Everywhere you look, Democrats are looking to put space between themselves and the use of the word “tax” to describe the Obamacare individual mandate. And although this was the only way the key component of Obama’s healthcare overhaul survived Supreme
Bachmann: “One thing I know about Mitt Romney, he’s made excellent decisions in the past when it comes to running organizations and I have no doubt, whoever it is, that he chooses, to bring in as his V.P., it will
Obamacare is a tax. President Barack Obama lied to the American people when he said it was not a tax, only to turn around and argue at the Supreme Court that it was. Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has
This morning, Mitt Romney surrogate Eric Fehrnstrom announced that the Romney campaign construed Obamacare as an individual mandate rather than a tax: The Governor was clear on many different occasions since the passage of health care reforms in Massachusetts. What
President Barack Obama has attacked Gov. Mitt Romney’s record in the private equity industry as CEO of Bain Capital. But ten years ago, as he struggled to raise funds for his long-shot U.S. Senate campaign, then-State Senator Obama decided to
After being caught for the third time in as many months coordinating with the Obama campaign to attack Mitt Romney, the Washington Post finally — in the most cowardly and slippery manner imaginable — came clean today regarding the provably
Can you say 10th Amendment? CNN doesn’t seem to be able to. It was practically only hours after the Supreme Court issued its historic–and odious — decision to give Obamacare its stamp of approval that CNN rushed to tell readers
In an attempt to hurt presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Reuters wrote a story about a resignation ceremony in which approximately 150 Mormons signed a “Declaration of Independence from Mormonism.” The signatories expressed that they could not tolerate where the church
Even as unemployment among college graduates remains stuck above the national average at 9.3 percent, a Reuters/Ipsos poll of four-year college graduates finds that President Barack Obama leads his Republican challenger Mitt Romney 52 percent to 27 percent. The poll’s
In an interview with Newsmax, Mitt Romney said that the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Obamacare was “a plus” for him. “And I think in the election this November, people who know they don’t want ObamaCare will have to vote out
The highest court in the land has spoken and the campaign has been framed for the next 130 days. This election will be about the future of Obamacare, and how politicians react and respond to the Supreme Court ruling could
Throughout the GOP primary season, Mitt Romney made the argument that Romneycare was different from Obamacare because what Romney could do at the state level with Romneycare when he was governor of Massachusetts, Obama could not do at the national
Thanks to BenSmithing Ben Smith, we now know that next week the media intends to change the subject away from the health care debate and on to whatever pro-Obama nonsense they can gin up. The media knows a national discussion
Remember in 2008, when journalists claimed that Sarah Palin was using her children as props–that is, when they weren’t claiming they weren’t her children to begin with? Now, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod is exploiting his own daughter’s epilepsy in
MRCTV- After the Supreme Court releases the ruling on Obamacare, MRCTV encountered a variety of reactions
I was sitting in KO’s restaurant today, watching news about the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision scroll across the TV screen when an Obama re-election commercial came on. The commercial, which had clearly been crafted without any thought to the Obamacare
The argument over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act may have been settled by the Supreme Court, but today’s fundraising boom for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign suggests the issue is far from settled with the American people. At 1:46
In a statement today in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said he agreed with the opinion of those Justices who dissented and that he will act to repeal and replace
GOP Nominee Mitt Romney spoke out in response to the Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare.
According to Chief Justice John Roberts and his liberal colleagues on the Supreme Court, Congress does not have to call a tax a tax in order for it to be a tax. Congress can, in fact, create a penalty instead
In a complex ruling, the Supreme Court has largely upheld the controversial Obamacare law. The Court struck down the individual mandate as an unconstitutional penalty under the Commerce Clause, but upheld it as a permissible tax. It also limited the expansion
Mitt Romney, speaking in northern Virginia, energized the crowd by referring to the imminent decision on ObamaCare that is due from the Supreme Court tomorrow: “My guess is they’re not sleeping real well at the White House tonight; that’s the
As we’ve already documented, on three occasions, Breitbart News has uncovered the Washington Post and the White House coordinating with one another to attack Mitt Romney and his supporters. The latest coordinated attack involves a major Washington Post piece published
The desperate Obama campaign e-mails are coming fast and furious these days. Today, Julianna Smoot, the Deputy Campaign Manager, drew the short straw. Mitt Romney, she warned, would win “If we’re drastically outspent”: Benjamin — If we’re drastically outspent in
At around 130 days until Election Day, National Public Radio thought it would be nice to give the President a little boost by going back to its 2008 practice of assigning to Obama the god-like powers of The One, The
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama said if the Supreme Court struck down Obamcare on Thursday, such a decision would, according to a Financial Times account, send the country “backwards” and Americans did not want to “re-fight” healthcare. At a campaign
A common joke is that, in the future, Republicans will have to find as many minorities to be on stage with them as possible while Democrats will have to do the same with whites. As the country becomes more diverse
Tuesday, President Obama attacked Mitt Romney and Republican lawmakers for opposing increased taxes on the rich. The President referred to himself and singer Marc Anthony, who performed at the event, as examples of those individuals who would ideally pay more
As we’ve pointed out time and again, the corrupt media is currently desperate to shift the conversation of the presidential race away from the economy and on to turf that might win their failed president a second term. Namely, the
Another day, another desperate Obama campaign e-mail. Today’s missive of panic, following directly on the heels of news that the Democratic National Convention is downscaling due to fundraising concerns, comes directly from the President of the United States. Obama informed
After the 2012 election, conservatives in Congress will likely again be on the ascendency. And if Mitt Romney wins the presidency, conservatives will not have a veto threat hanging over their heads. But as a new generation of conservatives and
This past weekend there was a fundraising gathering for Mitt Romney in Park City, Utah. There were many Republican luminaries who attended, including VP hopefuls like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, South Dakota Sen.
(AP) Poll: 1-in-4 uncommitted now in White House raceBy LAURIE KELLMAN and JENNIFER AGIESTAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThey shrug at President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. They’re in no hurry to decide which one to support in the White House race.
(AP) Utah Sen. Hatch seems to have weathered GOP stormBy KEVIN FREKING and PAUL FOYAssociated PressSALT LAKE CITYIt was an entertaining exchange, as one-man debates go. Dan Liljenquist, hoping to shock the political world on Tuesday, didn’t let Republican Sen.
(AP) WASHINGTONFormer Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he’s told Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign to look elsewhere for a running mate. Pawlenty, who competed briefly last year for the GOP nomination before dropping out and endorsing Romney, says he thinks he could
By LAURIE KELLMAN and JENNIFER AGIESTAAssociated PressWASHINGTONThey shrug at President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. They’re in no hurry to decide which one to support in the White House race. And they’ll have a big say in determining
Until recently, the general perception was that the Latino vote, which favored Barack Obama heavily in 2008 when he received 67% of that constituency, was assured of supporting him in the same manner in 2012. But recent events have cast
CBS: Tim Pawlenty is at the top of many speculation lists of potential running mates for Mitt Romney, but the former Minnesota governor tells Bob Schieffer he can help the candidate in a lot of other ways
CBS: Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, who criticized Mitt Romney for his experience at Bain Capital during the Republican primary, has some advice for the president’s reelection campaign: that attack won’t work.
