If Nolan Ryan were Romney’s choice for Vice President, he’d carry Texas and maybe dent Obama’s vote totals in New York and California, but it’s that other Ryan who’s been picked. Paul Ryan, who wants to cut taxes even more deeply than Romney himself, in addition to his well-publicized desire to change Medicare into a …
Dana Milbank often infuriates me, but he hits doubles and triples occasionally as well. Today he smashed one into the gap in left-center field. President Obama is seeking “an arbitrary, across-the-board budget reduction that would saddle the military with $1 trillion in cuts,” the Republican said. “Strategy is not driving the president’s massive defense cuts. …
Romney thinks there should be fewer cops, firefighters and teachers, he said. Then he tried to rebut the charge that he was opposed to hiring more of those workers, saying: The former Massachusetts governor, appearing on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, was asked to respond to charges made by the Obama campaign that he would …
I try to catch the most egregious of these, but Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog has been compiling lists. Called Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, he’s up to Volume XXI. A sample from today’s collection: 3. Romney added that he’s concerned about the millions of Americans “on food stamps, most of whom never expected that would …
Jonathan Chait points out the latest lies about Obama, the economy, and the health care bill. First he quotes Romney: A book that was written in a way that’s apparently pro-President Obama, was written by a guy named Noam Scheiber and in this book he says that there was a discussion about the fact that …
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If this is supposed to show he’s consistent, it fails. Romney, today, trying to denounce the announced attempt to smear Obama with Jeremiah Wright: a reporter noted that in February, Romney brought up Wright unprompted in an interview with the conservative media personality Sean Hannity – a clip that Democrats unearthed early in the day. …
Jonathan Chait points out the inconsistencies between Romney’s economics speech yesterday in Des Moines and the facts recognized by most of the rest of the sentient world. In the real world, the following things are true: The budget deficit was projected to top $1 trillion even before President Obama took office, and that was when …
In and of itself, the WaPo story about Romney’s attack on a long-haired possibly-gay kid in high school is pretty sickening, but it alone probably wouldn’t have much impact on how he’s perceived by voters in November. But it does show an early start to a pattern of behavior which should have some impact. The …
So Romney hires a former United States communications guy at the UN to be his foreign policy spokesman on April 20 of this year. The guy has a wealth of experience flakking for Bush and Bolton, which makes him less than satisfactory to me, but I don’t get a voice. He’s also openly gay, and …
The fuzzy positions are consistent with Romney’s pattern of embracing politically popular choices — tax cuts and smaller government, for example — while ignoring the realities he would face as president, such as how to pay for those tax cuts or regulate business to prevent another economic meltdown. His campaign refuses to say whether he …