Seriously, I’m really tired of this rain… Continue reading
Knight of the Burning River
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It’s been raining for seven straight days here, I need to at least look at something with sunshine. Stay dry and safe, everyone. Continue reading
Barely 24 hours after the final Presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama wraps up in Satan’s Backwash, Florida, a collection of third-party candidates will take to the stage (and the Internet!) to present to Americans a wider spectrum of ideas than the ones voters will hear on Monday night.
Staged by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation and hosted by the ghost of CNN’s credibility as a news organization widely watched cable channel, candidates from the far right and left will present the case to American voters for a much wider political discussion. Continue reading
We live in a world where new threats constantly emerge, power structures are frequently in flux and diplomacy is increasingly important to those who hold power. As leader of the free world (in theory) the President of the United States must posses a nuanced and thoughtful world view.
The best way for candidates to display that worldview is in a series of soundbites spread out over 90 minutes to an audience of folks who would have a hard time finding the Middle East on a map. Fortunately, we’ll hear nothing of the President’s secret war, nor of Mitt Romney’s dis-interest in putting a stop to it. Nor will we hear about the vast powers to make war that the Executive branch has accumulated in the last 30 years, because acknowledging it might mean giving some of them back.
As America limps towards the Presidential election, we find ourselves as divided a nation as ever. Conservatives and Progressives argue daily over everything-taxes, climate change, health care and a list of issues that never seems to end. Most Americans have long since decided where they stand, and damned if any debate changes that.
Fortunately, tonight’s town hall-style debate audience will have none of those Americans. Instead, we get a debate moderated by an anchor from America’s lamest cable network, populated by our lamest Americans: The undecided voters. We all know the type-unsure of who they will vote for, despite the fact that the President is an incumbent and Mitt Romney has been campaigning for this job since before we knew what an iPhone was. Continue reading
Fine-it’s fair to admit that the headline is a bit optimistic. Paul Ryan is some 30 years younger than good ol’ Joe Biden, and hey, he works out, I hear. Seriously-could a guy have less in common with the average American than Paul Ryan? The man doesn’t believe in Social Security and he’s avid about fitness? If Handsome Joe wants to win this thing, he should just slide a plate of fried mozzarella sticks paid for with a WIC card under Paul Ryan’s mug and watch him turn his nose up. Mainstream America would destroy the sumbitch who would turn down fried cheese, regardless of how it was procured. Continue reading
With only five weeks until the election, the GOP’s point of no return zipped past in the rearview weeks ago. About the time Mitt Romney spent a muggy night in Tampa following up the weirdest public display by a senior citizen since Reagan’s second term with a bore-fest, the tide started turning against America’s favorite Mormon-Plutocratic-Android.
Tonight, that could all change. Mitt Romney could give the performance of a life time, the President could have a ‘Kill Whitey’ moment, and Ann Romney could spend Thursday morning planning for ways to keep ‘you people’ away from the Executive Mansion. Continue reading
What’s the best way to mute ceaseless criticism that you are the “Plutocrat’s Plutocrat”?
Doubtless, it’s not releasing your 2011 tax returns showing an effective tax rate of 14.1%, but that’s about all Mitt Romney’s got. Reportedly, the returns include $2.25M of deductions for charitable contributions and about $14.7M of total income. Continue reading
Programming Note: GI and I have agreed that, while we will need to keep touching election topics in the near future, we do want to diversify the content as we go through this process. This would be you, the reader/listener’s cue to put in your two cents as to what would make a good topic. Hell, you can even ask to join us.
It’s no secret that the self-proclaimed Party of Liberty seems to take great interest these days in what happens in the realm of OPP-Other People’s (insert your usage for P here, we’ll go with ‘Pants’ in the name of decency). Whether it’s their stance on DADT, gay marriage or a women’s right to choose, the modern Republican Party really, really needs to know what’s going on down there, and put a hard stop to it if said goings-on fail their purity tests. Continue reading