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Romney and Ryan: The Right Kind of "Welfare Queens"

She's baaaaa-aaaack! The Romney/Ryan campaign has resurrected Reagan's "Welfare Queen." It would be laughable, if they weren't serious, if the stakes weren't so high, and if there weren't so likely to get away with it. "There's a woman in Chicago," Ronald Reagan told...

Joe Biden Was Right

As I've noted before, we have a saying in the south that often applies to national politics: "A hit dog will holler": A hit dog will holler: when a group of folks find themselves in a troublesome situation, more often than not, the troublemaker speaks up first to...

The GOP Still Wants to Gut Medicaid

Sometimes there no joy in being right. Sometimes it's just no fun to say "I told ya so." This is one of those times. Depending on whom you ask, Mitt Romney choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a running mate is either inspired or insane; bold or boneheaded; a...

For Wall Street, A Fair Trial And A Fine Hanging?

I'm probably going to take this just couple of steps too far. But it's too hard to resist, and I think its a valid point. Back in 2007, right-wing water-carrier Dinesh D'Souza made a big splash when he published The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its...

Mitt Romney, The One-Percent Supremacist

Whether or nor history will record Mitt Romney's misadventures in Britain and Israel last week as the Republicans' equivalent of Michael Dukakis in a tank, remains to be seen. But whatever missteps Romney made abroad, he did not misspeak. Nor did anyone who spoke for...

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