Former Obama auto czar Steve Rattner isn’t exactly a disinterested observer, but what he has to say to TPM’s Benjy Sarlin about Paul Ryan’s efforts to keep the auto plant in Janesville open is interesting and revealing.
As Evan McMorris-Santoro describes in this new piece, the GOP’s message of inclusion this week has been marred by a series of race and gender related ‘incidents’. Some serious, some not so serious. But there’s a deeper dynamic here that rests in the balance as the Romney campaign pushes ahead with a more hard-edged race focused campaign, especially with the on-going effort to disenfranchise minority voters in critical states around the country.
Put simply, when you turn up the heat, it gets hard to keep all the stew in the pot. Read More
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More on today’s big federal court ruling striking down Texas’ voter ID law.
Watch as the cable news nets struggle to cover Paul Ryan’s convention speech and abide by the journalistic convention that calling out lies is unseemly. Almost excruciating.
The black CNN camerawoman at the center of the harassment incident at the GOP convention has broken her silence, thanks CNN for their support.
A very bad week for Texas Republicans. On Tuesday a federal court found the state’s GOP-crafted redistricting plan to be purposely discriminatory against Hispanics. Today, a federal court has thrown out the GOP-backed new voter ID law.
I like Chuck Todd. He’s one of the more knowledgable and sensible people in political journalism. But this has to rank as one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard anyone say. From this morning on Morning Joe, Todd explains that Democrats wish they had as deep a bench of non-white office-holders as the GOP. “Democrats wish they had the diversity of speakers and deep bench [of the GOP] to show America …”
I mean, just watch. It’s painful. After the jump … Read More
Two things were unquestionably true about Paul Ryan’s speech last night: One, it was unquestionably a well-written and well-presented speech and Two, it was filled with a lot of out and out lies or things that were so hypocritically or comically misleading as almost to amount to the same.
In itself, that’s not a huge surprise. What’s notable is how many pundits and news reporters couldn’t help noting right off the bat that well … he sure lied a lot. Read More