By Bob Cesca: The formerly hilarious comedian and satirist Dennis Miller endorsed and stumped for Mitt Romney at a rally in Virginia yesterday. I have to say, even though Miller flipped to the dark side long ago and, as such, ceased to be funny, the guy can still put together an ...read more
I've been receiving mail and comments in regards to our piece on Romney's dishonesty regarding his personal fortune, some of which was critical of the headline we put up. "Mitt Romney is being fundamentally dishonest about how much money he has" was apparently misleading ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Two weeks ago, we broke a story on The Daily Banter about the potential of Mitt Romney having a lot more money than he is claiming. I had received a tip off from a source inside the banking industry that Romney is in fact a billionaire, not a millionaire, and ...read more
By Theodoric Meyer: With the documents Mitt Romney released recently, we know a bit more about his taxes. We know, for instance, that Romney paid a rate of 14.1 percent on $13.7 million in income on his 2011 tax return, which he achieved by purposely overpaying. Though he was ...read more
By Ben Cohen: If you want to understand the type of country a politician wants to build, it is often a good idea to take a look into the life they built for themselves before stepping onto the national stage. Obviously it's not the only indicator, but someone who has dedicated ...read more
Matt Taibbi has a good point when it comes to attacking Romney for apparently not paying any taxes (a fact yet to be proved): What they [the Democrats] should be doing instead is hammering Romney on the missing returns, yes, but focusing even more on the returns he did release. ...read more
Harry Reid's accusation that Mitt Romney paid no federal taxes in 10 years took a new twist as the Senate Majority leader took the issue to the Senate floor. From the LA Times: Reid’s allegations, which he has refused to substantiate, are taking the issue to a new level. The ...read more
This week on The Daily Banter, we looked at Mitt Romney's deceptive use of racist language, and broke down why the ongoing Bain Capital story is so important. We looked at the 'Money Honey' Maria Bartiromo's consistent disregard for the facts on Wall St scandals, and Chez asked ...read more
I know, I know, the people responsible for running Barack Obama's media campaign are the same people who sell you Pepsi, but the new campaign video is actually pretty good (and accurate): I've been wondering about this whole 'retro actively' retired business for a couple of ...read more
Chief neo-con propagandist Charles Krauthammer has been doing the rounds defending Romney's time at Bain Capital. Here he is lying about Romney's record: Obama starts with the attack on the [Romney] outsourcing. It’s shown to be false. If there was any, it happened after Romney ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Taking a look at the Mitt Romney Bain Capital fiasco from the air, it's really illustrating a major flaw in both the American mindset -- not to mention our corporatocracy. In the relationship between the corporate world, the financial sector and the rest of us, ...read more
While the Romney campaign is aggressively fighting back against reports that their candidate's tenure at Bain Capital went on for longer than he once claimed, a document filed by Romney in 2000 could prove extremely detrimental to his run at the Presidency. The Jan. 3rd 2000 ...read more
This argument deserves to be made over and over again to counter the ridiculous assumption that being successful in business means you know how to run an economy. Here's Obama on the difference: When some people question why I would challenge his Bain record, the point I’ve made ...read more
From the Guardian: Barack Obama's campaign team ratcheted up the rhetoric in the White House election battle on Thursday, claiming the Republican contender Mitt Romney may have committed a crime over how he portrayed his involvement with Bain Capital, the company where he made ...read more
In a great article about the anti-capitalist nature of big banks, James Kwak sums up the different rules medium sized business and giant financial institutions are subjected to: In general, the mechanism that breaks up inefficient conglomerates is the market for corporate ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The Mitt Romney campaign team will attempt to make the economy the key focus of the 2012 election because that is where they believe Obama is weakest. The economy isn't in great shape and the future looks even more uncertain. Romney has a stellar record as a ...read more
Mitt Romney proposed a series of steps to overhaul the public education system, reigniting the debate over school choice as his campaign intensifies its effort to introduce the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to a general-election audience. The education plan, ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Even though he obviously has some issues to overcome, I simply don't believe the progressive love affair with Newark Mayor Cory Booker is over. On Meet the Press, the popular mayor inexplicably attacked the Obama team for demonizing Mitt Romney's record with Bain ...read more
This says it all: Being a millionaire many times over, Romney has about as much understanding of the worries regular people face as Kim Jong Il did about North Koreans (and no, I'm not comparing Mitt Romney to Kim Jong Il). The United States is one of the most divided nations ...read more
