Tea-partying Georgia congressman: How dare my bank loan me $2.2 million it knew I couldn’t repay!
From Ben Smith …
Gov. Mitt Romney lobbied the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s in 2004 to raise his state’s credit rating in part because Massachusetts had raised taxes during an economic downturn two years earlier.
The claim was part of a presentation to the ratings agency obtained by POLITICO under a state freedom of information law from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance. The Nov. 4 presentation, stamped “confidential,” helped persuade S&P to raise the state’s grade and handed Romney the perfect talking point for last week’s humiliating national downgrade by the same agency.
Mitt’s basic policy sanity will likely haunt him through the 2012 cycle.
Nebraska senate candidate says he regrets comparing poor people and welfare recipients to scavenging animals.
Fark founder Drew Curtis gets all Michael Corleone on patent trolling firm Gooseberry Natural Resources.
RNC Chair, and Wisconsin native, Rience Priebus toasts GOP holding on to its Senate majority against hordes of progressive leeches.
“We Need To Have A Country Of Makers, And Not A Country Of Takers.” Watch.
No mistake. Wisconsin Dems say last night’s election were a win for them.
And the truth is they’re right.
GOP leaders pick staunch conservatives for deficit committee.
The one arguable exception is Portman on the Senate side. Beside that though it’s pretty much down the line. Hard to see any flexibility.
Gallup shows President Obama has moved back into a small lead over a hypothetical “Republican” opponent.