July 18, 2012

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam Hires Muslim, Tea Party Bigots Go Insane

Tennessee Republicans and bat-shit-crazy Tea Party activists are steaming mad that their governor, a Republican, had the gall to hire a well qualified person to a government position. That well qualified person’s name is Samar Ali. Oh, and did I forget to mention that she’s a Muslim? Ah, now it makes more sense, right? Not really, but at least it’s not beyond the realm of expectations for a southern state.

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July 18, 2012

Pennsylvania’s Voting Problem – Partisan Hackery Looks To Rule The Upcoming Presidential Election

Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Bob Warner reports, “More than 758,000 registered voters in Pennsylvania do not have photo identification cards from the state Transportation Department, putting their voting rights at risk in the November election, according to data released Tuesday by state election officials.” This is a staggering number and it represents over 9 percent of the over 8 million registered voters in Pennsylvania. The number of voters who will be disenfranchised this election is still unknown, and is not likely to ever be known, but based on this report we know over three-quarters of a million voters face the possibility of being turned away at the polls. This is just one state!

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July 17, 2012

Romney says he’s ‘convinced’ Obama ‘wants Americans to be ashamed of success’

Last week President Obama said, “Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in the roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” For anyone who actually watched that entire section of Obama’s speech it was obvious the “you didn’t build that” line was referring to roads and bridges, not the business. It certainly wasn’t Obama’s most eloquent sequence of words, but there’s no mistaking the point he was making unless you are trying to distort what he said to mislead your audience. This is where Fox News comes in. They had no problem creatively editing together a few lines of Obama’s speech and then getting all their pundits to pounce all at once.

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July 17, 2012

What’s Mitt Romney hiding? What’s in those tax returns?

If Mitt Romney’s argument is that he pays all the tax he is legally required to pay, then what’s the reason for not releasing more tax returns? And to be clear, there’s no reason to believe Romney is lying. It’s not like illegal activity is going to show up in a tax return. So then we are left to ask, what does Mitt not want us to see? The speculation is that in one or more years Romney’s tax liability was zero, and I think that is probably the most likely explanation. With prominent conservative voices joining liberals and Democrats asking Romney to release more tax returns, can he really keep dodging the issue? Can the Romney campaign really hold firm and continue to insist they will not release any more returns?

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July 17, 2012

Romney’s Bain excuses play into his disconnect with Americans

The Romney campaign, Fox news pundit, and campaign surrogate excuses for why Mitt Romney’s name still appeared on SEC filings after he says he left Bain Capital just plays into the disconnect the average American has with Mitt Romney. We hear these excuses and we are reminded of all the wealthy elites gaming the system in the run-up to the financial disaster which resulted in the Great Recession.

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