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Former Romney adviser accuses him of `lying’ about Romneycare By Greg Sargent Jonathan Gruber, the M.I.T. professor whose ideas were central to Mitt Romney’s health reform law as governor of Massachusetts, has pilloried Romney in the past for seeming to distance himself from his signature accomplishment. But I’m not sure he’s ever gone quite as far as he did in this interview with Capital New York, in which he said Romney is flat out “lying” when he tries to make a distinction between Romneycare and Obamacare:

"I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to the millions of unsung men and women who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try and keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make...

Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war? Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as large and populous as Iraq? Mitt says that if elected he will move carriers into the Persian Gulf and "prepare for war." Newt is even more hawkish. America should continue "taking out" Iran's nuclear scientists — i.e., assassinating them — but military action will probably be needed. Newt is talking up uber-hawk John Bolton for secretary of state..

"Just when you thought the field of candidates for president in 2012 was full, a national radio talk-show host is now in the race, claiming Barack Obama is not even eligible for office because he has presented a forged birth certificate to the nation. Laurie Roth from Washington state is running not as a Republican, but as a self-described patriot and conservative on the American Independent Party ticket. She says she's already on the ballot in California, and will take steps to make sure her name is listed in the other 49 states". http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=363285

Rick Perry is once again getting alot of attention tonight. I knew the minute he couldn't remember the third agency, that the media would rake him over the coals for it. I thought before the memory lapse he had been pretty good. To me not remembering something is not that big of a deal. He's human and everyone has times like that when they have a lapse in memory. It's bad that he played right into the stereotype of an idiot that the media likes to call him. Point I am trying to make is the man is human and...

"Karl Rove defends Sharon Bialek, who is accusing Herman Cain of sexual assault, because her attorney is Gloria Allred"

Just read where RINO McRomney is running off at the mouth about these latest allegations on Cain. Number one. It's none of his business. He needs to keep his trap shut. That goes for the rest of the GOP field. The father of Obamacare has no credability whatsover. If Romney and the Rove gang get their way and manage to smear Cain enough and he withdraws from the GOP primaries, I hope and pray he gives serious thought to running as the only conservative alternative to Obama and Romney, and runs on a Tea Party ticket. Since Obama will beat...

Was watching Greta Susteran a few minutes ago and Britt Hume basically said to stick a fork in Cain, he's done. He also said Cain will get no higher in the polls and this latest allegation has killed his candidacy. The old RINO prognostitor in all his glory. RINO Rove came on Hannity a few minutes later and said basically the same thing. Cain is done. BLAH, BLAH,BLAH. It's amazing how establishment Fox never has a disparaging this to say about Romney, but jumps all over this bogus story from this blonde bimbo today as showing Cain is done. RINO...

AN ACTUAL MARINE’S CRAIG'S LIST PERSONAL AD To the guy who tried to mug me in downtown Savannah night before last. Date: 2010-09-27, 1:43 a.m. E.S.T. I was the guy wearing the black Burberry jacket that you demanded that I hand over, shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend, threatening our lives. You also asked for my girlfriend's purse and earrings. I can only hope that you somehow come across this rather important message. First, I'd like to apologize for your embarrassment; I didn't expect you to actually crap in your pants when I drew my...

A few minutes ago on Fox News Shannon Bream was interviewing some lady in Iowa who was supposed to be a caucas expert. They were discussing the latest poll which shows Cain leading. When asked by Bream why Santorum, who has been to more counties than any other candidate and has met the most people, is almost in last place in the poll, the "expert" said, "people in Iowa are looking for a real social conservative". What? Santorum is the biggest social conservative in the race! She follows up by saying that other social conservatives are fighting it for the...

Sometimes it seems as if the GOP Establishment is sleepwalking off a cliff. In 1996, having scored the stunning victories of the off-year congressional elections, the GOP suits dutifully lined up behind the impossible Bob Dole. From the moment Americans realized their choices would be Clinton or Dole, "Bubba" was never behind one day in the polls. It's looking like déjà Dole all over again. Mitt Romney is the proverbial GOP next-in-liner. After the Tea Party helped Republicans score major victories in '10, the GOP Establishment is hunting desperately for a way to lose the very next election. Mitt Romney...

Sam Miller is a prominent Jewish businessman. He is not Catholic. And yet he offers some sage advice to Catholics in a recent column. Be proud, he tells us. Even in the face of injustice in the media, scandals in the Church, and a less than favorable popular public opinion of our priests and leaders: Be proud to be Catholic. Miller gives us a much-needed reminder of the many good things going on in our Church. You’ll never hear it on MSNBC, but the Catholic Church gets a lot of things right. “Do you know - the Catholic Church educates...