by Pete Nicely Far too rarely does the Republican Party get exactly what it deserves. It happened in 1964. It happened in 2008. And it’s going to happen, in a way, today in Florida. Mitt Romney is the epitome of modern Republicanism in three ways: 1) He has no sincere beliefs except that he should [...]
by Pete Nicely George Clooney says he’s disillusioned with the people who are disillusioned with President Obama. George must be a calm dude because the people who have time to be upset by anything but the perfidy coming from the right infuriate me. To calm myself, I have to imagine the headlines the disillusioned progressives [...]
by Pete Nicely Herbert Hoover once said, “Nothing is more important than balancing the budget.” As he was saying this, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was busy turning a budget surplus into a deficit. Why? FDR was actually trying to create jobs. Governor Rick Snyder will surely trumpet (or perhaps even tuba) the [...]
by Pete Nicely I see it in the way people who should know better are preaching the selfish gospel of Ron Paul. I see it in how progressives purposely miss the best parts of ObamaCare. I see it in the corporate media stuffing Mitt Romney down the Tea Party’s throat. I see it in the [...]
by Pete Nicely Great minds from Mark to Monty Python to Tolstoy to Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Lloyd Weber have all interpreted the Gospel of Jesus Christ for their time and sensibilities. But all of those interpretations lack perfection because they were written before the dawn of the movement that had most clearly rendered the [...]
by Pete Nicely The only better commercial for the Democratic Party than C-SPAN showing Speaker Boehner and the Tea Party House of Representatives in action is a GOP debate. By watching these GOP debates—or abstinence promotion, as my wife calls them—I’ve found my new support group. On Twitter, genuine paid wits—like Patton Oswaldand Rob Delaney—join [...]
by Pete Nicely Chapter 1: Ted Waitt Was Not Dead: To Begin With Ted Waitt was not dead: to begin with. About this Rick Snyder had no doubt whatsoever. The co-founder of Gateway Computers was still alive and living it up in La Jolla, California, which is about as far from dead as most Midwesterners [...]
by Pete Nicely The one thing I have in common with the Republican Party is that I don’t like Mitt Romney. But let’s be honest. Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican’s nominee in 2012. In a political season that’s pitting the good of the 99 percent against the whims of the 1 percent, the [...]
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by Pete Nicely “Who Is Suffering In America?” a four-page PDF recently released by the Mackinac Center, descimates a 63 page report the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released last week that concludes the rich are getting richer at the expense of middle and working class Americans. “The incomes of the top 1 percent may grown by [...]
