Politics

Former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu on Monday attempted to defend GOP hopeful Mitt Romney's links to jobs that Bain Capital helped send overseas by claiming that President Barack Obama "outsourced" NASA's Shuttle program to Russia -- something actually orchestrated by former President George W. Bush.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama sat down with CBS's Charlie Rose for an interview broadcast on Monday morning in which he talked about "breaking the fever in Washington," but ultimately said the American people needed to decide if they want a "sharply ideological shift by the Republicans."

Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday said a series of attacks and questions about Mitt Romney's association with Bain Capital, his tax returns and offshore investments were adding up to trouble for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

In comparing Vice President Joe Biden's appearance at the NAACP convention Thursday to Mitt Romney's on her show Sunday, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry said it cracked her up to see Biden emerge as President Barack Obama's "sherpa to blackness for the first African-American president."

The architect of former President George W. Bush's controversial 2000 and 2004 campaigns is calling on President Barack Obama to stop using "gutter politics" to suggest presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney could be guilty of a felony by lying about when he left Bain Capital.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) on Sunday advised presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney to "stop whining" about suggestions that he broke the law or lied to voters by saying he had "retired" from Bain Capital, even though Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents show that he was in charge of the company.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) released a video on Saturday urging support for the DISCLOSE Act of 2012.

A senior adviser for Mitt Romney says that President Barack Obama will "say or do anything" to keep his job, including accusing the presumptive Republican presidential candidate of being in charge of Bain Capital when they helped send American jobs to China and other countries.

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on Sunday called on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to follow in his father's footsteps and release more than just one or two years of tax returns.

"Mitt Romney's not the solution. He's the problem."

Herman Cain on Friday told Fox & Friends that they were "fair and balanced," unlike the news outlets that focused on GOP hopeful Mitt Romney being booed at the NAACP convention -- which Cain had been specifically invited on Fox News to discuss.

Adolf Hitler never wore a beret so Fox Business host Lou Dobbs is linking the U.S. Olympic team's headgear to the next best villain he can think of: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

One of the key political defenses former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has turned to throughout the years -- that he left Bain, the equity firm he founded, in 1999 and therefore should not be held accountable for what the company did thereafter -- has crumbled into dust thanks to the work of a couple of intrepid reporters from The Boston Globe, who learned that the company still listed him as CEO until 2002.