Let’s Give Mitt Romney’s Inspiring Humble Beginnings in Bloomfield Hills a Second Look…
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Mitt Romney Thinks His Tax Returns Deserve More Privacy than Your Vagina
Now that the GOP’s Racist Demagoguery Hatefest is over, let’s get back to the business of strengthening the middle class, increasing socio-economic mobility, and preserving the rights of women, people of color, the disabled, working families, and LGBTQ folk. (9)
Romney Secures GOP Nomination to Sell Trickle Down Fairy Dust, More Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Gut Medicare, and Run Up National Debt
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)
The Romneyhood, Mittens and Ryan Coming to a Theater Near You; There Would Have Never Been a Neil Armstrong without American Government
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…
Obama Team: Release 5 Years of Taxes; Romney-Ryan’s Gut Medicare Plan; and Ryan’s Begging for Obama’s Stimulus
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…
Ex-Reagan Budget Director: Romney-Ryan Budget Devoid of Credibility
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…
77 Years After It Became Law, Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out Of Poverty
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…
Top GOP Strategists: Paul Ryan is Sarah Palin with a Powerpoint, and Romney the Plantation Master Calling the Kettle….
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…