May 31, 2012: BIG News on ALEC!
More Corporations Abandon Right-Wing Group Under Pressure from Progressives There’s big news on the ALEC front today: both retail giant Wal-Mart and Medtronic, a medical device company, have decided to dump the secretive right-wing group. It appears that ALEC’s campaign to promote controversial voter suppression and so-called Stand Your Ground laws played a role in [...]
May 30, 2012: Wisconsin Recall Update: Jump Ball
Down to the Wire in the Badger State Next Tuesday, the voters of Wisconsin will decide the fates of Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, and four state senators, including Scott Fitzgerald, the co-majority leader of the Wisconsin State Senate and brother of Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald (R). Walker is facing off against [...]
May 29, 2012: Birther-in-Chief
Mitt Romney Stands By Birther King This evening in Las Vegas, birther king Donald Trump will host a $2 MILLION fundraiser for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. This comes on top of $600,000 raised at a “birthday party” for Ann Romney that Trump held last month at his New York City home. It was just [...]
May 25, 2012: Mitt Romney Blows Up 30 Years of GOP Economics
Draconian Spending Cuts Are In Fact Bad for the Economy Every so often, Mitt Romney is accidentally honest about something important. One such moment happened earlier this week. Here’s the rundown. It’s Republican orthodoxy that the way to get our economy moving is to massively cut government spending, which they falsely claim is somehow “crowding [...]
May 24, 2012: Next Battle in the War on Women: Paycheck Fairness
Will Republicans Really Defend Paying Women Less? The Senate will soon take up the Paycheck Fairness Act, an important bill that protects women who sue over being paid less than their male counterparts. The law builds on the important foundations laid by the Equal Pay Act and Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Republicans almost unanimously opposed [...]
May 23, 2012: Why Mitt Romney’s Time At Bain Capital Matters
Mitt Romney Was Not a Job Creator As we discussed yesterday, Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital is once again back in the news — big time. As President Obama said, this is not a distraction, it’s central to the main question of this campaign: do we create an economy that works for everyone, not [...]
May 22, 2012: The Top 10 GOP Attacks on Bain Capital
When Republicans Thought Bain Capital Was Fair Game Just as it did earlier this year during the Republican primary, Mitt Romney’s record of amassing a quarter-billion dollar fortune by bankrupting companies, shipping jobs overseas, and laying off thousands of American workers is dominating the headlines. The Romney campaign is claiming that the attacks amount to [...]
May 21, 2012: Sabotage?
Are Republicans Sabotaging the Economy Just to Hurt President Obama? Last year, the Republicans nearly destroyed the economy with their manufactured crisis over raising the nation’s debt ceiling. And then the spending cuts they demanded in return for avoiding a first-ever default on our obligations have slowed down the recovery and cost us hundreds of [...]
May 18, 2012: The Latest on the Trayvon Martin Case
Ten Pieces of New Evidence Last night, state prosecutors released a large amount of evidence — including 183 pages of documents and numerous multimedia files — related to their murder case against George Zimmerman. Here are ten notable pieces evidence that were just made public: 1. Two days after Trayvon Martin’s death a woman called [...]
May 17, 2012: REVEALED: The Racist GOP Campaign To Smear The President
A Shameful Effort by Republicans to Divide Our Country A front-page New York Times story today exposed a shocking $10 MILLION racist campaign to smear the president that was prepared by GOP operatives and was merely awaiting final sign-off from a politically active right-wing billionaire. The campaign was to focus on the president’s previous ties to Rev. [...]
