No doubt you saw a pair of reports last week by the Oregonian‘s Beth Slovic on mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith’s dismal driving record since 2004. The O‘s stories, however, only got to part of Smith’s history of license suspensions and didn’t include his responses to questions about whether he drove while his license was suspended, […]
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The Obama Campaign Just Wants Five Years of Your Taxes, Mitt
This is pretty smart: President Barack Obama’s campaign is offering Mitt Romney a deal: if he releases five years of tax returns, Obama’s team won’t criticize him for not releasing any more. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina made the offer to Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades in a letter Friday. Messina says he is taking […]
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Judge Tosses Challenge to Portland Arts Tax Measure
Just more than a month after a pair of Portlanders sued to keep a $35-a-resident, arts-education income tax off this fall’s ballot, a Multnomah County judge today ruled the measure could go forward. The challengers had tried to argue that the proposed ballot language was imprecise and that the tax, technically, was a head tax—which […]
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Paul Ryan’s Fave Band is Rage Against the Machine? OH NO HE DIDN’T.
Veep nominee Paul Ryan has claimed Rage Against the Machine as his favorite band. Oddly, Rage Against the Machine’s guitarist Tom Morello isn’t the biggest fan of the Republican candidate. In fact, he had a few choice words for Ryan which he shared with Rolling Stone: I wonder what Ryan’s favorite Rage song is? Is […]
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Romney Settles This Tax Return Thing Once and for All
Hey, Mitt Romney, I hear you maybe didn’t pay anything in taxes for ten years. Is that true? “I did go back and look at my taxes, and, over the past 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent,” he said, later adding: “Every year, I paid at least 13 percent, and if you […]
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Mitt Romney Would Murder Elmo (But Might Feel Bad About It)
Mitt Rmoney told Fortune magazine that he plans to cut millions of government spending by turning Medicare over to the states, squashing Obama’s health care law, and “ending subsidies for Amtrak, the National Endowments for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and PBS.” BUT! He wouldn’t feel awesome about it. “Some of these things, […]
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Two Things About Paul Ryan (One of Them Involves Hitler)
1. The same asshole who wrote Sarah Palin’s assholish Republican Convention speech in 2008 is apparently writing Paul Ryan’s speech for the Republican Convention this year, too. 2. This teabagger-made video imagines Hitler as President Obama’s campaign manager. Hitler is simply overwhelmed when he hears that Paul Ryan is Romney’s vice presidential pick and basically […]
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Travel Back to 2011 With Leaked Strategy Memo From Charlie Hales’ Campaign
In politics, a year isn’t just a year. It’s a lifetime. And yesterday, whilst trying to navigate the inevitably bumpy re-entry that follows a long vacation, I was delivered a fascinating political document/relic that perfectly drove home that point. Matter-of-factly titled “KEY FACTORS THAT BEAR ON THE MAYOR’S RACE,” it’s a strategy memo (PDF) crafted […]
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Joe Biden Says Romney Is “Gonna Put Y’all Back in Chains”
America’s Crazy Uncle™ strikes again: At this point, I don’t think that controversial statements from Joe Biden matter that much. America has come to expect them from him; it’s another part of the power of incumbency, which is really just the power of familiarity. Most people just shrug their shoulders when they hear Biden’s gone […]
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Republicans Are Clearly Just Having Fun Now: Chris Christie to Deliver Keynote at Republican Convention
This has to be a joke, right? Gov. Chris Christie, who has electrified GOP audiences in appearances across the country, will deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this month, party leaders will announce Tuesday. In a statement obtained by The Star-Ledger, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said the brash […]
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Taiwanese CG Video Explains Romney/Ryan Ticket Better Than Anybody
…because they turn Romney and Ryan into Batman and Robin. Guess who plays the Joker? (I understand everything now.)
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on 60 Minutes
The two chums appeared in matching jackets, matching lapel pins, matching haircuts, matching tans, and matching shirts. (Ryan’s shirt is ever so slightly a different shade, but the same pattern.) They have matching blond wives, and Ryan’s matching what Romney did on income-tax disclosures. Yeah, yeah, they’re both opposed to gay marriage, but if this […]