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CBS host to RNC chair: Romney ‘silly and petty’ for Solyndra stunt
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday called an Obama campaign event in Boston a “political stunt,” but said the same wasn’t true of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s surprise press conference in front of Solyndra, a bankrupt solar energy company. During an interview on CBS, host…
Axelrod to pro-Romney hecklers: ‘You can’t handle the truth!’
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod took the president’s re-election pitch to his opponent’s home turf in Boston on Thursday, but presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s supporters did their best to drown out his message. During a news conference outside the Massachusetts Statehouse, Axelrod faced relentless booing, heckling and chanting…
Axelrod: Handful of plutocrats trying to buy this government
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod said Wednesday that billionaires were trying to buy the United States government in the November elections. “There was a report this morning that the Republican Super PACs, apart from Romney and apart from his own super PAC, intend to spend a billion dollars in this…
Axelrod: Tea party ‘reign of terror’ blocked immigration reform
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod on Sunday explained that President Barack Obama had not accomplished comprehensive immigration reform because the tea party had driven mainstream Republicans so far to the right. “I think a lot of Republicans in Congress want to cooperate, know better — but they’re in the thralls…
Axelrod: Romney is only an ‘economic heavyweight’ in a fun house mirror
David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s top campaign advisor, fired back at Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney Sunday morning for criticizing Obama’s cabinet over the rise in gas prices. Axelrod was asked by Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer about Romney advocating for the firing of Energy Secretary David Chu, Environmental Protection…
Axelrod: Limbaugh’s quasi-apology spread falsehoods
Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday accused conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh of continuing to spread lies even as he apologized to a Georgetown University law student that he called a “slut.” “I think what Rush Limbaugh said about that woman was not only vile and degrading to…
Axelrod suggests White House could back down on birth control
A top adviser to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign suggested on Tuesday that the administration was open to working with Catholic hospitals and universities over their objections to providing birth control services to women. “I’m less concerned about the messaging of this than to find a resolution that makes sense,”…
Axelrod: GOP doesn’t understand Occupy Wall Street
President Obama’s top political adviser said Sunday that Republican presidential candidates who want to “roll back Wall Street reforms” obviously don’t understand the Occupy Wall Street movement. “I don’t think any American is impressed when they see Gov. Romney and all Republican candidates say the first thing they’ll do is…
Top Obama aide fires preemptive broadside at Perry
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama’s top reelection strategist charged Friday that Republican White House hopeful and Texas Governor Rick Perry had “very little to do” with his state’s economic success. “There’s a specific reason that Texas has done so well, and that’s because the oil industry has done so…
Obama administration explains that they give in if you even look at them funny
Update: Now they’re denying it. One of the ways the Republicans were able to regain power—besides the most important tactic, the traditional suppressed voter turnout at the midterms—was to be completely uncompromising. In fact, they were so uncompromising that it was ridiculous. If a liberal said the sky was blue,…
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