Microblogging: August 25, 2012
The Clear and Present Danger Chronicles: Goldbugs, GOPsters, The Ryan, and Oh Dear FSM Are They Really That Dumb? http://t.co/molwpEYP
RT @DeanBaker13: #MattMiller tells readers the problem is broken U.S. health care system, not Medicare. Reality breaks into the #WAPO http://t.co/rzj6uXFH
RT @memeorandum: Huckabee rallies Missouri pastors to Akin’s side, attacks GOP establishment (Mike Huckabee / CNN) http://t.co/4iv5ytYB
Nick Rowe: Supertanker and canoe Phillips Curves, and inflation targeting http://t.co/8mQOfjbo
Big Picture: A Divided Federal Reserve http://t.co/UsYs1tdl
Paul Krugman: Inflation Lessons - http://t.co/l7qYVwrt RT @nickconfessore: Republican FEC commissioners say that under Citizens, corporations may compel employees to campaign for candidates. http://t.co/TAFTvj6e
RT @David_Shorr: Ya think GOP leaders wish their party would just stick to the Hyde Amendment truce? | http://bit.ly/OhWeNL
RT @altmandaniel: RT @richardhine: The Economist: Romney has “meaningless policies,” and “is now committed to needlessly extreme or dangerous courses” | http://bit.ly/OBKFQ7
Janet Novack: Romney’s Taxes: It’s The Carried Interest, Stupid
RT @irincarmon: Romney “was cleaning his dog whistle and it just went off.” love you @jsmooth995 #uppers | http://bit.ly/OBKDrr
RT @richardhine: The Economist: Romney has “meaningless policies,” and “is now committed to needlessly extreme or dangerous courses” http://t.co/xsRMSONe
RT @davidfrum: @joshtpm Still, Sparta had a good run, and it was very gay. | http://bit.ly/OBKDrn
RT @KagroX: I like the strategy of Mitt Romney making jokes about the perceived paucity of document disclosure. | http://bit.ly/QCnS4r
RT @AmandaMarcotte: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Backlash to Clinton was racialized. It’s true, and anyone who forgets this misses much of what’s going on. | http://bit.ly/OhSBYj
Harold Pollack: Another hospital stay–and what’s not being discussed in a polarized health policy debate http://t.co/mC8g1J3w
RT @JillDLawrence: Obama campaign video says America doesn’t need a “birther-in-chief.” Take that, GOP. http://t.co/jbHleMs0
RT @jesseberney: I don’t understand why Obama won’t end all this speculation by releasing his birth certificate already. | http://bit.ly/PbX54r
Paul Ryan Reaffirms Personal Opposition To Mitt Romney’s IVF-Born Grandchildren http://t.co/HibtNzUH
Spinning for Romney: Momma Always Told Me That If You Can’t Say Something Nice Don’t Say Anything at All http://t.co/chjl4roK
The Economist Comes Out Against Mitt Romney http://t.co/6kekqEHy
TBogg: Peggy Noonan Is a Democratic Mole! http://t.co/yxtuU214
John Sides: Why Is It So Hard for Charlie Cook to Get the Fundamentals Right? http://t.co/QE93FEnu
This Morning It Is David Brin’s Turn to Confront Niallism http://t.co/QBkewiCT
“Paul Ryan argued that President Obama’s foreign policy is ‘to subjugate ourselves to the United Nations’” http://t.co/pSLrcu0c
Mike Konczal: What Could Romney’s Secret Housing Plan Look Like? http://t.co/fVWSe7dg
RT @TheDailyEdge: It would be good if Paul Ryan could explain to moms and dads why a daughter’s “forcible rape” is really just another “method of conception” | http://bit.ly/NQbwqt
Good for Glenn Hubbard! http://t.co/oW2WUsmb
Jonathan Bernstein: Catch of the Day http://t.co/AkiSTC7g
RT @AmandaMarcotte: So basically, Republicans have basically helped redefine Democrats as the party that’s against rape and overt racism.Well-played. | http://bit.ly/P9G5fb
Dean Baker’s take on Niallism: “Ferguson is the gift that just keeps on giving”
RT @joshtpm: How do we distinguish @realdonaldtrump from clownish looking guy on street corner w/funny hair ranting abt socialism, conspiracy & turnips? | http://bit.ly/U0272V
