Posts by jason330

In addition to unethical Republicans, the President is up against a dishonest media establishment. Read today's front pager in the NJ (picked up from Bloomberg) and see if you can spot what is missing. I'll wait.

This is a straight pickup from dkos. My comments are below.

Next week, the House will vote on another Republican "jobs" bill; tax cuts, of course, for small business. A group of progressive organizations representing small businesses is calling for what they say would be a much more effective jobs and economy stimulator: closing corporate tax loopholes.

But the three groups— the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), Business for Shared Prosperity (BSP) and The Main Street Alliance (MSA)—argued Thursday that the revenue generated by eliminating corporate tax loopholes would be the better jobs plan. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the senior Democrat on the ouse Budget Committee, joined them at the press conference. [...]Joseph Rotella, owner of the Spencer Organ Company, a 10-employee shop based near Boston, echoed that message. "Taxes are not just numbers on a spreadsheet. They provide revenues that pay for roads, bridges, public safety, public transportation, and other infrastructure [projects] and services that my business and customers count on," Rotella said. "There's nothing sensible about allowing big corporations big tax breaks while we cut the public services that are so important to a healthy economy and a harmonious society."

President Barack Obama has called on Republican Mitt Romney to release his past tax returns, saying that candidates for office need to be “as transparent as possible.”

It is time to winnow down the list, check the betting markets, and make some obvious deletions. Still in the running:

In the same way Christine O'Donnell demolished the Delaware GOP by forcing it to own the religious lunacy and small mindedness that fueled its base, Rick Santorum has exposed the national GOP's fetid soul to a shocked nation. Whereas in the past, Republicans were able to use a system of codes to identify themselves to each other as misogynist, homophobic authoritarian, racists, and religious fanatics - Santorum made the heretofore unspoken word become flesh. To his credit he essentially told America, "If you vote for a Republican, you should know that you are voting for a crazy person."

The advantages each candidate has in their matchup. First up, Romney: 1) Willingness to lie his ass off. I would say that this is more than a willingness, it is an eagerness. Romney will literally say anything to get elected. This can work against him in some ways, but it is certainly something that the GOP's spin doctors can work with.

Romney has a religion problem and he knows it. 22% of voters are ignorant bigots who are disinclined to vote for a Mormon. So what does Team Romney plan to do about it? They are going to turn Obama into something even worse than a Mormon, they are going to make Obama the atheist in the race. Lawrence O'Donnell broke it down brilliantly last night and this segment is worth sitting through the mandatory 15 second commercial: