2012

Maine's Republican governor says that anyone who is upset because he said that President Barack Obama's health care reforms would turn the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) into Nazi secret police should "be goddamn mad at the federal government."

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama drew sharp election battle lines between himself and rival Republicans on Monday by pressing Congress to maintain tax breaks for most US families but end them for the wealthy.

WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney raked in $106 million in June, his team announced Monday, trouncing President Barack Obama by $35 million and asserting a second straight month of campaign fundraising dominance.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Monday said that his state would refuse to implement President Barack Obama's health care reform law because it was "like adding 1,000 people to the Titanic."

President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to extend the tax cuts on the middle class implemented under former President George W. Bush. The plan calls for Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year to be extended for another year, and comes as Congress returns from recess.

Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs tried unsuccessfully on Monday to get Romney campaign adviser Dan Senor to explain why his candidate would not release more tax returns to prove he had broken no laws by hiding money in Swiss bank accounts and a secret Bermuda corporation.

Conservative columnist George Will is denying that the historic heat wave that's cooking most of the United States has any relation to global warming or climate change.

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) on Sunday said that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney was "smart" not to give voters specifics about how he would govern if elected president of the United States.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) struggled on Sunday to explain presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's investments outside the United States, including Swiss bank accounts and a corporation in Bermuda.

Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs sees a pattern in GOP hopeful Romney's past of "outsourcing jobs" and offshoring his own personal investments -- and the only way for the former Massachusetts governor to prove that he isn't dodging tax laws is to release more tax returns.

Efforts to court the Latino vote in this year's election could have a negative impact with other voters, according to a study cited by The Huffington Post.

Tea party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Saturday doubled down his suggestion that Democrats were racists by insisting that the "true racism" was that white liberals wanted to be the "masters" of black conservatives.