Mitt Romney: Fact Checker, Warren/Brown II: Warren/Brown Harder, the real RINOs, the circular firing squad begins, financial heroin, the next narrative, Paul Ryan: no time for the jibba jabba, Obama’s 11th Dimensional Chess, #RomneyShambles becomes #GOPShambles, About Mr. Sproul, Church of England, Florida Republican Volunteers, and something relevant to our interests. Continue reading
Well, it’s one thing to be found less popular than the incumbent while you’re running to win the White House. It’s another thing entirely if you’re found to be less popular than his predecessor, especially if that person happens to be George W. Bush. Continue reading
Joe Scarborough, known Republican and morning political chat show host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, had a tough time yesterday sitting through the excruciatingly, awkwardly horrid Mitt Romney attempting not to be shown up by running mate, Paul Ryan, while at a recent campaign stop.
Speaking at the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Boston in 2005, Mitt Romney, we assume, attempts a joke describing his aspirations. Heh. Yeah, somewhere therein lies the truth.
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
Do you know what happens during presidential campaigns? Well, there’s a winner and a loser. And throughout the course of the battle, in order to identify said winner or loser, there will be scrutiny, negative ads, debates, media coverage, criticisms, and a whole bevy of commentary that will try and out one or the other as the loser. Continue reading
Roger Goodell and the War on Pensions, hating on Ben Bernanke, Back to the Future (Economic-style), the Grand Old Straight White Men’s Party, the Year They Stopped Trying, Frank Rich steals my idea, hidden causes of the Muslim protests, and the design of US Embassies. Continue reading
For today’s Daily Sausage, I’m venturing into the dark heart of conservatism itself: the right-wing blogosphere. Continue reading
“Decades from now, Americans will visit the memorials to those who were lost on 9/11. They will run their fingers over the places where the names of those we loved are carved into marble and stone and wonder at the lives they led. Standing before the white headstones in Arlington and in peaceful cemeteries and small-town squares in every corner of our country, they will pay respects to those lost in Afghanistan and Iraq. They will see the names of the fallen on bridges and statues; at gardens and schools.
And they will know that nothing can break the will of a truly United States of America. They will remember that we have overcome slavery and Civil War; bread lines and fascism; recession and riots; Communism and, yes, terrorism. They will be reminded that we are not perfect, but our democracy is durable and that democracy – reflecting, as it does, the imperfections of man – also gives us the opportunity to perfect our union. That is what we honor on days of national commemoration – those aspects of the American experience that are enduring and the determination to move forward as one people.” – President Barack Obama – Continue reading
Oh, Mitt. What would you do if you didn’t have staunch supporters like Clint Eastwood, chair-grousing, grizzled old looney bear, and Pat Robertson, crazy, evil, soul-destroying chaos wizard, to make your campaign fun! and exciting!? Well, we just don’t know. Maybe instead you could hitch your campaign to a crap wagon and throw it off a cliff into a ditch of empirically plummeting poll numbers? Yes, that’s the ticket. Continue reading