TPM Reader CG:
First, I’d be working the words “blind trust” into every anti-Romney attack ad imaginable, and not just in reference to his actual blind trust.
Second, what, you don’t think “I have craploads of money in the Caribbean that I don’t even look after!” is going to work in down economic times?
Mitt Romney falls back on the “blind trust” defense to explain his Bermuda and Caymans holdings.
Carl Franzen on Amtrak’s new(ish) plan for 220-m.p.h. high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor.
Ed Rollins: GOP needs to be less old, fat and white. Watch.
The new ABC/WaPo polls show that support for ‘Obamacare’ went from 53%-39% against in April to 47% to 47% today.
GOP lobbyist and Romney bundler hired by state of Pennsylvania to educate voters about state’s new voter ID law.
TPM Reader RW thinks there’s more afoot in the President’s new tax cut push than just the taxes — similar to a point our Brian Beutler made today about how it puts Romney in a very dicey position.
One point which seems to largely have been missed in Obama’s tax offensive is that it completely revives the discussion on the GOP’s obstruction. Here is an area where the parties agree–98% of Americans should not have their taxes raised. Yet the GOP, purely for political advantage, refuses to compromise on the issue in order to preserve the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. They are putting politics in front of tax relief for the vast majority of people. Americans will not tolerate that.
Okay, the Gov. of Maine appears to be nuts.
Late Update: The best part of this story (the Maine Gov calling the IRS the ‘new Gestapo’) is the Governor’s press secretary trying to help spin or explain away his decision to compare the IRS to the ‘Gestapo’. This from the Gov’s communications director …
“He was going for the effect. He did say the ‘new Gestapo.’ He was not referring to the ‘old Gestapo’. I think that’s important to note.”
On Al Sharpton’s show on MSNBC today, actors staged a “re-enactment” of Mitt Romney’s weekend fundraising jaunt in the Hamptons.
Maine Gov says he didn’t mean to insult anyone when he said the IRS is the “new Gestapo” under ‘Obamacare’.