As it turns out, it's really fine that MA didn't try to meet Rhode Island's $75 million loan package to Curt Schilling's video game company, which is now in deep trouble. As part of the RI Economic Development Corporation's effort to … [Read more...]
What our Senate race boils down to
A story in today's Globe paints a fine picture of how Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown want the Senate race to unfold. On Sunday, Warren called on Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, to resign from the board of directors of … [Read more...]
Why the Romney bullying story matters
Yes, people change. In fact, the very WaPo article that broke the story of Mitt Romney assaulting his classmate also suggests that, once Mitt met and began dating the future Ann Romney while they were both still in high school, he did … [Read more...]
New MassINC poll shows Warren with a small lead over Brown
Today's poll is from MassINC, and it shows Elizabeth Warren leading Scott Brown 43%-41%, with 12% undecided. Although it was released today, the poll was actually conducted April 25-28. The story about Warren's Native American heritage … [Read more...]
Scott Brown keeps up his comedy routine on the Senate floor
Honestly, it's just getting embarrassing. Yesterday, Scott Brown joined his fellow Republicans in filibustering a bill that would have prevented the interest rate on student loans from doubling. The reason: because the bill adopted an … [Read more...]
President Obama says he is now in favor of same-sex marriage
So this is good news. President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC … [Read more...]
New poll suggests voters couldn’t care less about Cherokee-gate
Rasmussen (who, remember, has a well-documented history of skewing in favor of the Republican candidate) has now polled the Senate race three times, to my knowledge. The first poll, released on March 1, had Scott Brown up 5 points, 49-44 … [Read more...]
Scott Brown joins Republican filibuster of bill to prevent student loan interest rate hike
Scott Brown, who claims to want to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling, today voted to filibuster a bill that would do just that. His reason, presumably, is the one put forward by Republican leader Mitch McConnell: he … [Read more...]
Contemporary accounts suggest that Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry played no role in her hiring at Harvard
We're nothing if not reality-based here at BMG - at least, we try. So I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to see what was being publicly said around the time that Elizabeth Warren was hired as a law professor at Harvard in 1995. … [Read more...]
Mitt Romney: “don’t know much about history, or understand the economy…”
Title of course to be sung to the Sam Cooke hit. Anyway, Mitt Romney's claim to the presidency is based on one thing: he's an economics guy; he understands the economy; he's all about the numbers; he knows how we can get the economy … [Read more...]
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