Subscribe to Excerpts
Subscribe by Email
Is Mitt Romney a soulless vote-seeking zombie with no actual core beliefs, or a right-wing lunatic?
Archive for the ‘Campaigns’ Category
April 19th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Religion and Politics
Campaigns mess with people’s heads. Hence the inexcusable comments by Montana governor Brian Schweitzer regarding George Romney and polygamy.
April 19th, 2012
Mitt Romney, who needs to convince moderate swing voters that he’s not in fact a wingnut but has merely been playing one on TV, will give the commencement address at Liberty University, Jerry Falwell’s fundamentalist madrassa.
April 17th, 2012
Did Romney take the tax amnesty for people who cheated on their income taxes with concealed foreign bank accounts?
April 17th, 2012
(cross posted at freeforall) Jonathan Bernstein with a post decrying the poor job the WaPo Ombudsman did in describing the controversy around the piece put out last week by Charles Blahous that said the ACA will increase the deficit (contro to CBO’s longstanding estimates). I was with my family in a car heading South on [...]
March 2nd, 2012
Category: Birth Control, Campaign 2012
Republican self-destruction on birth control has a fairly simple explanation: a majority of Republicans, and no one else, think that unmarried people shouldn’t have sex. That explains a lot about Rush Limbaugh’s tirade—but also about Mitt Romney’s equivocation.
February 24th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Mitt Romney
Ezra Klein analyzes Romney’s budget speech so we don’t have to. He notes an explicit, straightforward promise to cut taxes and raise defense spending and pay for it by cutting programs for the poor.
February 23rd, 2012
Republicans seem unable to admit that birth control, in itself, is a good thing. That inability itself should be highlighted, and endlessly broadcasted.
February 21st, 2012
Listen up, class! In the last 48 hours: 1) Rick Santorum has compared Barack Obama to Hitler while comparing prenatal testing to eugenics; 2) Mitt Romney has warned that cutting government spending could hurt the economy. Two questions, class: Which one will be a more controversial statement within the Republican Party? Which candidate will reverse [...]
February 20th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Religion and Politics, Spirituality and Religion, Watching Conservatives
All the press coverage over Rick Santorum’s idiotic suggestions that mainline Protestants aren’t Christians, or that President Obama isn’t a Christian, or that prenatal care increases abortion rates, or that people who favor prenatal care favor eugenics, have obscured his equally idiotic attacks on environmentalism: Santorum said that he was referring not to the president’s [...]