No President with Obama’s record or failure and betrayal should be rewarded with another term. And if we have to put up with a moral chameleon like Mitt Romney, indistinguishable from Obama, in order to demolish Obamism and what it has done to a once proud Democratic Party, then so be it.

News from an alternate Earth where the NRA advocates as fiercely for its members as the AARP does.

This morning at Netroots Nation, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer was pressed repeatedly by dogged moderator Khali Joy Gray about his boss’s “evolution” on same-sex marriage, at one point asking if Obama was ever going to evolve back to his previous position, expressed on a 1996 candidate survey, that he supported same-sex marriage.

I talked to Franken via phone today, as he returned home from a funeral for a soldier killed overseas. His remarks tomorrow are really connected to the fear that we are seeing a flickering out of the American dream. “We have the greatest disparity in income since the 1920s. The middle class dream is fading, and we’re losing the argument on the economy. We need to gain back the initiative, and convince people that it’s ridiculous to be gutting Medicare, to essentially end it, in order to give huge tax cuts.”

Who watches the watchmen? That is a question we all have to ask ourselves when we hear of NSA-Private Sector partnerships.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the AARP has officially reversed its course and will be no longer working to protect Social Security.

In a direct affront to their membership, one of the largest and most well-known advocacy groups in the country has thrown in its lot with the likes of Alan Simpson

I asked DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz about all this today, as she greeted attendees at Netroots Nation. She was fairly blunt. “I will tell you that benefit cuts are not on the table,” she said. “They’re not on the table for me and they’re not on the table for our party in the House.”

I’ve written about Thigpen, but not a lot of other people outside of Guilford County, North Carolina have. I wasn’t sure how much penetration he was getting into the larger community. Well, my eyes have been opened. Jeff Thigpen is headed to Washington today.

The Republican Party used to be an isolationist one, prior to WWII. After a decade of Bush doctrine wars, it seems Republican voters are returning to their roots.

So, if the Secessionist is doing such an awesome job and the Texas economy is such a “miracle,” why do Republicans in his own state prefer Willard and The Quitter?