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Democrats are from cities, Republicans are from exurbs
Net vote change since '88 electionThe first reaction many people may have when looking at a standard red/blue map of county-level election results is often "Holy crap, look at all that red!" While that...
View ArticleHey Paul Ryan - My Soul Ain't Empty!
So apparently Paul Ryan is calling the Left's plan for the budget "a full stomach and an empty soul."I have some thoughts, Mr. Ryan. I have some thoughts.
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GOP will repeat Ryan budget history by adopting Camp tax plan next year
Last month, Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) introduced his proposal for a major overhaul of the U.S. tax code. But among Republican leaders in Congress, its arrival...
View ArticleAn Immigration Wall Song, and More Reasons for a Brooklyn ELIXIR Now!
In 2008 I pushed for change and helped the Latino community get out the vote with a viral video of a song I wrote... I even got my then Republican mama to cast a vote for Obama! In 2012 I did it again...
View ArticleImmigration Wall Song Call to Action!
This is a song I wrote about the IMMIGRATION wall. My band OLA FRESCA is playing it live here. It is a powerful, dark, and haunting song that rhythmically blends, Puerto Rican Plena, Brazilian Samba,...
View Article3 Hours Do or Die for Indie Latin Roots with a Social Message!
Here is a brief update on a weekend post I put up....OLA FRESCA's new album, with Latin roots songs about immigration, nationalism, coexistence, and more, is so close to being grass roots funded!.......
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McConnell wants to diskynect 370,000 Kentuckians from their health care
Before the ink was even dry on the Affordable Care Act back in March 2010, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced his Republican Party's response. "I think the slogan will be 'repeal...
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Rick Perry leads GOP’s “Let ‘Em Die” primary for 2016
During a September 2011 debate, the assembled Republican White House hopefuls provided one of the most disturbing moments of the last presidential campaign. When CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul what...
View ArticleRand Paul pulls a Romney on abortion
At an event this week at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, 2016 White House hopeful Rand Paul came face to face with the inescapable conundrum for any Republican seeking the...
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Why you shouldn't worry (too much) about the Republicans' early ad advantage
Advertising imbalance, p. 171, The Gamble, Sides & Vavreck One of the main building blocks in the Beltway media's "Dems in disarray" theme for this year is that Republican outside groups,...
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Rick Perry steals Bill Clinton's 2004 'Send Me' riff
Watching Rick Perry 2.0 get Biblical on his audience this weekend in Iowa has some conservatives seeing starbursts again. "Dressed all in black, Governor Rick Perry took the podium at the Family...
View ArticlePresident Romney would have asked the tough questions on Ferguson
Over the past few weeks, two media storylines have been developing on parallel. President Obama, conventional wisdom regurgitators assure us, has failed to deliver on his vision of a "post-racial"...
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Romney faces one insurmountable barrier in 2016
Mitt Romney’s resurrection may now be the most hyped since Jesus Christ. Just days after conservative columnist Byron York announced “Romney 2016 is for real,” the Washington Post, Vox and now the New...
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Cheney resurrects Bush's Army 'not ready for duty, sir' fraud
Dick Cheney is the herpes of American politics: he never goes away and periodically resurfaces only to subject the nation to painful and embarrassing flare-ups. So it is with his latest irritating...
View ArticleThe NC Senate Race--a few thoughts
Boy it was tough last night, especially after all of the work our family did along with thousands of other dedicated staff and volunteers. We were so sure that Hagan would win. And then that agonizing...
View ArticleAn Agenda and Narrative That Wins Elections
This blog post is partly about politics and partly about economic policies that will expand America’s middle class and make it more prosperous in the modern era. The story of the 2014 election was that...
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Sorry, Mitt: The presidency is not your "destiny"
Across the political spectrum, pundits, press, money-men and media strategists seem genuinely puzzled by Mitt Romney's apparent decision to seek the presidency for a third time. Even some of his...
View ArticleFor Romney, income inequality talk no longer just for "quiet rooms"
Speaking to an RNC audience in San Diego on Friday, potential three-time GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney explained how version 3.0 would differ from the first two voters previously rejected. But...
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Romney campaign drops its 'Jew Rule' for 2016
As his close friends and advisers tell it, Mitt Romney will put his LDS Church and his leadership role in it at the center of any campaign for the White House in 2016. As hotel magnate and fellow...
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Please proceed, Governor
On Friday, Mitt Romney finally showed his compassion for the American people by mercifully deciding not to subject them to a third campaign for the White House. I had it wrong; I believed Mitt’s...
View ArticleScott Walker, Republican porn star
In the span of just two weeks, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has catapulted into Republican superstar status. Mitt Romney's premature withdrawal from the 2016 presidential race cracked open the doors for...
View ArticleRevving Up Mr. Bus: Why Mitt Romney Will be the Nominee
Admit it. We all miss Mr. Bus, the real star of Hunter's brilliant Chronicles of Mitt from the 2012 campaign. Well, I can hear the engine revving up now. I put the odds of Mitt as the nominee at...
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GOP’s 'One Percenter' attack on Hillary Clinton comically backfires
In 2008, the campaign of multi-millionaire John McCain tried to brand Barack Obama as "elitist" and "out of touch" and "worried about the price of arugula." Four years later, Mitt Romney—the GOP...
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GOP kingmaker Romney flip-flops on his Iraq war support
At this fourth annual E2 Summit this week, defeated 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney once again played host to the GOP's White House hopefuls and their sugar daddies. As before,...
View ArticleMitt Romney self-deports from Donald Trump
So it's come to this. In the wake of Donald Trump's description of Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers, remarks that have divided the GOP presidential field, the "severely conservative"...
View ArticleClaims that Jeb's brother 'kept us safe?' Bring 'em on.
During the 2012 Republican National Convention, Jeb Bush proclaimed of his brother George, "He is a man of integrity, courage, and honor, and during incredibly challenging times, he kept us safe." In...
View ArticleTrump, like Romney, a riches-to-riches story
During his failed 2012 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney offered this sage advice to college students worried about finding jobs after graduation. Citing the experience of a friend...
View ArticlePresidents McCain and Romney weigh in on "aging actress," France
In the wake of the slaughter in Paris, Republican presidential candidates current and past have rushed offer their condolences to France and their condemnation of President Obama. The GOP's 2008...
View ArticleThe double devolution of the GOP and the U.S. media
Months after Donald Trump cemented his frontrunner status, the American media and the Republican Party are now approaching a state of panic. Press and pundits have scrambled to explain how...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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The 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleCommunity Spotlight: A tribute to Mr. Bus, one of Daily Kos’ most legendary...
“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...
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