Unbelievable how you win an election in Alabama
by Jesse J. Lewis, Sr.
It’s sad that if you run as a Republican in the State of Alabama all you have to say is – “I am a Conservative and the first thing I’ll do is repeal Obamacare.” The sad part about this is Obamacare will be with us for many years to come. Should some changes be made? Yes. Keep in mind seven million people have registered.
When this program gets more successful, when Obama leaves office, it will be referred to as Affordable Care Act, for they will not give Obama the credit for having a successful program.
The big topic of the day is the Paycheck Fairness Act. Republicans are criticizing the Democrat-backed Paycheck Fairness Act as a “desperate” election-year stunt that hurts women, criticizing both the White House’s own pay practices and the numbers it uses to advocate for equal pay.
“The Truth is the ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ is a desperate political ploy,” Republican National Committee Press Secretary Kirsten Kukowski said in a memo Tuesday to mark Equal Pay Day, the annual public awareness holiday that highlights the day each year when women catch up to their male counterparts’ pay from the previous year.
The Paycheck Fairness Act, which Democrats are pushing hard as part of the party’s election-year agenda, would require employers to disclose payment information to a federal commission, prevent employees from being punished for inquiring about their co-workers’ pay, and make employers liable to civil suits alleging pay discrimination. The bill could make an appearance on the Senate floor as soon as Wednesday.
According to the Republicans “ObamaCare is deeply unpopular, and they don’t want to talk about how policy cancellations are hurting women, or about how women are losing access to the doctors of their choice, or about how it’s meant smaller paychecks for working women (and men),” the statement concluded. “So instead they’re talking about the ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ using dishonest rhetoric and inaccurate math.”
It’s a key part of Republicans’ midterm elections pitch to women. In 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost women to Obama by 11 points. A CNN/ORC International poll released earlier this year found that more than half of all Americans think the GOP doesn’t understand women. That number jumps when you ask only women.
The Republican Party cannot criticize the Democrats for finding a horse they could ride to victory. We all know that the Republicans and Democrats are trying to find something positive that would assure them maintaining the Senate and winning the House is the upcoming election.
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