John Adams once said, “facts are stubborn things.” These days, another Massachusetts politician has found that saying to ring especially true. While it’s still unclear how Mitt Romney can be the CEO, chairman, president and sole shareholder of Bain Capital, a company that he claims no responsibility for, it’s become increasingly evident that candidate Romney […]

Recently, we learned two important things about Mitt Romney. First, he would rather see the American economy fail than President Barack Obama win. Second, the extent of his hypocrisy is amazing. While he laments the toll that outsourcing has taken on our workers and economy, he amassed a fortune by investing in companies that outsourced […]

We all know this election is going to be about the economy. President Barack Obama knows it, Mitt Romney knows it and so do the media — even though at times pundits pretend it’s about much smaller and sillier topics. The difference, as the president told the country last week, is that he is the […]

During recent Sunday talk shows, a considerable amount of airtime was devoted to political pundits saying that they are shocked at President Obama’s negative Bain ad that parsed Mitt Romney economics. The criticism ranged from that offered by conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, who called Obama’s so-called new approach “self-destructive,” to CBS’s veteran […]