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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...

Perhaps you've heard. Our CongressNerds are doing the "gavel in/gavel out" thing and holding pro forma sessions trying to prevent the POTUS from making recess appointments for positions which have been vacant for months.From Wiki: "The term pro forma is a term applied to practices or documents that are done as a pure formality, perfunctory, or seek to satisfy the minimum requirements or to conform to a convention or doctrine."The use of the pro forma...

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...

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...

Houston municipal elections are just weeks away.(Above--Photo montage of Houston by Yassie.) October 11 is the last day to register to vote.Early voting runs October 24--November 4.Election Day is November 8.Voters in Houston will be selecting a Mayor, the City Controller, 5 at-large citywide Council positions, and 11 district Council seats.Who are the candidates?There are some useful resources online for you to get the lay of the land.Fellow Houston blogger Charles Kuffner has a list posted of the...

With the recent political discourse on illegal immigrants, amnesty, in-state tuition, etc., let's have a real discussion based upon reality. If a child was brought to this country illegally, yes, he could certainly attend any school here with no questions asked. It wouldn't matter if his parents actually left the country and left him here to live with someone else, he could still attend public school with no problem. Okaaaay. If he were adopted by...

I'm already so sick the constant Perry Watch, and it's only August 2011. We may have to get through MONTHS of this.  If you do even a modicum of research, you'll find an interesting article about "Brain Biases & News" and see that people who are deemed attractive by our shallow US standards generally are considered Teflon-coated and given a "pass" on many things. (http://www.brainbiases.com/2008/11/beautiful-people-bias.html) That's one reason Sarah Palin won't go away, and why we're going...

While doing some cleaning last week I came across the bumper sticker from my 1997 campaign for the Cincinnati Board of Education.Though I did not prevail upon the people of Cincinnati to elect me to the school board, I'm glad to report that I was endorsed by the local AFL-CIO, UAW, SEIU, and Stonewall Cincinnati.I did once win a race for precinct executive in Cincinnati. I think it helped me that I was the only...

Extreme conservative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has pulled out of the ongoing debt ceiling talks in Washington.Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona--who has a problem with facts--has also left these talks.It appears that additional stimulus  and possible tax increases for those most able to pay may be on the table as needed steps to help the economy.What a welcome difference from the Republican strategy of working to keep the economy from recovering in order to hurt President Obama politically.I'm wary of all sides...