My opener to the package for current Mother Jones. Thanks to Carolyn Perot, Tim Luddy, Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffrey for their smarts and courage. Jim DeMint, Roger Ailes, Sean Hannity, Eric Cantor, Rush Limbaugh lead the idiot’s parade urging the GOP as far to the Right as possible, as the poor devil eats one grenade … Read more
Thinking about how much richer Romney is than anyone we have seen in politics, I decided to play with the portrait as infographic. The result, in generous collaboration with Mary Parsons and the editors of The American Prospect, is the double page spread in the current issue, dissected below. What we see is a remarkable … Read more
For the better part of the week Ricky “I hate college” Santorum has been ignoring the revelation appearing on the site Buzzfeed that Romney had written an Op Ed for USA Today http://mittromneycentral.com/op-eds/2009-op-eds/mr-president-whats-the-rush/ in 2009 urging Obama to use his Romneycare as a model for national health care. Notwithstanding the merits of insuring everyone the … Read more
This Valentine’s Day considering the true romances flourishing in politics. Opening a new animated series for the brand new Washington Spectator site, washingtonspectator.org. Also running now on the Huffington Post. Many thanks to Lou Dubose, Hamilton Fish, Emily Gordon, Betty Russell, Alissa Levin, Edel Rodriguez and everyone who made this new site possible. This is … Read more
Warbucks’ Winter Mitten of the Day. Greg Palast asks the interesting question: why did Romney superpac support fall off in recent mid western states when Santorum posed a threat to his candidacy? He posits in this piece Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/billionaires-brokered-convention/1328809810 that the “owners” don’t believe in Romney in any real way. They want, Palast, suggests, a … Read more
