If the unemployment number had gone up to 9% the Republicans like Jack Welch wouldn’t be attacking the Bureau of Labor Statistics with nutter conspiracy theories. Oh btw, Economists like Obama’s plan better than Romneys. Oh and workers trust Obama to create jobs more as well (h/t HuffPo)

The Paulites are so naive: “As Maine goes, so goes the nation! As Maine goes, so goes the nation!” protestors shouted in unison, a reference to demands that the RNC seat Paul delegates who the state party replaced with Mitt Romney supporters. “We got railroaded by a freight train of hypocrisy,” James Martin, a Paul [...]

Mitt Romney wants it both ways: money talk when it’s brought up by the Obama campaign or reporters is bad.   Romney won’t tell us what spending he would cut to balance the budget in his economic plan and Romney scolds everyone and says all this money talk beginning with  everyone else is for private, “quiet rooms”: To sum [...]

David Brook’s The Follower Problem: The old adversary culture of the intellectuals has turned into a mass adversarial cynicism. The common assumption is that elites are always hiding something. Public servants are in it for themselves. Those people at the top are nowhere near as smart or as wonderful as pure and all-knowing Me. [...] In [...]