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Goolsbee: Republicans ‘would classify Mitt Romney’s horse a small business’
Former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee asserted on Sunday that Republicans “would classify Mitt Romney’s horse as a small business” if they thought it would help them convince Americans that taxes shouldn’t be raised on the wealthy. During an ABC News discussion about the federal deficit, The Wall Street Journal‘s…
Paul Ryan was for stimulus spending before he was against it
A decade before becoming Mitt Romney’s running mate and years before he emerged as one of the most prominent anti-stimulus spending conservatives in Congress, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) once gave a forceful defense of the same spending he now decries. While he’s strongly opposed active government spending under President Obama,…
Tea party group raises funds off of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow
The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama, a tea party-affiliated political action committee, has urged their supporters to “prove Rachel Maddow” wrong and rally behind Mitt Romney’s new running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). In a fundraising email sent out on Saturday, the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama noted that the…
Santorum claims that saying ‘y’all’ is divisive
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama are “dividing this country” by playing the race card and using words like “y’all.” CNN host Jim Acosta on Sunday asked if it was fair for Romney to complain about the tone of the…
Obama: Paul Ryan wants Romney to pay almost no taxes
President Obama mocked the tax plans of both Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) at a campaign rally in New Hampshire Saturday, saying that his GOP rivals were offering “snake oil” policies that would hurt the middle class while serving as a windfall for rich folks…
Gibbs blasts Romney for using ‘right-wing nut jobs’ like Trump
Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said on Sunday that he would not be “lectured” about running a negative campaign while GOP hopeful Mitt Romney continued to use a “right-wing nut job” like so-called birther Donald Trump. During an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace noted that Romney had…
Romney nets $7 million in fundraising in two-day blitz
Mitt Romney criss-crossed his home state of Massachusetts in a major fundraising drive before the Republican convention, netting $7 million after a two-day blitz. A week after the roll-out of running mate Paul Ryan and with roughly 80 days to go before the November 6 election in which he aims…
The political emergence of Michelle Obama
With charm, hidden steel and growing political skill, First Lady Michelle Obama is injecting a timely jolt of verve into her husband’s battered political brand. The price of a sluggish economic recovery weighs heavily on President Barack Obama as he wages a tough reelection fight against Republican Mitt Romney. But…
Romney team rejects Obama tax return ‘deal’
The Obama campaign team has kept up the pressure on Mitt Romney’s tricky position on tax, promising to stop hounding him on the subject if he releases five years’ worth of returns. Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, wrote to his opposite number in the Romney camp, Matt Rhoades, making the…
2012 RNC delegates can attend ‘Newt University’ at convention
Delegates at the 2012 Republican National Convention, which takes place Monday, August 27 to Thursday, August 30 in Tampa, Florida, will be able to take classes at “Newt University,” a series of workshops an seminars hosted by former Congressman Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA). The classes are allegedly designed to “support…
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