Sheriff Joe's, “tough enough to keep us safe,” takes the cake as a cynical, sidestepping-the-truth political slogan. Tell that to the hundreds of children whose sexual assault cases he didn't bother with; tell that to anyone who bucked him during his decades-long reign-of-terror against his political enemies; tell that to all the families of prisoners [...]
Last night's debate showed two different views of America and where this country is going. I believe in Joe Biden's vision. I believe he and President Obama have a clear and fair approach to taxation and rebuilding the middle class. I believe the Democratic ticket has a clear and fair approach to women rights, gay [...]
Mitt Romney promises to take a "weed whacker" to environemental regulations. He promises to undo protections that have stood for decades, and freeze any new rules to protect the planet. His environemental platform would take us so far back that you'd think Teddy Roosevelt--the first Republican environmental president back in the early 1900s--never existed. A [...]
We don't have to guess what a Republican administration would mean to federal and state budgets--we've already seen that right here in Arizona. We have watched the self-proclaimed "tea party legislature" and their honey of a governor give generous tax cuts to businesses, while cutting education more than anywhere else in the entire nation. So [...]
Gov. Romley's tax cut promise "isn't mathematically possible," FactCheck says. Headlined "Romley's Impossible Tax promises," Factcheck.org (a program of the Annenberg Public Policy Center) says this: "Tax experts — including one who supports Romney’s plan — say the Republican presidential candidate’s promise to cut individual income tax rates without either favoring the wealthy or losing [...]
If you thought the "Save Big Bird" movement was just for fun, think again. PBS has issued a scathing reply to Gov. Romney's pledge to kill its federal funding. And it makes this illuminating point: "Earlier in 2012, the Harris Interactive poll confirmed Americans consider PBS the most trusted public institution and the second most [...]
Killing off Big Bird will save enough money to fund the federal government for 1 hour. One hour. 60 minutes. 3,600 seconds. Gov. Romney, in a moment of great enthusiasm during Wednesday's debate, said he'd cut spending by ending federal dollars to PBS, even though he liked Big Bird and debate moderater Jim Leherer from [...]
It was painful to watch last night's Presidential Debate. President Obama didn't show up to defend his record or show us how the Republican agenda is wrong. He never once said: "Yes, there's a major difference between me and Gov. Romney. I don't think 47 percent of Americans are deadbeats." Gov. Mitt Romney showed up [...]
It so amuses me to see Fox News try to find a "gottcha" on President Obama that will erase Romney's fatal 47 percent remark--an utterance from his soul that might well be the biggest reason he loses this race. Last night Fox thought they had it with a 5 year-old video--widely reported at the time--of [...]
The "Know-Nothings" label is bandied about a lot these days, usually referring to the Tea Party. But it's good to remember where that phrase comes from. In the 1840s, many so-called native Americans felt menaced by Irish and German immigrants, most of whom were Catholic and poor. They formed a secret society, swearing to vote [...]