Tag: Mitt Romney

• Our constitutional crisis has arrived

  With the Senate’s “exoneration” of Donald Trump last week, and his subsequent but wholly predictable reaction to it, our constitutional crisis has now formally arrived. I’ve been warning about it for years, twice in 2016 alone, but it’s now here. Unfortunately, there is no knight in shining armor to save us. Turmoil and a likely…

  Mark

  February 10, 2020

  Politics 2020

  Adam Schiff, Bill Barr, Constitutional crises, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Friday Night Massacre, Gordon Sondland, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, Rudy Guiliani

• The Manchurian President

  Six years back I opined about liberals I loathed, which says a lot for a liberal. I still loath two of them (Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann) but I’ve changed my mind on Cenk Uygur. I might not have, but retirement has given me a lot more free time, so I’ve been streaming The Young…

  Mark

  March 15, 2018

  Politics 2018

  Barack Obama, Bob Mueller, Conspiracy, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Manchurian candidate, Manchurian president, Mitt Romney, Rex Tillerson

• Mitt Romney for president

  Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential candidate, was in my dreams last night, and in a good way. Dreams are all about fantasy, and in my dreamy dreamland Mitt became of 45th president and I was ecstatic. I was ecstatic not because I am particularly happy with the idea of Mitt being our next…

  Mark

  December 7, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Electoral college, Faithless electors, Hamilton electors, Mitt Romney

• Unwinding the crazy (or why Obama and Mitt Romney need to talk)

  So my daughter has been chatting with me on Skype. She wants to know: “Dad, have politics ever this crazy?” She would actually take some comfort in knowing that demagogues like Donald Trump have actually arisen before and have had a stake put through their hearts. I had to tell her no, not in my…

  Mark

  March 13, 2016

  Politics 2016

  Andrew Jackson, Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly, Bush, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Glenn Beck, Jimmy Carter, John Edwards, John Kasich, Mitt Romney, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan

• How to truly value labor

  Paul Ryan, former Republican vice presidential nominee and House Budget Committee chairman, has a new concern about Obamacare. It comes from a very selective reading of a new Congressional Budget Office report. The report noted that because Obamacare helps decouple health insurance from employment, some people who are working only because of their employer’s health…

  Mark

  February 12, 2014

  Politics 2014

  Earned Income, Labor, Living Wage, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Unearned income

• Hurricane Sandy reminds us why we need government

  With the arrival of Hurricane Sandy here on the east coast yesterday, you got a timely reminder of why we need government. Yesterday was a day when you wanted to batten down the hatches and if you lived in certain areas also pray like hell. Unless you own a boat or ship you probably didn’t…

  Mark

  October 30, 2012

  Politics 2012

  Barack Obama, Conservatives, Disaster response, FEMA, Hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney, Taxes, Weather

• The last debate

  It’s probably a good thing that most Americans are geography impaired. Many Americans cannot tell you what their neighboring states are, let alone pick out Iran or Syria on a globe. Mitt Romney seems to fall into this category as well, since during yesterday’s presidential debate he came up with the preposterous claim that Iran…

  Mark

  October 23, 2012

  Politics 2012

  Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Debates, Election 2012, Foreign policy, Iran, Mitt Romney

• The second debate

  As a political junkie, I confess that I watch presidential debates not so much to learn what candidates believe on a variety of issues (which, of course, I already know) but for their pure entertainment value. Arguably, presidential debates are primarily theater. Unlike theater these debates can have real world consequences: the acquisition of power.…

  Mark

  October 17, 2012

  Politics 2012

  Barack Obama, Debates, Election 2012, Mitt Romney

• The vice presidential debate

  I don’t know whether to applaud or feel appalled. Maybe it’s okay to do both. I spent much of this debate with my jaw agape as Vice President Joe Biden did everything to get attention but take off his shoe and bang it on his desk, a la Nikita Khrushchev. Whereas Barack Obama was unfailingly…

  Mark

  October 13, 2012

  Politics 2012

  Barack Obama, Debates, Economy, Election 2012, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Satan

• The first debate

  It’s not October in a presidential election year without a number of presidential debates. Therein we largely–already-decided-voters get to watch the candidates jostle and parry with each other on national TV. The talking heads go into overdrive. Who won? Who lost? Why? What does it mean? What it mostly means is not a whole lot.…

  Mark

  October 5, 2012

  Politics 2012

  Barack Obama, Debates, Election 2012, Horse Dressage, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan