0 donationness 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. the romneys then limited their deductions. they paid at least 13% in each of the last ten years. just so everyone s clear, they picked a rate that they needed to hit and then they didn t take their deductions. kevin, you re shaking your head. as a conservative, i would find this deeply offensive. well, i m really upset that romney has not come around to the williamson creed which is that tax evasion is a form of patriotism. you should be running the campaign. not only is this guy willingly paying his taxes, he s paying more taxes than he has to pay. one of the few things that romney ever said that made me happy about him as a candidate. if i was paying more taxes, then i wouldn t make much of a president. i agreed with him on that. why are you throwing mona way? i like the fact that on a typical year he makes about, you know, barack obama s net worth like that, and to me, to me, i will tell yo
headquarters of several islamist militias demanding they be disarmed. we ll talk about that tomorrow. president obama criticized congress in his weekly address this morning for failing to pass the farm bill and other legislation. we ll take a look at how democrats are suddenly putting up a fight for battle in congress. i m joined by my friend, john nichols, washington correspondent and my colleague at the nation magazine. l. joy williams joining the program. a political strategist and part of the program this week in blackness who also baked this wonderful tray of banana bread. it was too kind of you. i already had a peace. kevin williamson and ana marie cox. great to have you here. this was quite a week. quite a week in the campaign. quite a week in the campaign. the latest national poll released friday from the national journal has mitt romney trailing president obama nationally seven points among likely voters. while swing state polls from nbc and the wall street jour
course, baseball. so as we are in the bottom of the sixth in the election cycle, the game is tight. last night the democrats sent in their premier setup man, a left-hander named clinton, and set up he did. i want to nominate a man who s cool on the outside. but who burns for america on the inside. i could have watched that speech all night. like all good setup men, he left no doubt where he stands in relation to the closer, president barack obama. president obama started with a much weaker economy than i did. listen to me now. no president, no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. just in case you forgot, it is now the clinton/obama democratic party. america, if that is what you want. if th if that is what you believe, you must vote and re-elect president obama. god bless you and god bless america. [ cheers and applause ] to analyze all that, we brought in two of the
the mitt romney campaign last month told everybody that they were going to announce their vice presidential nominee before the republican convention. not at the convention, but before. and they haven t done it yet. and time is now running out before that convention, which means that everybody is around in the news biz because everybody is around waiting for that announcement. there are just not that many days left to do it. i mean, we know they want it to make a big impact like the sarah palin announcement made in 2008. we know the timing will likely be a sudden surprise sort of thing. but waiting for that means basically that nobody is leaving work. nobody is leaving their desks. nbc news reported today, quote, with a high degree of confidence, that the three finalists for the republican s vice presidential pick are former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, former george w. bush budget director, rob portman, and the author of the controversial house republican kill medicare bu
this. the mitt romney campaign last month told everybody that they were going to announce their vice presidential nominee before the republican convention. not at the convention, but before. and they haven t done it yet. and time is now running out before that convention, which means that everybody is around in the news biz because everybody is around waiting for that announcement. there are just not that many days left to do it. i mean, we know they want it to make a big impact like the sarah palin announcement made in 2008. we know the timing will likely be a sudden surprise sort of thing. but waiting for that means basically that nobody is leaving work. nobody is leaving their desks. nbc news reported today, quote, with a high degree of confidence, that the three finalists for the republican s vice presidential pick are former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, former george w. bush budget director, rob portman, and the author of the controversial house republican kill medic