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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum (R) backed Mitt Romney’s claims that President Obama’s policies are responsible for the killing of four Americans in Libya. During an interview Wednesday afternoon on the Scott Hennen Show, Santorum charged that Obama has “showed that we’re going to cower to radical Islamists.” “If you’re a thug, you need to just wrap yourself in victimhood and call the United States an oppressor and this president will sympathize with you,” he exclaimed.

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From: Ben Adler Ben Adler Rick Santorum is bragging about being endorsed by Joseph Farah of World Net Daily. Is he endorsing Farah’s claims that President Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii? 

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Santorum predicts Obamacare will ration care: “Santorum said that President Barack Obama’s health overhaul is rationing care, adding long wait times and blocking Medicare patients from seeing their doctors. The health law includes a panel that cuts payments to doctors and hospitals. Santorum said that those cuts are forcing doctors to drop Medicare patients and to take more patients with private insurance or who can pay for care themselves.” [ WKMG ] Little research on overuse of healthcare: “Despite concerns about the high cost and inefficiency associated with the overuse of healthcare, research is limited and often addresses only a few medical interventions, according to an article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.” [ Modern Healthcare ] Abortion foes attempt to reignite issue: “Abortion foes are planning an election-year strategy aimed at forcing President Obama and congressional Democrats to take a potentially damaging stand on the issue.” [ The Hill ] Franks introduces fetal pain bill: “A Republican congressman from Arizona has introduced a bill that would ban abortions of fetuses 20 weeks or older in the District of Columbia. The bill from Rep. Trent Franks cites research indicating that fetuses can feel pain starting at 20 weeks.” [ AP ] Massachusetts governor touts payment reform in State of State address: Gov. Deval Patrick (D) “renewed a pitch for a change in the way medical care is paid that he proposed last year. Those changes would replace the current system of paying fees for specific services and instead pay doctors to coordinate patient care and be compensated on a per capita basis for providing overall quality care. That proposal is now before the Legislature.”

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From: John Nichols John Nichols The remains of the Republican presidential field will gather Monday night in Florida for a debate that could again reshape a rapidly evolving race.

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Battered by growing scrutiny over how he acquired his massive wealth, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney fed concerns of South Carolina’s Republican primary voters when he refused to immediately release his tax returns. Instead, Romney accused President Barack Obama and his Republican opponents of engaging in “class warfare” and attacks against “success.” The “class warfare” accusation has become so commonplace among the Republican field that now NBC’s David Gregory, the host of Meet the Press, believes that President Obama “wants to play” the “class warfare argument,” as this ThinkProgress compilation shows: GREGORY: Can you have a Republican nominee who can play into the class warfare argument that the president wants to play in general? ROMNEY: Our president has divided the nation, engaged in class warfare and attacked a free enterprise system that has made America the economic envy of the world. We cannot defeat that president with a candidate who has joined in that very assault on free enterprise. When my opponents attack success and free enterprise, they’re not only attacking me, they’re attacking every person who dreams of a better future, he’s attacking you . GINGRICH: We are for helping the people who want to create jobs. He wants to wage class warfare against the people who create jobs. CAIN: I don’t think he needs to release his tax returns and here is why: it gives liberals another arguing point for class warfare . Class warfare divides this country, just like when they bring up the race card, it divides us. Watch it: As former candidate and Romney endorser Herman Cain succinctly described, Republicans don’t want Americans to know the facts about Mitt Romney’s extraordinary wealth, because then this country might think about the growing economic class divide in the nation. The U.S. has a higher level of income inequality than Europe, Canada, Australia, or South Korea. Multi-millionaires like Romney and billionaires like the funders of the SuperPACs dominating this campaign season have been getting lower tax rates even as their wealth grows.

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From: Ben Adler Ben Adler Newt Gingrich appeals to South Carolina Republicans like no other candidate. But can he overcome his personal history and his incompetent ground game?

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From: Ben Adler Ben Adler Newt Gingrich won South Carolina’s Republican primary by appealing to religiosity, economic populism and racial resentment. 

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Much has been said in recent days after Mitt Romney revealed that his effective tax rate is close to 15 percent — below that of many middle-class Americans — because much of his income comes from investment gains, which are taxed at lower rates than normal wages. But Flyod Norris reminds us in the New York Times today that “unearned income” from investments was not always taxed at a lower rate than earned income. For two years, thanks to Republican icon Ronald Reagan , capital gains and earned income were treated equally: For most of the history of income taxes in America, long-term capital gains — defined at different times as investments held for minimum periods of as little as six months and as long as 10 years — have been taxed at substantially lower rates than top ordinary income tax rates. There was, in fact, only one time that capital gains were taxed at the same rates that were paid by people who earned their money by working. That was during the years 1988 to 1990, as a result of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 — a law championed by President Ronald Reagan . Reagan’s Vice President, George H.W. Bush, convinced Reagan and Congress to lower the rate again as he was preparing to run for the presidency, and the capital gains rates was subsequently lowered to today’s rate of 15 percent by his son, President George W. Bush, as part of his 2003 tax cut. As Citizens for Tax Justice has noted, Reagan’s tax increase did not cause investment to fall, as many anti-tax ideologues had predicted.

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From endorsing Arlen Specter and Mitt Romney in their Presidential runs, to stopping the Clinton Impeachment, to crushing Right to work legislation, the so-called conservative purist is exposed- Santorum in South Carolina Primary sinking

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From: Ben Adler Ben Adler Newt is making a pitch aimed at the cultural and racial animosities of conservative whites—and it may be working. 

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