“I’m not running, I’m not planning on running,” Mitt Romney told Fox News regarding the 2016 presidential election. “My time has come and gone. I had that opportunity. I ran and didn’t win.” Well, Mitt is a pretty smart guy, and I think his take here is 100% accurate, but I just wish that he…
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Mitt: “Yeah, I am an arrogant, out-of-touch, multi-millionaire! What’s your point?”
Just in case he hadn’t already alienated every non-millionaire in the country, Mitt Romney has “explained” his recent loss to President Obama in terms of government handouts to blacks, illegals, college kids, horny young women, and other assorted riff-raff. Well, Mitt, maybe next time you should run for President of the Boca Raton Country Club….
Vote for the Would-Be Murderer, not the Murderer?
Well, it’s a theory. As Glenn Greenwald points out, President Obama has fair claim to be absolutely the worst civil liberties President the U.S.A. has ever seen. The odds are, Romney would be better! That’s a valid inference, even if we simply consider the election a random draw. But, wait, there’s more!—the old “Nixon goes…
Vote for the Murderer, not the Would-Be Murderer
That’s my advice if you live in a swing state. Living in DC, with Libertarian Gary Johnson on the ballot, I have the luxury of making a protest vote. I’m not into libertarian economics, but Johnson’s foreign policy views are more than a breath of fresh air. DC will go so heavily for Obama that…
Romney tax plan, re-refuted
Josh Barro explains, again!, why Romney’s tax plan—cutting tax rates and eliminating tax deductions (or “preferences”) without hurting regular folks like you and me—won’t work. Because it’s us regular folks who get all the tax breaks! Tax returns reporting less than $200,000 of adjusted gross income (AGI) [that’s us folks] accounted for a total AGI…
Barack Obama: The Smell of Failure
There are a couple of interesting write-ups on the web interviewing a couple of well-known, undecided, unrelated voters—Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, and 24-year-old pre-k teacher and “wage gap” questioner Katherine Fenton. What’s particularly interesting is that both these intelligent, well-informed people 1) don’t really know very much about politics and 2) though…
The Washington Post really really surprises me! A lot!
I’ve bitched so often about the way Fred Hiatt has turned the Washington Post’s editorial machine into a neo-con slum that I can only pronounce myself totally gobsmacked by this editorial, headlined “Mr. Romney’s rhetoric on embassy attacks is a discredit to his campaign.” Yes, the Mittman’s insistence on his right to lie about President…
Mitt Romney, the Republican Obama?
Only Nixon could go to China. Only Reagan could end the Cold War. Only Clinton could tame discretionary spending and reform welfare. And only Obama could tame entitlements. Okay, that last one didn’t work out so well. Of course, 95 to 99% of the reason why is that the Republicans didn’t want it to happen….
Newt goes down: the party’s over
I guess I’m not really ahead of the crowd on this one: the odds are very good that Mitt Romney will squash Newt Gingrich tomorrow like a thrice-married June bug. It gets worse: Despite all his bravado—and, surely, despite all his anger at being outspent by a margin of more than five to one—Newt will…