The Competent Conservative

So, after demanding Mitt Romney’s tax returns in an effort to make him look like he’s just another greedy, rich Republican , the returns show that Mr. Romney donates 15 times more to charity than the President of the United States.  I guess all those multi-million dollar vacations to Hawaii, Spain and other swanky, super [...]

Jeffrey Zients will serve as President Obama’s new acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), but the president’s decision might undercut attacks on Republican Mitt Romney’s career as a venture capitalist, because Zients and Romney are both alumni of Bain & Company. “I’m pleased to designate Jeff Zients to lead the Office [...]

For all the fire directed at the private equity world this week – from Mitt Romney’s opponents in both parties – few major politicians can claim to have their hands clean when it comes to the financial services industry, and President Barack Obama is no exception. Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry found that out the [...]

Wow. So I just came across this video of Chris Wallace taking on the head of the Democratic National Committee for Democrat attacks on Mitt Romney for laying off workers. He asks that if we should blame Mitt Romney for bankrupt companies that he invested in, then shouldn’t we blame the president for making a [...]

MSNBC’s O’Donnell Says Obama Doesn’t Want To Run Against Mitt Romney.

  From Public Polling Policy:   Obama trails only one Republican- Mitt Romney- in a hypothetical match up in the state. Romney has a 48-44 advantage against him. This makes Arizona the third state in the last month, along with Nevada and Pennsylvania, where we’ve found Romney as the only Republican who leads Obama. Romney [...]

H/T Rightspeak.com Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) stressed Tuesday that he doesn’t care about the politics of Osama bin Laden’s killing this past weekend. But that doesn’t mean President Obama’s unbeatable in 2012, the GOP heavyweight said as well. “I think the killing of Osama bin Laden is an enormous success, and I don’t [...]

Thanks Bosman! Americans are more pessimistic about the nation’s economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama’s first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Amid rising gas prices, stubborn unemployment [...]