Mitt Romney Finally Takes My Advice
[ Posted Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 – 18:02 UTC ]
But the focus from the media has so far been on the wrong car -- at least as far as I am concerned.
Archive of Articles in the "2012 Elections" Category
Friday Talking Points [198] -- Milbank's Unfunny Puns
[ Posted Friday, February 17th, 2012 – 17:21 UTC ]
President Barack Obama certainly had an impressive week, getting from Congress exactly what he demanded in the State Of The Union message -- a payroll tax holiday extension for the rest of the year... with "no drama."
Thursday Convention Speculation
[ Posted Thursday, February 16th, 2012 – 17:38 UTC ]
But it sure would be interesting to watch that convention on television, wouldn't it?
Weak Tea?
[ Posted Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 – 17:33 UTC ]
Is the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party becoming irrelevant?
Toxic Gas At Romney Hotel
[ Posted Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 – 17:42 UTC ]
Which is why I'm scratching my head today at the absence of headlines like the one at the top of this article in the national media. While the actual facts of the case are pretty mundane, the juxtaposition of a major presidential candidate would have allowed for even more sensationalistic headlines than mine (it's easy to come up with a "screaming banner" for the story, one would think).
Primary Season Amnesia
[ Posted Monday, February 13th, 2012 – 17:37 UTC ]
The primary season opens with so many Republican candidates for the party's nomination for president that it seemingly takes forever just to ask each of them a single question in the televised debates. Three different Republican candidates win the first three states' races, in a wide-open contest with no incumbent on the ballot. The first results thin the large field of hopefuls, as minor candidates run out of funding and throw in the towel. As more states vote, the two top candidates get to a point in early February where they are neck-and-neck in the number of individual states won -- with the third candidate lagging, because his support is based mostly in the South. Ron Paul is also running, but not winning any states. Dark mutterings are heard about the presumed-frontrunner not being able to "close the deal," and about his overall weak support among conservatives in the party. The media is in a frenzy, all but drooling over the prospect of an open convention, where no Republican candidate has the magic number of delegates to secure the nomination.
Friday Talking Points [197] -- White House Fumbles
[ Posted Friday, February 10th, 2012 – 17:02 UTC ]
In other news, the Obama White House had rather a bad week... but again, we'll get to that in a moment.
Contraceptive Debate, Part 2
[ Posted Thursday, February 9th, 2012 – 16:59 UTC ]
Mainstream American churches have, in the past, used Biblical passages to advocate the rightness of slavery. Mainstream American churches have also refused to allow blacks to join their congregations with the same status as white worshippers. Mainstream American churches have used the Bible to justify wife-beating, and corporal punishment for children. That is all fine and good (well, it's not, really; but it's legally all fine and good) -- the Constitution does not permit government to have any sort of sway over a church's beliefs in any way (except possibly if the church were mounting armed resistance to the government and calling it religion).
Contraceptive Debate Reporting Omits Important Voices
[ Posted Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 – 15:29 UTC ]
You know what I have yet to see either on television or in print? A poll of the workers affected. Maybe that's too tough a thing to ask for -- polls are time-consuming, after all, and the debate hasn't been raging all that long. But I have also yet to see in the media even a single woman interviewed who actually works for a religious hospital or university. Not a single "woman on the street" interview, not a single union representative who speaks for these women, not a single spokesperson for the women themselves. Not one. No nurses, no janitors, no administrators, no security guards... nothing.
Name That Tuesday!
[ Posted Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 – 15:55 UTC ]
Today is the first multi-state event in the 2012 Republican primary schedule, and I am shocked -- shocked! -- that the punditocracy has miserably failed to come up with a cutesy-poo name for today's voting.