Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are fond of asking whether Americans are better off now than they were four years ago.  And so, as a public service, about week ago I started tweeting links to headlines in the New York Times from exactly four … [Read more...]

Remember in January of 2010, when Martha Coakley, seeing a looming disaster in the upcoming election, ran a classic scary-voice, grainy-image attack ad against Scott Brown (complete with embarrassing misspelling of "Massachusetts" in the … [Read more...]

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You known how, a few weeks ago as the Olympics were about to get started, Mitt Romney went to London and made an ass of himself?  That was kind of funny, and it got a lot of people wondering whether Romney would really be such a great … [Read more...]

I still find it unsettling when the weather on a September 11 morning is the same as it was 11 years ago - clear and crisp. Like it is today. In a welcome move, both the Obama and the Romney campaigns have pulled their advertising for … [Read more...]

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney struggled hard to achieve his life goal of "most dishonest politician of all time."  He continues to obfuscate about what his tax plan would actually do, and he took a shockingly dishonest position on health … [Read more...]

Did you see Bill Clinton's speech last night?  It was, in a word, phenomenal.  Quite possibly the best political speech I've ever seen.  The guy is just uncannily good at weaving a sophisticated policy argument, complete with wonky numbers, … [Read more...]

Or possibly of the year.  Long-time BMGer centralmassdad tells it like it is.  Some language NSFW. This is a good reason why, over the last 9 years or so, I have gone from being a Republican-leaning independent to an independent that … [Read more...]

It's weird, really.  If Barack Obama is as bad a president as the Republicans would have you believe, it should be pretty easy to run against him by just being straightforward.  So why do Republicans keep lying through their teeth? The … [Read more...]

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...]