Friday Afternoon Thread: One Chance

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.

It’s not that the GOP leadership agrees with West; it is that such extreme remarks and views are now taken for granted.

more here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html

Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XV
By Steve Benen – Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:11 PM EDT.

After winning several more presidential primaries this week, Mitt Romney delivered a speech his campaign billed as the unofficial kickoff of the general election. And while making his pitch as the presumptive Republican nominee, the former governor said President Obama intends to “run a campaign of … distortions.”

I very nearly fell out of my chair. After watching Romney closely for years, I’ve never seen any candidate in either party run a campaign of distortions as shamelessly as this guy, and this claim seemed to take the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” tactic to new levels.

To appreciate the scope of Romney’s distortions, consider the 15th installment of my weekly series, chronicling Mitt’s mendacity.

1. Romney argued in Pennsylvania earlier this week that President Obama has “apologized for America.”

The fact that Romney continues to repeat this lie every day is pretty depressing.

2. The Romney campaign argued this week that college tuition costs are going up is because “this president decided to take over the student loan market.”

As a matter of policy, that’s ridiculous, and as a matter of accuracy, it’s completely untrue.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/27/11432528-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xv?lite

PLEASE TWEET THIS!!

A Second Term for Obama
by BooMan
Fri Apr 27th, 2012 at 02:44:51 PM EST

Ruth Marcus is concern-trolling again: Or, maybe she’s trying to reassure the Villagers that Obama isn’t a secret socialist. I can’t even tell the difference anymore. In any case, Ms. Marcus doesn’t think Obama is going to do anything radical in a second term, but she sure wishes he would talk about doing some radically centrist things during the campaign.
Congressional math will constrain Obama for the remainder of his presidency even if he wins a second term and the Dems do better than the historical average in the next midterms. There is no way Obama will ever again have a Congress as compliant as the one he enjoyed in 2009-2010, if you can call that Baucus-Nelson-Lincoln-Landrieu-Lieberman-led Congress “compliant.”

The good old days are over, and our next shot at bold progressive change will come in 2016, when we’ll have a chance to win the presidency again and get back to a 60 vote advantage in the Senate.

There is literally nothing the president or the party or you or I can do to change that reality. It is what it is.

In a second term, however, Obama will be free to make decisions that are politically unpopular. He can be bolder on using the executive branch to address climate change, civil rights, election reform, prison reform, drug enforcement reform, etc. He can stand up to his own party, too, and will likely pursue tax and entitlement reform that liberals will not like.

He will continue to tilt the federal courts to the left, and might make a truly meaningful Supreme Court appointment (or two). He’ll protect the health care, Wall Street, and consumer protection reforms that he’s made. Millions of people will begin receiving subsidies to pay for health insurance or Medicaid, creating a culture of dependency a huge bloc of Democratic voters for the foreseeable future and ending this nonsense about repealing ObamaCare.

Our foreign policies will be protected from the neo-conservatives for four years, and we’ll likely see a period of peace reminiscent of the mid-1990′s.

All-in-all, not what I would wish for, but so much better than what we’ve had and what Romney is offering that it’s not even a close call. Four more years!!

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/4/27/144451/742

I’m ambivalent about Bill, but I appreciate his ad. Good job, all involved.

WTF!!! WOW, JUST WOW! This dude really doesn’t understand that the majority of American CAN’T borrow money from their parents for college. For middle class and poorer students…COLLEGE IS EXPENSIVE!!!!

Romney’s Advice To Students: Borrow Money From Your Parents. http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/27/473096/romney-borrow-money-parents/

This is why POTUS and the Dems have such a big advantage with women voters:
Could R-Money speak on women’s issues with as much passion as this?

President Obama at the Women’s Leadership Forum

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