Epstein Secrets

. Every Presidential election should be called "the silly season," as it often brings out the ridiculous, and nothing could be more ridiculous than Mitt Romney's interview on a local Virginia television station when he went further than normal in criticizing the president's handling of the economy, saying tha

he inherited from his predecessor. "There has never been a recession that went on forever. There has never been a depression that went on foreven" Romney told WVEC News. "A recession occurs, the economy goes down, and then comes after recession, the recovery. That's happened since the beginning of tim

n. " Boy... did Romney get it wrong.... Thursday Governor Romney made the beginnings of a of what his campaign hop

s the country playing the same 40 songs. See Chris Sagers article in The Huffington Post, 'Universal's Gambit Poses Peril for Music Biz.' This week Ezra Klein wrote an article in The Washington Post, 'The unemployment problem: politicians,' pointing out that currently there are more than 3 million jobs ope

could try arguing that taxes are too progressive, and that what's needed is a tax system that's nicer to rich people and meaner to poor people. But Mitt Romney didn't have much luck with that gambit in 2012. Inescapable conclusion: The GOP is not interested at all in tax reform, and it's only mildly interes

a cover story in The New York Times Magazine last week on Republicans and their problem with technology, one quote that caught everyone's eye was, "Romney's senior strategist Stuart Stevens, may well be remembered by historians as the last guy to run a presidential campaign who never tweeted," Stevens

bama cannot force the House Republican majority to act if it doesn't want to. He is (fortunately) not a dictator." In a candid interview Monday with Ezra Klein on MSNBC, Ben Domenech, a conservative blogger, said the new tea party Republicans in the House don't want their leadership to sit down with Obama

lopment grants, education programs and even Amtrak. Voting in the spring for the tea party budget developed by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who was Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate last year, was one thing. But as long as a Democrat occupies the White House, Ryan's budget is little more than a n

the program into a subsidized private-insurance program. This would translate into less health care for seniors, according to the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, as well as more expensive health insurance, according to the left-leaning Center for American Progress. 5. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Repeal Obamaca