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Republican VP hopefuls audition while Romney tours overseas
With Mitt Romney overseas on a gaffe-ridden jaunt, his would-be deputies are taking up the campaigning slack back at home, jockeying for position as they press the flesh on the campaign trail. Tim Pawlenty, Rob Portman, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio – all mentioned to a greater or lesser degree…
Harris-Perry: Romney would be Bush-but-worse on foreign policy
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” guest host Melissa Harris-Perry attempted to glean a greater truth from all of the hullaballoo over Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s disastrous trip to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She compared and contrasted Romney’s trip abroad with then-Senator Barack Obama’s trip…
Jay Smooth figures out how Mitt Romney’s mind works
Hip-hop DJ Jay Smooth thinks he finally understands what makes Mitt Romney tick. “Diplomacy usually requires having conversations with human beings, which is not Mitt Romney’s strong suit,” Smooth explains. “Up until now, the campaign has been trying to help Romney avoid human contact … but since human interaction is…
Pennsylvania election official will defy voter ID law
A local election official has announced his intention to defy Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law by not asking voters to offer proof of their identity on Election Day. Christopher L. Broach, a Democratic inspector of elections in the small borough of Colwyn, which lies slightly west of Philadelphia, stated on…
Kilmeade warns Brits: You ‘better back off’ because Romney ‘could be president’
Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade is telling the British people to “back off” GOP hopeful Mitt Romney after a series of gaffes by the candidate outraged the country. Kilmeade told Fox News host Chris Wallace that Romney had simply made a “candid response” when he suggested that London might not…
Commerce Department: U.S. economic growth slowed to 1.5 percent
US growth slowed to 1.5 percent in the second quarter as consumer spending slowed, the Commerce Department said Friday. The figure was slightly above the level expected by economists, but not high enough to blunt concern that the recovery remains weak and vulnerable to shocks. Americans spent less on big-ticket…
Olympic legend Carl Lewis on Mitt Romney: ‘Some Americans shouldn’t leave the country’
Mitt Romney has been rebuked by the US Olympic legend Carl Lewis after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee questioned whether London was fully prepared for the Olympic Games. As Romney was mocked on US television and by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, in front of a crowd of 60,000 people,…
Suppress, Suppress, Let’s Suppress This Mess
If you haven’t been following the voter ID fight in Pennsylvania, let me fill you in: it’s stupid. Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law is being litigated in court as we speak, but Pennsylvania never investigated whether voter fraud (the central rationale for ID laws) actually exists, so the state simply…
Romney tells public of secret meeting with MI6 spy chief
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday disclosed that he had a meeting with the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, an admission that was seen as a gaffe in the United Kingdom. “I can only say that I appreciated the insights and the perspectives of the leaders of the…
London mayor calls out Romney in front of 100,000 at Olympic torch lighting
London Mayor Boris Johnson shamed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in front of a crowd of 100,000 people at the Olympic torch lighting on Thursday. In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Romney had offended Brits when he suggested that London wasn’t ready for the games. “It’s hard to…
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