I’ll leave it to NBC. I don’t even want to think about this.
Despicable
Birthers, Right Wing Nutzoids, Yuck
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Oct 292012
Why Obama Now
Elections: 2012, Presidency, Video
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Oct 292012
Forward, Pittsburgh
Elections: 2012, Photos, Presidency
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Oct 282012
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Re-elect Obama: The made-over Mitt Romney is no alternative
When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he was known as a moderate. But that man has disappeared and no new shake of the Etch A Sketch can bring him back. Despite this long campaign it’s hard to know what he believes besides the fact that he believes he should be president.
In making his case to be the nominee for his radically more conservative party, Mr. Romney had to pretend to be someone he wasn’t. As part of this makeover, he has promised to scuttle Obamacare, even though it was modeled after his own successful state health care plan, and with only vague notions of how to replace it.
Driven by the political need to repudiate Mr. Obama’s bailouts, he stooped so low as to say he would have allowed a large part of the auto industry in Michigan, where he grew up, to go into bankruptcy, which would have doomed it along with millions of jobs. This was not his father’s Republicanism. …
This well may be a generation-defining moment. What will America’s future be? Will this still be a land of opportunity and freedom for all people or just for the favored few? Because we still hope, we endorse for president Barack Obama, whose heart — unlike his challenger — has not wavered nor his principles changed.
Bill Maher Warns Voters
Elections: 2012, Presidency, Republicans, Right Wing Nutzoids, Video
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Oct 272012
Gen. Colin Powell Endorses President Obama
Elections: 2012, Military, Presidency, Video
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Oct 252012
About Romney, he said:
It’s a moving target. One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan, but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal. Same thing in Iraq. On almost every issue that was discussed on Monday night, Governor Romney agreed with the President, with some nuances. But this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign. And my concern, which I’ve expressed previously in a public way, is that sometimes I don’t sense that he has thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have, and he gets advice from his campaign staff that he then has to adjust to modify as he goes along.
Oct 242012
US sues Bank of America for $1B for mortgage fraud; suit concerns Countrywide loans
NEW YORK — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan says he’s suing Bank of America for $1 billion for mortgage fraud against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says Countrywide, which was later bought by Bank of America, had procedures designed to process loans at high speed and generated thousands of fraudulent loans.
Bharara says it’s the first civil fraud suit brought by the Justice Department concerning loans that were later sold to Fannie and Freddie.
Update: The LA Times has the Complaint and a fuller article.
Again, Where Is The Trump Report?
Birthers, Elections: 2012, Right Wing Nutzoids, Video
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Oct 242012
No sooner does Jerome Corsi join Romney’s press gaggle, than Romney’s blowhard friend, The Donald, is trumpeting the Birther cause again. Just as we were expected to be SHOCKED by his convention presentation that never happened, today we are SHOCKED that Donald Trump has nothing to offer except fake promises.
Where is the Trump Report? For five million dollars. My check would be about as good as Trump’s, if it never appeared.
Violence Against Women Brings Little Gifts From God
Elections: 2012, Right Wing Nutzoids, Yuck
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Oct 242012
Jebus.
Even though the Romney camp quickly distanced itself from Mourdock’s remarks, the story could matter to Romney. Why? Because just as Romney is trying to move to the middle — on domestic policy, foreign policy, and social issues — the Mourdock story is a reminder how the conservative bent of this Republican Party has been a drag on Romney.
However, from The Hill:
Mitt Romney’s campaign on Wednesday reiterated its support for Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock (R), saying it will not ask him to pull down an ad featuring the GOP presidential nominee.
Mourdock stirred controversy Tuesday when he said pregnancies resulting from rape can be “something God intended.” Romney had already cut the ad for Mourdock, who’s in a tough race. It was a rare move for the GOP nominee, who’s not gotten involved in many Senate contests.
A Romney official told The Hill the campaign would not ask for the ad, which began airing on Tuesday, to come down.