Charles Blow, New York Times: Shady money, voter suppression, shifting positions, murky details and widespread apathy. If there is a road map for a Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan win in November, that’s it. Distasteful all. …. America, this is the Republican ticket. Although most smart political observers currently have Romney losing…
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No Jobs, No Health Care, No Social Security, No Medicare, No Education. No Environmental Protection. No Immigration. No Women, No Gays, No People of Color Allowed. No Taxes for the Super Rich. ThinkProgress: How the GOP Budget Would Decimate Cities and States (11)
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From ThinkProgress: Have you eaten at White Castle recently? Or caught a movie at Regal Cinemas? If so, you may be unwittingly helping finance right-wing attack ads. That’s because many of the country’s most common brands are run by rich conservatives who are using their personal wealth to bankroll outside…
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CMP has been in summer mode as we all pace ourselves and save up energy reserves for the Fall cycle. So here we are in the final week of July! As we approach the final three months of the 2012 presidential election cycle, CMP is gearing up to do its…
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From LA Times: The vote thwarts an election-year effort by the president to slap a new tax rate on those earning more than $1 million a year. Democrats are likely to revive the measure in the months ahead. … Named for Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who has said he…
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From ThinkProgress: Though many politicians sympathize with those who are saddled with exorbitant student debt, Foxx, who chairs the House subcommittee on higher education, had a different take. Appearing on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, the North Carolina congresswoman recounted her own experience paying for college, where she worked her…
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Mitt Romney told a New Hampshire audience: “I wanted to increase the work requirement,” said Romney. “I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well that’s heartless.’ And I said, ‘No, no, I’m willing…
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From American Prospect: Last Thursday, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released a survey that revealed what Pew termed “Mixed Views of Government Regulation.” But “mixed,” in this case, means anti-regulatory in matters of ideology and pro-regulatory in practice. Asked whether they believed that government regulation…
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