The Case For Romney-Ryan

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Saturday August 11, 2012 · 6:37 AM PDT

2012/08/11 · 06:37

Hey, if you can't brag on yourself, who can you brag on? I actually called the Ryan pick four months ago. Everything I said then pretty much holds true now:

Paul Ryan will be Mitt Romney's running mate, and here's why:
1) As a presidential candidate, Mitt Romney is a nightmarish blend of Michael Dukakis and John Kerry, and he's going to lose in November.

2) Republican heavyweights (Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee) didn't want to pander to the Tea Party in 2012. (They left that up to Romney.) But they want to be there to pick up the pieces in 2016.

3) Contrary to conventional wisdom, Romney's running mate does not need to have foreign policy experience. The less said about foreign policy, the better.

4) Romney's running mate cannot be a woman. It's too soon after Palin.

5) No Republican heavyweight will run with Romney. (See points 1 and 2.)

6) Romney's running mate must be a bona fide right-wing extremist who excites the teabaggers....

There are five more points, plus a bonus update!

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Krugman & Blitzer: Who Cared First?

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Monday July 02, 2012 · 5:20 PM PDT

2012/07/02 · 17:20

Some recent history, Abbot and Costello style. . .

Krugman: Strange as it may seem, health care plans nowadays have very peculiar names.
Blitzer: Funny names?

Krugman: Nicknames, nicknames. For instance, now we have Hillarycare, Romneycare, and Obamacare.

Blitzer: I want you to tell me who invented what when.

Krugman: I’m telling you. Hillary invented Hillarycare, Romney invented Romneycare, and Romney invented Obamacare.

Blitzer: So Hillary invented Hillarycare?

Krugman: Yes.

Blitzer: And Romney invented Romneycare?

Krugman: Yes.

Blitzer: And Obama invented Obamacare?

Krugman: No.

Blitzer: What?

Krugman: Romney invented Obamacare.

Blitzer: Why?

Krugman: Because Obama couldn’t.

Blitzer: Why couldn’t he?

Krugman: Because Hillary invented Hillarycare.

Blitzer: When?

Krugman: Before.

Blitzer: Why?

Krugman: Because Reagan didn’t invent Reagancare.

Blitzer: Why didn’t he?

Krugman: Because Reagan didn’t care.

Blitzer: Does Hillary care?

Krugman: Yes.

Blitzer: Does Obama care?

Krugman: Yes.

Blitzer: Does Romney care?

Krugman: No.

Blitzer: Why doesn’t he?

Krugman: Because Romney hates Romneycare.

Blitzer: Why?

Krugman: Because Ryan invented Ryancare.

Blitzer: What’s Ryancare?

Krugman: Vouchercare.

Blitzer: What’s Vouchercare?

Krugman: You don’t want to know.

Thank you, ladies and germs.

Boehner: Repeal Obamacare, Replace It By Renaming More Post Offices

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Thursday June 28, 2012 · 11:18 AM PDT

2012/06/28 · 11:18

REUTERS -- House Speaker John Boehner has scheduled a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the week of July 9. The move comes following the Supreme Court's decision today to uphold the Act. Boehner also plans to urge Congress "to replace Obamacare by boldly renaming all United States post offices by the end of 2014."
"The Supreme Court has spoken, and we must respect its decision," said Boehner in remarks to reporters outside the Capitol. "It's now more important than ever for the legislative branch to repeal the president's job-killing socialist power grab and put people back to work rearranging the letters on brick buildings. America's doctors, patients, and mailmen deserve nothing less."

It's unclear how renaming 187,000 post offices will address critical issues of cost and accessibility in the nation's health care system. Howie Feltersnatch, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, says Republicans are "floundering."

"Obamacare was invented by conservatives," says Feltersnatch. "The individual mandate and the insurance exchanges were designed to blend personal responsibility with free market competition to solve a problem. When Republicans decided to call their own health care plan 'socialism', ludicrous travesties like Boehner's post office scheme became inevitable."

Feltersnatch doesn't see the current crop of Congressional Republicans coming up with any new ideas.

"Let's face it, most of these people aren't too bright," he says. "I mean, don't hold your breath waiting for Louie Gohmert to say something intelligent. It's not happening."

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Nowhere Man

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Wednesday June 27, 2012 · 10:58 AM PDT

2012/06/27 · 10:58

Mitt Romney is beyond absurd. I wrote this song parody for my blog the other day.

Mitt's a real nowhere man
With an empty nowhere plan
And a plastic nowhere tan like nobody’s
He’s got fifty points of view
Nothing that he says is true
It’s not hard to see right through his mask

Nowhere Man, stop smirking
Your façade’s just not working
In the fall we’ll make you sorry you even ran

(GUITAR)

He'd like to be president
For the top point one percent
But he needs us to consent to his madness

He's a crass flip-flopper
He won’t tell just one whopper
Nowhere Man, your hollowness shines through on C-Span

He’s got fifty points of view
Nothing that he says is true
It’s not hard to see right through his mask

Nowhere Man, stop smirking
Your façade’s just not working
In the fall we’ll make you sorry you even ran

Mitt’s a real nowhere man
With a plastic nowhere tan
And an empty nowhere plan for nobody
And an empty nowhere plan for nobody
And an empty nowhere plan for nobody

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