Paul Ryan and other Republicans have been saying that President Obama is incredibly partisan and has changed the atmosphere in Washington more than anyone in recent memory. When asked if they thought it was really fucking stupid and a sign of an inability to ever compromise to sign a statement pledging to never raise taxes, blank faces filled the room.
It wasn’t so much the excitement of the actual landing on Mars that got the public going – though, hey, it was exciting. No, instead I think it was the passion and vigor of the scientists behind the landing.
Why isn’t there yet a law against back-to-school campaigns prior to August? I saw an entire section filled with backpacks and whatever sad excuse for Trapper Keepers kids have nowadays at Target just last week. That’s absurd. Worse yet, I recall seeing one campaign a number of years ago in June. June! School doesn’t even get out until the second week of that month, sometimes the third. None of this particularly affects me anymore, but I’m still against it on general principle.
If Bush and his ilk could tarnish Kerry as a flip flopper based upon one or two votes, then I don’t see how Romney could ever hope to shake the image he has.