And in case anyone suspects Romney doesn’t intend to give Special Treatment to himself and his uber-wealthy friends, we’ve got analysis available of the Romney tax plan. It’s open class warfare, intended to put money in his own pocket and the pockets of others in the yachting class. Bottom line: your taxes go up, unless you make an absurd amount of money. Then they go way down. And on top of that, it doesn’t work.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Predicting Bush er Harding being appointed/elected president.

As always America survives despite itself, but ignore the Mayans at your own risk!

carry on

@mclever,
That crossed my mind, but Max’s question was open to interpretation.

@mclever,

On a similar note, I chuckle every time I hear an elected Republican say that government cannot create jobs. As Lawrence O’Donnell points out, these are people with government jobs.

They are also people with government healthcare.

Lawrence O’Donnell is strongly push­ing his “Off the Cliff” plan,

Damnit, I got excited when I heard Crazy Larry was pushing a jumping off the cliff plan. But I guess it just involves taxes.

Ah, more food fights at the DC freakshow. Place your bets on which team “wins” this round and hoists the coveted “Winning the weekly PR battle while accomplishing nothing” trophy.

@shortchain

I think Max was asking what year the election takes place in Heinlein’s 1940 story that you referenced. I’m assuming you meant If This Goes On, with First Prophet Nehemiah Scudder getting elected President in…

wait for it…

2012.

I’ll admit to a certain glee in playing Devil’s Advocate with my conservative family members who were so adamant that government spending kills jobs but are now vociferously arguing that we must have government spending to save jobs.

“Wait, I thought you said that government spending killed jobs?” 
“Of course it does!”
“But, now you’re arguing that we need more government spending to save jobs?”
“Military spending doesn’t count as government spending.”
“Are you saying that military spending isn’t part of the federal budget?”
“No, it’s not like that!”
“Then, what budget does military spending come from?“
etc.

Hehehe.

Max,
I’m old, but not that old.  I could only relate what I’ve read — and you all can do that as well as could I.  The first election I ever noticed was the 1964 election.  Our family was solidly behind Goldwater.

And do you remember the year of that presidential election?

AW,
In every generation there is a point where people say “if this goes on …”  (Actually, that was the title of a Robert Heinlein story published in 1940 in which he imagined an America in the grips of a fundamental “Christianist” religious tyranny in which the “prophet” practiced polygamy.  It was never said, in the novel, where the movement originated, but I’ve always got a sense of Mormonism off it.)