The real U.S. corporate tax rate (that's a real metric) is down to 12.1%, the lowest it's been since 1972. And every 2012 GOP candidate wants to cut them even further. (@froomkin)
A poll finds that 60% of Americans think the Supreme Court will decide the legality of health insurance reform based on personal politics, rather than the law. But signs point towards a 6-3 majority upholding it anyway. (@HuffPostPol)
The only man in the country fighting to hold Wall Street accountable to the law just dropped the first bomb: NY AG sues Bank of America, J. P. Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo over illegal foreclosures and fraud. (@froomkin)
A board member of the Susan G. Komen foundation confirmed to the Washington Post that it still may blacklist Planned Parenthood by simply denying its future applications for the hell of it, and that the CEO who just ruined the foundation's reputation won't be held responsible. At all. (@ThePlumLineGS)
They just can't help it: Republicans in Wisconsin are urging conservative voters to write-in embattled Governor Scott Walker's name on the ballot for the Democratic primary in order to throw the election. (@HuffPostPol)
An adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign admits that the January jobs report (+243,000 new jobs, unemployment down to 8.3%) is good news for President Obama. (@politico)
Romney claimed at the same event today that the economy is improving and that President Obama's policies are making the recession worse. The latter claim has been repeatedly debunked, yet Romney won't stop lying about it. (@ThePlumLineGS)
Nearly all Senate Republicans are pledging to spark a constitutional crisis by challenging President Obama's recess appointments in court. What nobody will tell you: recess appointments expire at the end of the next session of Congress, guaranteeing that no one Obama appointed last month will still be serving in government by the time this case reaches a decision at the district level. Forget about appeals. Apparently forget about activist judges legislating from the bench, also. (@davewigel)
The all-Republican Virginia state government is expected to finish passing legislation that will sanction discrimination against gays who want to adopt children by private adoption agencies. Such laws have been challenged and thrown out by the courts for violating the U.S. Constitution. (@HuffPostPol)
Between pursuing a dead-ender "Tea Party" agenda with no chance of success, and "do nothing", it appears a consensus is forming amongst GOP leaders in Congress to "do nothing" as their governance agenda for 2012. Is now a bad time to mention that Republicans created a schedule for the House this year where they are only working for 109 days in 212? (@ThePlumLineGS)
Quickly fading Rick Santorum failed to qualify for the ballot in Indiana, plans to sue his way on. Where's that tort reform, guys? (@politico)
The DOW is up 95% since March of 2009, up 70% since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus), and up 60% since Obama was inaugurated. Why won't Obama stop hating businesses and water boarding Wall Street? (@steventdennis)
Shitwad Randall Terry asked the FCC to force a TV station to air his graphic anti-abortion ad under a law relating to politics during the Super Bowl. The FCC told him to fuck off. You may now watch the Super Bowl in Chicago without puking. You're welcome. (@technocowboy)
"Lana Del Rey all day." (@katyperry)
Mitt Romney just fired the man that everyone is crediting with helping Romney become a credible debater because he was getting too much credit for doing his job successfully. Well what do you know, Romney really does enjoy firing people. (@politico)
"Media reports of 200 dead in army attack on #syrian city of homs. A new scale of violence #Syria" (@richardengelnbc)
The Southern Republican Leadership Conference booked every room in a hotel for the SC primary, then refused to pay their bill. I wonder where they got that idea? (@kagrox)
Fresh off SOPA victory, the Silicon Valley lobby is going after data retention bills next. (@declanm)
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