Protesters and their dogs rallied against Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the Westminster dog show at Madison Square Garden in New York on Tuesday. They questioned Romney’s suitability to be president, citing allegations that in the 80s he drove from Boston to Canada with his pet dog Seamus in a kennel tied to the roof of his car
“If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact ignore it,” said Gingrich to cheers
“Here are the two contradictory facts you must keep in your mind if you wish to understand American politics today:”
1. We are entering the fifth year of a profound economic slump that was brought on, in large part, by our government’s failure adequately to supervise financial institutions – a matter of deliberate national policy that was justified over the years by the familiar neoliberal faith that market forces would cause financial institutions to regulate themselves.
2. The main political effect of this slump has been the strengthening of the right wing of the Republican Party, with its doctrinaire insistence on further deregulation; in fact, of the various Republicans who have a realistic shot at the presidency, each one has publicly declared that regulation is one of the greatest evils facing the nation and has sworn to liberate banks and financial institutions from government supervision.
Rick Perry, frontrunner for the Republican party’s presidential nomination, faced challenges on social security and immigration issues from Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann at a televised debate in Tampa, Florida, and Tim Pawlenty pressed Ron Paul over comments about the causes of 9/11
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