The headline says it all, really.

Mitt Romney has a problem with people giving lots of money to politicians, and then having those people be able to get favorable treatment from those politicians.

…the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contribution from the [donors] themselves … [It's] an extraordinary conflict of interest and something that should be addressed.

The people Mitt Romney is talking about, of course, are teachers, who, with their billion-dollar incomes, have flooded the political super-PACs with millions upon millions of dollars, pushing for the rollback of regulations designed to prevent a repeat of the catastrophic education collapse of ’08.

Sheldon Adelson could not be reached for comment.

Mitt Romney, whose father was born abroad and whose grandfather was a member of an unusual religion, is really the last person who should be aligning himself with the birthers. Especially since, hey, I’ve never seen his long-form certificate, so I have to take him at his word that he wasn’t actually born in Mexico and isn’t a member of the FLDS.

Yet here you go:

The presumptive GOP nominee, joined for a rally outside Detroit Friday by running mate Paul Ryan, joked that he had been born in a nearby hospital and that ‘‘no one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. ‘‘

The title says it all.

Mitt Romney says of other countries like China that

“They’ve been able to put American businesses out of business and kill American jobs,” he told workers at a Toledo fence factory in February. “If I’m president of the United States, that’s going to end.”

Oh, really.

Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.

During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

…[T]he private equity firm was involved early on, at a time when the departure of jobs from the United States was beginning to accelerate and new companies were emerging as handmaidens to this outflow of employment.

Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party supporter, defeated the far more moderate Dick Lugar to become the GOP nominee for Senate.

And here‘s everything you need to know about today’s GOP (emphasis added):

MOURDOCK: I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view. … If we [win the House, Senate, and White House], bipartisanship means they have to come our way, and if we’re successful in getting the numbers, we’ll work towards that.

Senator Scott Brown, who won office vowing to be the 41st vote to block President Obama’s health care law and who has since voted three times to repeal it, acknowledged Monday that he takes advantage of it to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan… Brown is insuring his daughter Ayla, a professional singer who is 23 years old, under a widely popular provision of the law requiring that family plans cover children up to age 26.

Read on at the Boston Globe.

As we reach the one year anniversary of Mission Actually Accomplished, let us remember both sides’ foreign policy priorities:

“It’s not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
-Mitt Romney, April 2007

Of course, nowadays he says of course he’d have tried to catch one person:

“Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.”
-Mitt Romney, April 2012

Thanks for reminding us, Mitt, that military raids in foreign countries are not a no-brainer, and actually can fail, quite badly, which makes Obama’s bold move all the more impressive.

What kind of President signs a law requiring Americans to purchase something? A TYRANT. This is unconstitutional, and the Founding Fathers would never stand for this sort of th– wait, we’re talking about George Washington?

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Media Matters put together this great montage of Fox “News”[sic] anchors explaining how the President doesn’t have the power to lower gas prices, and that the way to insulate ourselves from gas price spikes is to reduce our use of oil.

The clips, of course, are from 2008.

“I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.”
-Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 25:45

“I’m not concerned about the very poor.”
-Mitt Romney

Earlier this year, Romney aired an ad where showing Obama saying “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose”. Which was, of course, Obama quoting McCain, not Obama confessing weakness on the economy. When pressed about this deceptive ad, Romney’s team offered no apologies, and said the ad was “intentional” and that it “worked”.

Yesterday, Mitt Romney said he is “not concerned about the very poor”. Not long thereafter, as this quote got widely circulated, he followed that up with this:

“No no no no. I — no, no. You’ve got to take the whole sentence, all right, as opposed to saying, and then change it just a little bit, because then it sounds very different,” said Romney.

I say we stick with his original policy. So you heard it, folks: Mitt Romney says he’s not concerned about the very poor. I’m sure that quote was “intentional”.

For those not following Stephen Colbert’s involvement in the SC GOP primary, his editorial in The State recaps it quite well. In brief: the SC GOP insisted that taxpayers cover much of the costs of the primary, so Colbert’s “Super PAC” agreed to cover the bill if they got naming rights (“The Colbert Super PAC South Carolina Republican Primary”), and if SC put a non-binding referendum on the ballot about corporate personhood.

The GOP agreed… at first.

Then the unthinkable happened — the activist judges of the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that the counties, not the GOP, would be responsible for funding the primary. And, in what I can only see as a personal attack on corporate persons, they ruled that all non-binding referenda be struck from the ballot.

The S.C. Republican Party no longer needed my $400,000, but being Southern gentlemen, they gracious[ly] offered to still want it.

Colbert’s editorial has the whole (hilarious) story.

Newt Gingrich, who is campaigning that he wants to “reassert the Constitution”, said in an interview on Face the Nation that, as President, he would have U.S. Marshals arrest Supreme Court justices whose decisions were “out of touch with American culture” and that their rulings should be ignored.

“Reassert”, apparently, means, “to ignore”. At least, as long as the Constitution still has those pesky “separation of powers” and “checks and balances” clauses.

Public criticism coupled with personal profit? Why, that kind of hypocrisy sounds nothing like the Newt Gingrich that I know!

Newt Gingrich seized the TV airwaves in 2009 to bash newly elected President Obama’s stimulus package, calling it “entirely a pork-barrel bill” that would do little to solve the recession.

Later, in a separate web video, the former House speaker stepped back from his blanket criticism. He explained that he strongly supported spending $27 billion of stimulus funds to encourage doctors and hospitals to create electronic medical records for their patients. Left unsaid was that his private consulting business in Washington has received large payments from medical technology companies that stand to profit from the federal money.

“The story of two men trapped in one body…”

It’s like they’re not even trying:

The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President Obama’s healthcare law, two of its justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, were feted at a dinner sponsored by the law firm that will argue the case before the high court.

The occasion was last Thursday, when all nine justices met for a conference to pore over the petitions for review. One of the cases at issue was a suit brought by 26 states challenging the sweeping healthcare overhaul passed by Congress last year, a law that has been a rallying cry for conservative activists nationwide.

No, really!

“For my tax plan, I take a page out of one of my great economists that I admire, Ronald Reagan,” Bachmann boasted. “And under my tax plan I want to adopt the Reagan tax plan. It brought the economic miracle of the 1980s. Why not go with what works? I want to reinstitute the Reagan tax model from the 1980s.”

I’m sure Rep. Bachmann is well aware that taxes were higher under Reagan than under Obama.