Rick Perry is proving to be Michele Bachmann’s kryptonite. Check out these new poll numbers.
Wow, so cutting government spending and eliminating government jobs doesn’t help put people back to work?
Make no mistake: the 2012 election starts next Thursday. My point isn’t to be over-dramatic or say that any die will be irrevocably cast. But any possibility of a real jobs plan and — just as importantly — the outcome of the congressional debt committee are what the 2012 election will be about. Or to put it more clearly, President Obama needs to make that what the election is about. Read More
If you listen to the establishment press the president’s speech will determine whether the president listens to “liberals” and ditches the move toward economic austerity or “moderates” and Republicans and sticks to budget cutting. In fact, it’s more like the most of the economics profession, the bond market and the “liberals” on one side and Republicans and beltway columnists on the other.
For so long we’ve been chronicling the efforts of vote fraud bamboozlers to come up with ways to make it harder for minorities and poor people to vote. So let’s give credit to one of the top bamboozlers, Matthew Vadum, who’s just come out and said we just shouldn’t be making it easy for the working poor to vote in first place. It’s “like handing out burglary tools to criminals.”
President Obama leaves in place Bush-era smog regulations that his own EPA administrator recently called “legally indefensible.”
Ed Foster, Oath Keeper-backed former Mayor of Quartzsite, Arizona says his ouster was the product of a conspiracy by the “corrupt” town council and the “Nazi” town police force.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) to hold hearings next week on state-level voter suppression efforts, i.e., voter ID laws, tighter voting registration requirements, and other “ACORN-inspired” GOP efforts. Among the scheduled witnesses: Hans van Spakovsky.
Maybe we can hear from Matthew Vadum, too?
From TPM Reader JL …
Couldn’t agree more with your post.
The one thing I’d add is that as important as the substance is, tone may be more important. The Democratic base, if it is to support Obama passionately next fall, needs to know that he will fight for their values. And independents need to know that Obama stands for something and is ready to fight for it.
MIT is creating a new R&D lab to speed development of graphene for industrial uses. Graphene is an ultra-thin nano-material that scientists and technologists believe will revolutionize everything some computers to internet speeds to solar energy.
Back in June we reported on an international team of researchers who had developed so-called artificial graphene to accelerate research into the material.