Damn.

This is why the Bain issue is so horrible: the biographical contrast. “President Obama – who, like Mitt Romney, earned a degree from Harvard and all the opportunities that affords – began his career helping jobless workers in the shadow of a closed-down steel mill. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, made millions closing down steel mills.”

Question of the Day

If a business only exists for profits and not for jobs, should the government be facilitating their growth or regulating them into oblivion?

Tom Corbett Hates Poor People

Why is it that rethuglican elected officials hate poor people? It seems as though Tom Corbett, who usually scurries away from television cameras like a cockroach when the lights come…

This is Rich….

So I have been doing a little reading about Mitt Romney's father, George Romney. As you may know, George Romney was a Governor of Michigan in the 1960's, and he was for much of 1967 the frontrunner for not only the GOP nomination for the Presidency, but also the Presidency itself as he was leading Lyndon Johnson in the polls at the time. What I didn't know about George Romney is that he was not an American. Because he was never born here.

Ron Paul Kingmaker?

Grover Norquist seems to think so... Still not sure of Paul's plan. I pointed out earlier this week how Paul attacks everyone but Mitt Romney. But... I'm still having trouble seeing Paul as a "team player." He's a loose cannon with lots of power.

When Sarah Palin Agrees with You….

.... you either kill yourself or shower with steel wool. Sarah Palin, the failed Vice Presidential nominee and half term Governor of Alaska, a woman who currently holds no official or unofficial position within the Republican Party, government, organization or association, is making demands. She wants Mitt's tax returns and proof of a net gain of 100,000 jobs at Bain. So do I.

Thursday Open Thread [1.12.12] (Updated)

President Obama raised $68 million combined for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party during the final three months of 2011, raising his 2011 total to $250 million. And we are getting general election matchups polled again, showing Obama leading all GOP candidates.

When Mitt Romney Came To Town – Absolutely Devastating

If you haven't watched Newt Gingrich's Super Pac Ad... watch it now. It is absolutely devastating. Ed Kilgore describes is as "one of the most devilishly effective attack communications I've personally ever seen--a heat-seeking missile aimed directly at the white orking class id."

Will the Teabagger Congress Reauthorize VAWA?

Yesterday, Attorney General Beau Biden, along with all of his counterparts across the country, called on Congress to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act ("VAWA"). Biden's father, Vice President Joe Biden, drafted and sponsorsed the bill back in 1994, and he frequently points to it as one of his best accomplishments as legislator. Indeed, the National Organization for Women described the bill as "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades." But will VAWA be taken hostage by the radical right, or will they reauthorize it at all?