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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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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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ObamaCare Politics

Crying Woman Thanked President Obama for Passing ObamaCare

SANDUSKY, Ohio — An emotional Ohio voter personally thanked President Obama for passing a health care overhaul, relating the story of her late sister’s battle with cancer.

After Obama’s speech in Sandusky, he encountered a sobbing Stephanie Miller, who later told reporters about her encounter with Obama.

“I thanked him for the getting the Affordable Health Act passed,” Miller said, referring to the health care overhaul the Supreme Court upheld last week.

Miller said her sister passed away from colon cancer four years ago — partly because she could not purchase health insurance.

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ObamaCare Politics Tax

For Republicans – It’s Only A Tax If You’re Talking About ObamaCare – Video

Appearing on MSNBC was a spokesperson for the RNC and an obvious supporter of Mitt Romney. Asked about the struggles the Romney campaign has in explaining whether or not the mandate is a tax or penalty, the spokesperson explained that they agreed with the Supreme court’s position that the mandate is a tax.

But when asked if the same mandate found in RomneyCare – the Health care law that Mitt Romney signed into law as governor of Massachusetts – is a tax on the people of that state, the spokesperson stared at the camera for a split second then advised the host that “we are talking about ObamaCare,” not RomneyCare.

So to conclude, the individual mandate in the law is only a tax if you’re talking about ObamaCare. If you’re talking about RomneyCare… wait a second, we’re not supposed to talk about RomneyCare!

Moving on…!

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Mitt Romney’s Sloppy Message On The Mandate – Is It A Tax or A Penalty?

They can’t even get their message straight, but Mitt Romney and his Republican backers wants to run the free world.

The message in question here is where does Mitt Romney stand on the individual mandate – something he attached to his RomneyCare Health Care law in Massachusetts and found in President Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act also known as ObamaCare. The Supreme Court recently called the mandate a tax on those who refuse to obtain healthcare.

We are still waiting for a definite position on what Romney and his campaign thinks.

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney has appeared to contradict previous campaign statements by saying President Barack Obama’s health reform law entails a “tax” and not a penalty.

Romney, who enacted a similar healthcare overhaul when he was governor of Massachusetts, has had to reassure fellow conservatives who despise so-called “Obamacare” without appearing to flip-flop on his own legacy.

The balancing act was evident in an interview with CBS news on Wednesday in which Romney agreed with the Supreme Court’s ruling that the individual mandate — which requires Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fee — amounts to a tax and not a penalty, as both he and Obama had previously argued.

“The Supreme Court has the final word. And their final word is that Obamacare is a tax. So it’s a tax,” Romney told CBS Wednesday.

“They decided it was constitutional. So it is a tax and it’s constitutional,” he said, adding that he had agreed with the court’s dissent, which said the mandate was unconstitutional.

That appeared to mark a shift in his position, given that Romney campaign aide Eric Fehrnstrom had told MSNBC on Monday that the Republican candidate had “consistently described the mandate as a penalty.”

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Zimmerman Only Went to The Doctor Because he Needed A Note to Return to Work

A medical report conducted the day after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin shows he went to the doctor’s office because he needed a note to return to work.

The morning after he killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman went to a clinic with what appeared to be a broken nose, two black eyes and two cuts on the back of his head. But the physician’s assistant who treated him determined he neither needed X-rays nor had he suffered head trauma, newly released medical records show.

Zimmerman declined to go to an ear, nose and throat specialist even though it was recommended, the physician’s assistant wrote. She also suggested he see a psychologist because of what he had just gone through.

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Politics Republican war on women

Male Republican Cancels Event Teaching Women How to Sit

Republican Sen. Marty Golden sent out a mailing advertising the July 24 business etiquette event on “posture, deportment and the feminine presence.” His website said women would be taught to “sit, stand and walk like a model.”

But Golden canceled the event Tuesday after critics said the former police officer and longtime politician was out of touch with the lives of working women.

Golden’s spokesman says the planned event was similar to ones being organized by other elected officials and classes conducted in local high schools.

Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger says she sometimes feels as though she drives “three hours north and 50 years back in history” when she goes from Manhattan to Albany, the state capital.

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Republican Governor Rejects Voter ID Laws in Michigan

Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan surprised his fellow Republicans on Tuesday, refusing to sign two bills that would have required voters to show photo identification before obtaining an absentee ballot. The vetoes are an election-year rarity for the party, which has pressed for tougher voter identification laws nationwide.

They were passed by lawmakers two weeks ago. “These reforms will make a good election system even better by adding appropriate safeguards and improving transparency,” Mr. Snyder said. He said the vetoed bills “could create voter confusion among absentee voters.”

Sara Wurfel, a spokeswoman for the governor, said that confusion had to do with a part of the bills that would have made voters check a citizenship box before receiving a ballot. Mr. Snyder suggested that verification of a person’s citizenship should be done only once, when a voter is first registered, she said.

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Obama Vs Romney – Insourcing Vs Outsourcing. You Choose

A new ad by the Obama campaign draws a contrast between the President and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The narrator in the ad begins by saying, “what a president believes matters.” He then goes on to describe how Mitt Romney was a “pioneer in outsourcing American jobs to low wage countries.”

Compare that to President Obama, who the narrator says “believes in insourcing” and “saved the auto industry.” The President also “favors tax cuts for companies that bring jobs home.”

In an economy that need jobs, seems the choice is obvious. Insourcing vs Outsourcing? Obama vs Romney – You choose!

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Immigration Immigration Reform Politics

Tough Week For The Right

Remember the beginning of June? Lousy jobs numbers, Obama’s muddled message and the popular assumption that the president was going to lose court cases on immigration and health care? Hope and change came quickly and it’s the Republicans who are back on their heels. For now.

Not only was the Supreme Court’s health care decision a deflating coda to the term that also saw most of Arizona’s immigration law struck down (though the right can still claim a victory over checking papers), the news that Chief Justice Roberts actually changed his decision is proving to be too much on the rightward flank. Never mind  that the court struck at the heart of the left wing’s argument that the Commerce Clause allows Congress to require people to buy health care, or that the states would lose all of their Medicaid funds if they don’t comply with ACA. That turncoat Roberts voted to uphold the law!

What’s worse is that the Republican message machine went into overdrive, using the court’s ruling to call Obama a taxer gone crazy, only to have Mitt Romney say that it’s not a tax. Conservatives already suspicious about Mitt’s devotion to their cause will turn even redder over that.

The polls are not being any kinder to Romney as support for the health care law rose after the decision, though a majority still do not support it. The silver lining is that the GOP base is fired up big time and that could pay dividends in November.

But Mitt is not the only Republican facing headwinds. Chris Christie called a special session of the New Jersey Legislature on Monday to get the Democrats to support his proposed tax cut, but to no avail. He even tried to make some room in the budget by line item vetoing $650 million dollars worth of social programs that serve women and children, but those darn lefties wouldn’t budge. 

This is but one week in a long campaign, but the GOP was banking on a health care win to bolster their summer message. It might actually work to their advantage to have the ruling go against them because their fundraising has increased and Obama is still polling below 50% in most surveys. Still, I think they saw a different scenario and Mitt’s going off message will not help. More fireworks for the fourth of July.

Ain’t this a great country?

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Mitt Romney Invested $75 Million In Company That Destroyed Fetuses

What will Christian Conservatives say when they realized that Mitt Romney invested heavily in a company that disposed of aborted fetuses? They probably wouldn’t say much. For some strange reason, these people in the Republican party who calls themselves “Christians,” have found a way to forget the teachings of their Faith and hold on to their political ideology instead.

And right now, their political ideology revolves around Mitt Romney.

A report highlighted by The Daily Kos referenced another story in Mother Jones that looked at some of Mitt Romney’s investment. Mother Jones pointed out that in 1999, Mitt Romney invested $75 million in a company named Stericycle – a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. 

Spokespeople from Bain Capital – the company founded by Mitt Romney – tried to distance Mr. Romney from the investment. They claim that Mitt Romney had already left Bain when this investment was made. But Mother Jones found reports filed by the Stericycle with the Securities and Exchange Commission that completely contradicted Bain’s claims.

Mother Jones Reports:

Documents filed by Bain and Stericycle with the Securities and Exchange Commission—and obtained by Mother Jones—list Romney as an active participant in the investment. And this deal helped Stericycle, a company with a poor safety record, grow, while yielding tens of millions of dollars in profits for Romney and his partners. The documents—one of which was signed by Romney—also contradict the official account of Romney’s exit from Bain.

Mitt Romney once believed in a woman’s right to choose but for political reasons, he changed and is pro-life. And no matter what a woman decides to do with her body, Romney and Republicans believe they should have the final say and should be allowed to force that woman to do whatever they want her to do.

And now that we’re finding out that Mitt Romney was at the heart of getting rid of fetuses, the Christians in his party are conspicuously quiet!

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ObamaCare Politics

Justice Roberts Switched Vote To Uphold President’s Health Care Law

(CBS News) Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court’s four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama’s health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations.

Roberts then withstood a month-long, desperate campaign to bring him back to his original position, the sources said. Ironically, Justice Anthony Kennedy – believed by many conservatives to be the justice most likely to defect and vote for the law – led the effort to try to bring Roberts back to the fold.

“He was relentless,” one source said of Kennedy’s efforts. “He was very engaged in this.”

But this time, Roberts held firm. And so the conservatives handed him their own message which, as one justice put it, essentially translated into, “You’re on your own.”

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