Today, President Obama signed the “Honoring America’s Veterans Act.” I happen to agree with this, it’s a rational tweaking of the 1st Amendment based on the irrational horror of Westboro Church.
Why can’t we do the same rational thing with the 2nd Amendment after the irrational horrors of Columbine, Gabby Giffords, The Dark Knight Shooting and Temple Sikh? Oh, I know why, The NRA. 
Maybe, just maybe, Mister President, it’s time to see The NRA for what it’s become: a domestic terror cell.
Welcome to Backwards Land. Where words are more frightening than bullets. Where 2nd Class Marriage is a 1st Tier Priority for married people who, long ago, stopped having sex with their spouses. Where Harry Reid is called a “Dirty Liar,” and it’s actually considered a compliment because it came from Reince Priebus, head of the RNC, an organization who bankrupted America, lied about WMD’s, gave us a vice-presidential nominee in 2008 who’s only qualification was her unyielding commitment to hubris, and currently supports a spoiled brat who regularly throws tantrums when he’s asked to release his tax returns like a big boy who wants to swim in the big boy pool.
Give ‘Em Hell, Harry! Especially until President Obama grabs his sack and signs the “Honoring Schools, Grocery Stores, Movie Theaters And Houses Of Worship By Not Allowing Them To Become Shooting Ranges Act.”
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Despite Mitt Romney’s efforts to court women voters ahead of November, he chose a running mate who is far outside the mainstream on women’s health issues. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) cosponsored a bill that would give fetuses full personhood rights from the moment of fertilization, which was even rejected by voters in the socially conservative state of Mississippi. He voted to defund federal family planning programs, authored a budget that dismantles Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, all of which disproportionately aid and employ women, and voted multiple times to prevent women in the military from using their own money to pay for abortions at military hospitals.
Ryan also supported a highly controversial bill that Democrats nicknamed the “Let Women Die Act,” which would have allowed hospitals to refuse to provide a woman emergency abortion care, even if her life is on the line.
Ryan’s views are crystallized in the budget he produced for House Republicans last March as chairman of the House Budget committee. That budget would cut $3.3 trillion from low-income programs over the next decade. The biggest cuts would be in Medicaid, which provides healthcare for the nation’s poor — forcing states to drop coverage for an estimated 14 million to 28 million low-income people, according to the non-partisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
Ryan’s budget would also reduce food stamps for poor families by 17 percent ($135 billion) over the decade, leading to a significant increase in hunger — particularly among children. It would also reduce housing assistance, job training, and Pell grants for college tuition.
In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts proposed by Ryan would come from low-income programs.
The Ryan plan would also turn Medicare into vouchers whose value won’t possibly keep up with rising health-care costs — thereby shifting those costs on to seniors.
At the same time, Ryan would provide a substantial tax cut to the very rich — who are already taking home an almost unprecedented share of the nation’s total income. Today’s 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together.
I think that Obama needs to come out with a very comprehensive budget plan. He needs to make a stark, real contrast to what he is complaining about. Just saying they have it all wrong isn’t enough. Sure, it seems like a recipe to win. They have a really bad plan, but they have a plan. Having no plan isn’t the answer.
When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, was it over?