No, I'm not kidding. Today, somewhere in Boston, presumably in the financial district, there was a Romney fundraiser based on the following premise: An email sent Saturday by Christopher Jenny, president of the Boston-based Parthenon … [Read more...]
I’m not angry at Scott Brown. Are you?
Dan Kennedy has a piece on Huffington Post in which he posits the following after citing to yesterday's Globe story reporting the pro-Brown results of some recent polls: [S]ome Democrats seem surprised, at the very least, that Brown didn't … [Read more...]
Romney outspends Santorum 4-1 in Ohio, and just barely squeaks by him
Honestly, how hard can it be to beat Rick Santorum? Pretty hard, if you're Mitt Romney. Romney and his Super PAC spent about four times what Santorum and his Super PAC spent in Ohio (the biggest Super Tuesday prize, and the most … [Read more...]
Supreme Judicial Court recognizes bloggers in new rules on electronics in the courtroom
Kudos to the SJC for recognizing the changing nature of the media: The state’s highest court today updated its rules for media coverage of trials and other court proceedings in response to changes in technology used by the media and the … [Read more...]
A very bad day for Romney: first earmarks, now the individual mandate
If the news of Mitt Romney having utterly flip-flopped on earmarks wasn't bad enough, this new item is potentially devastating for his entire candidacy. You know how Romney, when asked about the MA health care law, keeps saying that the … [Read more...]
Romney humiliated on earmarks by video of his 2002 campaign for Governor
ABC News dug up some video of Romney's 2002 gubernatorial campaign ... and it shows that, once again, he has completely changed his tune on an important topic. This time, it's earmarks. I mean, there's just nothing he can say about … [Read more...]
By the way, Obama’s birth certificate is a fake
This just in, according to the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joe Arpaio. He has just released, via a live-streamed press conference, the results of his "investigation" into the long-form birth certificate released by President Obama … [Read more...]
Vennochi offers Warren good advice: declare victory on Blunt, and pivot back to economics
Now that the Senate has rejected the crazy Blunt/Brown Amendment, Elizabeth Warren is well-positioned to declare victory on that issue and move on. She would be well-advised to do so, as Joan Vennochi convincingly argues. Democrats are … [Read more...]
Senate rejects Blunt/Brown Amendment, but Scott Brown is stuck with his foolish vote [updated]
Moments ago, the U.S. Senate voted 51-48 to reject the crazy Blunt/Brown Amendment which would have allowed any employer or insurer to refuse to cover any medical service, as long as he, she, or it had a "moral" objection to that service. … [Read more...]
More on “conscience clauses”: how much can we really know about what Ted Kennedy would have supported?
Today's Globe published an editorial tut-tutting about how Ted Kennedy was a public figure, and how his legacy was sometimes difficult to interpret, and how his family doesn't retain the exclusive right, now that he's gone, to decide what … [Read more...]
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