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If one would believe Mitt's latest ad (which is patently false); President Obama wants to change welfare and hand out money to people on welfare. Mitt has also proposed a 20% decrease in the tax ...
by Malachi Constant
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on Wed Aug 08, 2012 at 10:26 AM PDT
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Something's been bugging me about Mitt's Magical Taxes for some time. It's been bugging a lot of people including lawmakers. How did Mitt Romney amass a $100 Million IRA Account?
As diaried by ...
by Vyan
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on Wed Aug 08, 2012 at 08:54 AM PDT
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Not a lot to diary here, but it's a good column by Jon Carroll, one of the good guys, and it's getting lots of online readership, #1 or #2 on the Most Read list for SF Gate, the SF Chronicle's web ...
by jennifer poole
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on Wed Aug 08, 2012 at 08:34 AM PDT
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What a surprise. Romney defied his own beliefs to get ahead.
The Huffington Post headline reads: Mitt Romney Started Bain With Money from Families Tied To Death Squads. The article by Ryam Grim and ...
by rem123
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on Wed Aug 08, 2012 at 08:24 AM PDT
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Psych! Made ya look!
Okay, so I didn't.
But I did find something nearly as good: The Tyler Charitable Foundation's 990 Tax Forms, which you can find at The Foundation Center's 990 Finder . I had ...
by Lasgalen Lothir
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on Wed Aug 08, 2012 at 08:00 AM PDT
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God I am mad about this welfare "debate". Here is my answer while spitting nails to R-Money AND Progressives:
Hatred of the poor is rampant and long lasting. Over 15 years ago when Welfare Reform ...
by mntleo2
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on Wed Aug 08, 2012 at 07:10 AM PDT
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I appreciate living in a "society."
I'm a Democrat, but I happen to like former Republican President and World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower... because I love the Interstate Highway System, ...
by imobannon
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 08:01 PM PDT
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Mitt Romney is not withholding his tax returns because he has something to hide. He's not doing it for his own sake.
He's doing it because releasing those returns would put the lie to something he ...
by GrafZeppelin127
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 06:56 PM PDT
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Looks like this is whole Harry Reid "Mitt didn't pay taxes" is working out well for the President.
Many of the right wing bloggers are re-airing such various things as the President's Columbia days,
by Malachi Constant
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 02:50 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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By most accounts, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a devoted father, dedicated family man and committed church leader. But as his record sadly shows, Romney's family values often ...
by Jon Perr aka Avenging Angel
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 02:25 PM PDT
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Hunh???? Seriously, Mitt?
“I don’t really believe that he’s got any kind of a credible source,” Romney told Fox News. “I don’t know who gave him this line of reasoning, whether it came ...
by databob
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 01:55 PM PDT
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A brief Ad idea:
Concept: Romney is the guy who, when its time to pay the bill, is nowhere to be found...
Announcer: You know the guy, you went out for dinner after work, and you're all ...
by jgkojak
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 01:22 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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on Friday, August 24th.
Which is to say, the last Friday before the start of the Republican Convention on Monday, August 27th.
Because that guarantees that the last Sunday before the convention ...
by blue aardvark
193 comments
on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 12:29 PM PDT
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The Republican National Convention is a few weeks away. The Romney campaign is probably hoping for a bump in the polling from the convention. Before the convention they still have to make a VP pick ...
by Texdude50
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 10:53 AM PDT
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Since he won't release his tax returns, and does admit they'd be politically damaging, all we can do is guess. This diary is one in a series of speculative diaries wondering what could possibly be ...
by blue aardvark
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 10:19 AM PDT
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I am not educated as a political scientist, or a political insider of any sort. Mostly, I observe the goings-on of what is happening with a mixture of amusement and curiosity. I would generally ...
by Paul Rogers
38 comments
on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 09:42 AM PDT
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The Romney Tax Filings Flap shows no signs of abating. Dana Bash (who somewhat-corroborated Harry Reid's claim**) just posted [http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/07/politics/reid-romney-taxes/index.html?hpt=
by Torta
198 comments
on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 09:10 AM PDT
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One of the funniest things—on a long and growing list of funny things—about Mitt Romney's refusal to release his tax returns is how the supposedly neutral "fact-checkers" are bending over ...
by Kaili Joy Gray
187 comments
on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 08:29 AM PDT
with 80 Recommends
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Well, isn't this generous of them. Defense contractors say they'd be perfectly willing to accept tax increases and entitlement cuts for others, as long as their bloated ...
by Joan McCarter
34 comments
on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 07:34 AM PDT
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[Also available in green ]
The sins of Richard Cohen have been well-documented . I don't think I need to recount them all here. All that is important is that you realize that Cohen is one of the ...
by BooMan23
32 comments
on Mon Aug 06, 2012 at 09:24 PM PDT
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- What a surprise. Romney defied his own beliefs to get ahead. The Huffington Post headline reads: Mitt Romney Started Bain With Money from Families Tied To Death Squads. The article by Ryam Grim and ...57 comments 154 Recs
- Something's been bugging me about Mitt's Magical Taxes for some time. It's been bugging a lot of people including lawmakers. How did Mitt Romney amass a $100 Million IRA Account? As diaried by ...72 comments 119 Recs
- Wow. Just wow. I knew Bryan J. Fischer is a total nutjob , but this is really over the top. Fischer the head of the ironically named "American Family Association" took to Twitter to endorse ...42 comments 74 Recs
- I saw this rather interesting story at The Daily Beast today. It is an interview with Brigham Young's great great grand-daughter, who, at the age of 55, left the Mormon Church. Her decision was ...318 comments 754 Recs
- in a column in Wednesday's Washington Post titled Romney’s Bain games His first paragraph is short and to the point: My daughter has not yet reached her ninth birthday, but I already have her ...90 comments 373 Recs
- Ok, governor, first, as soon as you enter the store, you need to get either a shopping cart or a shopping basket. That's where you are going to put all your purchases. Even though you are only ...121 comments 227 Recs
- They don't know wtf Rush Limbaugh is talking about either Someone got real upset that Obama started cracking "Romneyhood" jokes. Very upset. In steps the King Koopa of Wingnuts, Rush ...95 comments 119 Recs
- Earlier on Tuesday, Kossack Dartagnan published an excellent and very highly-recommended post (see: “[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/07/1117471/-Brutal-NYT-Editorial-on-Romney-s-So-Called-...53 comments 149 Recs
- What follows is just the hard facts from this latest Reuters Poll--no comment, no spin, just the straight dope:97 comments 94 Recs
- During the past year, southern Maryland has had several power outages, most recently one at the beginning of July which lasted 4 days. A handful of the neighbors have invested in ginormous diesel ...78 comments 119 Recs
- Vote for Mitt Romney or we will raise our prices. That is the message coming out of Papa John's Pizza today. Papa John's CEO John Schnatter says that Obamacare will result in a $0.11 to $0.14 ...168 comments 123 Recs
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- Those of you who already either know me or know of me know that I am a massive pootie person. We have just moved into an apartment and now have a pootie, named Princess Ashley; however I grew up ...4 comments 7 Recs
- Congratulations, Ann Romney! You finally, for the first time in your life, [according to you http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/16/1083802/-Ann-Romney-s-tale-of-struggling-We-learned-hard-lessons-...15 comments 8 Recs
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- Yesterday I posted a short diary criticizing the Democrats in the Wisconsin State Senate. In that diary I posted a link to their responses when they were asked to list their legislative priorities ...4 comments 7 Recs
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- Tequila Party 2nd Protest of Tea Party Arpaio at his Ascension Catholic Church Phoenix, AZ — On 29 July 2012, the National Tequila Party Movement protested Sheriff Joe Arpaio at his own Ascension ...3 comments 5 Recs
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- ABC News has picked up a story. Following the recent EEOC ruling on sex discrimination with regards to transgender people, a coalition of GLBT ...3 comments 8 Recs
- This election, there’s a movement around the country to use the Bible and prayer in the wrong way. It makes God a political partisan. It associates God with vengeance and hatred, substitutes a ...4 comments 0 Recs
- AFP is reporting: Libya’s elected congress to take power Wednesday Government — August 6, 2012 at 03:24 TRIPOLI — Libya’s interim authorities said they will hand over power to a newly ...3 comments 0 Recs
- In the wake of the HSBC money laundering scandal - where Mexican Drug Cartels, 9/11 hijackers, and Iran laundered money through the bank - other bank's activities have been investigated. Not ...11 comments 8 Recs
- Wind turbines on Iowa farm. Mitt Romney has been dissing wind power —in fact, renewable energy ...12 comments 9 Recs
- just saw this on the Washington Post website. Award winning composer Marvin Hamlisch has died at the age of 68 He has composed some of the most recognizable movie soundtracks of my era from Chorus ...3 comments 4 Recs
- "I need a Major favor. I am asking you to read this alert and forward it to everyone you know. Next I'm asking any of you that are available on September 18 to come to the Wheaton court house at 505 ...1 comments 0 Recs
- Nate Cohn at TNR fires up the Wayback Machine , and conjures up Bill Clinton's 1992 Sistah Souljah moment. He thinks that Romney needs to pivot to the center, and he can't understand why Mittens ...5 comments 1 Recs
