Posted: August 24, 2012 at 7:18 am
Rehberg was Early Supporter of Akin
Congressman Dennis Rehberg’s attempts to distance himself from Missouri Congressman Todd Akin become more difficult today after it was revealed that Rehberg’s own political action committee, BOOT PAC, gave $5,000 to Akin’s Senate campaign in June of last year. Rehberg had previously benefited from a big media splash when he gave away Akin’s donation to his campaign, but he declined to mention his own donation to Akin.
Here’s a screenshot from Congressman Rehberg’s July 2011 FEC report (Page 10).
Rehberg’s donation to Akin’s campaign came long before Missouri’s recent Senate primary election. Rehberg choose to donate to Akin but not to the leading GOP candidate in that race, John Brunner, or to Sarah Steelman who had previously been the frontrunner in the primary.
Here’s a transcript from Congressman Rehberg’s appearance on the Laura Ingraham’s conservative talk radio show yesterday, in which Rehberg said what a nice guy he thinks Akin is:
DENNIS REHBERG: … I wanted to take the money I received from Todd and give it to the Florence Crittenton Home in Helena for teen pregnancy and babies and such just to show a line of support to that. And I distanced myself from Todd…
LAURA INGRAHAM: Do you know Akin personally?
REHBERG: Oh yeah. We were freshmen together back in 2001. We were sworn in at the same time.
INGRAHAM: Is he a nice guy?
REHBERG: He’s a very nice guy. He wears his religion on his shoulder. You know—it’s what in his heart. He thinks pro-life. He is very adamant about his position so, that’s just Todd Akin.
Rehberg and Akin also both cosponsored draconian bills in the U.S. House of Representatives restricting women’s health care.
H.R. 358 is the Let Women Die Bill, which I wrote about Rehberg’s support for here. According to a National Women’s Law Center analysis, the bill ”would allow any hospital to refuse to perform an emergency abortion—even if a woman would die— without running afoul of the federal law designed to prevent individuals from being denied emergency medical treatment,”
H.R. 3, (post here) would prevent the following situations from “counting” as rape: women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped, minors impregnated by adults, and women who say no but do not physically fight off the perpetrator for fear of being murdered.
Dopey Reeburp, protector of our morals…..BWHHAHAHAHAHA!
Pope Dopey is gonna make sure that sinners are punishED! He’s God’s own warrior!
He’s gettin’ gubmint out of our lives!
To make a woman carry a baby concieved though RAPE is beyond barbarism!
Hell, even the Holy Roman Kiddy Diddlers don’t believe that!
Dopey Reeburp and his Akin beliefs are unimaginable to any civilized people of the world! THIS ain’t your daddy’s Pubbie Pary!
$5000 is chump change.
Akin and some guy named Gump (wink, wink) gave $24K to Tester.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00027605&cycle=2012
Ingy, you’re way off base here, dude. It AIN’T about money any longer. Akin changed all that. Now, it’s all about insane vs. sane! Deal with it, amigo. Akin outed the entire party! And for that I thank him!
You see, CEEment Jaysus up in Whitefish is missing three fingers on one hand. But IF they were still there, He’d have it raised in a giant one fingered salute to all the crazy bastards in the Pubbie Party defiling His name and message! And for good measure, He sent a freakin’ HURRICANE to your convention just to remind you’all that you’re messin’ with the wrong dude THIS time!
Time for you guys to repent, Ingy. BTW, I forgive you. It’s just how I am……BHWHAHAHAHAHA!
Better start doing some butt kagels Scary.
You’re ’bout to get intimately involved with the cement Jesus.
OUCH!
The New Pubbie Party! In all it’s “glory”!
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/soledad-obrien-grills-rnc-official-not-inclu
Ingy did we finally hit a nerve with you???
Actually none of this was the Democrats doing dude. The Party that you once knew and loved, is now dumpster diving for new candidates like Romney? Why? Because, the good Moderate thinking folk in your party have already been purged. Bought out by dark Money, or pushed out to became Independents,Democrats, or disenfranchised.
There is already a mountain of Researched evidence that proves what’s left of the GOP Party is Indoctrinated Religious Fanatics, Propagandized tools of corporations, or just plain sheep.
I miss a good Republican, A true Fiscal Hawk who would of questioned and fought against all that Bush and Cheney did to this country during their reign in Government. But the good ones( with a voice and Bonafides) all actually started leaving right after Reagan became President, The party of Eisenhower and Nixon, overrun by religious fanatics and war moungers. and historically wrong tea party evangelists!
What Akin and Rehberg think about America is as close as the Taliban is to Muslim radicals in the east, It is the accepted thinking in the Party of today!
Thanks, Norma. One of your finest posts. I really enjoyed reading it. It was constructive criticism for any thinking Pubbie left out there.
Akin, Gump law firm in D.C. Good job dude! Nothing like making a claim and handing out the website to prove you’re a nincompoop. You made my day.
Took ya long enough.
That’s what the Palin “wink, wink” was about.
Hahahahha! Wrong guy Ingomar– this is too funny.
Mensa called Jenny.
Ya didn’t make it.
They certainly didn’t call you Ingy.
Can we move on the really good stuff? Please?
How ’bout “Denny donated land for the Mormon Temple where they sacrifice children”.
Sacrifice children? Nah, just pork’em! Never heard of Bring’em Young, didja? Porkin’ young girls was what Joey Smith’s vision was ALL about, Ingy. Can’t re-write history, dude. And BTW, if I remember correctly, MOST folks in Billings were NOT happy about that monstrosity of a temple blockin’ their view of the Rims! Did Dopey really sell’em that land? I thought that land was in the Zimmerman family.
George Zimmerman, Scary.
Cowgirl’s got the story slated for the MT October Surprise.
I’ve heard all the condemnation of Akin’s words but I’ve yet to hear a single Republican say that they disagree with what Akin said. They basically say “He shouldn’t have said that” but I want to know what their positions are on the subject. Are they themselves in support of or opposed to an exception for victims of rape? Where do Rehberg and Daines stand on the issue of rape victims carrying the rapist child to term? Do they support an exception?
And how many Republicans flunked biology for the same reason Akin flunked it?
“So which countries provide no exceptions to their laws outlawing all abortion? There are currently only 5:
1.Malta
2.Dominican Republic
3.El Salvador
4.Nicaragua
5.Chile
Even Saudi Arabia allows women to receive abortions for their own health or lives.”
The Pubbies are in good company!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/25/1123999/-You-may-not-be-a-fan-of-Playboy-but-you-gotta-love-what-Hugh-Hefner-has-written
Silly wabbit! S-E-X is for PROCREATION ONLY!……….(and bishops with altar boys!) Anything else is a mortal sin!
Very, very good article BTW, Lynn. thanks.
Where does your keynote speaker stand on rape, Dallas.
Here’s what McCaskill thinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0EBi1W4jL0
I guess I didn’t realize that Bill Clinton was running for President this year. Or that he was the one who said something about “legitimate rape”. Or that he was one of the 40 Republican Congressman who wanted to make rape victims carry the rapists child to term. OMG, look at that, the calendar has turned all the way over to 2012!! Thanks for the enlightenment.
Bill Clinton is representing you at your Convention.
In a way you’re celebrating his accomplishments and conquests.
Ingy, you’re arguing out of both ends of your anatomy now, ass AND mouth! Try not to let your ass overload your mouth though. Rumors are NOT facts. You were holding your own up until this post. Here, let me give you an example.
Lil’ Ricky porked a mermaid. Fact.
Clinton raped some woman who was PAID lot’s of money to say so. Rumor.
Does this help?
Immensely.
Quote: “Clinton raped some woman”
Quick and to the point Scary.
The furiousity at which you attempt to change the subject is indicative of how damaging this position is for the GOP and its candidates.
Andrew said it best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YthG-MeKcbQ
Ah Ingy, let’s just say there were no victims in the Clinton /Lewinsky thing. She was an immature sleaze( yes a woman can call another a sleaze, but a man shouldn’t) who had done this sort of thing before and President Clinton was an Testosterone accident looking to happen.
She wasn’t raped she was a willing participant! Women do dumb sex stuff too, but what your alluding to is even dumber in nature.
Consensual sex is the same as rape? Really that’s your story?
Out of the mouth of babbling conservatives like you, comes some the craziest crap, I have heard in years!
Lastly, Clinton’s Libido wasn’t against the law. The guy did his job just fine, and his personal life didn’t interfere with him, Giving America a Balanced budget in this country.
Remember it was your drunken coke sniffing DUbya & Darth Chenny that Ruined Americas Bank Account with secret expenditures on war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Medicare Donut Holes, plus all the other Tax payed money they mismanaged!
Lastly why would any Americans trust Morality coming from Republicans like you anyway? Don’t you have a plethora of deadbeat dads, sexual predators, Bathroom stall solicitors, and Felony criminal scam artists you keep in business on your side of the Isle, let alone the Legitimate sex Todd Akin.
Give us all a call when your side cleans up its Moral compass, before pointing to ours.
This is only tangentially related to the topic, but someday, just once, I’d love to read you posting a moral, or even rational, foundation for such idiocy, Norma.
………….And then we Hear from the Righteous Man who continually believes he is better at knowing a woman’s definitions about others, then the woman herself.
Contrary to what you’ve been told, I don’t have an unspoken obligation to please you and your continual whining!
Why thank you for the moral and rational response. (/sarcasm)
Ingy, you must have missed my previous educational attempts for you on the U.S. Justice system, the foundation of which is “innocent until PROVEN guilty by a jury of peers.” So you can make claims all you like, but he cannot be considered something just because you found a bunch of “proof” on youtube and wikipedia that support your hypothesis. It’s not the way our legal system works here in America. Perhaps you can accuse people on limited evidence wherever you are from, but not here in the U.S. of A. In the meantime, you are still signed up (along with Todd Akin when he loses his election) of telling rape victims to their faces that you, Mr. Ingy, know what is best for their health after such a traumatic ordeal.
They are declaring that women Lie, about being raped about their health being in danger. Laying the ground work for revoking womens rights
Not to worry. The Big Kockhs got everything under control!
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/08/24
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/rapist-seeks-child-custody-shauna-prewitt
This something no one has talked about in this whole thing, and it’s in Missouri too boot. Great link!
HOLY SHIT! And wow! This DOES seem to complicate things just a wee bit for morons dressed up in Revolutionary War costumes!
We need to all be going on Republican legislator’s Facebook pages and taking screenshots of their pro-Akin comments. Today.
So much for Rehberg’s hypocritical screeching about “transparency.” Rehberg is a deceptive lying scumbag.
Rehberg is still a supporter for Akin,and Ryan’s anti women stances Cowgirl. He just isn’t saying it to media, but I have it on good insider Authority, He Parrots their Ideology, and believes in his heart that what they say is right!
So if your a women and vote for Rehberg, just remember you took off your own shoes and walked back into the Men’s kitchens to become a sex slave all by yourself.
I bet they start taking away your property rights next, right after they confiscate your Vagina for Government Use.
No regulations for Corporations but plenty on my body. When Reagan was elected and promising to get Gov. out of people’s lives, I said, You mean Rich White Men’s lives.
Exactly! Some of these commenters earlier in the month, Thought I was overboard about protecting women’s Rights. I was being a bitch.
I saw this Women bashing coming because I have fought it before in the 70′s, and it angers me that I have to fight for Civil rights, that are already legally given since that time.
I will tell you right now, this rolling back of rights will be a nastier fight then last time. Before we were only seeking to address and write protections into laws for the oppressed in society.
The GOP White knuckle-draggers of today, are trying to take those Hard fought rights away after decades of women already winning and moving forward. Its not only Us ladies; its all the other kinds of Americans who are being threatened with recessive GOP laws because of Race, Sexual Orientation, or social status( middle class or Poor)….
Old white men in power, hate diversity, because Real happiness between us doesn’t take Dark Money. It takes Justice, civil rights, a living wage, and real community!
We Americans as a whole do not wish to be uber-rich, Just comfortable and healthy, and live life without all the spin and hate of a political party.
Personally I have seen a real uptick in Republicans coming on this site to attack women and I think it is part of their strategy. They think if they write mean comments that we won’t come back and that we’ll be silent about Akin, the War on Women, that they tried to shut down the nation’s government over birth control pills. You name it. I’m sick and tired of these jerks. I will not be silent.
Neither will The Raging Grannies !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Anc_gP2_QeI
Heeelarious! The world must know that we are NOT all as dumb as dog shit in this country! The Raging Grannies set the record straight for sure!
A caller to Norman Goldman brought up a good point, what Akin et all are saying is like the inquistition or the witch trials, if you got pregnant it means it was consensual sex not rape. Just like those accused of witchcraft being throw in a lake with weights tied to them, if you floated you were a witch, if you drowned you were innocent…….
Love it! Where do I sign up!
Jumpin’ CEEment Jaysus! Not THAT kinda nutty too?!
Ingy, I really must ask. Just WHAT do these dumb bastards in your party have to do before you come over and join us??? Take your time before answering.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/24/gop-platform-will-call-for-considering-a-return-to-the-gold-standard/
I guess ‘Birther Bob’ a keynote speaker
now, considering his ‘credentials’ earned on CNN for all of Montana to be ‘inspired’ for?
For those RW evangelists who take signs from God into account for political Policy…..
I would like to know what you think of Hurricane Issac barrelling down on the GOP convention in Florida? It has already shut down one day of the convention. Did You know that the name Issac in Hebrew Means: He Laughs!
Lastly, I am going to make a prediction: In the next 20 yrs, either Repubicans or women’s rights will be extinct. My Money is on WOMEN to win this one.
Last Convention it was Gustav…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/could-hurricane-isaac-derail-the-gop-convention/2012/08/22/d2f887e6-ec5a-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html
The election cycle is trending toward Democrats holding the Senate and taking more seats in the House, especially after the outrageous events last night in Tampa.
If Montana insists on returning an ineffectual opposition member to Congress in November the state has no reason to complain when nothing gets done.