by Brad Miskell [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Dogtownink.com received this video of John McCain and Paris Hilton cavorting together, enjoying the benefits of the same Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that McCain has vowed to extend.

by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

John McCain appeared on today's CNN American Morning, ostensibly to talk economic policy with John Roberts. Over the course of the discussion, however, it was...

by Blue Texan [courtesy of Firedoglake]

McSame apparently thinks that George W. Bush has been insufficiently vigilant when it comes to tax cuts, because he thinks even lower taxes will fix everything.Today in Denver, he's proposing to repeal the Paris Hilton tax, cut corporate taxes, and don't worry about health care, because everyone will just get more tax cuts to pay for it.And how will McSame pay for all this?“The McCain administration would reserve all savings from

by Jared Bernstein [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

President Obama, your victory hinged partly on voters' view of the role of government in our lives. McCain tried to run as a reformer, and, in fact, the old McCain might have had a decent case to make. But as time went on, it became clear that on most of the key issues -- especially the war, the economy, and the role of government -- he was stuck in the same bubble as Bush. He tried to run on experience, but this turned out to be nothing more than a code-word for business as usual.

by Arianna Huffington [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

We've seen the exit polls. We've read the unequivocal quotes. Many women who are avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are declaring they won't vote for Barack Obama in the fall. I get the anger and the disappointment. But to quote SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers: Really? You'd rather vote for John McCain, a man who has a 25-year history of voting against a woman's right to choose? A man who over the last eight years that NARAL has released a pro-choice scorecard has received a 0 percent rating? A man whose campaign website says he believes Roe v. Wade "must be overturned"? A man who has vowed that, as president, he will be "a loyal and unswerving friend of the right to life movement"? Really?

by Swopa [courtesy of Firedoglake]

Barack Obama returned Tuesday night to Iowa, where the incredibly long Democratic nomination campaign began. He may not have officially declared victory, but he did unveil a new speech laying out his themes for the general election against John McCain.

by Jared Bernstein [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

People deride the Republican candidate as "McSame," implying a continuation of Bushonomics as well as the president's foreign policy. But from the perspective of domestic policy, it's much worse.His tax plan reveals nothing less than McCain's secret plan to diminish the US government beyond recognition. If he gets his way, conservatives will finally be able to say they've achieved the goal set out by Grover Norquist: to get government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

by kos [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Blogger One Drop makes a spot-on observation:

Don't let all of the blathering about which candidates are "elitist" or "out of touch" distract you from the real significance of "Bittergate." The issue isn't really that Obama talked about people who "cling" to guns or religion. The issue is that he got too close to the real Third Rail of politics

Social Security is not the Third Rail, no matter what the media tells you. No, the Third Rail is economic class. Try talking about income disparity in America, what do you get? "You're engaging in class warfare!" The same cries of protest are sounded whenever one suggests that the Bush tax cuts were mostly aimed at the wealthy, or that doing away with the estate tax was only beneficial to something like the top 1% of Americans. No, we musn't talk about the working class or the middle class getting a raw deal economically. In other words, we musn't criticize the real elites in this country, namely the wealthy and the politically connected.

Absofuckinglutely. That's why Jim Webb gave the political class palpitations when he wrote this in the WSJ shortly after winning, when the idiot pundit class was still proclaiming him a "conservative" Democrat.

by Steve Almond [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

It used to be that the press was considered 'the people's representative in Washington.' Today, they're Washington's representatives to the people.