A recent HuffPo piece, quotes one of Romney’s 2012 campaign aides blaming his boss’s loss on an East Coast hurricane! He dismisses outright the infamous 47% tape, you know, the one in which Romney claims half the population is basically on the dole, as well as the Democrats huge get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort.

Smarter people in the GOP reason that to win back the White House, “the party needed to be more inclusive, with toned down rhetoric and legislative pursuits like immigration reform. Others inside the GOP were convinced that Romney had lost not because he alienated people of color and female voters, but because he just wasn’t inspirationally conservative enough.”

Never once does the article mention GOP values. Toning down rhetoric won’t solve the very real problems of the poor, nor will it excuse 50 years of GOP attacks on voting rights.

When will they every learn?

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening President Obama told Americans they must organize and demand fair elections and voting rights. “I can’t do it alone” he told Americans. The four problems he noted really do put our Nation At Risk:

1. “We have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around.
2. “We have to reduce the influence of money in our politics, so that a handful of families and hidden interests can’t bankroll our elections – and if our existing approach to campaign finance can’t pass muster in the courts, we need to work together to find a real solution.
3. “We’ve got to make voting easier, not harder, and modernize it for the way we live now. And over the course of this year, I intend to travel the country to push for reforms that do.
4. “But I can’t do these things on my own. Changes in our political process – in not just who gets elected but how they get elected – that will only happen when the American people demand it.  It will depend on you.  That’s what’s meant by a government of, by, and for the people.”

Join us today. Take action to ensure that everyone can vote, and let’s take our country back.

Once again life imitates art. As some Americans were watching the moveable circus that is the Republican debate, a real faux Presidential candidate was launching his campaign on TV.

“America, I’m only getting started,” declared President Frank Underwood in a fake, but deviously timed, TV ad for his reelection campaign. The ad, which promotes the launch date of the fourth season of Netflix’s gripping “House of Cards,” was released with the improbably “frank” hashtag #FU2016 duringTuesday night’s GOP debate.

The ad also revealed the web address for his fake, but rather convincing, campaign website, FU2016.com, which also happens to lead with words that should make up the platforms of all the “real” Republican candidates: Inequality, Dishonesty, and Entitlement.

Obviously, the clever folks at Netflix know a lot about our political process. In fact, the show practically screams that we are “A Nation at Risk!” Let’s get to work.