Home. Mother Jones | Smart, Fearless Journalism. Deep Background news, analysis, and opinion from Politics Daily. Just In Mitt Romney: Adult or Empty Suit? -David Corn In his speech at CPAC last week, Romney offered bromides rather than specific proposals on fixing the economy. He seemed content to bash Obama rather than offer alternatives.
Obama Hate Machine Exploits Egyptian Crisis Glenn Beck and others never let a crisis go to waste. Huffington Post. President Barack Obama has been the target of endless tirades from the Republican opposition, nonetheless, the president has remained poised as he has made progress on a wide range of important issues. But will the "Yes we can! " voters of 2008 be energized enough this fall to overcome those whose rallying cry is "Hell no!
"? The incumbent party almost always loses House and Senate seats in a midterm elections, and that will certainly be the outcome this coming November. While the president's decline in popularity may be a factor, these races are largely decided on local issues. Also, it appears that an "anti-Obama" spirit, especially in the South, has galvanized Tea Party members and conservatives. Conservative leaders, like Mississippi Governor Haley Barber, know just how to tap into the emotions of their state's voters. The Republicans, supported by right-wing talk show hosts, are accusing the president of a government takeover, socialism, and, even worse, arrogance. The Nation | Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865. The SEC's porn problem - Pornography. As the global economy crashed and burned, certain top staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were busy watching porn.
Instead of policing Wall Street, some were surfing for smut. This is the revelation making headlines today after the leak Thursday night of a summary of 33 probes of SEC employees using government computers to access pornography over the past five years. For the most part, the summary (PDF) resurfaces information that was already public; and it’s worth noting that it was requested by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, and is now being used as political ammunition by the GOP. The details are as follows: 31 of the investigations took place during the financial meltdown and, as the extent of the crisis became clear in 2008, the number of investigations ballooned from two the previous year to 16.
The summary includes salacious details about hundreds of images and videos stored on work hard drives. Well, now, this is all very exciting. Reader: Alternative coverage of politics, culture, and new ideas. Homepage. The Center for Public Integrity. Sarah Palin, Inc. - Politics. In the new issue of New York magazine, Gabriel Sherman takes a revealing look at the business of being Sarah Palin. Upshot: it's lucrative. He estimates that Palin, who he dubs "the president of right-wing America," earned $12 million over the last year.
What really jumps out, though, is not the size of Palin's haul but her overweening money lust, which would be at home on the Goldman Sachs trading floor. Others have cashed in on political fame, Gabe notes. But no one else has rolled politics and entertainment into the same scintillating, infuriating, spectacularly lucrative package the way Palin has or marketed herself over multiple platforms with the sophistication and sheer ambitiousness that Palin has shown, all while maintaining a viable presence as a prospective presidential candidate in 2012. A couple notes. Why indeed? And she's hardly alone. (Image courtesy of Geico) Politics, Political News.