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Subscribe to RSSHours after Politico wrote about the "Mittness Protection Program" -- Mitt Romney's relative silence and disappearance from the trail -- the campaign has announced it's picking up the pace.
The Washington Post:
In August, Romney plans to hold seven town hall events in New Hampshire, where he owns a vacation home and which he views as a must-win primary. He is scheduled to spend two days campaigning in Iowa, home to the nation’s first caucuses, and will hold fundraisers and possibly public events elsewhere across the country, including California, New York, Utah and Texas.
Romney’s campaign will intensify further in September, when he has committed to take the stage at three debates and plans to begin rolling out a detailed policy agenda with a series of major speeches.
The campaign stresses to NBC News that the "Mittness Protection Program" critique didn't spur this busier schedule. Indeed, the Washington Post has this quote from Romney chief strategist Stuart Stevens:
“There’s a reason the success of Christmas sales in July is not tremendous,” said Stuart Stevens... “There’s a rhythm to these things, and you want to talk about stuff when people are paying attention. I just think a whole level of people are going to begin to start to focus more in the fall.”
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Now THAT's funny - I don't care who you are! lol
Willard, you can come out of hiding now... the crisis has been averted!
What does it say about the current crop of Presidential candidates, when the supposed front runner has been MIA?
good, but don't trip up while flip flopping on the way.
I agree, Feisty.
Even I think that's funny.
Anyway...
Are President Obama's falling approval numbers funny?
Is it funny that Romney could actually beat President Obama in 2012?
'Cause he might, Feisty, girl.
He just might.
Romney is counting on short attention spans and memories to get him past this recent episode of his leadership vacancy.
He's hoping that by staying quiet until all was over, and then voicing the TP line, he'll pick up some points on the right while no one gives him guff for wishing the country into default.
Goodness gracious, has he forgotten about video recordings? The GOP still does not have a competent contender for 2012.
To Alan, on his comments below:
The old U.K. "sinking fund" was not exactly ananlogous to war bonds. War bonds are also a form of debt that must be redeemed within a set period of time, with interest. Essentially, the Civil War "greenbacks" were war bonds at the time. People used that paper money - because by 1862, freely-circulating specie had almost vanished - and often obtained it at a sharp discount from face value. In late 1865, Congress ordered the Mint to pay out to anyone presenting greenback full value, thus generating a kind of interest payment on the money. Some arbitrageurs got extremely rich as a result.
The U.K. funded its sinking fund from tax revenues, mainly levied on the country squire, rich merchants, and imports and exports. As a seafaring nation, the U.K. also extracted a "bottomage" fee from ships arriving and departing the country that was very fruitful. There was a "hearth tax." a window tax," and a "poll tax" - the latter was actually according to the head count in each household, including servants. "Poll" was originally, and in usage referring to cattle still is, a word for "head." From the revenues of the state, a certain percentage was pledged to the "sinking fund," which was kept with the Bank of England, at interest. The Bank of England at that time basically funded and administered the state's debt.
For funding her wars, England issued notes that were due over different periods of maturation, a kind of "revolving credit" line that ensured older debt was regularly paid off. Tthis was a major innovation when it began in the late 1690's and was further improved upon in the early 1700's, making possible stabilization of Royal Navy finances, enabling regular pay for seamen and officers, to victuallers, and to shipyards. These notes were not "war bonds" as we know them, more like our Treasury bonds.
But the key was a sequestered account dedicated to steady and reliable retirement of war debt.
Just the guy we need to inspire job creation in a weak economy -- a venture capitalist whose company destroyed jobs in the private sector and who ranked 47 out of 50 among governors in job creation.
I like it. Bring it on.
Anna:
[Just the guy we need to inspire job creation in a weak economy -- a venture capitalist whose company destroyed jobs...]
Mittens is a typical hatchetman scumbag, and has the nerve to criticize Obama over jobs...he'll get eaten alive by the democrats for his abyssmal jobs record while heading up Bain Capital and while governor of MA, AND by the republicans for his MA healthcare bill...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mitt-romney-tries-to-play-the-jobs-card-2010-02-23?pagenumber=1
http://www.bain.com/about/index.aspx
[Are President Obama's falling approval numbers funny?]
Yikes...STILL not in the right thread...just like a lost puppy.
Anna you really need to look outside the liberal media comments. Romney has been more out spoken on the new AA rating then he standing president? Flip flopping? What has Obama been doing? Really?
Mitt Romney could give a rat's behind what the '"Obama Protection Program", i.e., Politico or First Read, says..
Mitty was busy...busy outsourcing jobs and buying up and chopping up and selling off businesses after laying off half the workers...and leaving his state of MA in the dulrums as 47th in job growth...and too busy trying to figure out the next issue he can flip flop on...perhaps he's now for the debt deal since a poll shows a plurality support it, after hewas previously against it.
@John A.-400474
Thought I'd reply here rather than on the original thread.
What I don't find fair is that there is a tax deduction for all children. I think this is unfair. I think it should be capped at 3 kids. Another issue I have is with the extension of unemployment benefits. This was originally a short term safety net, useful when we had a good economy. Now it has become a political football. So what I said here was that there should be a plan for long-term unemployment that includes retraining. Where there may be confusion was the discussion with Ira on VA poverty. I asked if it was due to homelessness, as way I understand it many benefits require an address. he put me right on that pretty quickly.
If this is some sort of war bonds idea then I agree. During the Bush years I found it very frustrating that there was no sacrifice outside of the armed forces. War Bonds to pay the cost would have been one way the general population could have shown their support.
I never say no taxes, I am always careful to say no Federal taxes. After the debt debate it has become clear that SS and Medicare are just another form of income tax.
You know, I don't understand why this is not a progressive objective. It would affect the upper income earners more than anybody else. It is also unfair in my mind that renters do not get this deduction. However, to remove this deduction will require political capital, sacrifice and leadership, and that is sadly lacking in Washington right now.
Alan -- a "cap" at three kids....three kids per mother? per father? per household? Social security is a form of insurance, as is Medicare. Are taxes insurance? Perhaps, they ensure that we have a certain standard or quality of life (ie -- police and fire protection, safe water, food and roads).
With regard to Gov. Romney: he has the same problem so many candidates do. Why does he want to be President? He had a successful career in finance, can afford to be "unemployed" (his word) and live in one of his several homes, has an apparently lovely family... why is the Presidency so important? Perhaps there is a Mormon imperative to be of service? Perhaps he wants to clear his father's record as a failed candidate? What doesn't seem clear at all is that he has anything to offer in the way of ideas.
Alan, NJ:
I can't escape the notion that any government tax expenditure for people who have children - who cares how many - is social engineering. An exemption is a subsidy for people who have children. (You know what economists say about subsidies, don't you? Subsidize something and you get more of it.) Child care credits/deductions are subsidies for people who have children. Why is it fair to ask taxpayers who have no children to pick up the tab for people who CHOOSE to have children?
I would ask the same question about churches. Why are taxpayers - the godless kind, like me - expected to subsidize people who make salvation payments to the church/synagogue/tabernacle/mosque/whatever of their choice?
Fair - at least to a godless, childless-types - would be to let citizens who choose to have children and/or a god pay for that choice themselves. That's how it looks to a liberal-sort like myself anyway.
Instead of Mitt picking up the pace he should pick up his sh!t and go home.
Easy to say as an armchair critic. Its easy to attack the president when all you have is hate . Takes more than that to earn respect. It takes solutions
Yet your party had no solutions to ANYTHING during the crash. Doing NOTHING would not have us in a recovery.
Keeping the Bush TAx cuts didnt work. Stimulus worked to avert some job losses and created some, but not enough. Yet, You would have let the auto companies go bankrupt and would put at least 300,000 more people out of work as a result. It seems the GOP doesnt care about American industry anymore. BTW, the money has almost been paid back. Same with TARP
Where was the GOP when jobs were flying to India and China? Where was the GOP job plan when shutting down agencies under debt reduction would lead to the loss of 100,000 or more jobs in government services?
Where was the GOP when they started 2 wars and didnt include them in the budget? Where was the GOP when they passed a new entitlement program (Medicare PArt D) and didnt fund it ?
Where are the GOP ideas for JOb creation? Hint: the GOP has not offerred ONE jobs bill.
Jobs created unbder Obama policies: 1.7 Million (up from the Bush losses of 700,000 per month)
Jobs created under the GOP bills: ZERO
Where are the job bills GOP?
In a very early look at Election 2012, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are essentially even.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows Romney attracting 43% of the vote while Obama earns support from 42%. In April , Obama held a five-point edge over Romney.
President Obama currently trails a Generic Republican by six points, 47% to 41%. In match-ups against individual Republicans, the president picks up between 41% and 49% of the vote no matter which Republican is presented as a potential opponent
Obama's on his way down, and Romney's on his way up. All the pissing and moaning from the left wing isn't going to change it. You lefties need to find another candidate, or prepare to lose, BIG.
I guess that means he won't "back away" from the important issues of the day any more !!! he'll just "side step" them !!!
I like President Obama, however, he needs to be tough with the Republicans and he's always trying so hard to please everyone, it may cost him the next election. I say we should have an alternative to the President, say Hillary, someone who will be tough and not cave. Nice guys finish last sadly to say. That is what the Dems need to do or it will be like 1980, all over again when Carter lost big time to Reagan.Hillary For President in 2012, RUN, HILLARY, RUN!!!