Booker’s Bain Bomb: Obama, Romney Camps Trade Shots
Obama Campaign Presses On With Bain Attack Amid Infighting
Notre Dame Sues Obama Administration For Contraception Mandate
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Last week we got a lot of great feedback about this article about TPM at Nieman Lab, which focused on the way we’re rethinking the site in light of the rapid growth of mobile readership. With that in mind, let me show you some data which is simply amazing to anyone who has been tracking the evolution of the Internet over the last 15 years.
Read More →No Turning Back on Bain
Damn the Bookers, Obama camp presses on with Bain attacks.
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Notre Dame to Obama: See You In Court
Notre Dame files suit against Obama administration over contraception mandate.
What’s Up With Cory Booker?
Here’s my take on what that Cory Booker thing was about. (Hint: 1) Class divide in the Democratic party. 2) Cory Booker is mainly a surrogate for Cory Booker.)
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Conservatives Say Leave Saverin Alone!
Top conservatives compare Saverin tax dodging law to Nazi Germany, Soviet Union and South Africa.
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Vintage anti-JFK GOP Coloring Book from Early 60s
Amazing note and photos from TPM Reader MM …
My mother, rest in peace, recently passed away. She was a life long democrat, her mother, however, was a life long republican. While going through things at my mother’s house in preparation for an estate sale I found an anti JFK coloring book my grandmother had saved along with some other republican memorabilia.Read More →
Unforced Error Alert
How Republicans have gained the advantage in the congressional fight over the Violence Against Women Act.
A Reader’s Take on the Booker Gambit
TPM Reader TS thinks he has a bead on Cory Booker’s MTP gambit …
Mitt Romney has made Bain Captial the rationale for his candidacy, the sole reason why he should be president, he almost never talks about his tenure as governor of Massachusetts. I think Mayor Cory Booker had no other choice but to clarify the remarks he made on Meet the Press this morning.Read More →
State Polls May Be Late … Or Not
There’s little question that Mitt Romney has made up ground in recent weeks in the national head to head poll match ups. The PollTracker Average currently gives Romney a minuscule .1% advantage over President Obama. But that comes after months of the President having a small but consistent lead.
A lot of readers I talk to say, ‘Well, we don’t have national elections. We have an electoral college. And Obama is still way ahead there.’
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No, No That’s Not What I Meant!
Mayor Cory Booker takes to Youtube to get ahead of Bain/Obama furor. Video after the jump …
Read More →Thought Bubble?
Check out the range of expressions in this photo – especially those of Cameron and Obama (upper left) versus France’s new President, Francois Hollande at the lower right.
G8 Summit
Pictures from today’s G8 huddle at Camp David.
Always thought discussions about avoiding the dissolution of the euro would look less cheerful.
Picture Of The Day
President Obama and fellow G8 leaders take in a thrilling Champions League final.
Dept. Of Things You Can’t Make Up
If you’re trying to access the ”GOP Solutions” tab on House Speaker John Boehner’s website, you won’t find any policy initiatives or grand ideas. But you will get a poetic take on why Congress has a hard time getting anything done:
“ERROR 404Page Not Found
We apologize, but the page you are looking for could not be found. Please examine the spelling of the URL you are trying to access or use the search bar in the upper-right corner of the site.”
For a screenshot, click here.
All Facebook, All The Time
The Facebook IPO gave CNBC a chance today to relive the good ol’ days of dotcom hysteria. We condense all of it into 100 sober, calm, reflective seconds … PANIC!
Missing The Plate
Famed former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling in recent years became a very public champion of conservative “small-government” politics.
He also launched a video game production company that two years ago set up shop in Rhode Island thanks to $75 million in state guaranteed loans.
Well, business isn’t going so well, and this month Schilling’s company 38 Studios missed a $1.1 million payment to the state. He’s now asking for more taxpayer help.
Rest Easy, Plutocrats
You a big banker worried that Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan debacle is going to blow open the dam holding back the floodwaters of reform? One of the top reformers in DC says there’s little chance of that.
Unleash The Dragon
The first-ever mission to send a private commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station launches Saturday. Check out the Dragon.
Could Filibuster Reform Happen?
Is Filibuster Reform finally going to happen?
Who is Joe Ricketts?
Who is Joe Ricketts? The latest mogul fixin’ to go to war against President Obama?
Conservatives: Leave Tax-Dodging Saverin Alone!
Top conservatives are comparing a Democratic bill cracking down on tax dodgers to Nazis and Soviet policies.
Chamber CEO Backs JP Morgan And Dimon In Wake Of Huge Trading Losses
Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue says further regulation is the wrong response to news that banking giant JPMorgan lost billions of dollars speculating with depositor money. And though he allowed that the development raises legitimate questions about the size of major banks, Donohue defended JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon from the criticism he's received since he announced the staggering losses nearly two weeks ago.
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Axelrod, Fehrnstrom Spar Over Cory Booker’s Bain Comments
Top spokesmen for the Obama and Romney campaigns tussled over Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s criticism of Democrats’ attacks on Bain Capital as “nauseating” in back-to-back appearances on MSNBC Monday. “In this particular instance, [Booker] was just wrong” Axelrod told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “There were specific instances here that speak to an economic theory that isn’t the right theory for the country.” Axelrod added that “I love Cory Booker,” and joked that “He’s a great mayor. If…
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Who Really Screwed Up VAWA?
A minor oversight has landed the Senate Dems’ bipartisan bill to extend Violence Against Women Act protections to same sex couples, immigrants, and tribal communities in legislative limbo. It’s not the first time a Senate-passed bill has been vaporized by the House for violating the Constitution’s requirement that revenue-raising legislation originate in the lower chamber. Sometimes when that happens it’s the result of a truly boneheaded error. But the current stalemate is the…
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Is Google Chrome Now The World’s Most Popular Browser?
Google reigns supreme not only in Internet search, but now, in how people access the Internet.
That’s at least according to the latest data from global Web tracking firm StatCounter, which indicates Google’s Chrome web browser recently eclipsed the long-reigning champion, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, to become the world’s most popular Web browser on desktop computers.
Google Chrome surpassed Internet Explorer the week of May 7 to May 13, according to StatCounter.
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Obama Campaign Presses On With Bain Attack Amid Infighting
Undeterred by criticism from a prominent Democratic supporter, the Obama campaign is pressing on with their attack against Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital, holding a press call with Randy Johnson, a worker who lost his job at Ampad after Bain Capital took it over and laid off hundreds of Indiana workers. “Romney economics devastated my family and devastated the workers’ families and the communities,” Johnson told reporters. “President Obama sticks up for the middle class, and Mitt …
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Report: FBI Investigating Donations To Ohio Republicans
The FBI is investigating campaign payments to two Ohio Republicans made by employees of the Suarez Corporation Industries, the New Republic reports. The direct marketing company is owned by Benjamin Suarez, a major Republican donor. The Toledo Blade reported back in August that 17 employees of the company had given large sums of money to Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel and Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH). That raised suspicions that Suarez might have been illegally reimbursing the…
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Chamber CEO Backs JP Morgan And Dimon In Wake Of Huge Trading Losses
Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue says further regulation is the wrong response to news that banking giant JP Morgan lost billions of dollars speculating with depositor money. And though he allowed that the development raises legitimate questions about the size of major banks, Donohue defended JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon from the criticism he’s received since he announced the staggering losses 10 days ago. “Nobody’s clear about the Volcker Rule,” Donohue told reporters at a Monday…
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University Of Notre Dame Sues Obama Administration For Contraception Mandate
The University of Notre Dame on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its requirement that employer-provided insurance plans include birth control coverage. The issue was the subject of a heated firestorm earlier this year. The administration tweaked its rule to accommodate religious nonprofits like Catholic universities and hospitals. Churches are exempt. Republicans continued to demand that Obama reverse the rule entirely but backed down after receiving…
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Conservatives Liken Dems’ Bill Banning Citizenship Tax-Dodging To Nazis, Soviets
New Democratic-led legislation aimed at penalizing those who would renounce their U.S. citizenship to dodge taxes has provoked fiery criticism from influential conservatives and is putting Republican leaders in a politically precarious situation. Inspired by the actions of Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who renounced his citizenship ahead of a large tax payment associated with the company’s much-ballyhooed initial public offering, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Casey…
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Why Americans Elect Crashed And Burned
“None of the above” will now be the only real option for voters frustrated with the tired choice between two parties now that Americans Elect, the well-funded nonpartisan organization that sought to nominate a legitimate third-party candidate for president in 2012, has folded. (Only Nevada has an actual “none of the above” option on the ballot.) It seems that the inability to create a movement in this vein was less about the sentiment – polls show Americans are aren’t fans of either …
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How Republicans Have Gained The Upper Hand In The Fight Over The Violence Against Women Act
An obscure parliamentary snafu has stymied Democrats’ aggressive efforts to extend Violence Against Women Act protections to same-sex couples, illegal immigrants, and tribal communities, and provided the GOP leverage to keep those provisions out of legislation to reauthorize that law. It has been weeks since Senate Democrats – and several Republicans – passed VAWA legislation, and left House Republicans in the tough position of arguing that the law’s scope should not be explicitly …
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Navy Crowdsources Future Energy Strategy with Wargame
By Tina Casey If Call of Duty has lost its sparkle, the U.S. Navy hopes you are ready to play a different kind of online wargame. Today the Navy will open up a new version of its MMOWGLI gaming project to players around the world, to develop innovative new “outlier” strategies for Navy and Marine Corps energy supplies. MMOWGLI - which stands for Massive Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet - was launched last June to enlist help from unconventional thinkers to…
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The Re-Education Of Cory Booker: Dem Mayor Quickly Backtracks On His Criticism Of Obama’s Bain Ad
Just hours after Cory Booker undermined one of President Obama’s key campaign messages Sunday, the Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., reversed his criticism. On NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Booker attacked Obama’s recent ad criticizing Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital and equated it to bashing the president over Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity,” Booker said. “If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, it – they’ve done a lot to…
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Cory Booker: ‘I’m Very Uncomfortable’ With Attacks On Bain
One prominent Obama supporter made some news on the Sunday shows – by not going along with the campaign’s current line of attack against Mitt Romney. Newark Mayor Cory Booker appeared on the Meet The Press panel, where the discussion turned to such topics as the Obama campaign’s attacks on Romney’s former company Bain Capital. For his part, Booker said that Obama would have to remind the public about his achievements: “Start telling the truth about the Obama record to let people…
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Alleged Chicago Bombing Targets Included Obama Campaign HQ, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s House
Prosecutors said on Saturday that a trio of protestors arrested this week in Chicago were allegedly planning to target President Obama’s campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house and some of the city’s financial institutions with homemade bombs in a series of attacks timed to coincide with this weekend’s NATO summit there. Court documents posted online by the Chicago Tribune said the three men were anarchists who traveled together from Florida to Chicago to carry out the…
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The Week In 100 Seconds: May 14-18
Another week, another video reel of the biggest stories of the week including President Obama’s appearances on The View and at Barnard College, a fiery Joe Biden speech, the brief return of Reverend Wright, the end of Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign and the beginning of Facebook’s future as a publicly traded company. Take a look back at the week in less than 2 minutes. Having trouble viewing our video? Try dis-abling any adblockers or click here. You can also view this video …
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Historic Private Spacecraft Mission Aborted At Last Half-Second
Updated 11:50 am ET, Sunday, May 20 A mission intended to complete the first-ever orbital docking of a privately-owned, unmanned spacecraft to the International Space Station was aborted at the last half-second before launch early Saturday, due to engine problems. The company behind the launch, SpaceX, of Hawthorne, California, was seeking to make history by launching its own Falcon 9 rocket carrying its unmanned Dragon cargo capsule, loaded with 1,200 lbs. of supplies, to theLate …
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Ron Paul-Backed Senate Candidate Wins At Minn. GOP Convention
The takeover of state Republican caucuses and conventions by Ron Paul supporters has now claimed another triumph. In Minnesota, a state legislator affiliated with Paul’s forces has won the party’s official endorsement for U.S. Senate, in the uphill effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Freshman state Rep. Kurt Bills won the party’s endorsement at the state convention on Friday, the Star Tribune reports, taking 64 percent of the vote on the second ballot to surpass the…
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Prosecutors Want Arizona White Supremacist Bomber To Spend The Rest Of His Days In Prison
If federal prosecutors get their way next week, an aging white supremacist who bragged about being a serial bomber and who was convicted earlier this year of sending explosives to a city office in Arizona will never see the outside world again.
A jury in Phoenix found Dennis Mahon guilty in February on three charges related to the 2004 bombing in Scottsdale that injured three city employees, including the director of the Office of Diversity and Dialogue.
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‘Small-Goverment’ Schilling’s Biz Goes Bad, Asks Rhode Island For More Taxpayer Cash
This post has been updated.
Curt Schilling is a hero to New England baseball fans, known for his performances in high pressure situations. But as a businessman, he’s in big trouble, and not the kind he can pitch his way out of.
The former MLB all-star’s start-up video game company, 38 Studios, missed a $1.1 million payment to the state of Rhode Island on May 1, and things have only gotten more complicated since.
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Kathleen Sebelius To Georgetown Grads: ‘Follow Your Own Moral Compass’
Addressing Georgetown graduates amid complaints from Catholic leaders over the White House’s position on contraception coverage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius alluded to the controversy by citing John F. Kennedy’s famed 1960 speech on religious freedom. That battle ended up drawing in Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, who became a national figure after she was denounced as a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh for urging Congress not to restrict birth control…
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