Applause lines: The uninsured should be left to die. Said uninsured parents should have daughters who die unnecessarily of cervical cancer. A Fed Chairman who tries to fulfill his mandate by reducing unemployment is guilty of treason. Boo lines: Muslims are not collectively responsible for...
2012 Republican Primary
"We must kill the Great Society in order to save it." ...give this to Bai: without Jon Huntsman, where would he be getting the botched Nirvana references that are so.
Perhaps the most telling moment in last night's GOP debate was the crowd twice cheering the 234 executions Rick Perry has presided over. This would be grotesque enough if this.
Mittens. The fact that he sees putting virtually all of the tax burden on wage earners as a "middle class" tax break tells you all you need to know about contemporary Republican politics. Not to mention the fact that the tax plan would require the...
I don't have time to fully defend my claim in comments, so allow me to outsource to Jon Chait. Obviously, the fact that Perry is leading in the polls does.
Prick Erry is, of course, also a radical anti-choice crank. But don't kid yourself, this will really hurt him among the two or three Tea Party voters who only care.
Apparently, it's now considered dirty pool for candidates of either party to mention that another candidate believes that extremely popular federal programs violate the Constitution.
I assume the "get it right" means that Prick Erry's strategy will simply be to deny that when he wrote that Social Security was unconstitutional he meant that Social security.
I appreciate what I'll charitably assume is the dry wit, but I think the mistake is using the word "impact" at all: Former New York Gov. George Pataki has decided.
In isolation, I agree with Matt and Kevin that the failure to give a lot of coverage to Ron Paul is perfectly defensible. Not only is he clearly a fringe candidate in terms of positioning, we already have evidence of his non-viability -- he ran...
Shorter Rick Perry: "You don't think I still believe the stuff I write in the book I released last year, do you?"
Well, she'd beat Pataki in a two-person race...