First, watch the spot: Make any sense? It doesn’t have to. That’s the whole idea.
The John Edwards mugshot. Enter your caption in the comments below. Last week’s: “Hang on to your birth certificates.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called in response to my post yesterday on the ongoing debt-limit negotiations. In the piece, I linked to a quote from Chamber chief Tom Donohue, who during an event in Atlanta on Monday appeared to warn the House Republicans vowing to vote against a debt-ceiling hike: “We’ll get rid of [...]
The Republican Party, after converting huge surpluses into huge deficits during the Bush era, after opposing deficit-reducing health reforms, student loan reforms and big-bank taxes during the Obama era, after continuing to clamor for trillions of dollars in deficit-expanding tax cuts while gutting House pay-as-you-go rules to make it easier to expand the deficit, has [...]
One of the few truly reliable campaign strategies for Republican presidential candidates over the last 40 years has been to run to the right of Democrats on foreign and national security policy no matter what the issue, no matter what the context. So why are two GOP contenders for the presidency risking an early soft [...]
The right and the left are taking President Obama to task over his involvement in Libya. House Speaker John Boehner sent the President a letter on Tuesday informing him that as of this weekend, he will be in violation of the War Powers Resolution, and demanding a clarification on the mission. On Wednesday, Rep. Dennis [...]
–New York Republican state senator Roy McDonald, explaining his decision to support Governor Andrew Cuomo’s bill legalizing gay marriage.
President Obama didn’t hold back any praise on Tuesday during his day-trip to the Caribbean. “Puerto Rican artists contribute to our culture,” he declared at the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “Puerto Rican entreprenuers create American jobs.” He spoke these words before an audience that has no say in the electoral college that will [...]
Wisconsin’s supreme court upholds law restricting collective bargaining. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s gay marriage legislation is one vote away clear passage. It could happen Friday. A federal district judge denied a motion to dismiss the 2010 decision striking down California’s gay marriage ban on the basis that the ruling judge in that case, Vaughn Walker, was [...]
Florida Governor Rick Scott was in Canada last week, trumpeting the news that three companies there are bringing operations, and more than 200 jobs, to the Sunshine State. The deals were started by Scott’s predecessor, Charlie Crist, before Scott took office in January. But Scott is taking credit for them anyway – and who can [...]
