The Convention Indentation
Mitt Romney must be down in the dumps.
Even with Paul Ryan, his numbers slumped.
“It just wasn’t fair,”
He told Clint Eastwood’s chair —
“I didn’t get even a baby convention bump!”
Month: September 2012
The Stranger Ranger
It’s inevitable, we know that he’ll bore us.
And we’d rather have him against us than for us.
He says if Obama wins the fight
Prepare for a millennium without light!
Is there no one who can save us from Chuck Norris?
Most Millennials Lean Toward Democratic Party
55%
Of Millennials (ages 18-34) identify with or lean to the Democratic Party, compared with 36% who identify or lean to the Republican Party, according to a Pew survey. However, the Democrats’ advantage among Millennial voters has declined from 32 points in 2008 to 19 points today.
Sarah Palin a ‘Little’ Person Now
I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name. How does he even know my name? I mean aren’t these guys supposed to be these big wig elites who don’t waste their time on the little people like me.
— Sarah Palin, in an interview with the Fox Business Report, responding to Sen. John Kerry’s jab at her during the Democratic convention.
Clinton Ad Libs Nearly Doubled Length of His Prepared Speech
5,895
Total number of words in former President Bill Clinton’s Wednesday night speech at the Democratic National Convention. The script of his speech contained just 3,136 words.
Maryland Rep Says Student Loans Unconstitutional, Could Lead to Holocaust
Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans, it certainly is a good idea to give them loans. But if you can ignore the Constitution to do something good today, tomorrow you will be ignoring the Constitution to do something bad. You could. There are more people in our, in America today of German ancestry than any other [inaudible]. The Holocaust that occurred in Germany — how in the heck could that happen? And when you start down the wrong road, it can be a very slippery slope.
— Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), asserting that federally issued student loans are unconstitutional, the Washington Post reports.
AP Mixes Up Facts and Opinions, Even As AP Reporters Get President’s Name Wrong
“It would be more appropriate to make its complaint against CBO than against President Obama’s speech.”
— Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in a post titled, “AP Factcheck Should be Billed to Romney Campaign.” Baker takes issue with Associated Press “fact checkers” who claim there would be no peace dividend from winding down the war in Afghanistan.
President Obama is working off a baseline set by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that assumes war spending continues over the next decade. If he doesn’t intend to continue this spending then he is freeing up money relative to this baseline. AP may not like this method of scoring, but it is absolutely standard in Washington policy debates. Changes are measured against a baseline.
Baker joins others who suggest that the AP’s analysis might have been more correctly classified as an editorial than as fact checking.
H/T to The Nation
