More proof that anytime the beltway hacks and blue dogs whine about something being unfair, it’s because the attack is working: Propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements, President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital to raise questions about his commitment to the middle class, strategists in both parties say, …
Election 2012
They’re under observation
Enter the lawyers: President Barack Obama’s campaign has recruited a legion of lawyers to be on standby for this year’s election as legal disputes surrounding the voting process escalate. Thousands of attorneys and support staffers have agreed to aid in the effort, providing a mass of legal support that appears to be unrivaled by Republicans …
Interstate Commerce: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
I went to a picnic night before last. Sherrod Brown was the speaker and special guest. The event was held on the grounds of a UAW hall, so perhaps unsurprisingly Brown’s talk was probably 75% auto rescue/manufacturing/trade and 25% Obamacare. He started with the transportation bill, which is finally headed to Obama’s desk. He spoke …
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Romney and Kobach and Voting Rights
The United States had another win on Obamacare Day, when the State of Arizona lost in an attempt to ignore or dodge federal law: The Supreme Court today denied an application by the State of Arizona to put on hold an April ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth …
Friday Evening Open Thread: Seriousness
__ Dave Weigel at Slate reports that “The Gay Republican Presidential Candidate (Whom You Never Heard of) Calls it Quits“: Karger, a successful Republican strategist who’d come out of the closet and quit working for other candidates, had launched a quixotic campaign with one real purpose: Hounding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints …
You Just keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline
Lily is very concerned that her single payer health care (me, god damnit) is now socialism *** The Republicans are demoralized, Roberts is now a dirty word in GOP circles, and they know there is no chance they will ever repeal what happened today. And while I know that, and I have still spent the …
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Bain in vain
Tell me something I don’t understand: does the Romney campaign honestly believe it can ix nay the ulture vay apitalism cay by strong-arming journalists? There are those who care what Corey Booker and Glenn Kessler say, but here in fly-over country, four Pinocchios, one Rhodes Scholar, and 270 electoral votes will win you an election. …