Christine O’Donnell Wants Some Attention

I missed this over the weekend, as I was busy with family events and real world work sidetracked me yesterday. But the wonderful gathering of hatred, ignorance and arrogance known as CPAC was held in Washington this past weekend, and of course, Delaware's own original wingnut theocrat Christine O'Donnell was in attendance. You remember that she sold herself out and endorsed Romney, don't you? Well now she expects some payback, Mitt, for all she has given you. She took it upon herself to inform the New York magazine that she would consider serving in a Mitt Romney administration.

Monday Open Thread [2.13.12]

Mitt Romney under-whelmingly won the Maine Caucuses on Saturday, but that news was overshadowed by Whitney Houston's death. Although now it seems that Ron Paul could pull a Rick Santorum and win Maine after all. Here are the polls that came out during the weekend. Santorum has stormed into the lead in one recent national poll.

Queen Takes Republican Bishop – Checkmate

While there were many lessens learned through the Komen fiasco the main one was: Stop messing with Women's Health or face the consequences. Republicans would be wise to study what happened to Komen, because their plan of going after contraception could very well destroy them in the same way it destroyed Komen. By moving contraception into the forefront of the abortion wars the GOP has not only revealed its true strategy, it has exposed its King. And everyone knows that the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board. Lose your Queen, lose the... election?

NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Care is Not Important Unless Men Say It Is

The editorial in Saturday's NJ does a couple of dumb and dangerous things in siding with the religious leaders who have been howling about the Obama Administration's ACA rule that religious institutions need to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of a preventative care package. This isn't the first time that the NJ editorial has been quick to join the war on women's health care. And as usual, the NJ editorial staff doing the writing of this thing never bothered to inform themselves of the facts of this business and pretty much just repeat what they see on cable TV.

Saturday Open Thread [2.11.12]

I'd almost forgotten it was winter, with daffodils coming up and willow trees budding already. Unfortunately for most of my friends, I am a fan of winter and look forward to a few snow days each season, so am hoping there will be a proper snostorm before it is all said and done. But here we are, cruising the internets and catching up on the stuff that happened during the week: