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Subscribe to RSSSix-column, large-font, front page Des Moines Register headline: “Wind credit likely to stay: Obama promotes its extension; Iowa delegation cautiously optimistic.”
The story’s lead: “All the huff and puff on the campaign trail in Iowa aside, it’s likely that the wind energy tax credit will pass this fall, Iowans who follow the issue say. It’s a topic that Iowa voters typically don’t bring up. But President Barack Obama loves to talk about it because it gives him an opening to bash GOP rival Mitt Romney for being opposed to an incentive that all of Iowa’s top politicians consider important.”
Note: The entire Iowa delegation, including Republicans, supports it. Romney is not, and his staff doubled down on that in the story: “Romney’s Iowa campaign aide, Shawn McCoy, said Tuesday that Romney is a strong supporter of wind power. The distinction is that Romney draws the line at government subsidies, contending that all sources of energy should compete on their own merits. The tax credit cost the federal government $1.6 billion this year.”
The New York Times: “When Charlotte first emerged as the top contender to host the Democratic convention, its lead cheerleader was James E. Rogers, the outspoken chief executive of the hometown utility, Duke Energy. He promised to be a public face and a private fund-raiser for the effort. Mr. Rogers has not only solicited donations but has also arranged for his company to donate office space and guarantee a loan to the convention committee.”
But: “The intersection of Duke Energy’s interests and its support for the convention is testing Mr. Obama’s pledge to free the party’s gathering from business and lobbyist support. The situation is a microcosm of a larger issue that Mr. Obama’s campaign has faced. It has tried to balance the president’s longtime pledge to reduce the influence of special interests in politics with his real-world need to raise the huge amounts of money that modern campaigns require, at times in ways that seem to contradict those pledges.”
The Romney campaign called Joe Biden’s “chains” comments a “new low.” Andrea Saul statement: “In case anyone was wondering just how low President Obama could go in his campaign for re-election, we now know he’s willing to say that Governor Romney wants to put people back in chains. Whether its accusing Mitt Romney of being a felon, having been responsible for a woman’s tragic death or now wanting to put people in chains, there’s no question that because of the President’s failed record he’s been reduced to a desperate campaign based on division and demonization.”
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R) said on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports yesterday that Biden’s comments were "code word that the Republicans are trying to be racial in their programs. That’s ridiculous."
Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said on the show that the campaign agrees with Biden’s sentiment. “The bottom line is that we have no problem with those comments.” Biden’s team pushed back saying Republicans on Capitol Hill have been using the word “unshackling” when it comes to regulations on business. “The Vice President has often used a similar metaphor to describe the need to ‘unshackle’ the middle class. Today’s comments were a derivative of those remarks, describing the devastating impact letting Wall Street write its own rules again would have on middle class families. We find the Romney campaign’s outrage over the Vice President’s comments today hypocritical, particularly in light of their own candidate’s stump speech questioning the President’s patriotism. Now, let’s return to that ‘substantive’ debate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan promised 72 hours ago, but quickly abandoned.”
Of course, there was also President Obama invoking Mitt Romney’s dog-on-roof story. He was hitting Romney on the wind tax credit in Iowa and cited Romney saying, “You can't drive a car with a windmill on it." Then Obama then ad-libbed: "I don't know he's actually tried that. I know he's had other things on his car."
The Des Moines Register: “Romney has gotten much ribbing since he shared an anecdote about how the family dog, Seamus, rode happily in a carrier attached to the roof of the car during a vacation.”
The White House has a brewery? “In perhaps the most startling revelation so far in Obama’s three-day bus tour across Iowa, it was revealed Tuesday that the White House brews its own beer, and that the presidential bus is stocked with bottles of that beer,” the Des Moines Register notes.
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The president is still at Puff the Magic Dragon. He's hallucinating.
Maybe Obama means to say his policies actually blow instead of suck like most think of them.
Ben : That would be Romney he was around when Peter, Paul and Mary's song was popular. Oh wait, I forgot he was too busy draft dodging to have noticed. WEIRD how he announces Ryan in front of a battleship when neither one of them ever served anything but their own self-interests. This President has found a way to reconcile his faith in Jesus with the realities of SCIENCE, republicans ought to try it sometime. Global warming is REAL, just go look at the poor polar bears losing their habitat. IDIOTS will destroy this world, it will have nothing to do with GOD.
GENE: Obama's policies have been obstructed by the GOP (which now stands for: Grand Obstructionist Psychos) since the loud mouthed teabrains came into office in the newly named House of Misrepresentations, there have been over 53 bills hoping to encroach on PRO-CHOICE LAW! Meanwhile the teabrained marroooons filibuster and obstruct EVERY EFFORT, and there have been many that this President puts out there to create jobs, or retain American jobs. They blow. Lets hope they blow right out of congress soon.
Righties Don't Stomp My Head!
Oh boy, wants Obama to win so (our president) can tear this country apart. Sound familiar. Just like all the 3rd world countries. Go ahead, it's gonna affect you dear in the end, if you vote for that Is....... Read between the lines buddy.
Right on.....Brother! Oops I mean brotha
WHY DID REPUBS BLOCK REMOVING TAX BREAKS FROM COMPANIES LIKE BAIN< WHO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS OFFSHORE?
On 7-19-12, repubs blocked the bill that would remove tax breaks for companies that take American jobs overseas. These corporations take the profits then and hide them in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes to the U.S.
.......WHY DID REPUBS BLOCK THE BILL TO GIVE TAX BREAKS TO COMPANIES THAT WOULD BRING THE JOBS BACK TO AMERICA?
On 7-19-12, repubs blocked the bil to give tax breaks to companies that would bring back jobs to America.
WHY DO REPUBS HATE AMERICAN WORKERS? Because they love profit and greed and pledged to vote against any bill that would make President Obama look good. Repubs including Paul Ryan, pledged the night Obama took office to vote against America just to make Obama a one term president!
....Killing good paying American jobs is good for the economy?......unemployment, cost of retraining, taking a lower paying job, losing your savings, your home, your family, everything you worked for...to buy cheaper goods that you now cannot afford? HORSE HOCKEY! All the profits go to the greedy rich.
The Obama economy is what has this nation blowing into a financial dust bowl. The Consumer Price index report this morning basically show a stagnant to slipping back into recession economy and the Empire State manufacturing Report is as follows:
Add to that the fact that Europe is teetering on the brink of a recession and you have to ask yourself, can we really afford four more years of the failed Obama economy?
END IT IN NOV, VOTE ROMNE/RYAN
Your repub leader King Norquist just said all he needs is someone to sign the bills.....could be any republican. Tea Party in congress...scare the teabaggers by saying Muslim, birth certificate, take your guns......Teabaggers the people say don't touch our SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Post Office. Then repubublican politicians come right out and say to Teabagger people..... vote for them and they will end Soc Sec, Medicare, Medicaid , and the Post Office!........And by god the Teabaggers did vote for exactly what repubs said they would do.....Teabagger people VOTED against their own self interests.......YIKES!!!!!.
Starsailng,
You really are OUT THERE! You are a typical liberal, "give me everything and I'll pay for nothing' kinda person. Every program you outline that the "people say don't touch" are all going bankrupt. These entitlements can't survive as they are. As it is now, most people pay no federal income tax after exemptions and we wonder why there is no money to pay for these programs. Oh, wait, the government will just take MORE from the upper income taxpayers who are already footing the tax bill for over 60% of the population.
Keep star sailing as your head is definitely in space or some other "Dark Hole"
Starsailing is happy in his own dream world in lefty la la land.
romney doesnt believe in subsidies???? ok have him return the billions the oil companies have recieved!!! the farmers, the pharma,etc.
subsidies are the role of the gov. the gov is not a business it is a social organization to create balance in a society. it is a promoter not a creator. it is a protector an agent of well being.
as gov groquest stated, we dont care whos president as long as he does what we tell him. thats the president you want? really?
you are Looney, the government does not, and should not play a role in poviding balance. Anyone with that ideal should move to China where that might be an acceptable principle. In the USA government was formed to provide the basics in the form of public works, the military, and for governance (laws) between the States. There was no further motive, no matter how altruistic it could be Later, overnment evolved into a system of providing for the social aspects like eucation, welfare, and the care of the retired or infirmed. It never has been a primary function of our government to provide these social amenities, they are a secondary function, and come with limits.
Gene Miller - You are absolutely correct! You made the federal government connection - that the federal government is the biggest problem America has.
and a bunch of repubs also, oh lets say like Madoff
The only thing to consider is that the president chose the companies he wanted to give our money to. You say "farmers" and "oil companies" which umbrellas many, not a choice few.
ROMNEY EXTREME VIEWS HURTS THE SENIORS, MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR!
Romney Ryan tax plans...Pretty simple Kill Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and privatize for their rich friends driving up healthcare costs and trying to force you to invest in Wallstreet where Romney and Ryan will deregulate even more to take the rest of your money they didn't get the first time. Ryan Romney want to privatize the Post Office because repubs force P.O. to over fund their pension plan out 75 years just to deliberately defund P.O. This will crash service and many towns will have no service or extreme higher costs via UPS or FED EX.
Ryan Romney plans incease tax breaks for the rich and cut food stamps to starving children and families, cut benefits to Vets, and increase taxes on middle class and poor by up to $2000 to pay for their tax breaks!!!YES< RYAN PLAN EVEN CUTS VETS BENEFITS!
Vote Presidentt Obama/Biden 2012 protect Seniors, Middle class and poor from grreedy Romney and Ryan
Andrea Saul is still on Willards Campaign?
She spoke the truth, which got her in trouble, so now she's back with the talking point lies!
Andrea Saul creeps me out everytime she opens her mouth. She's very robotic. Her eyes..like a dolls eyes...Jaws
Obama/Biden 2012
In the Mantra of the Obama campaign, attack without merit or fact, just toss out anything that might stick, so that it might make Obama look better. Sorry to tell you, but that is all the Obama campaign is running on. If you check the Obama record in office most people ill find nothing positive to support.
Notice when there is any bad news about America..the repubs stand up and cheer?...Why?
Ryan pledged the night Obama was elected to vote against any bill that would make President Obama look good. Pledged to vote against America. First Ryan takes the oath of his office pledging to America, then he takes the King Norquist pledge against America and pledges to protect the greedy rich, then he pledges against the President and America. I call that treason. He should be removed from office. Like George Bush Senior said..."Who the hell is Norquist anyways?"
Vote Obama/Biden 2012 Protect America from people who vote against America like Paul Ryan.
WHY DO REPUBLICANS HATE SENIORS? Seniors vote to protect their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Post Office. Repubs want to privatize it all for greedy profit!
WHY DO THEY CREATE VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS TO STOP THE ELEDELY FROM VOTING? Seniors vote to protect their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Post Office. Repubs want to privatize it all for greedy profit! Romney and Ryan want to kill those programs for their greedy rich friends who want part of that action!
Vote President Obama/Biden and Team Democratic Parfty 2012, protect the elderly and your selveves from the greedy rich!
STARSAILING read this article, the GREAT Obama health plan...the elderly already lost $700 billons from medicare....
5 "Hidden" Obamacare Taxes That Will Crush The Middle Class
Money Morning
Get ready to be blindsided by a barrage of new taxes. $569 billion worth...
They'll be coming courtesy of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
And they won't just be affecting those who make over $250,000 as you'll soon see. The bulk of these taxes will be passed on directly to the middle class.
That's because while a majority of these "stealth taxes" were designed to be taxes on businesses, they're actually be transferred directly to ordinary citizens.
They include an investment income surtax, a medicate payroll tax, even a "tanning tax" on those who utilize indoor tanning services.
"Many of those [hidden] taxes, especially those on hospitals, insurers and medical device manufacturers, will ultimately be passed on through higher health costs," said Michael Tanner an expert on the healthcare law.
Editor's note: How much extra will you have to pay? See the complete list of new Obamacare taxes here
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Of course, the Obamacare plan was primarily designed to decrease the number of uninsured Americans and reduce healthcare costs.
Many experts are saying it will have the opposite exact opposite effect.
That's why Republicans hope to strike down Obamacare should they nab a presidential victory in November.
They claim that the taxes needed to pay for Obamacare will crush the middle class and most U.S. taxpayers, as well as trigger job losses in affected industries.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, 76% of those who stand to be slapped with the penalty (the Supreme Court calls it a tax) for not carrying insurance are those earning less than $120,000. The penalty for the average American family is $4,700 a year in new taxes.
Other new Obamacare taxes will hit drug companies (totaling $27 billion), and medical device makers ($20 billion), as well as enforce new reporting requirements and regulations on physicians.
But these stipulations could make access to health care and services more costly and difficult for seniors.
About six million people nationwide will most likely lose their Medicaid eligibility because their states will not join the Medicaid expansion.
Roughly half would be able to obtain private insurance, leaving the other half without coverage, the CBO reports.
Tax experts say you should try to estimate how much you will have to pay when the new taxes go into effect - and take precautions to limit the effects on your bottom line.
What the Experts Say: Real facts and figures about the Hidden Obamacare taxes are hard to find. That's why Money Morning has created a free comprehensive guide to help you prepare. You'll learn exactly what new taxes you can expect to see. Just go here to get it now.
Mr Obama says he fundamentally disagrees with the Romney plan.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with trade being both free and fair. Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with reforming medicare to save it from going bankrupt
Mr Obama fundamentally disagrees with balancing the budget.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with stopping deficit spending.
Mr Obama fundamentally disagree with eliminating the national debt
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with the principle that government should be limited
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with enforcing existing laws
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with allowing States to assist the federal government in enforcing our laws.
Mr Obama fundamentally disagrees with securing our borders.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with adopting immigration laws that bring the best and brightest to the US, but prefers open unchecked borders.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with opening up our energy resources, while expanding our energy resources into other areas.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with the US taking a leadership role in the world, but prefers that we a back seat to those seeking to take advantage of US.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with having a strong military.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with creating an atmosphere conducive to the growth of small businesses.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with extending the middle class tax rates beyond one year (only enough to get him past the election)
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with not shouldering our children and grandchildren with the burden of paying for massive debts and deficits.
Mr. Obama fundamentally disagrees with keeping us financially independent of countries like China.
Mr Obama fundamentally disagrees with making difficult choices now so that we don't have to face disastrous consequences later.
Mr Obama says we need to cut entitlements, but when any one proposes a plan to do so he fundamentally disagrees.
Etc...etc..
Now that we know what Mr. Obama means by" fundamental change", we fundamentally disagree with Mr. Obama being President any longer.
Your my hero.
King K, you are so right on! Love how you listed these instead of generalities. The Romney campaign should use these explanations you so succinctly put forth.
GOING TO BE FUNNY WHEN EX REPUB CANDIDATES START CHANTING TO MITT, SHOW US YOUR TAXES!
ROMNEY EVEN LIES TO HIS OWN PARTY!
During repub debates, they all asked to see his taxes, Romney said he would show them. So he lied once he got the top spot on the manure pile and Ann says they won't release them. Ann says Mitt cannot do this with out her! Mittster says he won't release his taxes ...why?
All the repub leaders tell Mittster to release them. Mitt is hiding his money offshore and is not paying his fair share of taxes. Now Paul Ryan and Romney want to eliminate capital gains taxes so they pay NO taxes! Ryan Romney plan raises taxes on middle class and poor to make up for the taxes they won't be paying! Vote no to tax dodgers Romney and Ryan.
Vote President Obama/Biden and Team America 2012, Vote for making Romney pay his fair share of taxes.
If Obama was seriously concerned about government revenue projections he is best advised instead of raising taxes like he propoes, to do something to relieve our nation from the Obama Recession. Turning our economy around will raise more revenue than any tax increase. It is a proven fact that by raising txes you reduce revenue.
Repub plan for years....
1. Spend like drunken republicans. Put laws in place, (wars that give repubs war profits that can't be ended) don't fund laws enacted , kick financing them down the road, No child, donut hole etc,
2. When democrat president holds office scream about the deficit and make them pay for the programs repubs never funded.
3. New twist...take the Norquist pledge to keep from increasing taxes so Dems can't fix repub problem.
YOU GET STUCK WITH CUTS TO PROGRAMS THAT BENEFIT the middle class, while repubs hold the nation hostage for more tax breaks for the rich Romneys!
Pretty simple plan...and it is working...unless you vote NO TO REPUBS so we can make the GREEDY RICH PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!
Why is Obama always a dollar short and a day late. Germany just ended subsidies for wind power because they cost too much and the Dope in Chief is up their promoting green energy that isn't affordable. Here in MA we will be opening a wind farm that will be subsidies with higher electric bills to help pay for this huge mistake. Can wait for PETA to be complaining about all the birds kill by this mess in the Cape Cod sound.
WHY ARE REPUBLICANS RUNNING BUSH/CHENEY/ROVE/NORQUIST FOR OFFICE AGAIN?
Yes 17 of 24 of Romney's advisers are from the catastrophic Bush/Cheney regime. Why would anyone vote to have Bush/Cheney/Romney in office again? Repubs don't even want Bush to speak at the convention because he tore the country up so bad. What does Romney do? He does what Norquist and Rove told him to do. Hire their crony crooks because war profits were so good for them. Norquist said, all they need is someone to sign papers for them. Romney the strawman. Rove and Norquist are the people running for president, not Romney Ryan! BEWARE! Vote NO to Bush/Cheney/Norquist/Rove/Romney/Ryan! They hired these same people because crashing the economy made them rich. They hired these guys because war profits made them rich and they want some more of that action!
Vote President Obama/Biden and team Democratic party.2012 ...........Dump Bush/Cheney/ Romney!
i wonder if the Kennedy"s will be able to see and appreciate the wind farm in the sound. or more likely, we need wind power just not in my front yard ( sound )
WHY DID REPUBS BLOCK THE BILL THAT WOULD REMOVE SUBSIDIES FOR BIG OIL?
Repubs blocked the bill to remove subsidies from big oil when even big oil execs testified before congress they did not need the subsidies! Repubs don't want to lower the deficit, they want to keep the deficit high to make it look worse for the country. Paul Ryan pledged the night Obama took office to vote against every bill that would make president Obama look good. Ryan pledged against America just to make president Obama a one term president!
Vote Obama/Biden and democratic party 2012 Invest in all energies, not just the greedy oil companies!
I don't think obama really cares what america thinks of him. He will win the next election even if no one voted for him, thats what a FIXER is. the same people that pushed him in in 2008 will push him in again to finish the job of destroying the USA. I hope I'm wrong, but lets wait and see. He will become the first mixed race dictator of the US.
WHY DOES ROMNEY HIRE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS INSTEAD OF AMERICAN WORKER?
Romney Immigration plan...hire as many as he can, when he gets caught, don't turn them in, just hire them again!
Yep caught twice hiring illegal Guatemalans through the Mormom church...he twice let them go not turning them into ICE for deportation. He let them run to their next job at his son's home. When questioned by reporter, Mittster answered..."OH GEEZ!" and walked away!
Vote Obama/Biden 2012
Wind, Oil, Solar, Coal, Gas Companies, if you can't make it on your own:
DROP DEAD. No govt handouts.
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