Month: July 2012

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Mitt Romney Politics

Romney Would Have To Save $5000 for 20,000,000 Years To Get $100,000,000 In His IRA

I just cannot understand the secrecy.

Why exactly is Mitt Flip Romney holding on to his financial information this long and this hard. We already have lots of data that would make the average voter look at Romney with squinted eyes and a raised eyebrow. Data like his $75 million investment in a company that destroyed fetuses, his multiple offshore bank accounts that set up to bet against the US Dollar, his work at Bain Capital where he oversaw thousands of American jobs eliminated, and now this: a new revelation that he has another offshore account set up as an IRA account containing between $20 to $100 million dollars.

With the present rules of an IRA account where a maximum yearly contribution of about $5000, questions remain about how in the world Romney’s IRA could have as much as $100 million.

To put things into perspective, if Romney followed the present IRA rules, he would have to contribute $5000 for 20,000,000 years to meet his present IRA holdings. We know Romney’s Mormon religion forbid him from drinking alcohol or doing drugs, but no matter how healthy he eats or how extreme his exercise routine is, he is not 20,000,000 years old!

But alas! Paul Krugman is saying there are “legitimate” ways Romney could have saved this fortune in an IRA. Krugman says:

There are legitimate ways that could have happened, just as there are potentially legitimate reasons for parking large sums of money in overseas tax havens. But we don’t know which if any of those legitimate reasons apply in Mr. Romney’s case — because he has refused to release any details about his finances. This refusal to come clean suggests that he and his advisers believe that voters would be less likely to support him if they knew the truth about his investments.

And that is precisely why voters have a right to know that truth. Elections are, after all, in part about the perceived character of the candidates — and what a man does with his money is surely a major clue to his character.

Exactly!!!

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Featured Pat Buchanan

Pat Buchanan Would Rather Not See a Female President

The Republican party is an all male enterprise… preferably all white men. There are a few women sprinkled around, but they are mostly regulated to the outermost corners of the party, along with the few minorities that call themselves Republican.

Based on their recent assault on women, it would seem that the men in the party prefer their women seen and not heard, so it was no surprise when Pat Buchanan, a former Republican Presidential candidate – expressed his wishes that the longer it took America to see a female president, the better off we’ll be.

During a panel discussion on PBS over the weekend, host John McLaughlin asked Buchanan when the U.S. would elect the first female president.

“2040 or 2050,” Buchanan predicted.

“That late?” McLaughlin wondered.

“Let’s hope so,” Buchanan replied with a chuckle.

“They’re not even considering any woman for vice president on the Republican ticket,” he later added. “I was joking about 2040!”

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Politics

What’s At Stake

OK lefties, let’s face some serious reality. The unemployment picture is probably not going to improve much between now and the election and Congress is certainly not going to pass any landmark law that’s going to help either the jobs picture, the debt, social programs or the environment.

At this point in the election cycle, many people will be making up their minds about whether the president deserves a second term or whether to give someone else a chance. These people are not paying attention to the election at the same level that we are and many of them won’t care about the GOP’s policies that might negatively impact them. They will only see that the country is going in the wrong direction.

That’s where we must step in. Begin now to make sure that your wavering friends and neighbors know the consequences of electing Republicans to all three branches of the government, and giving them free reign to enact their tax-cutting, social program-starving, feed-the-rich diet program they’ve promised America. Posters, bumper stickers and, yes, social media posts are a nice way to reach people, but the best is through one-to-one contact. Be friendly. Try to educate and explain as opposed to being strident and oppositional. I know it’s difficult given the passion you feel, but most people just want to get information and go on with their day.

This is a winnable election against a much-less-than-inspiring opponent, but the Republicans will have more money to spend and we know that they spare no penny, fact or anti-fact to make sure that their message gets out. We need to fight that penny for penny and fact for fact.

Start now. Fight hard. Be persistent. Tell the truth. Smile. We only have until November 6, but I believe that we, and the country, will win.

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Mitt Romney Politics

Poll Shows President Obama Leading in 12 Battleground States

A new poll released Sunday indicates the presidential race between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama is still tight in a dozen major battlegrounds.

According to the latest survey by USA Today/Gallup, the president has a small advantage over his Republican rival, 47% to 45%, in 12 key states. The two-point margin falls well within the poll’s sampling error.

Obama’s edge over Romney represents the same two-point margin he held when the same poll was last conducted in May.

When zooming out to include voters from the other states, the gap expands to a four-point margin in favor of Obama, 48% to 44%.

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Politics

Watch As Flip Romney Defends President Obama’s Jobs Creation Numbers

There are some very smart people working on the UP with Chris Hayes show on MSNBC. One of them took President Obama’s actual jobs numbers and superimposed the graphic over a video of Mitt Flip Romney. Romney on the video was talking about his time as Governor of Massachusetts. He was demonstrating the jobs curve he claimed he brought to the state.

Watch the genius work of the graphic department on the Chris Hayes show.

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Mitt Romney Politics

Bobby Jindal Should Be A Used Car Salesman – Answer The Question! – Video

It was a simple question. Are the American people wrong for wanting to look at Romney’s offshore accounts? The question was posed to Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor for Louisiana who appeared on ABC’s This Week as a Mitt Flip Romney surrogate. It should have been a simple answer, yes the American people should be concerned or no, Romney’s offshore accounts are non of the American people’s business.

But instead, Jindal started talking and talking and talking, until the only words I heard were blah blah blah… Sidenote: Mr. Jindal has a way of talking you to sleep, as I began nodding during his response. I regained my conscientiousness when the Democratic governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley began answering the question.

Video below.

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China Politics

Obama Campaign Hits Flip Romney’s Chinese Connection

A new ad from the Obama Campaign hits Flip Romney where it hurts – in China. Yes, China, where Romney has made millions of dollars from outsourcing American jobs for cheap labor and a huge profits.

The Associated Press reports;

The 30-second spot opens with a clip of Romney during a 2011 Republican primary debate. He says “the Chinese are smiling all the way to the bank taking our jobs and taking a lot of our future. And I am not willing to let that happen.”

A narrator responds that Romney “made a fortune letting it happen.”

The Obama ad refers to a newspaper account about the role Romney’s firm played with companies that were “pioneers” in helping outsource jobs. It pointed to one business that said it was a “one-stop shop for their outsource requirements.”

“Mitt Romney’s not the solution. He’s the problem,” the narrator says.

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Chris Christie Is A Real Bad Man… Clutching His Ice Cream Cone

While cruising down the boardwalk in the popular vacation town of Seaside Heights, NJ., Republican governor Chris Christie was  met by one of those pesky Corporations… ah… people. A man who had the nerve to interrupt Mr. Christie and his ice-cream cone with a question.

This unbelievable act by the man to ask a public politician a question caused Chris Christie to stop licking on his cone, a very dangerous thing for a man who has obviously indulged in one too many licks. Christie charged at the fellow screaming, “You’re a real big-shot! You’re a real big-shot, shooting your mouth off!”

“Nah, just take care of the teachers,” the man said as he walked away.

“Yeah, keep walking away,” the Republican governor yelled, “Keep walking!”

And from the corner of his eye, Christie noticed the ice cream dripping down the side of the cone. Like the expert he is, Christie managed to toss some tongue action at the cone, capturing the impatient drip.

He continued his cruise down the boardwalk. A Real bad man… clutching his ice cream cone.

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Politics weekly address

Presidential Address – Creating Long Term Economic Stability

The President of the United States:

For months, I’ve been pushing Congress to pass several common-sense ideas that will help us do that.  And on Friday, I signed into law a bill that will do two things for the American people.

First, it will keep thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure.

Second, it will keep interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this year – which would have hit more than seven million students with about a thousand dollars more on their loan payments.

Those steps will make a real difference in the lives of millions of Americans.  But make no mistake: we’ve got more to do.

The construction industry was hit brutally hard when the housing bubble burst.  So it’s not enough to just keep construction workers on the job doing projects that were already underway.

For months, I’ve been calling on Congress to take half the money we’re no longer spending on war and use it to do some nation-building here at home.  There’s work to be done building roads and bridges and wireless networks.  And there are hundreds of thousands of construction workers ready to do it.

The same thing is true for our students.  The bill I’m about to sign is vital for millions of students and their families.  But it’s not enough to just keep their student loan rates from doubling.

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Cancer ObamaCare Politics

Stephanie Miller Tells Al Sharpton – ObamaCare Would Have Helped My Sister – Video

Yesterday we told you of Stephanie Miller, an Ohio resident who got the chance to meet President Obama and thanked him for passing ObamaCare. Today, Ms Miller met with Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s Politics Nation and told her sister’s story, explaining that her sister would still be around if she had ObamaCare.

A moving story of one American who is personally experiencing life without her loved one because of a healthcare system that concentrated more on profits than it did on human life. Stephanie’s story is magnified millions of times all over this country and ObamaCare will help these Americans.

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Mitt Romney Politics

Flip Romney on Jobs – “It Would Be Silly To Expect Jobs After an Election. It Takes A While”

Again, another moment of hypocrisy. If a Republican is in power, then we must all sit back and wait for things to get better, but if a Democrat is in power, then he/she must get things going while being sworn in on inauguration day!

The video below shows Mitt Flip Romney explaining that it took him 11 months to get jobs created in Massachusetts – keep in mind that on the day Romney was elected as Governor of the state, Massachusetts was 36th in the nation in job creation. When he left office, Massachusetts fell to 47th.

But anyway, Romney was explaining why it was taking so long for him to create jobs as governor. His explanation was;

“if you’re going to suggest to me that somehow on the day I got elected somehow jobs should immediately turn around, why that would be silly! It takes a while to get things turned around.”

With today’s jobs numbers what they are – a slight gain of 80,000 jobs for the month of June – Flip Romney’s explanation is putting things in perspective.

Video below.

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Politics

Presidential Polling Report for July 6th – President Obama vs Flip Romney

This is a double numbers day, with both a polling report and the release of the jobs numbers for June. There are only four months to go before the election, the focus on the economy has already been intense, and the fallout from the ACA decision is only complicating matters.Looking for clarity? Consult the I Ching.
How the jobs report will impact the election will take time to sort out.

Meanwhile, the polling numbers have moved in the president’s direction over the past month, slowing a trend towards Romney that had existed in May and early June. The big picture would seem to be working against the president because the economy is still slow, but Romney has evidently caught John Kerry disease, what with his recent vacation pictures and saying that students should get as much as education they can afford. He’s going to have to stop the rich guy stuff if he wants to win.

As of today, the national race looks like this: Obama has 47.0% support and Romney 44.4% according to the latest RCP average. Obama’s job approval has taken a hit, and he’s underwater in most polls, but that doesn’t seem to have affected his overall numbers. Yet, the truth is that most people, and specifically most independents, aren’t paying attention to the election and won’t until the early fall. Right now its people like you and me who are fretting over every poll and uttered word that comes out of each campaign. For most other people, the election will take a back seat to finding a job, baseball, vacations, the Olympics, and most daily activities.

The state polls are still showing Obama leading the electoral college voting with leads of 221-181 (RCP), 240-191, (Pollster), 303-235 (Election Projection), 326-212(Electoral-vote.com) and 217-206 (New York Times).North Carolina has moved to Romney’s column for now and it will take a big turnout effort by Obama to repeat his 2008 victory.

Ohio has moved towards the president, influenced mainly by a late June Quinnipiac poll that has Obama +9. The president is also presently holding on toFlorida and Virginia, but those leads are tenuous and if the jobs numbers are very bad, watch for those states to show some movement away from Obama. I still expect the president to win Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but he’ll need to spend resources in each of those states this summer. Romney will force Obama to defend Wisconsin and Michigan for now, and if the polls remain close in those two states it will mean trouble for Democrats.

Protocol requires that I have a paragraph that uses hedge words to keep you interested, so here goes – Romney was having a good month until his campaign began to send some mixed messages and then he completely botched his response to the health care case. That’s led to a conservative backlash from the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch. Still, for as bad a month as he’s had, he’s still in the race and independents, who are certainly not enamored of the president, might decide that the country needs a change. Obama has momentum now, but the long-term trends could support Mitt. It’s probably safe to assume that we’ve got a fight on our hands.

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