AP: McMahon Changes Image, Wins Voters

Christopher Schaefer September 25, 2012 at 10:45 am

ROSA DeLauro: Pandering for Votes. Arsenic combines with O, Cl, and S to form inorganic arsenic compounds. Inorganic arsenic is known to be hazardous. In plants, arsenic combines with H and O to form organic arsenic compounds which occur naturally in various foods: e.g. fruits, grains. Little is known about health effects, if any, of ingesting organic arsenic. The FDA monitors levels of both natural organic arsenic & inorganic arsenic in our food supply—and has not determined any safety concern for rice. The FDA already announced a process of further inspection of rice and rice products to determine levels and types of arsenic present to protect the public. This will provide additional information about the safety of rice and rice products with low levels of arsenic. When the FDA finds inorganic arsenic—the kind currently KNOWN to be toxic—it considers those findings on a case-by-case basis, taking regulatory action where necessary. It is this inorganic arsenic that has been regulated in bottled water for years. No standards exist for naturally-occurring organic arsenic in rice—because no one knows what a safe level is: little research has been done on organic arsenic’s effect—if any—on human health. Thus, Rosa DeLauro’s “RICE ACT”—like every worthless, vote-pandering, wasteful idea she’s come up with over the years—should never leave legislative committee.

Hansa Junchun September 25, 2012 at 01:48 pm

Rosa DeLauro's career is finished. Her Diaper Act, National Infrastructure Bank, and other self-serving acts of corporate donor subsidies are going NOWHERE because she has been banned. She is a partisan extremist who has made hated enemies with every single member of Congress with an R by their name. Consequently, DeLauro is worse than a lame duck: she is persona non grata, totally useless as a legislator, and serves only ONE purpose going forward:
An extremist attack dog, partisan party ideologue, and purveyor of state-sponsored poverty spreading proposals. DeLauro's time is up! Her 22 years of ferocious attacks have run their course. Time for her to be thrown out of office!

Jim Ravis September 25, 2012 at 02:10 pm

McMahon - Tip-off memo - ethics?
(Starting to sound like George!)

RMK September 25, 2012 at 02:44 pm

McMahon can't win in CT. The state is onto her and no amount of her smackdown millions will hide her backstory. Bad for women, she's sought to sway the women's vote in CT. Don't be fooled - this woman made her millions denigrating women and laughing all the way to the bank during the deepest recession in our recent history.
Also of note, adding her voice to an already ideologically destructive Republican filibustering minority in the Senate could be devastating to the country. Just look at what the Republicans in the Senate did when they killed the recent Military Veterans Job Bill, a bill to address the unemployment numbers and designed to specifically help our vets find and keep work. Four of those Republican Senators who voted against the bill co-wrote it! No one need to look very hard to know that having a majority of Republicans in the Senate would be an unmitigated DISASTER. It's bad enough that they can force a filibuster vote to 60 instead of merely a majority of 51 in their efforts to obstruct every single good bill that might make a sitting Democratic President look successful....and that they will do so even if it DOES mean our vets don't get relief from unemployment. You decide: a vote for McMahon means putting the same kind of small, closed-minded ideologically driven tea party partisanship in the drivers seat. She's not shown us that she will do otherwise.

OpportunistWatch September 25, 2012 at 03:34 pm

Rosa D. GREENBERG is wife of LOBBYIST Stanley GREENBERG. She is one of the richest members of Congress.
She dusts off the playbook and starts her lies by promising engine plant openings and Arsenic bills. Sad to see she is still allowed to steal millions from Americans while claiming to help us. McMahon is right up there with Richy Rich Romney the moron who CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Hansa Junchun September 25, 2012 at 05:11 pm

Chris, don't waste your time explaining chemistry to THE Congresswoman. She has a panel of highly educated, highly paid lobbyists from ConAgra who assured her that small family farms need to be closed on account of their exposure to arsenic compounds. Most likely, after their PAC checks cleared, the RICE Act was released.
This is how the brutally partisan extremist Rosa DeLauro operates: duping the people into thinking she cares about them, while selling their children into a hopelessly bleak future of de-industrialized feudal serfdom, forced to scrape on their knees before all-powerful multinational corporations. Rosa's not just the one percent. She is the facilitator and executioner of the 0.01 percent's absolute will! The only thing We The People can do is throw her out of office! Perhaps an act of defiance like that will cause these immensely corrupt powers to shrug.

Jim Ravis September 25, 2012 at 05:41 pm

I think McMahon will get even more votes if she starts publishing some recipes. Hmmmmmmm - "Grandma's Homemade Recipes".