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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside Home Or Lose Benefits … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen, Romney Campaign, Ann Romney Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney Stay At Home Mom, Hilary Rosen Ann Romney …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney Flashback: Poor Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside The Home Or Lose Welfare — In case it wasn't already clear that last week's controversy over stay at home moms was entirely manufactured, this should put the question to bed. — Romney and allies cried that Democrats had declared …
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Little Green Footballs, The Mahablog, The Raw Story and theGrio
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Geithner calls Romney statements on women, economy ‘ridiculous’ — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ripped presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday, calling Romney's argument that women have been disproportionately hurt during the recession “a ridiculous argument.”
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CNN, Wake up America, Politico, Scared Monkeys, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Other McCain
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Bill Maher: Ann Romney Has “Never Gotten Her A** Out of the House to Work”
Bill Maher: Ann Romney Has “Never Gotten Her A** Out of the House to Work”
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Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, Los Angeles Times, Power Line and Macsmind
Sal Gentile / msnbc.com:
Romney: Welfare parents ‘need to go to work’
Romney: Welfare parents ‘need to go to work’
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Ezra Klein, mobile.nationaljournal.com, The Moderate Voice, Business Insider and BuzzFeed
The Express Tribune:
‘Sterling’ bounty offered for Obama, Bush — HARIPUR: — In an expression of solidarity with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, British parliamentarian of Kashmiri origin Lord Nazir Ahmed has announced a reward for the captor of US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W Bush.
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MEMRI:
Britain's Lord Nazir Ahmed Offers £10 Million Bounty for Obama, Bush — During a recent visit to Pakistan, Lord Nazir Ahmed, a member of the British House of Lords who originally hails from Pakistani Kashmir, announced he was putting up a bounty of £10 million for the capture …
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National Review and Campaign 2012
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Axelrod TKO-ed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday — David Axelrod was shredded this morning by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Wallace kept Axelrod on defense and off balance throughout. The major bloodletting occurred here: — Like his boss, Axelrod seems almost at a loss to respond once the talking points are challenged.
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Fox News, Power Line and Los Angeles Times
Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Geithner: Romney's statements on women “misleading and ridiculous” — Bob Schieffer interviews Timothy Geithner for the Sunday, April 15th edition of “Face the Nation” (Photo for CBS News by: Mary Calvert) — (CBS News) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pushed back on Mitt Romney's statements …
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Charles Dharapak / ABCNEWS:
Tea Party Loses Its Luster: Poll — Wither the Tea Party? — A major force in the 2010 midterm elections, the movement has stalled in public popularity, its support well below a majority and decidedly lukewarm. And Americans by a broad 23-point margin say the more they hear about the Tea Party movement …
Jake Shermanand Manu Raju / Politico:
Mitt Romney and GOP in Congress embrace - but warily — Before Rep. Paul Ryan rolled out his controversial budget plan last month, there was one man eager to learn its details. — It was Mitt Romney. — Over the course of several phone calls with Romney, the Wisconsin Republican explained …
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Fox News:
Cheney calls Obama ‘unmitigated disaster’ in post-surgery speech — Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Wyoming Republican state convention at the Little America Hotel and Resort in Cheyenne, Wyo. — Dick Cheney, just weeks after undergoing heart transplant surgery …
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Weasel Zippers, The Spectacle Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit, The Moderate Voice and Macsmind
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Come Back, Sarah Palin! — “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” writers have devastatingly lampooned Mitt Romney as a corny, coreless candidate who evokes an “Eh, I guess” response in voters. Now they're worried that we're heading, comedy-wise, toward an “Eh, I guess” election.
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Mediaite, NewsBusters.org, Gothamist and Daily Kos
New York Post:
Secret Service hooker flap over $47 (or just 83,475 naughty lil' pesos) — By GEOFF EARLE in DC and DON KAPLAN in NY — A Secret Service agent shamed the United States after a wild night of babes and booze that ended in an argument with a Colombian hooker over as little as $47.
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JustOneMinute, Weasel Zippers, Don Surber, Instapundit, Taylor Marsh, Althouse, Hot Air and Politico
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Anti-Abortion Bachmann Says Women Need To Make Their Own Decisions About Their Bodies — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) argued that women should be allowed to make choices over their own bodies, while blasting Obamacare on Meet The Press. Without noting the irony of the GOP war …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Kucinich supporters eye Washington state move to revive his political career — Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D) admission that he's examining his options in Washington state has his supporters wondering whether, once again, he can resurrect his downtrodden political career.
New York Times:
Taliban Launch Coordinated Attacks Across Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen barraged the diplomatic quarter and the Parliament in the Afghan capital for hours on Sunday and struck at least three eastern provinces as well, in a complex attack clearly designed …
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AP Member Choice Complete / Associated Press:
Taliban attack Afghan capital, 3 other cities
Taliban attack Afghan capital, 3 other cities
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Reuters
Maha / The Mahablog:
The Republican War Against Women — The Wall Street Journal wants us to know that Republicans can win the War Against Women. Seriously. I like this headline so much I screen captured it before some dweeb at WSJ wakes up and realizes what it says - — Anyway, WSJ thinks Romney …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Booman Tribune
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