Well Iowans, if nothing else you're entertaining!

thinks homosexuality, bestiality, and pedophilia, are the same thing; thinks we should bomb Iran immediately, thinks we should create "AIDS housing units", says the reasons priests raped children in Boston is because of the "leftist and liberals from MIT and Harvard"; calls global warming junk science, and lastly thinks that "contraception is a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." Ladies and gentlemen, your 2012 Iowa runner up, Rick Santorum!

I'd vote for Michelle Bachmann if that was the only alternative to 0bama. At least theres a chance she would try something to get us going again besides exploding the debt. I am really beginning to wonder if the tin hat crowd who thinks 0bama wants to destroy our economy so he can replace it with something more to his liking might not be on to something.....

Newer, gentler Mantis for the new year.

lol, you're talking 2 different things.  from my understanding congress took the day off and on that day off, Obama "recess" appointed 3 people to that board that blocked Boeing from building a plant in a non-union state? 

VS that defense bill that just suspended the right to a trial for American Citizens... 

Either way, that is crap, and well, I'm not sure what those Republicans were thinking supporting that in a defense bill. 

If my Senator, Kyl, is correct, it only applies to "Al Qaeda" suspects. Now a corrupt ATF/FBI/DOJ officer can simply slap that tag on anyone, but they would have to show Al Qaeda affiliation; again, if Senator Kyl is telling the truth. But it is still bad law and should never have been considered, much less passed.

I'd vote for Michelle Bachmann if that was the only alternative to 0bama. At least theres a chance she would try something to get us going again besides exploding the debt. I am really beginning to wonder if the tin hat crowd who thinks 0bama wants to destroy our economy so he can replace it with something more to his liking might not be on to something.....

something i notice a lot in news from the us or political discussions is the jump to these bigger motives that the left and right throw at each other.  i find it unique in a way to american politics when i hear that obama, for example, had done this or that and that somehow = a grander marxist, leftist agenda to ruin freedom or whatever.  here in canada we currently have a conservative gov that are implementing aged american style crime bills that were modeled on what texas used to do with mega prisons, harsh sentences and that lot.  officials in texas have written to our gov telling them that approach failed and despite stats showing canadian crime rates, especially serious crime, are at 20-30 year lows the gov is going ahead with their bills all the same.  anyway, what i want to get at is that those opposed to these crime bills dont necessarily jump to the conclusion that the prime minister is trying to turn canada into a police state or that there is a huge right wing plot against the citizens.  hes simply a stubborn a-hole with some bad ideas on how to govern.  i wonder whats diff about american politics that there seems to be this sensationalising of the issues by both sides?  

something i notice a lot in news from the us or political discussions is the jump to these bigger motives that the left and right throw at each other.  i find it unique in a way to american politics when i hear that obama, for example, had done this or that and that somehow = a grander marxist, leftist agenda to ruin freedom or whatever.  here in canada we currently have a conservative gov that are implementing aged american style crime bills that were modeled on what texas used to do with mega prisons, harsh sentences and that lot.  officials in texas have written to our gov telling them that approach failed and despite stats showing canadian crime rates, especially serious crime, are at 20-30 year lows the gov is going ahead with their bills all the same.  anyway, what i want to get at is that those opposed to these crime bills dont necessarily jump to the conclusion that the prime minister is trying to turn canada into a police state or that there is a huge right wing plot against the citizens.  hes simply a stubborn a-hole with some bad ideas on how to govern.  i wonder whats diff about american politics that there seems to be this sensationalising of the issues by both sides?