Yesterday Chris Wallace challenged Romney adviser Ed Gillespie on rather Romney's tax cut plans were feasible. At issue was the "six independent studies" that the Romney campaign has been touting. Here's the exchange from Think Progress:

GILLESPIE: Six different studies have said this is entirely doable.

WALLACE: Those are very questionable. Some of them are blogs, some of them are from AEI, an independent group.

GILLESPIE: These are very credible sources.

WALLACE: One of them is a blog from a guy who was a top adviser for George W. Bush. These are hardly non-partisan studies.

GILLESPIE: Look Chris these AEI and other studies are very credible sources of analysis

So to Romney, an adviser to George Bush is non-partisan.

It's also amazing that the hundreds of other analysis that have come out, which say there is no way that Romney can cut the top earners tax rate by 20% without significantly raising taxes on the middle class, is just impossible. Instead Romney has chosen the very few studies that say it can be done.

But there is something even more interesting in this exchange. It's something I have hammered Romney on before - a lack of plan. Well Gillespie offers more insight into that. It shows that Mitt Romney is a man not worried about country, but worried about only him:

Ed Gillespie went on TV this morning and said Mitt Romney would only reveal the details of his tax plan after he’s sworn into office as President.

A growing outbreak of fungal meningitis has claimed 7 lives and infected up to 64 people across 9 states. The rate that the outbreak is growing is also alarming:

The total number of cases has also grown to 64 people in nine states, the CDC said. That is 17 more cases and two more states than the day before.

Patients contracted the deadly meningitis after being injected in their spine with a preservative-free steroid called methylprednisolone acetate that was contaminated by a fungus. The steroid is used to treat pain and inflammation.

The steroid is manufactured by compound pharmacies. Compounding is used to create special blends of medications that aren't available on the market, as well as to custom tailor drugs to fit a certain patients needs. According to a 2003 GAO report, nearly 10% of all drugs administered in the Untied States are compound manufactured. But how safe are these drugs? Well it depends on the state they are manufactured in:

Drugs manufactured by compound pharmacies do not have to go through FDA-mandated pre-market approval. Instead, oversight and licensing of these pharmacies comes from state health pharmacy boards.

The steroid causing this outbreak was manufactured by The New England Compounding Center, a pharmacy based in Massachusetts. When federal inspectors did come in to the plant last week, they found unopened vials of the steroid that contained foreign particles. After testing one of these vials, the particle was determined to be the fungus causing this meningitis.

It started yesterday with Matt Drudge. On the Drudge Report, Matt was touting a headline that a bombshell video was coming later that would destroy Obama. Twitter and the right wing blogosphere instantly jumped on it.

Well last night the video came. Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller released the video, with Hannity promoting it at the top of his show. Here it is:

The first problem is that this video was known about and even seen back in 2007 when he made this speech. They are trying to equate it to the Romney secret videos, but it is far, far from it.

And then right is trying to use this as the "black people are the racists" meme, but nowhere in Obama's speech did he mention race. Instead this is another failed attempt by the right wing noise machine to create a false controversy.

If this is all they got now, go ahead and cancel the debates and rest of the presidential race. Obama has won.

Ann Romney is back on the trail for Mitt and she gave a rather bleak assessment to a Nevada radio station this week of what problems might face a President Romney:

Ann Romney's biggest concern if her husband becomes president would be his ability to maintain his "mental well-being," she said in an interview Thursday with KTVN in Reno, Nev.

Asked what her primary worry would be should her husband succeed in defeating President Obama on Nov. 6, Mrs. Romney replied, "You know, I think my biggest concern, obviously, would just be for his mental well-being."

I've been closely following politics since 1988 and this has to be one of the weirdest statements I have ever heard from a potential first lady or even surrogate.

And if Ann if concerned about her husband's "mental well-being", then perhaps she should consult one former President about it. Here's George Bush in a debate against John Kerry in 2004. In this video, Bush tells everyone 11 times how hard it is to be President.

So do we really want a President who might have a breakdown? It's not like we are talking about being the boss of a big company, where you can easily fire people who are against you. We are talking about the President of the United States, where you will have close to half of the country upset with you and replacing administration officials becomes a big deal, not only with the media but also with the Senate.

Sen. Scott Brown's staff has been caught on tape ridiculing Elizabeth Warren's Indian heritage:

Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown chanted Indian "war whoops" and made "tomahawk chops" during a rally for the Republican senator this week in Boston.

n a video posted on YouTube, Brown's staffers are seen holding campaign signs near the Erie Pub, chanting and making tomahawk chops, presumably in reference to Elizabeth Warren's claims of Cherokee heritage.

Brown's Deputy Chief of Staff Greg Casey and Constituent Service Counsel Jack Richard, State Director Jerry McDermott, special assistant Jennifer Franks and GOP operative Brad Garnett are pictured in the video, NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu confirmed.

"It is certainly something that I don't condone," said Brown when asked about the video. "The real offense is that (Warren) said she was white and then checked the box saying she is Native American, and then she changed her profile in the law directory once she made her tenure."

No Scott. The real offense is the questioning of anyone's heritage. I have an American Indian grandfather and that does make me American Indian.

But is also goes beyond that. Warren hasn't been using her heritage to try and influence her campaign. Instead Brown made an issue of it because of what her form said. It's the Republicans who want to make skin color, heritage and even religion a litmus test for candidates.

Today Mitt Romney released his 2011 tax returns. As soon as he did the right started going on about how much he gives to charity. Here's The Washington Times:

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is releasing a brief summary of 20 years of tax returns on Friday, and his accountant says it will show he gave 13.45 percent of his adjusted gross income to charities.

That's nearly twice the rate of President Obama, who according to his tax returns from 2000 through 2011 donated just less than 7 percent of his adjusted gross income to charities.

Mr. Romney's campaign did not release his returns, but instead had his trustee, Brad Malt, write a blog post giving some details of returns from 1990 through 2009.

But what are those donations? That's what we don't know.

Well there is one that we do, somewhat know about; his church. The Mormon church requires its members to donate a certain percentage of their income back to the church. Tithing, as it is called, is a somewhat secret part of Mormonism. No one really knows exactly what the requirement is, but it appears to be at least 10% of your income. When you consider that the Mormon church earns an estimated $7 billion a year from this, it leads you to believe many must give more.

So let's go with that 10% that Romney MUST give per his religion and deduct that from his 13.45% that he gave total. That leaves us with Romney giving 3.45%, or a little more than half of what the Obama's gave.

Following the Democratic convention and Romney's countless failures of late, things are starting to look really good for President Obama's reelection chances. But there maybe even more to celebrate.

Polling out this past week has shown a big shift in the Senate. Currently Nate Silver has the Democrats not only holding the Senate, but also picking up a seat. This is extremely good news and something we want to keep going.

But the good news doesn't stop there. With the big shift towards the left, some are even saying that the House has a good chance of flipping. Here's what Sam Wang of Princeton Election Consortium has to say:

As seen in recent articles in Politico and U.S. News, few pundits think the Democrats will re-take the House. However, analysis of a leading indicator suggests to me that transfer of control is a distinct possibility. With that, I plunge ahead.

And sure enough House polling is showing that this could end up happening.

We're still over a month from Election Day and in political terms that is a lifetime, but if Democrats can keep this momentum going and exposing Romney for the person he really is, then November could turn out really, really good for Democrats.

Here's what you see right now on Drudge:

Get that? The feds are going after a Christian! Talk about bullshit headlines, this one takes the cake.

As you can guess, the filmmaker Drudge is talking about is the one behind that anti-Islam movie that has sparked all the outrage. Here's what the article says:

A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff's station but was not arrested or detained, authorities said early Saturday.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was interviewed at the station in his hometown of Cerritos, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Don Walker said.

Federal officials have said they were investigating the activities of Nakoula, who has been convicted of financial crimes. If the probation department determines Nakoula violated terms of his release, a judge could send him back to prison.

Walker said Nakoula traveled voluntarily in a squad car with deputies.

But why are the feds involved?

Is it Obama trying to squash the Christians?

Nope:

The probation department is reviewing the case of Nakoula, who was previously convicted on bank fraud charges and was banned from using computers or the Internet as part of his sentence. The review is aimed at learning whether Nakoula violated the terms of his five-year probation.

Karen Redmond, a spokeswoman for the administrative office of the U.S. courts, confirmed Friday the review is under way.