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Mitt Romney usefully points out that his tax rate is more like 50% than 15%, because the corporations from which he got his capital gains paid a corporate income tax of 35%, more or less. Good point! Anyone whose income comes from the private sector can add 35% to his actual tax rate, and should [...]
Archive for the ‘Republican Party’ Category
January 23rd, 2012
Marianne Gingrich’s lawyer comes along today with a (mostly-accurate) attack on the Newtster. No big deal there. But wait a minute: the former Mrs. Gingrich’s lawyer is Victoria Toensing — where have I heard that name before? Oh yes — that Victoria Toensing. Long-time Washington GOP political operative. A very high priced inside-the-Beltway fixer for [...]
January 22nd, 2012
Category: Arts reviews, Republican Party
A sweet distraction from a depressing GOP primary.
January 19th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Conservatism, Income distribution, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
If you think we should discuss economic inequality in anywhere but quiet rooms, then go to China — I already sent your job there. Okay, cheap shot. But equating any discussion of inequality with Communism as Romney did is no more than crude red-baiting. Nevertheless, I can’t agree with those who think that the exchange means that “the pressure [...]
January 11th, 2012
Category: Academic Labor Market, Energy and Environment, Law Notes, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
Teresa R. Wagner, a conservative Republican who applied for a faculty job at Iowa and was turned down, thinks so: Ms. Wagner, who graduated from the law school in 1993 and had taught at the George Mason University School of Law, was not hired. She sued, alleging discrimination because of her political beliefs. Late last [...]
January 8th, 2012
Category: Republican Party
James Joyner reflects thoughtfully on Huntsman’s campaign and suggests that a post-Tea Party-madness era will come when candidates such as the Utah governor are popular in the GOP again: It’s pretty obvious to dispassionate observers that the trend of the last twenty years or so is unsustainable if the GOP is to remain a nationally [...]
December 22nd, 2011
Category: Democratic Party, Elections 2010 and 2012, History, Political Science, Politics and Leadership, Republican Party
That’s what pundits would have you believe, that we’re a “center-right” nation, that Reaganism is deep in the electorate’s bones, yadda yadda yadda. But does the data bear it out? Well, no. James A. Stimson is a political scientist at the UNC-Chapel Hill, and one of the most well-respected public opinion researchers in the [...]
November 21st, 2011
Over the last few years, whenever I have been forced to watch Newt Gingrich on television, I have had this nagging question at the back of my head: where have I seen this before? And suddenly, it just hit me: Gingrich is AWESOM-O. AWESOM-O, you might recall, is a fake robot, invented by Cartman from [...]
November 21st, 2011
Category: Republican Party, Tell About The South
Mississippi Republicans give Abraham Lincoln narrow lead (though no majority) against Jeff Davis. But hey, there’s progress: a narrow majority now think blacks should be allowed to marry whites.
