Politics

So the hollow man has finally firmed his fragile hold on the GOP nomination, in another of T.S. Eliot's phrases, "not with a bang, but with a whimper." In the Wisconsin primary, the whimper was Mitt Romney's margin — a derisory 4 percent for someone to whom Republicans should rally overwhelmingly since they know he will be their standard bearer in November.

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Added on April 7, 2012

The Republicans are a sick joke, and their narrow ideological stupidity has left rational voters no choice in the coming presidential election but Barack Obama. With Ron Paul out of it and warmongering hedge fund hustler Mitt Romney the likely Republican nominee, the GOP has defined itself indelibly as the party of moneyed greed and unfettered imperialism.

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Added on April 5, 2012

Oh, the delicious irony. As everyone is aware, a class action lawsuit challenging the Constitutionality of the Health Care Reform Law is currently awaiting oral argument before the United States Supreme Court. The plaintiffs are arguing that the so-called mandate provisions, which provide for a penalty to be paid if someone does not obtain health insurance, violates their rights. On the other side, it is pointed out that skyrocketing medical costs for the uninsured are one of the chief reasons for individual bankruptcy filings. Well the lead plaintiff in the case, Mary Brown, seems to have proven the Act's defenders right. She was forced to file for bankruptcy this week after thousands of dollars in medical bills she incurred because of her refusal to obtain health insurance became too much to deal with.
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Added on March 29, 2012

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Sunday that he doesn't believe in the separation of church and state, adding that he was sickened by John F. Kennedy's assurances to Baptist ministers 52 years ago that he would not impose his Catholic faith on them.

"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," Santorum, a devout Catholic, said in an interview from Michigan on ABC's "This Week."

"The First Amendment means the free exercise of religion and that means bringing people and their faith into the public square."

Santorum's latest foray into the hot-button, faith-based issues that so fire up the party's evangelical base comes as his chief rival for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney, begins to pull ahead slightly in the state of Michigan, where he was born and raised.

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Added on February 26, 2012

With fewer than nine months to go before Election Day, The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with 303 electoral votes to the Republican nominee's 235.

How do we know? We don't, of course. Campaigns and candidates evolve, and elections are dynamic events with more variables than can reasonably be distilled in an equation. But the data--based on a prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists--suggest a second term is likely for the current president. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors.

Added on February 18, 2012

But after those trials, we all rallied around what was right, and acted as one. Because that’s what we do. We find a way through tough times, and if we can’t find a way, then we’ll make one…

This country can’t be knocked out with one punch. We get right back up again and when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our engines. Yeah, it’s halftime America. And, our second half is about to begin.

Added on February 7, 2012

Just 15 months after taking a thumping in the 2010 midterm elections, House Democrats have seized on the current anti-Washington fervor and are confident they can win the 25 seats they need to regain control of the House

Added on January 29, 2012

Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama delivered a populist challenge Tuesday night to shrink the gap between rich and poor, promising to tax the wealthy more and help jobless Americans get work and hang onto their homes. Seeking re-election and needing results, the president invited Republicans to join him but warned, "I intend to fight."

Added on January 25, 2012

The release of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s 2010 tax return today may only inflame the controversy over the tax code’s treatment of some of the nation’s richest individuals.

Romney, who made a fortune of as much as $250 million in the private-equity industry, paid an effective tax rate of 13.9

Added on January 24, 2012

There’s nothing productive about name calling. It’s snarky and obnoxious, and does nothing to raise the general level of discourse or understanding. However in this case, it’s totally justified. Republicans are, on a whole, morons. And I’ve got the math to back it up.

Added on January 23, 2012