Typography is dead. pic.twitter.com/ziiAwCS0CN
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) July 21, 2015
Dude's last into the race. All the fonts were taken. https://t.co/OaZFUatzan
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) July 21, 2015
John Kasich's announcement is a great advertisement for speechwriters and Teleprompters.
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 21, 2015
Kasich's aides said he would speak impromptu. And he is . . speaking . . and speaking. .. and speaking. 38 minutes so far.
— Sheryl Stolberg (@sherylstolberg) July 21, 2015
Stolberg’s eventual report, in the NYTimes, “John Kasich Enters Crowded 2016 Race Facing Job of Catch-Up”:
… Mr. Kasich, joined by his wife and 15-year-old twin daughters, addressed several thousand cheering supporters inside the student union building at Ohio State University here, offering a centrist appeal designed to paint him as a common-sense Midwesterner who can fix a broken Washington. He avoided attacking President Obama, as his Republican rivals have done.
The event was a return of sorts: as an 18-year-old Ohio State freshman in 1970, Mr. Kasich wrote President Richard M. Nixon to plead, successfully, to visit the White House. But Mr. Kasich seemed determined to link himself to another Republican president, the conservative hero, Ronald Reagan, whose optimistic oratory he sought to evoke.
“The sun is rising and the sun is going to rise to the zenith again in America,” Mr. Kasich said at one point, recounting his advice to citizens of an Ohio community whose economy was devastated by job losses during the recession. He wrapped up his speech with another Reagan-esque declaration: “The light of a city on a hill cannot be hidden. America is that city and you are that light.”…
Mr. Kasich also spoke of “these two wonderful African-American fellows” he met at a Wendy’s restaurant who, he said, urged him to run. (Mr. Kasich won a quarter of the black vote when he won re-election in 2014.) He told them other candidates would have more money. “And they looked at me,’ “ he said, ‘and said, ‘But you got statistics.’”…
My vote for fishiest political anecdote of the week, even in this week full of Trump. But he is bipartisanly centrist, so No Labels (or whatever it’s called this season) is no doubt scouring the couch cushions for change to support yet more tv commercials in the NH media market. Kasich’s handlers say the NH primary is “key” for him, since or because John “Prolapsed Pig Rectum” Sununu‘s in charge of his campaign there.
Supporters waiting for #Kasich to announce presidential bid. Here he is on the big screen, shaking Nixon's hand. pic.twitter.com/l3QBM1uYjT
— Sheryl Stolberg (@sherylstolberg) July 21, 2015
Apart from those commercials, that’s the most attention Kasich is liable to draw for the next many months, barring his notoriously “jerk”-ish temperament giving the lamestream media clickbait. Ed Kilgore, at the Washington Monthly, is optimistic:
… Ohio Governor John Kasich… has an anger management problem. He’s forever popping off at friends, enemies, constituents, media, you name it, to the point where the famously volatile John McCain has described him as having “a hair-trigger temper.”
You can imagine that this could be a problem in a presidential campaign, particularly one that begins with an insane two-week sprint to do well enough in national polls to make a cutoff for a debate in your own state, at a moment when Donald Trump, people attacking Donald Trump, and people yapping about foreign policy (not exactly Kasich’s forte) are soaking up 98% of the media attention. It’s enough to make you snap, crackle and pop…
Why do I have a bacon craving this morning? pic.twitter.com/OtwrqUl9Md
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 21, 2015
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Risible campaign posturing aside, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
[email protected]
I thought Walker had cornered the market on “E”s as flag stripes..
Baud
That’ll separate him from the pack.
David Koch
K
KKJim, Foolish Literalist
I’ll repost my question from earlier just in case Kay or others who have watched him more closely than I look in:
Anybody watch all of Kasich’s speech? I had him on in the car for about three minutes, he was talking about the sun coming up again in Wilmington, OH (so I guess Obama brought morning back to America). I caught two references to “preachers”, “god fearing”, “children of god”, “under god”. That’s when I bailed. I thought his delivery sounded weak, but then I’m predisposed to dislike him.
Anybody impressed/scared ?
also, too, I saw some Politico guy who said Kasich was running for Veep. I don’t think he’s one of those with a junior partner’s temperament (Rubio’s the only one running I can see accepting that slot), and
I know American political memories are short, especially Republicans, but does anyone think a top-of-the-ticket candidate, or his staff, wants to spend the months from the convention to the election having to explain what the number-two guy “meant to say”?
Gimlet
in 2011, Kasich pushed through a law barring public sector workers from collectively bargaining for better wages and working conditions — a law that went beyond a similar move in Wisconsin by including firefighters and police. That law that was overwhelmingly overturned by voters a year later, a strong rebuke of Kasich’s policies left his approval rating in the 30s. He won back significant support by expanding Medicaid to nearly 300,000 uninsured, low-income residents.
However, just before this Memorial Day weekend, the Governor issued an executive order stripping away union rights from nearly 10,000 independent home health-care and in-home child-care workers.
Somewhat ironically, Kasich credited the success of the President’s Affordable Care Act — which he opposes and wants repealed — as part of his rationale for repealing those union rights.
He said would have repealed his predecessor’s law earlier, but “since that time,” he wrote, “health insurance has become widely available through other means, such as the federal health insurance exchanges.”
kindness
Isn’t that the mathematical symbol for approximately?
Duh Oh! Oh yea, that would be two squiggly lines.
shell
Logos for a dollar.
So when is that first republican debate. Its gonna be sweeeeeet.
Oh wait, its on Fox. Forget soft ball questions. Theyll be dandelion fluff
Baud
@Gimlet:
How? Are they state workers? The blurb says “independent.”
MattF
Bad typography, bad temper, love of Ronald Reagan. Sounds like the fallback for the Repub Establishment if both Jeb! and Walker crater. And that could happen.
Um, policies? ‘Centrist’ it says here. No further elaboration.
Baud
I could not see two African Americans in that photo of the event.
raven
I don’t know how much these guys make but they sure as hell earn it. It’s 95 out there and the heat index is way higher.
jl
This post cracked me up. Did the Onion script his announcement gig? It’s like a send-up of crank old establishment GOP dinosaurs trying to get hip and do that Gipper Teabag rag.
Gimlet
@Baud:
The move undoes a law implemented by former Democratic Governor Ted Strickland that extended the ability to bargain with the state to those overlooked and underpaid sectors.
gene108
I hope Trump’s in the first debate and says something to the effective of:
You know what everyone on this stage’s economic policy is? It’s giving me a big fat tax cut, ’cause I’m rich. All of you may not vote for me, but I’m winning no matter what.
jl
@kindness:
” Isn’t that the mathematical symbol for approximately?
Duh Oh! Oh yea, that would be two squiggly lines. ”
Might be symbol for approximate definition of loser hilarity.
Baud
@Gimlet:
Thanks. But I thought non-state-employees had union rights under federal law, so I’m confused about how a state governor could have any say in the matter.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Sweet Christ, I couldn’t believe it when Romney dragged that old warthog out of mothballs. So Kasich’s plan is to party like it’s 1991?
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Fortunately (for us) I read that Kasich has had some severe anger management problems with the GOP billionaire sugar daddies (and mommies and trust funders). I read that he really really pissed them off at a slush fund try-out for the GOP politicians, and did not even get a private audience with the money.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m waiting to see who snags James Baker.
SatanicPanic
@jl: which is about the only thing I like about him
dedc79
The New Yorker’s article about the suspicious murder/suicide of Prosecutor Albert Nisman is out from under their ordinary paywall, and is worth a read. Although I think the chances of them figuring out who is responsible for his death are about as low as the chances that the perpetrators of the bombing that prompted his investigation will be tried in a court of law.
JPL
@Baud: Jeb snagged him but then Baker criticized Netanyahu, so he was let go .
Baker has always been for a two state solution.
slag
I’ve never before seen a K seem so intent on becoming something other than a K. It’s as if half of it wants to secede from the other half. OH Kanada?
And they really showed him shaking Nixon’s hand? Intentionally?
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
No sensible person.
Corner Stone?
Schlemazel
I was disappointed to see John Scalzi label this clarabelle (diff from Bozo but still a clown) as a ‘moderate Republican’ on his blog post. He lives in Ohio and should know better. Sure, he whispers sweet nothings but his bag O tricks contains the same horrid, horrific, humbug as the other clown car occupants. Its the lack of spitting fire and dog whistles that kills him in the primary which is a good thing because people not paying attention might buy that ‘centrist’ bullshit he mouths.
Baud
@JPL:
Ha! I didn’t know that.
cckids
@raven: Yikes. Here in Vegas, we had painters at my apartment complex 3 weeks ago, when we were in 30 + days of over 105 temps. It was at least 95-99 by 8 am, they were up on ladders & out on the blacktop, etc. Dangerously hot.
ETA: even in dry heat, when it’s that hot for so many hours, it takes a toll.
Iowa Old Lady
Did I read that this guy was a Fox broadcaster? And yet, sadly, he’s far from being the most extreme in the bunch.
David Koch
◘ President Obama makes his 7th and final appearance with Jon Stewart tonight.
■ Lindsey Graham is treading on twitter. Trump has turned him into a national laughing stock.
jl
The logo looks like something a second rate tractor company would put out. I can hear some old geezer saying ‘Aw shit, no wonder you got trouble, got Kasich tracks on that thing. The grousers don’t last… grind themselves to shit in no time.”
jl
@slag:
” And they really showed him shaking Nixon’s hand? Intentionally? ”
Things like that what made me think the Onion was running the show.
dmsilev
@jl: Speaking of The Onion, they scored a Donald Trump op-ed:
mtiffany
@Gimlet:
“Because when quality in-home child care is too expensive because you’re a poor, your child should be molested by that drifter you had to hire off the street.”
Paid for by Charles and David Koch for Kasich for Puppet.
raven
@cckids: Yea, these guys didn’t start till 10am. I have no idea how they are payed but they show no sign of stopping.
Gimlet
Open thread news
Police investigating the death of a Los Angeles man uncovered an arsenal inside his home and garage more than 1,200 guns and about two tons of ammunition, authorities said on Monday.
Commander Andrew Smith of Los Angeles police department called the number of rifles, pistols and shotguns staggering. Many had never been fired and some were still wrapped in boxes, with price tags still attached.
“Our truck couldn’t carry it all,” Smith told the Los Angeles Times. “We had to go back and make another trip.”
There were no signs of foul play. Police have found no evidence the man, who has not been identified, was involved in criminal activity.
Police made the discovery after the man’s decomposing body was found in a car down the street from his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
Davis X. Machina
I actually like the logo — mentally put it on the funnel of a steamship.
wasabi gasp
campaign submerged – do not open hatch
PaulW
Kasich: The Baconator of Candidates.
MattR
You know what is scary? I cant figure out who the least objectionable Republican is (or the one who scares me the most, for that matter). It is so bad that if I had to pick one to be President it would probably be Pataki even though he is also the one I am most likely to kick in the balls if I see him in person as a result of watching what my father went through as a NY state employee during Pataki’s time as governor (and my father had it better than most).
Tree With Water
Digby posted this (a verbatim quote drawn from Politico). If anyone ever produces a movie about the 2016 campaign, this would make a great opening scene. Ladies and gentlemen, today’s republican party:
“..Last year, he traveled to Southern California to appear on a panel at a conference sponsored by the Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch. At one point, according to accounts provided by two sources present, Randy Kendrick, a major contributor and the wife of Ken Kendrick, the owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, rose to say she disagreed with Kasich’s decision to expand Medicaid coverage, and questioned why he’d expressed the view it was what God wanted.
The governor’s response was fiery. “I don’t know about you, lady,” he said as he pointed at Kendrick, his voice rising. “But when I get to the pearly gates, I’m going to have an answer for what I’ve done for the poor.”
The exchange left many stunned. About 20 audience members walked out of the room, and two governors also on the panel, Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, told Kasich they disagreed with him. The Ohio governor has not been invited back to a Koch seminar — opportunities for presidential aspirants to mingle with the party’s rich and powerful — in the months since..”.
Anne Laurie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Think of it as hiring an Anger Translator. That was supposed to be part of Palin’s appeal for McCain — a mere ladywoman could say all the mean unhinged crap that McCain got in trouble for uttering.
Or, hell, look at Obama offering Biden the VP slot; Very Serious People couldn’t believe a sensible presidential candidate would let that notorious gaffe-machine Crazy Uncle Joe stand within mouth-shooting-off range. But as a working partnership, the two of them have been extremely effective. (Not saying Kasich is within 17 levels of Biden’s skills, but horserace reporters like frameworks they can understand and that’s the framework here.)
PaulW
@jl:
Are we at the point where the Republicans can relate back to Nixon to win over primary voters?
The heckler in me is wondering why Kasich photo-shopped Elvis out of the picture to substitute himself.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I didn’t watch but I’ve heard him plenty and he is a weak speaker. He trails along, he uses imprecise words to impatiently (and poorly) explain his own programs and positions. I was surprised because he’s not brand new at this- you would think he would be better.
I don’t know if the bad temper hurts him. Political media seemed to love that trait n Chris Christie and people will have less time to get sick of Kasich. You know how that goes- treating people terribly is considered “brave” for some reason.
I think the Bush’s take him out. Not literally! He will remain ALIVE :)
I just think Jeb Bush intends to be the nominee and John Kasich isn’t going to stop him. That isn’t happening.
Patricia Kayden
“the famously volatile John McCain has described him as having “a hair-trigger temper.”
Dang. How much of a temper does Kasich have that Hothead McCain has to comment on it?
Origuy
That was John H. Sununu, the father, wasn’t it? Kasich’s guy is John E. Sununu, the son.
mtiffany
@Baud:
Easy to miss, a few were in the back serving drinks and a couple of ’em were outside shining shoes. This is a Republican event dear, did you think they’d be attending as guests?
Gimlet
Feb 12, 2015
Kasich describes his $696 million tax cut as a helping hand to small businesses.
Three-quarters of all tax entities organized as “small businesses” employ no one other than the owner. Just 11 percent of all taxpayers who report business income are small business owners with actual employees.
Savvy individuals can structure their personal revenue streams under the business tax code using what are called “pass-through entities,” and then take advantage of preferential tax treatment that Kasich is proposing.
Kasich also wants to raise the state sales tax rate, a regressive move that hurts low- and moderate-income people far more than the wealthy.
Tree With Water
@Gimlet: I bet the deceased didn’t die of old age.
Pogonip
I wouldn’t trust Kasich. In 1994, there was a controversial gun law up for a vote–Kasich, literally on the steps of the building was saying he’d vote against it. Then he went in and voted for it. Even for a politician, that’s pretty flagrant lying. Regardless of your feelings on an issue you could not trust whatever he said on it.
jl
@PaulW: Kasich is Elvis!!??
Damn, Trump finally got himself some competition, as soon as Elvis whips off the old cranky rambly talking white man disguise and amazes everyone with tunes and moves. I can’t wait!
Edit: what Elvis movie was that anyway? I don’t remember.
srv
How can we see the light of the people in the city on the hill if the sun is at zenith?
slag
@Baud: You missed Montel Williams? Though, technically, I think he was busy working the crowd selling payday loans.
Tree With Water
@Anne Laurie: I suspect McCain’s reason for choosing Palin is more flesh crawling than that. I think she excited the old geezer. Try not to picture that now… bet you can’t do it.
[McCain to Palin]: “Want to play “top of the ticket” tonight”?
mtiffany
@Tree With Water:
You’ve gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!
Brachiator
All these Republicans jumping into the presidential race is tiring me out. And there’s the obvious joke here, “how many Republicans does it take to try to replace a fabulous black president?” Needs a good punchline.
Yesterday, a commenter mentioned the TV comedy series “Catastrophe.” I see it’s included in my Amazon Prime membership, so I thought I would settle in for a quiet evening and check it out.
slag
@jl: Closing his announcement speech with “I am not a crook” would have bookended the event nicely. Missed opportunities.
mtiffany
@slag: Nice
MattF
@Tree With Water: Whoa. A shred of decency. In private, and merely rumored… but considering that he must spend a lot of time with Republicans, it’s no wonder he’s easily angered.
slag
@Davis X. Machina: Any particular steamship, by chance?
Pogonip
@Tree With Water: Yes, he’s not all bad–who is?–but he’s dishonest even by politician standards.
Roger Moore
@Tree With Water:
Maybe not, but the police have said there is no sign of foul play and they’re not treating it as a homicide. I guess it might be a suicide, but you’d think somebody with that much firepower would have killed himself in an extremely obvious way.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
All of them, Katie.
Jeffro
Kaisch’s totally running for Veep – he’s polling at 1%, he’s last to enter the race, he has just about nothing to distinguish him from at least 5 of the other candidates. But because of what Ohio means if the GOP nominee’s going to have any chance of winning the general election…Kaisch!, silly logo and all.
TriassicSands
If Kasich makes it to the stage for the first debate, the other GOP candidates will disappear — overshadowed by the radiance of Kasich’s luminous brilliance.
The genetic distribution of ego is an amazing thing. Why a lame-ass bore like Kasich would believe that he should be president of the United States is beyond human comprehension. It seems that once someone gets elected to office, all sense of proportion is lost. Dog catcher today, Supreme Ruler of the Universe tomorrow.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I think Kasich appeals to a part of the GOP base- it’s just exactly the same people who would also like Jeb Bush.
I think he runs into the same sort of problem with Clinton in the general. She’s practical too. I don’t think there’s anywhere in Ohio where she will be considered some kind of dangerous radical. My sense with her is always that people “know” her – they don’t believe there will be a lot of surprises. That’s supposedly his appeal.
So in the primary he’s up against a better funded and better connected person who is chasing after the same voters he is, and in the general it will be the same thing, except then he’ll be vying for “swing” voters against Clinton instead of moderates in the GOP base. He just doesn’t add enough unique value. Why not just go with Bush?
Tree With Water
@Pogonip: Who said he wasn’t? Not me, and certainly not Digby (at Hullabaloo.com). That’s the gist of her article, in fact. She calls it his freak flag, which I take objection to as an original adherent of that banner. But that quibble aside, her thumbnail sketch of the guy is, as usual, spot on. I just thought it would make a great opening scene for a movie..
Gimlet
A public service post for your amusement or education
5/18/2015
by Arthur B. Laffer and Nicholas C. Drinkwater
Mr. Laffer, founder/chairman of Laffer Associates, was adviser to Pres. Reagan.
Barely into his second term, Governor Kasich has already eliminated Ohio’s estate tax and cut income tax rates, and now he has proposed a tax reform plan that will put Ohio onto a new trajectory of strong economic growth. The plan includes across-the-board income tax rate cuts of 23%, tax cuts for small businesses and an increase in the state’s sales tax rate.
income taxes reduce the marginal incentive to work and produce. For this reason, income taxes are the most damaging to economic growth of all major types of taxes. People don’t work and produce in order to pay taxes; they work and produce to get after-tax income, and changes in marginal tax rates can dramatically alter the decision to work or not.
Consumption taxes (e.g. sales taxes) are preferable to income taxes because sales taxes are broad-based by default and do far less harm to incentives to work and produce. When tax bases are very broad, tax rates can be extremely low and yet raise enormous amounts of tax revenue at minimal cost to the economy. Moreover, since states like Ohio exempt or greatly reduce the state sales tax rates applied on most necessity items (like groceries, public housing, public transportation, healthcare and education services), there is built-in protection from this kind of tax burden hitting lower income groups.
Governor Kasich’s proposal would lower income tax rates—dramatically boosting Ohioans’ incentives to work, earn and produce—while raising—in a stable and dependable manner—Ohio’s sales tax rate to provide revenues to run government without reducing the rewards earned by hardworking taxpayers.
Alex
I’m holding out for Jim Gilmore.
eric
@cckids: and the GOP wants them to work to 72 to social security
Germy Shoemangler
from the NYTIMES:
Brachiator
@Germy Shoemangler:
Heh! Heh! Too good. Too damn good.
And this reminds me of the letter you referenced in another post. Obama confronts the fear mongering head on.
RSA
Not just typography. All the designer had to do was google red text blue background, but no…
WaterGirl
@Tree With Water: There was actually a photo in 2008 of McCain on stage with Palin and he was absolutely leering at her. Creeped me right out. If I recall correctly, Cindy McCain was also on stage.
Tree With Water
@Germy Shoemangler:
“Mr. Obama said the criticism of the Iran agreement offered “echoes of some of the same mind-set and policies that failed us in the past,” and was being put forward by “the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq.” It definitely could use a re-write and I volunteer for the job, but at least he alluded to the Bush-Cheney (et.al.) war in terms other than “look forward, not back”.
Jeffro
Btw my extremely unscientific poll of my brother + 1 friend shows strong hopes that Walker and/or Kaisch make the ticket in some fashion. I think they just want a win and see these two as most likely to unite the party and then most electable in the general. Much further down their ‘wish lists’ are Rubio and Bush.
rikyrah
@David Koch:
LOL
Tree With Water
@Roger Moore: There’s some great dialog between Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne in the movie The Shootist. In that scene, Stewart informs Wayne that he’s dying of cancer. Wayne responds by saying he feels strong as an ox, to which Stewart replies, “Even ox die”.
SiubhanDuinne
Man’s gonna give himself a heart attack. Or, as an anagram of JOHN RICHARD KASICH would have it, SHH! CARDIAC IRKS JOHN.
Felonius Monk
The boys in mama’s basement are going to have fun with this.
Look out for traffic jams and just hope nobody is killed or seriously injured.
Davis X. Machina
@slag: Something from my youth, like the TS State of Maine (Ex ACC USS Ancon)
slag
@Davis X. Machina: See, now I thought for sure you were thinking Titanic.
Suzanne
All the Rethugs are sad that no good graphic designers want to work for them.
Designers tend to be so liberal. Maybe that’s why I’m a designer.
Baud
@Suzanne:
I’m not crazy about Hillary’s or O’Malley’s logo, however.
Germy Shoemangler
@Suzanne: republicans can’t find good designers and can’t get permission from any of their rock heroes to use their rock anthems.
The only people they can work with is toad-like billionaires like Sheldon.
Germy Shoemangler
@Baud: Hillary’s logo looks vaguely instructional to me. “Open Here” or “Turn This Latch to Operate”
Roger Moore
@Felonius Monk:
That’s going to get a lot uglier with self-driving cars. Right now, car companies can create an electronic separation between the internet-connected parts of the car and the parts that actually control its ability to drive. But a self-driving car probably needs to be able to talk to the internet to get updated maps and navigation information, and the parts doing that absolutely need to talk to the parts that are controlling the engine, brakes, steering, etc., so the ability to protect critical systems by strict isolation disappears.
princess leia
My first thought was that the “K” looked like the red cross on the Confederate flag.
slag
Another reason to miss Obama—superb campaign logo design.
Grace
Posted this late in an earlier thread but still curious about it. None other than Erick son of Erick has some very harsh words about Kasich. He complains about him accepting Obamacare as the big reason but he supported Romney in 2012 despite his dubious past with Romneycare. Seems to actually be personal (and even some of the RedState crowd speculated about that) — anyone have a guess about what might be the real reason for Erickson’s wrath?
wuzzat
One more K on that logo and Kasich might even be able to edge ahead of Trump in the polls.
Jeffro
@Grace: Unfulfilled ‘wide stance’ some years back at the 2004 GOP convention?
I got nothin’
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@jl: I’m sure PaulW is referring to this famous picture, but there was a movie, also too.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jeffro
@Baud: O’Malley’s logo…I don’t even know what to think of that…it looks like part of a paid ad in WIRED
Joel
@srv: the city on the hill was set there to reveal the sins of the people, which would be broadcast for all to see.
Davis X. Machina
@slag: It wouldn’t be a bad house flag, either….
When there were more ships in Boston Harbor — they still come in, but it’s mostly containers to the back side of Castle Island and cars at the old Moran facility in Charlestown — my grandfather used to take me down to look at all the flags, national and house, and funnels.
catclub
I was thinking kkkaty.
PurpleGirl
@raven: Looks like the addition is coming along nicely.
Debbie
@Gimlet:
Kasich’s policies have ensured Ohio’s continued mediocrity by his impoverishment of public education. There will be no New Day for Ohio.
(The speech was a rambling embarrassment, like always.)
Craig
It makes me think of a Scandinavian ferry line…like I’m catching the midnight departure from Copenhagen to Oslo or something.