We say farewell to former Senator Arlen Specter, dead at 82.
Arlen Specter, who spent 30 years representing Pennsylvania in the Senate offended Republicans and Democrats in almost equal measures with maverick votes and a frank cockiness that finally ended his...
View ArticleThis Debate Week… Wednesday is the Event.
As we get closer to the first presidential debate the news commentators are filled with comments on the pre-debate rehearsing each candidate is doing and speculation as to who is the better debater....
View ArticleQuote of the Day – A little peek at Romney’s finances…
Romney has said he will put out a big 2 years of his taxes – 2011 hen it is ready and 2010. No, he’s not going back far enough to show he had income from Bain Capital in 2000 and 2001 when he said he...
View ArticleQuote of the Day – A campaign is suspended
“I will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.” - Ron...
View ArticlePresident supports today’s leading Civil Rights issue…
In an interview on ABC Television today, President Obama has announced his personal support for same sex marriage and civil unions, something that Mitt Romney has forcefully come out against. This has...
View ArticleOnce again, I am embarrassed to live in West Virginia.
I have said many times in this blog that, with the exception of Shepherdstown and most of the Eastern Panhandle, I dislike being identified with West Virginia. Whether it is a supposedly Democratic...
View ArticleThom Hartmann reports on Wisconsin Primary to unseat Gov. Walker…
Posted yesterday: You need to know this. Wisconsin voters hit the polls today for the first battle in a historic recall election in the state. Democrats will choose between one of four Democratic...
View ArticleWatching Mitt getting “endorsed” by Republicans who don’t really mean it.
Michelle Bachmann endorsed Mitty today… the same Michelle Bachmann who, just before she dropped out of the primaries, when asked if Romney could beat Obama, said “No.” Then there’s Newt’s endorsement...
View ArticleCartoon(s) of the Week – Without immigration, where will we get more poor...
Bruce Beattie, in the Daytona Beach News-Journal: … see, if we just take over our own problems, immigration is unnecessary… - and - Jeff Danziger of the L.A.Times: … now Arizona has the right (and I...
View ArticleWatching Romney, Boehner, Ryan and the rest of them on Television, I realize...
And not just a couple of mistaken notions here and there, but outright lies…some of them so far out that I couldn’t have imagined them if I tried. Why is it, then, that we let them keep doing it? Why...
View ArticleNewt’s dropping out on May 1st…
…according to CNN. It’s expected he will formally endorse Romney on that day as well. Having come up very low in the five primaries yesterday, Mitt is looking at no more money to survive with and no...
View ArticleBusiness Week says Newt is wasting YOUR money….
If you thought you were as important as Newt Gingrich thinks he is, you might be asking for Secret Service Protection since you were a Presidential candidate who was likely to win. What? Newt isn’t...
View ArticleNewt to NRA: Right to Bear Arms is a Human Right
Here’s why Newt isn’t going to get any farther (from the Newt Gingrich 2012 campaign site): Appearing before the National Rifle Association annual meeting this afternoon, Newt Gingrich called for a new...
View ArticleSo, what is Romney planning to do if he gets elected?
Mitt Romney wants to shut down or amalgamate several US government departments if elected president, but has no plans to tell voters which ones in advance of November’s general election. However, he...
View ArticleCartoon(s) of the Week – The politics of money…
Jim Morin in the Miami Herald: America seems to be based on the importance of money… - and - Ben Sargent in the Austin American-Statesman: …and it is easy to sell the rich folks’ budget to the...
View ArticleYesterday Romneycare was 6 Years Old in Massachusetts…
… and by all accounts it has been a success. “Massachusetts is a model for getting everybody insured,” said Romney when the law was passed under his Governorship. In fact, Romney also claimed at the...
View ArticlePathetic Quote for the Afternoon
So whose fault is it that Newt isn’t on top of the Republican pack? Fox News? “I assume it’s because Murdoch at some point said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney.’ And there’s...
View ArticleRobert Reich promotes his new e-book “Beyond Outrage”
“You need to be outraged, but you also need to move beyond outrage, and take action,” says Reich as he comments on what we can do to assure that the country does not fall into the hands of conservative...
View ArticleSo… do we have a new McCarthy in Congress?
Suppose we had a Congressman who started accusing the representatives that didn’t agree with him as being Communists? Well, apparently we do. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., has said “he’s heard” that up to...
View ArticleSantorum is out… does not endorse Romney.
- David Horsey in the LA Times. After giving Mitt Romney a serious challenge for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Santorum suspended his campaign on Tuesday. He made one of his better...
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