Saturday Open Thread [3.10.12]
Remember, Daylight Saving Time begins tonight. So we “spring” forward, and lose an hour of sleep. Bastards. You know who else are bastards, Republicans. Why? Let Andrew Samwick explain the Republican spin on yesterday’s good economic news:
[President Obama] is making inadequate progress getting us out of the hole we dug for you despite our opposition to every program you propose.
Not much on the polling front this morning
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 35, Santorum 24, Gingrich 13, Paul 11
ALABAMA (Alabama State University): Gingrich 21, Romney 20, Santorum 17 (Ron Paul not polled … again)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen Tracking): Romney d. Obama (47-45); Obama d. Santorum (47-44)
Republicans who pay attention to the “X’s” and “O’s” must be totally heartsick right now. Knowing how the campaign story lines are going to unfold (e.g.. “Romney can’t ‘connect’ with voters & Obama is the comeback kid) and knowing them with such certainty, must be nausea inducing.
Stupid, lazy media is so predictable.
Is there a benefit that we don’t know about concerning the US being involved in Afghanistan ? Would being there offer us some strategic benefit that’s going to help us in some possible upcoming war or something?
I can’t see how the US being in Afghanistan right now helps to deter violence against us or anybody else. Why doesn’t the Commander in Chief (and Nobel Peace laureate), pull us out of the war that he owns now.