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Tuesday Results Put Rick Santorum Back In The Republican Presidential Race

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/08/2012 10:34 0 comments , 54 views
The Republican race for the presidential nomination has been a very wild ride this year, even though only seven states have picked their delegates. Rick Santorum won Iowa with only a razor thin margin over Mitt Romney. But after Romney won big in New Hampshire, many pundits gave him the tag of the "inevitable" winner of the race. But he lost that tag in the very next state, as Newt Gingrich beat him soundly in South Carolina.

Romney got his mojo back after winning big in the following two states -- Florida and Nevada. Once again he was crowned by many as the "inevitable" winner of the nomination. It only took three days for him to once again lose that crown. It seems that the political pundits once again underestimated the ...
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We're Number One!

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/07/2012 08:45 0 comments , 152585 views
Political Cartoon is by Tim Eagan at caglecartoons.com.
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It Looks Like Voter Fraud Is Real

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/07/2012 08:45 0 comments , 122 views
As you probably know, the Republicans around the country have been trying to pass Voter ID laws -- laws that would require a voter to show  a picture ID in addition to a voter registration card before they would be allowed to vote. Most people with a functioning brain know this is simply an effort to suppress the Democratic vote, but the Republicans still loudly proclaim it is an effort to stop widespread voter fraud. The problem with that is that Republicans have been unable to uncover any widespread voter fraud -- or small-scale fraud for that matter.

But it now looks like the Republicans may have been right -- at least on a small-scale basis. Courts have recently convicted a couple of people of voter fraud. Of course the ...
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Not A Typo

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/07/2012 08:45 0 comments , 53 views
Political Cartoon is by Steve Greenberg at steve@greenberg-art.com.
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Corporate Tax Avoidance At 40 Year Low

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/05/2012 08:51 0 comments , 194 views
We have been hearing about corporations avoiding taxes for a while now. This excellent piece from Think Progress shows just how bad corporate tax avoidance has become. Something must be done about this. Americans pay their taxes (except for the rich like Mitt Romney) and it's time for the corporations to pay their share also. Here is what Think Progress had to say about corporate taxes:

In recent decades, corporate tax revenue has plunged, falling from about 6 percent of gross domestic product in the 1950′s to less than 2 percent today, due to a proliferation of corporate tax breaks and the use of offshore tax havens. According to the Congressional Budget Office, in fact, corporate tax receipts as a share of ...
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Color me skeptical on Romney win in Nevada

by Socratic Gadfly on 02/05/2012 08:51 0 comments , 160 views
Everybody is talking about how big the win was for Romney, but getting only 42 percent of the vote in a state that trails only Utah and Idaho in percentage of Mormon population, especially given his years in neighboring Utah, and this was NOT a "big" victory. That said, a few other things show up:

1. The non-Mormon part of the Nevada GOP is pretty libertarian; the fact that Paul couldn't crack 20 percent shows (yes, Paul-tards) that he has a ceiling that's not all that high.

2. The fact that Gingrich got more than 25 percent in a four-person race with a dysfunctional state organization shows that Romney and the GOP establishment count him out at their peril.
There is no god and I am his prophet.


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It's Nevada's Turn At Bat Today

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/04/2012 08:25 0 comments , 130 views
(The above cartoon is by David Horsey in The Los Angeles Times.)

Today is the day that Nevada Republicans caucus to make their choice for the Republican presidential nomination. And as interesting as who will get the lion's share of Nevada's 28 delegates is wondering just how many Republicans will show up for the caucuses. There are about 400,000 registered Republicans in the state, but it is very unlikely that anywhere near that number will participate. In 2008, only about 45,000 Republicans attended the caucus (and Romney got 22,649 votes, or 51.1%). It will be interesting to see if they top that number this time.

The turnout in Iowa and new Hampshire was about the same as in 2008, while the turnout in South Carolina was ...
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Unemployment Shows Small Improvement

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/04/2012 08:25 0 comments , 72 views
The Labor Department released it unemployment figures for the month of January yesterday, and there was some definite improvement. About 243,000 new jobs were created, and unlike most months in 2011, that showed a real (although small) improvement. Too often last year, the number of jobs created did not top the number of new entrants to the labor force (about 150,000 a month), but January's number did. That's means the drop in unemployment from 8.5% to about 8.3% was a  real drop (rather than a numbers game).

This is good news for Democrats, since a falling unemployment rate means the chances for President Obama being re-elected is improved -- and it would be vastly improved if the rate could drop below 8% in the coming months. ...
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Donald Trump Feeds His Ego

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/03/2012 08:57 1 comment , 124 views
The Republican presidential nomination has been chugging along nicely, with four states having voted and four more scheduled for the next couple of weeks. But this has been happening without the sizable ego of Donald Trump, and for Trump that is inexcusable. He's convinced that he the kingmaker in the Republican Party. So before a decision in the race became obvious, Trump quickly jumped on a jet, flew to Las vegas, and announced to the world his own endorsement for the nomination.

There were those who thought that Trump would endorse Gingrich. After all, Gingrich was willing to attend Trump's ill-fated debate while Romney was not. But Trump's ego wouldn't let him endorse someone who was not likely to win, so in spite of all the ...
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Silver Foot

by Ted McLaughlin on 02/03/2012 08:57 0 comments , 112732 views
Political Cartoon is by David Fitzsimmons in the Arizona Daily Star.
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