Called it.
Tag: Mitt the Shit Romney
Mitt Romney will not run in 2016. Because the gods are not that kind.
That is my reason for doubting the recent spate of Mitt Might Run! articles now cluttering the political press. It won’t happen because it would be too much fun for us Democrats if it did. We’ve been good kids, pretty much, but no one deserves that much candy. The three-cushion shot argument is that Mitt…
Romney 2016: The Dream That Will Not Die
In glittering prose, Mark Halperin tells of a glittering evening, a gathering of GOP moneybags who listen as 2016 hopefuls Chris Christie, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Kelly Ayotte all sing for their supper, with official noncandidate Mitt Romney serving as cohost, along with NY Jets owner Woody Johnson. Each of the hopefuls…
Bruce Bartlett, refuting vapor
Bruce Bartlett, everyone’s favorite truth-telling Reaganite, does the unnecessary, and does it well, here, explaining why, even if everything went “right” in Mitt Romney’s tax “plan”—which is to say, if one could divide by zero and count up to infinity in a couple of hours—it would have no more than a minimal impact on the…
Disproving Mitt: Why bother?
Josh Barro has a column explaining why none of the six “studies” cited by Mitt Romney as “proving” that his tax “plan” to cut rates by 20 percent is “feasible” actually do the job. The mountain that all six of the pro-Mitt studies have to digest is yet another study, this one from the Tax…
President Obama: Bumbling murderer
You’d think that a man who spends each Tuesday wondering who he’s going to kill next wouldn’t have much patience with the man who wants to take his job. But President Obama apparently had too much on his plate to bother showing up for the debate last night. Or maybe he had so much fun…
More from Politico
Mike Allen, Jonathan Martin, and Jim Vandehei explain why Mitt is such a fuck-up. The piece is an extended sop to Republicans, quoting a near-endless series of Romney pals, advisors, and staffers on how Mitt is this fantastic, fantastic guy who would make a fantastic, fantastic president, if only he would stop stepping on his…
Romney turns the base up to eleven
When it rains it pours, eh? Yesterday I said the all-Republican pissing contest reported on Sunday in Politico was a momentary pleasure, but Romney’s new “Midnight in Boca” tape has turned pints into gallons. Romney’s pretending that he’s standing by his remarks, despite their lack of elegance, though of course he’s pretending that he didn’t…
Quote of the Day? Walkback of the Week!
Via Brad Delong, Daniel Kuhn, at his site Facts and Other Stubborn Things, brings us the “quote of the day” from libertarian economist Mario Rizzo, after learning that his signing of a document headed “Economists for Romney” proved to be a source of amusement in some quarters: I interpreted signing as restricted to economic policy…