Posts by jason330

Romney is getting a lot of free advice from conservative on how to stop sucking. My hands down favorite is this from the Washington Posts' Jennifer Rubin who thinks Romney should read Reagan speeches verbatim but change "Carter" to "Obama." Presumably he's have to change references to the "Democratic Party" to the "Democrat Party" as well.

Raise the minimum wage, so that middle and lower-class families have more confidence in their earning power and spending more. Maintain small business incentives and encourage entrepreneurs to hire locally. Increase infrastructure spending to get more people back to work. — Small Business Person Wilmington, Delaware —

Democrats have facetiously said that Republicans think that the rich don't have enough money and the poor have too much. But the more I think I about modern Republicanism, the more I think that the statement it is literally true. Republicans believe that the poor are too well off. The modern Republican Party honestly yearns for a cleansing fire of misery and pain to sweep the land. They believe that the nation's problems are largely due to the fact that the poor are living in relative comfort as a result of the overall affluence of our society. America is the victim of its own success and has become a weak and lazy country slouching toward calamity. ...

Or...Romney sunk the ticket by PICKING Ryan. This is premature campaign autopsy-ing of a very hair splitting sort. The bottom line: Ryan's policies are prefect for losing a national election.

Check out this invitation from Beyonce Knowles that hit my inbox a while back:

Jason -- I usually don't email you -- but I have an amazing invitation I have to share. Jay and I will be meeting up with President Obama for an evening in NYC sometime soon. And we want you to be there!

First the tit for tat billboards, now this fundraising letter from Sen. Coons making a frowny face about that bad old Alex Pires. Click through to read it, but I'll give my response to Senator Coons up here.

Dear Senator Coons, Thanks for the letter. Instead of sending money to Carper, the guy who has enriched himself during his tenure in the Senate, I'll send this advice; BE A DEMOCRAT. Delaware is a blue state and we don't appreciate the way you worked to water-down the ACA and the way you constantly provide the extreme right wing with bipartisan cover for their extremist shenanigans. Yours, Jason330

Without even going into his worst in the Democratic Caucus voting record, Tom Carper is currently giving Delaware Democrats the finger on giant bill boards. Perhaps as a response to Alex Pires' giant billboards which forcefully deliver the the message "Alex Pires," Tom Carper has invested in bill boards which essentially deliver his message "I love enabling Republican obstruction!"

They predicted it. They told the party elites that Romney was not the guy. They said that Obamacare could sink the President, but couldn't be used by the man from Massachusetts. The eventual Romney loss was so clear to the teabags. So obvious. But did the GOP elites and shot callers listen...? Hell no. They went and forced this talking haircut on them, and now they are pissed. Pissed and vindicated. So vindicated, apparently, that they are not even waiting until election night to start talking about how vindicated they are.

If we lose this one, you'll probably be able to chalk it up to the despicable Citizens United decision. I've seen Smith's ads and he is running as a stealth wingnut. Smith's TV spots are not only frequent, they are very polished. If you didn't keep up with politics, it would be impossible to know who was the Democrat and who was the Republican based on the ads.

Spain is proving that austerity for austerity's sake is the "scab refs" of economic policy. Fixing artificial debt to GOP numbers, then taking away a country's ability to pay down its' debt is working for someone, somewhere. Nobody knows who is winning, but somewhere it is imagined that a banker is looking at a vault full of money and that makes it all worth it.