To extend David's list of 3 reasons why the Mitt bullying story matters, it matters because Romney is evolving in the wrong direction on GLBT. Whether or not many people were as physically aggressive (I suspect David is wrong on how … [Read more...]

Contra David, there is nothing hypocritical about Scott Brown taking advantage of the current health care law while trying to repeal it. I would love to see the home interest mortgage deduction removed from the tax code. It's bad … [Read more...]

Dear person a few years older than me who is being promised some sort of legacy Medicare* grandfather clause, You're health care future is not as secure as it seems. Right now, I wish we all had Medicare-like health care. I tolerate … [Read more...]

Eric Fehrnstrom's Etch-a-Sketch gaffe is truly one for the ages, but, hard as it is to believe, Mitt Romney's response may have been worse. First, Mitt shouldn't have commented at all. He should have distanced himself. Instead, in a … [Read more...]

Updated: I misremembered that Brown ultimately voted against the Ryan budget. Dan Kennedy has a reasonably well-balanced account of the Scott Brown/Elizabeth Warren senate race in a Huffington Post colum, with two puzzlers. Kennedy … [Read more...]

If there is a lesson to be learned from the regressive tactics by Republican majorities in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Arizona it's this: use your majority status to effectuate policy, not perpetuate the majority. It's a lesson that Democrats … [Read more...]

Talking Points Memo has a nifty graph showing the polling history on Warren v. Brown. (I can't get the embed to work.) Warren is up by 3 points in the latest WBUR poll. Gotta believe that the news is even better for Warren, as she'll be … [Read more...]

Read together, David Brooks and Dan Kennedy help us get to the heart of Mitt Romney's limitations as a presidential candidate. Brooks delivers the mother of all counter-factuals: [Romney] needs to show how his outer pronouncements flow … [Read more...]

It's all over the political web sites that two-time Harvard degree holder (JD and MBA) Romney is once again bashing the Harvard Faculty Lounge, while taking advice from, you guessed it, folks with authorized access to the very same faculty … [Read more...]

Mitt Romney says that only teacher unions want small classes, and only because smaller classes mean more teachers. There's no educational benefit. Tell that to the folks at the Belmont Hill School, the exclusive private day/boarding … [Read more...]