Archive for the ‘Daydream Believers’ Category
It’s early, but Romney’s already on the wrong side of the two big issues
Mitt Romney supported SB5 and he opposed the rescue of the auto industry, so I don’t know what he says when he arrives in Ohio: Obama leads Romney 49 – 42 in the new Ohio poll, a state where the political ground has shifted greatly over the last few months. After the massive defeat of [...]
February 1, 2012
· 
Kay · 
57 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers
An Exaltation of Larks, A Surfeit of Targets
Maybe it really is too late. Classical empires lasted centuries: the Han Dynasty held sway for 400 years, barring that brief unpleasantness with Wang Mang. The Romans had a similar run, depending on how you choose to bracket the rise and fall. The Mongols were a little less permanent, but for all their brutal kin-slaughter [...]
February 1, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 83 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Daydream Believers, DC Press Corpse, Decline and Fall
Don’t envy him his plane, you jealous leftists
We had an organizing event here Saturday, at a diner. Angela Zimmann was there, she’s running for the US House: And John Vanover was there, he’s running for the Ohio legislature. That is his first wife standing there with him: We talked about a lot of things, but I think I can safely say the [...]
January 30, 2012
· Kay · 45 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers
Romney Releases Tax Information, Does Better with Florida GOP Voters
I know, I know: it’s wrong to assume that correlation implies causation. But look at what’s going on with Florida GOP voters. Nate Silver: Polls Suggest Gingrich’s Support May Have Peaked Polling released within the past 24 hours suggests that Mitt Romney may have stopped and possibly reversed Newt Gingrich’s momentum before the Florida primary [...]
January 26, 2012
· SteveM · 89 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Free Markets Solve Everything, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You
Easy Fix
I usually attend movies at the local art house ($8), suburban art house wannabe ($8), or the end-of-run double feature movie theater ($5), so it was a bit of a surprise to go to the local multiplex and find that the price for a 3D movie is $13.50, and the price for a regular movie [...]
January 22, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 94 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers
Yes We Can-Can
Charles Krauthammer is mad enough to stomp bunnies, a man consumed with the type of bitterness that can only come from being thwarted by putative allies when a cherished goal is in sight. Things were going so well. With an assist from elderly social conservatives in patriot drag,* the GOP had successfully rebranded the economic [...]
January 21, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 154 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Daydream Believers, Election 2010, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Kochsuckers, Media, Politics, Schadenfreude, Sociopaths, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility, The teabagger's apprentice, Vouchercare
Open Thread: Merry Antipodean Xmas
Thanks to commentor Joeyess. How’s everybody’s celebrations or not-celebrations going?
December 24, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 39 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Open Thread
Let Newt Get His Geek On
I didn’t watch the debate last night, but I gather that this fell flat for Mitt Romney: Asked where he and Gingrich differed, Romney said, “We could start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon. I’m not in favor of spending that kind of money to do [...]
December 11, 2011
· SteveM · 61 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Daydream Believers, Fucked-up-edness, Grifters Gonna Grift, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Sociopaths, Teabagger Stupidity, We Are All Mayans Now
Look who showed up
An earlier post: Around two months ago I started getting calls from a person who works for the state Democratic Party. He told me they think my state representative has the potential to be vulnerable, because of some hazy rumors of scandal or general bad behavior or corruption that (apparently, allegedly) surround him. Pick one: [...]
December 4, 2011
· Kay · 61 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Crazification Factor, Daydream Believers, Election 2012
Even with 9.1% unemployment, no one wants this job
Around two months ago I started getting calls from a person who works for the state Democratic Party. He told me they think my state representative has the potential to be vulnerable, because of some hazy rumors of scandal or general bad behavior or corruption that (apparently, allegedly) surround him. Pick one: scandal, general bad [...]
December 1, 2011
· Kay · 59 Comments
Posted in: Balloon Jobs, Crazification Factor, Daydream Believers, Domestic Affairs, Election 2012, Good News For Conservatives, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
“Heaven”, Not Scott Brown’s Description of Elizabeth Warren
Rebecca Traister has a good, long article with a silly title in the NYTimes Magazine: ... Temperamentally, Warren presents as the opposite of certain bombastic and arguably chauvinistic members of Obama’s economic team. Katherine Porter, a former student who is now a bankruptcy-law professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that “a strong epithet [...]
November 20, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 29 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Election 2012, Warren for Senate 2012
No on Issue Two
I made canvassing calls for We Are Ohio the other night. The ballot issue in question is a “citizen veto” of SB5, which is Ohio’s new union-busting law. Technically, the law hasn’t gone in yet, which is why it’s “NO” on Issue Two. I don’t love making canvassing calls, but I will do it, and [...]
September 28, 2011
· Kay · 22 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Daydream Believers, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2011, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Glibertarianism
Early Morning Open Thread: Rosh Hashanah
Via commentor MRK, because it made him smile, as it did me. Shana Tova Umetukah, a good and sweet year, to the believers among us, and may we all be inspired to reflect upon our transgressions and strive for a better tomorrow!
September 28, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 27 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Open Thread
I can’t stand it, I know you planned it
I guess I’m the type who likes to ask cui bono sometimes. That’s why I could never be a serious person: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Conference, believes “some” Republicans “want the economy to actually fail.” Paul Krugman recently said in his column, “[I]t’s hard to avoid the suspicion that [...]
September 21, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 55 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Daydream Believers
Detroit to Ohio
Labor Day: A crowd estimated at 12,000 people lined up along the waterfront to chant “Obama” and “Four more years. The 60 degree temperature with a brisk wind forced most to their keep jackets tightly zipped. Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO led off the Labor Day speeches, saying the union will work to make [...]
September 5, 2011
· Kay · 92 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2011, Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Republican Venality, The Math Demands It
