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According to Republicans, any and all regulations passed by the Obama Administration have obliterated the economy and so suffocated businesses that they were forced to lay off millions of workers. By contrast, according to the Republican Party, the simple repeal of these and all government regulations will lead to the creation of billions and billions of jobs. But analyses and reports from CNN, the New York Times, McClatchy papers, the Associated Press and the Economic Policy Institute all call this Republican charge false.

This is awesome.

.... In responding to criticism that his tax plan would hurt working families, Cain said yesterday he has a secret plan to "fix" his policy that he hasn't "told the public" about yet. That reminded me of this scene from the West Wing.

The DCCC outraises the RNCC 2 to 1. Rasmussen has Cain up big in Iowa. Obama leads all comers nationally. And self driving cars are here. I want one.

Sources tell ABC News that President Obama will announce today that U.S. troops in Iraq will draw down to zero by the end of the year.

Markell will appoint former State Senator Nancy Cook to serve out the remainder of Thomas Weyant’s four-year term, which expires in December of next year. Weyant announced last month that he would retire on November 1.

... the difference is the Republicans want to raise them on the middle class and the poor. The Democrats want to raise them on the rich who can afford it.

So a news story came out analyzing South Carolina’s new voter photo identification law. The analysis by the Associated Press finds that the law would hit black precincts the hardest, disenfranchising nearly half of the black voters at the historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina. And Republicans celebrated.

Well, they haven't given up on their paranoid conspiracy theory that somehow one day old Barack Obama traveled to Hawaii from Kenya in 1961 to plant newspaper announcements in the local island papers, but they are taking employing a new strategy to prevent brown and black people from assuming offices of power, and they are going after a Republican darling, probably only because he is brown, but also probably to garner some bipartisan or nonpartisan cred.