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“Hello, human diary! This is Mitt Romney, your better.” Nine years ago, in what feels like a much simpler time, The Chronicles of Mitt satirized Romney and his presidential campaign. These 120...
View ArticleFearing the change that has already happened
A piece I wrote in 2011 – wondering if it still holds up to the scrutiny of hindsight given the last decade’s events. Would love to hear comments from other progressives...Recently I saw Romney on TV...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Mitt Romney- 2020 Update
It was on this date in 2015, 2018, as well as in 2019, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled former Massachusetts Governor, 2012 presidential candidate, and now, the junior U.S. Senator...
View ArticleTrump Sends Dead Americans Relief Checks! Where’s mine?
Alice Gustafson died in Feb. 2018. Yet, Portland, Oregon NBC affiliate KGW reports that Gustafson’s daughter, Sally Doughty, received a $1,200 check from the U.S. Treasury, made out to her late...
View ArticleWhy Mitt Romney must demand Trump’s impeachment
Mitt Romney has never missed an opportunity to be an opportunist. Romney the leveraged buyout pioneer took advantage of the U.S. tax code to pocket tens of millions of dollars from investments in...
View ArticleThe Republicans' Jewish problem
Here are some friendly words of advice to my Republican friends eager to regurgitate Donald Trump’s talking point about the Democratic Party being “anti-Jewish.”Before you hold up Minnesota Democratic...
View ArticleMitt Romney deserves no credit and no apologies on Russia
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was back in the headlines this week—not for any particular wisdom regarding authoritarian regimes and movements she shared with the House Intelligence...
View ArticleSteve King broke the first rule of White Club
When Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King lamented that language like “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization” had “become offensive,” GOP leaders like Senate Majority Leader...
View ArticleRepublicans vs Democrats. The REAL difference.
There is no doubt about it, these are dark times. We have a Trumpaholic driving a 2015 Chevy Scrapbook around, mailing off pipe bombs, another asylum escapee who thinks that HIAS is bankrolling an...
View ArticleTrump's poll numbers don't make me happy. They make me mad.
Considering he’s a new president, a historically large percentage of the American people think Donald Trump sucks at his job. That’s what his approval ratings make clear. In fact, neither Barack Obama...
View ArticleIn praise of Donald Trump
From the moment Donald Trump won his surprising victory on Election Day, a new cottage industry sprung up to offer sympathetic profiles of the supposedly long-overlooked and long-suffering voters who...
View ArticleListen To The Trump Supporters
Since the election, there’s been more than a few people on the left side of the political spectrum who have been calling for us to “go outside the bubble” and “listen to Trump voters.”So we did. Many...
View ArticleHoosier Daddy? The man who really delivered the jobs in Indiana
For much of the past week, President-elect Donald Trump boasted about saving 1,000 jobs at the Carrier air conditioning plant in Indianapolis, Indiana. Representing only about half of the positions...
View ArticleWI-01. Ryan Solen can use all the boost he can get.
I’ll be honest, normally I wouldn’t even write this diary. This is too much like “Rocky” to be true, the total unknown going up against the reigning Speaker of the House. But Dave Brat in VA had...
View ArticleWatch VP Joe Biden's slam-dunk speech: Hillary gets it, Trump—not a clue...
Introduced by his wife and partner Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden entered the stage to a backdrop of bright beautiful orange “JOE” signs and blue “Scranton” signs held by thousands in the...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the 53-inch penis
With their national convention in Cleveland now less than a month away, Congressional Republicans and many in their amen corner among the right-wing media are horrified by their party's 2016...
View ArticleAuto rescue foes Romney and Kasich join forces in Ohio
Just days after recording robocalls for Marco Rubio in Florida, failed 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney joined Governor John Kasich on the campaign trail in Ohio on Monday. Bizarrely,...
View ArticleWhite Men, Go to the End of the Line!
In 2012, Democrat Barack Obama won reelection with 51 percent of the vote compared to Republican Mitt Romney’s 47 percent. Obama’s victory was the result of a formidable coalition of racial minorities...
View ArticleRomney's warning: Trump is too much like me
It's official: The 2016 Republican presidential primaries have gone from the ridiculous to the sublime.Even before Donald Trump's overwhelming Super Tuesday victories, both his rivals and increasingly...
View ArticleMarco Rubio is no moderate
xEmbedded ContentIn the years before he became legendary for delivering the thirstiest State of the Union response ever, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was peddling another legend. On his path to becoming...
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