Sorry Media, This Election Won’t be About the Economy and Jobs
The mainstream media’s constructed storyline is that the 2012 election is all about the economy and jobs, but this election will hinge not on the economy but one simple question.
The mainstream media’s constructed storyline is that the 2012 election is all about the economy and jobs, but this election will hinge not on the economy but one simple question.
Mitt Romney prefers right wing casino dollars to voters, and Donald Trump’s bad haired birtherism to gay haired high school kids.
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
In response to the burgeoning wifer movement founded by Bill Maher, Mitt Romney released his birth certificate, but still won’t tell us how many wives he has.
Romney and Walker each pushed austerity politics only to end up with abysmal job records, yet polls say gullible voters keep supporting them.
Moderate Mitt reveals himself to be anti-Islamic extremist in this 2008 clip of Romney banging on about Glenn Beck’s caliphate..
Bill Maher shredded the return of birtherism by becoming a wifer, and asking Mitt Romney to prove that he really has just one wife.
Legal and illegal residents of the U.S. send billions of dollars to their home countries every year. Dollars that benefit foreign economies
If elected president, Mitt Romney promises to repeal ACA. Most people have not read the act and don’t realize its importance to the nation.
A Ken doll could give more substantive answers to questions, but then maybe that’s Mitt Romney’s intent.
President Obama responded to the wild lies of the Republican Party, “They run up these wild debts, and then when we take over, we’ve got to clean it up!”
You get the idea that if we banned the word Satan we’d all be a lot happier but that fundamentalists wouldn’t have anything to talk about
Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber over his ring this year in Washington, DC
Mitt Romney is a few votes short of making his Republican nomination for president official, but thanks to a lack of support from his own party, Romney’s teetering train may make a few more stops.
I’m going to type this super slow so that it gets through to our Democratic leaders: You people need to learn to frame issues and you need to do it without apologizing for your beliefs.
While attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama kept up the pressure on Romney and his self-enrichment record at Bain Capital
Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his most recent position flip-flops
Between his inability to stop laughing when he causes misery to others and his chronic deceitfulness, Mitt Romney is almost a psychopath.
A turnover of as little as 5 or 6 house seats in California could mean that Democrats once again control the House of Representatives.
A GOP Super PAC had a genius plan to destroy Obama by connecting him (again) to his once-upon-a-time pastor Jeremiah Wright and accusing him of being a metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.
GST steelworkers and lead negotiator for labor explain that what Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital did was not Capitalism, it was bad management.
Ross Douthat, in an op-ed for the New York Times, paints President Obama as a culture warrior who ignores the economy to his own detriment
What Mitt Romney doesn’t want voters to know about his 2002 leadership of the Winter Olympics is that he spent 1.3 billion federal dollars with little long term positive economic consequences.
All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the Republicans, but here are 7 reason why the president is the obvious choice.
Sarah Jones says Republicans must evolve or die. Rand Paul chose a third option: third grade: “[he] wasn’t sure [Obama’s] views on marriage could get any gayer”
Were you to slam your head into a dead tree trunk for hours on end, that trunk would have a more dramatic reaction to your suffering than corporate prince and presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Instead of taking responsibility for his bullying, Mitt Romney is accusing President Obama’s campaign of planting the story.
The new Obama campaign video pointing out that Mitt Romney is to the right of George W Bush on the issue of gay marriage is the cherry on top of a very bad day for Mitt.
With the same aloof sense of privilege, Mitt Romney’s non-apology apology reveals that the vicious high school bully hasn’t grown up.
The Republicans want to get into your vagina, and in this humorously mocking piece Kate Beckinsale and others make the arguments in favor of letting them in
Christian fundamentalists are engaging in paroxysms of verbal acrobatics to account for Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, donning a virtual condom to protect themselves
Mitt Romney took credit again for the auto bailout today while campaigning in Michigan, so the Obama campaign has had to release yet another dose of reality for the Republican nominee.
Have you ever wondered why most polls reflect a decidedly liberal issue tilt and yet state and national elections fill seats with Republicans, and rather radical ones at that?
In 1996, Mitt Romney helped in a search for a colleague’s lost 14 year old daughter. Even though though Romney’s role is unclear, he has run numerous commercials exploiting the situation.
James Robison, once God’s Angry Young Man, now rationalizes love for Mormon Mitt Romney while spewing hate for all things liberal, Obama included
While political attention is riveted on Washington, millions of dollars are flowing into state campaign coffers in preparation for a rebirth of the Articles of Confederation where states will function as their own bosses and to hell with Washington..
Republicans have told the American people that you can not create prosperity by going into debt. The problem with their theory is the Republican presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, did exactly this.
The Romney campaign has decided their best hope of being noticed is to crash Obama campaign events and hope to cause a disruption.
The pastor of a North Carolina church who recommended cracking 4-year-old gay children’s wrist, then ‘punching’ them is the latest example of the pulpit serving the right’s epicenter for gay hate.
Mitt Romney fell into President Obama’s trap on Osama Bin Laden, and now the president has closed the noose and made the Republican nominee appear weak on national security.
Nominee Romney if his finances were thoroughly vetted, might end up trading his pinstripe suits for an orange jumpsuit.
Karl Rove, the Brothers Koch, ALEC and Romney put on just as fake a show as their ‘rasslin’ brethren, but unlike wrestling they’re not trying to entertain their fans (voters)…they’re using them.
Romney’s desire to take us back to the Bush Administration’s foreign policy is a reminder that politics plays cruel jokes on humanity.
Monotheism is built not just on the rejection but the ejection of the constructed other. If we live in the end times they are the end times of religious liberty
A little discussed excerpt in Mitt Romney’s Better America Tonight speech revealed his true intentions using the White House to attack public schools and unions.
A new study from Pew’s Project For Excellence In Journalism has uncovered a serious case of media bias, as Mitt Romney is getting three times more positive media coverage than President Obama.
Obama is leading Romney in eight swing states while Romney leads in only three. Perhaps this is because Republicans say Romney will be Bush updated and will do as he’s told by House Republicans.
Only in the bizarro world of the mainstream media will you find CNN and NBC ignoring Mitt Romney’s endless negativity and complaining about the Obama campaign being negative.
Desperate Republicans are trying to court evangelicals by attaching Mitt Romney’s family history with polygamy to Barack Obama.
Mitt Romney’s courting of the conservative Republican base has ended with a stealthy, morning after slide out of bed and run for the door. Don’t worry, he’ll call you.
Demonstrating just how Republicans honor Equal Pay Day, Scott Walker, whose polices are endorsed by Mitt Romney, actually repealed parts of the Equal Pay Act in Wisconsin just days before the national event.
In his ABC interview with Diane Sawyer, Mitt Romney took the opportunity to side step her questions about his refusal to release his tax returns and blamed President Obama for his decision.
We are told Mitt Romney cares about “moms” because he thinks being a mom is a job. However, in January, Mr Etch A Sketch said poor women needed to “go to work” outside of the home in order to have dignity.
Are Republicans aware that the man they will nominate to be their standard bearer once put out a pro-GLBTQ press release pledging to turn Boston into the Rainbow City?
During the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination the wives of all the candidates have been a faithful and reliable presence. Let’s learn more about Ann Romney and rest of the wanna be First Lady wives club.
In an interview with Telemundo, President Obama dropped the hammer and served notice to Mitt Romney that his lies will not go unchallenged.
According to a couple of Republican women writing for CNN, the left is afraid of Ann Romney because she is somehow every woman.
Mitt Romney’s lie your ass off to get elected tour took the stage at the NRA’s annual meeting and uttered a barrage of falsehoods about President Obama and guns, so extreme that most of them had no relationship to any facts.
What to do with Hilary Rosen, a powerful Washington figure is going to be the question for the Obama administration.
George Bush is back to remind everyone that he “dramatically raised the deficitâ€. Lawrence O’Donnell observed that Bush’s appearance is a huge gift to the President and his Buffett Rule.
Gawker has a Fox mole. The big surprise in this pre-interview tape with Sean Hannity isn’t that Mittens’ wife has Austrian dressage horses, but that Mittens has an “easy to ride” Missouri Foxtrotter.
The Republicans and their far-right religious sycophants have all but rendered the government ineffective through grid-locking strategies the prevent any meaningful initiatives from being passed.
With the right controlling the mainstream media, Obama and the Democrats will have to spend to get their message out in 2012.
Mitt Romney has exposed himself to the American people; the question heading toward Election Day is have the American people noticed?
Who will Romney pick as his running mate? He seemed to warm up to budget nut Wisconsin Representative, Paul Ryan while in Wisconsin. Sincere or just a ploy to get Ryan’s local support?
Paul Ryan’s introduction of Mitt Romney after the Wisconsin primary was so full of lies and inaccuracies that Rachel Maddow cut away from it and deemed it not newsworthy.
Once again GOP primary day got owned by President Obama, as he knocked down the Ryan budget and mocked Mitt Romney’s elitism.
It’s just possible that Sarah Louise Palin, born a stone’s throw from Randy Weaver’s infamous Ruby Ridge, Idaho could be Mitt Romney’s 2012 running mate?
While campaigning in Wisconsin via phone, Mitt Romney endorsed Governor Scott Walker’s “labor policies” and Representative Paul Ryan’s “budget plan”.
Newt Gingrich is firing staff and scaling back on primary appearances. The latest polls don’t look good for Gingrich and even his Adelson money is running out.
There was dual story revealed in the latest CNN poll. As the economy gets better, President Obama’s approval ratings go up. The more Mitt Romney campaigns, the less America likes him.
If ever a win was meaningless, it’s Rick Santorum’s expected Louisiana runaway. The Deep South is the only sure thing that the flaming heterosexual has left.
With the endorsement of Republican ‘Golden Boy’ Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney has locked up the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Democrats are cautioned to start playing defensive politics and pay special attention to the very real possibility of rigging voting machines.
Mitt Romney’s campaign wants you to know that you can trust old Mitt. Why, he’s as reliable as an etch-a-sketch!
After Mitt Romney won another state that President Obama will carry in November, he converted his victory speech into a marathon of lies about Barack Obama.
It was a predictable win for Mitt Romney in Illinois. Rich Santorum finished a 12-point second with but 8 of the 49 available delegates. Meanwhile, Santorum pines for PA and Texas.
Remember the dark days of Dick Cheney’s secretive Enron meetings? Well, they’re coming for you again only this time, they’re wearing a Mitt mask.
The GOOP primary process moves to Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana as final results would appear to be a wash with no real advantage to anybody.
Rick Santorum is fast setting new lows in his disdain for honesty, choosing instead the path of deceit, expressing hatred to sow hatred of our president and of us
Fox News’ latest polling data should alarm the Republican Party, because it shows President Barack Obama winning over Mitt Romney in a general election, the Democratic Party with higher favorables than the Republican Party, Mitt Romney with low favorables and the Tea Party in the dumps. Here’s the data for how the public, per the…
With typical Republican ignorance of the U.S. Constitution, Rick Santorum tells Puerto Ricans they have to speak English to achieve statehood
Rick Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi because Evangelical right-wingers constituted the overwhelming majority of Tuesday’s Deep South voters. And they voted race no matter what they tell you.
Mitt Romney’s son Matt, a former birther, reforms his message in Hawaii when asked if President Obama is a Christian. Personally, I find reform of this sort charming and a sign of hope much missing from the Republican Party, but this sort of thing is just not said amongst those on the “right’, especially that…
By not giving a speech on primary night and in Alabama and Mississippi, Mitt Romney sent a clear middle finger raised sore loser message to the South.
This week Republican primary co-front runner Mitt Romney demonstrated once again that neither he, nor his increasingly radical political party give a fig about the quality of life of America’s middle class. Multiple media outlets reported Romney’s compassionately conservative response to a struggling college student who queried him at a town hall meeting about the…
Mitt Romney is as divorced from economic reality as a French aristocrat of the eighteenth century, and he is no more likely than they to become a darling of the people
The Republican primary death march rolled through Kansas today where evangelical zombie Rick Santorum scooped up the hate vote and rolled to victory.
Oh what a wicked web we do weave when at first we do deceive. Here is Mitt Romney from the 2002 Massachusetts governor’s race bragging to no end about his ability to squeeze pork out of the feds. Snort snort. Also, we recall Romney calling the other candidates “insiders” yet in this video, he is…
Mitt Romney flip flops again. Today Romney told Fox and Friends that it was “outrageous and disgusting†for Santorum to try to get Michigan Democrats to vote in Republican primaries in order to push the seemingly unelectable Rick Santorum to the top. Rick Santorum, who doesn’t support bailouts of the auto companies or Wall Street,…
ALL ABOARD! The Nutbag Express will be making stops in Michigan and Arizona tonight as Republican voters take another step towards determining who will get to lose to President Obama.
Mitt Romney pointed to Staples and The Sports Authority as examples of places where he is going to create “middle class” jobs for Americans.
Rick Santorum accuses Dutch doctors of euthanizing patients involuntarily. He basis information on a radical Website and distorts truth.
The three Republican presidential candidates of note (sorry, Mr. Paul) are destined to continue the policies of economic destruction.ro
Mitt Romney tries to be a common man by talking about his Cadillacs, and Republican complains that the war on women is costing him sex.
A special Politicus Radio post Republican debate program focuses on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, and their love of lying about America, their own records, and President Obama. Jason Easley, Sarah Jones and George Sirios take on the CNN Republican debate, listen here: As Jason wrote for PoliticusUSA last night, the CNN Republican Debate was…
A general review of the debate lies and hateful Obama references of the three remaining viable GOP Presidential candidates.
Ron Paul, Mitt Romney’s errand boy, who is in charge of making Rick Santorum look bad to his conservative base says Rick is very liberal.
With the GOP Presidential primary candidates, this current reproductive rights flap started with Planned Parenthood, took a turn to a woman’s right to choose and now has gone full circle with their unanimous opposition to contraception whether its through the candidates statements or the stand up comedy of their ancient surrogates, one of whom advises…
There are around a million gang members in the U.S. Gang violence costs thousands of lives and billions of dollars, and Republicans seem unmoved.