Mitt Romney's worst enemy is proving to be...Mitt Romney.
You really should read the entire story, but here's the gist:
Democrats are billing the upcoming Democratic National Committee's annual convention as a "People's Convention," funded by "the people."
Steve Kerrigan, the committee CEO, recently convened a meeting with lobbyists and other Beltway power brokers at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington D.C. Democratic sources told Bloomberg that Kerrigan, a former national political director for Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), touted an expensive array of convention "packages" that were aimed at attracting ultra-wealthy donors.
One of the options is the $1 million "Presidential" level, which includes a "premier uptown hotel room" and "concierge services," as well as the $500,000 "Gold Rush" package. Read more
The left/socialist/greens always need someone to criminalize. This week, it's toilet paper. Wipe with your hands to save the earth! Read more
State and federal officials on Thursday announced a landmark, $26 billion settlement with five of the nation's banks over their flawed and fraudulent foreclosure practices, marking the largest government-industry settlement in over a decade.
"Last year, a federal program paid out $1.6 billion to cover free cell phones and the monthly bills of 12.5 million wireless accounts. The program, overseen by the FCC and intended to help low-income Americans, is popular for obvious reasons, with participation rising steeply since 2008, when the government paid $772 million for phones and monthly bills. But observers complain that the program suffers from poor oversight, in which phones go to people who don't qualify, and hundreds of thousands of those who do qualify have more than one phone."
PEORIA, Feb 08, 2012 (Journal Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX News Network) -- Caterpillar Inc. will not be building its new North American plant anywhere in the state of Illinois, officials with the company told local leaders Tuesday, with part of the reason being continued concerns about the business climate in the state.
The company will instead focus on a location closer to its division headquarters in Cary, N.C., Peoria County officials were told in an email sent to them shortly after the close of business and later obtained by the Journal Star. The plant stood to bring with it from Japan roughly 1,000 jobs manufacturing track-type tractors and mini hydraulic excavators.
This isn't even the most cavalier statement about the budget made by a Democrat today. Take it away, Steny Hoyer:
At a briefing with journalists on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Hoyer was asked, "Mr. Hoyer, around the same time of the State of the Union [on Jan. 24], I think it was the same day, Republicans were trying to hit Senate Democrats for 1,000 days without passing a budget, and then you talk about this milestone today, 400 days without a jobs bill in the Republican House. But then on Friday [Democratic Senator Harry] Reid said that he didn't think they needed to bring a budget to the floor this year [and that] the Budget Control Act can serve as a guideline." Read more
No, not GOP prez wannabe Rick Santorum's heated dreams about "man-on-dog" copulation. I this case TN state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville)has figured out that AIDS in humans came from "one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men."
("If I recall correctly..."?)
Among Campfield's contributions to the blogosphere is a post he titled "More Fun Than A Barrel Of Monkeys." Read more
President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned. The first 10 states to receive the waivers are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee. NBC News confirmed the report.
He said action was necessary because Congress failed to update the law despite widespread bipartisan agreement that it needs fixing. Republicans have charged that by granting waivers, Obama was overreaching his authority. Read more
WASHINGTON -- The organizers of a major conservative conference here over the next three days are trying to widen participation in a straw poll, a not-too-subtle attempt to give a Republican presidential candidate other than Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) a chance to win.
This year, the American Conservative Union and CPAC are moving from paper ballots to electronic voting that will be accessible from a computer or a handheld device, said Al Cardenas, the conservative union's current president. He told The Huffington Post that he hopes this will increase the number of attendees who participate in the straw poll. Read more
(NaturalNews) Purchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card, using Google Maps to view photos of sporting event stadiums and large cities, and installing software to protect your internet privacy on your mobile phone -- these and many other mundane activities are now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And the agency is now distributing a new series of flyers as part of its new "Communities Against Terrorism" (CAT) program that urges shop owners and others to report such "suspicious" activity to authorities. Read more
Romney, in 2008 when running for President, said that he was a proponent of automatically increasing minimum wage to keep up with inflation. Romney in 2012 says he hasn't changed his position on this. After saying that he caught shiat from a lot of prominent GOPhers including the USCoC, Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, Club For Growth, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Steve Forbes, Jim DeMint et al.
Waiting for him to flip flop on this in 1, 2, 3...
"There's something that needs to be said, no matter how uncomfortable it makes some people listening to us," says Fox commentator and former CBS newman Bernie Goldberg, the liberal-turned-conservative who (at least up to now) has long been a rightwing fave. "There is a strain of bigotry -- and that's the word I want to use -- running through conservative America." Read more
We are just where we have been. The Republican party does not have a candidate for president. The deck keeps being reshuffled, and different jokers keep popping up to the top. But the 75 percent of the party that does not want Mitt can't and won't coalesce over any of the alternatives. Nor will it warm up to the guy it keeps being told is the "inevitable" front-runner. The lack of GOP enthusiasm for its own field can be seen in its turnout -- down again last night, as it was in Romney's Florida victory.
Vile racism raised its ugly head during a boys basketball game near Pittsburgh on Friday when fans of a nearly all-white suburban school ran on the court in banana suits and made monkey noises to taunt the players for their rivals, who play for a school which is predominantly African-American.
reported by a variety of Pittsburgh media outlets, the Monessen Valley Independent and WPXI prominent among them, the annual basketball rivalry game between Pittsburgh (Pa.) Brentwood High and Monessen (Pa.) High turned extremely ugly when the two teams tried to head to their respective locker rooms for halftime. Before the players could leave the floor, three fans from the visiting Brentwood student section ran onto the court in full-body banana suits.
A Seattle librarian refused to force a man watching hardcore porn on a computer to move to a more discreet location, even after a woman with two children complained, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Lake City librarian reportedly could see the screen, and sympathized with the woman's position, but maintained that the library "doesn't censor content" and could not "be in the business of monitoring what their patrons are doing at any given computer."
According to newspaper, the woman isn't the first person to speak up. Several parents and teachers have complained about library patrons watching graphic pornography while children are present, the paper said.
"Now I don't let my kids wander the aisles at our branch," one mother told the newspaper. Read more
