Thanks to Daily Kos for this explanation:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/28/1137374/-Polls-Show-Unfair-Weighting-to-Obama?detail=hide

Official Voices of the Republican Party

There used to be three official voices of the Republican Party:

1. Fox News
2. Rush Limbaugh
3. Grover Norquist

Well, you can add a fourth now:

    4.   Benjamin Netanyahu

Will keep you posted....

The Tea Party is the Republican Establishment now (along with Grover and Rush), all on display at their convention.

"This isn't the party of Lincoln. It's not even the party of Reagan or Goldwater. The new Republican Party has been cleansed of anyone unwilling to kiss the ring of Limbaugh and swear allegiance to the writ of Grover. That makes it a smaller, less flexible, less capable party. A party that's not about anything except a sort of smug self destruction. If conservatives can't see that, don't worry, everyone else can. Americans tuned in to watch, and what they saw was that the resulting product isn't just ugly. It's... sad."

Read the whole article here.

Quote of the Day

In the category of "I wish I'd said that", here is one from Bob Cesca of Huffington Post (via DailyKos), commenting on Romney's goofy statements after the events in North Africa:

"One of Romney's many miscalculations -- and a mistake that many hawkish Republicans make -- is to confuse obnoxious loudness with foreign policy expertise.

The opposite of a foreign policy neophyte isn't a scolding jerkass who pops off with saber-rattling bromides and political agitprop. Romney could have been a statesman about the events in North Africa and appeared dignified -- perhaps qualified -- in the process, but instead he decided to be a braying crackpot. Anyone with a lapel pin and a pulse can do that. Leaning on the warhawk slogan switch doesn't amount to anything resembling international leadership gravitas."

Pretty much sums up the whole list of right wing foreign policy "experts":  John Bolton, the entire Cheney family, William Kristol, Rush Limbaugh, etc.  There is lots of bluster and very little in terms of substance, not to mention actual results.

"T"-Word Anyone?

I don't know what anyone else thinks, but there's no doubt in my mind that if there was a sitting Republican president, and the Democratic candidate made the kind of statements that Mitt Romney has made the past day or so concerning the events in Benghazi and Cairo, the word "treason" would be plastered all over Fox News, talk radio, and the right-wing blogosphere. 

Interesting Chart

Have you heard how bad Obama is for business and the stock market?  Here's an interesting article and chart from Bespoke Investment Group's website.  (I don't think they are socialists, but then I'm not a Teabagger or Hank Williams Jr.)  Bloomberg Television also has a short clip about it on their website.  The chart is very instructive.  Also,

"...Of the eleven Republicans since 1900, the DJIA has averaged a gain of 20.4% during their first 1,325 days in office.  That may sound good, but for the eight Democratic Presidents since 1900, the DJIA has seen an average return of 54.9%, or more than two and a half times the average return of Republicans!..."

The article is entitled "One Chart Republicans Don't Want You to See" and you can find it and the accompanying chart here.

Piles of Manure

It's almost comical to watch the Paul Ryan apologists trying to justify his mischaracterization of the GM plant closing in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin in 2008.  His original speech (you can see the link on my post of August 17) had two piles of manure.  (1) He claimed that Obama was responsible for the plant in Janesville even though it happened on George W. Bush's watch in 2008.  (2) He seemed to suggest that the $4 gasoline prices of 2008 were also Obama's fault.  Go figure.

The fact that he repeated this theme at the RNC suggests that his dishonesty was intentional and it just makes the manure piles a little bigger.

And now you have conservative commentators--on the internet and elsewhere--falling all over themselves tortuously reconnecting the dots of Ryan's words in an attempt to make them "accurate".  Good luck with that!  Trying to cover up the original manure piles with additional BS just makes those heaps of manure bigger and stinkier.