loser Archives

Mitt Romney Now Added To The “Gallery Of Presidential Losers”

Who knew there was actually a list like this?

One day after President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, a small bank in northwest Kansas will hold a different kind of celebration for Mitt Romney.

A photo of the 2012 Republican presidential nominee will be added Tuesday to Norton State Bank’s “They Also Ran Gallery.” Coffee and cookies will be served during a free reception.

Romney’s portrait and biography will be the 60th in the bank’s gallery of presidential losers. The first was that of Thomas Jefferson, who lost to John Adams in 1796 before defeating Adams for the presidency in 1800.

A bank president started the gallery in 1965. It is in an upper floor of the building and attracts a few hundred visitors a year.

Gingrich Celebrates The 15 Year Anniversary Of His Ethics Violations, By Winning South Carolina Primary

Tonight, as the polls closed in South Carolina, Rachel Maddow announced that NBC was projecting a win for Newt Gingrich. It is a historic achievement for the former Republican House Speaker, and Newt and his supporters can only hope that this momentum carries on to Florida.

Here are couple of interesting historical facts – Today is the anniversary of the Citizens United case, where the Supreme Court got rid of all the common sense rules on campaign donations allowing Corporations to donate an unlimited amount of funds to campaigns under the guise of “corporations are people.”

And this other piece of history – On this day some fifteen years ago, Newt Gingrich received some embarrassing news while he was the Speaker of the house.

On Jan. 21, 1997, one of the most memorable days in congressional history, Newt Gingrich became the first House speaker to be reprimanded by his colleagues for ethical misconduct. The 395-28 vote, to reprimand him for bringing discredit on the House for failing to ensure his use of tax-exempt groups was legal, was historic by itself. But Gingrich’s peers didn’t stop there. They fined him $300,000 for misleading the House ethics committee and causing it to extend a costly investigation.