New frontrunner Gingrich says child labor laws are a major cause of growing economic inequality. His first suggestion: fire unionized janitors and have kids do the clean-up.
Did you know that by ‘failing’ Congress has actually made the deficit go down even more? Look at this chart.
I’ve wondered about this for a week or two. And I haven’t known quite what to make of it or how to express it. It didn’t start with this pepper spray incident at UC Davis. But that sort of crystallized it further in my mind: the core message about economic inequality is being overwhelmed by a distinct story about (depending on your perspective) street violence and police brutality or excessive militarization of crowd control. Read More
From TPM Reader BP …
The anti-Gingrich ad just writes itself. Gingrich wants to fire Dad and hire his 12 year old son to do the same job at a lower pay. Genius. That will get our economy turned around.
How soon until Romney or the others start pounding him on this?
The youthful indiscretions interview goes a bit different with some candidates than others. Here Mitt admits that he smoked a cigarette once and even “tasted a beer” when he was young.
Remember the foreclosure mill that got in trouble having having a foreclosure/homelessness themed Halloween party with employees dressed up as cartoonish versions of people booted out of their homes? Well, the firm just went under.
The FBI was apparently worried that the case could get tossed because of entrapment issues.
Romney walking away fast from his proposal to privatize the VA.
Evan McMorris-Santoro takes a look at what popped the Herman Cain balloon in today’s Campaign In 100 Seconds.