VIDEOElon Musk had a chance this week to hit back at critics like Mitt Romney, who called Tesla Motors a "loser" during a presidential debate. The electric car company this week paid off all of its government loans, it's posted its first profit, and its stock has soared 158 percent this year. Show More Summary
Harry Reid's gambit continues to live on
Just when you thought you couldn't possibly get another laugh out of Harry Reid's claim that an anonymous source had told him Mitt Romney hadn't paid a single dime in taxes over the past decade,...Show More Summary
Prompting Mitt Romney to angrily shout, “Make a decision already!,” Jason Sudeikis says he’s still not sure whether or not he’ll be back at Saturday Night Live this fall. Yesterday on The View, Sudeikis told Barbara Walters that he “sincerely...Show More Summary
Forget trying to make Apple pay higher taxes. How about if we don’t make them pay any taxes at all? Mitt Romney got roundly mocked for saying, “corporations are people, too,” but he had a point. Talk to tax economists … Continue reading ?
Washington (CNN) - Remember that Obama campaign ad featuring Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" to scenes of Caribbean islands where the GOP nominee had invested some of his considerable wealth? So do Republican Senators who plan to question Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker about her own off-shore assets at a confirmation hearing today, a […]
REP. PAUL GOSAR: “Are you aware that in July 2012 Senator Harry Reid claimed Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes for the last 10 years and claimed to have the information supporting that? Are you aware of that? I’m sure you are.” Read full article >>
Tesla has come a long way since Mitt Romney labeled it a "loser" in the presidential debates. The company has paid off its $465 million 2010 loan from the Department of Energy—plus interest—nine years before it was due, Businessweek reports. With yesterday's payment for $451.8 million, "Tesla...
A Trick Question You're Mitt Romney and it's October 31, 2012 and a witch comes to you and says, "I can help you win 72 percent of the Hispanic vote or give you an extra 4 points of the white...
You can take the flack out of the DNC but you can't take the DNC out of the flack, especially it's MSNBC regular and newly-minted weekend host Karen Finney, who today said that Mitt Romney should have made a bigger deal out of the IRS scandal on the campaign trail. Show More Summary
No person or company wants to be accused of skirting tax obligations. Yet despite Joe Biden’s “paying higher taxes is patriotic” gaffe, paying too much could make you a chump. When Mitt Romney tried to stem the tide of negative tax press by forgoing deductions, he was derided for that too. See Romney Paid 14% [...]
Tens of millions of Americans turned out to vote for a New New Deal in 2008. We turned out to vote against the nefarious budget-slashing of Mitt Romney in 2012. And what did we get?
Tesla Motors, famously called a "loser" by Mitt Romney, is on quite the winning streak these days.
Politico parted ways with Joe Williams after he said in the 2012 election that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney wasn’t comfortable being around black people. That, however, hasn’t stopped him from blurting out head scratchers,Show More Summary
Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) is a member of a dying breed -- he's one of just nine Democrats to represent a congressional district that President Barack Obama lost in 2012. In fact, Mitt Romney carried Barrow’s Georgia district with more than 55 percent of the vote last year, …
Former Democratic National Committee spokesperson and future MSNBC weekend host, Karen Finney, scolded a reporter on MSNBC’s Now who suggested that the White House may have overestimated how effective claiming that Republicans investigating a series of scandals were on a witch-hunt would be. Show More Summary
During the 2012 election, the
Democratic PAC American Bridge attacked
Mitt Romney and other prominent Republicans every time one of them
attended a "high-dollar fundraiser" or revealed close ties to Wall
Street. Yet there was one group...Show More Summary
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President Barack Obama waves to the crowd at his election night party celebrating his victory over challenger Mitt Romney.
Do you remember Mitt Romney’s election-year promise to create 12 million jobs during...Show More Summary
Among the many awful things about her latest column was this: The Journal’s Kim Strassel reported an Idaho businessman named Frank VanderSloot, who’d donated more than a million dollars to groups supporting Mitt Romney. He found himself last June, for the first time in 30 years, the target of I.R.S. auditors. His wife and his […]
Idaho-based businessman Frank VanderSloot, who gave $1 million to Mitt Romney’s Super PAC in the last election, told Breitbart News he was audited three times last year and investigated a fourth. VanderSloot was personally audited by the IRS, as was his business. Show More Summary
(Paul Mirengoff) Mitt Romney says that the Benghazi talking points had no bearing on the outcome of the 2012 presidential election. He made this remark in response to a question by an inquisitive Jay Leno. Romney added that he doesn’t spend a lot of time reflecting on what could have been done differently during his campaign. Show More Summary