Archive for 'Vote 2012'
Bartender speaks about recording Romney “47 percent” video
It turns out that the person who recorded Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” comments at an exclusive Florida fundraiser was a bartender at the event.
So I was wrong when I assumed last September that the recording was done by a guest at the fundraiser– a “Rooseveltian traitor to his class.”
I found this account particularly telling:
The [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2013 under Vote 2012.
Worst pundit of 2012
Here in the US, the consensus seems to be that it’s former political consultant Dick Morris of Fox News. His wildly inaccurate prediction of the outcome of last month’s presidential election simply tops a list of boneheaded forecasts.
An honorable mention goes to Rush Limbaugh, who also predicted (on election day) a Romney victory, adding, “I [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2012 under Punditry, Vote 2012.
Congrats, Mitt
The fact-checking website Politifact.com has awarded Mitt Romney (remember him?) its not-so-coveted “Lie of the Year” award for 2012.
It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign — that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted [...]
Posted: December 13th, 2012 under Vote 2012.
Mr. Burns explains the dreaded “fiscal cliff”
Posted: December 6th, 2012 under Stateside, Vote 2012.
The (genuine) wisdom of Bobby Jindal
I’m not a fan of Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal (see here, here and here), but he has said some remarkably perceptive things since the reelection of President Obama.
He edged dangerously close to what many of his fellow Republicans would call class warfare if a Democrat said it.
“We’ve got to make sure that we are [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2012 under Stateside, Vote 2012.
Why Republicans hate unions
And why so many of them want to keep unions as small and weak as possible:
Unions had a good night last Tuesday. “I think we were the margin in states like Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada, and probably three or four other ones,” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka told Salon in a Wednesday interview. In Ohio, said [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2012 under Trade Unions, Vote 2012.
Then and now
Trust the people, trust their good sense, their decency, their faith. Trust them with the facts; trust them with the great decisions…
–Adlai Stevenson, who lost to Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 and 1956 presiedential elections
So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn’t those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2012 under Vote 2012.
Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!
Remember when Republican Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia– a member of the House Science Committee– told an audience of mounted deer heads that the theory of evolution is “lies straight from the pit of hell”?
Broun was reelected to Congress on Tuesday with no opposition on the ballot. However the late evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin received [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2012 under Vote 2012, Wingnuttery.
This means war
Metaphorically, of course.
A remarkable post-election video from the PAC of the conservative Heritage Foundation:
Posted: November 9th, 2012 under The Right, Vote 2012.
Post-election musings
Some not necessarily original thoughts on the 2012 presidential election:
–Demographics, demographics, demographics. As has been pointed out endlessly, the United States is becoming less white by the day. And while Republican candidates for president continue to win majorities of white voters, 2012 may have been the tipping point for when that was no longer enough. [...]