Posts by jason330

Two GOP delegates threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and taunted her saying, "This is how we feed animals." They were ejected, but shortly thereafter the Romney campaign, the GOP and CNN threw a blanket of secrecy over the incident and more than 24 hours later, the secrecy is holding. ...

Yes. It is that simple. In her speech to the Wingnut National Convention, she had the opportunity to tell the truth about how she leveraged government programs including recent stimulus funding to build her business, but instead she decided to lie. She blamed the President for keeping her business down by imposing "new regulations" while never acknowledged the government's role in getting her business off the ground. ...

Let's see, do I have this right? ... Presidential candidate is an unpopular, secretive douche nozzle who cheats on his taxes and ties dogs to car luggage racks? [Check!] Social welfare policies are hated by Americans, especially seniors that vote in disproportionate numbers? [Check!] Have given up on "family values" in favor of "fetus values" in apparent attempt to turn away votes from all women? [Check!] Continued slavish devotion to utterly failed, and transparently fraudulent "tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs" economic policies? [Check!] So where does this leave us?

In a leaked party platform circulating on the eve of their convention, Republicans reveal in candid detail how they intend to upend Medicare. The platform, snagged by Politico on Friday night after the Republican National Committee accidentally posted it to its website before taking it down, is scheduled to be approved at the convention early this week. The text details the privatization policy that GOP lawmakers have supported for years, and that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are selling as necessary to “save” Medicare. But in an unusual twist, it addresses the specific aspect of the proposal that makes it a departure from what Americans know as “Medicare.”

If my wishes counted for anything, suffice it to say that this world would be a different place.

[I'm posting this draft for comments and suggestions. I'm thinking I'll post it at dKos on Monday. Thanks to everyone who has chipped in so far.] It is easy to see why Delawarean, Sher Valenzeula was asked to speak on the RNC's “We Built This” theme night in Tampa. She is a woman, latino, and a successful small business person who built her business all alone without any government support whatsoever. Her story is a real rebuke to President Obama's take on capitalism, right?

According the National Review, if Rommey would only follow fake science, and be an even bigger a-hole, everyone would fall in line and vote for the alpha male. [Prepare yourself for level 5 GOP style misogyny] ...

John, I'm sure you are good at fishing and a great many others things. Being the DE GOP chair just isn't working. This is great stuff from Celila Cohen. I think she finds the old muse when writing about how pathetic the party that backstabbed Michael Castle has become.

This TPM story about a teabag Republican Sheriff in New Hampshire claiming outlandish powers under the Constitution (including the power to use deadly force to prevent doctors from performing legal abortions and the power to bring elected officials to trial in front of a "citizen’s grand jury") made me pine for stories about our own Republican Sheriff.

Todd Akin, Richard Murdock, Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Ken Buck, etc. etc. etc. I'm not sad that teabags appear to be on the George Soros payroll, but I do pine for the days when Democrats won majorities on the merits of their policies.

On how economic his policies will affect America's middle class, Mitt Romney had this to say to his critics:

The middle class is asking for it. Just looks at what the middle class goes out wearing. The middle class is inciting these policies.