A liberal, a moderate, and a conservative walked into a bar, the bartender looks up and says, “Hi Mitt!” That’s the joke, but it seems to keep landing. Witness new polling from PPP that shows Rick Santorum opening up a commanding lead over all the incarnations of Mitt Romney offered to date: [Read more…]
Update 11:20 AM CDT: The President is speaking now, saying a compromise has been worked out where the insured will have access to contraception by going straight to the health insurance companies without putting their employers in the loop. If so that sounds to me like a perfectly reaosnable solution which addresses the concerns of everyone. Which is to say the right will hate it and some on the left are hastily writing about the Caver in Chief. Note: headline above slightly altered.
(USA Today) — “Under the rule, women will still have access to free preventive care that includes contraceptive service no matter where they work,” Obama said. “That core principle remains. [Read more…]
Another encouraging jobless report, another sign the Great Recession is over, more reason to hope the pain millions still feel may soon lesson. And you now what an improving economy with a democrat in the WH during an election year means, right? [Read more…]
Rick Santorum, famed detractor of evolutionary biology and gaff prone with bestial similes (Thus giving rise to his cryptic nickname, Man-on-dog Santorum) swept to victory last night in both the Republican MN and CO caucuses and the Missouri primary. The latter is non-binding, the actual number of delegates Santorum will receive from last night won’t be enough to put him in the lead for nominee. But because of last night’s victories Rick Santorum has now won more states than the purported front-runner, Mitt Romney. [Read more…]
Results: CNN (CO, MO, MN) | Google (CO, MO, MN) (Sign up here to have the Daily Kos Elections Digest emailed to you every weekday morning). As of 11:00 PM CDT Santorum is projected to win Minnesota (MN) and Missouri (MO) big, as in HUGE, only Colorado (CO) remains. This means Santorum has now won as many states as Romney, and we are looking at a possible Santorum sweep tonight potentially giving him a one state edge. It’s starting to look like it doesn’t matter who wins CO, significant PR damage to Romney has been done.
In MO it’s Romney 25% Santorum 54% Gingrich 0% Paul 12%
In MN it’s Romney 16% Santorum 46% Gingrich 11% Paul 26%
In CO its’s Romney 29% Santorum 42% Gingrich 16% Paul 13% .. 17% reporting [Read more…]
Every now and then an otherwise fantastic organization makes a bizarre, counter-productive, and/or puzzling decision that makes no fucking sense when examined in the light of day. Such was the case when the Susan Komen cancer group tried to ban Planned Parenthood, on a flimsy, transparent excuse, from their deep bench of life-saving players. [Read more…]
It’s been brewing for a long time, and it has come at a steep price in lives and limbs, but the Assad thugs, aka government of Syria, may be on the verge of losing the international PR game and what might be properly called a civil feakin war at this point: [Read more…]
Update 2/7/12: Clint Eastwood weighs in claiming it’s not pro Obama.
Or so says Chrysler, producer of the ad above featuring Clint Eastwood. Draw your own conclusions, but I can see why someone might think there’s a little pro Obama content going on there.
Two funny notes: 1) I overheard someone complaining that Eastwood had sold out. The quasi-logic being that he’s purportedly a conservative, and they hate Obama, or he’s conservative leaning libertarian, and they really hate Obama. Honestly, do people not understand what it is that actors do for a living? 2) Karl Rove claimed on Fox News the ad “offended him.” Translation — an optimistic message of hope in an improving economy could prove unbeatable, please don’t let the democrats realize that.
I understand what poor Mittens was referring to when he said in part — and quoted in isolation– “I’m not concerned about the very poor.” Nevertheless you’d think a serious candidate would never let those words cross their lips in that order no matter what. Even Limbaugh found the gaffe hard to comprehend:
(CBS) — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh noticed, as well. “Everyone knows what he was trying to say,” Limbaugh observed, “but he didn’t say it. He makes himself a target with this stuff. He comes across at the prototypical rich Republican. … It’s gonna make it harder and harder and harder to go after Obama.” Romney’s comments also gave an opening for his Republican opponents to attack.
It’s not enough that winguts demanded, and Komen for the Cure folded, to demands the charity sever its long-standing relationship with Planned Parenthood. Mow wingnuts are insisting the org denounce stem cell research too:
(RightWingWatch) — Lou Engle’s Bound4Life, which pushed LifeWay bookstores to stop selling Komen’s “Pink Bible,” commended Komen but like Perkins, asked the group to go even farther to please the far-right by abandoning their support of stem cell research. The group gloated that while “Komen says these public criticisms are not a factor in their choice to stop funding Planned Parenthood, it’s hard to believe that the pressure didn’t impact the decision.
Giving into bullies is a very bad idea. for anyone. Bullies are never satisfied, they always want more, and they’re not interested in being friends.