Author: Trish
Mitt Who? Republicans Hurry to Be Post-Romney
Before dawn broke in my neighborhood, the Romney/Ryan yard signs disappeared from lawns. The zzzppptt! of Romney/Ryan bumper stickers being torn off like bandaids, in grim, lip-pursed yanks, might be what woke me up this morning.
Almost as if they had never existed, the traces of Romney’s support were gone. As soon as it became evident that Pres. Obama had easily held off his shape-shifting opponent, the Romney brand was in the clearance bin.
The main lesson is one that Democrats learned in 2004, when hating George W. Bush wasn’t enough to put Generic Democratic Challenger in the White House
For the vast majority of Romney’s base, his support was more about what he wasn’t than what he was. He wasn’t, of course, Barack Obama. Beyond that, he was Generic Republican Challenger, and he stirred as much passion in his followers, if they could be called that, as a can of Ensure. Yes, he had all the ingredients they needed but they’d really rather have had them in a slice of pizza.
Obama Tweet Breaks Record
636,558
Number of retweets, setting a Twitter record, for a post by Pres. Obama that said, “Four more years” with a Twitpic of him and First Lady Michelle Obama embracing.
Time For Mitch McConnell to Get a New Hobby
McConnell realizes he can count to two.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) famously declared that the most important goal of the Republican party for the past few years was to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
But even after tirelessly obstructing each and every initiative put forward by the president; and with the economy improving despite every Republican attempt — including having rightwing CEOs threaten their employees that they would cut jobs if Obama won — to keep it in the Bush recession; and causing such inertia in Congress that its approval numbers nearly imperil democracy…even after all this, McConnell failed in his number one goal.
So with your help, we’d like to develop some new goals for Mitch. Please leave your suggestions in the comments.
- Have surgery to remove turtle chin
- Read a book on how to govern, and what the point of being in the Senate is
- Announce you will not run for re-election in 2014
- Announce that you will retire early to spend more time with your family
- Announce that you are actually stepping down today and then go back to your old Kentucky home and never be heard from again
Whew. Yes We Did. Again!
Thank you America, or at least 59,631,249 of you.
And He Settles Things With a Beer, Not a $10,000 Bet
I wont tell you who I voted for but he banks in the United States and pays his taxes #spoiler
— Tweet from @Izac_Wright on election day
Reading is Fun-damental for Voting in Florida
3,000+
Number of words on the ballot in Duval Co., Fla. (Jacksonville), thanks to 12 state constitutional amendments added by the Republican legislature. In Pinellas Co. (St. Petersburg), the Supervisor of Elections remarked, “The voter who sees this ballot the first time may need smelling salts.”
Screwing Up Voting as Only Florida Can: Look for a Very Bad Election Day 2012
This picture of the line for early voting on Saturday in Miami* should explain why a Florida judge ruled on Sunday that early voting must be allowed to continue today, despite Gov. Rick Scott’s order that it would end.
What’s happening at the polls in Florida feels a lot like “self voter suppression.”
The Republican super majority in the state legislature loaded the ballot with ONE DOZEN deceptively and circuitously worded amendments. These would, among other things, exempt Florida from healthcare reform; interfere with a woman’s right to choose; provide more tax breaks to big business that will cut funding from schools, fire, and police; and give the legislature the ability to meddle with the state Supreme Court, among other GOP wish list items that would be unconstitutional if not passed by voters.
The amendments take up a full three 8 1/2 x 14 pages, front and back, on the ballot and it is estimated that it would take the average voter at least 45 minutes to read them all, and that’s not counting the time it will take to consider all the other offices and local initiatives. Officials, of course, have been stressing the need to bring a filled-in sample ballot to the polls.
