Posts by nathan
Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan: Inequality At Its Finest
Mitt Romney hasn’t been too shy about making blatantly false accusations about President Obama’s economic policies throughout the duration of his primary campaign. His wild assertions reached a crescendo on Tuesday when he told supporters at a campaign stop in Iowa: “I think president Obama wants to make us a European style welfare state, where instead [...]
Recess Appointments and such
The most exciting political news of the day (and of the year, so far) is that President Obama has appointed Richard Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while congress is out of session, utilizing his executive power to make recess appointments. This comes after almost two years of Republican Obstructionism that has filibustered any final [...]
It Takes One To Know One
In an interview this morning with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, Newt Gingrich proudly asserted that Mitt Romney is simply, a liar: Regarding a recent comment that somebody who will lie to win the presidency will continue to when they are in the Oval Office, Gingrich was asked on CBS’s “The Early Show” whether he was calling [...]
Mitt Will Protect Us
I’m not too sure whether the “we’ll wake up one day to socialism if Obama is elected” line of attack is going to work this time around — Obama’s been president for almost 3 years, and as far as I’m concerned, so far, none of us have been sent to the Gulag’s yet. 1 Nevertheless, [...]
Bullets for 12/30/2011
Are untapped natural gas reserves as expansive as the natural gas industry have us believe? Ron Paul blamed AIDS patients for being victims of their own lifestyle in his 1987 book: “The individual suffering from AIDS certainly is a victim — frequently a victim of his own lifestyle — but this same individual victimizes innocent [...]
BP, Criminality, Accountability
It’s about time that BP get’s held accountable for the human toll of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion: U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP Plc (BP/) staff after the worst U.S. oil spill last year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. [...]
Updating The Pearl Harbor Analogy
There’s two major messages that have come from the Gingrich campaign since the news broke that he was unable to get onto the Virginia Republican Primary ballot. On Saturday, Gingrich’s Campaign Director, Michael Krull, released a statement that pinned the blame on the ballot process itself, saying, “Only a failed system excludes four out of [...]
Promises Made, Promises Forgotten
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones makes a good point when talking about the GOP’s unfulfilled 2010 election mantra to “repeal and replace” Obamacare: I consider this a highly metaphysical question. Is something really a lie if no one was intended to believe it in the first place? Consider the various audiences. The Republican base certainly [...]
Straight Up Bullshit From Romney
You would expect that Mitt Romney would know enough not to make campaign promises that are blatantly false and in no conceivable way could be acted on. But that’s exactly what he did this past Friday when explaining why college students should vote for him: Kallie Durkit: “Relatability has been a large issue for you [...]
How To Fight The War On Christmas
There’s been much debate about President Obama’s decision to feature the First Dog, Bo, cozying up by the fireplace as the illustration in this year’s White House holiday card. Sarah Palin, enraged as usual, had this to say about it to Fox News: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Fox News & Commentary that she found the [...]