Did High Court Just Do Romney a Solid?

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney wasted little time rushing to the cameras when the Supreme Court narrowly upheld the president's sweeping health care reform law.

During the Supreme Court's gay marriage arguments in March, a Justice Department lawyer named Sri Srinivasan urged the justices to kill the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act.

ROME — Italy’s high court on Tuesday faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of “deficiencies, contradictions and illogical” conclusions and ordering the new appeals court to look at all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the teen.

During Supreme Court arguments last week over California's gay marriage ban, several justices suggested the case never should have come before the court in the first place.

On the basis of Mitt Romney's latest appeal to the far right, including a vow to "teach Iranians the meaning of American resolve", and also on Romney's pledge to start a trade war with China, I am now willing to state that I would rather see president Obama reelected than Mitt Romney be elected. I do not say this lightly. It will likely cost me readership. So be it. Consequences be dammed, I speak my mind. No Hope Elsewhere

Does Mitt Romney really "Know Better" than the silly things he has said on the campaign trail lately? I ask the question because that subject came up twice recently, once in Time Magazine, and once in the Financial Times. Writing for Time Magazine, writer Joe Klein brought up the subject in The Imaginary Campaign

Foot-in-mouth disease appears to be as least as important than the economy. Thanks to the former, as well as Mitt Romney's completely inept handling of independent voters, it will be extremely difficult if not impossible for Romney to win the presidential election in November. Romney Casts Off 47% of Voters Every other week or so, Romney seems to make a major gaff of some sort. His recent flip-flops on Obamacare are a case-in-point.

Last week the Tax Policy Center (TPC) released this distributional analysis of the Romney tax plan, exploring how the plan could be made revenue neutral as Romney has claimed it would be.