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Category: Election '08

October 5, 2012
Right-Wing Media Goes from "Obama Bear Market" to "Romney Rally"

What a difference a day makes. On Friday, conservative commentators reacted to the improving jobs picture by accusing the career civil servants at the Bureau of Labor Statistics of cooking the books for President Obama. But just the day before, the Republican stenographers at the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and other right-wing outlets declared modest […]

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September 23, 2012
Romney's "Job Creators" Voted for Obama in 2008

When Mitt Romney slandered the veterans, working families, college students, senior citizens and the rest of the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax, he didn't just inadvertently smear millions of reliably Republican voters in addition to the Democrats he meant to insult. As it turns out, a majority of upper-income "job […]

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August 23, 2012
How Newly Pro-Life Romney Betrayed a "Dear, Close Family Relative"

Say what you will about the ultra-hardline reproductive politics of Todd Akin and Paul Ryan, but at least those two have always been true believers. Mitt Romney, not so much. As his former strategist Michael Murphy put it in 2005, "He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly." But Romney's public transformation […]

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July 9, 2012
10 Things the GOP Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes

With the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 once again set to expire at the end of this year, President Obama on Monday once again proposed temporarily extending them only for families earning less than $250,000 annually. Predictably, his Republican rival Mitt Romney called the return of upper-income tax rates to their slightly higher […]

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July 4, 2012
A Tale of Two Vacations

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That is, according the U.S. media, July 2012 was an excellent opportunity for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to showcase his human side at his $8 million lakeside estate in New Hampshire. But when then-Senator Barack Obama took time from the campaign in […]

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June 18, 2012
Romney: I Do - and Don't - Need OK from Congress to Attack Iran

On Sunday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made two stunning statements about Iran. First, Romney managed to unlearn the entire history of the Cold War by claiming the United State "cannot survive" the advent of a nuclear Iran. Just as jaw-dropping, Governor Romney told Face the Nation that as President he would not need authorization […]

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May 28, 2012
Memorial Day Memories from John McCain

Memorial Day should not be a day for politics. It should be a time for all Americans to remember and honor the men and women in uniform who sacrificed - and still sacrifice - all to make our freedom possible. And yet John McCain, a man whose own service in Vietnam deserves the respect and […]

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May 12, 2012
Mitt Romney and the Small Lie

Like the force of gravity or the sun rising in the east, Mitt Romney's pathological lying is now taken for granted. As Steve Benen among others can attest, documenting Romney's runaway mendacity may now be America's greatest growth industry. Explaining the causes of Mitt's daily dissembling may be another. Rick Perlstein looked to Shakespeare, seeing […]

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April 17, 2012
10 Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know About Taxes

Tax Day 2012 has been a busy one for the propagandists of the Republican Party. After the GOP successfully filibustered the Buffett Rule in the Senate, House Speaker John Boehner claimed that Republicans are "listening to the American people." Of course, what Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and their allies don't mention is that the […]

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April 13, 2012
Four Years Later, Americans Still Back Obama on Taxes

Looking back this week at his budget-busting windfall for the wealthy, George W. Bush lamented, "I wish they weren't called the Bush tax cuts." With good reason. After all, the first modern president to cut taxes during war-time, Bush's gravy train for the gilded-class helped double the national debt and produce record income inequality even […]

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Jon Perr is a technology marketing consultant and product strategist who writes about American politics and public policy.

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