Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s chief of staff fired back at Mitt Romney’s supporters, calling them “henchmen” and “cowards” for their attacks on the top Democrat.
Reid claims he has a “credible source” who told him Romney has not paid taxes in 10 years, which the GOP presidential nominee says is untrue. The Republican presidential candidate has demanded Reid, D-Nev., to “put up or shut up.”
The name-calling rose when Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called Reid a “dirty liar” on Sunday.
“They’re a bunch of cowards, and they’re avoiding the issue,” David Krone, Reid’s chief of staff, told Politico. “Lindsey Graham, Reince Priebus — they’re a bunch of henchmen for Romney, and they’re all reading off the same talking points. They couldn’t hold a candle to Harry Reid.”
The book titled Obama’s Last Stand by Glenn Thrush said that in the beginning of the 2012 campaign season, the President was neutral in his feelings for Mitt Romney – the eventual Republican candidate. But as time went on, Mr. Obama “quickly developed a genuine disdain” for his Republican challenger.
“One factor made the 2012 grind bearable and at times even fun for Obama: he began campaign preparations feeling neutral about Romney, but like the former governor’s GOP opponents in 2008 and 2012, he quickly developed a genuine disdain for the main. That scorn stoked Obama’s competitive fire, got his head in the game, which came as a relief to some Obama aides who had seen his interest flag when he didn’t feel motivated to crush the opposition. Obama, a person close to him told me, didn’t even feel this strongly about conservative, combative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Hill Republican he disliked the most. At least Cantor stood for something, he’d say.”
“When he talked about Romney, aides picked up a level of anger he never had for Clinton or McCain, even after Sarah Palin was picked as his running mate. ‘There was a baseline of respect for John McCain. The president always thought he was an honorable man and a war hero,’ said a longtime Obama adviser. ‘That doesn’t hold true for Romney. He was no goddamned war hero.'”
Jenna has finally made her preference known. The most anticipated endorsement of this election season happened this week, as the Queen of Porn gave her blessings to the King of Outsourcing, Mitt Romney.
In releasing her statement, Jenna explained that the reason she endorsed Mr. Romney is because Republican presidents have a history of looking out for the interests of the rich over that of the poor – already she’s off message, but she speaks the truth!
With an estimated net worth of $30 million and a resume that includes 160 films, Jameson ranks as one of the porn industry’s wealthiest players.
Jameson’s endorsement may come as a surprise to the few people who have kept track of her political leanings. Her decision to back Romney doesn’t exactly mesh with her prior campaigns for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — perhaps she’s unaware of the Seamus Romney fiasco — and public support for Hillary Clintonin 2008.
Thanks to @SgBz for the brilliant caption used in this piece:
Politics is a brutal sport, especially when the politician cannot be truthful about anything. That is the unfortunate place Mitt Romney has found himself in, and the political sport is devouring his very being.
Take for example one of Romney’s favorite attack lines on President Obama, that the “policies of the president have made the economy worse.” That claim is red meat for his base and Romney never miss an opportunity to feed it to them. But when politics is factored into the equation, we see Romney for who he truly is: a sad little man who will do and say anything to be president.
This is what Romney said in 2004 when Democrats said President Bush made the economy worse. Take it away Mr. Romney:
“The people of America recognize that the slowdown in jobs that occurred during the early years of the Bush administration were the result of a perfect storm. And an effort by one candidate to somehow say ‘Oh, this recession and the slowdown in jobs was the result of somehow this president magically being elected…’ people in America just dismiss that as being poppycock. And they recognize it as that.”
So by your own words, Mr. Romney, we the people are dismissing your candidacy as “poppycock.”
The American people deserves to know all there is to know about the candidates running for President. But the Republican nominee, Mitt Willard Romney, is still trying to hold out, hoping against all hopes that his tax issues would just go away. But not if Team Obama has anything to do with it.
The President’s re-election campaign has come out with another ad explaining to middle class Americans what it will mean if Mitt Romney and his billionaire friends get another tax cut – “… you pay more!”
There was a time in American politics when a candidate auditioning for the highest job in the land had to be vetted. Americans wanted to know everything about that candidate: their morals, their beliefs, their past associations, their work experiences, their family background, their taxes, their beer drinking skills and more.
But apparently, all those expectations stopped when Republicans decided that Mr. Romney’s past is none of our business. And Romney went through much trouble to destroy records from his time as Governor of Massachusetts and records dealing with his Olympics tenure. There are more questions than answers pertaining to his work at Bain Capital and his taxes are hidden.
Plus, he’s not a drinker!
Republicans have decided to go to the polls this November and hire a worker they know nothing of. This is not acceptable in the real world and it should not be acceptable for someone applying for the most important job in the nation.
JERICHO, West Bank (AP) – Mitt Romney’s assertion that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital is absolutely unacceptably , a senior Palestinian official said Monday, voicing the strongest Palestinian criticism yet of the Republican presidential candidate.
Palestinian officials had largely maintained diplomatic silence during Romney’s current visit to the region, even as the candidate embraced Israeli positions and in an apparent snub, avoided meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The U.S. is the dominant broker in efforts — paralyzed since 2008 — to set up a Palestinian state through negotiations with Israel, and Palestinian leaders do not want to antagonize key players, including Romney.
However, Romney’s comments on Sunday about Jerusalem prompted a strong response.
The Palestinians want to establish a capital in east Jerusalem, captured and annexed by Israel in 1967. Most of the world, including the U.S., does not recognize the annexation. The U.S. and others keep their embassies in Tel Aviv.
On Sunday, Romney said flat out that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and strongly suggested he would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem if he were president, supporting two key Israeli demands.
Saeb Erekat, an Abbas aide, said Romney’s comments about Jerusalem were “absolutely unacceptable,” adding that “such statements and policy will push the region toward extremists
Seems Mitt Romney didn’t forget his flip-flops. Maybe he’s planning to visit some nice beaches in London. Who knows. But on his first official visit to tout his foreign experience, Mitt Romney neatly placed his foot in his mouth… again.
In a matter of 24 hours, Mitt’s yellow flip-flops were flopping all over the London Bridge, as he tried desperately to turn back the hands of time and take back a statement he made about London being unprepared for the Olympics.
We would not be surprised to see a shoe thrown in Mitt’s direction before his apology tour is over. No, we won’t be surprised at all.
PolitiFact took on Mitt Romney’s constant claim that President Obama is anti-business. Romney’s attack on the President stems from a statement Mr. Obama made a few weeks ago, where he said – among other things -” If you have a business, you didn’t build that.”
PolitiFact – a fact checking organization that analyze political statements of both Democrats and Republicans – checked Romney’s attack and found Romney is, once again, lying.
From PolitiFact : Romney cherry-picked a quote that made it sound like Obama was dismissive of businesses when in fact he was making a point that success comes from the combination of “individual initiative” and the fact that “we do things together.”
The biggest problem is that the Romney campaign has left out the lead-up to the statement — that “if you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.”
These words indicate that Obama was referring to infrastructure and educational opportunities that were paid for by taxpayers through the government — things that established a necessary foundation for making private businesses successful.
We think his meaning is clear — that both business people and government play a role in the American enterprise system, not purely one or the other.
Our ruling
In speeches and videos, the Romney campaign has repeatedly distorted Obama’s words. By plucking two sentences out of context, Romney twists the president’s remarks and ignores their real meaning.
It all started when Mitt Romney gave an interview to Brian Williams. In his interview, Romney said he was concerned about the Olympics in London. Romney told Mr. Williams that London may be unprepared for the games.
Oops!!!
And so the embarrassment started as the media and London politicians defended their sovereignty. Leave it up to Mitt Romney to go into someone’s home and criticize how they live. Remember Cookie-gate?
Look at what some of London’s media is saying about the Republican nominee:
The British media was quick to launch into Mr Romney in the wake of his disastrous day.
The Daily Telegraph’s Lucy Jones branded him a ‘wazzock’ (which the Urban Dictionary defines as ‘an idiot or daft person’) after the candidate questioned Britain’s desire to host the Games.
She said: ‘Who does Mitt Romney think he is? I feel a glimmer of protectiveness and pride… there’s one thing Romney could learn while he’s in Britain this week: some manners.’
Nicholas Watt, from the Guardian, tweeted of his U-turn: ‘Mitt Romney rowing back like mad on Olympics: Now says outside No 10 games to be a great success.’
Meanwhile, Paul Harris said: ‘Good old Mitt. His charm offensive in the UK failed to be charming, but he really pulled off the offensive bit #gop #romney.’
James Kirkup, also from the Telegraph, drew attention to Mr Cameron’s response to Romney’s comments.
‘Mr Romney made his name salvaging the Salt Lake City Winter Games in 2002, an achievement he may think qualifies him to comment on preparations for London 2012,’ he said.
‘In the context of Mr Romney’s glittering resumé, one of Mr Cameron’s (faintly defensive) comments bears particular attention: “We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic games in the middle of nowhere.”
‘Some cynics thought that the “middle of nowhere” comment could just be a swipe at Salt Lake City, which is quite near the middle of, er, Utah. Terrible people, cynics.’
On Twitter, users have been attacking Mr Romney deploying hashtags such as #Romneyshambles and #Mitthitsthefan.
Mitt Romney sat down with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, and made a curious observation. He said voters who want a strong economy should vote for him, but Americans “ought to give, whichever president is going to be elected, at least six months or a year to get those policies in place.”
At first blush, that may sound fairly reasonable. A president takes office, he or she needs time to put a team in place, craft an agenda, and get to work. What’s more, we generally don’t see the results of economic policies immediately; the agenda needs time to take effect. In Romney’s mind, six months to a year seems fair.
But let’s go ahead and apply this standard to President Obama, who took office in the midst of the worst global economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. Hey, look, here’s a new chart I put together.
So according to Mittens, President Obama is doing pretty good. Six months after he was sworn into office, almost three million jobs were created. And in February 20, 2010 – one year after the President took office, almost 4 million jobs were created.
Contrast that to George Bush, who spent 8 years in office to see a little over 3 million jobs created.
Mitt Flip Romney… I don’t know what else to say about this man.
After agreeing with the President that successful businesses owe their success to many factors, including Teachers, Firefighters, roads etc., Romney then criticized the President for saying that successful businesses owe their success to many factors, including Teachers, Firefighters, roads etc.
At a campaign rally in Virginia, the President was heard saying, “if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get their on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, ‘well it must be because I’m so smart.’ There are a lot of smart people out there.
The President continued.
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you have a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Anyone listening to those words would agree. Even Mitt Romney, and he was heard echoing President Obama’s words at one of his campaign events, saying “we value school teachers, firefighters, people who build roads… You really couldn’t have a business if you didn’t have those things.”
But because Romney would say anything to get elected, he nitpick the President’s speech and focused on one part – “…if you have a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” And off he went, criticizing the president for something he agrees with the president on.
Now, even more evidence that Mitt Romney believes President Obama was correct.
“You Olympians, however, know you didn’t get here solely on your own power,” said Romney, who on Friday will attend the Opening Ceremonies of this year’s Summer Olympics. “For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them. We’ve already cheered the Olympians, let’s also cheer the parents, coaches, and communities. All right! [pumps fist].”
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