Although one of Obama’s top aides, David Axelrod, refused to answer the question of whether Americans are better off now than they were four years ago, a potential 2016 presidential contender, Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley, did. Listen to what he said here.
A Raleigh-based group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote.
Frays in the US-Israeli relationship are starting to show with reports of scaling-down joint US-Israel military exercises and public comments by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff that he didn’t want to be “complicit” in an Israeli attack on Iran.
Karl Rove has made himself toxic to Republicans by his incredibly offensive and dangerous statement suggesting the murder of Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri. Any candidate or network who hires Rove will now be tarnished with this most malicious remark ever made in Republican politics.
While the FBI is apparently investigating actual threats against senate candidate Akin’s life, Karl Rove jokes about his murder. Read about it here.
This video gives an insider’s perspective of the shenanigans that went on at the GOP Tampa Convention, not dissimilar to what many state conventions experienced this past spring.
In an interview with Ted Nugent this week, the rock star talks about the “thousands” of cases of innocent Americans who have had their Fourth Amendment rights violated by state and federal law enforcement. He wants Romney to establish a commission to get to the bottom of it:
Today in Alaska, there’s a political battle raging over a proposed copper mine, the Pebble Project. Not many in Washington, D.C. know about it, but it’s time people start paying attention.
Tea Party principles are America’s principles. To an intolerable degree, “Moderate Republicans” do not believe in or follow Tea Party principles. Quite often they appear to be completely devoid of principles. They game the political system to gain power and prestige for themselves and themselves alone. They will turn on Americans faster than you can say Specter.
This New York Times article is notable only for the news regarding Bernanke’s intent to push for another stimulus. Romney and the GOP oppose Bernanke’s latest effort to artificially induce economic activity.