Politics

Romney won all three primaries today as CNN projects. It's surprising that Santorum wasn't even on the DC ballot. Was he ever a serious contender? Here is the link for the real-time results map. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/maryland-primary-2012-results-map_n_1401264.html?ref=politics

The Human Rights Campaign is making public a document sent to it by a NOM whistleblower revealing how Mitt Romney tried to shuffle his anti-gay financial activities in support of NOM and Proposition 8 through an obscure Alabama PAC. HRC is now calling on Romney to disavow the group's race-baiting strategy exposed by documents revealed earlier this week. Full story here: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/03/mitt-romney-snuck-donation-to-nom-proposition-8-through-obscure-alabama-pac.html

Rick Santorum is really either severely closeted or really full of hate or both. http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/03/santorum-tells-young-man-youre.html At a campaign event at a bowling alley, Rick Santorum told a young man that he was not to use a pink bowling ball on camera. There's really nothing this man says that isn't offensive.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/after-palin-expect-a-more-intense-vetting-process/ Very interesting NY Times article on how there will never be another Palin again after it was so obvious how poorly McCain and his team vetted her. There is no way another Palin will get in again without proper due diligence. If Romney is nominated he will more than likely pick a very safe VP candidate that doesn't require a lot of knowledge building like one of the other GOP candidates perhaps? Do you think Gingrich would do VP? or Santorum as VP? I bet they would. Or Chris Christie? It will all be interesting to observe.

Don't you have to have a heart first before it's transplanted? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/us/politics/dick-cheney-recovering-after-getting-a-new-heart.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJFs1qxJSY

Just sayin'. . .

There's some confusion in Ohio, where a judge has granted a same-sex couple a divorce. Ohio doesn't recognize same-sex marriage, so people find recognizing a divorce to be precedent setting, though others seem to think people are reading too much into it.

Republicans have no viable canduate against Obama. I think Obama will have an easy win.

Yesterday afternoon the Rick Santorum campaign dropped the weirdest, most terrifying ad of the American political season thus far. They did it via YouTube, where, as noted at MSNBC.com, the video is unlisted: Only those with a link can see it. Seems like a silly way to disseminate an ad. Maybe it'll hit our televisions after the opinion makers weigh in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApjHZq9o7M&hd=1 Entitled Obamaville, it presents a horror-show vision of America in the dread year 2014. In Obamaville the streets are empty, and scary-looking crows are everywhere. Children's shoes are discarded in the dirt -- and where are the children? They're gone! Look at the ab…

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-obama-healthcare-20120321,0,7589480.story This is a good article I think on why so many people are having difficulty with the Affordable Healthcare Act. So many of the provisions haven't kicked in and all we have heard is the Republican rhetoric that it is all bad and must be repealed and as usual their base do not do their own homework and believe everything they hear. I for one am grateful for this law so far because it limits cancellation and it has abolished lifetime limits.

This is being sent out by House democrats as a template for how they would use the tax breaks that the GOP want to continue to give the wealthy.

This is a good summary of the top 4 finalists on "Americas Got GOP". . .

Very well done! Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up, please stand up, please stand up... I'll probably have that in my head all day!

I think someone should remind Pope Rick that yes, a previous AG {and fundamentalist Christian loon and mind bendingly awful singer} under George W. Bush did, in fact, decide to wage a War on Porn™ as Pope Rick points out. And that man was John Ashcroft. Who, you all may or may not recall {clearly Pope Rick does not recall}, got a request from the FBI early in the Bush administration for additional counter-terrorism funding. Ashcroft not only refused the request for the funding, but in order to fund his War on Porn™ that Pope Rick apparently wants to emulate in his administration, Ashcroft instead actually cut $58 million from the Fibbies budget. And what was the date …

Sure would be nice if every woman we knew would watch this, register, and VOTE!

This is the kind of reality that makes Sean Hannity's head explodes. So far, the GOP candidates have been running against a fictional president with a fictional record. Obama didn't campaign to increase government spending, but inheriting what was in the final quarter of 2008 an annulaized contraction of 9 percent of GDP, he opted for a stimulus. That accounts for much of the spending. I know we are supposed - along with Fox News - to have total amnesia about the spending record of George W. Bush, who had nothing like the recession Obama inherited to counter. But there it is. Along with the fact that of the last seven presidents, the top three are all Republicans. One w…

Interesting bumper sticker?

Below you can see Andrew Sullivan and Aaron Tone arrive for the White House UK State Dinner. I'm sure we can expect the same thing under ... PRESIDENT SANTORUM or PRESIDENT GINGRICH.

Sadly, the RNC has authorized a new bumper sticker that reads: "Don't Re-Nig in 2012" The website where it appears to have originated has been shut down. Another proud moment in conservatism. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/racist-anti-obama-sticker_n_1349423.html

Obama released his 17 minute video to justify his re-election. It's a pretty good video. I wonder how many will actually watch it though. I suspect not the ones that should watch it which are the "unbelievers". . .

I was interested in what the FED was going to do this month. With gas prices soaring there is a now a real risk of real inflation to de-rail the economy in the last half of 2012 which of course will impact the election. The below is the full statement following the Federal Open Market Committee’s March meeting: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that the economy has been expanding moderately. Labor market conditions have improved further; the unemployment rate has declined notably in recent months but remains elevated. Household spending and business fixed investment have continued to advance. The housing sector remains…

I love these videos. They are always enlightening.

Rick "man on dog" Santorum has won the GOP primary in the 19th cent...I mean Alabama and Mississippi. Gingrich came in 2nd, but Romney did surprisingly well. He was 1% behind Newt in Mississippi and almost dead even in Alabama. Be interesting to see how Alabama shakes out when all precints have reported/

Ha! Perfect!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/us/politics/obama-approval-rating-down-in-new-york-times-cbs-poll.html?_r=1&hp Obama hits an all time low in latest poll. It was just a month ago when he was at near time highs. This is just an example of the 24 hour news cycle and the lack of attention to detail that voters have been succumbed to. I also think that when all we hear are GOP candidates then the polls just fall because they are the only ones in the narrative. This late Summer/Fall should be the real telling time for polls depending of course who the GOP candidate ends up being.