Let's Give Them Their Corporate Tax Cuts
That which we call a rose, quoth the Bard, by any other name would smell as sweet.Or, in the perhaps less elegant words of my childhood, there's more than one way to skin a cat.They want tax cuts for...
View ArticleBring It ON: Perry Calls on Obama to Establish Moratorium on All Business...
This has happened sooner than I thought it would. Brand-new candidate Rick Perry has begun the task of demonstrating to the voting public the nature of the very clear choice available to them in the...
View ArticleMcDonnell (R-Delusional): Republican Prez Will Be More Bipartisan Than Obama
This will be a short and relatively substance-free diary. I just can't refrain from sharing.Just watched Andrea Mitchell interview Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell. She started off asking him about Rick...
View Article12 Words That Say It All
I'm in the process of watching my recording of Chris Hayes's new show. (Even for a hardened political media junkie like me, 4 AM Pacific Time is too early to get up on Saturday morning). Before I get...
View ArticleThere Will Come a Day . . .
I just watched, again, that clip of Rick Perry's answer to Brian Williams's question about the death penalty. In this case, I watched it in the context of Rachel's show, in which she added the side...
View ArticleA suggestion to defeat the "No Message or Purpose" meme
Clearly the Occupy movement has the corporatist politicians running scared. Their problem is that, other than resorting to easily disprovable lies about how the protests are drug-infested orgies in the...
View ArticleIs It Just Me???
Howard Fineman on Ed Show a few minutes ago, on what happens if Romney loses Michigan: I asked a couple . . . former Republican Senators: "Do you embrace Rick Santorum if Romney loses the next round?"...
View ArticleYou gotta watch this
It's been a strange day -- seeing and hearing so much evidence of what a horrible candidate Mitt Romney is, and listening to him label the President's calls for fairness as "attacks on fellow...
View ArticleYou'll thank me for this later.
Chances are, if you have HBO, you have both an East Coast and a West Coast feed. You've already missed the East Coast feed, but you still have time to catch the West Coast feed.10:00 pm Pacific time,...
View ArticleSpirits Need a Lift? Watch This Beautiful Ad.
I was watching the interviews on The Ed Show about today's unfathomable court decision about the PA Voter ID law, and getting more depressed by the minute. I frantically and furiously started looking...
View ArticleWe Need to Keep Reminding Everyone About That Heartbeat Thing
Today, when asked about his abortion views, Paul Ryan responded, I'm proud of my record. Mitt Romney's going to be the President, and the Presdent sets policy. Uh, his policy is exceptions for rape,...
View ArticleMitt: THIS Is What An Acceptance Speech Should Sound Like
Just a quick note: C-Span is running past DNC acceptance speeches overnight. Just caught the last few minutes of Kennedy, and LBJ is starting now. Truman and Clinton are both scheduled for later, and...
View ArticleStunning Numbers Shine Spotlight on Obama Adminstration's Failure to Communicate
I heard a statistic a few minutes ago on MSNBC that blew me away -- and not in a good way.:: ::In early January 2008, I came out of the divorce-induced political hibernation I had been in for the past...
View ArticleActually, the right answer is simple
I'm sitting here listening to a combination of hand-wringing by Dems and chops-licking by Rs as the pundits on MSNBC discuss how "difficult" and "complex" it is to answer the question of the day: Are...
View ArticleYes Mitt, Big Bird IS worth borrowing from China for.
Your party has been doing everything it can to destroy our public education system -- cutting funds, reducing the nurturing of the human mind to one number on a standardized test at the end of the year...
View ArticleWhat I Keep Not Hearing About Medicare
I keep not hearing it in the debates, and in the general discussions in the media (except for here, of course; Kossacks are brilliant). Occasionally, including last night, there is a passing reference...
View Article"He likes everything to be controlled, and he doesn't like to be challenged."
John Heilman and Mika Brzezinski have just nailed it on Morning Joe.In describing how Romney seemd out of his element last night, they zeroed in on two of Romney's personal traits that proved...
View ArticleWhat Does It Profit a Man?
"I'm telling you, he's gonna be one of the greats. I mean, look how amazing he is on the field! And he's not even 21 years old yet.""Oh, for God's sake, Terri, will you please just shut up? I'm tired...
View ArticleIt's starting again. And they didn't wait till midnight tonight.
MSNBC just broke into the prison show. There's smoke or tear gas, armored vehicles advancing into the crowd, and cops in camouflage and riot gear. Lots of them. Can't tell what the hell is going on. I...
View ArticleOK, JEB!, but how about getting economic policy from God?
"I don't get economic policy from my bishops, or my cardinals, or from my pope." Jeb Bush I know a little something about your God, JEB! -- that is, assuming you still claim to be Catholic. And here's...
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