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Mitt Romney downplays our economic recovery
02.08
Mitt Romney downplays our economic recoveryRead More
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Ever since the news broke last Friday that our economy added 257,000 new private-sector jobs in January, Mitt Romney has been grasping for a way to morph the positive news about our economic recovery into something that will benefit him politically. In his Nevada caucus speech this weekend, Romney said:
[H]e’s been trying to take a bow for 8.3 percent unemployment. Not so fast, Mr. President ... We welcome any good news on the jobs front, but it is thanks to the innovation of the American people in the private sector, not to you.
Far from taking a bow, President Obama has been clear about the fact that we still have a long road ahead of us. When President Obama took office in January 2009, we were shedding nearly 800,000 jobs a month. His immediate, decisive action to stop the bleeding reversed the trend. Weve now seen 23 straight months of private-sector job growth, creating a total of 3.7 million jobs.
Mitts new stance on religious liberty
02.07
Mitts new stance on religious libertyRead More
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Yesterday morning, Mitt Romneys campaign unveiled a new petition asking supporters to Stand for religious liberty. Heres the opening line: The Obama administration is at it again. They are now using Obamacare to impose a secular vision on Americans who believe that they should not have their religious freedom taken away.
The attack on liberty claim comes from the provision that requires most employers that employ and serve people of many faiths to be included in the new law, including religiously affiliated organizations like hospitals and universities. But the petition doesnt take the time to explain that the reasoning behind this is that women of all faiths are employed by these organizations and should have equal access to contraception.
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02.06
Debunking the so-called War on ReligionRead More
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The GOP candidates have been tossing around a few particularly egregious attacks lately about President Obama and the faith-based community. Mitt Romney said that President Obama is forcing “religious organizations to violate their conscience.”
Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter put together six things to know about this decision. Check them out, then help spread the truth.
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Mitt Romney likes to trumpet his tax plan, saying that it would allow Americans to keep more money in their pockets.
Closer scrutiny of Romneys actual proposal reveals that its very good for the wealthy—and very bad for everyone else.
In an attempt to woo blue-collar voters, Mitt Romney has been claiming that he would revitalize America's manufacturing sector.
But under Governor Romney, Massachusetts manufacturing suffered greatly.
Mitt Romney says he cares about American families hit hard by the housing crisis, and his plan to give them relief is to boost the economy overall.
Aside from vague references to getting Americans back to work and improving economic conditions, Mitt Romney offers very little in the way of actual proposals.
Mitt Romney would has proposed a plan to end Medicare as we know it by taking steps to privatizing it and turning it into a voucher program.
The Romney plan would devastate Medicare and end the program as we know it.
Newt Gingrich has called on Congress to eliminate the estate tax.
In reality, the end of the estate tax would blow a giant hole in the federal budget, forcing cutbacks in other areas like Medicare and infrastructure investment.
In a recent South Carolina GOP debate, Mitt Romney tried to make viewers believe that hes an outsider with no connections to Washingtons world of special interests.
But while Mitt Romney keeps talking about changing the culture in Washington, the facts about his Beltway connections speak for themselves. Today, hes in the capital he claims to loathe, holding a high-dollar “policy roundtable” with some of the very lobbyists and industry insiders hes been railing against.
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