What Mitt Romney’s 47-Percent Speech Tells Us About Voter Suppression
Like all great works of literature, Mitt Romney’s peroration on the unwashed 47 percent requires multiple readings if you want to appreciate its rich complexity. One meaning that eluded me initially was its implicit rationale for the voter suppression Republicans are promoting in the name of fighting election fraud. READ MORE >>
Here’s The Unexpurgated Romney “47 Percent” Video
The Right’s New Rift Over The 47 Percent
Mitt Romney and the 47 Percent
Hmm, maybe it isn’t too early to declare Romney’s candidacy dead after all. Mother Jones has just unearthed a video of Romney, at a fundraiser earlier this year, saying: READ MORE >>
Isn’t It A Little Early For Romney Recriminations?
Who’s Middle Class And Who’s Not: A Retort to Romney and Obama
Why Is Romney Afraid to Talk About Tax Cuts?
Here is what James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute suggests Mitt Romney should say in response to the Fed's launching of QE3: "Like JFK and Ronald Reagan, we should cut tax rates on business and entrepreneurs and small business and the middle class." It's an old conservative refrain, and it's worked like a charm—as politics, though not as policy—for three decades. READ MORE >>
How President Romney Would Crush the Recovery
MITT ROMNEY is a turnaround artist. At Bain Capital he seized faltering businesses too blind and bloated to mend themselves, restructured them, then took them public. Now Romney wants to seize and restructure U.S. economic policy. The only difference is that the federal government is already public. Should we let him acquire it? READ MORE >>
