Bain: Outsourcing IS Offshoring
We've heard a lot of desperate talk from Mitt Romney about how outsourcing is different than offshoring and not as harmful to average American workers as everyone knows it is. Of course it's nonsense,...
View ArticleInsane Shanghai Sexism ala Bill O'Reilly
“If the eyes of the ‘observer’, i.e. the point E, is right on the extension of segment BC, then point B would fall into his eyesight. Then, let's make another line of DE which goes through E and is...
View ArticleBain to Rewrite Healthcare Law?
I'm just wondering why conservatives would want people thinking about who's going to solve the healthcare problem over the next few months. Romney said he wants the focus on the economy and the...
View ArticleI Have Contempt For Congress Too
Evidently the Tea Party Republican House (aka The Jim Crow Party) has charged Eric Holder with Contempt of Congress. Count me in. Few have more contempt for the current House majority than me. But...
View ArticleWhy The Mandate Penalty's a Penalty, Not a Tax
I found this paragraph in an NPR article very helpful: Roberts said that the government, using its taxing power, could require people to have insurance or pay a penalty. True, he acknowledged,...
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“There are no black Italians!”
“There are no black Italians!” This is the first line of an article just published at Time magazine's website about Mario Balotelli, an Italian soccer player - well, these days THE Italian soccer...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Will Find a Way to Fail to Repeal the ACA
Long story short, using reconciliation to take down the budgetary aspects of the ACA would leave the protections and kill insurance companies. [If] Republicans lawmakers pull apart some of the law on...
View ArticleCalifornia Calls for Amendment Overturning Citizens United
Six down, 44 to go. California joins Hawaii, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maryland and New Mexico in calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling. State assembly members Bob...
View ArticleTea Party Movement Liberalizing US Judiciary?
The GOP has spent a lot of money and time loading up the US's court system with conservative judges. But all that work may be under threat. At least one high profile conservative judge is thinking...
View ArticleCoal Miner Exposure Worse Than In 1965, Congress Blocks Obama
Increased demand, longer working hours, and new technology are exposing coal miners to black lung causing dusts at higher rates than in the 60's when regulations were first passed to protect them. The...
View ArticleBlockbuster Run By Customers After Only Employee Passes Out
I just had a really bizarre experience that might give some insight into American big box consumer life. I went to get a pick-me-up at Starbucks a few minutes ago and ended up waiting about 20 minutes...
View ArticleRomney Changed His Financial Disclosures
All this tax haven stuff can get complicated. But this is not: Romney did relent under party pressure and release his 2010 returns. That forced him to amend the personal financial disclosures he had...
View ArticleRomney Staged The Booing
Mitt Romney said after being booed at the NAACP today that he "expected" the strong objection in response to his pledge to repeal President Obama's health care law... Cleaning up in a...
View ArticleRomney Not Arrested in Swiss Bank Sting
American presidential candidate Mitt Romney was not arrested today for his tax havens in Swiss bank accounts as part of a sting operation in Germany and France which targeted an "unspecified number"...
View ArticleRomney/Bain = Bush/Cheney
One of the things that has always puzzled me is why people think Romney being the "official" manager of Bain from 1999 to 2002 is somehow better if he claims he wasn't doing his job. Evidently that...
View ArticleRepublicans Turn On Each Other: Team Romney Calls Them "Bedwetters"
Baingate is starting to divide Republicans along lines seen during the primary. The Romney camp, much like McCain in 2008, says it has "a plan" and will stick by "the plan." Nobody knows what the plan...
View ArticleDow Jumps on 'Global Economic Optimism' - Bad News For Team Romney
This is (NOT) good news for Mitt Romney. Global economic optimism spurs strong rally; Dow jumps 204 I don't report this news to give people the idea that the economy is healthy, sustainable, or that...
View ArticleRomney's 'Day to Day' Chairmanship - of Republican Governors Association?
Day to day affairs fail: Gillespie: He wasn't engaged in the day to day activities at all Gillespie: Even if you're not making the day to day decisions Crowley: He had nothing to do with the day to...
View ArticleRepublican Senators Don't Understand Romney's Afghanistan "Plans"
And I put "Plans" in quotes because nobody seems to think Romney actually has one other than letting the generals do the President's job for him and keep our troops overseas as long as the Pentagon...
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