Day: August 30, 2012

I can't help but wonder if Eastwood just won a bet he made with a friend about how badly he could screw Mitt Romney over tonight. #gop2012 — Blogging Blue (@BloggingBlue) August 31, 2012 In all seriousness, Clint Eastwood’s speech at tonight’s GOP convention started out as a train wreck…

This is just odd to me… State Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, pleaded no contest earlier this month on a charge of municipal disorderly conduct after an altercation with a 9-year-old boy at Spring Harbor Beach that left the child’s parents feeling “uncomfortable.” According Madison police, on July 4 Hulsey rode…

Tonight’s post comes from a guest to Blogging Blue, Bob Lewis. Mr. Lewis is president of IT Catalysts, Inc. ( www.itcatalysts.com ) an independent consultancy specializing in helping businesses improve their ability to achieve designed, planned business change. Mr. Lewis kindly gave us permission to publish this article in it’s…

I was gonna let this go without comment…but…no this is on my dime, so: here’s what the GOP will be dancing to tonight…the big night when Mr. Mitt Romney gets to deliver his acceptance speech!

Paul Ryan has been so busy campaigning with Mitt Romney that he seems to have forgotten he’s also on the ballot in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District. His Democratic challenger,  Rob Zerban,  has been trying to get Paul Ryan to debate him,  to no avail. According to The Shepherd Express, Paul Ryan…

Isn’t there just a bit of irony apparent when the Republican Party, who just a year or two ago was putting forth legislation to enshrine English as the Official Language, cheered when New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez emphasized several ‘key points’ in her speech at the GOP convention by repeating…

Apparently Republican presidential also-ran Mike Huckabee’s brand of evangelical Christianity doesn’t include respect for women… Mike Huckabee kicked off his primetime speech at the Republican National Convention here Wednesday with an attack on DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Tampa has been such a wonderful and hospitable city to us,” Huckabee…

As reported by Tara Culp-Ressler of ThinkProgress, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Smith of Pennsylvania had his own “Todd Akin moment” recently when he said a woman getting pregnant after being raped is “similar” to a woman having a child out of wedlock. MARK SCOLFORO, ASSOCIATED PRESS: How would you tell…

This image sums up Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s economic “plan.” Yep, that just about sums up Mitt Romney’s economic “plan,” which consists of recycling the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the richest Americans, tax cuts that the last time I checked didn’t spur a heck of a lot…