… and it was really good and you should watch it and that goes double if you’re freaking out about polls in North Carolina and terrible job reports and fucking Citizens United and all those asshole GOP billionaires. It’s an hour long… but it’s worth your time: Mitt Romney raised more money last month than […]
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Jefferson Smith Meets With Occupy Portland: “I’m a Politician Who’s Partially Full of Shit”
Denis C. Theriault Joe Walsh, left, of the Oregon Progressive Party, tells Jefferson Smith why government would better if we stopped consulting so many people with Ph.Ds. Now that his post-primary pause (if you could call it that) appears officially over, mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith spent his lunch hour today holding forth in a no-holds-barred […]
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Mitt Romney…
…is a dick. She says her cafe was not treated with the respect it deserved. “Stuff got broke. My table cloths they just got ripped off, wadded up and thrown in the back room,” She says the boom truck she allowed the campaign to borrow to gain access to the roof now has an 8-inch […]
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Obama’s Western Donor Drop-off
Obama, you have a problem: As BuzzFeed reported last week, 88% of donors who gave $200 or more to Obama in 2008 have yet to give that amount to his campaign this cycle. A deeper analysis of campaign finance data shows that the west has seen an especially high level of drop off in Obama […]
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How’s Cameron Whitten Doing on His Hunger Strike?
The newly dubbed “Hunger Stump” So it’s been ten days since former mayoral candidate Cameron Whitten kicked off his “Hunger Strike for Housing Justice” outside of city hall. I know you’re curious: How’s he holding up? Judging by our conversation this morning, surprisingly well. “I feel like a hundred bagels!” Whitten said cheerily, bundled up […]
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How Many Votes Did Racism Cost Obama in 2008?
A lot. Andrew Sullivan predicts that this time, it will cost him even more.
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Obama Walks Back Statement on Economy
This didn’t take long: “It is absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine,” [President Obama] said in a brief appearance before cameras in the Oval Office following a meeting with Phillippine President Benigno Aquino. Obama is of course referring to this. This is damage control, and it’s good that it happened so quickly, but […]
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To the Delight of Republicans, President Obama Says “The Private Sector Is Doing Fine”
Let’s hope that this is the end of President Obama’s terrible week: This morning, he held a press conference to talk about Europe, our economy, and to push Congress into passing his jobs bill. Here’s the whole Q&A portion of the press conference: But the thing that Republicans are going to talk about from now […]
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More Bad News for Obama: Romney/RNC Outraises Obama/DNC in May
Talking Points Memo: Mitt Romney and the RNC raised $76.8 million in May, easily outpacing $60 million from President Obama’s campaign and the DNC. With outside conservative groups alone already outspending the Obama campaign in swing states and Democrats begging donors for help, the money race is tilting quickly toward the GOP. (This doesn’t even […]
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Brave Republican Blogger Uncovers Secret Obama Plot to Give White Kids Asthma
Jess Zimmerman at Grist reveals that a conservative blogger has uncovered the secret behind the Obama Administration’s plot to infect young white lungs with illnesses: Consider very carefully the wording of this bizarre expression of the problem: seven million American children have asthma, “especially minority children and children with family incomes below the poverty level.” […]
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Senate Republicans Take Down the Paycheck Fairness Act
More gender-based discrimination for you, say Senate Republicans: In a 52 to 47 tally the Senate defeated the Paycheck Fairness Act. The legislation aimed to increase protections for women filing gender-discrimination lawsuits, as well as create a federal grant program to improve women’s salary negotiating skills. The vote came down strictly along party lines, with […]
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Obama Campaign Manager Releases Video Telling Obama Supporters Not to Panic
When the campaign manager appears in a video saying everything’s okay, that means supporters have been freaking out: The May jobs report was obviously bad news for the Obama campaign. But frankly, I’m a little surprised to hear Obama suporters suddenly worried that Romney has a chance to win the White House. Romney has always […]