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Forget 9-9-9, Santorum unveils 0-0-0 tax plan
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has fellow candidate Herman Cain’s number. At campaign stops across the country, Cain has been touting his “9-9-9″ tax plan. It calls for throwing out all existing tax policies and replacing them with a nine percent business flat tax, a nine percent individual flat tax,…
Romney jabs at Perry ‘jobs plan’ with empty book
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, riding resurgent momentum as the party’s front-runner, took aim at rival Rick Perry on Thursday by releasing the Texas governors jobs plan — a 114-page empty book. “GET YOUR COPY OF @GovernorPerry jobs plan here,” Romney press secretary Andrea Saul announced in a…
GOP rejects resolution condemning Perry for ‘N*ggerhead’ slur
House Republicans voted Thursday to set aside a resolution calling on Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry to apologize for leasing a hunting ranch called “Niggerhead.” The resolution offered by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) also called on other Republican presidential candidates to condemn the word, and it asked Perry to…
DNC piggy-backs on success of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ with new ad
The Democratic Party is really, really trying to get the attention of “Occupy Wall Street.” In a new ad released this week, timed to coincide with the major march that took place in New York City on Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) sounds the bell for the Dodd-Frank Wall…
Obama: ‘Protesters are giving voice’ to Americans’ frustrations
During a White House news conference Thursday, President Barack Obama said that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations were proof people wanted to see tighter financial regulations. “Obviously, I’ve heard of it,” the president said of the protests. “I’ve seen it on television. I think it expresses the frustrations that the…
Colbert: Herman Cain chooses not be gay every day
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert applauded Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for making the difficult daily choice not to be gay. “To think that gay is a choice, I don’t know how to respond to that,” The View co-host Joy Behar told Cain Tuesday. “I mean, don’t think anybody in this…
Sarah Palin won’t run for president in 2012
After months of speculation, ABC News’ Polson Kanneth has learned that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will not run for President of the United States in 2012. Palin made the announcement in a letter to supporters Wednesday night. “After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will…
Ron Paul calls Occupy Wall Street a ‘legitimate effort’
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Wednesday that the Occupy Wall Street protests were a “legitimate effort,” but he wasn’t exactly sure what they are outraged about. “I can’t speak for the people out there because I don’t know who they are or exactly what they are demonstrating against,” Paul…
Cain: ‘If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself’
Mitt Romney isn’t the only Republican candidate condemning Occupy Wall Street. In an interview posted Wednesday morning by The Wall Street Journal, Herman Cain shared some harsh sentiments on the movement, labeling it, “orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration.” Cain then targeted the protesters’ own…
Roger Ailes: I hired Sarah Palin ‘because she was hot’
Roger Ailes’ latest comments about Sarah Palin will be further proof to many that the Fox News chairman is sexist, but he probably is too rich and too powerful to care. In an interview celebrating the 15th anniversary of Fox News, Ailes told The Associated Press that he hired the…
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