The tv rating competition increasing every (4) years notwithstanding and most folk already knowing who they’re voting for aside, indeed what’s the incentive to watch.

So I want to give McCain some dap lol for pickin’ mama grizzly as at least it gave viewers a reason to watch.

Yea, political conventions may be going the route of the Miss America Pageant … nobody cares! To break it down to basics conventions are reality tv where everyone knows the outcome. :zzzz:

For the first time since the beginning of the year, the “Republicans gain seats in the House” contract is worth less than the “Democrats gain control of the House” contract on Iowa Electronic Markets.

http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_House12.cfm

Right now, it’s 64% for Republicans to hold, 18% for Democrats to take over, and 17% for Republicans to gain seats.

On Intrade, it’s about the same (slightly different contract): 85% for Republicans to hold or gain, 20% for Democrats to take over.

Both markets have moved considerably toward the Democratic side since Rep. Ryan was announced as the potential VP candidate.

Thanks for the tip, AW. As you can see, I used it as a large part of Monday’s article.

Damn.

That didn’t take long!

MUZZLING MR. RYAN

Ryan Directed To Avoid Real Issues, Stress ‘Love Of The Outdoors’

” Mitt Romney wants Risky Pick to play it safe.

Ryan, the nation’s most controversial budget architect, is often described as the intellectual leader of the House Republican caucus. But Romney’s presidential campaign headquarters in Boston seems, for now, to prefer that the 42-year-old father of three talks about camping and milking cows instead of the fiscal proposals that made him a conservative hero.”

Again, the most important decision a wannabe pres has to make mittens botched! btw, sometimes HP’s ad nauseam hyperbolic headlines just make you smile.

Sorry, two thirds of that was in the form of tax cuts which do little to grow the economy. That was not ‘his’ stimulus, that was all Congress would give. And as has frequently been pointed out, the total even including tax cuts was inadequate. So again, the Republicans block the program then call it a failure. 

When Republicans block programs, what gives them the balls to complain that those programs didn’t work?

Screw it, they simply lie.

By the way, the “stimulus that didn’t work” has so far created two or three times as many jobs as Bush did in eight years after Bush was given a booming economy. So, rgbact, will you try again to explain why, hav­ing pre­vented the President’s pro­grams from being enacted, to then com­plain that they didn’t work — that is kind of absurd, isn’t it? If not, what am I missing?

AW: Yes, that is what happened.

rgbact: The original stimulus was only a fraction of what it should have been. It still stopped the bleeding, turned the 800,000 jobs/month loss into gains, and reversed the Bush recession into economic gains (for three years now). In spite of being mostly tax cuts instead of stimulus spending.

And then the Republicans blocked everything else the President wanted to try.

Do you want to offer another excuse, or can you explain the Republican hypocrisy as it was?