Editors’ Blog - 2011
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08.10.11 | 8:09 am
Warpath

Colbert lashes out against increasingly green Spongebob Squarepants. Watch.

08.10.11 | 8:27 am
The Difference Between the Parties

GOP leaders pick staunch conservatives for deficit committee.

The one arguable exception is Portman on the Senate side. Beside that though it’s pretty much down the line. Hard to see any flexibility.

08.10.11 | 9:57 am
First Off, Claim Victory

No mistake. Wisconsin Dems say last night’s election were a win for them.

And the truth is they’re right.

08.10.11 | 11:57 am
Leech Not, Progressive Foes!

RNC Chair, and Wisconsin native, Rience Priebus toasts GOP holding on to its Senate majority against hordes of progressive leeches.

“We Need To Have A Country Of Makers, And Not A Country Of Takers.” Watch.

08.10.11 | 1:31 pm
Winning!

Fark founder Drew Curtis gets all Michael Corleone on patent trolling firm Gooseberry Natural Resources.

08.10.11 | 3:37 pm
On Second Thought

Nebraska senate candidate says he regrets comparing poor people and welfare recipients to scavenging animals.

08.10.11 | 3:45 pm
Oops

From Ben Smith

Gov. Mitt Romney lobbied the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s in 2004 to raise his state’s credit rating in part because Massachusetts had raised taxes during an economic downturn two years earlier.

The claim was part of a presentation to the ratings agency obtained by POLITICO under a state freedom of information law from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance. The Nov. 4 presentation, stamped “confidential,” helped persuade S&P to raise the state’s grade and handed Romney the perfect talking point for last week’s humiliating national downgrade by the same agency.

Mitt’s basic policy sanity will likely haunt him through the 2012 cycle.

08.10.11 | 3:50 pm
Big Hug

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) says his Ohio colleague and now GOP supercommittee member Sen. Rob Portman is open to closing the deficit with tax hikes.

08.11.11 | 6:12 am
Austerity Is For Everyone Else

Tea-partying Georgia congressman: How dare my bank loan me $2.2 million it knew I couldn’t repay!

08.11.11 | 7:12 am
Solar Plexus

The solar power industry says they’re now creating more jobs for the energy produced than any other energy source in the USA. And two new studies seem to back them up.