theawl: Ana Marie: “Examine some corn” is probably not one of those things that appear on the president’s daily schedule. But it is like holding a baby. You have to feign interest in a similar way. Jason: “Oh, hey. Let me hold that for you.” Ana Marie: “Yup. Corn. That’s what we have here.” Jason: “I’m gonna want to remember that day I held some corn, for some reason.”
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Ana Marie: “Examine some corn” is probably not one of those things that appear on the president’s daily schedule. But it is like holding a baby. You have to feign interest in a similar way.

Jason: “Oh, hey. Let me hold that for you.”

Ana Marie: “Yup. Corn. That’s what we have here.”

Jason: “I’m gonna want to remember that day I held some corn, for some reason.”

Governor Romney: I created the TV Show ‘Friday Night Lights’ and came up with the phrase ‘Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.’ I was not thrilled when I saw that you have plagiarized this expression to support your campaign … Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series. … Please come up with your own campaign slogan.

Writer-Director Peter Berg, in a letter to the Romney campaign, via soupsoup via The Hollywood Reporter. (via washingtonpoststyle)

How embarrassing: 

(via think-progress)

As if his policies didn’t shit on all our favorite things already.

(via think-progress)

Source: washingtonpoststyle

We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance… We don’t have a setting across this country where if you don’t have insurance, we just say to you, ‘Tough luck, you’re going to die when you have your heart attack.’ No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital.
Multi-millionaire Mitt Romney being multi-millionaire Mitt Romney. (via motherjones)

motherjones:

Get your debate prep on with two minutes of Paul Ryan that you will not forget.

Eww, your beard. Your eye twitch. Your grin. Your face. But really, your stupid policies. Also, stop mansplaining to Debbie Wasserman Shultz you idiot.

I am being supes productive today.

motherjones: markcoatney: sarahchristine: howto-kissdistinctly-american: meow-sense: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x] hot damn.  Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body… The Telegraph has some excellent background on Julia Gillard’s epic righteous beatdown of the Conservative leader. Aussie PM for the win.
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motherjones: markcoatney: sarahchristine: howto-kissdistinctly-american: meow-sense: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x] hot damn.  Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body… The Telegraph has some excellent background on Julia Gillard’s epic righteous beatdown of the Conservative leader. Aussie PM for the win.
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motherjones: markcoatney: sarahchristine: howto-kissdistinctly-american: meow-sense: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x] hot damn.  Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body… The Telegraph has some excellent background on Julia Gillard’s epic righteous beatdown of the Conservative leader. Aussie PM for the win.
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motherjones: markcoatney: sarahchristine: howto-kissdistinctly-american: meow-sense: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x] hot damn.  Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body… The Telegraph has some excellent background on Julia Gillard’s epic righteous beatdown of the Conservative leader. Aussie PM for the win.
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motherjones: markcoatney: sarahchristine: howto-kissdistinctly-american: meow-sense: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x] hot damn.  Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body… The Telegraph has some excellent background on Julia Gillard’s epic righteous beatdown of the Conservative leader. Aussie PM for the win.
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motherjones: markcoatney: sarahchristine: howto-kissdistinctly-american: meow-sense: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x] hot damn.  Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body… The Telegraph has some excellent background on Julia Gillard’s epic righteous beatdown of the Conservative leader. Aussie PM for the win.
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motherjones:

markcoatney:

sarahchristine:

howto-kissdistinctly-american:

meow-sense:

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Australia kicking ass and taking names (mostly Tony Abbott’s). [x]

hot damn. 

Honestly, Americans would watch the hell out of CSPAN if our Congress was an actual deliberative body…

The Telegraph has some excellent background on Julia Gillard’s epic righteous beatdown of the Conservative leader.

Aussie PM for the win.

Source: numbtongue

Progressive opinions on Barack Obama’s first term are as conflicted as his record. These differences are a sign of a diverse and spirited left, and we welcome continued debate in our pages about the president’s record and policies. But that discussion should not obscure what is at stake in this election. A victory for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in November would validate the reactionary extremists who have captured the Republican Party. It would represent the triumph of social Darwinism, the religious right, corporate power and the big money donors who thrive in a new Gilded Age of inequality.
—The Editors (via thenationmagazine)

thedailywhat:

From The Archives: Mister Rogers Defends PBS: “In 1969, Fred Rogers appeared before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.”

This fight sure could use him.

[doobybrain]

salon: “Sometimes it helps to laugh. But Romney’s smirk is disturbing. It betrays a preternatural sense of entitlement and self-satisfaction that comes out, often inappropriately, in all sorts of ways, from his odd remark that “I like to be able to fire people that provide services to me” to insulting the cookies supporters served him or the rain gear fans wore to a NASCAR event. It seems related to the calm self-importance with which he belittled British planning for the Olympics, insulting our closest ally. The smirk is a cousin to another odd Romney tic – his tendency to chuckle at the wrong time, like when he was trying to deny cutting the hair of a gay high school classmate. Who chuckles when they’re trying to project compassion?” -Joan Walsh, “Romney’s haunting smirk” Remind you of anyone? Oh heeeey!
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“Sometimes it helps to laugh. But Romney’s smirk is disturbing. It betrays a preternatural sense of entitlement and self-satisfaction that comes out, often inappropriately, in all sorts of ways, from his odd remark that “I like to be able to fire people that provide services to me” to insulting the cookies supporters served him or the rain gear fans wore to a NASCAR event. It seems related to the calm self-importance with which he belittled British planning for the Olympics, insulting our closest ally. The smirk is a cousin to another odd Romney tic – his tendency to chuckle at the wrong time, like when he was trying to deny cutting the hair of a gay high school classmate. Who chuckles when they’re trying to project compassion?”

-Joan Walsh, “Romney’s haunting smirk”

Remind you of anyone? Oh heeeey!

theatlantic: “A Vigorous Man”: A Poem Composed of Excerpts From Mitt Romney’s Doctor’s Note He has reserves of strength, The ability to meet unexpected demands, No physical impairments, The next President of the United States. Slow,         resting,                        regular heart rate Rigorous and demanding, Intensive exercise with regular running, Close observation of the prostate, Leadership skills. He is a vigorous man. [Arranged by James Hamblin from a letter by Dr. Randall D. Gaz]
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“A Vigorous Man”: A Poem Composed of Excerpts From Mitt Romney’s Doctor’s Note

He has reserves of strength,
The ability to meet unexpected demands,
No physical impairments,
The next President of the United States.

Slow,
         resting,
                        regular heart rate

Rigorous and demanding,
Intensive exercise with regular running,
Close observation of the prostate,
Leadership skills.

He is a vigorous man.

[Arranged by James Hamblin from a letter by Dr. Randall D. Gaz]

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