As I mentioned below we have our round-up below of all the craziest Black Friday behavior today. As I see this today and as it seems to have evolved over the last decade or so I’m starting to wonder whether Black Friday isn’t evolving into some modern day version of one of those old inversion festivals from the Middle Ages. Read More
TPM Reader JT has a few thoughts on Mitt getting the old heave-ho
Honestly, I find this a bit disturbing. I mean, two weeks ago all these people were defending everything Romney said. He lost the election in part because of some of those criticizing him now.
I can’t remember any Democratic presidential nominee being so vilified after a losing election, even Dukakis.
TPM Reader JB says they shouldn’t be surprised …
Following up on JT’s email, I think there is one point to remember when Republicans keep saying that they are so surprised that core groups in the Obama electoral coalition, like African Americans, young voters, etc., were able to match or even exceed their 2008 turnout: Republicans did some pretty unbelievable, disrespectful and frankly unconscionable things to this President that JT’s cites: shouting “You Lie!” to him during the middle of his State of the Union address (something that was frankly never contemplated to be done to Clinton or Bush, despite rapid opposition), challenging his birthplace and religion, or Governor Brewer pointing her finger in his face on the tarmac, much of which was repeated nightly on places like Fox News.
From TPM Reader KE on reaping the whirlwind …
I am sure that many people (like me) took the insults and disrespectful behavior towards President Obama in a very personal way.
Many of us have experienced racism from “non-racists” all too frequently. As an Asian-American, the questioning of Obama’s American-ness really strikes a raw nerve.
The big ‘breakthrough’ of the day is the apparent willingness to put ‘revenue’ on the table in on-going tax, budget, fiscal cliff, whatever-the-new-name-is-today discussion. But only one caveat: they’re now willing to raise revenue, just not raise rates. This is silly. Read More
I wrote at length below on the tax issue and whether revenues have to come from increased tax rates or through some limits on deductions. But there’s another way to state the point: It’s not the country’s or the Democrats’ or Obama’s problem to solve the GOP’s Grover Norquist problem for them. I see everyone else thinking they need to help pledgers square this circle. They don’t. Not their problem.
We’re getting no end of questions about the future of healthcare. And it so happens we have real answers. Or rather our senior congressional reporter Brian Beutler knows the politics and policy implications better than anyone. And he’s doing a Live Chat at TPMPrime this afternoon at 4 PM eastern to answer your questions. You can get your questions in right now by clicking here.
Donald Trump says that if the GOP wants to be relevant again they have to be less harsh and stop offending minorities.