Like his previous campaigns, Romney’s Senate bid will be gloriously degrading and morbidly funny.
2012 Republican National Convention
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The Greatness We Had Then, The Madness We Have Now
I still remember how nervous I was. I spent the entire day anxious about something possibly going wrong in Ohio due to voter suppression. I was convinced that it would be over after one term, that the old GOP gang would get back together again, that the progress of the previous four years–especially on climate […]
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Extreme Makeover: Senate Edition
Last week, I noted that the old-school GOP operatives urging the Republican Party to support a federal carbon tax as a “market-based” way to address climate change might be better off supporting state-level efforts to put a price on carbon. After all, despite some evidence of bipartisanship on climate on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Paul […]
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The Consequences of Clint’s Callousness
Somewhere in Burbank, California, a Warner Bros. Pictures executive is wishing Clint Eastwood would have kept his mouth shut. By mocking critics of bigoted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Eastwood has effectively dragged his upcoming film Sully–a dramatization of then-US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger’s heroism on the Hudson in January 2009–into the culture wars. How […]
