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JANESVILLE, WI -- Mitt Romney made a bold prediction in Wisconsin to open the fourth day of his swing state bus tour: he would steal the Badger State from the Democratic column this November.
"I think President Obama had just put this in his column, he just assumed at the very beginning Wisconsin was going to be his," Romney told a crowd of more than 700 supporters gathered on a factory floor here. "But you know what, we’re going to win Wisconsin. We’re going to get the White House."
Romney made only one stop here today on his five-day, six-state bus tour, and it might be for the best -- his campaign bus might not have seats for all the surrogates who came out to support him this morning.
Evan Vucci / AP
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gestures during a campaign stop at Monterey Mills June 18 in Janesville, Wis.
There was Sen. Ron Johnson, who toppled Democrat Russ Feingold in 2010, and Reince Priebus, the Kenosha-born former Wisconsin GOP chairman who now leads the Republican National Committee.
"I got to tell you we have a little stimulus plan of our own and the stimulus plan is renowned by economists, like Paul Ryan," Priebus said. "Here is the stimulus plan: elect Mitt Romney, fire Barack Obama, and save America, right?"
But the loudest cheers weren't for Rep. Paul Ryan, the hometown favorite in Janesville and possible vice presidential contender; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the recent victor in a recall election who introduced Romney, who elicited the loudest cheers from the crowd.
“It is my honor to still be the 45th governor of Wisconsin and it is my honor to be on the stage with the man I hope is the 45th president of these United States,” Walker said.
Walker's retention in the face of a labor-backed recall challenge, has fired up the Republican base here. The governor emerged as a hero to conservatives after eliminating most public workers' collective bargaining rights. Despite sharp disagreements over the implications of Walker's victory over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) earlier this month, the Romney campaign's senior advisers say they plan to compete aggressively in Wisconsin this fall, if only to keep President Obama on defense.
Romney was also on the attack this morning, accusing the president of replacing a slogan of "hope and change" with a hope to change the subject away from the economy, and of being unable to run on a tepid economic recovery the president insists needs more time to catch fire.
"These are challenging times for Americans, and because of [President Obama's] failed record his campaign is having a hard time deciding what to talk about, because they’d like to talk about the economy, they'd like to talk about his record but you know, the last time his campaign slogan was hope and change this time he’s going with: we hope to change the subject," Romney said.
Romney and Democrats also traded charges of evasiveness in the speech and subsequent spinning from the Obama campaign, with a spokesperson for the president's campaign declaring Romney's speech to be packed with "evasive and angry rhetoric," and Romney accusing the president of trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people as he fought for more time in office.
"He tries to tell people that his policies are actually working, that its just taking longer than we had all been told—promised," Romney said. "And I can tell you that I know he’s a very eloquent person and he’s able to describe these policies in great detail and in some respects tell you that night is day and day is night, but people know better."
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These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.
* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings. (I have mixed feelings about this one)
* Save America's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings. (What is this)
* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings. (I wonder if that would cover the Obamacare mess)
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings.
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.
* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings.
* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.
* Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.
* U.S. Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.
* General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.
* Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.
* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
* Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings. WHAT THE HELL IS THISABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.
* Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.
* Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings.. WHY?????
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question is, what is a lot of this doing in the budget in the first place?
Yup, these are the cuts proposed by the new Republican congress and Tea Party members in Congress. Harry Reid's answer to each one? DOA.
if its not in the budget where do you want it? some of these are viable and important programs! You seem to forget that Bush left those two wars out of his debt which made him look a lot better than he was...and Obama put that war debt in the FIRST year he was in office which artificially makes it appear that he added that debt when in fact it was the Grand Old Party that did that
Seista, if that is the case why is Obama on the pace to 1.5 trillion to the debt this year?
Congressional teapublicans were offered up a plan that included $10 of spending cuts, for every $1 dollar in tax increases..
They decided to protect their well heeled benefactors at all costs... including a budget compromise..
The budgetary process is an exercise in compromise...
Congressional teapublicans have failed to grasp that very real fact..
Grasp this. Obama has no clue how to negotiate anything. That is KEY to our democracy. We will get no where until he is out.
Angry, and ignorant, is no way to go through life cletus ray bob...
Umm... we DO remember how the last teapublican president left things...
Hmm..... something about the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression...
K1200RS
And democrats were offered $4 in tax increases for every bill that passed that totaled up $2 in definite spending cuts and the democrats said o,k. but don't ask us to put it in writing.
Is the Wisconsin electorate so stupid as to put this ahole in as president. They have already been screwed by the retardicans are they going to bend over and ask for more? A working class retardican is the dumber than an ass.
You seem very angry Off. Having a bad day?
Ahh... yes...
Like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders...
The Wal-Mart conservative crowd has been played quite effectively by the offshore account crowd..
The way this government runs and party's in Vegas on our dime, and spends like no tommorrow, I want an Off-shore account too.
Walker won because the tax notices went out prior to the election. On average, they were $1000 less. People like that. Surpluses too.
K1200RS
#215.2
And what none of you will admit is that the economy was cruising along fairly well until the democrats took over congress.
LMAO Rick.....you are delusional.....this is your brain, now get off the drugs
teapublican baseless blathering point # 462.. Revisionist gibberish...
The democrats changed nothing... Not one material Bush Admn. policy.. And by Jan. of 2007, the writing was on the wall,. the economy was headed to a deep recession..
Luv how teapublican pretend how little georgey simply disappeared in Jan. of 2007... LOL!!
The following post pretty much says it all. Why can't you liberals deal with that?
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=77592
Rick, Liberals are too busy spinning the Romney hate to care what Obama has really done. It doesn't matter what happens to our country as long as Obama is in office. A bit of group hypnosis going on and they don't even know it.
"We have a LITTLE stimulus plan of our own?" leave it to mr "don't know what a doughnut is" mitt to think small, and he say the President is "out of touch". Mabe he think he is still running bain capitol. No mitt, we need a big stimulus plan, about three hundred and ten million people worth, thats the size of the US, thats big, not small. And seeing as how your colleagues in the house won't help the President out, we think it's time for them to go....and you too of course. What are their ratings again?, 9% now, or something like that.........
Dog, Have you taken a look at what Obama has actually accomplished for the good of the nation? The stimulus? Many more dead soldiers? World sentiment? Obama has failed on every front. And you can't continue to Blame Bush.
Willy for president ???
got to be joking !
Why not? Why would not vote for him?
He would make a terrible President for starters.... and he's bought and paid for by the Coukoo brothers. We can't have a president that care more for money than he does for the Country...can we??
Actually dog, we can't have a president that wants to Europeanize the US. Obama is doing that. This is not a good thing. Parts of Europe are lovely to visit, but believe me I don't want to live there.
That hasn't ever stopped us before.
Romney Vulture captitalist? Not hardly. Here are just SOME of Romney and Bain successes. They have provided jobs for millions of Americans. You may have heard of some these companies, they are some of today's best.
AMC Entertainment
Aspen Education Group
Brookstone
Burger King
Burlington Coat Factory
Home Depot
Clear Channel Communications
Domino's Pizza
DoubleClick
Dunkin' Donuts
D&M Holdings
Guitar Center
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
Sealy
The Sports Authority
Staples
Toys "R" Us
Warner Music Group
The Weather Channel
This is not the 1930's. Public sector hiring comes at to big of a price today. Those depression era people did not have paid health care, or golden parachute pensions where they get %90 of the pay for the rest of their life. Just put in ten years like most Firemen, Police, and teachers, got it made. How is that fair? Our troops do not even get bennies like that. Why should they?
Rumney is just not a Statesman, If you ask him to define it he'll probably say, a man that live in any one of the fifty States or something.
Or as hussein would say, one of the 57 states.
this is the biggest joke of all Mittens...there isn't a way in blue blazes that you will win Wisc. you are a fake and an idiot......good luck getting past the debates!!
Romney will easily defeat the leftists in wisconsin - and the rest of the country.
Actually Romney will win. Obama will lose. Now go back to sleep siesta... sleep...
its sad to see so many people following the false profit(obama)....what a loser this so calld leader is...he is destroying the country and you just keep on wanting to suck his a$$...the blind leading the blind
Unemployment and debt just aint quite high enough for some folks.
your right...so stupid that they would rather the country gets destroyed than admit the president sucks....and he does suck....
I like it when the leftists call Romney a flip flopper, but fail to realize that when hussein was a senator, he declared that raising the debt limit displays a complete lack of leadership. Then the marxist somehow gets elected and hammers congress for not passing it. 6 months left of the clown show.
http://terry-9.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/19/12299149-some-never-learn-msnbc-caught-selectively-editing-romney-video-to-make-him-seem-out-of-touch
Yeah what a bunch of wack jobs...send MSNBC complimentary BBQ's so they can grill each other, and tell them its a spare the air day.
Sometimes there just isn't an easy way to put it.
Ah, MSNBC digging through the archives I see to see what other kind of personalized advertising tries to invade peoples privacy...or influence them.
Guess we will have to wait and see what Wisconsin does on the election. I know the Wisconsin people are very dedicated to America. As a volunteer Vietnam war vet, I realize many soldiers were from Wisconsin answering the call from the draft of the Vietnam War. Not running off to Canada and being a draft dodger. They were not like Romney that dropped out of college and became hot potatoes for the Vietnam draft. Running and crying to his daddy, please get me out of the Vietnam War draft. With daddy getting him Morman missionary work in France during the draft. Not coming back to America until the draft was over. A true draft dodger when America calls. I just don't see the Wisconsin people spitting in the face of their brave soldiers that served in Vietnam and voting for Romney, a true draft dodger. That's my views folks, vote your choice. Our war vets have lost their lives to give you this freedom.
Would you care to educate us on Obama's military service to this country?
The people in Wisconsin do not spit in the face of their brave soldiers, and our brave soldiers will vote the way they feel is best, and it's crummy of you to tell them what is best, or even suggest it.
It does not include draft dodging.
Wisconsin voters had the chance to reverse an error and recall a nightmare of a governor... instead, Wisconsans voted to retain the bum. So, do you think I'll be surprised if those same idiots vote in the majority for another idiot: Romney? Hardly. So sad to see the state where collective bargaining was first confirmed as a right, to go down this dark, nut-job republican path.
"Those same idiots" will vote for whom they feel like without the unsolicited advice from some joker who thinks he knows better. I think everybody in your state should vote the way I want them to, and if they don't they are all idiots because I am of superior intellect. Right wolfboy.
Where's the story about msnbc editing romney videos that lie about wawa visit? where are the lies. can we believe anything on this web page? Andrea Mitchell got caught. No reprimand?????????
Andrea Mitchell is in the inner circle, she gets a pass.
Remember you get what you pay for.............. Keep cutting public employees benefits and pay and only the worst who cannot find a better paying job with good benefits will remain. These are the people who fill the potholes, educate out children, put the fire out when your house in on fire and protect you from criminals. Careful what you ask for.........
Well, theoretically....
I don't see a lot of people in the audience.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
:)
Peace.
Mittens still has not said anything he would do differently to spur economic growth. Cutting taxes on the "job Creators" and getting rid of EPA regulations and banking regulations might work better, but I doubt any faster. Once the top 1% have all the capital and there is no more EPA or rules for banks, we will all be better off according to the GOP. Lets hope they are right, but I am afraid they might be wrong.
Willard Mittens Romney - You are a douchebag, good thing you are wearing your magic underwear!
Mitt's plan: sit tight and hope no one notices that he lacks a plan.
Mitt will take back WI? Isn't that what the Kochs--er--Scott Walker just did?
Romney OWNS Wisconsin.