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Really. I came across this report from Politico a few weeks ago, and it seemed to sum things up well. The House Agriculture Committee was debating the farm bill, and particularly Republicans’ efforts to decimate the Food Stamp program. Rep. Joe Baca (D-California) protested: As a young father, Rep. Joe Baca had himself relied on [...]
Archive for the ‘Republican Party’ Category
August 13th, 2012
Category: Clash of Civilizations, Democratic Party, Liberalism, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
August 9th, 2012
Category: Clash of Civilizations, Climate change, Conservatism, Democratic Party, Energy and Environment, Liberalism, Moral philosophy, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
My friend and colleague Steve Bainbridge is out with a new article on “Corporate Lawyers as Gatekeepers,” which, if you are interested in corporate law, you should read (Steve is one of the country’s most distinguished scholars in the field). But what piqued my interest when he sent it to me was his offhand remark [...]
July 26th, 2012
Category: Campaign 2012, Defense and national security, Foreign Policy, Mitt Romney, Republican Party
In the last three days, Mitt Romney and his campaign have: 1) At best lied about and at worst divulged confidential conversations with the Australian foreign minister; 2) Been unable to distinguish “Russia” from “the Soviet Union”; 3) Used crude racial/ethnic stereotyping that even the Torygraph thinks is over-the-top; and now 4) Insulted Great Britain [...]
July 18th, 2012
A few months ago I argued that one reason Republicans handled the contraception issue so incompetently was that public opinion on premarital sex was strongly divided by age and party: older Republicans, and nobody else, overwhelmingly regard sex outside marriage as inherently wrong. Mitt Romney has a similar problem regarding Bain. According to a Gallup [...]
June 26th, 2012
Educational plagues.
May 3rd, 2012
…was recruited to the Romney campaign as an expert in national security - this means Romney’s team thought he was the best person for the job (did I mention, the job is national security?) - and has plausible credentials in the field. Mitt Romney let his gay-bashers run him out of town without a peep, [...]
March 26th, 2012
Well, when a politically ambitious appellate judge wants to avoid getting himself in trouble. Via Washington Monthly, SCOTUSBlog makes it clear that the Supremes might not even consider the so-called merits of the so-called constitutional questions regarding the Affordable Care Act. That’s because of an old (but still important) federal law called the Anti-Injunction Act, [...]
