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The Election Wasn’t As Close As You Think

November 12, 2012 By thegreenmiles Leave a Comment

Presenting live election returns as a sporting event makes for good television. At 9pm, Barack Obama & Mitt Romney are all even in the popular vote! The Massachusetts, Virginia and Montana Senate races are tied! Who will win? You have … [Read more...]

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Grover Norquist Collateral Casualty of 2012?

November 12, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti 5 Comments

In light of the election post mortems taking place among conservatives, perhaps no one is more delusional, with the exception of Karl Rove, than Grover Norquist. Norquist, a high priest of limited government, is having nothing to do with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-election, barack-obama, congressional-republicans, Fiscal Cliff, grover-norquist, john-boehner, tax-policy, Taxpayer Protection Pledge, tea-party

A True Change Election

November 8, 2012 By thegreenmiles 1 Comment

If Republicans can't get enough old white dudes to support their extremist policies, they have to cheat by trying to prevent young & brown people from voting - and even that doesn't work anymore. That's what I'll remember most about … [Read more...]

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Mitt Romney’s Lehman Moment?‏

September 14, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti 1 Comment

Tweet <!-- Share --> Did Mitt Romney, in his ill timed and ill conceived commentary on the violence in North Africa, just doom his presidential aspirations the way John McCain did in 2008 … [Read more...]

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Can a Repeal of Obamacare Actually Help Obama in November?

March 26, 2012 By PaulHeroux Leave a Comment

This week the SCOTUS will decide on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act of 2009 (AKA - Obamacare). This may be President Obama's primary legislative achievement. Conventional wisdom says that if the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-election, obama, obamacare, scotus

Calling Out the Naked Emperor

March 2, 2012 By the-caped-composer 4 Comments

The recent brouhaha over Scott Brown's vote on the Blunt Amendment will likely fade into memory in a news cycle or two. His policy position on the issue is obviously out of step with the majority of Bay State voters. However, the latest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-election, caroline-kennedy, Cosmopolitan-magazine, democrats, election-2012, Elizabeth Warren, joe-kennedy-iii, kennedys, ma-sen, maria-shriver, massachusetts, patrick-kennedy, politics, republicans, scott-brown, senate, ted-kennedy, us-senate, vicki-kennedy

Conservative Pundits Throwing Perry Under the Bus?

September 25, 2011 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

For the second time in the past two days a prominent conservative commentator has thrown Texas Governor Rick Perry under the bus possibly sending this latest Tea Party darling into a downward tailspin along the same trajectory as that of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-election, barack-obama, Brit Hume, michelle-bachmann, mitt-romney, Republican Primaries, Rick Perry, tea-party-movement, william-kristol

Time to Put Up the Hindenburg Photo!

September 20, 2009 By smalltownguy 2 Comments

Be still my beating heart. Romney and Huckabee fall over each other to win over the whack job values voters gang. Aren't you just so glad that Gomer and Goober are back on the campaign trail? The key questions are: How many millions will … [Read more...]

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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

Well gosh that was never true, to say the least. #StockholmSyndrome

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👀 https://twitter.com/bill_shaner/status/1365100351502880770

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Sydney Rachael Levin-Epstein@SYDNEYRACHAEL_

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“Utter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

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Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

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