You have to hand it to Mitt Romney’s campaign folks. They are painting the millions he’s contributing to his own campaign as a choice to remain independent of special interests.
Right.
To date, the venture capitalist has contributed $9 million to his campaign, nearly a quarter of his overall contributions.
But that’s a good thing, he says.
Romney has […]

…But presidentses have lost the ability to form sentences.
On pretty much a daily basis, Bush says something weird or phrases something wrong. Yesterday was no exception.
With a group of New York City elementary school students standing behind him, President Bush touted higher national test scores by proudly declaring: “Childrens do learn.”
…Bush followed with another […]

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence to its satisfaction on pain of liquidation.
— George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish author

We told you about the HBO feature film about the aftermath of the 2000 election, titled “Recount.” More cast members are being named and some of the choices make a lot of sense.

Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Ed Begley Jr., Denis Leary, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Bob Balaban will star in HBO’s Recount, sources close […]

Mitt Romney’s comments about the civilian killings by the Blackwater private security guards sound kind of familiar. Romney’s counterterrorism advisor, Cofer Black, is vice chair of Blackwater USA.
“I think the allegations are very serious indeed and that there is an investigation which is under way,” Romney told reporters in his first public comment on the […]

You might already know the facts, but here they are again: Florida’s majority Republican legislature passed a bill earlier this year changing the state’s primary to Jan. 29. This placed the Florida election ahead of Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada, and good old New Hampshire, which is a violation of both Republican and Democratic party rules. […]

A diplomatic language has a hundred ways of saying nothing but no way of saying something.
— Will Rogers (1879-1935) American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor.

Seems the news from the GOP side of the aisle just keeps getting better and better or worse and worse, depending on your orientation:

Top Republicans are privately bracing for the possibility that they could lose additional House seats in next year’s elections as a result of untimely retirements, ongoing scandals and unexpectedly gloomy fundraising forecasts, […]

Iranian Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking today at Columbia University:
“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you that we have it.”
July 2005:
Three weeks ago, two Iranian teenagers who had been […]