Andrew Sullivan nominates Cory Booker for an Yglesias award. The Yglesias Award is for writers, politicians, columnists or pundits who actually criticize their own side, make enemies among political allies, and generally risk something for the sake of saying what they believe. The awar would be for this: Cory Booker (May 21): “This kind of stuff [...]
Why Bain attacks work
Posted on September 13, 2012 ·
I’ve been laid off three times before. I’m lucky in that sense to have not been married, not have kids, not have a mortgage and to have been young and healthy each time. I was grateful that decision makers looked me in the eye every time and told me themselves. Most people aren’t afforded those courtesies. Each time Bain [...]
Proof Cory Booker was wrong: outsourcing often key to Bain Capital’s strategy
Posted on June 24, 2012 ·
Again, if Bain Capital is his rationale for being President of the country during a tenuous recovery, Romney should be challenged on the relevancy of that experience to the American employment picture: While economists debate whether the massive outsourcing of American jobs over the last generation was inevitable, Romney in recent months has lamented the [...]
Proof Cory Booker (& Bill Clinton, Ed Rendell & Deval Patrick) screwed up: Polling by Democracy Corps
Posted on June 12, 2012 ·
A great introductory post to some polling on US Presidential 2012 from Democracy corps by Steve M at No More Mr. Nice Blog: James Carville and Stan Greenberg’s Democracy Corps has been conducting focus groups of swing voters in swing states; a new report from the firm says that voters in the focus groups don’t really [...]
Duly Noted: Not on “my watch”…
Posted on May 29, 2012 ·
Asked about Bain’s closure of a Kansas City steel plant that the company acquired in 1993 when Romney was Bain’s CEO, Romney last week told a conservative radio host that it wasn’t his problem: “Their problem, of course, is that the steel factory closed down two years after I left Bain Capital. I was no [...]
Booker’s other unforced error was endorsing pension funds chasing fools gold
Posted on May 24, 2012 ·
Cory Booker is Mayor of Newark. He will run for statewide office in NJ sometime soon. A lot of people that work in New York, live or are from New Jersey. Wall Street is either their employer or pays their bills. That means Wall Street is a primary source of campaign funds and political inertia [...]
Proof Cory Booker screwed up: “Harold Ford: Cory Booker was right”
Posted on May 21, 2012 ·
Read: Harold Ford: Cory Booker was right – POLITICO.com. This goes by the law: whatever Harold Ford says, do the opposite. Also Axelrod: “I love Cory Booker. He’s a great mayor,” Axelrod said. “If my house was on fire, I’d hope he was my next door neighbor.” But, Axelrod said, Romney’s record at Bain was entirely [...]