Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
Paul Waldman gives us one of the reasons he believes a GOP landslide victory in November might not happen.
The Tea Partiers may be a little crazy and relatively small in number, but they’re sure going to get to the polls. As for those not busy searching the skies for black helicopters, these people are far more likely to vote if they’re mad. And one thing that keeps people mad — and pulls independent voters over to the opposition — is a bad economy, the best predictor of election results. And that’s the next reason Democrats should be feeling better: While we don’t know whether things will take a turn for the worse, we do know that at the moment all signs are pointing in a positive direction. The economy added 290,000 jobs in April — the fourth month in a row of positive growth. There are six more monthly jobs reports between now and Election Day, and if they are all positive, then a powerful narrative will take hold, one of an economy clearly on the mend.
And though it may seem strange, that narrative often matters more to the election than what people see in their own lives. As a huge number of studies over the last three decades have shown, American voters don’t just vote their pocketbooks but are instead affected by their perception of how the larger economy is doing. If in October, media reports are rosy and the Democrats can reasonably argue that the economy is humming along, the momentum for change — and the country’s dissatisfaction — will be greatly reduced.
Of course, that’s a big “if.” But should it come to pass, the Democrats’ big argument becomes even more persuasive.
A big ‘if’ indeed.
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…by most accounts, Nov. 2 is going to be a blue day in blue America. That is in part because of a sizable enthusiasm gap that favors Republicans.
Liberals may want to crouch in a corner, wait for the storm to pass, then resurface and survey the damage, but that would be avoidance rather than acknowledgement and acceptance.
Better to acknowledge that the anger and frustration felt across the country, however fanatical and freighted, must find release, and it will do so in November. Then you can accept it for what it is: not a failure of philosophy, but a fear of the future. That future can be deferred, but it will not be denied.
I am convinced that the right may win the day, but the left will win the age. That’s because the right is running an intellectually bereft campaign of desperation and disenchantment, amplified by a recession.
Great Recessions don’t last. Great ideas do.
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How much longer will Connecticut voters put up with Joe Lieberman as their senator?
Greg Sargent at the Washington Post is reporting that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will be proposing a new law that could potentially strip Americans of their citizenship if they’re involved with foreign terrorist organizations. The limited details revealed today are enough to send a chill down the spine of civil libertarians around the country.
The law reportedly would allow the State Department to treat citizenship like an administrative matter — deciding whether you have associated with terrorist organizations. Agency procedures are widely condemned for their lack of due process protections and the heavy deference given to agency decision-making. We have seen abuses of this system in the designation of organizations under a similar process.
Stripping citizens of their citizenship could also create stateless persons — a problem in international law.
At some point, Democrats will need to swallow hard and realize that they’ve got a jackass in caucus who needs to be stripped of his role as chairman of the two senate committees he now holds. I understand that there is politics involved and the importance of every vote in passing any Senate bill. But how much longer can Dems allow Lieberman to push them around as he’s been doing for the last number of years.
While he got away with his fervent position on the need to invade Iraq, I would have thought that his equally fervent support for John McCain as well as his attacks on Barack Obama during the election campaign would have been enough to not grant him the chairmanships he so wanted. They weren’t. He then followed that up with the position he adopted during the health care debate. He anointed himself deal-breaker unless he got his way. He got his way.
And now, aside from his statement that suspected terrorists should not be read their Miranda Rights, he now wishes to strip away citizenship from a person before they have been tried and convicted. Enough already. This jerk is a runaway train more interested in seeing his face on teevee than any good he might do for the country. His ideas are both unconstitutional and frightening and the only place they belong is in the Arizona state legislature.
Dump this fool already.
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“I follow Twitter for the Tea Party and just show up to fuck with them.”
“No, I don’t actually do that. I just sit at my desk and they send me talcum powder every couple of weeks.”
The talcum powder remark was in reference to an envelope of white powder sent to Weiner’s district office a couple weeks back.
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Matt Miller has this idea that Republicans are acting wackier than usual.
Has anyone else noticed that seemingly well-adjusted Republicans have been driven insane by the passage of Obamacare? You can catch them muttering under their breath, whimpering on editorial pages and howling to the moon that this Democratic victory is the death knell for much that we cherish in American life.
Of the the three reasons Miller gives for the strange behavior, here’s the main one.
Republicans simply have not lost on an issue this big in decades. Media coverage features so many breathless political ups and downs that it’s easy to assume each party tastes victory and defeat in equal measure. But as a matter of ideology, these overheated fights take place between the 45-yard lines on a field that conservatives shrewdly tilted to their advantage several decades ago. That President Obama could move the debate to the 40-yard line and win is something the modern GOP has never experienced. Republicans mauled President Clinton when he tried to do the same; after 1994, Clinton’s “wins” were trumped-up and tiny. Republicans have so successfully framed the debate for so long that they don’t know what it feels like to be thoroughly beaten. Who wouldn’t feel disoriented and angry?
Good stuff and the football field analogy is perfect. Washington politics takes place in an ever larger fishbowl where political victory is measured not in true accomplishments but by which team gets the better soundbite off on the evening news. This blow by blow account of politics skews perspective to the point where the process takes precedent over substance.
With the passing of the health care bill, Dems have been able to move the ball down field and score a touchdown. It wasn’t pretty, but it got done. So yes, it does account for much of the panic emanating from Republicans these days. They never saw it coming.
The signposts in the Republican universe have been abruptly altered. So don’t let yourself become desensitized to the sight of conservatives stumbling, lost in the night, the way you avert your eyes when passing poor homeless souls on the sidewalk. Suffering is subjective. There are people on the street who really think they are Jesus. There are Republicans in our midst who really think Obama’s version of Romneycare equals socialism. There but for the grace of God — and maybe a little less sloppy thinking — go we.
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