The only one who doesn’t know what the goal of Bain Capital was when Mitt Romney ran it is, apparently, Mitt Romney. Tom Stemberg, the Staples guy himself, says Bain was not trying to create jobs but was instead trying to create wealth for its principals. Duh.
A top surrogate to Mitt Romney said making money [...]

47 – 39

Percent of Pennsylvania voters who say they favor Obama (47) and Romney (39), according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll. The results were, respectively, 45 – 42 last month, indicating that now that the president’s opponent is no longer “generic Republican” but Romney, voters are shifting toward Obama.

The president is proposing a plan that would actually make a dent in gas prices. And no, it’s not drill baby, drill because, as Obama explained, there’s a big hole in that idea.
…the problem is we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil and we only have 2 percent of the world’s proven [...]

Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected

Tweet on the First Lady’s Twitter feed, signed “-mo” to show it was posted by Michelle Obama herself, in response to Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen’s comment that Mrs. Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.”

Since Obama became president, my dog’s hip dysplasia has gotten worse.
Since Obama became president, my car’s value has decreased.
Since Obama became president, violence in Syria has skyrocketed.
Since Obama became president, all kinds of sh*t has happened.

How about it? What else has changed over three years that we can blame on Obama? Anybody?
Back here in Realityland, [...]

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) transforms from a congressperson to a hoodlum before your very eyes — and is treated like the latter.

When former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) hit the side of an Orlando transit bus earlier this month, it’s doubtful he meant to give opponents in his race to represent a newly drawn Congressional district rich deposits of metaphors to mine. But boy, did he.

Nat Sillin, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee: “If you thought [...]

So much for the arguments by independents that Mitt Romney is a moderate.
Mitt is not a moderate, he’s not a liberal, he’s not a conservative. He’s a rich guy doing whatever he thinks he needs to do to claim the power that rich guys feel entitled to.
Mitt is not a moderate, he’s not a [...]

25

Number of additional seats Democrats must win in order to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012.

11%

Americans who approve of how members of Congress are handling their jobs. The figure surpasses the previous low of 14%, set in August after the debt ceiling “debate,” which resulted in America’s credit rating being reduced to from AAA to AA+.