Day: April 18, 2012
Most Americans Expect Their Taxes to Increase in 2013
53%
Of Americans think their taxes will increase in the coming year, even as the Bush tax cuts are set to expire. Most say the wealthy pay too little in taxes; a growing number says the same about lower-income people.
Obama Needs More Progressive Donors
Many progressive donors think President Obama has it in the bag. But he doesn’t even have it in the shopping cart yet, much less in the bag.
— Paul Begala, in an interview with Greg Sargent, saying Democratic donors need to step up.
Flip-Flops Could help Romney
In politics, the flip-flopper label is deemed deadly, the fingering of a candidate with no fixed principles. But I suspect that, with swing voters at least, it helps Romney. If voters believe he was just throwing red meat to voracious primary voters — and that the real Mitt would govern as a sensible man of the center-right — the damage of the last few months could be mitigated.
— Howard Kurtz, writing in the Daily Beast.
Mitt ‘n’ Ted
Mitt Romney is a straight-laced gent
With a decidedly moderate bent.
He’s not a gunslinger
Or rock-and-roll singer,
So why’d he seek the endorsement of Ted Nugent?
Ann Romney Blames the Dog
[He] ate the turkey on the counter. I mean, he had the runs.
– Ann Romney in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in which she blamed Seamus the Irish setter for befouling himself in his kennel while it was strapped to the top of the Romneys’ car during a 12-hour vacation trip. Sawyer did not ask Ann Romney if it was also Seamus’ fault that he ran away after she and her family arrived at their vacation destination.
Early Allergy Season Making More Sick
22.8%
More Americans are reporting being sick with allergies on any given day so far this April than when the season peaked last year, at 22.1% in May, according to a Gallup-Healthways data document that indicates a stronger — and earlier — U.S. allergy season than usual.
MSNBC Host: Romney, Boehner, Cantor and McConnell Are All Criminals – We Need to Chop Their Heads off in November
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On MSNBC’s “The Last Word” last night, host Lawrence O’Donnell opened a segment of the show by calling on his viewers to decapitate four members of the Republican Party’s leadership:
O’DONNELL: I’ll tell you this right now. If Mitt Romney becomes the president in November, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. You can’t galvanize and promote — if you can’t galvanize and promote and recruit people to vote for Barack Obama, we’re done. We will be a suburb of Indonesia next year. Mitt Romney, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell — they’re all criminals. We are patriots. We are Braveheart. We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.
Okay, cue the Republican outrage.
Of course, O’Donnell was really just riffing on what Mitt Romney uber-supporter Ted Nugent told his half-witted but fully armed supporters recently:
