when you cant win fair.....rig the game in your favor. The Chicago machine at its best.

MS, you are correct--there is no 'war on women.' This is something manufactured by the left to take votes from Mitt Romney.

Oh Sure...One really DOES have to be warring on women, though, when one attempts mandatory & medically NON-necessary vaginal probes for women seeking abortions like the dumbass governor of Virginia tried, not an attempt by to outlaw hormonal BIRTH Control, by the finest mind Fifth Century, Rick Santorum..Then of course,there's the awful Republican Issa, who held a hearing on the legitmacy of birth control coverage in the affordable care act with men ONLY, having the gall to turn away even the ONE woman his "committee" found worthy to join them...But no, of COURSE, there's no "Republican war on women, LOL.
Thank goodness, at least, that Santorum got sent back to the Dark Ages and Governor Probe had to rescind his law due to an ONSLAUGHT of protest by women in the congress and in his state. Obama is currently leading Romney by at least Ten points...Keep going, Repubs, we're loving it!

its one thing to believe women should have a choice and another to think the govt should pay for it. Don't confuse the issues.

Those two issues have no relation whatsoever after saying each person gets a choice. It isn't your choice that is a problem to most of us. There is no chance of a woman's right to chose harming you, me, or the general public on the streets. No one can steal her right and use it as a tool against people. I'm sure very few concealed weapons become stolen, but it can happen. Don't compare two hot button issues that are entirely unrelated to try and make your point.

If you don't want abortions because you think it's murder, why carry a gun intended to prevent crime with the threat of death?

I think we should have all our choices.......Abortions, guns, drugs, health care, etc. Big govt and the nanny state is for the sheep......Brave New World.

I understand what you are trying to say, but you are lumping everything together and it doesn't work that way. So many of the right want the govt to just go away...I'm sure an anarchistic America would work really really well. And again, freedom of choice sounds good from the soapbox but when your freedom of choice can directly/adversely effect the people around you that is a problem. A woman's choice doesn't concern you or your soul. Letting currently illegal drugs flood the market can effect others, arming everyone who wants a gun can effect everyone. There are differences.

The right loves to talk about nanny state and sheep and towing the line of the govt. You throw out super extremes to make yourselves sound like the only voice of reason. I lean very much to left on most issues...I'm not on welfare, I'm not sucking up govt funds, and I have no problem with some of the taxes I pay going to help the less fortunate. Of course their are leaches on the systems and that is wrong and should be addressed, but I have known too many people who have gotten back on their feet thanks to those programs to say they are bad.

Sorry Brian.....but Drugs only hurt those who take them, just like Abortion, and I should have the choice. Dems can not have it both ways, you can not say I should have the freedom to terminate an unborn child but not other freedoms. So it sounds to me like you are for abortions and not only abortions but the government should pay for them ( many taxpayers religious beliefs are against abortion) but when its comes to my other freedoms I am out of luck......

And Like I said above cutting off funding for PP is not cutting off your choices as a women. If you make irresponsible decisions then you should pay for it not me or the other tax payers. And yes I lump these all together because they are my personal choices and freedoms, guns don't kill people, people kill people. But Abortions do kill unborn babies....... and I still think a women should have that right to a choice. Even though that unborn baby does not.......

I love you Repubs....You are all "up in arms" -- nice choice of words -- about Planned Parenthood because 3 percent of its services go to abortions, but you have NO problem letting insane people like Holmes In Colorado order ASSAULT WEAPONS and their hundred shot magazines through the MAIL so they can take out Innocent people at a movie...,Duhh....And yeah, "Q", we "libs" are not only NOT against the Second Amerndment and "owning a firearm", some of us OWN THEM ourselves, like ME....Oh well, why tell the truth when lying works better, right?

Here is the pledge that Bod Dold signed. There's nothing scary about this. All it says is that Dold won't raise our taxes. Why won't Brad Schneider sign it?

"Taxpayer Protection Pledge
I, _______________, pledge to the taxpayers of the _____ district
of the state of__________, and to the American people that I will:
ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax
rates for individuals and/or businesses; and
TWO, oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and
credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."

Gary thats horrible......how dare he sign something that says he wont raise my taxes......lol

Louis, you keep mentioning his overall vote record and I keep clarifying that it is padding to appear moderate when they don't need his vote for a right wing agenda bill. He is voting to repeal healthcare for children up to age 26 on parents, no per existing conditions etc. today.
Gary, Norquist limits them to even getting rid of loopholes if it raises net revenue. Loopholes for BP a foreign number one or two revenue company and we let them pay lower taxes. No flexibility from Norquist and some Republicans are revolting from the pledge and willing to compromise for the country. Not Dold.

RB he voting to repeal a Tax increase and limits on your choices of health care........Had the President and Democrats been honest with the American public this would have been defeated a long time ago. But that's your Hope and Change......

It was not a tax until the other day, its a tax penalty for not being responsible and buying health insurance, and it is small, a small price to pay for healthcare for everyone. Why do you like 'free riders' - those that show up at ER's clogging the system with a sore throat and never paying their bills? Doesn't sound very Republican to me, but to each his own. And the individual mandate? A Republican plan until Mr. Obama included it at their urging. Dold is no moderate.

@ RB is that you Nancy (Pelosi)

Those "Freeriders" were the poor uninsured until last week......lol
And tell that to the Govt lawyers who argued that it was a TAX. Once again the Dems want it both ways. you really cant make this stuff up if you tried. And IL is dead broke so when the expansion of medicare coverage by the Feds is gone in 5 years, that's more Billions IL does not have and can not afford.

Tom, the Tea Party endorsed Mr. Dold in 2010. His voting record becomes moderate if they don't need his vote, either a bill is already going to fail or it is winning by a wide margin so he gets to vote more in line with his District. Today, he is voting to repeal healthcare for children on parents policies up to age 26, the end to pre existing conditions, tort reform, insurance instead of free riders, etc.

There is your answer Tom B. RB refuses to face reality or facts. And by the way RB, the mandate was ALWAYS a tax. The Obama Administration and Nancy Pelosi lied about it, called it a "fee" and then argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that it WAS a TAX! After the Supreme Court agreed with the Obama Administration that it WAS a TAX, then Obama and his White House aides tried to claim again it was only a fee. Who is voting to support the lies? Not Dold, THANK GOD!

Ellie, interesting reading in the LA Times about healthcare systems in other countries. In Japan, they run you through assembly machine style, and the doctor sees you but for a minute before moving on to the next patient. Has to see so many patients a day to make a profit. That is where we are heading. Next time you hear a Democrat proclaim that healthcare is "free" run for the hills. The 21 tax increases that come with this "free" healthcare the rest of us are paying for will be just the tip of the iceberg. And wasn't it Nancy Pelosi who famously said we can read this bill AFTER they pass it? No wonder!

sadly Holly with an electoral system our vote for president in IL is a waste.......all the sheep go to the polls like zombies and vote for the big O. Vote early and vote often, the Chicago way.

Good luck, Holly...Bwahahahah!