Stories to Watch: 11/18/11

I think I'll pan fry some salisbury steaks tonight. Normally, I put them in the broiler, but every once in a while I pan fry them for a change of pace. I've got the mushrooms and I have to use them somehow. Now here's the news...


ThinkProgress reports that Mitt Romney doesn't so much have a troubling Bain past as he has a troubling Bain present.


Rep. Alan West continues to be a clown.


Wingnuts heads will surely explode when they find out that a terrifying giant Muslim has been made a State Department Cultural Ambassador.


One of the bigger supporter/lobbyist-money-layer-outers of SOPA and PIPA is the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. WTF, are there websites out there pirating cars?


Climate change is already costing us a lot of money.


President Obama confirms that the deadline imposed by the payroll tax cut extension deal forced his hand in shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline project. Go ahead and complain, GOP -- but you have no one to blame but yourselves.


Americans aren't real jazzed about Mitt Romney.


Someone want to tell Newt Gingrich that in a fist fight between himself and President Obama, he would not be the winner?


Finally, Team Obama makes ad buys in key battleground states.

Related articles

• President Obama Right to Reject Oil Sands Pipeline (peaceandbread.com)
• Obama administration to deny Keystone XL oil pipeline permit (climate-connections.org)
• Is It Even 15%? (talkingpointsmemo.com)
• Rick Santorum becomes sworn enemy of capitalism, free enterprise, and apple pie (dailykos.com)

News Roundup for 1/16/12

Romney's peer group

-Headline of the Day-
"Big banks have picked their candidate, and it's Romney."

Mitt Romney has been trying to convince everyone that he's just a reg'lar Joe. He tries to strike up conversations with the riff-raff by guessing their ethnicity and discussing LEED certification of the local hotels. Rumor has it that he's instructed his valet to put his pants on him one leg at a time. He's done everything short of wearing an "I'm Not Out of Touch" t-shirt everywhere he goes.

Well thank God no one's buying it. If they did, Mittens wouldn't be getting that sweet, sweet campaign cash from the 1%. According to the report, "Employees at the five largest U.S. banks by assets, including Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo & Co., had given Romney about $600,000 through the first three quarters of 2011, according to the most recent filings available from the Federal Election Commission... Romney received more from employees of those top five banks than all the other candidates combined."

That ought to keep him in spats and top hats for a while. And all that slash-and-burn, fire-all-the-employees-and-sell-off-the-company Bain stuff in Romney's past? Well, that's not a liability to the crème de la crème of the Wall Street world -- it's an asset. "As the former head of Bain Capital... he comes from their world," we're told.

The next time you see Mittens eating pies with the locals in a folksy, one-of-the-guys photo-op, keep that in mind. (McClatchy)


-The calendar is obviously rigged-
Science is made up of logical conclusions drawn from observable facts.



Observable facts obviously have a liberal bias. (Matt Bors, via The American Bear)


-Bonus HotD-
"On MLK Day, Romney Campaigning With Anti-Immigrant Official Tied To Hate Groups."

I want to say that timing is everything, but there's really no time this would be OK. It's just especially un-OK today. (ThinkProgress)

Stories to Watch: 1/13/12

We have snow. Finally. Now here's the news...


I've added "Bain Capital" to the Superfeed. I try to keep the topical slots to stories that have legs and Bain is definitely something that's not going away soon. So now the two topicals are Bain and the Wisconsin Recall. The recall ought to last until spring -- depending on how it turns out, perhaps even into the summer. If the recall is successful, the next administration's first steps will be worth paying attention to.


As expected, the Citizens United ruling has Super PACs trying to buy elections.


Tennessee state Rep. Richard Floyd is an awful, awful, awful excuse for a human being.


The "Stop Romney" contingent of evangelicals and Tea Party Republicans are having a little trouble getting their act together.


Mittens is not a trustworthy fellow.


Perry, Huntsman, Gingrich, and Santorum will all be off the Virginia ballot after a lawsuit they all joined failed. You know what Republicans usually call a suit that fails? A frivolous lawsuit.


Mitt's dog Seamus finally becomes a campaign issue -- and a faux childrens' book.


Finally, House Tea Party's transition from political powerhouse to collection of irrelevant nutjobs is very nearly complete.

Related articles

• Gingrich Calls For Anti-Romney Film To Be Edited (huffingtonpost.com)
• Who's Behind The Anti-Romney Documentary? (huffingtonpost.com)
• Obama campaign attacks Romney on Bain (politico.com)
• AdWatch: Romney's first ad defending Bain tenure (sfgate.com)

Stories to Watch: 1/12/12

You know how to prepare to clear snow? First you get out cocoa powder, sugar, milk, and vanilla, make hot cocoa, and put it in a thermos. This is readiness. Now here's the news...


Hey, want to see Newt Gingrich's attack movie on Mitt Romney? Here ya go. It's 28 minutes, so make sure you've got the time. Steve Benen says, "Aside from some oblique xenophobic slights sprinkled into the script, it is as liberal an indictment against the former governor as anything I’ve seen." I haven't seen it yet, but I'll probably watch it tonight -- with popcorn.


Rudy Giuliani is decidedly unimpressed with Newt's cinematic opus. I like to see that.


And if Mittens thinks he's getting hammered with Bain now, wait until the general election.


The concept of poetic license is completely alien to wingnuts.


Rick Santorum is a clown.


Rush Limbaugh is a racist.


McCain flip-flops on Romney's Bain career.


Finally, Newt's a commie.

Related articles

• Rudy Giuliani To Newt Gingrich: 'What The Hell Are You Doing?' (huffingtonpost.com)
• Newt Gingrich: I Didn't Admit Attacking Mitt Romney On Bain Capital Was A Mistake (huffingtonpost.com)
• Private Equity Investor Rudy Giuliani Slams Attacks On Romney, Bain Capital As 'Ignorant, Dumb' (thinkprogress.org)
• Giuliani Calls Gingrich's Anti-Romney Attacks 'Ignorant, Dumb' (abcnews.go.com)