Are You Kidding Me!?

Remember Orly Taitz? The woman who claimed she was "absolutely positive" President Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen? Taitz founded the "Birther Movement" during the 2008 campaign -- attempting to prove Barack Obama was a Kenyan by birth.

Well, here we go: you know campaign season has truly started once the backwards, sexist comments start coming out of GOP candidates’ mouths. Congratulations to Cong. Steve King for kicking things off with a bang!

House Minority Leader John Boehner is set to give a major speech about jobs today – by all accounts, the GOP congressman is ready to lob some major attacks on Democrats and President Obama for supposedly killing jobs and economy. This is curious – aside from the ridiculous inaccuracies of such accusations – because Boehner’s conservative buddies seem pretty happy to take a very different stance: they readily declare that they’re unable to create jobs or are just fine with shipping American jobs overseas.

It was a refreshing change to see a female face among the legion of male ones usually found on the Sunday political talk show circuit. However, apparently not everyone was as happy as we were to see veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour take over the reins of This Week. Sadly, the criticism seems all too familiar and all too shallow: “that hair of hers — yipe. What's the deal with that?” Tom Shales profoundly noted in the Washington Post. Remember all the fuss about Jake Tapper’s haircut or David Gregory’s mane? Yeah, we don’t either.

When I last wrote about Sharron Angle, the far-right and ultra-conservative candidate running against Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, I wasn't expecting to change her mind on the issues. She's received the anti-choice endorsement of the Susan B. Anthony List and believes that job creation is not the business of the US Senate. She's pretty entrenched in the other side's camp.

Yes, Virginia, they can sink that low: congressional candidate Sean Duffy and his campaign stand by a new ad that succeeds at not just crossing the line of decency, but taking a huge galloping leap over it. Funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the ad attacks Julie Lassa, then instructs viewers to call her – after displaying her home phone number. Julie’s two daughters used to pick up that phone, but that was before the family had to disconnect the line after being inundated with calls resulting from the ad.

Yesterday, we told you about the outrageous comments printed in the Medina County (Ohio) Republican Executive Committee's Republican Review newsletter, saying "Let's take Betty Sutton out of the House and put her back in the kitchen." You were all as disgusted as we were -- but if you thought the situation was already bad, just wait -- there's more.

By now, if you haven’t heard that, almost two decades after the infamous hearings, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, called Anita Hill and told her to apologize to her husband, you may be the only person in America without a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, or a television.

There is a growing trend in the national media of talk about how 2010 holds potential to be another "Year of the Woman." EMILY's List and its members are fighting tooth-and-nail to ensure that the pollsters, the pundits, and especially the people at the polls know there is an ENORMOUS difference between our team of women and the motley crew assembled by Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.

As we get closer and closer to November 2nd, hit websites, splash pages and attack ads are flooding the news. It's not often that one makes me stop, stare and yes, like I was in a cartoon, actually drop my jaw. Enter stage right -- way, way right -- Illinois Governor candidate, Republican Bill Brady.

As a girl from Chicago and a huge fan of my home state (Chicago Bears' performance last week notwithstanding), I wanted to shout from the rooftops to all my ladies back home, DO NOT LET THIS MAN WIN or women across the state will lose!