Mitt Romney on flip-flopping: “In the private sector, if you don’t change your view when the facts change, you’ll get fired for being stupid.”
Can Rick Perry keep up the appearances of his Texas “miracle” through Election Day?
Republicans again make false claim that President Obama’s tax proposal is “biggest tax increase in history.”
South Carolina GOP chairman just now on conference call with reporters about Florida moving up its presidential primary: “Bottom line is that if Florida moves, I’m moving.”
A controversy from Rick Perry’s 2006 re-election campaign involving GOP uber-donor Bob Perry (see e.g., Swift Boat Veterans for Truth) is getting closer scrutiny.
Brian Beutler on the next step in the legal battle over the health care reform law.
Florida’s move to reschedule its presidential primary in January is likely to push the entire primary calendar up by at least a month. It’s a replay of the 2008 election mess and should shine a bright light on what a completely broken system both parties have for selecting a nominee. But alas it’s been this broken for more than three decades and no fix is anywhere in sight. Eric Kleefeld explains the latest manifestation of the dysfunction.
A lawyer representing one of the alleged “Anonymous” defendants tell TPM there’s nothing criminal about DDOS attacks: “This was merely a digital sit in. It is no different from occupying the Woolworth’s lunch counter in the civil rights era.”
The election clerk in Waukesha County, Wisc. — who has been the target of liberal conspiracy theories since she found more than 7,000 uncounted votes for Justice David Prosser in last April’s Supreme Court race — did in fact violate state laws and regulations during that election but could not possibly have manipulated the controversial tally, a state review board has found.