Most Americans Feel Country Is On the Wrong Track
70%
Of likely voters nationwide feel that the country is on the wrong track, a new George Washington University Battleground Poll finds. Just 21% say that the nation is headed in the right direction.
Brown Encourages Out-of-Staters to Vote in New Hampshire
Well they can come over and do same-day registration and say they want to come down and vote. So if they feel compelled to do so, come on down.
— Scott Brown (R), quoted by Boston.com, encouraging out-of-state voters to vote for him in New Hampshire.
Republicans Flip-Flop on America’s Role in the World
52%
Of Republicans said the U.S. does too much to help solve global problems in a survey last fall, while just 18% said it does too little. Today, 46% of Republicans think the U.S. does too little to solve global problems, while 37% say it does too much, according tom a USAToday/Pew Research poll.
Wealthy Donors Paying More for Political Klout
310
Donors gave a combined $11.6 million more by this summer than would have been allowed before the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ruling, the Washington Post notes. Their contributions favored Republican candidates and committees over Democratic ones by 2 to 1.
What Australia Can Teach America About Gun Safety, After a Few Years of Detox
Watch the funniest — and most sensible — arguments for gun control yet.
It will be interesting to see what kind of refutations appear in the comments.
Celebrating Labor Day? Guess You’re a Socialist, Pro-Union, Anti Job Creator Commie
If today means more to you than packing away your white shorts and shoes, you’re probably a pro-union type who supports raising the minimum wage. But if you’re like most Americans, it’s just another amorphous, somehow patriotic Monday holiday on which to cook out, drink beer, and if you’re like my neighbors last night, inexplicably shoot off fireworks.
I’m not sure how Labor Day got hijacked into being another red, white, and blue affair. Yet the Labor Day sale signs in store windows feature stars and stripes along with promises of savings.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s website tells it straight. The holiday is in recognition of the power of worker collectives, and what they accomplish when they band together and refuse to be abused by, wait for it…job creators.
GOP House Chairman Apparently Auditions for Joan Rivers’ Job Hosting ‘Fashion Police’ – Criticizes Pres. Obama’s Tan Suit
With Joan Rivers lying in an induced coma in a Manhattan hospital, her fellow New York Republican, House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King, appeared to be angling for her job as host on E!’s “Fashion Police.” During an interview on Newsmax, a birther news website, King offered biting commentary about Pres. Obama’s decision to wear a tan suit at a hastily called news conference last week.
Described by one source as “seething,” King complained that, “For him to walk out — I’m not trying to be trivial here — in a light suit, light tan suit, saying that first he wants to talk about what most Americans care about the revision of second quarter numbers on the economy.”
What do Americans really care about? Not the economy, stupid! Terror, of course.
Need Compass Comrade?
I’d fire the lot of ’em if I were their boss,
But maybe the Russian border is more confusing than most.
Why else would Putin explain
The incursion in Ukraine,
By saying, “A thousand Russian troops and tanks kind of … got lost.”
Poetic Justice
Pundits say that Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe was an overreach,
And they agree that if lies were a crime, he’d be impeached.
Despite all the dividend promises he’s made,
The fact is, not one has ever been paid,
So even before the midterms, he already owes us $8,000* each.
*$5000 stimulus checks via “DOGE dividend”; $2000 stimulus checks via a “tariff dividend”; $1000-plus checks via “savings” from expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies
