Not to step on brendanm98's excellent roundup, but there's the matter of some unfinished business regarding a certain viral video, and whether or not I was right to say "Mitt Romney is Toast" after Mother Jones took it public and showed the world that he regards 47% of the country as a bunc

In his first policy address since winning the election, Obama gives some idea how he's going to approach the lame duck session's most urgent piece of business: the looming fiscal cliff and expiration of the Bush tax cuts.

The top question in my mind: does this meet catchy's approval?

As we head into the final hours of the most contentious election ever, it's worth checking in on Republican KOTV (Kick Out The Voters) efforts around the country.

Seriously, that's what he's saying.

“Unless we change course, we may well be looking at another recession,” Romney told a crowd in West Allis, Wisconsin.

 

 

It all has to do with the plan to "block grant" Medicaid. As so often I'm cribbing from Kevin Drum, with a twinge of guilt, but it's really his fault for always laying out the facts so clearly & comprehensively.

So what would Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan do for the poor and the working class if they were elected? Let's recap:

 

Because he's awesome like that, Kevin Drum clears up everything currently known about the Benghazi consulate attack, explaining in detail how the Romney campaign has been facepalmingly wrong at every turn.

Why was President Obama initially unwilling to call it an act of terror?

 

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As Mitt Romney recently learned in a fairly painful lesson, you don't assign blame before you have the facts. Nobody currently has all of the facts about what happened in Benghazi, but what is interesting is how many conclusions are being based on a single unsourced conference call about the events of 9/11/12.

Senator Arlen Specter died yesterday at his home in Pennsylvania. I didn't always agree with his policies, and frankly don't know much more than the headlines anyway, but he was a key actor in nearly every major turning point in US history from the Warren Commission to bringing fireworks, and not a little intelligence, to his decades on the contentious Judiciary Committee.