Romney: "It's Still About The Economy And We're Not Stupid"MITT ROMNEY: Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. But after we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama? Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a
Wasserman Schultz On Senate Budget: American People Not Interested In "Focusing On Process"DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and FNC's Bret Baier spar on the Democratic-controlled Senate's inability to present and pass a budget of their own. Wasserman Schultz, as she has said before
Washington Post's Cillizza: "Mitt Romney Isn't Cool, Barack Obama Is""This is important," The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza said on MSNBC's "Hardball" tonight. "He (Obama) is cool. Mitt Romney isn't cool." "I don't mean it to say it pejoratively that Mitt Romney isn't cool. Barack Obama is," Cillizza later said.
Lib Talker Finds Romney And Rubio "Homoerotic"RANDI RHODES (23 April 2012 - 11:47): I guess I'll call it the - is Marco Rubio too short to stand next Mitt Romney tour/audition? That's what it is. And you know- and the answer is yes because when they stand next to each other Marco Rubio looks like a 17-year-old. God love him! He does! He looks like a little boy. It's almost like the Batman
Andrea Mitchell: I Had The "Disadvantage" Of Watching Romney And Gingrich At The Same Time"I had the advantage or disadvantage, as the case may be, of watching Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich at the same time on side-by-side screens," NBC's Andrea Mitchell said on MSNBC's "Last Word" tonight. "It's my job, someone has to do it," she added.
Rep. Issa: Obama Admin Proving To Be "Most Corrupt In History""We have a role to because we passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act some years ago… We are busy in Washington with a corrupt government, with a government that I said perhaps because of the money, the amount of TARP and stimulus funds, was going to be the most corrupt government history and it is proving to be just exactly that. This m
Obama Tells Fallon That He And Romney Are "Not Friends"Jimmy Fallon, host of "Late Night": "Do you know Mitt Romney?" President Barack Obama: "I've met Mitt Romney. But we're not friends."
Jon Stewart Makes Fun Of Republicans Passing On VP SlotDaily Show: Republican vice-presidential candidates Marco Rubio, Condoleezza Rice and Jeb Bush deny interest in becoming Mitt Romney's 2012 running mate. (04:27)
Will Cain Spars With Wasserman Schultz Over Dems And TaxesWILL CAIN: That's interesting quote you put up also recognizing the amount of work that you guys have to do over the next six months. You have what is equivalent of all of the Bush tax cuts expiring. You have the budget resolution. You have to come together on those forced cuts. I think the total package is over $4 trillion. Larger than any sti
MSNBC: Obama Blurring Line Between Campaigning On Taxpayer-DimeOn "Now With Alex Wagner" (MSNBC) panelists discuss how the Obama White House is blurring the lines between campaign and official travel (April 24, 2012).
Obama: "Now Is The Time To Double Down"After asking students to use the Twitter hashtag "#dontdoublemyrate" to tweet members of Congress to keep low interest rates on student loans, President Obama told them it is the time to "double down" on his policies. "So stand up, be heard, be counted. Tell them now is not the time to double interest rates on your student loans. Now is the time
RCP's Tom Bevan On Effect Of Home Prices On 2012 ElectionRealClearPolitics' Executive Editor Tom Bevan talks about housing prices under President Obama and how that may affect the 2012 election.
Toure: I Believe Obama Likes Hip Hop, I Don't Believe That Eric Cantor DoesMSNBC contributor, race commentator and "cultural critics" Toure (one word) judges who is and who is not allowed to like certain genres of music. According to Toure, Eric Cantor, who claims to be a fan of hip hop, is not allowed to like hip hop. Toure says he doesn't believe the House Majority Leader when he said in an interview that he likes hip h
Obama: Michelle And I "Didn't Come From Wealthy Families" ... "We Got Poor Together""Michelle and I, we've been in your shoes," President Obama said to college students at a campaign event at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. "Like I said, we didn't come from wealthy families. When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt. When we married, we got poor together." "Check this, out, alrigh
Obama Asks Students For An "Amen" After Talking About LoansBarack Obama at a campaign event in Chapel Hill, NC (UNC): "The fact is that since most of you were born, tuition and fees at America's colleges have more than doubled. And that forces students like you to take out a lot more loans, there are fewer grants, you rack up more debt. Can I get an amen?" Crowd: "Amen!"
Sen. Grassley Suggests Colombian Prostitutes Could Be Russian Spies“We’re looking at something that is very, very serious when national security might not be protected properly,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said on Radio Iowa today. “Who knows who might be using prostitutes? The Russians are famous for that to get information out of us. You want to know that the president is protected.” (audio: Radio Iowa
Scarborough: Romney Not Listening To His Advisers"We've been wringing our hands about this throughout the entire campaign. A lot of this stuff is not difficult, and yet Mitt Romney goes out there and he is surprised time and time and time again, which suggests one thing to me, you have a candidate that doesn't listen to his advisers. You have a candidate whose advisers are afraid to come up to hi
"Morning Joe" Makes Fun Of Romney Remembering France While They Remember FranceOn MSNBC's "Morning Joe" today, the crew was making fun of Mitt Romney recalling his fond memories of vacationing in France while they were also talking about how beautiful the country is. Eugene Robinson, in particular, yucked it up about Romney but then
Van Jones: Obama Let The Tea Party "Set Him Up" By Being "So Bipartisan"“They [tea party] understood that people were sitting on a white hot stove out there, and if Democrats weren’t going to point at the financial elites, they were going to point at the government elites,” said Jones during a discussion at the Center For American Progress about his book, Rebuild The Dream, on April 20. “Some
Wasserman Schultz: "Entirely Reasonable" For Boehner To Say GOP Could Lose House"I think it's entirely reasonable for the Speaker to expect that they could lose the House because they very well could. We're working hard to make sure that happens because John Boehner has allowed the Tea Party to take over his conference," DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said on CNN this morning. "The Republicans have fully embraced
"Special Report" Panel On The Situation In SyriaThe panel discusses the White House and its reaction to the situation in Syria.
Dionne: Rubio Is "Perfect" On Paper Lawrence O'Donnell, Adam Smith and E.J. Dionne talk about Mitt Romney's vice presidential choices.
O'Reilly: The U.S. Is An Entitlement CountryO'Reilly argues that the U.S. is an entitlement society and that those who speak out against it will be labeled "bad people."
Fineman: Obama Is Not Going To Run On His Record, But Against RomneyChris Matthews, Michael Steele and Howard Fineman discuss the change in the strategy of the Obama campaign.