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Subscribe to RSSEveryone's watching for when Mitt Romney will make his vice-presidential pick. It's possible next week with a bus tour toward the end of the week, but with the Olympics still going on, it's unlikely.
President Obama heads to Colorado and raises money in Connecticut with Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
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Hmmm. Quiet day, at least HERE! I imagine that it is not so quiet in Vegas where Libs are renewing fr
Well, isn't that funny, my post disappeared.
As I was saying before I was SO rudely interrupted...
Libs are off renewing friendships, enjoying the company of other like minded, thoughtful people, but since IR left me the key to the Dew Drop Inn and the Come Back Inn, the party continues apace here. I am bringing my hubby's famous pulled pork and pinto beans, and with some side salads and desserts, a fine feast will be had.
What oh what have we learned? Mittens doesn't play well with others. He really managed to muck up that visit to Europe and insulted some long term allies. No surprise, Mitty has trouble understanding that not everyone considers him to be the oracle that he is convinced that he is.
When is a therapy horse NOT a therapy horse? When it is competing at the International level in Dressage. No matter WHAT Queen Ann says, those of us who have horses know when we are being handed a load of manure. Annie, when your horse is a business, it isn't therapeutic...except for your pocketbook. But all the same, I am sure that Queen Ann gets an ego boost out of her horse showing up in the Olympics, but that is about all the therapy involved!
Do you suppose someone had to point out to her which horse it was?
We have much to look forward to in the coming weeks. Mittens is going to make his pick for the VP spot. His big problem is picking someone who doesn't have a personality....Mitty doesn't want to be shown up. That leaves most of the Republican Party, so I guess we will have to wait and see. Going to be a safe pick, Mitty says he learned a lesson from Palin. Which is sort of odd since he has the same propensity to put his foot in his mouth that she does.
My thanks to my hosts for an exciting week, you guys will be working some serious overtime as we approach convention time.
Ron, Bev, Jody, JoAnn, Backhouse, Dennis, Amy and all the libs that are not in Vegas, the party is ON here! Let's get some music playing and have some fun!
Have a good weekend all, and Vegas Libs, do call and check in, won't you?
NDD--Yes--party is on! I will bring brownies. Shall we also have some popcorn in honor of our friends in Vegas? A nice glass of wine, good food and friends, and some great discussion will be wonderful after this wild week!
Absolutely, nurse! Popcorn it is! I'll fire up the machine! So glad you and Layton are coming! Where are blackcatwhitecat, phine and Forrest?
Yikes - according to the next thread, Romney's in Vegas today too! Should we start a rumor that he's the one who's this year's guest speaker? :)
Oh my gosh, JoAnne that would be TOO funny!
Yes. Let's.
Totally agree JoAnne and NDD! Then he'd really look like he was sucking lemons! It's all the fault of those da$# libtards, dontcha know!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Terrific end of Friday wrap, NDD. I was busy and didn't realize The Week Ahead had been posted early so am late to the DDI party. Next year I intend to be at the Libs gathering again. It was such fun last year but alas, stuff got in the way for this particular weekend. Had hoped to hit Vegas and then head west to San Diego to visit my friends as well as check out my old stomping grounds. For now, I'll be content to toast my friends long distance.
JoAnne, Mitt's probably one of those folks hiding behind the potted plants!
Thanks to our FR hosts for another excellent week of politics; you keep us informed and give us place to talk about it.
Have a great weekend.
Hey Nurse, we Libs will drink wine while the cons drink whine. I wonder if they wany cheese with their whine.
Good point, Adler!
Everyone's watching for when Mitt Romney will make his vice-presidential pick.
not me. I couldn't care less.
Some people have no life, waiting for a VP pick. I even heard there is an app calle Mitts Veepstakes. crazy huh?
I also hear that the Green party has a new presidential candidate, interesting!
Hmmm, the Week Ahead was earlier than usual and Andy was nowhere in sight - I sense a new conspiracy theory in the makings that involves Las Vegas! :)
And speaking of our absent friends, that just makes more room at the old Dew Drop Inn this week for everyone else. The pulled pork is smoky, the margaritas are icy, the conversation's good, and the jukebox is well-stocked. Anyone with an open mind and a thirst for honest political discussion as well as those margaritas is welcome to stop by. Our Redneck Innkeeper says the first round is on the house - and hey, since he's in Vegas with the rest of the gang, what the heck - the second and third rounds are too - he'll never know!
Anyway, let's get this party started with a birthday toast to our favorite president and start the jukebox off with - well, what did you expect?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFw5a5Bp_Pw
Remember guys......we're expecting severely incriminating pictures next week!
Sounds perfect after a very long work week! Thanks for the invite! ;-)
Margaritas might even be better than a glass of wine! "Severely incriminating pictures" anyone?
I admit it...I stopped reading right after that!!! ;-)
A margarita or 3 sounds perfect.
Have a great weekend all!!
JoAnne, well said. We're ready for some serious DDI partying and I'm headed there now.
Layton, you are welcome to join us any time. You write some great posts; enjoy reading every one of them.
Hi, Grimey, everytime I see the Romney attack ads on President Obama, I think of your post lamenting the Olympics filled with negative attacks. Now, to be honest, I have not seen every single hour of the Olympics but what I have seen has been filled with all negative Romney attacks and President Obama's ads are positive during the Olympics.
Speaking of campaign ads, the Iowa air is thick with ads. I have yet to see a positive ad by Romney or the RNC, American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity (Koch Bros). I'd think they could find something positive to say about Mitt Romney but apparently not!!!
I am ready for a drink or two!
Obama/Biden
Mitt Romney should pick Sarah Palin, this time she may do better than she did in 2008.
I think he should pick Gabby Douglas. She could teach him to add two and a half twists to his back flips. I'll bet she could explain the difference between Russia and the Soviet Union to him, too. And she's a heck of a lot more exciting than Rob Portman!
Gabby Douglas....Sweet!
His Veep should be somebody with a pulse. That should be added as a criterion, inasmuch as Willard is about as exciting as Coolidge. Willard is only exciting when he is flubbing up.
Romney will announce his VP pick at the same time he provides details about how he plans to fix things, right AFTER he wins the election and not a day sooner. Paranoid about the possibility it might work and someone else gets the credit. Never fear Mittens, it wont work anyway. It hasn't worked for the last 30 years.
Interesting Dean in that Romney's vision of fiscal discipline and private enterprise worked very well for Reagan in the 80s and Clinton in the 90s, you must have forgotten those eras. The vast majority of us would love suffer as bad as we did then. Its always interesting that politicians forget what worked in the past. Remember those good old fashion midwestern values where self reliance and personal accountability is how we got ahead? There was no jealousy of those who were successful and we didnt rely on the government to bail us out? Equality of outcomes was a dirty concept because not everyone was born to be Albert Pujols, Steve Jobs or the successful small business owner. Those who wanted to invest time and capital and had the work ethic, talent and ambition were rewarded and those who didnt had different outcomes and didnt demand that the government take care of them and create an equality of outcomes through wealth redistribution.
I must have missed the news flash about Romney's "vision of fiscal discipline". Where can I find it?
Kirk, you're joking, right? Reagan's fiscal IRresponsibility turned this country from a creditor nation into a debtor nation. Reagan is why I became a democrat; I realized that conservatives talked the talk but no longer walked the walk (and they still don't). He doubled the debt, increased the size of government, increased military spending and starved infrastructure, education and everything else because he was paranoid about the USSR. He cut taxes so much that even he realized the disasterous deficit and debt he created then raised them 11 times--except he raised them mostly on the middle class and the damage had already been done to the debt. Bush 41 tried to dig us out of the Reagan hole but it was Bill Clinton who finally did. Then along came George W who said, let's do Reaganomics again! We are in the mess we are today because of the disastrous Reagan and Bush 43 policies.
Kirk, that, if it were accurate, was before W tried to turn this country into a capitalist society. It is not. Capitalism has always been encouraged, but was never meant to be the basic concept of government.
Capitalism and Socialism are economic styles. Fascism, Democracy, and Communism are styles of government We often find people confusing or trying fuse economic styles and government together.
A good 21st Century government contains a balance of Socialism and Capitalism whether the government is a Democratic Republic, a Communist Republic, or A Fascist state. Each age is more liberal than the age before it. The Kings of Medieval times were more liberal than the Roman Emperors had been and with the over throw of the French despotic king and the American Revolution a new age where people had more say in their government was ushered in. In the earlier times a totalitarian totally capitalist system was necessary, now we, as a human race, have developed and the brutality of the past is no longer necessary. The greed of kings and emperors of the past has been replaced by a generosity even amongst countries like Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, UK and others where a monarch rules. Generally they are figure heads and it is a parliament elected by the people who run the government. A few exceptions would be in the Middle East but with Arab Spring that is changing too. As the population of the world grows and governments become more liberal than before we find that an increase in Social programs (Socialism if you like) is necessary. Working WITH private industry governments can provide what their people need and all prosper. Only when someone abuses the system or gets greedy (either the takers or givers at all levels) is there a problem. When that happens we make laws and impose controlls on those who have abused or who may abuse when they see their kind getting away with it. Teddy Roosevelt stopped the robber barons and their greed but TR would be finding the greed of today a little more difficult because it wasn't all of Congress corrupted by corporate greed as it is today. Congress was more cooperative then. Today it is all my way or the highway and that is why NOTHING is getting done, nothing of any substance that is, by the current Congress.
Romney stated he would announce his VP - in August.