Inspired by Saturday’s statement, in which Fehrnstrom suggested the auto bailout was really Romney’s idea, Oliver Willis of Media Matters for America used his twitter feed to unleash a series of tweets he called “Fehrnstroming”:

romney 1774: "anyone else think its time we stop being british subjects?"

romney was in the colts draft room the day they got peyton manning: "gentlemen, i just feel it in my gut.

romney: "yeah, stan, what if we make the lead character a teenager, and have him bitten by something like... a spider?

romney: "sorry to interrupt this gathering of cavemen, but have you fellows considered 'fire'?

romney: "bill, this stuff is good... but have you tried writing it in iambic pentameter?"

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/103040/romney-fehrnstrom-gm-chrysler-detroit-auto-bailout

Rachel Maddow Makes History and Triumphs over the War On Women

"Rachel Maddow was correct. The interruption by Castellanos was significant, because Republicans don’t want to talk about the war on women. They have adopted the same position towards the rights of women that they long ago adopted towards issues like poverty and racism. It doesn’t exist."

http://www.politicususa.com/rachel-maddow-war-on-women.html

Rush Limbaugh Lies And We Call It Friday – This Time Over Job Growth (AUDIO)

"120,000 jobs added is not a good number, but contrast that to just four years ago, when the Bush job losses had just started, it looks pretty good. In March of 2008, we lost 112,000 jobs. The next month we lost 215,000 jobs. During the recession’s worst month, January of 2009, we lost a whopping 839,000 jobs. Since Obama took office, the private sector has regained 3 million jobs, while government jobs are at their lowest level since 2006."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/28/rush-limbaugh-lies-and-we-call-it-friday-this-time-over-job-growth-audio/

US Navy Veteran Suffers Humiliation At VA Hospital: His Representative, Congressman Steve Womack Shows Little Concern

"Taking into consideration that Congressman Womack recently voted for the Ryan Budget proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, it does not appear that fixing the problems over at the Veterans Administration is too high on Womack’s list of things to do.  After all, Ryan’s budget proposal fails to mention the word 'veteran' even once while somehow cutting an estimated $11 billion in funding for veterans."


http://www.theprogressivecop.com/2012/04/us-navy-veteran-suffers-humiliation-at.html

Five Pennsylvania Legislators Leave ALEC

"A grassroots campaign by Keystone Progress to encourage Pennsylvania legislators to publicly reject membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is already yielding dividends. Five former members of the shadowy right-wing front group behind state laws restricting access to the ballot and “stand your ground” gun laws have already said they have left ALEC."

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/26/471663/five-pennsylvania-legislators-leave-alec/

Scalia Likens Undocumented Immigrants To ‘Bank Robbers’

"The line drew uncomfortable laughter and some gasps in the courtroom. It’s the sort of analogy that makes it easier for immigrant-rights advocates to accuse their opponents of lacking humanity. The vast majority of undocumented immigrants, advocates often have to point out, are not criminals and are merely trying to make a living for themselves and their families."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/scalia-likens-undocumented-immigrants-to-bank-robbers.php

Senator Chuck Grassley Advocates Boycott Of Coca-Cola To Punish Company For Leaving ALEC

"U might think abt not drinking Coca Cola since company sucombed to pressure fr Leftist not to support ALEC" ~ Senator Grassley's Twitter feed.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/21/468888/senator-chuck-grassley-advocates-boycott-of-coca-cola-to-punish-company-for-leaving-alec/

Average Fortune 500 CEO Now Paid 380 Times As Much As The Average Worker

"The ratio of CEO-to-worker pay between CEOs of the S&P 500 Index companies and U.S. workers widened to 380 times in 2011 from 343 times in 2010. Back in 1980, the average large company CEO only received 42 times the average worker’s pay." I can remember complaining about this when it was 70 times. How many workers would the inflated pay of a CEO employ?

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/19/467516/ceo-pay-gap-2011/

McConnell Breaks With House GOP, Agrees To Uphold Last Year’s Debt Deal

In his first opportunity to weigh in on the battle, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) yesterday sided with Obama and the Senate Democrats. Led by McConnell, all but two Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to uphold the August debt deal.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/20/468289/mcconnell-breaks-with-house-gop-agrees-to-uphold-last-years-debt-deal/

Half The Lawmakers On Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Task Force Are ALEC Members, All Supported Stand Your Ground

Wickahd shoahkah.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/20/468444/half-the-lawmakers-on-florida-stand-your-ground-task-force-are-alec-members-all-supported-stand-your-ground/

Rush Limbaugh Boycott Spreads To Local Advertisers and Radio Stations

"The message that the National Organization for Women is sending is that the pressure is not going to stop. Any advertiser who supports, or radio station that carries Rush Limbaugh will be held accountable. Contrary to what Limbaugh wants to think, the outrage isn’t phony. The opposition is real and the protests and boycotts will go on."

http://www.politicususa.com/rush-limbaugh-boycott-now/

Republicans Block Buffett Rule As Dems Vow To Fight On

"A CNN poll released Monday found that 72 percent of Americans support the Buffett Rule."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/republicans-block-buffett-rule-as-dems-vow-to-fight-on.php?ref=fpa

Shaking The Etch-A-Sketch: After Promising To Veto It, Romney Says He Wants A DREAM Act

"This is a significant turnaround for Romney, who was extremely anti-immigrant for the bulk of the primary season. Indeed, Romney even campaigned with an anti-immigrant leader who has ties to hate groups and helped pen Arizona’s 'show us your papers' bill — on Martin Luther King Day. But now, facing abysmal poll numbers among Latinos, Romney is changing his tune."

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/16/465050/shaking-the-etch-a-sketch-after-promising-to-veto-it-romney-says-he-wants-a-dream-act/

Paul Ryan Gets It Wrong Invoking Catholic 'Subsidiarity' Principle

"Ryan seems to think that if government aid to the poor is radically scaled back, those old civic bonds and institutions will just organically reappear, like wildflowers. Churches and charities—and we all know how flush with time and resources they are!—will move right into the breach. No one gets hurt."

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/scott-galupo/2012/04/13/paul-ryan-gets-it-wrong-invoking-catholic-subsidiarity-principle

Romney Adviser Ed Gillespie Struggles To Defend Campaign’s Major Economic Claim

"Even Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace saw the problem with the claim and pressed Gillespie when he mentioned the figure this morning. 'It is not true,' Wallace said of the larger Romney argument, calling the 92 percent figure a 'little bit of an accounting trick' and noting that 'all the independent fact checkers have said it’s misleading.'”

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/15/464654/ed-gillespie-economics-struggle/

Obama Drops the Hammer on Mitt Romney’s Lies

"What the Republicans are about to find out is that Barack Obama is not John Kerry. Obama is not going to let the lies of the Republican candidate go unchallenged. Republicans will try to use Citizens United to swift boat Obama on an epic scale, but Obama will be ready. If this week is any indication, Mitt Romney may be the first nominee to get desperate in a general election campaign before he has even clinched the nomination."

http://www.politicususa.com/obama-drops-the-hammer-on-mitt-romneys-lies/

ALEC Whines As People Power Makes Them Pay

"Money is a powerful motivator, and the love of money causes people to do terrible things, but the thought of losing money is also powerful and the American people have the power to take it away from corporations, radio talk-show hosts, and ALEC’s donors, and now that people realize they control corporate wealth, real change may finally happen."

http://www.politicususa.com/people-power-alec/

Uteruses Everywhere Weep As Arizona Governor Signs Insanely Restrictive Abortion Bill Into Law

"Jordan Goldberg says this law 'disregards women's health in a way I've never seen before. The women of Arizona can't access medical treatment that other women can.' That's the thing, it's not just going to restrict access to abortion. It also dictates that schools make teaching about birth and adoption a priority"

http://jezebel.com/5901617/uteruses-everywhere-weep-as-arizona-governor-signs-insanely-restrictive-abortion-bill-into-law

Mitt Romney Lies His Ass Off To the NRA About Obama and Guns

"Mitt Romney’s lie your ass off to get elected tour took the stage at the NRA’s annual meeting and uttered a barrage of falsehoods about President Obama and guns, so extreme that most of them had no relationship to any facts."

http://www.politicususa.com/romney-nra-obama-guns/ 

Mitt Romney is Exactly What’s Wrong with the American Economy

"I like to say that Mitt Romney made his millions betting against American workers. It isn’t the greatest Romney-attack line ever. (That belongs to Ted Kennedy who said, 'He isn’t pro-choice or anti-choice. He’s multiple choice.') But it makes a point you can’t hear enough."

http://eclectablog.com/2012/04/mitt-romney-is-exactly-whats-wrong-with-the-american-economy.html

Religious Leaders Slam Ryan For Using Catholic Faith To Justify Cutting Programs That Help The Poor

“'It’s the height of hypocrisy for Rep. Ryan to claim that his approach to the budget is shaped by Catholic teaching and values,' said Fr. John Baumann, S.J., founder of PICO National Network. [...] 'A central moral measure of any budget proposal is how it affects “the least of these” (Matthew 25). The needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty should come first.'”

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/12/463211/catholic-leaders-ryan-budget/ 

Romney bought the nomination with flood of nasty ads

"With his eye on the general election, Romney wasn't so much buying the new Republican base -- the ultraconservative, once-and-future tea partiers -- as he was bribing them. It was part of a tried-and-true Nixonian strategy: Run to the extreme right in the primaries, then run as fast as you can to the middle in the general election."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/12/opinion/brazile-romney-negative/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

Karl Rove Group That Absurdly Blames Obama For Rising Gas Prices Was Bankrolled By Top Oil Speculator

"Crossroads GPS, a political organization run by strategist Karl Rove, has spent $1.7 million on a new national ad campaign blaming President Obama for making gasoline cost 'too much.' But the organization has in the past received substantial funding from Paul Singer, manager of a hedge fund responsible for some of the highest volume of oil trading in the country."

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/11/462668/karl-rove-group-blames-obama-for-rising-gas-prices-bankrolled-by-top-oil-speculator/

Every Single One Of Romney’s Model Justices Voted Against Lilly Ledbetter

"Yet for all of Romney’s equivocating on whether or not he actually believes that women should be paid the same amount as men who do the exact same job, Romney cannot hide two important facts. The Ledbetter Act was only necessary because of a 5-4 Supreme Court decision which overruled decades of precedent protecting equal pay for equal work; and Romney promised to appoint more justices like the ones who voted against Lilly Ledbetter."

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/11/462692/every-single-one-of-romneys-model-justices-voted-against-lilly-ledbetter/

EXCLUSIVE: Shareholders Call On Companies To Disclose ALEC Ties

"While some companies are refusing to distance themselves from ALEC’s involvement in Voter ID legislation and support for the 'stand your ground' laws that may play a pivotal role in the defense of Trayvon Martin’s shooter, newly released SEC documents show that shareholders are increasingly uncomfortable with their companies’ involvement in the conservative organization." By the way -- UPS has been funding ALEC for years in attempt to dismantle the USPS and gain that market share.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/11/462282/exclusive-shareholders-call-on-companies-to-disclose-alec-ties/ 

Romney Campaign Enlists GOP Women Who Opposed Equal Pay Bills To Attack Obama

"...their concern for pay equity and women in the workplace must be a recent development. Both congresswomen voted against the landmark Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 — which empowers women to seek restitution for pay discrimination — and both voted against the proposed Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have made it easier for women to fight pay inequality."

 http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/11/462671/romney-women-pay-equity/

Obama: Ronald Reagan a ‘wild-eyed, socialist, tax hiking class warrior’

"Obama also said Reagan thought 'the wealthiest should pay their fair share and said so,' adding, 'I know that position might disqualify him from the Republican primaries these days, but what Ronald Reagan was calling for then is the same thing we’re calling for now, a return to basic fairness and responsibility. Everyone doing their part.'”

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/11/obama-ronald-reagan-a-wild-eyed-socialist-tax-hiking-class-warrior/

Allen West: I've 'Heard' 80 House Democrats Are Communist Party Members (VIDEO)

"West warned constituents at a Tuesday town hall event that he's 'heard' that dozens of his Democratic colleagues in the House are members of the Communist Party, the Palm Beach Post reported. West wouldn't elaborate beyond that, however, and didn't offer up any names. There are currently 190 House Democrats." This is the guy Sarah Palin said would make a fine GOP VP candidate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/allen-west-democrats-communist-party_n_1417279.html

Obama Camp Brings Back Romney’s Tax Issues In A Major Way

"Calling Romney the 'beneficiary of a broken tax system,' Messina said, 'Any time Romney is trying to say someone’s out of touch is a little difficult when he’s shopping for car elevators.'”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/obama-camp-brings-back-romneys-tax-issues-in-a-major-way.php

26 Major Corporations Paid No Corporate Income Tax For The Last Four Years, Despite Making Billions In Profits

Amongst the 30 are corporate titans such as General Electric, Boeing, Verizon, and Mattel. The only four companies that slipped into positive tax territory were DTE Energy, Honeywell, Wells Fargo, and DuPont, with DuPont the only one that paid more than 4 percent over the four years.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/09/460519/major-corporations-no-taxes-four-year/

Under the Supreme Court: High court agrees to consider corporate free speech post-Citizen United

"In March, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer argued the Montana case would give the Supreme Court a chance to rethink Citizens United. 'A petition for certiorari will give the Court an opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates' allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway,' the statement said."

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/04/08/Under-the-Supreme-Court-High-court-agrees-to-consider-corporate-free-speech-post-Citizen-United/UPI-85721333873680/#ixzz1rZxr4YtN

Ryan, Obama, and Deficits

"There’s an obvious calculation I haven’t see done: how does the Ryan proposal scored more or less honestly — that is, without the 'mystery meat', the assumed revenue from closing loopholes that Ryan refuses to identity — compare with the Obama budget?"

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/ryan-obama-and-deficits/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

Eric Cantor donation roils House GOP

"House Majority Leader Eric Cantor went into damage control mode Friday following the revelation that he contributed $25,000 to a super PAC devoted to defeating incumbent House members — including numerous Republicans."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74926.html#ixzz1rTtj0Mem

This is no War on Women. It’s simply a uteri-policing action.

"It’s an attempted Jedi mind trick—'These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.'—performed by the exact opposite of a Jedi. And it’s deadly serious."

http://eclectablog.com/2012/04/women-to-quit-being-hysterical.html

Democracy Begins Its Death In Michigan

"Republicans do not have a 2/3rds majority, but nonetheless, they have passed over 500 bills under “immediate effect.” How does that work? As Maddow shows, they aren’t even counting the votes. That’s right; Democrats’ votes are not even being counted. The Democrats sued and won, at least for now, and it will put every piece of legislation passed by the GOP into legal question."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/05/democracy-begins-its-death-in-michigan-rachel-maddows-expose-video/

President Obama Calls Republican Budget ‘Thinly-Veiled Social Darwinism,’ ‘A Prescription For Decline’

"This Congressional Republican budget is something different altogether. It is a Trojan Horse. Disguised as deficit reduction plan, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It is thinly-veiled Social Darwinism."

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/03/457386/obama-republican-budget-social-darwinis/

Koch-Funded ALEC Behind State Attempts To ‘Reclaim’ Your Public Lands

"ALEC is behind many controversial state legislative efforts, including Wisconsin’s anti-union legislation, “stand your ground” gun laws, and teaching children climate denial."

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/04/03/457463/koch-funded-alec-behind-state-attempts-to-reclaim-your-public-lands/

Robert Greenwald on the New Film 'Koch Brothers Exposed' -- the 1% at Its Very Worst

"Koch Brothers Exposed zeroes in on several aspects of the Kochs' impact by focusing on the people most affected by the brothers' use of their billions to buy politicians and ignore regulators."

http://www.alternet.org/story/154741/robert_greenwald_on_the_new_film_

Obama hits hard at GOP budget plan, Romney

"The president linked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to plan, offering sharp criticism of both. 'He said that he’s very supportive of this new budget. And he even called it "marvelous," which is a word you don’t often hear when it comes to describing the budget.' He added, to laughter and applause, 'It’s a word you don’t often hear generally.'”

http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/03/10998988-obama-hits-hard-at-gop-budget-plan-romney

SC Governor Nikki Haley Says Women Don’t Care About Birth Control (VIDEO)

“I feel like it’s a retro-debate that took place in the 1950s. It’s sort of back to the future, isn’t it? And it is surprising in the 21st century we would be revisiting this issue.” ~ Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/03/sc-governor-nikki-haley-says-women-dont-care-about-birth-control-video/

US Exports At Record Levels Putting GOP Campaign Strategy On Life Support

"While Republicans complain about fake uncertainty, the Democrats have quietly rebuilt the foundations we all stand on."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/02/us-exports-at-record-levels-putting-gop-campaign-strategy-on-life-support/

Swing States Poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead

"In the poll, Romney leads among all men by a single point, but the president leads among women by 18. That reflects a greater disparity between the views of men and women than the 12-point gender gap in the 2008 election."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-04-01/swing-states-poll/53930684/1

OUR VIEW: Gov. Robert Bentley's Taxpayer Protection Pledge isn't leadership, nor is proposal by his aide to raise fees on state services

"If the point of a no-new-taxes pledge is to keep government small, why would a governor who took the pledge support any new revenue? Yes, a fee is charged only on a service being used, such as issuing documents, making inspections or offering professional licenses. But the fee is essentially a tax that helps pay for the service. Raising that fee is raising the tax on the service. Plain and simple, a fee increase is a tax increase. That's not just The Birmingham News' editorial board saying it"

http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-commentary/2012/04/our_view_gov_robert_bentleys_t.html

POLL: Women Voters Abandon GOP In Key Battleground States

“'The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney’s support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group.'”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/poll-women-voters-abandon-gop-in-key-battleground-states.php?ref=fpb