I’m am continually surprised by my ability to be surprised by just how disgusting an organization Fox News is.
Obama running 13 points head of McCain. Equally significant, Democrats are running 14% ahead of Republicans in party ID.
Arianna ponders why some Democrats fall prey to Republican fear-mongering while others persevere.
Late Update: Gary Hart notes that Democrats’ argument that the GOP is engaged in delusional, fear-mongering promoted by commercial interests and cynical right-wingers hasn’t worked very well.
The strange case of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski and his porn website . . .
The Tax Policy Center has released a report comparing the Obama and McCain tax plans. You can read the report, “A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates’ Tax Plans,” here (.pdf). A sampling:
If enacted, the Obama and McCain tax plans would have radically different effects on the distribution of tax burdens in the United States. The Obama tax plan would make the tax system significantly more progressive by providing large tax breaks to those at the bottom of the income scale and raising taxes significantly on upper-income earners. The McCain tax plan would make the tax system more regressive, even compared with a system in which the 2001-06 tax cuts are made permanent. It would do so by providing relatively little tax relief to those at the bottom of the income scale while providing huge tax cuts to households at the very top of the income distribution.
At his TaxProf Blog, Paul L. Caron hits the highlights of the report and rounds up early reaction, some of which centers on the fact that both plans would dramatically increase the national debt.
To its credit, CNN also had a decent rundown on the tax relief numbers this morning:
For those of you in the New York City area, I’ll be the moderator tonight for a discussion of Matt Yglesias’s book Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats at The Strand Bookstore. It starts at 7 PM and of course it’s open to the public. More details here.
Besides Godzilla deciding to move behind the camera and go into directing, the idea of Lou Dobbs running for Governor of New Jersey strikes me as one of developments that either heralds the coming of the apocalypse or would be good grist for reality tv.
We take another look at Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) exorcism in today’s episode of TPMtv …
High-res version at Veracifier.com.