In the first Presidential Debate and in the week since, Mitt Romney has tried to convince the American people he’s someone other than the “severely conservative” candidate who has spent the past six years running for president on dangerous ideas that would hurt the middle class, women and seniors. These are not flip-flops – they … Continue reading »
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ROMNEY’S ENDLESS RESETS: Romney Resets His Campaign Nearly Every Week, But He Still Won’t Tell Us His Plans Because He Knows They Would Hurt the Middle Class
Romney is constantly trying to refocus his campaign – yesterday it was on foreign policy, today it’s on agriculture – but he’s still hasn’t offered any specific ideas to move our country forward. Mitt Romney has reset his campaign over and over again, but still hasn’t told voters how he’s going to move our … Continue reading »
From the Truth Team – the debates
If you’re running for president and you have a chance to talk to voters about your plans for the country, you have a couple options. One is to explain your positions on issues, and how you’ll help fight for an America where everyone has a fair shot. That’s what the President did last week, and … Continue reading »
ROMNEY’S DEBATE LIES: Romney’s Personal Performance Last Night May Have Had Style, But He Lied to the American People and His Dishonesty Will Hurt Him in the End
Romney’s performance last night may have had style, but once again he lied to voters about his plans to hurt the middle class. As usual, Romney chose short-term gains despite the long-term consequences. Voters saw the clear difference between Romney’s dishonesty and the President’s clear and specific vision for an economy that grows from the … Continue reading »
Romney may have “won” the debate – but the FACTS are the clear loser
The Obama-Romney debate fact-check: Who told the biggest whoppers? Mitt Romney stretched the truth in the Denver debate. So did President Obama. A look at how various nonpartisan fact-checkers scored the debate POSTED ON OCTOBER 4, 2012, AT 7:42 AM It seems that by virtue of having spoken about more facts, Mitt Romney is getting … Continue reading »
SOCIAL SECURITY: Paying for Romney’s $5 Trillion Tax Plan Could Mean Raising Taxes on Social Security Benefits for Middle-Class Seniors by an Average of $460 a Year
Romney would shatter the promise of Social Security for the millions of Americans who earned it through a lifetime of hard work. His tax plan could raise taxes on Social Security benefits to pay for his $5 trillion in new tax breaks skewed to the wealthiest, raising taxes on middle-class seniors by an average of … Continue reading »
SENIORS: Romney Thinks America’s Seniors “Believe They Are Victims” Even Though They’ve Worked Hard and Paid Into Social Security and Medicare Their Entire Lives
Mitt Romney has written off millions of seniors who earned and paid for their Social Security and Medicare benefits throughout a lifetime of hard work. While Romney thinks seniors see themselves as “victims,” President Obama is committed to preserving the promise of Social Security and Medicare for America’s seniors. · Mitt Romney shockingly told … Continue reading »
Romney Still Fails to Offer Any Tangible Ideas for Moving the Country Forward
Mitt Romney gave the biggest speech of his campaign last night, but failed to a chance to tell America what he’s done and what he might do as President. But he didn’t offer any tangible ideas to move the country forward. Democrats will gather in Charlotte next week to bring into focus the … Continue reading »
Paul Ryan’s speech has fact checkers working overtime.
TAMPA, FL—Tonight, Obama for America Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter released the following statement on Congressman Paul Ryan’s convention speech: “Paul Ryan offered Americans forty minutes of vitriol and a half dozen previously debunked attacks, but not one tangible idea to move this country forward. This from the man Mitt Romney called the intellectual leader … Continue reading »
Are we ready for tonight’s festival of lies from Tampa?
After an Opening Night of Tearing down the President Instead of Lifting up Our Country, Will Ryan and Rice Tell The American People Hard Truths? Republicans are more bent on tearing down the President than lifting up our country. Will Paul Ryan tell voters the hard truth tonight about the Romney-Ryan vision of fewer … Continue reading »
From our inbox: No, Romney and Ryan don’t really want a `great debate’ By Greg Sargent, and more….
The Morning Plum: No, Romney and Ryan don’t really want a `great debate’ By Greg Sargent, WashPo, August 20 Ever since Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, it’s been widely claimed that this ensures a “great debate” pitting two starkly different ideological visions over the future against one another. But it’s now clear that the … Continue reading »
NEWS CLIPS
Paul Ryan targeted on women’s issues Politico // Maggie Haberman, Emily Schiltheis and Lois Romano Paul Ryan co-sponsored a federal “personhood” amendment. He voted to defund Planned Parenthood. He opposes all abortions, except when the life of the mother is at risk. And he supports a federal bill requiring women to get an … Continue reading »
Romney-Ryan Would Voucherize Medicare and Raise Seniors’ Health Costs to Cut Taxes for the Wealthiest; President Obama Is Strengthening Medicare and Helping Seniors Save
Romney and Ryan’s plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system would raise seniors’ health costs by thousands of dollars to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest. They’d repeal Obamacare, which is helping millions of seniors save on their prescription drugs. President Obama’s $700 billion in Medicare savings didn’t cut benefits, and health … Continue reading »
Update from the “Truth Team” – please pass it on
This weekend, Mitt Romney chose the intellectual leader of the Tea Party as his nominee for vice president. By doing so, Romney catered to the far right and doubled down on the failed top-down economic policies that crashed our economy and hurt the middle class. It’s our job to make sure the voters get … Continue reading »
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: The Go Back Team
In naming Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a leader of the House Republicans who shares his commitment to the flawed theory that new budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, while placing greater burdens on the middle class and seniors, will somehow deliver a stronger economy. The architect of the radical Republican House budget, … Continue reading »
