Archive for October, 2011
Misleading Polling from the Wall Street Journal
It’s only natural that The Wall Street Journal has decided to not embrace the Occupy Wall Street protesters who have camped out for over a month with the intention of shaming the financial sector among other aims. In an Op-Ed piece today, Douglas Schoen argues that President Obama and the Democrats are making a “critical [...]
Fiscal Conservatism Fail
One of the lesser publicized news items of the past couple days is the release of new campaign finance reports that remarkably demonstrate how terrible some of the Republican presidential candidates are with money. In fact, the campaigns of four major candidates – Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman – have hundreds [...]
Get A Job
Associated Press (10/16/2011): Sandra Fox, 69, of Baton Rouge, La., stood, confused, on 46th Street with a ticket for “Anything Goes” in her hand as riot police pushed a knot of about 200 shouting protesters toward her. “I think it’s horrible what they’re doing,” she said of the protesters. “These people need to go get [...]
The Generic Candidate
Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has been taking a lot of flak these past few days after a Democratic organization, American Bridge, found evidence that the Brown campaign plagiarized Brown’s personal values statement on his website off of a speech excerpt from former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole‘s website. Always the one to display [...]
Failure Is An Option
So apparently it’s okay if the Super Committee fails to reach an agreement on deficit reduction. According to John McCain, the automatic “triggers” that were put in place to force congress to negotiate a deficit reduction plan don’t really matter: If there is a failure on the part of the super committee, we will be [...]
Draft David Brandon1
Wouldn’t we be better off with former Domino’s CEO David Brandon‘s 5-5-5 economic plan? You know, the “Big Taste Bailout“? The one that Herman Cain ripped off of? 1Please don’t actually. Despite his supposed anti-Wall Street feeding appeal, Brandon was only installed as CEO of Domino’s after the Wall Street Investment Firm Bain Capital [...]
Rick Perry does it Bush Style
Having fallen to third place behind Herman Cain in multiple election polls, Rick Perry has had to adjust his approach to winning the hearts and minds of Republican voters. One interesting way he’s decided to do this is by raising his profile as a good ol’ boy. Taking one out of the George W. Bush [...]
Republican Debate Recap
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Out of Step
From a recent Bloomberg News Poll (10/11/2011): More than two-thirds of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, say wealthier people should pay more in taxes to bring down the budget deficit, and even larger numbers think Medicare and Social Security benefits should be left alone. On the day that President Obama’s Job Proposal is to [...]
Herman Cain – The man with the rhymeable name
The Perry camp is scrambling. His stumble during the last GOP debate made big headlines, and the ground quickly shifted underneath the feet of the GOP primary. Who else but Herman Cain found himself in the spotlight after presumably scooping up many of those fleeing from the Perry camp. This surge of support to Cain [...]