Pennsylvania GOP gets back in the electoral game by taking the vote away from almost a million of the state’s citizens.
This weekend Team Romney held a round of big dollar fundraisers out in the Hamptons, where New York’s rich and super-rich spend their weekends and summers. And if the word went out not to conform to stereotype, well … apparently no one got the word.
A bunch of rich stories have been filed so far. Here’s a gem from the LAT’s Maeve Reston, who was apparently chatting up attendees as they drove their cars up to the manse … Read More
We all know about spam. For most of us, it’s a matter of email. But if you run a website there’s the dreaded scourge of ‘comment spam’. You’ve seen it. People who go into comments and post totally off-topic comments with links to this or that commercial site. “So, hey, you’re talking about health care reform and mandates, but check out the great Refi i just got at scamrefi.com!!!”
Clearly, the folks who do this for a living are shameless and awful. But this morning I learned they’re striving for even greater levels of shamelessness and actually achieving it. Read More
President Obama is scheduled to address the press in the East Room of the White House just before noon ET to renew his call for extending the Bush tax cuts for anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
Nothing is going to happen on this until after the election, but this sets the stage for the election to actually decide this issue. Want a mandate? Run on the thing you want a mandate to do. By thrusting the tax issue into the center of the presidential campaign, Obama is doing just that.
If you’re an anti-tax Republican, that’s not a bad thing either. If Obama loses, you’ve staked a claim to a mandate on the issue, too. Yeah, the mandate could get muddied if Obama wins and Democrats lose the Senate, or other conflicting outcomes. But this is what elections should be about. By November, the parties will have spent much of the last two years jockeying and debating the Bush tax cuts, to what is basically a standoff. So let the voters decide.
Game on.
Not Mitt’s fault exactly but folks trying to crash his mogul/mansion Hamptons fundraiser on a sailboat may qualify as the ultimate Mitt moment.
I suspect a lot of politicians and talking heads and reporters will treat President Obama’s renewed push to allow the high-income Bush tax cuts to expire as deja vu. And in their defense, there’s some overlap between what’s about to play out in the political realm, and what happened in 2010, when Democrats fractured over the issue and agreed to extend all the Bush tax cuts for two years.
But the story’s actually much different now, and that mostly has to do with the fact that this time around Republicans have a presidential candidate on the ticket. Not just any presidential candidate, either, but one who personifies the class of super-rich that benefited from the Bush tax cuts so much more than everybody else.
Here’s why that matters. Read More
Just after the hoped-for economic downturn, Romney stumbles on offshoring jobs and his money. I take a look in today’s episode of the Set-Up …