progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
October 13, 2012 Leave a comment
Romney may say that he wants small government, but what he’s pushing for is a government that’s small when it comes to helping people and big when it comes to helping business.
- James Surowiecki (“Corporate Welfare Queens,” The New Yorker, October 8, 2012)
August 15, 2012 Leave a comment
It’s unfair to say, as some might, that Mitt Romney believes in nothing except his own ambition. He believes, with shining certainty, in his own success, and, more broadly, in the American Gospel of Wealth that lies behind it: the idea that rich people got rich by being good, that the riches are a sign of their virtue, and that they should therefore be allowed to rule.
- Adam Gopnik in “I, Nephi” (The New Yorker, Aug. 13 & 20, 2012)
Mitt Romney – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
March 23, 2012 Leave a comment
For progressives who wish that President Obama would be more, well, progressive, one of the main reminders of the difference between Team Dem and Team Repub can be seen in their impact on the judiciary. The United States has an active conservative judiciary, mostly appointed by Republican presidents, and they’re only growing more audacious in their efforts to push conservative causes using judicial power.
photograph of the justices, cropped to show Justice Scalia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
March 19, 2012 5 Comments
In the March 19th New Yorker, Louis Menand takes a look at Mitt Romney’s business background. Romney, of course, makes much of the fact that his ability to acquire more money than other people makes him more fit to be President. There’s a certain kind of logic to it, that having more money and power means that one should have more money and power. Call it the Doctrine of the .01%.
Mitt Romney - The King of Bain (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
February 14, 2012 2 Comments
Larry McCarthy is the racist sleazeball who masterminded the “Willie Horton ad.” In the 1988 presidential campaign between George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis, McCarthy made the image of a scary black criminal the difference in the election. And yes, he’s still working on behalf of the Republicans…and Mitt Romney.
January 24, 2012 Leave a comment
I was not aware of the Occupy Wall Street in its earliest days, so it was helpful to me that both The New Yorker and Harper’s have run articles in the last couple months on Occupy’s origins.
In November, Mattathias Schwartz wrote “Pre-Occupied: The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street,” which focuses on Kalle Lasn, the 69-year-old co-founder of Adbusters.
