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The Hill
| 9 months ago
There's only one president that I know of in history that robbed Medicare, $716 billion to pay for a new risky program of his own that we call ObamaCare,' said Romney hitting back at President Obama in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes scheduled to...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Senior Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie said Mitt Romney would draft and push his own budget plan if elected, working to rebuff Democratic attacks that said the presumptive GOP nominee had embraced the controversial budget proposal of his new...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 9 months ago
11 PM If the wise men and women of Talking Headistan are to be believed, Mitt Romney pulled off the rare feat of uniting right- and left-leaning decided Americans around his running-mate choice of U.S...On this, the Republican and Democratic bases...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Archive Recent Posts August 12 The candidates take to the airwaves on Sunday after Mitt Romney makes his selection. August 12 Sunday's story about a T.S.A. program that had degenerated into racial and ethnic profiling raises the question: Is all of...
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Newsbusters
| 9 months ago
CBS News has an anti-Romney "fact check" article up this morning supposedly debunking statements made by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan during yesterday's introduction of the veep pick. At the end, CBS actually snuck in the hyper-partisan, DNC-talking-...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
VOA News August 12, 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his new running mate are casting themselves as the duo to bring back America's economy during a multi-state tour. Romney and Representative Paul Ryan are sweeping through the...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney 's choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate is a boldly clarifying jolt for a presidential contest whose issues and stakes have been in desperate need of definition. Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan has been the...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
I am completely convinced that Obama owns the population centers and major Metro's and for Romney to unseat Obama, it will take nothing short of a miracle. The greatest challenge the GOP faces in 2012 is convincing Americans that Romney will be more...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney praised Paul Ryan's character and ability to work across the aisle, then said Democrats were combing through his new running mate's record because they are running a deeply divisive campaign that has denigrated the presidency...They're...
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Miami Herald
| 9 months ago
In his debut as Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan promised "America's comeback team" won't duck tough budget issues, although the man standing next to him has kept his head low so far. Romney vowed the duo would "preserve" Medicare, an eye-...
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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
Invalid email address Add a personal message: Your e-mail: Invalid email address Sending your article Your article has been sent. Say this for Mitt Romney: Contrary to widespread expectation, he didn't play it safe. Instead, after a mid-summer in...
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Gawker
| 9 months ago
Before Mitt Romney introduced Paul Ryan as his Vice President , Romney introduced him as the "next President of the United States." That's either an awkward flub, or Mitt Romney knows something we don't. (Conspiracy theorists, have at it.) Either way,...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post Republican Mitt Romney made his vice presidential pick official Saturday , but President Obama's campaign has been running against a shadow Romney-Paul Ryan ticket for months. In appearances across the country, Obama has...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney's campaign has released highlights of Rep. Paul Ryan's VP announcement speech, as prepared for delivery. View Photo Gallery :The Wisconsin congressman is Mitt Romney's running mate. Mitt Romney is a leader with the skills, the background...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Ryan's addition to the ticket shows that Romney is prepared to run a more robust campaign with a sharper message built around tax and spending cuts, deficit reduction and entitlement reform. That is exactly what a growing chorus of Republicans,...
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Chicago Tribune
| 9 months ago
Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tapped Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate for the fall campaign on Saturday, turning to the architect of a conservative and intensely controversial long-...
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ThecounT.com
| 9 months ago
Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney confirmed that he will announce a running mate Saturday morning at 9:AM EDT in Norfolk, Va...Romney's staff learned of the announcement tonight at 10 p.m...The identity of Romney's mate was not discussed ...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney's campaign says the presumed Republican presidential nominee will announce his running mate Saturday morning in Norfolk, Va. Rising health and pension costs top the list of woes for municipalities that are struggling to recover from the...
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Sacramento Bee
| 9 months ago
In this Aug. 8, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns in Des Moines, Iowa. Democrats are growing increasingly confident that a two-pronged tax attack on Republican Mitt Romney _ one part...
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Sacramento News
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney called several of the Republicans on his vice presidential shortlist on Friday evening to tell them he has selected a running mate and to thank them for assisting with his campaign, a Republican familiar with the calls told CNN.
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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
WASHINGTON Republican candidate Mitt Romney says attacks on business and taxes are just diversions from discussing issues and positions in the presidential race.Romney's personal taxes and his business activities have come under intense criticism...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Recent Posts August 10 The case for picking someone who has credentials as a moderate, and who could reposition the Republican ticket toward the center. August 09 President Obama received favorable polls on Thursday from CNN and Fox News, the...
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Reuters
| 9 months ago
Topics Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks to supporters during a campaign event at Central Campus High School in Des Moines, Iowa August 8, 2012. Mitt Romney's campaign accused President Barack...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Romney is in President Barack Obama's home state for two fundraisers in advance of the November 4 general election. Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A CNN poll gives President Obama a lead of 7 percentage points over his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
President Obama 's campaign advisers reportedly want to use the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., to contrast him with Mitt Romney . Politico, citing Democratic sources, said the staff is working on what amounts to a script for the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney will launch a swing-state bus tour Saturday, visiting four states President Obama won four years ago, but the presumptive GOP nominee hopes to swing them his way. Romney will begin in Virginia and then head to North Carolina, Florida and...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
Typically, that's the question we ask when assessing a political candidate. But with Mitt Romney, I think the question should go the other way around: Does he trust us?...Romney doesn't want to talk about the details of his work at Bain Capital --...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
With just weeks before the nominating conventions and his national debut before a broader electorate, Romney's struggles to make the case that he is best equipped to pull the nation out of the economic doldrums could derail his quest for the...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 9 months ago
The U.S. federal budget deficit increased $70 billion in July and is on track to top $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. The deficit for the first 10 months of the 2012 budget year, which ends Sept. 30, totaled $974 billion, the Treasury...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
With just about two weeks to go before the Republican National Convention kicks off in Florida , a conservative group is campaigning in high gear to get Tampa delegates to dump Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential candidate, from the...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Briefing reporters at Romney campaign headquarters, Fehrnstrom said that though a super PAC released it, he held the Obama campaign responsible for the ad, which independent fact checkers have called irresponsible and over-the-top. I don't think a...
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New York Observer
| 9 months ago
Obama Campaign Releases Rebuttal To Romney's Welfare Ad 9:10am President Obama (Photo: Getty) The newest campaign ad for President Barack Obama is a televised rebuttal to a Mitt Romney commercial that accused him of wanting to gut welfare reform.
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
President Obama is using a new TV ad to push back on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 's claims that the administration is planning to gut welfare . Blatant quotes the New York Times, The Washington Post and former President Bill Clinton in...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
The ad cites newspaper editorials as well as former President Bill Clinton -- who signed the 1996 welfare reform law -- as saying that a Romney ad on the subject is untrue. Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg fired back immediately: "The facts are...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama's campaign is using a new television ad to combat what it says are false charges from Republican Mitt Romney on welfare. The ad, titled "Blatant," rebuts Romney's claims that the president removed work requirements from federal...
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Palestine Chronicle
| 10 months ago
Even in his attempts to water-down the impact of some of his gaffes, following an influx of negative press, he seems to have stuck to the flawed logic behind them, especially when it comes to the economy...The event has been 15 years in the planning...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama during an election campaign rally in Colorado Springs, August 9, 2012. President Barack Obama, trying to blunt rival Mitt Romney's attacks on his economic record, accused the Republican on Thursday of promoting policies that...
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Gawker
| 10 months ago
Harry Reid's accusation that Mitt Romney is hiding something by not releasing his tax returns specifically not paying taxes for 10 years isn't going away any time soon. Today, Reid aide Jose Parra revealed that the source on Romney's taxes is a...
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney, in a recent interview with ABC News, is asked whether he ever paid less than 13.9 percent in taxes. "I haven't calculated that...Shadows, grainy horizontal lines and color desaturation obscure the original video footage. "Did Romney pay...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
This week, the presidential campaign has been dominated by debate over the welfare law from the 1990s. It's just the latest example of how both sides are trying to use the Clinton years to their advantage portraying them as a halcyon golden age. As...
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Fox News
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama is launching a new ad that questions whether rival Mitt Romney paid any income taxes in the past. The ad shows footage from a Romney interview with ABC News in which the Republican presidential candidate was asked if he had...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
EDT, Thu August 9, 2012 Papa John's customers will bear the cost of its employees' health insurance -- and they should, argues Dr. Aaron E. Carroll. (CNN) -- Last week, John Schnatter, the founder and CEO of Papa John's Pizza, announced that the...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Who gets thumped by higher taxes in President Barack Obama's health care law? The wealthiest 2 percent of Americans will take the biggest hit, starting next year. And the pain will be shared by some who aren't so well off — people swept up in a...
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Truthdig
| 10 months ago
Here's a chance for all who think Obamacare is a socialist Big Government scheme to put their money where their ideology is: If you truly hate the Affordable Care Act, you must send back any of those rebate checks you receive from your insurance...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
The continuing distrust of Romney by some on the political right will be one of the most interesting dynamics at the upcoming Republican National Convention that will formally anoint the former Massachusetts governor as President Barack Obama's...
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Star Tribune
| 10 months ago
So with the exception of killing Osama bin Laden, he really doesn't have any accomplishments, or any popular accomplishments, and so he has only one main pathway to try to get reelected, which is to be negative and tear down Mitt Romney Here's the...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
President Obama and Mitt Romney are again trading barbs over the Affordable Care Act's mandate that insurers cover contraception, reviving a months-old debate pitting women's health against religious liberty. Share This Story Obama invoked the issue...
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The Denver Post
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama warned cheering crowds of thousands Wednesday in Denver and Grand Junction that Republican opponent Mitt Romney would return the country to the failed policies of a decade ago and rewind women's health care coverage back to the...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
President Obama made one of his strongest pitches to date for the women's vote, which is crucial to his re-election, telling a mostly female crowd of 4,000 here on Wednesday that Republicans led by Mitt Romney would take them back to the era of the...
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The Denver Post
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama's rousing message aimed at the middle class had supporters roaring, stomping their feet and in some cases, fainting in a packed, sweltering gymnasium in Grand Junction Wednesday. Calling Gov. Mitt Romney's plans for fixing the...
