In response to Mitt Romney’s dishonest ad which quotes President Obama out of context (Obama was actually quoting the John McCain campaign in 2008) here is Romney in his own words:

In tonight’s Republican debate Rick Perry doubled down on his outrageous far right wing statements about Social Security and Mitt Romney hit him hard on it. Are the Republicans really going to nominate a guy who calls Social Security a “ponzi scheme”? And no Social Security is nothing at all like a “ponzi scheme”. The [...]

In today’s press conference President Obama made the point that if the Republicans refuse to end the tax cuts for millionaires and other tax breaks for corporations and the rich then they are clearly not serious about balancing the budget. The President also took the GOP majority in the House to task for failing to [...]

The Republican majority in the House has been threatening to not let the debt ceiling be raised (as it has been many times before under both Democratic and Republican administrations) for political reasons. But what happens if they actually go through with these threats? According to this top economist even a brief default caused by [...]

Mike Huckabee is officially not running for President. This is big (although not too unexpected) news because Huckabee has consistently polled very well among Republicans and it will open up a big opportunity for other candidates to pick up his support. The big question is which of them will benefit the most from Huckabee not [...]

For the first time since November 2009 the TPM poll tracker has the Democratic Party ahead of the Republican Party in the generic House ballot. The most recent CNN poll actually has the Democrats out in front by 4% points (50% to 46%.) This is a huge reversal from the big wins the GOP got [...]

Yesterday 235 Republicans voted to end Medicare by voting for the Paul Ryan 2012 budget. Only 4 Republicans voted against the plan to eliminate Medicare and 0 Democrats voted for it. The Republicans will claim that they aren’t ending Medicare but instead just “transforming” it. They’ll say Medicare will still exist because they are still [...]

It’s official: 235 House Republicans have voted to end Medicare. Only 4 Republicans voted against it. No Democrats voted for it. Democrats all stood together with the President in support of protecting Medicare. This Republican budget for 2012 phases out Medicare and replaces it with a voucher/private insurance program much like “ObamaCare.” Yes. The same [...]

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) calls out the Republicans on their astonishing hypocrisy regarding Medicare. They spent the last two years making up lies about how Medicare would be significantly cut by “ObamaCare” and now that they’re in control of the House they want to eliminate Medicare entirely!