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Mitt Romney Targets The Department of Urban Development For Elimination

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.

Yep, who needs that?

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Mitt Romney Politics taxes

What’s Mitt Romney Hiding? Demand To See His Tax Returns

Its tax time again, for everyone it seems, except Mitt Romney.

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Bill Cosby To Obama Haters – Your Behavior is Un-American

Bill Cosby today on Meet The Press:

“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?”

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Mitt Romney on Abortions – “I Support Roe V Wade” no wait, “I Will Overturn Roe V Wade”

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.

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Mitt Romney Politics

Mitt Romney Implies That Stay-At-Home Moms Have No Dignity

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 something Hilary 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!

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Mitt Romney Suggests That Stay-At-Home-Moms Don’t Work

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.”

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President Obama on The Buffett Rule – “Not Just About Fairness, It’s Also About Growth”

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.

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North Korea Politics

President Obama Said North Korea Not Very Good at Launching Missiles

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.

Source: AP

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Mitt Romney Politics

The Romney’s Are Just Like Us – Let’s All Brag about Our Horses

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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No Problem Here – President Reveals His 2011 Taxes

CNN is reporting that “the Obama family, in tax returns released Friday by the White House, reported an adjusted gross income of $789,674 for 2011, down from$1,728,096 in the previous year. The family income topped $5.5 million in 2009.

The president earns a salary of $400,000 for his day job. His total earnings are much higher because his books — “Dreams From My Father,” and “The Audacity of Hope” continue to attract buyers.

The Obamas reported paying $162,074 in federal taxes. They donated $172,130, or 22% of their income, to 39 different charities.”

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OMG! Did Mitt Romney Really Say That? Video

This is totally unbelievable… really, really unbelievable!

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Newt Gingrich Politics

Newt Gingrich – “We’re More Likely to get Distortion Out of Fox [News]”

Oh yes, we all forgot that Newt Gingrich is still running for the Republican nomination. Things are apparently so bad for the Newtsta, that he is now stirring things up with his old boss, the Fox News Network. Anything to get some publicity I guess, and it seems to be working.

Real Clear Politics reports the Gingrich uproar occurred “during a meeting with 18 Delaware Tea Party leaders on Wednesday.”

Said Gingrich: “I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through. In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That’s just a fact.”

Gignrich was an employee himself of the news channel as recently as last year but was suspended as he geared up for a presidential bid.

TV Newser has a response from Fox News: “This is nothing other than Newt auditioning for a windfall of a gig at CNN — that’s the kind of man he is.”

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