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It became apparent fairly early in the evening last night that the Republicans were going to get thumped.  As state results began to march across the map, with major battleground states turning blue, and Tea Party candidates losing, Republican hopes waned.  Their plan simply didn't work.  The hundreds of millions of billionaires' money didn't work.  The politics of division didn't work.  The Tea Party revolution of 2010 failed. Despite almost unanimous prognostication that the race...

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Is it me, or has the cast of characters really changed in the GOP at the convention this year?  Also, what about the subjects that have been the keystones of Republican focus for over a decade?  Listening to the speeches last night, I was more struck by what is not being said and who is not present rather than who is there and what is being said. Who's missing?  Only former president George W. Bush,...

Matt Yglesias: Last night in the comfort of my living room watching PBS, I got a better sense of exactly how tedious it is to watch person after person saying basically the same thing. But it also reminds you of the fundamental value of conventions--they cut through the veil of "news" and remind non-junkies of the enduring disagreements between the parties that, at root, all elections are about. Only once you see it in that...

Rolls Royce?  Romney?  I dunno, just sayin'....

David Corn @ Mother JonesBurns & Haberman @ PoliticoJonathan Chait @ The New RepublicJonathan Chait @ NY MagazineEzra Klein @ the NYT reviews the bills sponsored by Paul RyanAnd from a 2009 campaign video, Paul Ryan confirms he bases his political views on a novel:...

It's full steam ahead for the right-wing lie machine in their attempt to divert attention from what could be hundreds of millions of dollars that Mitt Romney has stashed (we don't know because he won't tell us) in offshore accounts in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. The Weekly Standard headline reads:Dem. Chair Invested in Swiss Banks, Foreign Drug Companies, and the State Bank of IndiaThe article reads:"Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee...

Well, we did it.  Under years of GOP rule in both the state house and governor's mansion, our elected leaders have finally succeeded in pushing Texas to the bottom of healthcare delivery.  In a new study by the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Study, Texas ranked 51st (even below Washington, DC) in healthcare for its citizens, scoring a whopping 31 out of 100 possible points.  Among our state's greatest accomplishments (failures) are preventative...