Quote of the Day

Esquire's Charles Pierce in his blog on Willard "Mittens" Romney's continuous lying:

"[Romney] was talking about how Americans should look at successful people like, well, Willard Romney, who was born in the dugout with three runs in, the bases loaded, and nobody out. It was the real him.

'This success doesn't make us poorer! This success makes us all better off!'

You, out there, you with your mortgage underwater and your pension looted because Willard's pals in the financial-services industry played their genius games with the national economy and dropped it down through a sewer grate, forcing all the rest of us to go down there and fish it out for them again: Willard's success makes you better off. No kidding. Every new house he buys, your life is in some way better. All that money down in the Caymans, it brings warmth to your hearts. If Willard Romney paid more than 15 percent on his taxes, well, it would be your American dream that would pay the price, and you don't want that, do you?"