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Its time now to clear the air and despite republican todd akins absurd logic, bogus science and apparent disregard for the victims of rape, its hard not to feel sympathy. he -- ordering he pull out of the missouri senate race. within the last two years, mr. akin has worked alongside paul ryan, mitt romneys vp pick, on not one, but two separate pieces of legislation. just last year, mr. akin and ryan were cosponsors of hr 3, the act that attempted to create a significant difference between rape a...

Republican majority. >> the fact is, rape can lead to pregnancy. >> paul ryan not only joining with akin on redefining rape -- >> this is kevin, hes apologized for swimming nude in the sea of galilee. >> another terrible mistake by individuals. >> only go around this crazy merry go round once. >> three, putting the junk in congressional junkets. >> crazy. >> trying to take the focus of romneys taxes. >> gosh, i feel like im almost a new hampshire resident. it would save me some tax dol r dolla d...

Ryan and akin co-sponsored legislation that limited what could be considered rape. the no-taxpayer funding for abortion ad said public funding could only be used for, quote, forcible rape. and ryan also co-sponsored a bill in a would force a woman to receive a forced ultrasound before having an abortion. akin was with them on that one, too. and together, again, akin and ryan were co-sponsors of a -- amendment that would define life as starting at conception. that would ban abortion in any circum...

Not ask paul ryan the question, what is forcible rape? >> ill tell you, lawrence, its conceivable, but that really shouldnt happen. if youre going to hang your hat on this construction of forcible rape, and as you pointed out, akin and ryan are pretty much lockstep on these issues, time and time again, in the legislation that they have jointly supported together and the positions that theyve espoused. and again, even mitt romney parsing it a little bit. theyve got to be asked the question, what ...

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We should not be surprised by this. we swrus need to see the republican party sometimes for what it is. >> i think one of the problems here and lilana kind of hit on this. historically in the past few years, the republicans have been successful about couching their positions in terms of life in culture of life and now, were getting this very graphic imagery of rape and its a different terrain to try to fight on. >> i wanted to add on that, which is tricky for republicans who want to stick to con...

His opposition to abortion. when he said legitimate rape, he meant forced rape. >> theres nothing legitimate about a rapist, but to rather i was putting that in the wrong place. making the point that there were people who use false claims like those that basically created roe versus wade. >> im sure romney and ryan are glad hes feeding the flames of this discussion. he was using the fumes of his campaign funds to release a new ad entitled forgiveness. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong wor...

Robinson. your column today is is essential reading on what you described as mr. akins abomination, yet, hes refusing to leave the race. is this because he knows his views on this subject are shared with paul ryan and if paul ryan can run on the ticket as president, why cant he run for the senate? >> after all, they partnered on this bill in the house that would run narrow the definition of rape to forcible rape, whatever that is. as if there were some kind of rape thats not forcible. this is fa...

November? >> the position he has taken that hes going to stay in on or abortion? >> abortion. >> its going to make them talk about abortion. its going to make paul ryan declare himself having moved closer to the mitt romney view. there is an exception for rape and where the definition of rape remains as it is commonly understand in the english language and not by house republicans. i suspect ryan will have to adopt that romney position because thats what romney says and hes running for president...

But paid only fourteen percent in taxes... probably less than you now he has a plan that would give millionaires another tax break... and raises taxes on middle class families by up to two thousand dollars a year. mitt romneys middle class tax increase. he pays less. you pay more. republicans took control of the house in 2010 apparently by running on the economy. but a funny thing happened on the way to washington. the economy was relegated to the backseat and instead, the gop began focusing o...