Here’s how the Obama campaign will welcome Paul Ryan:
As others have noted, Romney’s selection of Ryan is a gift to moderate and liberal Democrats: in the course of identifying why the Ryan-Romney budget plan would be so destructive, Democrats are likely to say things making a lame-duck ‘grand compromise’ (aka grand sellout) on social security and Medicare much less likely.
The diabolically effective part of the latest Obama ad isn’t that it suggests Romney paid 10% or less in taxes, but rather that it links him to a tax scandal with the delicious name of “Son of Boss”.
Because the thing most likely to sink Romney isn’t his tax avoidance but rather that he talks and acts like the boss’s son he is.
Someone thinks it can, and is putting his beliefs into action.
Via Devan Desai via Forbes
I’m off to a secret undisclosed location that we’ve rented sight unseen, save for a few photos online. The photo to the right is not one of them — there are tools out there to track back photos — but we hope the scenery in the neighborhood might be something like it.
I’m back in a week. I may have some DSL while I’m away, but don’t know if blogging will be part of my relaxation plans. Jotwell should keep on ticking over in my absence — we have some great stuff queued up.
Creative commons licensed photo © Copryright 2009 Kathy Weaver.
Local politics gadfly, “Ladra,” in the course of fulminating about voter suppression in Hialeah, turns to fulminating about people surprised at voter suppression in Hialeah:
Hellllooo? Do you not read Political Cortadito? Do you think I’m kidding? I’m not even exaggerating most of the time.
via Intimidation at JFK starts early in early voting | Political Cortadito.
Yes, she is the blogger Hialeah deserves.
Seems that the first attempt did not go according to plan, so we’re trying again tonight, a bit earlier in the evening (US east coast time).
Things could be weird (or offline) for an hour or two.
Update: Well, that went better!
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