lower class." In another poll, taken by Gallup/USA Today in May 2006, 1 percent said they were "upper class," and 6 percent said they were "lower class." These poll findings suggest many who are officially poor still consider themselves to be "middle class" or "working class."

RB, So what do Democrats really mean when they say "the middle class"? .

@MOE - that I do not know because I'm not a democrat.
I was just amazed with the absurd of your previous post about quintiles and how you wanted to use it to define middle class.

Right Brandon. How could I think an article entitled, "How Obama Is Nailing Mitt Romney On Taxes" might be anything but an unbiased source?

I'm still waiting to see the part of ROMNEY'S PLAN, not your fanciful imagination, which increases taxes on the middle-class.

Brandon, don't waste your time with this group. The only facts in their mind come from the "Faux' or the Drugster.

Absolutely. Why let the truth get in the way of your "facts"?

That's too bad. All I can assume from your comments is that you are actually incapable of having an intelligent conversation about the issues. You can make grand generalizations all you want about the Republican party and the Tea Party (which are, noteably, two different organizations), it only exposes your lack of knowledge on the subject. You continue to use vulgar language that certainly does give others "reason to be" upset. No longer worth my time.

Patch, I thought your policy was against the use of obscenity in your comments?

Mokena voter...I suspect that you're not even a female. Just some paid democrat spammer. As for womens pay... check this out. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/income-gap-women-make-more-men_n_1368328.html