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by Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 10, 2012 John Boehner, the wily Speaker of the House, is trying to simultaneously outthink and outmaneuver virtually everyone during the battle over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” He knows...
“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” Grover Norquist, 20011 Despite his whoppingly wrong predictions...
During the second Presidential Debate in mid-October recall this incredibly revealing exchange about Mitt’s deficit reduction promises: CROWLEY: . . . If somehow when you get in there, there isn’t enough tax revenue coming...
Thanks, Paul Ryan, for reminding us. . . Andrew Sullivan summed it up and got the correct answer: 10.33 pm. I have to say that Biden did to Ryan what Cheney did to Edwards...
Romney “won” the debate. That’s the consensus. Poor Chris Matthews was apoplectic. In this low moment let’s remember that “winning” through outrageous lying is an American political tradition, particularly among recent Republican candidates. Although...
The Romney campaign has been under fire lately, friendly fire. Yesterday, WSJ’s Peggy Noonan, a reliably stern conservative, put a shot across the campaign’s bow. Today, she put one into its mast: “[Yesterday] I...
Mitt’s found another way to take advantage of his remarkable comments about the now famous “47%ers”! Since the video went viral, Mitt’s doubled down on his statements. Will it be long before we see 47%er...