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.
TPM Reader EA writes in …
I can certainly understand how the actions of Scott Walker and his allies in the Wisconsin Senate rankled working Wisconsinites and the larger union community around the country. I’m certainly glad that it activated what seemed like it had become a quite complacent movement. But was the recall movement worth it? More specifically, was it worth the incredible investment from outside non-union progressive groups? I swear I received an ungodly amount of email about Wisconsin but none about other states with threatening union-busting legislation that matter to me more, like PA or NJ.
For someone who hates federal spending, Bachmann sure does ask for a lot of it.