politics

When smart people get stupid

February 3, 2012

You’d think somebody with Mitt Romney’s bankroll could have paid Donald Trump enough to endorse his opponent. You’d think an organization like the Susan G. Komen foundation would employ someone smart enough to put the kibosh on an enormous political gamble that offered zero political gain. But these things confirm what I’ve long suspected. The [...]

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Whole lotta lyin’ goin’ on

January 31, 2012

So I guess Mitt Romney will finally manage to win one in Florida. But he’s had to do it the hard way: With several million dollars worth of ads comparing Newt Gingrich unfavorably to Lord Voldemort. Gingrich has been doing the same thing to Romney, of course, but then had the misfortune to appear mildly [...]

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This is rich

January 26, 2012

Newt Gingrich appears to be worth at least $7 million. Mitt Romney is worth around $150 million. My question is this: If both men are millionaires many times over, does the poorer one get to call the richer one “elitist”? That’s the mood here in north Florida, apparently. CNN has this story about how Gingrich, [...]

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Obama, Al Green and the fat man

January 21, 2012

So we’ve got the president channeling Al Green and Newt Gingrich looking like he can win in South Carolina. Two guys defying my cynical and uninformed expectations. There is a reason I don’t get paid to analyze politics. How about that Obama? This is going to make the Tea Party types hate him all the [...]

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Gingrich vs. Gingrich, 12 years later

January 19, 2012

I‘m not sure what to make of Newt Gingrich’s second wife coming out with these “exclusive” revelations concerning his moral character. At first glance, ABC’s preview of the Nightline interview doesn’t seem to add much to the body of knowledge. Marianne Gingrich (still keeping the name a dozen years after the divorce) seems to think [...]

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When billionaires collide

January 10, 2012

I still think the Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling of 2010 was a terrible victory for the plutocrats, but maybe it’s not all bad. It’s kind of gratifying to see those same plutocrats using the ruling to smear each other with raw feces. Mitt Romney unleashed his billionaires to mug Newt Gingrich in Iowa; now [...]

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Just give him the nomination now

January 4, 2012

Next stop: The White House! Mitt Romney’s eight-vote ass-whupping of a candidate known just last week as “that other guy, you know the one” is surely proof that Romney is the GOP’s choice to go mano y mano with the evil Barack Obama. Not just five votes, folks. Eight. Count ‘em. Who can stand against [...]

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The suits are ruining the Republic

December 21, 2011

If any phenomenon could be said to have dominated the national news over the past few months, it’s probably the whole Occupy Wall Street thing. That, you might recall, springs from the accurate perception that the super-rich in America just keep getting richer despite the worst economic crisis in seven decades. That’s while the poor, [...]

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It takes a lot to be a legend

November 11, 2011

It’s been an instructive week for students of hubris and ambition. First we have Joe Paterno, who will now be remembered less as a football legend than a monomaniacal old goat — a man so obsessed with his X’s and O’s that the allegation of another old goat raping a kid in the showers barely [...]

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With Democrats like these …

November 8, 2011
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These days, making films about evil Republicans is like shooting fish in a barrel, so I was pleased to see that The Ides of March didn’t take the easy route. Oh, the malevolent hand of the GOP still looms in the background — this is George Clooney’s film, after all — but he spares us [...]

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