Bain Capital has fallen off the radar lately, but an explosive new piece in the Washington Post should put it back in the spotlight: Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India. […]
This is really interesting: Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state’s economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering under President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter. Scott, a Republican, was asked […]
There’s a lot of talk right now about this: CLEVELAND, Ohio — Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s guerrilla tactics continued Thursday, as the campaign bus circled the venue where President Barack Obama will be speaking this afternoon. As it passed the assembled throngs of supporters awaiting entry to the event at Cuyahoga Community College, the bus […]
Here’s how the GOP supports small business: COUNCIL BLUFFS(KPTM)– Dianne Bauer opened up her cafe to Mitt Romney and his campaign for a small round table discussion Friday morning before his speech at Bayliss Park. This isn’t the first politician that has asked Bauer to use the Main Street Cafe in downtown Council Bluffs. “With […]
Whenever President Obama says he inherited a bad economic situation the right instantly starts crying about “blaming Bush”. If you listen to right wing talkers like Fox and Limbaugh, they would have you believe that we had the best economy ever until the day Barack Obama took office. These are the lies that have been […]
The AP has done some great fact checking into a speech Mitt Romney gave yesterday on the economy. It turns out, to no shock, that Romney is echoing many of the lies that the right has constantly been pushing for the past several years. Here’s one of my favorites: ROMNEY: “America counted on President Obama […]
The wingnuts are in full “he did it to” school yard defense mode of Mitt Romney terrorizing a gay high school student. For a reminder, here is what a young Mitt Romney did in high school: A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of […]
Today’s Washington Post is out with a story of a young Mitt Romney: Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought […]
From Ft. Wayne, Indiana: Two people are in police custody after they allegedly strapped four kids to the hood of a car after leaving a Fort Wayne, Indiana liquor store Monday evening. Police said around 5:30 p.m., someone called 911 to report that a man and a woman had strapped the kids to the hood […]
Mitt Romney is by far the biggest liar that I can remember in Presidential politics. This latest though is just a step too far: Despite his 2008 call to “let Detroit go bankrupt,” presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that he would “take a lot of credit” for his impact on the U.S. […]