The coming right-wing clash over the ‘half that pay no taxes’
In recent years, few Republican talking points have been regurgitated as often as the myth that almost half of Americans pay no taxes. Just last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor complained "we have to question whether that's fair," insisting "yo...
Fantabulous news! Mitt Romney is wooing women
Mitt Romney loves women, dammit! (Darren Hauck/Reuters)
Facing a gender gap as wide as the Grand Canyon, Mitt Romney and Republican strategists think it's time to kick his women wooing into high gear ... and they have five strategies to do it:
He say...
Mitt Romney wins Illinois primary
And I only had to outspend Rick Freaking Santorum by millions! (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
The results are still coming in but as expected, Mitt Romney has handily won the Illinois Republican primary.
Going forward, look for the Romney campaig...
Sarah Palin’s legacy is Mitt Romney’s problem
(Roger H. Goun/Wikimedia Commons)
When Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, AKA "Joe the Plumber," won a Republican nomination for Congress, Sarah Palin's transformation of the Republican electoral base was complete. What has happened to the GOP, much to the cons...
Violence Against Women Act and Senate Republicans: Battered women, leave us alone!
The latest victims
Cue the violins! White men in the Senate are "feeling trapped" by their refusal to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act ... not so much because of they're concerned about violence against women, but because it just looks so d...
Actually, Mitt Romney would light his mother on fire if he thought it would excite the base
Mitt Romney still can't excite the base (Scott Audette/Reuters)
Does Mitt Romney ever listen to the crap that comes out of his own mouth?
It's very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We've seen throughout the campaign if you're willing...
Virginia’s state-sanctioned rape bill vote postponed
For the second day in a row, the Virginia House of Delegates has postponed a vote on the controversial legislation that would require women seeking an abortion to have an invasive, trans-vaginal ultrasound. After hundreds of Virginians lined the stree...
Why did Sheriff Paul Babeu leave Mitt Romney’s campaign?
Mitt Romney with Paul Babeu before closet door opened (Gage Skidmore)
Following Saturday's allegations that Arizona's Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu had threatened his gay ex-lover with deportation, Babeu made three things clear: he would not step d...
Maine Republicans begrudgingly decide to keep counting votes after all
Math is hard.
While we sit back and watch the Republican Party debate amongst themselves as to which past century was the mostest awesome and worth returning to, we also ought to keep an eye on their continuing tragicomic efforts at math. Maine's GOP...
