It's an article of unsubstantiated faith with people like Paul Ryan that the private sector does everything better. In a wonderful article outlining his disillusionment with Paul Ryan, William Saletan of Slate lays it out: Google paid … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2012
This should be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Still thinking about canvassing this past weekend, which causes one to pare down one's political pitch to the basics, because you don't have much time to express yourself -- out of courtesy for the listener. You know, we gotta keep this … [Read more...]
When does ‘I had no active role’ really mean “… making decisions involving the operation or management of the activity, performing services for the activity, and hiring and discharging employees.”?
Answer - when it affects your taxes. But according to his 2010 tax return, when the Internal Revenue Service comes calling in April, Romney has a different answer: The presumptive GOP nominee reaps lucrative tax breaks for "active" … [Read more...]
Pretty good up-summing of Mitt Romney’s run for president: “a massive all-in bet on the rank incompetence of the American press corps.”
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone sums things up pretty well. Last May, in a much-touted speech in Iowa, Romney used language that was literally inflammatory to describe America's federal borrowing. "A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Warren takes on “We Built It”
You might have missed this - I almost did, since it rolled into my inbox late last night. But you know how Republicans are bizarrely building their entire convention around an out-of-context quote from a somewhat garbled line in a speech … [Read more...]
Why Warren is losing
A while ago, the editor here posited four reasons why Elizabeth Warren was now 5 pts behind Scott Brown. I can answer that question definitively: She is not in any way likable. She never smiles, she is always pointing and lecturing. … [Read more...]
“Giant uterus heads for Republican convention”
Anyone with a sense of humor will find much to relish in the tragi-comic spectacle unfolding in Tampa. The piece-de-resistance will come when Paul Ryan gives his acceptance dressed in drag as Sarah Palin. In the meantime, the Joke Revue … [Read more...]
Republican National Convention
Is anyone else watching the Republican National Convention this week? I'm enough of a junkie that I always watch both conventions, but I skipped CSPAN this year in favor of MSNBC's coverage because I figured it would be better for my … [Read more...]
“Trackers” make me ashamed of our politics.
The "tracker controversies", ginned up and used by both sides in the Senate race, are immensely childish, and would be avoided by a modicum of common sense, adult behavior and decency. First of all, the practice of having "trackers" who … [Read more...]
Whose body is it anyway?
Want to understand the Pennsylvania senate candidate's comparison of rape to out-of-wedlock birth? Neither the rapist nor the boyfriend has the consent of the woman's father. … [Read more...]
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