What War On Women?

April 9th, 2012

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That's the official GOP line; there is no "war on women."

Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called it a "manufactured issue".

He went so far as to presume that high ranking Republican women agree with him:

"There is no issue. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine, I think, would be the first to say — and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — ‘We don’t see any evidence of this.' "

Really?

Nothing To See Here, Folks

August 4th, 2011

An apparently very nervous Reince Preibus (which still sounds like a creepy Star Wars name) is using his position as head of the RNC to tell the media they should just ignore next week's recall elections in Wisconsin. At the very least, he argues, whatever happens has no bearing on the issues looming in 2012. Uh huh.

From TPM:

"I don't think its a test run," Preibus said on a conference call with reporters this morning. He added that even though some of the key issues on the ballot in the coming weeks in his home state are "a similar debate to what we're having in the country," the "the localized nature of it doesn't allow it to be analogous to the 2012 election."

If the polls are to be believed, that's good news for the GOP."

We will be watching closely... sorry, Reince.

What's The Worst That Could Happen?

June 29th, 2011

Let's say that debt limit deadline arrives and there has been no "agreement."

TPM reports:
"According to one of the most influential economists in federal policy making, the next four weeks will make the difference between a slow glide toward economic recovery, and a severe tumble into a new recession.

Moody's chief economist, and former McCain economic adviser Mark Zandi 
is forecasting GDP growth of 4 percent by the end of the year and into next. But in response to a question from TPM, he told reporters at a breakfast meeting hosted by the Christian Science Monitor that his forecast would be "blown out of the water," if Congress fails to "reasonably gracefully" raise the national borrowing limit."

Sounds pretty bad. But hey, what does he know? Zandi is only one of the most respected conservative economists in America. His analyses don't mean diddly to RNC Chairman Reince Preibus who had some interesting things to say about a default yesterday morning while talking to Joe Scarborough.