(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) __ Per TPMLivewire, Willard Romney, Richard Santorum, and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz all took victory laps tonight. __ Rick Perry, on the other hand, may be reduced to campaigning for the VP slot, after “one of the most swift and complete collapses in primary history“.
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Twitching the GOP Horses
… some part of the horse, anyway. Reporting from the salt-of-the-earth diner-demographic in Iowa, Mr. Pierce at Esquire elicits a brilliant analogy: POLK CITY, Iowa — So Dennis Wendle and Don Boone were hanging out together at home down around Liberty, Missouri (no kidding), and they decided that they were tired of living in a …
Tuesday Evening Open Thread
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) __ During this hectic holiday season, let’s keep reminding our “low information” family members and acquaintances: When you vote for a modern Republican, you are voting for a Bad Person.
Fox News GOP Debate Thread
The livestream is here, but my PC is (very sensibly) refusing to load the Faux News player… Richard Adams’ Guardian liveblog is here: 8.30pm: Welcome to the GOP presidential debate, brought to you by Fox News and the good people of Sioux City, Iowa – the final slugfest between, well, a pack of slugs. __ …
“YoYo Economics”
Greg Sargent at his WaPo Plum Line blog reports “Obama unleashes sharp attack on inequality, and Campaign 2012 begins“: Obama’s speech in Kansas, which just concluded, was the most direct condemnation of wealth and income inequality, and the most expansive moral defense of the need for government activism to combat it, that Obama has delivered …
We’re not at the end of the beginning, but perhaps the beginning of the end
Something huge happened today. The kind of thing that changes the nature of the economy, and Americans’ relationship with their government, and with the corporations that seem to rule so much of our world. Today is the day that a significant part of the Affordable Care Act took effect. Today is the day that companies …
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The Unlikely Resurgence of A Grossly Swollen Amphibian
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) __ To rational observers of his long history of self-destructive bloviation and toxic narcissism, Newton Leroy Gingrich’s newfound “frontrunner” status in the GOP presidential race is a major mystery. The Washington Post, company paper for the political industry, dutifuly untangles how “Newt Gingrich Inc…. went from political flameout to fortune“, detailing …
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