Politics

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is blasting a decision made by his own vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), to support cuts to defense spending.

During her Republican National Convention speech last month, Ann Romney suggested that she and her husband had once been so poor that they "ate a lot of pasta and Tuna fish" and their "dining room table was a fold down ironing board."

Republican White House presidential hopeful Mitt Romney embraced Bill Clinton, saying the Democratic former president helped "elevate" his party's gathering this week.

Melissa Harris-Perry returned to the topic of poverty on her show Saturday morning, not only to discuss its absence from both major parties' political conventions, but the fallout from her impassioned explanation of what it's like to actually be poor in America.

As Mitt Romney hit the campaign trail in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Saturday, sitting in the front row, very quietly, was televangelist Pat Robertson.

Tea Party-affiliated congressman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) has taken exception to Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke's remarks at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and said that he thinks the women's health advocate should "get a job."  According to Talking Points Memo, Walsh made the remarks at a campaign stop in Addison, Illinois on Saturday.

Friday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," Rachel Maddow discussed how a little-known third party candidate could scuttle Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)'s electoral chances in the state of Virginia and thereby cost him the presidency.

In a pre-taped interview based on questions submitted by viewers of KRDO in Colorado Springs, Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (WI) endorsed the view that states -- like Colorado -- should be able to decide their own laws on medical marijuana.

Two years ago, Bill Maher stood in front of his audience and dared a former guest -- Christine O'Donnell, then the upstart, tea-party-backed candidate for Senator in Delaware -- to come back on his show. And, if she didn't, he promised to release a clip a week of her appearances.

David Nelson, an anchor with KWQC in Davenport, Iowa had a chance to interview Ann Romney today, and he decided to focus on the meat behind her convention speech comment, "I love women." But Ann Romney had other ideas.

Speaking to talk show host Bill Moyers this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who self-identifies as a Democratic socialist, explained that no matter how many times Republicans say it, President Barack Obama is not a socialist as well.

Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he did not mention the war in Afghanistan during his convention speech because he doesn't think it's important, even though more than 2,100 American soldiers have fought and died there.

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) said this week that he's very sorry for telling his constituents that the federal student loan program is a step down a "slippery slope" to Nazi Germany's Holocaust.