SQUIRREL! Independents and the Polity (and why they drive me nuts)
It's a truism that national elections are about two things: turnout of the base, and persuading the middle 20% of the electorate that vacillates back and forth between the parties.It's this middle 20%...
View ArticleWhere's the Romney Military Service?
Seriously now, Romney's probably the last of his particular generation of Chickenhawk Republican to have been of age during Vietnam.Romney got multiple deferments -- one for his missionary work, two...
View ArticleTrayvon Martin is My Son
Trayvon Martin is my son.I don't mean that literally. I have no relation to the Martin family and I never met the boy. I only know him as you do, from accounts from his family, friends, his family's...
View ArticleHey Paul Ryan - WHAT ARE YOU DRIVING?
Here's Rep. Paul Ryan stumping for Mitt Romney:“Anybody fill up gas lately?” Ryan asked. “I mean, I filled up my truck last night and I couldn’t even get it to full because it cut me off at $100 — the...
View ArticleHey GOP, Apologize to Michelle Obama
I'm waiting for the apologies from the right wingers to Michelle Obama. Because they love to smear and attack her on issues from her college thesis to apparently engineering forced eating of broccoli...
View ArticleCAPTAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR TITANIC DISASTER!
[a reprint of a classic diary for this anniversary date]Calls for the removal of Captain Barack Obama grew today, lead by papers controlled by William Randolph Hearst, after repeated reports of the...
View ArticlePoliticize THIS: Celebrations a Year Ago
The concept of celebrating a death can elicit some ambivalence, even the death of a murderer and enemy like bin Laden.I find it strange that one political party is accusing the other, at present, of...
View ArticleRomney, Obama, and "Experience"
(promoted from an overlong comment)There's a fundamental misreading of what Americans really want in leaders. The railing against "career politicians" isn't so much, really, disinterest in people who...
View ArticleWhat Obama is Hiding on His Tax Returns
I know President Obama is generous (lots of charitable contributions), had student and mortgage debt until his book was published, worked several jobs in teaching and public service for low...
View Article10 Ideas for the Postal Service
(x-posted at The Little Teapot)There are many problems with how the Postal Service is being treated by Congress, and the bottom line is that the best route to fiscal health of the service is for...
View ArticleHey Paul Ryan, are you STILL Driving the Wienermobile, or what?
(a reprint of a classic diary. I couldn't resist, given the news.)Here's Rep. Paul Ryan stumping for Mitt Romney:“Anybody fill up gas lately?” Ryan asked. “I mean, I filled up my truck last night and I...
View ArticleOlympics a Huge Failure; Romney Right Again!
Our ambassador to the world and future Command in Chief, Mitt Romney, was right again! The Olympic Games closing ceremonies are over, and it was the same HUGE disaster that he predicted! EXACTLY THE...
View ArticleRyomney's Double Dilemma: VP Vetted Less than Palin Was
Much to nobody's surprise, Paul Ryan is declining to release more than two years' of his tax returns at the direction of the Romney campaign. Still waiting on those, of course, since the campaign isn't...
View ArticleVOTER FRAUD UNMASKED! And, um, it's Mitt Romney committing it
Very interesting speculation from our friends across the pond at UK's Guardian, and it's more than idle speculation, about what exactly Mitt Romney is hiding on his tax returns.We remember, I think,...
View ArticleA Simple Question for Republicans calling on Todd Akin to Withdraw from the...
So Senator Scott Brown has called on Rep. Todd Akin to drop out of the Senate race in Missouri:“As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin’s comments about women and rape outrageous,...
View ArticleWhat's YOUR best Marathon time?
I have a confession: I'm not much of a marathon runner. I've only run 18 or thirty or so, and my best time is probably three hours, plus or minus. No, my big thing is hiking. Once I hiked the width of...
View ArticleFox News Agit-Prop Techniques During the Conventions would make Stalin Proud
Yes, I admit it: I watched Fox News for much of the convention coverage, for both conventions. I wanted to be, um, fair and balanced in my understanding of how the coverage played out. I did flip back...
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Reince Priebus Must Resign
Sad and pathetic, indeed. This is the kind of thing that must not be allowed in the political sphere: it diminishes the political process irretrievably, and diminishes the United States in the eyes of...
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My FAVORITE Part of the Mittgate Tapes
Gov. Romney, addressing his secret cabal of donors:...if we win on November 6th, there will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. We'll see capital come back and we'll...
View ArticleTen Ways Obama Could Lose
The path to victory at the electoral college is narrowing for President Obama. All the legitimate polls are saying so. The economy continues to be the President's achilles heel. His supposed strengths...
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