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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a DNC apology to Ann Romney and a new political attack ad that focuses on a bar called The Horny Toad and a stripper.
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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The casino magnate who is reported to have already committed $71 million in this election cycle may have good reason to want access to the next president. As “Democracy Now!” reports, Adelson is under investigation for his business dealings in Macau, China, as well as Las Vegas.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why John McCain deserves (gasp!) major props and new estimates on disenfranchisement due to state voter ID laws.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — There is a great hunger for trivial news and reporters have agreed to censor themselves in order to feed it.
Posted on Jul 17, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including what Ron Paul is asking of Mitt Romney and a list of the top super PAC donors.
Posted on Jul 17, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Through a series of miscalculations, Mitt Romney has managed to turn what should have been a minor hiccup into what may be a defining moment, and not in a good way.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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This might be the week we find out who Mitt Romney is choosing as his running mate. Or not. A top campaign aide said Romney “could” name his vice presidential pick by week’s end. Of course, could is by no means a definite assessment.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Stephen Colbert’s super PAC trend and Pat Robertson giving some pretty bad dating advice.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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The past week demonstrates how Campaign 2012 has devolved into a series of calculated personal attacks devoid of the substantive issues and policies that should be dominating the national political conversation.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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The New York Times reports that it is now commonplace for everyone from campaign advisers to the Treasury Department to edit and approve quotes before journalists allow themselves to print them. Keith Olbermann calls it “appalling,” and that’s being nice.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jul 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Mitt Romney sitting down for five TV interviews and Geraldo Rivera’s latest controversial remark about Trayvon Martin’s hoodie.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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By Joe Conason — The central problem in Greece is the government’s failure to collect what taxpayers (especially wealthy taxpayers like Mitt Romney) actually owe under the law.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital controversy and Maine’s governor making another Nazi comparison.
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the Republicans’ 33rd(!) attempt to repeal Obamacare and gay marriage getting put to a vote in Maryland.
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — The effort to reduce unemployment is a grueling plant-by-plant, job-by-job process conducted by those seeking work, business people and local officials operating far from the media spotlight and simplistic rhetoric of the political campaign.
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including John Boehner’s change of heart on Romney and a re-enactment of a Hamptons fundraiser for “The Great Mittsby.”
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Mitt’s impressive June fundraising haul and Florida GOP Rep. Allen West’s latest controversial comment.
Posted on Jul 9, 2012
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“Like father, like son” the old saying goes. But according to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s latest Op-Ed, Mitt Romney is nothing like George Romney, as far as wealth and the disclosure of it are concerned. And that is not a good thing.
Posted on Jul 9, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Herman Cain’s alleged former mistress speaking out and Rep. Joe Walsh facing off with a CNN anchor over his disparaging remarks about military veteran Tammy Duckworth.
Posted on Jul 6, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — You can conduct byzantine transactions through opaque investment accounts and private corporations in offshore tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Or you can credibly run for president at a time of great economic distress. I don’t think you can do both.
Posted on Jul 6, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Mitt Romney’s record-breaking month of fundraising and Stephen Colbert on what it means to be an American.
Posted on Jul 5, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Now that the Supreme Court has reprieved the Affordable Care Act and Mitt Romney has renewed his pledge to dismantle it, let’s try again to pierce the Republican presidential candidate’s protective coat of vagueness and think about where he would take the country.
Posted on Jul 4, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Republican congressman’s criticism of the Democratic war veteran he’s running against and Bill O’Reilly’s non-apology.
Posted on Jul 3, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch —
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including another Romney flip-flop and pro-life Republicans getting dealt a blow in Mississippi.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Supreme Court’s health care decision only reinforced the importance of the economic argument Obama and Romney have been having for months. And here is where Romney’s Bain problem kicks in.
Posted on Jul 1, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — The political impact of Thursday’s stunning Supreme Court decision on health care reform is clear. Much more important is what the ruling means in the long term for the physical and moral health of the nation.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Mitt Romney and his advisers have not yet grasped that the health care decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts has changed the terms of the debate.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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AP/Mary Altaffer
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By Bill Boyarsky — Mitt Romney is a contortionist twisting and turning to coddle the Republicans’ right-wing base while not overly offending Latinos, a group that may decide the presidential election.
Posted on Jun 27, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the SCOTUS health care decision countdown and Sen. Rand Paul wading into the personhood debate.
Posted on Jun 27, 2012
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Many East Germans are choosing credit cards with an image of a Karl Marx bust staring at the MasterCard logo; Urban Outfitters, owned by a right-wing conservative, is selling Mitt Romney merchandise to irony-thirsty hipsters; meanwhile, the political pressure Latinos placed on Obama is finally paying off. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jun 27, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch —
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including reaction and nonreaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Arizona immigration law; also, Rupert Murdoch takes to Twitter to criticize a presidential candidate.
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the buzz surrounding Romney’s latest VP candidate, the bill for Sheriff Arpaio’s birther investigation and a look at how much gas might cost around Election Day.
Posted on Jun 22, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the resignation of an Obama administration official, Mitt Romney addressing immigration and Rush Limbaugh’s latest eyebrow-raising comment about Nancy Pelosi.
Posted on Jun 21, 2012
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