Just when you thought the conservative movement would do anything for a multibillionaire who believes that the police are so ineffective that he has to take the law into his own hands, the GOP are up in arms over Batman.…
Joe, Kathryn, Allison and Nick discuss Romney’s Bain troubles, which seemed to spiral out of control for 36 hours as Romney begged for an apology, floated Condi Rice for VP, and released a short-lived ad pulled for copyright violations. Is…
Does anyone else think that Politifact has been logging into its rival FactCheck.Org and trolling? Because that’s the best explanation I can think of for FactCheck’s latest series of bonehead moves. To recap, the Washington Post published an exhaustively researched…
Sometimes my training in debate forces me to scream at my TV. Maybe it’s unfair, because I know that I smell rhetorical blood in the water more than the average person. But as I watch Mitt Romney flacks continue to…
Joe, Allison, Kathryn, and Nick gather once again to discuss the June jobs report where an 80K job increase is really a decrease and the gang looks at Obama’s proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98% of Americans…
On July 6, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the branch of the U.S. Department of Labor charged with calculating the unemployment rate and counting how many jobs are added to the U.S. economy every month before throwing these numbers into…
Political rhetoric often ignores nuance, preferring to dismiss attacks or ignore them in lieu of some other counterattack. Conventional wisdom says that nuanced explanations are not only confusing to many voters, but potentially reinforces the original attack by keeping it…
The Washington Post has just published a review of Bain Capital and its history of moving American jobs overseas. Frankly, I’m figured everyone already knew that, in addition to planned bankruptcies, Bain took great pains to ship jobs overseas where…
Joe, Kathryn and Nick recap the week that was with a whirlwind review of Bain Capital attacks, Cory Booker’s stumbling introduction to national politics and Mitt Romney teaching us that “North Atlantic” extends to “North Korea” for some reason. Plus,…
I have to say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity. It’s to me, we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America. Especially that I know I live in a state where…
