"Dick Tuck would have had Oscar the Grouch
popping out of every trash can on (Romney's) motorcade route by now."
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"On Hardball Thursday night, Chris Matthews, on whose last nerve Romney has been tromping all year, broke the "pissant" barrier on cable television by flaming the president for not confronting Romney over "this pissant argument about public broadcasting."
If Romney is not hereafter haunted at various campaign stops by people in Big Bird suits carrying tin cups and singing, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?" — well, I'm going to be very disappointed by the modern American political imagination."
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Romney) also lies by omission — namely, in his resolute determination not to be specific about what deductions he's planning to close in order to pretend that the mathematics behind his budget were not designed by howler monkeys."
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Charlie Pierce is an American treasure.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-big-bird-budget-13403514