Posts filed under “Politics”
Obama’s Modest Proposals
This time last week, President Obama gave his State of the Union. It seems like a lot longer ago than that because the speech basically went unnoticed by the time the weekend came around. Reactions were mixed, but the chief criticism seems to be that the speech amounted to little more than several popular and [...]
Mitt Comes ROARING Back in Florida CNN Debate
“Our problem is not 11 million grandmothers” “You’re fired” “That’s simply inexcusable…the idea that I’m anti-immigrant is repulsive. Don’t use a term like that.” “Wouldn’t it be nice if people didn’t make accusations somewhere else that they weren’t willing to defend here.” “The idea of getting something for free when they can afford to pay for them [...]
ICYMI – Pelosi “Knows” Newt
In an interview with John King, Nancy Pelosi was asked about the possibility of a Gingrich presidency. Her response was “let me just say this, that will never happen…there is something I know.” Maybe I’m just not used to seeing her speak, but I have to say I was taken aback by the nature of [...]
Focused On Things That Do Not Matter
Tomasky and others are focused on the wrong things when they are doubting Mitt Romney’s general election prospects. Tomasky is a generally insightful pundit. Unfortunately, too often his judgement is critically clouded by his partisanship. Early december he speculated about Romney out losing the primary, which I suspect was simply out of his wholesale dislike [...]
Romney’s Lingering Troubles
Today on This Week (now with George Stephanopolous) George Will phrased the essence of what happened in South Carolina in a simplistic but accurate way. He said, “Mitt Romney’s problem is somehow his Romney-ness… there is something about him that is not connecting.” The populist wing of the republican party wants a game changing candidate. They [...]
Bizarro Election Day #1
When I speak in private and people ask me for handicaps of the different races in the news on I always assign percentages. Recently I had been giving Romney an 85 percent shot of taking the nomination and a 60-70 percent shot at taking the general. Often times after giving these numbers I’m asked why [...]
PIPA + SOPA Blackouts
The enormity of sites such as Wikipedia, Google and Reddit “blacking out” their websites in protest of PIPA and SOPA is not to be underestimated. We at 1115.org not only support these efforts, but give offhand support to those working against PIPA and SOPA. Personally, I do not have enough expertise on the subject to [...]
The Problem With Your Analysis is That it is Incorrect
Columnists who have to find something to write about and forgo logic in return for an effortless 500 words need to be given a vacation or something. The Boston Herald’s Holly Robichaud is one such columnist. As if we needed to be forewarned about the lack of seriousness within this particular column, her first attack focuses an [...]
Pew Report & “King of Bain” – Evidence of OWS’ Success
Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center released a new report that showed a strong increase of americans acutely aware of class conflict. While it explicitly mentions the Occupy Wall Street movement in its report, the report did not speak directly to the origins of the increased awareness (which is generally impossible to determine anyway). [...]
Happy New Hampshire Primary Day
Or, happy End-of-The-GOP-Primary day. Latest polls out show downward momentum for Romney and upward momentum for Huntsman. But none of it really matters. The size of the number separating first place (Romney) the rest of the field is too large for any last minute change of fortune. If there is, you will see a lots [...]