Editors’ Blog - 2012
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08.17.12 | 4:44 am
Let’s Make A Deal

Jim Messina to the Romney campaign: Ok, how about five years of tax returns?

08.17.12 | 6:07 am
‘Lesbian Cabal’

The Fox & Friends gang had a good laugh this morning when Geraldo Rivera wondered whether a “lesbian cabal” is running the Department of Homeland Security. Watch.

08.17.12 | 7:51 am
Stone Cold Facts

It’s not so much the politics of the auto bailout that are complicated for Romney-Ryan. The facts are what give them fits.

08.17.12 | 9:16 am
They’ve Had Enough

David Barton is finding fewer friends to help hawk his pseudo-history.

08.17.12 | 10:15 am
The Voter Repression Industrial Complex

In the years we’ve been covering the great voter fraud bamboozle, the same people turn up over and over again. Longtime readers well remember former Bush DOJer Hans von Spakovsky. He’s an old hat at the voter fraud alarmism game, so it was natural I suppose for Gov. Rick Scott to turn to him for help defending Florida’s big, misguided voter roll purge. Ryan Reilly has the story.

08.17.12 | 10:55 am
Boiled Down

You could read everything Ryan Reilly has written about Pennsylvania’s voter ID law over the past several months … or you could watch this Daily Show segment: Read More

08.17.12 | 11:25 am
‘Uninspired Efforts’

TPM Reader JB says Paul Ryan has a point about the auto plant closures in Wisconsin:

I grew up in Kenosha, WI, and while I think Ryan’s remarks are hypocritical in light of his more recent remarks on the bailouts and on the stimulus, I think his criticism of the Obama administration with respect to the GM and Chrysler plants is fair.

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08.17.12 | 1:44 pm
Some Things Never Die

Paul Ryan brings back the teleprompter joke.

08.17.12 | 2:07 pm
Maybe It’s Just Me

I don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here, but I’m going to go on the record that a Posse Comitatus presence among the refineries and petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans would be a bad thing.