Mitt Romney blames his loss on Obama’s “gifts” to Hispanics, African-Americans, young voters.
Category: politics
Surveillance and your privacy
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
I didn’t know this but the actual Benjamin Franklin quote is “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” or; “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”.
Anyway, the Petreaus still-evolving mess has brought up the issue of surveillance and how far it reaches into our private lives. Glenn Greenwald over at The Guardian has great column about it.
Senator Graham criticizes GOP immigration policy
During Sunday’s Face the Nation, the senator from South Carolina talks about how “tone and rhetoric” have caused the Hispanic community to turn against the Republican Party. He’s forgetting how tone and rhetoric is a problem with even a bigger voting bloc.
Veterans Day 2012
GOP tries to figure out what went wrong
The Washington Post has a story about top GOP officials planning “an exhaustive review to figure out what went so wrong and how to fix it”. I don’t think the Republicans need to spend all that money on focus groups; try joining the 21st century.
GOP reflect on their election losses
The pundits are talking about the immigration problem the GOP needs to fix in order to win future presidential elections. I think changing this position is long overdue:
Obama wins a 2nd term
Election Day 2012
A beautiful morning on Capitol Hill
One day to the election
…and we’re hearing about long lines for early voting in Florida. Why is Florida always such a problem?
Cartoon the Vote
Sara Thaves of the Cartoonist Group has created a website, Cartoon the Vote, with 1800+ election related cartoons by fifty leading cartoonists.
Money, politics and the democratic process
Just read an article about Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas billionaire who has spent more than $50 million supporting republicans in the 2012 elections.
What a Romney win means for SCOTUS
From George Will’s column today in The Washington Post:
“Much of the Democratic Party’s vast reservoir of condescension is currently focused on women, who are urged not to trouble their pretty little heads about actual problems but instead to worry that, 52 years after birth control pills went on the market and 47 years after access to contraception became a constitutional right, reproductive freedom is at risk.”
“actual problems”? Really?
