Out of touch

Boehner demonstrates he continues to be out of touch with reality or he slept through the election. Candidate becomes first African American to win two terms as President. Candidate becomes first African American to win two consecutive terms as President. Candidate becomes first incumbent President to win re-election with narrower margin than in first election. Mainstream press (with exception of perhaps Jane Mayer at The New Yorker) swallows, and uncritically and unthinkingly propagates, latest personnel decision story hook line and sinker. Romney demonstrates he remains out of touch with reality. Rove demonstrates he was out of touch with reality and remains out of touch. Republicans as a class demonstrate they remain out of touch with reality.

Democrats show signs of at least minimal cognition (Patty Murray saying if the Republicans don't like the deal now, we'll let the tax cuts expire, pass a tax cut in January for everyone with AGI under 250K, and take it to the country if the Republicans vote against the January tax cut which vote might also cause most of them a problem with Grover Norquist, holder of the documents in which many of them effectively signed away their right to federal office).

• Andy Borowitz on the New Yorker blog: Obama to White House, Romney to 1954 , and  Nation Spends Billions on Nothing 
• Mary Matalin unhinged vs. Van Jones
• David Petraeus Has No Clothes 
• Boehner’s 48 Hours of Pretending to Work with Obama Sets New Record
• Republicans Suffer The Consequences Of Their Party's Racism
• Running For President 40 Years Too Late
• Petraeus scandal: political?
• Hack (And Editors) From Republican Linked Hackpaper (Politico) Scratching Advertisers Backs
• Global Electioneering
• Apologists
• Constitution
• What Happens When You Skip The Constitutional Law Class On Redistricting At Harvard Law And Then Decide To Wait Until After Labor Day To Campaign In A Census Year
• Co-opted
• Entertainment/Flackery As Opposed To Journalism 
• PSACOT Leads, The New York Times Follows 
• Why Iraq? Why Speaker Boehner? Why Offshore America?