Obama McConnell and Boehner Meet on The Fiscal Cliff! Literally!

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Sunday November 11, 2012 · 10:20 AM PST

2012/11/11 · 10:20

The fiscal cliff will be crossed on Jan. 2, 2013 when $530 billion in tax increases and spending cuts at the federal level take place due to a previous budget agreement between Congress and the Obama administration.

Since Congress and the Obama administration could not reach an accord to reduce the federal budget deficit, a series of automatic tax hikes and decreases in spending will take place instead in an attempt to achieve the necessary savings.

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Thursday November 08, 2012 · 12:09 PM PST

2012/11/08 · 12:09

Karl Rove helped pour $400 million of outside money into the 2012 elections. But since Republican candidates were walloped on Tuesday, the backlash against the Rove strategy is coming fast, and he has a lot of explaining to do.

Republicans are lashing out at Rove. Rick Tyler, an adviser for Todd Akin’s campaign, pointed to Rove’s management of his super PAC. ”Rove spends more for Republican candidates than the NRSC and the NRCC. He’s running things,” Tyler told BuzzFeed. He added, “Rove is definitely a problem.”

http://www.salon.com/...

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Monday October 29, 2012 · 12:27 PM PDT

2012/10/29 · 12:27

Romney: Shut down FEMA, let the states handle it! Romney was asked by CNN’s John King if he thinks disaster relief would be better handled by the states. “Absolutely,” Romney said. “Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.”

“Including disaster relief, though?” King asked.

“We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids,” Romney said. “It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.”

http://www.salon.com/...

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Monday October 29, 2012 · 8:02 AM PDT

2012/10/29 · 08:02

Honest Abe Reacts to Mitt Romney's Jeep Comments: Video Below.

Detroit Free Press: “Not only was the story wrong, Romney took criticism for not knowing better and repeating it without questioning it.”

Toledo Blade: “‘The latest Romney ad, I will grant you, is a clever play on words to avoid saying things that are utterly false,’ Mr. Rattner said, referring to a new Romney ad out today. But he said the implication of the ad is ‘just not true. Chrysler is adding people. It's made major investments in the Toledo Wrangler plant.’”

Huffington Post: “Where the ad goes from misleading to something more nefarious is in the text it shows. At one point, it displays a line from a Bloomberg story stating that Chrysler "plans to return Jeep output to China," the implication being that the company is moving operations there as opposed to expanding operations that are already there.”

Wall Street Journal: “So far, the Romney campaign hasn’t issued a public statement on the flap.”

Sam Stein ‏@samsteinhp i asked this morning and am still waiting this evening: anyone have a sound defense of this Romney Jeep ad?

Ron Fournier ‏@ron_fournier Nope "@samsteinhp: i asked this morning and am still waiting this evening: anyone have a sound defense of this Romney Jeep ad?"

Ben White ‏@morningmoneyben Wait, not only did Romney camp not back off the erroneous Jeep to China canard, they made an ad out of it? My god

Ben White ‏@morningmoneyben @davidshepardson it's astonishingly misleading

Joe Vardon ‏@joevardon Wait, Jeep isn't considering moving manufacturing to China? But Romney said in Ohio ... http://bit.ly/...

McKay Coppins ‏@mckaycoppins There's really no good explanation or excuse for it. Mitt Romney's Jeep ad is misleading. Full stop.

Tim Dickinson ‏@7im"Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China" http://on.freep.com/...

Michael Cohen ‏@speechboy71 The mendaciousness of Romney's new auto ad is breathtaking even for him: http://www.detroitnews.com/... …

Travis Waldron ‏@Travis_Waldron Mitt can't tell the truth about GM/Chrysler, because the truth is simple: At every turn, he was wrong.

Sam Stein ‏@samsteinhp The Romney campaign did defend the Jeep ad to me, by citing the Bloomberg piece that has been called wrong by Jeep http://huff.to/...

Blake Hounshell ‏@blakehounshell OK, @CitizenCohn has persuaded me: this is pretty despicable http://www.tnr.com/... …

Andrew Kaczynski ‏@BuzzFeedAndrew Interestingly, this Romney ad cites the Detroit News, which also debunked the Jeep production moving to China claim.

Josh Greenman ‏@joshgreenman Who's acting desperate now? http://www.tnr.com/... …

Kurt Eichenwald ‏@kurteichenwald Do GOPers believe Romney when he repeatedly says Chrysler' moving jeep job to china, when company says it's a lie? He'll say anything to win

A sampling of headlines the ad has received:

Detroit Free Press: Romney's latest ad claims he will do more for the auto industry than Obama

Columbus Dispatch: Jeep/Romney question lingers

Detroit News: UAW denounces Romney comments on Jeep production

Detroit News: New Romney ad: 'Italians' plan to build Jeeps in China

Detroit Free Press: Romney returns topic to auto industry bailout, his weak spot, in crucial swing state Ohio

Detroit Free Press: Romney camp silent on his Jeep-to-China gaffe

Detroit News: Romney picks up incorrect story about Jeep production moving to China

Detroit Free Press: Romney repeats false claim of Jeep outsourcing to China; Chrysler refutes story

Detroit Free Press: Tom Walsh: Romney keeps returning to auto industry, a vulnerable spot

MLive: Romney wrongly claims Chrysler may move all Jeep production to China (video)

NBC 24: Jeep not leaving Toledo for China, Chrysler assures

Toledo Blade: Romney worries about Jeep going to China

Toledo Blade: Romney tweaks Jeep production to China claim

Toledo Blade: Auto czar protests Romney plan for auto industry

WFIN: Unions Protest Romney/Ryan Appearance In Findlay

CBS: Romney cites incorrect auto manufacturing claim in Ohio

The Hill: Chrysler: Romney is wrong, Jeep not leaving US for China

NBC: Politics of auto bailout haunt Romney in Northwest Ohio

Wall Street Journal: Romney Ad Escalates Detroit Rescue Controversy

Huffington Post: Mitt Romney Releases Auto Ad That Misleads On Facts

Think Progress: Romney Auto Bailout Ad Tells Four Myths In 30 Seconds

The New Republic: A Desperate, Deceptive Gambit for Romney in Ohio

Thanks to WilliamPitt of DU for the compilation!

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Sunday October 28, 2012 · 12:12 AM PDT

2012/10/28 · 00:12

Mitt Romney hit a new low in telling outright lies Thursday when he told a crowd in Ohio that Jeep a going to close down its plants in the U.S. and move them to China. Romney then said after he is elected he will do everything in his power to keep those jobs here. Even after he was told his statement was false, Romney repeated it in another city.

This is a major problem. Romney was telling a lie. Jeep has no intentions to close American production.

What would Honest Abe think of Mitt Romney? Maybe this!

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Saturday October 27, 2012 · 11:04 AM PDT

2012/10/27 · 11:04

Powerful
On Saturday, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry presented an open letter to GOP senate candidate Richard Mourdock, drawing on her own experience with sexual assault. In this highly personal response to Mourdock’s statement about pregnancy resulting from rape being something that “God intended to happen,” Harris-Perry shared that she flinches sometimes at others’ touch and that some times of year can be harder because of associated memories. These, she explained, are “triggers” for her and for other survivors, and she spends her life trying to either avoid or manage these. A political race, she added, shouldn’t have to come with a trigger warning. !

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Friday October 26, 2012 · 8:46 PM PDT

2012/10/26 · 20:46

Mitt Romney and Meatloaf sing together in this wonderful duet sure to become one of the timeless classics.

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Thursday October 25, 2012 · 8:16 PM PDT

2012/10/25 · 20:16

Hilarious! Mitt Romney Epic Ohio Fail America The Beautiful! What more can I say. Meatloaf sings... badly. And Mitt looks like he wants to die!

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Saturday October 20, 2012 · 7:26 PM PDT

2012/10/20 · 19:26

Reworked Obama campaign ad: "Stage" Starring Mitt Romney!

Pro-Obama super PAC charges Romney worker built 'own coffin'
The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA has released a tough new ad against Mitt Romney in which a worker says he built his own “coffin” after Romney’s private equity firm bought his paper plant.

Former Marion, Ind. paper plant worker Mike Earnest said he and other employees of the American Pad and Paper plant were asked to build a stage from which company officials told them the news that their plant was being closed.

“Mitt Romney made over $100 million dollars by shutting down our plant and devastated our lives,” employee Mike Earnest said in the ad. “Turns out by building the stage, it was like building my own coffin. And it just made me sick.”

http://thehill.com/...

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Monday July 23, 2012 · 8:59 AM PDT

2012/07/23 · 08:59

Slow down and just take a look at this… please.
It is a list of alleged lies of Mitt Romney, that is making its way around the Internet, in comments to articles or in forums. Gulag Bound has already verified and chronicled some of them. We are now walking through the list. If you find any items here that are not accurate, please bring them to our attention via comment and we would hope to do the same.

http://gulagbound.com/...

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Friday June 29, 2012 · 12:21 PM PDT

2012/06/29 · 12:21

Challenge! The following is the Mitt Romney video, "The Promise of America" I challenge you to find ONE person of color in this 2.5 minute campaign piece! What is the message he is sending?

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Sunday June 17, 2012 · 10:35 PM PDT

2012/06/17 · 22:35

Joe Arpaio, the controversial Arizona Sheriff from Maricopa County, arrested a 6-year-old undocumented immigrant on Friday. The move came the same day President Obama announced a new policy halting deportations for young undocumented immigrants.

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