Politics

MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Thursday read from the Book of Mormon to make the point that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney might win the White House by lying but he would be condemned to "eternal damnation."

Thursday night's edition of "The Colbert Report" featured guests Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, who were promoting their book, The Rich and the Rest of Us. Conservative firebrand Colbert took exception right away with the title of the book, accusing the authors of stoking the fires of class warfare.

Ann Coulter says that gun control laws are inherently racist and that the solution to incidents like the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is more "negroes with guns."

Leo Hindery, a managing partner at InterMedia Partners, said Thursday on Fox Business that executive pay had become too high in the United States and was not longer based on performance.

Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY) told MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Thursday that former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney could still be held accountable for violating federal criminal statues.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday blasted President Barack Obama for being "more intent on punishing people" than creating jobs.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he's already thinking about another attempt at the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recently praised a conservative rocker who is being investigated by the Secret Service to determine if he threatened the life of President Barack Obama.

Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is accusing the nation's first black president of "waving a tar baby in the air" over his proposed crackdown on oil speculators.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said he was "not going to apologize" for his family's enormous wealth after President Barack Obama made the suggestion that the candidate was "born with a silver spoon" in his mouth.

Tea Party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Thursday defended conservative rocker Ted Nugent after he got the Secret Service's attention by saying that members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) should defeat President Barack Obama and other Democrats and "chop their heads off in November."

Senate candidate Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) on Wednesday night told Current TV's Jennifer Granholm that the people of Wisconsin were frustrated.

During debate over legislation to extend federal highway funding, Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) accused House Republicans of bringing wasteful earmarks back from the dead.