Some candidates just don't get it. Paul should just declare himself a Tea Partier and run on it. Santorum should startup a Vatican Party. Perry should indeed secede. The professor should returtn to his ultraconservative district in GA in order to rejuvenate ccarnival barking. Huntsman is in the same leaking boat as Giuliani and Romney last time--they're in the wrong party. To get anywhere in the GOP he has to abandon his principles as Mitt has done.
Remember when Reaganomics turned the New Deal uoside down? Let's take on the poor economy by returning to respectable labor laws and restructuring a vibrant middle class. It's not rocket science. The need for Public Works[hiring PRIVATE contracturs] is a foregone conclusion. Furthermore, we have to put an end to lionizing millions who work more than 40 hours a week in order that others can be hired. The Labor Department should enforce the law. There should also be a surtax ...
"I want individuals to have their own insurance," Romney said yesterday in a speech at the Nashua, N.H. Chamber of Commerce. "That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. It also means if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." When you campaign for seven years, you’re bound to lose sight of purpose. Now he wants to be The Donald!
Not so Opposites clash. Talk about contrasts even though neither could be more conservative. Santorum is war mongering over Iran, and Paul wants all stateside! Santorum has the war industry euphoric and Paul the peaceniks or pacifists dancing. Perry, of course tops them both with sending troops back to Iraq.
"I know what it's like to worry whether you're gonna get fired," Romney explained to a crowd of several hundred people in Rochester. "There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.'' This coming from son of an ex-governor and auto industry executive!! Romney suffers from amnesia.
With regard to Paul's cheap shot, calling Newt a draft dodger, Vietnam was a long time ago. Paul should know that Carter exonerated them. Let it go. You don't hear anybody lambasting Muhammad Ali anymore. Vietnam was a long time ago. Paul should know that Carter exonerated them. Let it go.
Though I'm surely no friend of the former Speaker, Paul's cheap shot at Newt's lack of service is totally outdated and irrelevant. His rancor is consistent with the Paul image as a cantankerous old man--and i should know!
Though we think of the Republican Party consisting of white voters we forget that 45% of color votes the hard right line as well—mystifying. Of course, Miami and other key cities have a lot to do with it, since most of the ostensible "color" vote is Latino.
"15000 jobs gained" A drop in the bucket. As usual economic stats are muddled and unreliabe. Significant growth in jobs won't happen until Congress gets it's act together .
Black People Alert: "paychecks, not food stamps" Newt is back shooting from the hip.
"The lion's share of the undermining comes in the form of the Blue Dogging that I should have anticipated. Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.) is wary of "big pieces of legislation." Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) does what she does best: shielding her ultra-profitable oil industry donors from sacrifice. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) beat the drum for austerity." [Huff] How often have I said that the true obstructionists are not those desensitized members of the Tea...
"The Census Bureau reported that there are now 46.2 million Americans living below the official poverty line—the highest number in the 52 years since that statistic was first measured—and median household income has fallen back to the 1996 level." [NY Times] Yeah, I know most of us mainstreamers are fortunate to have jobs or pensions, some even get help from WWII or baby boomer parents, yet the glaring fact remains that there are far too many people hur...
Granted the special NY election result [Weiner’s seat] was partly to rebuke Obama, but in a heavily Jewish district, the publicized fact that the contestant Democrat and Jew David Weprin voted in favor of New York’s passage of gay marriage, not to mention that Weprin wasn’t monolithically pro-Israel. Of course, the ugliest skeleton in the closet was Weiner himself. The election, therefore, shows that it’s not just the right that goes crazy over socio-ethnic-ethic issues. ...
Once upon a Time the rich got richer and the poor got less poor because of enhanced productivity and its distribution. It was known as sharing in the efforts of capital and labor, NOT redistribution of wealth that today implies the Robin Hood system. Granted, this country is still well off when contrasted with the emerging nations, but we have different standards and the current wealth gap makes the perception virtually amorally embarrassing—if not immoral—when j...
Sunnunu—the acorn doesn’t fall far from the oak—using the same old arguments handed down to him. It’s as though Time planted this " … on the dole" [FOX balance?] to counteract Foroohar’s Keynesian memos. Coming from tax dodging New Hampshire, Sunnunu naturally thinks everyone is on the take. And as Foroohar points out it is exactly states like his that aggravate the national deficits by shortchanging its average citizens through phony accounting.His l...