From ThinkProgress: When Mitt Romney campaigned at an Ohio coal mine earlier this month, he might not have realized that the miners were forced to be there — without pay — by the owner, Murray Energy. That’s according to accounts from multiple coal miners, who sent anonymous letters to a…
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Mitt Romney has officially secured the GOP nomination and the starts day one of the their three-day hate fest. They’ve even got a debt clock to remind folks of the Bush tax cuts and two unpaid Bush wars. All photos courtesy of Restore Sanity and Take Back America. (5)
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Romney: “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” Made in America: Obama Saves American Auto Industry (18)
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Brilliant move by the Obama campaign: President Obama’s team is offering Mitt Romney a deal on taxes: Publicly release five years of returns, and the Obama campaign will drop its insistence for additional tax information.[TPM] Romney-Ryan responded with a diatribe of falsehoods: It is clear that President Obama wants nothing…
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David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director, ran a scathing op-ed in the NYT yesterday: Like his new boss, Mr. Ryan has no serious plan to create jobs. America has some of the highest labor costs in the world, and saddles workers and businesses with $1 trillion per year in job-destroying payroll…
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From ThinkProgress: [Yesterday] mark[ed] the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law, creating arguably America’s most successful social program. “We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have…
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From Politico: The most cutting criticism of Ryan…is that Ryan isn’t ready to be president — or doesn’t come across as ready. A youthful man who looks even younger than his 42 years, Ryan could end up labeled as Sarah Palin with a PowerPoint presentation, several operatives said. “He just…
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Mittens took great pains to keep his VP pick under wraps, even hiding the man out in the woods: Ryan returned home in the early afternoon and went inside through the back as he was locked out of his side door, telling reporters who stood watching on the sidewalk he…
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