The political landscape according to Romney, as observed by Ezra Klein: That’s Romney’s political cosmology: The Democrats bribe the moochers with health care and green cards. The Republicans try to free the makers through tax cuts and deregulation. Politics isn’t a conflict between two reasonable perspectives on how to best encourage growth and high-living standards. …
There’s something slightly odd about this election analysis. I don’t quibble with the theory that defining Romney early in 2012 as a rich and out-of-touch capitalist was smart, but something puzzles me. The article says The strategy also caught Mr. Romney at his most vulnerable time. The Republican nominee had been damaged by the bruising …
It always helps your campaign in a swing state when one of the leading newspapers in that state editorializes that your opponent is a flaming liar. Last week, Romney recklessly told a large audience in Defiance that he’d read that Chrysler’s Italian owners — that would be Fiat, which has controlled the American automaker since …
Bobby Jindal’s wish to cut volcano monitoring was nothing compared to Romney’s desire to shift FEMA’s responsibility to the states (which in practice would mean money spent for other things, then shrieks of despair to the Federal Government when disaster struck and the states had blown all the money designated for it — Hey! Double …
This is enlightening, particular for those of who read the papers and see the cable news and think all these “Romney has momentum” stories should worry us. While Mr. Obama can win re-election by carrying Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin, in addition to holding the other Democratic-leaning states across the country, Mr. Romney must capture more …
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Kevin Drum suggests we’ll see Moderate Mitt again tonight. I submit we will if he’s smart, but if he gets flustered he’ll turn right back into pompous nasty “I’m the Boss, how dare you confront me” mode.
Who was that unmasked man at Debate #2, The Rematch? Why, it was “the petulant, unlikable and bullying corporate persona that is Mitt Romney’s default mode.” Oh, come, that’s a bit harsh, is it not? Well, judge for yourself. With his feigned slights, his constant squabbling over the rules, and his arrogance that he alone …
Tom Toles at GoComics.com via Balloon Juice The only thing I find fault with is that it’s much too small a car for a plutocrat like Mitt. It ought to be a stretch limo with a uniformed chauffeur.
He keeps claiming he’ll create twelve million jobs by the end of his first term. Putting aside the fact that several groups of economists say that would happen no matter what a President Romney might do: “Moody’s Analytics, in an August forecast, predicts 12 million jobs will be created by 2016, no matter who is …
Mitt said the following last week: We don’t have a setting across this country where if you don’t have insurance, we just say to you, ‘Tough luck, you’re going to die when you have your heart attack’ … No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either …