When the rational response is to bury your cash in a coffee can in the backyard, government has officially destroyed the financial system of a country.It's gonna be a bumpy ride....

JEB. -- a unit of time used to measure how long it takes one to decide not to support Jeb Bush for president: Approx 6.5 milliseconds

Hey I went to U of T too.  Loved it.

Hot tubs?  Getting soft up there these days...  Get enough Molson's and it wouldn't make a difference

won't hit the fan until Nov 7.  Silly boy

Peter:  Chick-fil-a

Nate Silver is full of ****.    I never understood how he was taking overly Dem-weighted polls and adding his "special sauce" and concluding  Obama had an 80% chance at re-election.  The O campaign must be feeding him cruddy polling info this time around...

Ha!  Sullivan will blame racism.

We're witnessing Paul Rahe's preference cascade in action, all it took was the unhideable Obama to be revealed to all.  All the suppressed anger/ annoyance/ questioning/ disappointment was always there, Romney pulled back the curtain and the Wizard was shown for what he is:  The Great Mediocrity!

Love it!

The most lasting image/talking point of the last 2 weeks is the  Empty Chair speech.   Nothing Obama, Romney, Clinton, Biden (hah!) or Ryan said or did matches the power of Clint Eastwood and it's derivatives (ie the Empty Stadium,  Empty Chair day, etc ).   That the media missed it's power the morning after says just about all we need to know about the vacuity of the Fourth Estate...

Romney has to be the Economy Guy, a Mr Fixit.  that's the theme and Codi would take away from it.  The others re-inforce it.  We don't even know where Condi stands on Obamacare, entitlements, etc.  Romney loses if he picks her...

per Drudge:  Condi Rice?  You have got to be kidding.... no one Bush adjacent in 2012.  Portman, Pawlenty, Jindal ...anyone  else.  She has never run for office and will unquestionably "grow" during a campaign..

Would "Obscene" be too snarky?  Exactly how is such an amount earned.  It's a double salary for life.

Such generous pensions should not be paid in the public sector (admittedly this is an unusual case).  It just encourages them to stay...

The R's should propose a 100% tax on all public pensions over $10000/ month.  Let's have a real debate about "greed"

I haven't seen a thread on this,  seems like as good a place for this comment as any:

Joe Biden is a cheap SOB (excuse the language).  1.5% to charity!  He does this year after year.   I would venture to say that  90% of conservatives would beat that figure... regardless of income!

Could be a twist on the old feminist slogan:  "Keep your ovaries off my salary"

 Perry: "Washington is a seedy place".   BOOM!

He'll be over 40% by the fall and leading Obama by 5+

Huntsman is McCain with better hair and without the charm. If he's anywhere near the ticket it'll blow the Republican Party to pieces, ensure Obama's re-election and probably cost the House and Senate. It's almost like someone planned this.....

Huntsman is McCain with better hair and without the charm. If he's anywhere near the ticket it'll blow the Republican Party to pieces, ensure Obama's re-election and probably cost the House and Senate. It's almost like someone planned this.....