So they meet again—Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, that is. After saying during his victory speech that he wanted to get together with his rival, President Obama issued an invitation to Romney to join him on Thursday for a lunch in the private White House dining room. The dining room is just off the Oval [...]
Mitt Romney Attacked for Saying Obama Won after ‘Gifts’ to Blacks, Hispanics, Young
November 15, 2012 | Posted by
In a continuing display of how out of touch he is with the rest of the country and how clueless his campaign was about the factors that led to his resounding defeat, Mitt Romney yesterday on a phone call with wealthy donors to his campaign claimed that he lost because President Obama gave “gifts” to [...]
Ryan Attributes Election Loss To ‘Urban Areas’
November 13, 2012 | Posted by
Like the soundly defeated presidential candidate with whom he ran, former Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan appears to struggle when his words aren’t perfectly scripted in advance for him. Doing his first interview since the ticket on which he ran alongside presidential challenger Mitt Romney lost to the Democratic tandem of President Barack Obama and [...]
GOP Looks To Score On Obama Administration’s Bungled Libya Response
October 20, 2012 | Posted by
Questions surrounding his administration’s handling of last month’s terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that resulted in the deaths of four Americans continue to haunt President Barack Obama and have become hot political fodder. Opportunistic Republicans sensing opportunity as the presidential election enters its final stretch continue to hammer the president about the [...]
Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up
October 12, 2012 | Posted by
Mitt Romney fought hard throughout the Republican primaries to prove that he was conservative enough to satisfy the far right wing of the GOP. But coming off his performance in the first debate against President Obama where he mitigated and modified nearly everything in his plan and the Republican Party platform, conservatives are raising questions [...]
Joe Biden Goes After Paul Ryan In Spirited Vice-Presidential Debate
October 12, 2012 | Posted by
It’s not exactly listed in the official job description, but it’s just understood that White House hatchet man is part of the job for any Vice President. Joe Biden was just that during Thursday night’s debate against Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, attacking the youthful Wisconsin Congressman with a flurry of combative verbiage and dismissive [...]
Biden, Ryan Set To Square Off In Vice-Presidential Debate
October 11, 2012 | Posted by
He’s a gifted orator with a lengthy track record in the U.S. Senate, but it has been Vice President Joe Biden’s many gaffes that have drawn the attention of the most casual political observers. He will need to minimize those mistakes while contrasting himself with Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan when the two debate [...]
Romney Tax Returns Give Picture Into Finances of the Wealthy
September 25, 2012 | Posted by
The Washington Post story about Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax filings was filled with interesting tidbits that really make clear the differences between the rich and the not-so-rich. Romney paid 14.1 percent in taxes, or $1.9 million in taxes on $13.69 million in income in 2011, most of it from his investments, a rate higher than [...]
Wealthy Mitt Romney Releases 2011 Tax Records
September 21, 2012 | Posted by
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made nearly $14 million last year, while paying nearly $2 million in federal income taxes, according to tax records his campaign released Friday afternoon. The campaign also announced that from 1990 through 2009, Romney paid an average annual effective federal tax rate of 20.2 percent. In 2011, Romney and his [...]
Conservatives Gather to Condemn Barack Obama, But Electoral Math Favors Him
September 16, 2012 | Posted by
Social conservatives gathered in Washington, DC, over the weekend for the Values Voter Summit, united in their belief that President Barack Obama is destroying their country—but the electoral college math being done by election experts strongly indicated that the president will likely get another four years to antagonize the conservatives. While many of the public [...]
