Tag Archives: Bain Capital

May 23, 2012, 10:10 am

Count Romney and the Reign of Bain Capital

" . . . and your pension and benefits too . . . " (photo by Flickr/CC user outcast104)

Just a few short years ago, vampires ruled. Twilight, True Blood, and other cultural obsessions posited the vampire as perfection–a strong predator who is not merely beautiful, but never ages. Joan Rivers with a mixed martial arts fighter’s body.

But perhaps it is a sign of our times that these ubervampires have morphed into the far more campy ones in Dark Shadows. As Americans lost our appetite for the sort of blood-sucking predators who ruled Hollywood and Wall Street, vampires no longer haunted our cultural imaginary as heroes, but as villains. By the time Matt Taibbi used the phrase “vampire squid” to describe Goldman Sacks in 2009, the vampire had lost his mojo.

So perhaps it should be no surprise that the …

March 1, 2012, 9:30 am

Filing a Malpractice Suit Against Dr. Romney

By Laurie Essig

Yesterday Mitt Romney may have found his campaign’s metaphor. The economy is sick, really sick. He is a caring doctor who understands how to heal the economy. So a vote for Dr. Mitt will make the economy better.

This is good news for the Romney campaign. After all, Romney keeps losing votes to a man who can’t even solve his own google problem, let alone run a campaign that doesn’t just sound like the mumblings of a crazy person. Rick Santorum’s no sex, no college, no separation of church and state, no kidding message is absurd, but apparently not as absurd as Romney’s incredible wealth. As Romney keeps sticking his millionaire foot in his millionaire mouth, saying things like his wife drives a couple of Cadillacs and that some of his friends own Nascar teams, voters go for the “sweet smell of Santorum.”

I would like to be the first in line to file a malpractice suit against Dr….