It took me a while to fully understand it — or at least I think I fully understand it — but Josh Barro has done a pretty comprehensive job of debunking the "studies" Mitt Romney cites in support of his economic proposals. They aren't really studies and since his plan is so vague, they make a lot of assumptions of how things might happen…but Barro pretty convincingly knocks 'em all down anyway. Not that this will matter to the people who've been convinced Romney is one of them and Obama is a Kenyan Commie.
Bill Maher has a pretty good end segment this week about how Obama's enemies made dozens of predictions in 2008 about how the nation would be destroyed this way and that way if he was elected. Not one has come true. Most of them are evil programs that they were sure Obama would institute but which he hasn't lifted a finger to enact. But all the same people who were scared of him then are scared again for all the same reasons. No, he didn't ban your religion, nationalize all industry and kick every white male in the nuts during his first term…but he sure as hell will do all that and more in his second. Oh — and you know about sending big black men around to impregnate your daughters, right?