On a more serious note, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan watchdog group, has accused O’Donnell of using in excess of $20,000 in campaign funds to pay her rent, and for other personal uses. They mention these financial irregularities, and point out that the lady has failed to hold a steady job for several years.
The New York Daily News remarks that at a recent event Christine O’Donnell jibed, “They'll let your teenage daughter buy an abortion, but they won't let her buy a sugary drink from a school vending machine." That paper quotes O’Donnell as saying, "The small elite don't get us. They call us wacky. They call us wing nuts. We call us "we the people!'"
Candidate O’Donnell was involved in a radio talk show, and in a discussion of AIDS, the crippling and frequently fatal disease spread by sexual contact. Responding to a call from a listener she said, “[The last caller] referred to people who get AIDS as 'victims'. It’s that kind of spinning with words and manipulating with words that empowers the bias that comes with AIDS. There are types of cancer that no behavior will directly make you contact cancer. It’s an act of God. But with AIDS, your behavior is directly connected to whether or not you get AIDS.”
Christine O'Donnell is considered by many to be among the more extreme of the Tea Party group; she may still appear on the Sunday morning televised news programs from which she recently opted out. She remains an interesting, spirited, and self-motivated contender.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - mickey71406
LESBIEN!!!
2 - Dan(Miller)
Not only that, she has thespian tendencies and has been said to know people who have associated with homo sapiens!
Dan(Miller)
3 - John Lake
Actually some critics think she might still be a virgin!
4 - jeannie danna
Actually some critics think she might still be a virgin!
I thought that, that, was what she left on the alter.... Oh, you mean the midnight *picnic* was actually a picnic?
5 - jeannie danna
[One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar…] Christine O'Donnell
Sounds like the lady got laid to me, but what I'm curious to know is, what is stuff?
People might think me trite, talking like this, but imagine the scenes all across this country if, President Obama, declared that he was a warlock and had sex with, Michelle, on a satanic alter. Some of the people here at, BC, would probably run down the street with blood squirting from of their eyeballs, and you know who you are, hypocrites!
JD
6 - jeannie danna
"The Affordable Care Act is already making a difference in the lives of millions of Americans. And starting tomorrow, the Patient's Bill of Rights goes into effect, ending some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry and putting you, not your insurance company, in control of your health care.
Here's what the Patient's Bill of Rights means for you:
* No more discrimination against kids with pre-existing conditions. Insurance companies can no longer bar families from purchasing coverage because of a child's pre-existing condition.
* No more lifetime coverage limits. Insurance companies can no longer put a lifetime limit on the amount of coverage you can receive.
* Young adults can now stay on their parent's plan. Young adults can stay on their parent's health insurance plan up to age 26 if their job doesn't provide health care benefits -- a huge relief for many parents and recent college graduates.
* Free preventive care. If you join or purchase a new plan, the insurance company will be required to provide preventive care like mammograms, colonoscopies, immunizations, pre-natal and baby care without charging you any out of pocket costs.
* Freedom to choose your own doctor. If you purchase or join a new plan, you have the right to choose your own doctor in your insurer network.
* No more restrictions on emergency room care. Insurance companies will not be allowed to charge you more for out of network emergency services if you purchase or join a new a plan.
This is a long-overdue victory for American consumers and patients. For years, millions of Americans have been at the mercy of their insurance companies as they jacked up rates, denied coverage or dropped patients all together.
Now, some opponents of this reform have pledged to "repeal and replace" all of the progress we've made over the past six months. But I refuse to go back to the days when insurance companies could deny a child health care due to a pre-existing condition or impose a lifetime limit on care for a cancer patient. Those days are over.
The Affordable Care Act provides basic rules of the road that make our health care system work for consumers. It cuts costs and will help us begin to get our fiscal house in order. And most importantly, it provides Americans with the peace of mind that their insurance will be there for them when they need it.
To learn more about the Patient’s Bill of Rights and the Affordable Care Act, visit: health insurance reform
7 - John Lake
The Republicans have no agenda but to make the administration and the majority Democrats look bad. If the Health Care bill had been approved in an earlier form, before they enforced changes, we would really see a difference in the cost of insurance. And with insurance less costly, small and mid-sized companies would be in a position to expand, and to hire.
8 - jeannie danna
Yes, John, it would have been a hell of a lot stronger, but it's still going to pack a big-punch tomorrow when key provisions come into affect: no denial for preexisting conditions, dropping really sick or costly cases, children covered until 26, and 85% (I think, I have to check this) of every dollar spent will go to care and not insurer. This last one, Clinton, talked about on, Meet The Press, great interview! Did you see it? I'll post it for you.
9 - jeannie danna
Clinton on HC/MTP
:D They wouldn't be so hot to repeal it if it wasn't anything.
10 - jeannie danna
Being true to their form, and not having a public-option to protect us, we will now watch as the insurance industry refuses to cover our CHILDREN with preexisting conditions by no longer making available, children-policies that stand alone, that's cold...
11 - Clavos
...it's still going to pack a big-punch tomorrow when key provisions come into affect [sic]: no denial for preexisting conditions, dropping really sick or costly cases, children covered until 26...
And you really think that's going to result in less cost to the consumer?
You're in la-la land Jeannie...
12 - John Lake
Sarah Palin has advised Ms.O'Donnell not to do national media interviews; apparently MS. O'Donnell is a trusting soul and may really forsake them. That's too bad. This self-motivated young lady may still make the Senate.
13 - Dr Dreadful
Anyone else noticed that politics is the only field of human activity in which you can be in your forties and still be called "young"?
14 - jeannie danna
I thought that would coax you out, Clavos.
Sorry John , I know you'd rather talk about the little witch, but this is important. ;)wink,wink
15 - jeannie danna
Good point,Doc, but they are all starting to look really young to me.
16 - jeannie danna
So,Clavos, you must have heard that the insurers want to stop writing children's policies altogether, smooth move, on their part maybe, but then maybe not, gives the call for a public-option some life once again if they do it.
17 - jeannie danna
WHAT'S IN THIS 21 PAGE (BS) CONTRACT WITH AMERICA? ONCE AGAIN, THE GOP WRITES A CONTRACT THAT THEY HAVE NO INTENTION OF HONORING, JUST LIKE NATIVE AMERICAN TREATIES.
18 - jeannie danna
Excerpt: Cut Taxes for Millionaires and Billionaires While Adding Trillions to the Deficit: We have been through this before. So let’s be clear again. Under the Obama plan, every American family will receive a tax cut up to the first $250,000 of their income. For those who make more than $250,000, this change would leave their tax rates on income above $250,000 at or below the rates that existed when President Clinton was in office and when the economy created 23 million jobs. As for the Congressional Republican plan, their pledge is to continue hold middle class tax relief hostage in order to provide an average tax cut of $100,000 to millionaires and billionaires. And the price is one we simply can’t afford: $700 billion. This tax cut would be, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, just about the worst way to jumpstart our economy and help create jobs.
Add Trillions to the Deficit: The Congressional Republican plan would add trillions to the deficit, including more than $1 trillion in additional unaffordable tax cuts over the next decade and more than $1 trillion in the subsequent decade from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Raise Taxes for 110 Million American Families and Put Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs at Risk. As part of their pledge, Congressional Republicans want to cancel unspent Recovery Act funds and stop tens of thousands of job-creating projects, from highway construction to clean energy and environmental cleanup, putting the jobs of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk. One key part of the remaining Recovery Act funds is the Making Work Pay tax credit. So cancelling all Recovery Act funds represents a pledge to raise taxes on over 110 million American families in every paycheck "a tax hike for the largest number of middle class Americans in history. Taxes for businesses on Main Street would go up, too. Tens of thousands of businesses across the country would see their taxes rise by $27 billion, making it harder to keep current employees and hire new ones. The Congressional Republican agenda puts the jobs of hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk, as Recovery Act funding would be pulled from tens of thousands of highway construction, clean energy, environmental clean-up, and other projects already underway in big cities and small towns across America. In addition, rolling back the Recovery Act would threaten the jobs of tens of thousands of Americans as clean energy businesses lose funding for solar plants, wind farms, battery factories and other projects across America.
Oppose Real Relief for Small Businesses: Congressional Republicans have consistently opposed the Administration’s efforts to cut taxes for small businesses. They voted against the 8 small business tax cuts the President has already signed, including tax cuts to encourage investment, job growth and health care. Following their event this morning, House Republican leaders will be voting " presumably against " another 8 small business tax cuts, including zero capital gains for key investments in small businesses. Instead of supporting these tax cuts, they’ve devised a bankrupt definition of ‘small business’ in an effort to justify unaffordable tax cuts for the rich. Let’s be clear what this proposal would do:
* It would provide hedge fund managers, lobbyists and law partners a tax cut worth tens of thousands of dollars.
* If you were one of the 25 highest paid hedge fund managers who took home $1 billion a year, this proposal could allow you to avoid paying a dime of taxes on $200 million of your income, while your secretaries and assistants continue paying taxes on all of their income.
* This proposal could require us to borrow up to a half trillion dollars over ten years to pay for tax cuts that we cannot afford and that will not primarily help the real small businesses in this country.
Put Health Insurance Companies Back In Control: Congressional Republicans have pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a series of special interest proposals under the guise of reform. This is a plan that would have real consequences for the American people and small businesses. Their agenda claims to protect people with preexisting conditions, but it would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s ban on discriminating against uninsured Americans, including children, who have a preexisting condition. It would raise taxes by more than $40 billion on up to 4 million small businesses that provide health benefits to their employees. It would result in premium increases by eliminating the billions of dollars in cost savings measures, and will increase the deficit by more than $1 trillion dollars. It would mean that seniors will pay more for their prescription drugs, and their new free preventive Medicare benefits would be cut. And it would mean that millions of Americans would have to give up their new Patient’s Bill of Rights protections that take effect today.
Return to the Era of Recklessness and Irresponsibility on Wall Street: Instead of supporting the Wall Street reform bill that would stop the practice of bailing out financial companies through programs like TARP, Congressional Republicans voted against it. Now, they are pledging to permanently end it. But TARP spending authority is already set to expire on October 3rd " less than two weeks from now " and thanks to the management of Secretary Geithner and the Treasury Department, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office expects the program to cost less than 10 percent of the $700 billion authorized. And the bank program, which was the subject of most controversy, is on track to make a substantial profit for taxpayers. The only thing it sounds like Congressional Republicans want to end is the Administration’s housing assistance program, which would mean 650,000 people will be denied a chance to receive a permanent mortgage modification that saves them an average of $500 per month.
Return to the Fiscal Policies that Turned a Record Surplus into a Record Deficit: Congressional Republicans have little credibility when it comes to dealing with our nation’s long-term fiscal challenges. After all, these are the same House Republicans who helped transform a record $236 billion surplus into a record $1.3 trillion deficit, by failing to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, two wars and a costly expansion of Medicare. These are the same House Republicans who all voted against reinstating common sense Pay-As-You-Go rules that helped balance the budget during the Clinton Administration. And they are calling for this newfound responsibility in budgeting at the same time as they are pushing to add trillions to future deficits by repealing health reform and extending tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And when it comes to entitlements, let’s remember what their solution was when they were in charge: privatize Social Security and turn Medicare into a voucher program. And while some House Republican leaders are trying to distance themselves from their previous position in favor of privatization, others are continuing to push these same radical plans.
Return to Failed Budgets of the Past: After years of fiscal irresponsibility, Congressional Republicans are now pledging to stop their spending spree. But what they’ve proposed would return us to the same failed Bush policies that got us into this mess. Their plan would result in dramatic cuts in basic government services, including:
* Head Start would have to slash 200,000 children from its rolls.
* 110,000 fewer children from working families would receive child care subsidies.
* The FBI would cut 2,700 agents.
* Federal prisons would cut 3,800 correctional officers.
* The Federal government could detain 12,000 fewer people because of their immigration status at any one time.
* NASA would have to severely cut back its operations"cuts that would require the agency to abandon the international space station, immediately shut down the shuttle program, and eliminate aeronautics and cross-cutting space technology programs
Dan Pfeiffer is White House Communications Director
19 - jeannie danna
I say to anyone drinking tea, "Get your heads out of those tea cups and look at the real world."
20 - Clavos
So, let me see if I have this right. You post the entire statement (which is, notably, in violation of BC comments policy) of the White House Communications Director, whose boss is the most mendacious US president ever, and you have the chutzpah to tell everyone else to "look at the real world?"
Astounding...
21 - jeannie danna
I didn't know that this was a violation, Clavos. What's wrong with it?
22 - jeannie danna
This was sent to me, personally... ;)and the worst president ever to walk into the oval, was most definitely, George W. and co.
23 - jeannie danna
The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.
Yes, the whole country is not drinking TEA.
24 - Baronius
...and misidentified it as the Contract with America...
25 - Dr Dreadful
That's a little bit harsh, Jeannie. Wasn't there one who spent most of his presidency in a coma?
(Here come the inevitable jokes about Reagan's second term, but no, not him...)