In this piece in Rolling Stone, about Rush Limbaugh, and Republican "morning after" analysis (har har) ,Matt Taibbi dials back the venom and really tries to "help". But the reason Romney lost is exactly that Obama and the Democrats quite successfully portrayed him as anti-woman, anti-working person, anti-poor, anti-hispanic, pro-(HORRORS) business, pro rich people, etc. Romney, for his part, never gave anyone anything resembling a concrete reason to vote FOR him. OH, and special mention to the Republican Party for flushing millions of votes by marginalizing Ron Paul and his supporters at the convention, stealing his delegates, and refusing to accord him the respect he deserved. Have fun talking to yourself, Rush.
Salon, Meet Economic Ignorance
In this rather partisan and somewhat confused article, Andrew Leonard doesn't let reality get in the way of his Obama-burnishing. In trying to indict Romney on one of the very few decent positions he has (e.g., against the auto bailouts), he takes Romney to task for claiming that the bailed-out Chrysler Corp has shipped Jeep production to China,
Read MoreA Prophetic Vision of Wall Street on a Dollar Collapse?
[caption id="attachment_1385" align="aligncenter" width="233"] Big Bag of OPM[/caption]Rarely happens, but a reading in church today seems very relevant to our late state of economy; "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you." James 5: 1-6