According to most national polling data, President Obama’s “Affordable Care Act”—AKA ObamaCare to those on the right—is just a few points shy of being in a dead heat with those that oppose it, according to Real Clear Politics. HOWEVER! The all-important “gear shifter knob enthusiast” vote was completely ignored in this roundup. Thanks then to […]
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Obama Campaign Keeps Hitting Romney for Offshore Investments
Here is a very good Obama campaign ad doing the media’s job for the media: It asks some hard questions about Mitt Romney’s offshore investments. Daily Kos says the Romney campaign’s response to this video is hilarious and over-the-top: The Obama campaign’s latest unfounded character assault on Mitt Romney is unseemly and disgusting. “Unseemly.” Cool […]
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So This Guy Says He’s Going to Kill My Dog, Burn Down My House, and Kill and Eat My Parents…
…but I’m thinking about marrying him anyway because no one is that crazy, right?
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Crying Woman Thanks President Obama for Obamacare
These are the sorts of things that remind you politics affects real people. After President Obama’s speech in Ohio today, a woman named Stephanie Miller approached him on the rope line to thank him for Obamacare. She almost immediately started crying: Miller said her sister passed away from colon cancer four years ago — partly […]
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Brad Pitt’s Mother: Not an Obama Fan
Via the Hollywood Reporter, a letter from Jane Pitt—mother of Brad, “a Christian,” and a strong supporter of Mitt Romney: Any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality just because he is […]
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More Americans Trust Barack Obama with Health Care
This is bad news for Mitt Romney: Just 30 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll have a favorable opinion of Romney’s approach to health care, while 47 percent see it negatively, putting him underwater on the issue by a 17-point margin. True, President Obama’s numbers aren’t great, with 45% of those polled viewing […]
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More Evidence of Mitt Romney’s Evilness Hits the Internet
Vanity Fair has published a great study of Mitt Romney’s financial record. While there’s not a whole lot of new information there, it does put a lot of the information into clearer context by painting a portrait of a man who loves dumping his money offshore and avoiding taxes. The piece opens with Romney encouraging […]
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Mitt Romney Adviser Defends Obamacare Against Republicans
Republicans are already calling Obamacare the largest tax increase in history. This is not true—if you consider the mandate to be a tax, it’s still lower than taxes raised by George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan. But lots of people are arguing that the mandate is not, in fact, a tax. One of […]
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Rush Limbaugh on Liberal Activist Judge John Roberts
Mark Halperin at The Page has a transcript and an audio clip from today’s Rush Limbaugh show: All I know is that we were defrauded in front of our eyes, wide open. We were taunted, frauded, defrauded, mocked, laughed at…What he did, he stretched the limits to avoid being accused of activism. In the process, […]
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Here’s the Downside
The Romney campaign claims to have made over one million dollars in small donations since the Supreme Court upheld the health care mandate. I don’t think this kind of crazy energy is sustainable—once Romney has to take a question about the difference between Romneycare and Obamacare, the teabaggery energy will dissipate quite a bit—but it […]
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Hales Asked Oregonian for Correction; He Says Oregonian Told Him No
In Hall Monitor this week, I wrote about how a good day for Charlie Hales’ mayoral campaign last week quickly turned bad—after the Oregonian published an article that accused him of having to “explain another falsehood.” What was the “falsehood?” It was a letter—printed in the St. Johns Review before the primary—that lifted passages from […]
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President Reacts to SCOTUS Ruling; Renames Health Care Act “Obama DAMN RIGHT”
And explains what the “Affordable Care Act” really means. (SPOILER: It doesn’t murder kittens or jobs.)