From Colorlines: Bill Ouren (Truth the Votes coordinator) and Americans for Prosperity [Koch Brothers] gathered these recruits in Boca Raton in July to instruct them on how they could become “empowered” vessels for True the Vote’s poll watcher program. True the Vote is most widely known for its advocacy of…
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Hurricane Isaac is on course to strike Florida and the Gulf Coast Monday and Tuesday — forcing the GOP to cancel day one of their four-day hate fest. A revised schedule is due some time today. Romney folks believe that the convention will be a chance to “reinvent” etch-a-sketch Romney…
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From ThinkProgress: In spite of the massive public outcry from the right over Akin’s comments, the official GOP platform committee approved a provision Monday supporting a “human life amendment” that would outlaw abortion without specifying exemptions for rape or incest. The platform reads: Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in…
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First, President Obama responds to Todd Akin’s comments about ‘legitimate rape’: Second, Obama told Mittens to bring it and to step, when he told Mittens that the the presidency is a privilege, not an entitlement: I think that is what the American people would rightly expect — is a sense…
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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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