2012 Election

During the 2012 election cycle I had a lot of fun with Mitt Romney before he eventually lost his presidential bid, strapped his dog to the roof of his car, and rode off into the sunset. I never hated Mitt. He just seemed kind of feckless, what with his binders full...

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  • January 28, 2021

Oh, check out the above photo. Mitt Romney looks like such a lapdog you might be justifiably worried that Mitt Romney is about to strap Mitt Romney to the roof of Mitt Romney’s car. But sometime after Donald Trump invited Romney to dinner so he could humiliate him by scuttling his bid for...

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  • August 16, 2020

Taegan Goddard has a members-only piece up on Political Wire: Imagining Biden’s Team of Rivals. If Biden is elected — and I will hold my breath until he’s actually sitting behind the Roosevelt Desk and the nuclear codes are safely in his hands — then, Goddard suggests, Biden should consider...

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  • July 25, 2020

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D. VA) in support of his colleague, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s (D. NH) re-election campaign: In this email, I’m going to ask you to chip in $10 to support my colleague Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election to the U.S. Senate. But first, I want to...

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  • February 26, 2020

As President Trump’s legal team wrapped up its impeachment defense on Tuesday, all eyes turned to the issue of witnesses. But whether or not the mounting revelations surrounding former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s upcoming book are sufficient to spur Republican defections in the Senate, there is little doubt Donald...

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  • January 29, 2020

The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently bemoaned the encroachment of Gym Jordan’s jock sweat on the city of Cleveland. His presence there was the result of a “hideously gerrymandered” district that was created prior to the 2012 election, and his constituents there are presumably beside themselves with revulsion. And now the man whom...

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  • November 23, 2019

In the continuing saga of concern trolling from Never Trumpers and Trump supporters about the Democrats running for president, I would like to highlight one of those too far left ideas that virtually all Democratic presidential candidates endorse:  raising the minimum wage.  Democrats want to raise the minimum wage to...

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  • July 1, 2019

Well, it’s not like they can say that they weren’t warned. The “autopsy report” following the 2012 election was both blunt, and honest. It said that the GOP, in its current iteration, was dying. It’s core constituency was mainly white, older, rural, less educated men, heavy emphasis on the older. Every...

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  • March 19, 2019

Today’s sharply polarized and strategically focused political parties fit poorly with a constitutional system that anticipates collaboration as well as competition within and across separated institutions. As we initially wrote, parliamentary-style parties in a separation-of-powers government are a formula for willful obstruction and policy irresolution. The continuation of divided party...

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  • February 6, 2017

I'M a PA resident.  This law SUCKS! It was, from the very beginning, designed and intended to disenfranchise minority and young voters in Pennsylvania.  It has also threatened to disenfranchise older Pennsylvanians.  People like my neighbor Ralph, who manned the radio in a B-24 over Italy, Germany, and the Pacific...

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  • September 27, 2012

A Hollywood icon had a senior moment, or several, in the lead up to the most important speech of Mitt Romney’s career. We’ve had a few days now to let the chuckling subside, and wipe tears of laughter from our eyes, and so it’s time to reflect on what this...

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  • September 2, 2012