Official White House Photo by Pete Souza –Democrats have been careful not to appear gleeful over promising economic news as the jobs market continues to struggle. Cautious optimism ruled the day Sunday even as the White House economic team reacted to a very positive unemployment report. –Unemployment woes are far from over. –Felix Salmon offers [...]
Google sometimes gives us gifts we would never expect. I was looking around for an Easter-themed picture to post, when this treasure appeared out of nowhere. Art Linkletter! Walt Disney! Nixons! Who could resist?:
In this week’s edition of the magazine, I have a short piece about how some residents of a tiny rural community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore are opposing plans to build a State Department facility that would offer the area hundreds of new jobs. You can read it here.
Not so much. Today, I look at five reasons why this cycle is different from 1994… so far.
Lindsay Beyerstein dug a bit deeper into the Republican National Committee’s expense report–the one with the “meals” at the lesbian bondage-themed nightclub–and found some questionable categorization. Listed on the report in the category of “office supplies” are purchases from a New England winery and a Capitol Hill liquor store, as well as more than $3,800 [...]
Embrace the Tea Party. “These are our folks — the natural allies of the party of Reagan,” writes the former VP. Invoking the Perot effect on the 1992 presidential election, Quayle argues in the Washington Post that a failure to vie for the movement’s votes could tip the scales toward the Democrats. As Reagan did [...]
Just now in Portland, Maine, Obama had a message for his Republican detractors: And now that [health care reform's] passed, they’re already promising “We’re going to repeal it.” They’re going to run on a platform of repeal in November. And my attitude is, go for it. You try to repeal it. I want — I [...]
Jimmy Breslin once defined “acedia” as “slow fullness at high noon.” This video will end that, if you forgive the fact that it has absolutely no place on Swampland. This is Rye Rye’s “Bang,” featuring M.I.A. Baltimore got it going on.
