Wave? Not yet in KY, CA & FL

Sure, all those pundits on cable and inside the Beltway may be predicting a wave year where Dems lose the House and maybe even the Senate. But the tsunami hasn’t yet been reflected in three new CNN/TIME/Opinion research polls of registered voters in Kentucky, California and Florida out today. In fact, most races were tied [...]

Boxer v. Fiorina Debate

Senator Barbara Boxer and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who is challenging the California Democrat for her job, had their first debate last night. Fiorina, I thought, did surprisingly well but that may be due to my incredibly low expectations of her. As the L.A. Times notes, Boxer did well at holding Fiorina’s feet to [...]

Demon Sheep In The Control Room: Carly Fiorina’s Open Mic

More fun from California. So good. The rap on Carly Fiorina is that she is less personable than she might be. In this priceless open mic incident, Fiorina, who won the Republican nomination to challenge Barabara Boxer, comes off as, well, sort of a jerk. The payoff line comes at the end, starting at about [...]

Welcome Back, Pragmatism

People are unhappy. They’ve been unhappy for a while: through Enron and the .com bubble bursting, 9/11, two wars, Katrina. They thought Barack Obama would bring change but few have felt the changes he’s wrought: who can imagine how bad the economy could have gotten sans stimulus? It feels bad enough as it is. Then [...]

DSCC Doubles Down on “Demon Sheep”

In a gambit to recapture the fascination with Carly Fiorina’s bizarre web video, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has thrown together this number to prebut the California Republican Senate debate tonight in Los Angeles. It features, among other things, an endless stream of ovine puns: I guess the lesson in all this is that surreality [...]

Barbara Boxer Blimp

Demon Sheep Fred Davis has struck again, with an online ad I will post to this blog for the same reason that people slow down to look at car crashes. Almost lost in Davis’ oddly vicious humor is how generic the attack is. Also note the chalkboard scratch at 6:13: Wha? So Boxer is like [...]

The Man Behind Demon Sheep (And Its Subliminal Jimmy Buffett Message)

There has been much talk on the interwebbing of late about the amateur absurdity of the Carly Fiorina Demon Sheep ad. (I chimed in myself on Wednesday, suggesting that people watch it while playing Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon for full effect.) But the ad was created, in fact, by one of the most [...]

Carly Fiorina Releases Rare Psychedelic Attack Ad

The best way to view California Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina’s awesomely bizarre new primary campaign ad–which includes shots of an alien robot sheep, or something–is by pressing play on your cassette tape of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon just as you click play on YouTube. The coolest part of the whole thing is [...]

Carly Fiorina Talks About Her Battle With Cancer

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is thinking about running for the GOP nomination against California Senator Barbara Boxer next year. Earlier this week, she put up a campaign website that got what could charitably be described as unenthusiastic reviews. “A little weird,” wrote Holly Bailey of Newsweek. CNN added that even her fellow Republicans are [...]

Grover Norquist’s Fuzzy Math

Grover Norquist today comes up with a somewhat baffling defense of Carly Fiorina’s claim that 23 million small businesses would see tax hikes under Obama’s tax plan. Grover argues this: In 2006 (the latest year available), $706 billion of such income was reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Of this, about half was reported by [...]