FOR SOME reason people think they have a moral obligation to police your vote. Your vote. In the second decade of the 21st century, nothing is more outdated, with the growth of the independent voter proving this fact. What it reveals is that people are getting increasingly disgruntled with only two choices and the people [...]
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Top Story: Mitt Romney’s Talking Points to Business Owners and Political Pressure on Employees
In the post-Citizens United era, “there is not much political protection for at-will employees in the private sector workplace,” explains University of Marquette Law Professor Paul Secunda, a pro-union labor lawyer. “It is conceivable, under the current legal regime, that an employer like Koch could actually get away with forcing his employees, on pains of [...]
Bruce Springsteen Gives Shout Out to Obama, Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren
TODAY’S THE day Bruce and the Big Dog appear in Ohio. From the rock superhero: Right now, for the President to be effective in his next term he needs our increased support and he needs support in the Congress, where some sterling candidates, such as current Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, challenger Elizabeth Warren in [...]
What People Are Saying About How You Should Vote: ‘The Predictable Consequence of Lesser Evilism’
This is the second in an occasional series between now and November 6. I’m not choosing these based on whether I agree or not, but because each represents an idea or way of thinking that I see fairly often, and because they have the potential, or at least that’s my hope, for breathing some life [...]
Romney’s Town Hall Ad Hits Obama on Economy
OBAMA’S CASE for himself remains the one against Mitt Romney. Making the case for his reelection on the economy has proved more difficult, as we saw last night. So, Team Romney didn’t waste any time in using their candidate’s case against the President, turning it into an effective ad that hits Obama where it can [...]
Hours Before Big Debate, Obama Slams Romney’s “Extreme Makeover” [Video]
OBAMA GOES partisan and it sounds great. From TPM: “He’s trying to go through an extreme makeover. After running for more than a year in which he called himself severely conservative, Mitt Romney’s trying to convince you that he was severely kidding. Look. What he was selling was not working. Because people understood his ideas [...]
News Desk: Wall Street 1-Percenter Lloyd Blankfein Joins Bowles and Simpson
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy LOOK OUT! The “all star trifecta” is what they’re being called. It’s the big guns coming for your safety net. Tell me one good reason I should now start trusting the nonsense Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are trying to hoist on the [...]
Top Story: It’s Up to Joe
“Let’s just take a look at Paul Ryan’s convention speech. It was packed full of lies…” – Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Barack Obama [The Rachel Maddow Show] JOE BIDEN knows how to deliver a one-liner. Remember way back what he said about Rudy Giuliani? A little flash back with the video above. Everyone [...]
Biden Prepares for Debate with Ryan
THE VICE presidential debate is Thursday, with right wingers like Mike Huckabee laughing gleefully about the Biden gaffe factor. Larry Sabato, the Virginia prognosticator, had the same talking point on Fox News Channel today, too. What we should hope to see on Thursday is blue collar issues versus austerity, which is coming to this country [...]
Top Story: Mitt Romney Wants the Presidency and Fought for It in the Debate
“On Social Security, I suspect we have a similar position.” – Barack Obama THERE IS no debating who commanded the stage in th debate. Mitt Romney was ready, prepared and coiled and didn’t miss a moment. President Obama, if he prepared at all, decided that he could afford to ignore the challenger. As president, while [...]
Keep Tellin’ It, Joe, What You Said About the Middle Class is True
“This is deadly earnest,” Biden said. “How they can justify — how they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that’s been buried the last four years. How in the lord’s name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts?” [Fox News] THE FINANCIAL collapse started under George W. Bush and was [...]
Mitt Romney Should Challenge Obama on the Payroll Tax Cut that Tim Geithner Wants on Chopping Block
Independent analysts say that the expiration of the tax cut could shave as much as a percentage point off economic output in 2013, and cost the economy as many as one million jobs. That is because the typical American family had $1,000 in additional income from the lower tax. [New York Times] YOU HAVE TO [...]
Obama’s Brutal 47% Romney Ad is a Killer
THE AD closes in on the face of a female worker. The entire ad shows black and white images of workers, veterans, seniors, as the tape of Mitt Romney’s 47% comments plays over the images. From Molly Ball: CANTON, Ohio — The Obama campaign didn’t put out a press release announcing this new TV ad [...]
Dueling Ads, with Obama Pitching “Clean Coal” and $4 Trillion Grand Bargain Again
OBAMA BEGINS by saying straight to camera, we were “losing nearly 800,000 a month” and were “mired in Iraq.” Romney’s ad to the camera is below, which debuted yesterday. Obama’s in a suit; Romney’s casual. The direct pitch from Romney straight to camera is an effort to change the trajectory of his losing campaign by [...]
Voters Believe Romney Would Favor Rich Over Middle Class
“We had a bad week — if the election were going to be held tomorrow that would be a problem, but there’s a lot of ground to cover in the next 42 days…” – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie THE NUMBERS just keep coming in and they continue to add up against Mitt Romney. The [...]
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