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The Mitt Romney comedy tour continues in full force. At a recent speech he managed to piss off people from the left and right at the same time. He told America that he doesn't care about the poor and that if the safety net needs to be fixed he'll fix it. Of course, he came back and tried to fix his little gaffe, but these things take on a life of their own. For most of...

UPDATED: Komen just announced that they are reversing their decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.  Good decision, but now CEO Nancy Brinker should fire Nancy Handel, then resign herself for this political decision.You've probably heard by now that breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen Foundation recently terminated its long time partnership with Planned Parenthood purportedly because PP was "under investigation".  The "under investigation" excuse is from a new rule Komen put in place...

Buddy Roemer, former Louisiana governor and invisible Republican presidential candidate, was also on the ballot in Iowa.  Roemer, who refuses corporate and PAC money and who also limits individual contributions to $100 per person, has been unsuccessful getting noticed by the media and voters. He was very frustrated during the debates, being denied even an opportunity to share the stage with the better known candidates.  Last night, he went on a Twitter binge that was...

Willful ignorance:"The practice or act of intentional and blatant avoidance, disregard or disagreement with facts, empirical evidence and well-founded arguments because they oppose or contradict your own existing personal beliefs." If there's a better description of the American right I haven't found it. This poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University showing that Fox News viewers are uninformed actually misses the point. The word is misinformed, not uninformed. Misinformed and reveling in it. In short, my mind's...

The Dalai Lama has something to say about today's politics....

Bear with me if I get a little like a dog chewing on a bone about this subject, but if I had a craw one of the things that would stick in it would be the 'CRA led to the mortgage meltdown' nonsense that was the subject of one of last week's posts. Although this theory has been disproved eight ways to Sunday, there are still a few who hang on to it. One of...

A very insightful piece by former GWB staffer David Frum about how the Tea Party is driving the GOP bus right over the 2012 cliff.  ...

If you are a Colbert fan, you'll already know that he has taken on super pacs and the secret money that is infecting our elections.  By starting his own super pac, he is exposing the hypocrisy of using millions in secret money to influence elections, but has drawn Karl Rove's attorney's attention by pointing out how the crazy new rules allow money in super pacs to keep his donors secret.  Colbert confronts Rove as only...

Republican Texas State Representative Wayne Christian says that cuts to family planning agencies by the Texas legislature are about birth control as well as about abortion.(Above--Wayne Christian on the left with Texas Governor Rick Perry. These men are concerned that Texas women have access to birth control.)Here is what Representative Christian said---"The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage...

Republicans want you to believe that Social Security is "broke" and "a fraud."  Nothing could be farther from the truth....