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Fox host to Romney aide: Women job loss claim an ‘accounting trick’

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday called out presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for using an “accounting trick” to assert that women had lost 92.3 percent of the jobs during President Barack Obama’s first term. “The number of jobs — this is an amazing statistic — the percentage…

Geithner: Romney’s women jobs lost numbers ‘ridiculous’

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner criticized likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney several times Sunday morning, calling his numbers attacking of President Obama on women’s job losses “ridiculous.” Geithner made his sharpest hitback at Romney on ABC’s This Week before repeating the criticism of the former Massachusetts governor on NBC’s Meet…

Romney endorses belief that Obama is conspiring to take away gun rights

Mitt Romney sought to win over the arch-conservative membership of the National Rifle Association by promising to be the protector of American freedoms and accusing President Obama of launching a stealth attack on the constitutional right to bear arms. Addressing the NRA’s annual convention in St Louis, Missouri, Romney tried…

Law And Dissed Orders

I can’t say that I think Greg Sargent is totally wrong about the President’s decision to sandbag on an executive order on preventing federal contractors from discriminating against people based on gender or sexual orientation. He’s right when he says the White House is being too cute by half here.…

Santorum mega donor wonders if Obama’s teleprompters ‘are bullet-proof’

In an interview featured Wednesday night on Fox Business, retired hedge fund manager Foster Friess, the largest donor to super PACs that had formerly supported ex-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) for president, made a distasteful comment about guns being aimed at President Barack Obama. “There are a lot of things that…

Obama Fulfills His Promise

Call him what you will—a socialist, a communist, a fascist, a “dick,” a racist, a foreign-born Manchurian candidate…the anti-Christ… One thing you can’t accuse President Obama of being is a trickster. In November 2011, after chuckling his way through the dozenth Republican presidential primary debate like it was the season…

Obama calls Ronald Reagan a ‘wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior’

President Obama made the case today for the so-called “Buffet Rule,” which would mandate that the wealthy pay the same percentage of their income in taxes as middle class families. He described for the audience the actions of one of his predecessors in the Oval Office, a president who “gave…

Romney campaign meets equal pay question with long silence

Likely GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s quest to label President Barack Obama as the one waging a “war on women” hit a snag Wednesday morning, when, after a long pause on a conference call, his campaign told a reporter they’d “get back to” him on a question about whether the former…

Newt Gingrich is bouncing checks and being a dick about it.

Newt Gingrich is broke, y’all.  But you know what he’s not?  A dumb black president that needs to use teleprompters to give speeches because he can’t read, MIRITE?! Struggling Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday joked that he couldn’t even buy a teleprompter after his campaign recently bounced a…

Romney blames Obama for women job losses actually caused by GOP

Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney says that President Obama’s economic policies amount to the real “war on women,” according to a post at CNN’s “Political Ticker” blog. The presumptive 2012 nominee was speaking at a Delaware factory when he delivered the remarks.  He claimed that 92.3…