House Dems feeling pretty good about the longevity of Obamacare, and I think they’re right on the historical parallels.
This week’s prize goes to the Breitbart crew, who posit that the Olympics will be a two-week long infomercial for erstwhile Olympics savior Mitt Romney. Seemingly they’ve forgotten that nobody will care about that, whereas a great deal of attention will fall on the Romneys’ exotically named dressage horse Rafalca (pronounced RrrrrrraFALllllca).
I’m a few days late to this JPL video showing how the Curiosity rover currently en route to Mars will make its landing next month, but it’s too cool not to share: Read More
There’s been a lot of chatter over the last few days about whether super-wealthy candidates get a hard rap in US politics or whether Mitt Romney is being held to a higher or harder standard. Romney is probably the wealthiest man ever to run for President, even in inflation adjusted dollars. (There are some claims that Washington was wealthier but it’s based on a total misreading of the value of land during the period.) But certainly there have been many extremely wealthy men who’ve run for President and won — Roosevelts, one Kennedy, a couple Bushes, etc.
But all of this talk ignores a fact so salient and obvious that it’s hard to fathom how some are nevertheless oblivious to it. Having vast wealth and aggressively working the law and tax code to avoid taxes is a very different thing if your policy agenda is geared almost entirely to benefit the super wealthy. If you’re a gazillionaire and your main pitch is to cut taxes on gazillionaires that’s just gonna put a bit more emphasis on your wealth. This logic should not be difficult to grasp. Read More
Normally in a general election, you’d expect both parties, and both presidential candidates, to moderate some of their maximalist positions. And on some issues, that’s happening in this election.
But not on taxes. Read More
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) hilariously complains to HBO after “The Newsroom” reported that he is in favor of repealing the 14th Amendment.
How do you get the power and torque you need for larger vehicles like pickup trucks from an electric motor? How about separate electric motors for each wheel?
The former RNC chairman talks to TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro and says Mitt Romney’s speech today to the NAACP is a “moot point” but he doesn’t stop there:
The RNC has done very little since I left office to expand on the work that we had done in this area. They’ve got a website, God bless them. It’s always good to put a website up with some black faces on it. Outreach.
Outreach indeed.
Conservative policy wonks: Obamacare is nothing like Romneycare; in fact, Romneycare isn’t much like Romneycare either!