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All that’s necessary

Abe Lincoln was a smart guy, but I was reminded, while reading this in a Kos post, that he could sometimes get it wrong: Romney wants to test one of this nation’s most famous political maxims, as he attempts to fool all of the people all of the time. (via Daily Kos) Abe was right, […]

In Defense of Paul Ryan

Yes, I know it seems unlikely, but when a guy is unfairly traduced, it’s my duty to defend him, whether he’s a smarmy, lying toady for the rich or not. So I just can’t stand silent while Ryan is unfairly called a world class liar just because he claimed to have run a sub three […]

The plutocrats are flaunting it

Remember when John Kerry was caricatured as an out of touch elitist when he went windsurfing? And the press ran with it. One must wonder if we will hear more about this, or whether it will sink beneath the waves: Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign toasted its top donors Wednesday aboard a 150-foot yacht flying the […]

I won’t be watching

Well, the fact is that we no longer have a television, but could watch on-line if we really cared to do so. But gone are the days when the Republicans let people like Pat Buchanan let the world see what the Republican party is really all about. Unlike Democrats, Republican’s learn their lessons, at least […]

Ryan Defers

What a strange country this is. We have a political party, whose members claim some sort of inside track to God. They speak in moral absolutes, yet they are, at times, oddly willing to "defer" to someone else's moral (if one can call it that when speaking of Romney) position. Consider Paul Ryan: Ryan, of […]

Mystified

Why are all those Republicans urging Todd Akin to withdraw from the Senate race? He only said what they all purport to think. If life begins at conception, and they want the constitution to say that it does, then his position follows as the night the day. what he said was not much different than […]

In a nutshell

The Republican argument, boiled down to its essence.     Posted with Blogsy

An implied confession

  It seems many Republicans are upset about the fact that Obama is successfully introducing the real Willard to the American public: Conservatives have lit up talk radio programs across the country, worrying whether Mr. Romney’s business record has been “Swift Boated,” referring to attacks waged against Senator John Kerry’s military record in 2004. The […]

Curt Schilling at the public trough

Life is a mystery. Curt Schilling, well known for being a vocal Republican, would never go in for a government guaranteed loan like Solyndra got, would he? After all, the government is not supposed to pick winners and losers, am I right? And yet… 38 Studios, the video game startup founded and funded by former […]

Why a bill doesn’t become law

When I read this article this morning, it struck me that it is in many ways emblematic of what is so wrong with the country at the moment: Colleges would be barred from spending taxpayer money on advertising, marketing, and recruiting under a Senate bill that targets for-profit institutions. The 15 largest for-profits, including Apollo […]