Besides President Obama and the democrats, there was another big winner in this year’s election – democracy. Despite all the big money that went into the right to try and buy this election, democracy did prevail. And who was the big loser? In a case of absolute irony, it so happens the biggest loser was […]
If anything great should be remembered from this past election it should be the fact that Grover Norquist has become much less significant. The number of Republicans breaking with the Norquist pledge to not raise taxes keeps rising, with the latest one coming out today: Open criticism of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax […]
A large health company here in Cincinnati has fired 150 people for failure to get their flu shots: TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get the shot were terminated Wednesday, a company spokesperson […]
The darling GOP Governor of the Tea Party, Scott Walker, is under some serious scrutiny: Gov. Scott Walker and his top campaign and Milwaukee County aides were named Monday as part of a team that routinely commingled political and official county business. The disclosures came during the sentencing of a former aide to Walker during […]
It’s really sad when you think about it. During the Bush years, Patrick Leahy was a man that stood on the side of privacy. Now that a Democrat is in the White House, he stands on the side of spying: A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government […]
The New York Times has a very interesting article today about Chris Christie and how the GOP has treated him since Hurricane Sandy: A few days after Hurricane Sandy shattered the shores of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie picked up the phone to take on a different kind of recovery work: taming the Republican Party […]
Countless times I have stated that Mitt Romney wasn’t about country or party. Instead, Mitt Romney was only about…well…. Mitt Romney! Now it appears the Republicans are seeing the same thing: The Republican critics of Mitt Romney have had enough of their party’s failed presidential nominee. After Romney told donors his loss last week was […]
Make no doubt about it; Republicans absolutely despise democracy. That’s not to say they don’t love the sound of the word, but when it is in actual practice, well they only like it when their person wins. Evidence of that can be seen in the actions and words of Republicans in comparison to presidential votes. […]
It’s one thing to be upset over Obama winning last week and immediately go into the “this country sucks” mode, but this lady took the whole thing to a new level: Upset over the result of last week’s presidential election, an Arizona woman ran over her husband with her car, believing him to be directly […]
We have heard so much this week about why Mitt Romney lost. The one thing I really can’t wrap my head around though is the “blame the campaign” meme that is going on. For example, here’s RedState talking about Romney’s failed ORCA program: So what caused the breakdown and why didn’t it get fixed in […]