Is Mitt running for president again?

Ignorant design?

 

Of note: Today is Darwin's birthday.

 

In the mean time, the main stream media is not impressed by the polls showing informed voters supporting Elizabeth Warren over Hillary Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire:

This terrible poll shows Elizabeth Warren beating Hillary Clinton - The Washington Post

 

Iowa has a lot of indians

 

The CBO on minimum wage did its typical bullshit estimates that the result of a minimum wage increase "would be in the range between a very slight reduction in employment and a reduction in employment of 1.0 million workers." So, I think it's fair to say the "science" isn't settled.

Here's the analysis: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44995-MinimumWage.pdf

"By CBO’s estimate, about 1½ percent of the 33 million workers who otherwise would have earned less than $11.50 per hour would be jobless—either because they lost a job or because they could not find a job—as a result of the increase in the minimum wage.

"Those job losses among low-wage workers would be concentrated among people who are projected to earn less than $10.10 an hour under current law. Some workers who would otherwise have earned between $10.10 and $11.50 per hour would also see an increase in their wages, which would tend to reduce their employment as well, CBO estimates. However, some firms might hire more of those workers as substitutes for the lower-paid workers whose wages had been increased. Those two factors would probably be roughly offsetting, CBO anticipates, so the number of such workers who were employed would probably not change significantly."

 

You're trying incredibly hard to miss the point today. Go drink some coffee.

It was not a poll of informed voters. It was an "informed ballot," when the pollster describes each voter in whatever terms the pollster likes, then asks the question.

 

If Warren ran, these are the kinds of things she would inform voters about.

Has anyone heard a rational for a Clinton candidacy yet?

Has she figured out an answer to what her number one achievement was during her tenure as Secretary of State?

 

It was expanding the knowledge of evolution throughout the world.

 

MoveOn.org is a legitimate polling organization now?

 

Hugh Hewitt did an extended interview with David Axelrod yesterday, and sadly, this might be the best answer to the question yet:

HH: But speaking about the Secretary of State for just a moment, what did Secretary of State Clinton accomplish when she was secretary of State?

DA: Well, I think that you, a lot of what the President was working on was also her work. So as I said, you know, we went around the world and worked very hard to cobble together a coalition against Iran. She was very much a part of that effort. I know that she comes under attack now on the issue of the reset. But the reality is that in the first two years of the President’s administration when Dimitri Medvedev was the president of Russia, there was a different opportunity, and we took advantage of that opportunity in terms of arms treaties and a whole range of other issues that were good for this country. It is unfortunate that President Putin has decided to take the kind, his country backward. But both President Obama and Secretary Clinton deserve credit for the advances that were made in that period.

Boxing With A "Believer": Talking With David Axelrod « The Hugh Hewitt Show

 

Do you believe in evolution?
Yes.
Are you a Christian?
Yes.
How do you square evolution with your faith?
It is complicated but evolution is established science but faith requires believing in something you can't prove. I believe my faith can illuminate and help me understand these big, complex notions that are hard to digest into headlines or sound bites.

 

Circa 2007/2008:

Do you believe in gay marriage?
Yes.
Are you a Christian?
Yes.
How do you square gay mairriage with your faith?

How come someone as smart as our current President couldn't square these two beliefs?

Why did he specifically go to a white, California mega-Church, with a celebrity pastor, to say that he did not support gay marriage?