Inauguration Day may be nine months away, but that’s not stopping Mitt Romney from cashing in on the possibility that he could be president-elect by then.
In a fundraising plea circulated by a Georgia supporter andobtained by Buzzfeed, the campaign was said to be “asking people who are able to make a $50,000 contribution to do so today and become a ‘Founding Member’ of Romney Victory,” a new joint fundraising committee that allows Romney to rake in larger donations than he had been collecting through his single campaign committee.
In return, the campaign is offering invitations to “a special retreat in late June in California,” “yet to be determined access” at the GOP convention in August, and “preferred status” at a presidential inaugural retreat.
The $50,000 contribution required for this special access is steep, but still below the legal maximum of $75,800 that an individual can give to the committee.
In what is being billed as his most specific policy speech to date, the Republican presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, spoke to a group of donors over the weekend and explained that HUD – The Department of Urban Development – “might not be around later.”
Romney went into a level of detail not usually seen by the public in the speech, which was overheard by reporters on a sidewalk below. One possibility floated by Romney included the elimination of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Cabinet-level agency once led by Romney’s father, George.
“I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” Romney said. “Things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of, that might not be around later. But I’m not going to actually go through these one by one. What I can tell you is, we’ve got far too many bureaucrats. I will send a lot of what happens in Washington back to the states.”
So what is HUD? According to their website, HUD’s mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination.
“I see Obama as Sisyphus in the first four years, and nobody would speak about the size of the rock, or the elevation of the hill. All you hear people talk about is what he didn’t do.
To come from what he has asked to take over and do in the time, to behave as an American, to put up with those, who were, in my estimation, acting very un-American to get rid of those people, it took longer than patience should allow, but he tried to bring us together, even to argue with radio hosts and people who have nothing to do with anything.
It’s important that this man has had to fight a similar battle of a black person in America. Hundreds of thousands and millions of people still behind him, but people who are very quietly acting like they have no idea what he inherited. It’s as if he had the surplus, when he moved into office, and this is — this is sad. And it’s sad about them. Because they know that they have misbehaved. They know they’ve taken America and slowed down the progress, and there are statements that are very clear in saying as much. I don’t want this man to succeed. Well, why, said the brown fly?”
A U.S. drone strike killed seven suspected al-Qaida members believed to be heading toward a restive province where Yemeni forces have been intensely battling the terror group,Yemeni officials said.
The unmanned U.S. drone targeted a vehicle in the province of Bayda, south of the capital of Sanaa, killing the seven people inside on the spot, according to two Yemeni military officials.
A statement from the Ministry of Defense said only that a jet fired a missile at a vehicle carrying al-Qaida members, destroying it and the people inside. The statement did not clarify whether the strike was American or Yemeni. The discrepancy could not be immediately clarified.
Mitt Romney Supports Roe V Wade – Roe V Wade is a policy that has governed this country for decades. It gives a woman the ability to choose whether to have an abortion.
No Wait, Mitt Romney wants to overturn Roe V Wade
Mitt Romney actually have multiple positions on this abortion issue. For even more Romney positions on this issue, click here.
Over the last week there has been a Republican manufactured hoopla about stay-at-home moms. All of a sudden, Republicans are trying to get women’s vote in the 2012 Presidential election due to a recent poll that shows women supporting President Obama by double figures over Mitt Romney.
So to close this gap, Republicans are trying to capitalize on somethingHilary Rosen said, that Ann Romney – Mitt Romney’s very rich wife – “did not work a day in her life.”
But if you listen to what Mitt Romney as recently as January of this year, Romney himself is implying that mothers who stay at home have no work dignity.
Republicans have engaged on a war on women and this Romney video is just another example of that war!
LOL. These Republicans are so transparent we could see right through them.
Republicans are now trying to manufacture a political crisis using stay-at-home-moms and the words of Democratic Strategist Hilary Rosen. Ms Rosen said on CNN that Ann Romney – wife of Mitt Romney – “did not work a day in her life” and that she did not face the same economic hardships many women face today.
This prompted Ann Romney to take to Twitter, tweeting “I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.”
Although the words of Hilary could have been said differently, her words are true. But since a recent poll showed that women are heavily in favor of President Obama over his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Republicans think this issue will gain them favor with women.
Their hope is that women will forget the last 3 years when Republican governors throughout the nation engaged in a war on women – taking away women’s health care, attacking women’s right to choose, ending their equal pay for equal work and blocking legislations in congress meant to protect violence against women. Yes, Congressional Republicans have been blocking the Violence Against Women Act!
With all that in mind, Republicans are trying to pretend that they are for women’s rights and they are doing it by trying to paint Democrats as being against stay-at-home-moms. They are calling this attack the Democrat’s war on stay-at-home-moms, and they are claiming that Democrats think stay-at-home-mom’s don’t work.
But as it turns out, Mitt Romney is the one insinuating that Stay-at-home-moms don’t work. In the video below, Romney is heard saying that in today’s economy, households need two incomes to succeed. And listening to Romney, it sounds as if he is saying that what stay-at-home-moms do, is not work.
Take a look at what Mitt Romney said in 1994 – “this is a different world than it was in the 1960s when I was growing up. When you used to be able to have mom at home and dad at work. Now mom and dad both have to work.”
A measure that passed Arizona’s Senate claims that it would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but experts say that the bill is far more restrictive, effectively banning abortions after 18 weeks and declaring that a woman could be pregnant 2 weeks before she even had sex.
Arizona’s HB 2036 takes Nebraska’s 20-week abortion ban one step further by starting the clock on pregnancies at the woman’s last last menstrual period, which could be two weeks before fertilization.
Specifically, the bill would “[p]rohibit abortions at or after twenty weeks of gestation, except in cases of a medical emergency, based on the documented risks to women’s health and the strong medical evidence that unborn children feel pain during an abortion at that gestational age,” where gestational age is defined as “age of the unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.”
President Obama urges Congress to pass the Buffett Rule — which asks those who make more than $1 million a year to pay at least the same percentage of their income in taxes as middle class families — as a principle of fairness.
And as many Americans rush to file their taxes this weekend, it’s worth pointing out that we’ve got a tax system that doesn’t always uphold the principle of everyone doing their part.
Now, this is not just about fairness. This is also about growth. It’s about being able to make the investments we need to strengthen our economy and create jobs. And it’s about whether we as a country are willing to pay for those investments.
The president then goes on to explain what the Buffett Rule is and who it will affect if members of Congress – namely Republicans – pass that bill this week.
As Warren points out, that’s not fair and it doesn’t make sense. It’s wrong that middle-class Americans pay a higher share of their income in taxes than some millionaires and billionaires.
This week, Members of Congress are going to have a chance to set things right. They get to vote on what we call the Buffett Rule.
It’s simple: If you make more than $1 million every year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle-class families do. On the other hand, if you make less than $250,000 a year — like 98 percent of American families do — your taxes shouldn’t go up.
Barack Obama has mocked North Korea’s space technology, saying its failed launch showed the country was wasting money on rockets that “don’t work” while its people starved.
The US president told a television interviewer that the North Koreans had “been trying to launch missiles like this for over a decade now, and they don’t seem to be real good at it”.
But he called Friday’s failed launch an area of deep concern for the United States and told an interview with the Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, broadcast that the US would work with other nations to “further isolate” North Korea.
The launch violates two United Nations Security Council resolutions and the US says it will scrap a plan to give food aid to North Korea.
Mitt Romney is just like us. I remember the last time I was caught on camera discussing my horses, so I can definitely understand Mitt Romney’s almost secret conversation with Sean Hannity of Fox News when Hannity – unaware that his conversation with Romney was being recorded – asked the following question:
“What kind of horses do you have?” asks Hannity.
“She has Austrian warmbloods,” says Romney, “It’s a dressage horse … for the sport she’s in.” “Me? I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine’s like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait — it moves very fast.”
The New York Times reported in December that Romney acquired “six-figure warmblood horses for his wife.” The story was corrected to say that the horses were warmbloods, not thoroughbreds.
We totally understand Romney. We’re all elitists like that!
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