Hitting Mitt Romney Where It Hurts

Posted by on Jul 16, 2011 in Miscellaneous | No Comments

Those of us that know Mitt Romney’s record knew eventually the mainstream media and even the Republicans would start to pound him on these issues. It is starting to happen, and it ain’t going to be pretty for Mitt. As Mitt Romney’s atrocious record on job creation continues to draw attention, even from other Republicans, ...

What Robert Reich Says

Posted by on Mar 2, 2011 in Politics | No Comments

Via Salon, this is just about as clearly as you can state what is so wrong with the country: Democrats have become irrelevant. If they want to be relevant again they have to connect the dots: The explosion of income and wealth among America’s super-rich, the dramatic drop in their tax rates, the consequential devastating ...

What John Cole Says

Posted by on Jan 3, 2011 in Politics | No Comments

At Balloon Juice: I suppose it is too much to ask that the Democrats run a competent political operation and point out that the Republicans have no actual plan for governance, but intend to simply play chicken with the debt ceiling and hold investigations of the travel office and other crap like that. If Lindsey ...

Compromise? "I Reject The Word."

Posted by on Dec 13, 2010 in Politics | No Comments

This shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anybody half paying attention the last two years or so, but incoming Speaker John Boehner made it clear to Leslie Stahl on “60 Minutes” last night that he’s not interested in compromising with Democrats: STAHL: But governing means compromising. BOEHNER: It means working together. STAHL: It also ...

Folding Like A Cheap Suit

Posted by on Aug 28, 2010 in Politics | No Comments

Via the Washington Post we learn: With the economy rapidly weakening, some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation’s wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending the full array of Bush administration tax cuts, at least through next year. This rethinking comes barely a month after Democrats ...

An Excellent Description Of The Differences

Posted by on Mar 24, 2010 in Politics | No Comments

This is close to a  perfect overivew of the ways Republicans differ from the more sensible citizens of this country vis a vis economic issues. Succinct, elegant, and utterly damning: The main political issue of our time isn’t whether markets are always right but whether they are always good. Adam Smith, in “The Wealth of ...

Capital Hill Humor

Posted by on Mar 16, 2010 in Humor, Politics | No Comments

Pure comedy gold: Republicans are threatening to make life difficult for Democrats if they try to push health care reform through the Senate using the budget reconciliation process. That’s probably the funniest thing you’ll read all day. Until, that is, you read Joe Lieberman’s deep thought on the subject: It will make it a partisan ...

Elections Used To Have Consquences

Posted by on Feb 14, 2010 in Politics | No Comments

From Steve Benen at Washington Monthly has some pretty spot on things to say about Republicans and their near 24/7 use of the filibuster (emphasis mine): I was looking over the election returns from 2008 last night. I hadn’t thought about it in a while, but I was reminded just how remarkably successful Democrats were ...

Affiliations Of Cable News Watchers

Posted by on Aug 17, 2008 in Opinion, Politics | No Comments

According to a recent Pew Research survey, the political affiliation of cable news viewer break down as follows: CNN: 51% Democrats, 18% Republicans, 23% independents MSNBC: 45% Democrats, 18% Republicans, 27% independent Fox News: 33% Democrats, 39% Republicans, 22% independents I find this interesting on so many different levels. But one of the most interesting ...

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