During the president’s speech today someone somewhere decided he’d said the average income of people in the 1% was $27 million, wildly higher than it actually is, which is a bit over $1.2 million a year. Only he didn’t say that. He said that was the income of the top 100th of the 1%.
If you click here now you can see the tail end of President Obama’s speech this afternoon. But if you missed it you should read the transcript. Because it’s clear that this is the ‘big speech’ that will be the reference point for President Obama’s reelection campaign going forward till next November.
Heretofore the rare Republican who credits the scientific consensus behind human-driven climate change, today went wobbly. Now he says that scientists need to come up with more evidence.
At this moment, President Obama is giving a major speech in the Kansas town where Teddy Roosevelt introduced the ‘New Nationalism’ over a century ago. Watch.
Lots of former House Republican colleagues are coming forward and giving bracingly negatives reads of the Speaker Gingrich they knew in the 1990s. But not now-Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), who was at the center of the failed coup to topple Newt in 1997. Graham says he sees signs of a new, more ‘subtle’ Newt.
Medford, New Jersey Mayor Chris Myers (R) has resigned after being ensnared in a scandal tied to the male escort site Rentboy.com.
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There’s another poll of Iowa out tonight (from PPP) and it shows the basic picture as the others — Newt Gingrich with a solid lead followed by Romney and Paul battling for second (in this case Paul wins that battle).
What’s more interesting are the internals. Read More
Mitt Romney endorses the Democratic proposal to extend the payroll tax cut he earlier derided as “like temporary little Band-Aids.”