–Herman Cain, referring to billionaire Tea Party bankrollers and liberal bogeymen David and Charles Koch.
Friday’s jobs report offered yet more evidence of an infuriatingly glacial recovery. The U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in October, nudging unemployment down one tenth of a percent to 9.0%. Economic minds wiser than mine observed some bright spots in the report. But the basic fact remains that while sputtering back into recession is unlikely, [...]
The latest poll showing durability to Herman Cain’s numbers has me siding with an argument that initially seemed wacky to me: that the sexual harassment charges against Cain might wind up doing him a favor. Here’s the idea: Even before Politico broke the harassment story this week, Cain’s candidacy was in serious trouble. The Hermanator [...]
Texas state Representative Larry Taylor had the following to say about making timely claims payments to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association at a Thursday hearing in Austin: “Don’t nitpick, don’t try to Jew them down.” He then added, “That’s probably a bad term.” No, that’s definitely a bad term.
The economy added a lethargic 80,000 jobs in October, but numbers for the prior two months were revised up. The unemployment rate ticked down to 9%. Second Cain accuser got a $45,000 payout. Cain’s defense has been racialized:
In case you haven’t heard, the government is at risk of shutting down in two weeks. On Nov. 18 the federal government risks running out of funding yet again unless Congress can pass a budget for fiscal year 2012. On Wednesday, the 175-member conservative Republican Study Committee warned House GOP leaders that they were unhappy [...]
On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled state senate passed an anti-bullying bill that manages to protect school bullies instead of those they victimize. It accomplishes this impressive feat by allowing students, teachers, and other school employees to claim that “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction” justifies their harassment.
I recently wrote about the deficit-busting implications of Rick Perry’s tax plan, and his surprising indifference to them. On Thursday, Mitt Romney’s campaign whacked Perry on this very point. ROMNEY TO PERRY: DEFICITS MATTER, is the headline of the latest release from Mitt’s Boston headquarters, which cites a slew of commentary noting the cost of [...]
It’s well known that the U.S. is rife with political division: red vs. blue, the coasts vs. the interior, cities vs. rural areas, the 1% vs. the 99%. Less discussed is the yawning gap that has recently opened between young and old. America today is more politically divided by age than it has been in [...]
