The symptoms of the Great American Demise are all around me. In the end, when we have finally reached full-blown third-world status and our grandkids compete in contests for best rat trap, we’ll be able to look back and know we did it entirely to ourselves. One beautiful example of how we managed to blow a massive US lead in wealth and technology can be found in one Dan Samuel Senor, a man too wrong to fail. [Read more…]
It’s not easy for progressives to come up with a simplistic soundbyte bumper sticker. We tend to get too wonky, down in the weeds on details, plus these days we’re often hamstrung by accuracy — an obstacle the usual suspects routinely drive right around without a care in the world. But this isn’t bad!
Most of the time I’m just playing partisan when criticizing politicians. But these guys worry me and it’s not just Romney per see, it’s the entire GOP-conservative corporate nexus on healthcare that scares the shit out of me. Some reported details, if you can call them that, on Romney’s answer to Romneycare have been leaking out and if they’re accurate they’re terrifying for me and millions of boomers in my age group: [Read more…]
There’s been some speculation on Romney’s “angle” on agreeing with Obama on student loan rates. What could possibly explain agreeing with a Kenyan Muslim atheist socialist usurper? [Read more…]
I sometimes dream that we progressives will enjoy the same fruits our opponents feast so gleefully on. See, for them, consistency and principle is not an issue; you can both declare there is no such thing as a war on women, and bemoan the war on women, with little fear of “Republicans fractured and in disarray” headlines popping up all over.
Now would be the time for a line, “There you go again …” Mitt Romney, reeling from comments about his privileged zero point zero one percent status, again intentionally conflated the hardships his father went through with his own. Even the mainstream media can’t quite swallow this one without making a clarifying point: [Read more…]
The strawman attack, a favorite of the lazy, intellectually dishonest idealogue everywhere. Mitt Romney is certainly no exception. Here’s a classic example of it as Romney responds to Obama’s quip about his privileged upbringing: [Read more…]
At the risk of sounding ancient, something is going on with kids today, and I don’t mean that to sound like a middle age snarl. In fact I think today’s kids are better than we were. By better, we’re talking quicker, more mature, less naive, better informed, more confident; smarter. So this poll on the most important group in that demographic in 2012, the ones old enough to vote, was fascinating: [Read more…]
Nuns have been slacking in the gay hatred department. And the Vatican isn’t going to take that kind of shit from God’s harem sitting down: [Read more…]
Answer, probably not. He’s a great poster boy for the sudden outbreak of ideological whiplash and willful amnesia on the far right though: it seems like it was only a few years ago when mere passing criticism of WH policy during a time of war was treason, now the same bozos think threatening the commander in chief over fictional transgressions is the height of patrioism. Nugent happens to be the latest, most visible loudmouth to go there. So, the Secret Service is performing their due diligence: [Read more…]