He doesn't need to show the 1040's to convince me. He's a liar and he's pathetic. The GOP doesn't even want him, he's just what they ended up with. I watched the primaries.

No plan of his own, just attack President Obama

Bain Capital

Outsourcing jobs

Romneycare

Assualt weapons ban

pro abortion and then anti abortion

This guy is sad, but it's sadder that so much hate for blacks, would translate into so much compromise from those who claim they love America.

The GOP slogan should read:

Anyone but a N in the white house.

Rick Santorum needs to disappear like Herman Cain did. Bye Rick, don't let the convention door hit you on the way out.

“President Obama’s policies undermine the traditional family, weaken the education system,” Santorum said. “And this summer he showed us once again he believes in government handouts and dependency by waiving the work requirement for welfare.

Total smack into your face Santorum for endorsing a LIE! The Governor of my State, Utah, is beefing up the work requirement and the President opted for it. What a sanctimonious POS you are for stating that those States that are asking that working is a requirement of welfare should be called out as being wrong. As noted in previous posts, the GOP sure likes to eat their own. While Utah is always a Red State, the GOP continuing to tell the Governor of this State that making a work requirement is wrong is nothing short of stupid. And if you're all going to say, "Well, the President should have waited for Congress to approve that." REALLY????? 12% approval rating and they do absolutely NOTHING for the people of this country. NOTHING!

Roger I was thinking the same thing. I used to live in PA: I can't stand Santorum. What is wrong with some people? Santorum stole from the PA taxpayers: he claimed that his entire family (what, something like 8 kids) all lived in a 2 bedroom house in western PA that he owns, but his niece and her husband live in, so that the PA taxpayers would pick up the tab for his kid's private education. In reality, the family lived in a large house in Virginia. Which brings up another point: why would people in PA elect a senator that chooses to live in another state? When the PA voters finally got smart enough to boot him out of office, he just moved his horse and pony show to another state and convinced their taxpayers to elect him. Rick needs to get over himself and accept that most people don't want to know what his opinion is on anything.

fedupwthisite

The truth is we are going bankrupt, have an incompetent President who is a socialist. Where have you been?

I've been right here. Reading while you repukes can't discern the difference between a Communist, Socialist, Fascist, or Marxist. Make up your minds, President Obama can't possibly be all four.

In this article Santorum says:

“I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all of God’s children -- born and unborn -- and says that each of us has dignity and all of us have the right to live the American Dream.”

Republicans agree that it is wrong to kill the born as-well-as the unborn. But yet, they seem to have no problem with killing off millions of young adults, and thousands of innocent young children, babies, and the elderly in Wars in spite of what one of the 10 Commandments says, "Thou shalt not kill." And it was Bush, who singed the approval for going off to war with Iraq that was built on lies about WMDs that did not exist. It is like saying that it is legitimate to kill in Wars; but illegitimate to kill an egg that is not even fertilized. Compare that with Adkin's remark of a legitimate rape is different from an illegitimate rape and someone must be punished for it. For me, there is no such thing as a good kill and a bad kill. It's hypocritical or contradicting at best!! If someone calls themselves Christians, then they should act like Christians in all respects.

'The truth is we are going bankrupt, have an incompetent President who is a socialist. Where have you been?"

You don't know what a socialist is, yet you're confidently using it as a pejorative. You don't know when or how the bankruptcy will occur, yet you're confidently projecting it will happen. What a rube, the world conservatives inhabit must be one of blue and red blobs, giant hazy objects that you mindlessly habitate toward or away from. Specificity is the scariest thing to contemplate for your side

Have another drink there buddy!

Paul S, NY NY

Lies,,more lies.....d**ed lies and GNOP Lies....

GNOP can't handle the facts. THEY CANT'HANDLE THE TRUTH!

C'mon Mythe show us the 1040's! What ARE you hiding?

Have another drink!

fedupwthisite

The truth is we are going bankrupt, have an incompetent President who is a socialist. Where have you been?

Been right here. If you're worried about going bankrupt, maybe you should ask your party leaders why it was all fun and games to lose our credit rating. I'll never forget Bachman giggling like a school girl, while standing next to Boehner, and saying "let them lower it."

Maybe you should be fed up with the GOP: "Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter." Dick Cheney

Well if deficits don't matter, then what's your problem??????

Maybe you don't like that we're in two wars that weren't paid for. Ryan the "deficit hawk" "budget hawk" Tea party poster child" didn't have a problem VOTING FOR EVERYTHING BUSH DID TO INCREASE THE DEFICIT.

I know, I'm playing the "libby blame game." Lie to yourself all you want. You hate him because he's black. PERIOD. The tparty didn't care when W was spending like a drunk, digging this hole. They didn't care when W started bailouts, and they took the bailouts and paid bonuses with them. But once the black man got in the white house, OHH the HUMANITY.

President Obama has done a great job with the cards he was dealt. He's done it with class, statesmanship, and intelligence. Get over it already.

Here's what you aren't reading or hearing about at both conventions:




Corporate bribery and political corruption on display at Republican, Democratic conventions

By Barry Grey

28 August 2012

The world was spared one day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida thanks to the arrival of Hurricane Isaac, which forced the organizers to delay the proceedings until Tuesday. For the next three days, however, the degradation and corruption of the American political system will be on full display.

There is in this year's quadrennial conventions an unabashed flaunting of the role of corporate money in what passes for American democracy that goes beyond even the debased levels of previous presidential elections. The Republicans go out of their way to present themselves as the paid stooges of corporate America. The Democrats are a bit more devious—but only a bit.

Away from the minutely scripted and orchestrated proceedings in the convention hall—with all their hokum and stupidity—the serious business of peddling influence and selling votes will take place in what the New York Timeson Sunday called a "parallel convention." The newspaper's front-page article on the Republican meeting, in a tone closer to admiration than revulsion, begins as follows:

"The railway giant CSX, which has spent $2 million this year lobbying on issues like greenhouse gas regulation and hazardous waste transportation rules, will park special train cars near the Tampa Bay Times Forum to host parties and meetings."

It goes on to list various parties and events at exclusive venues, including a yacht, for convention delegates, office-holders and Republican Party officials that are being hosted by super PACs such as Americans for Prosperity (co-founded by the oil billionaire and Tea Party sugar daddy David Koch), trade groups such as the American Petroleum Institute, lobbying firms, corporations, and multimillionaire fundraisers.

The Republican host committee has a $55 million budget and is sponsored by such corporations as Target, Chevron and Microsoft.
"Lobbyists and trade groups, virtually all with business before Congress and federal agencies, are paying for a nonstop schedule of beach parties, concerts and cocktail hours," the Times writes. "Each party's quadrennial conventions," it declares is "a gathering of money and influence unrivaled in politics."

What goes on at these events, however, is only a more concentrated and extravagant version of politics as usual. "What happens day to day in Washington—fundraising, lobbying, dining and entertainment—expands to a gigantic scale around the conventions."

It has been decades since the nominees for president and vice president of the two big business party were actually selected at the national conventions. As the Wall Street Journal noted in its August 24 article, headlined "Red Carpet for Republican Donors:"

"The official function of a political convention—the selection of a nominee—is now fulfilled long beforehand. Its events serve two other important purposes: introducing a candidate to a prime-time audience for one hour each evening; and, during the rest of the time, showing love and appreciation to donors."

In the case of the Republicans, this means 1,500 top fundraisers with whom Romney will meet in a series of exclusive events reserved for "Stars," who have raised at least $250,000, and "Stripes," who have gathered at least $500,000. "This will be a flagship taking-care-of donors convention," Woody Johnson, owner of the New York Jets and head of Mr. Romney's fundraising in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, told the Journal.

The other side of this orgy of official venality is a massive security operation to intimidate and marginalize political protest. The City of Tampa is, according to The Hill web site, "on virtual lockdown this week." Thousands of protesters will be penned into a "designated free speech zone" away from the convention hall. In other words, they will be denied the right to effectively exercise their free speech rights while being set up for police provocations and large-scale arrests.

The massive security operation, headed up by the Secret Service, involves the FBI, the Coast Guard and the military. Thousands of police from surrounding cities are expected to be deployed to bolster the local police. Federal officials have closed a major highway and placed floating barriers in the harbor. Air and water security zones have been set up and traffic restrictions imposed.


The Hill reported Saturday that the FBI and Homeland Security Department issued a joint intelligence bulletin last week declaring their "high confidence" that anarchist groups are "preparing to use violence and criminal tactics in an attempt to disrupt the Republican National Convention."

The level of repression is in inverse relation to the level of public enthusiasm for the elections and the two major candidates. Last week, a joint USA Today/Gallup poll was published showing that for the first time at this point in at least six elections, voters view both the Republican and Democratic parties unfavorably.

Far from the Wall Street debacle four years ago abashing the corporate-financial elite and its political parties, the domination of corporate money over the political system has become even more naked. Since the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case removing all legal restrictions on corporate funding of election campaigns, it seems, both the bribers and the bribed have concluded they have a green light.

At the Republican gathering, for example, the Financial Services Roundtable, Wall Street's leading trade group, will host an invitation only luncheon for members of Congress and financial regulators, followed by a panel on how federal policy affects its members' retirement and annuity products.

Some 27 corporations and industry trade groups are known to be sponsoring the Republican convention, including the American Petroleum Institute, the American Natural Gas Alliance, Chevron, Coca-Cola, CSX, Ford, Google, Microsoft, UPS, Walmart, Wells Fargo and Xerox.

The Democrats, who meet next week in Charlotte, North Carolina to officially nominate Barack Obama, have made much of their decision to bar corporate donations to their convention host committee. This is cynical ruse.

They have set up a related entity, New American City Inc., which is accepting money from such firms as Bank of America, Duke Energy, AT&T, Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo. Between the $36 million being raised by the official host committee and the $10 million to $15 million goal of New American City, the Democrats expect to collect nearly as much as their Republican opponents.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/conv-a28.shtml

@fedup-please define socialism, and then list those policies Obama has proposed that would fit the definition (hint-you can't say healthcare reform, it is NOT socialized medicine). I always ask this question when a right winger describes Obama of being a socialist, communist, fascist, marxist. Have never gotten a coherent answer, not one person has been able to answer. Just more parroting of Rush, Fox, D'Souza without any basis in fact.

Trashy Rednecks for Romney

BTW:

The Chinese, Indians and Mexicans can't wait for Mitt to win, so they can get all American jobs to stimulate their economy.

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BTWW:

Chris Christie is soooooooo fat that he eats biscuits like tic tacs.

Love your zingers; Trashy Rednecks for Romney

Might I add, Gov Krispy Kreme is soooooooo fat he could hardly walk to the podium. He
was out of breath.

President Obama has done a great job with the cards he was dealt.

Nah, not great, but fair. He would've done a lot better had not his good buddies Lil' Timmy Geithner and Larry Summers not fused his neck bones so he couldn't look left. This is one case where I wish the republicans were right and Obama WAS actually a Socialist.

Stein/Honkala 2012

Like all good Christians Scrotorum blames the poor. :)

Oh wait, I think Jesus might not agree now that I think about it!

But WTF, he's a Repubitard so he can do that. :)

"Of course, the welfare attack has been widely discredited, and there is still a work requirement for welfare. There also was limited crowd reaction to the attack, which has become a mainstay of the Romney campaign on the trail and in millions of dollars in television ads."

It is good to hear that not all republicans are willing to applaud a thoroughly debunked lie.

These republicans are all freaks. Do they even share the same dna as humans? Seriously.

An Independent Thinker

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Republicans agree that it is wrong to kill the born as-well-as the unborn.

there is no such thing as a good kill and a bad kill. It's hypocritical or contradicting at best!! If someone calls themselves Christians, then they should act like Christians in all respects.

RepubliCons also kill abortion doctors and bomb abortion clinics. They have morphed into domestic terrorist and are no longer are Christians.

Who cares about Santorum? Nobody pays attention to what Santorum has to say.

Hi Forrest Grump 2.0

"Of course, the welfare attack has been widely discredited, and there is still a work requirement for welfare. There also was limited crowd reaction to the attack, which has become a mainstay of the Romney campaign on the trail and in millions of dollars in television ads."

It is good to hear that not all republicans are willing to applaud a thoroughly debunked lie

Yup, and even better to see Gov Krispie Kreme's speech went flat. I believe Gov Krispie Kreme did what he had to do because he's thinking I want out of the Klown Kar. I thinking of 2016.

Hope you are fine.

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Do you want 4 more years just like the last 4 years? If you do, vote Obama! If not, vote Romney! The fact is that no one can think of anything that Obama has done that has helped the country. Maybe it is the $6 trillion increase in the federal deficit since he took office. Yup, that sounds like it's done a lot for this country. When you consider the federal deficit was about $9 trillion when he took office, you should really be impressed! Or, you could be really glad that unemployment was around 7.6% when Obama took office and how he took charge of the economy and solved the high unemployment with the "stimulus" package that was needed to keep unemployment below 8%. The important thing is that his INTENT was to keep it below 8%. The fact that it's been above 8% since then is irrelevant, of course. At least he intended to keep it low.

Here you go witchrunner:

This was the CNN Money headline in Bush's last month of office:

Job loss: Worst in 34 years

Employers slashed 598,000 more jobs in January as unemployment rate climbed to 7.6%.

Here was last month's number from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 163,000 in July.

All the GOP can do to win is LIE.

witchrunner.....

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Do you want 4 more years just like the last 4 years?

He!! yes! The DOW is up and loan rates are down. What more do you want???? Jobs??? Of course we all want more jobs in this country but if you think the Koch Bros and Sheldon Adelson are going to give them to us ... think again. All they want are tax cuts ... like capital gains tax cuts for the middle class. Like they have capital gains to have taxes cut on??? Get real. Romney wants a crown of Presidency on his head and the Koch's and Adelson want to buy it for him.

4 more for 44

I'm good Bev thank you, hope you are doing good as well.

I did not see any of the speeches, just commenting on what I read above. I have no need to watch their convention, my mind is already made up, Romney is not new, he has been around for years, he has changed his positions for years, he will not release his taxes, I already know what I need to know about him, and there is no speech that can change what he has already proved himself to be. If you start with a phony and then through in lots of baloney, you still just wind up with phony baloney. No thanks, I'll pass.

"Going bankrupt", tothetop777?

Who told you that - Rupert Murdoch?

Here's the a couple of charts of U.S. Gross Domestic Product for 1990 to 2011:

GDP 1990 to 2011

United States GDP Growth Rate, 1990 to 2012

Looks like the only time we were "going bankrupt" during that period was when your boy Bush was in office.

There's more money in the U.S. economy today than there was before the recession. The only difference is who it's going to. (hint - one of their initials is W.M.R.)

I find it hilarious that Republicans use the word 'socialist' like it's a bad thing - and yet threaten to take away social security, medicare, or medicaid and they freak out.

We live in a largely socialist country already. Don't kid yourself into thinking we're capitalists. True capitalism is great for the 1% and horrible for everyone else - it's not something to strive toward.

I find it funny how the Republicans are falling all over themselves to say they "believe" Mitt - so they don't need any proof (no birth certificate, no tax returns).

Can you imagine them saying to Obama, "Never mind, Mr. President, we don't need to see your tax returns." ????

H Y P O C R I T E S

Just look at Newt and his "family values"

The fact is that no one can think of anything that Obama has done that has helped the country.

Baloney, I think almost everyone can think of several things Obama has done to help the country. here's 4 easy ones for ya:

1) Ridding the world of Osama bin Laden and much of Al Quaida

2) The DOW - more than doubled during Obama's presidency

3) The jobless rate, while not recovering as fast as we'd all like, is still far better than it was when he started

4) GM and Chrysler and countless small businesses that depend on them are still in business

Beverly in Chicago & Witchrunner

Ah-h-h! But, they call themselves conservative, Born Again Christians ,who strongly desire to ignore the poor, the minority, the elderly, and the sick. Did they ever really read the Bible about how Jesus went about helping and feeding the very same people Republicans look down their noses at? The Orlando City Republican Officials passed City Ordinances not to feed the homeless except twice a week in a specific spot near the city edge where public transportation is not available. The feeding was to be accomplished in less than two hours, and the city, State, and Feds did not spend one penny for the donated food or time. Many ignored this ordinance, and then were hauled off to jail and fined for feeding the poor out of their own pockets. And why was this city ordinance passed? Because the Righteous upper crust 1% in Winter Park did not want the homeless walking on their beautiful streets or detracting from their city regardless of the fact that the majority of the homeless are Vets, not to mention very young children as well. They must be really proud of themselves as good Christians!?!?

tothetop777 - I'm real sorry that under our current healthcare system you can't get the meds you need.

If you wait until next year, you'll be able to get them under Obamacare.

Sorry it wasn't sooner - the GOP insisted that nobody get any benefit from the new system until after they got one more shot at the White House.

Does anyone else find it amusing that witchrunner quoted the guy who spent his entire 8 years blaming the guy who came before him? Yet these are the same people who whine that "Oh you guys are still blaming Bush...get over it."

Of course they also hate it when you mention that their automatic fallback position on anything until January 20th 2009 (and in some cases even now) was "Blame Clinton"

Jees, tothetop...do you kiss your mother/aunt with that mouth?

I must say I'm pleased to see that your still able to use such original and witty insults.

• “He glosses over and doesn’t even tell the truth. … Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he’s attacking me for not being principled? That doesn’t wash.”

~Rick Santorum on Mitt Romney, campaign event in Tennessee, February 2012

"Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?"

I most certainly am witchrunner, I lost a ton of money under Bush, the markets are more than double what they were in Nov. 2008, I got it all back and then some. I have never been unemployed under Obama, that is not a problem for me. I did shut down my small business several months back, but that was because my mother in law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I could not in good conscious travel and leave my wife to deal with that all alone while I was away for weeks at a time. I was off about a week, during that time I made up a resume and posted it to a few job listing sites, I literally got a call for an interview within an hour of posting that resume. I accepted that local job, and worked there for 5 weeks, I quit that job a few days before my mother in law passed away, that was a little over three weeks ago. So I re-posted my resume with a couple of headhunting sites, I start an absolutely fabulous new job next week, although I will have to travel about 50% of the time. The new job is along the lines of what my small consulting business was based on, however with the offer they made me there really is no benefit in all the hassle and unpaid time involved with owning and maintaining my own small business. For most of my life I worked under a collective bargaining contract that afforded me good pay, health benefits and a retirement fund, that is the only reason I had a little bit of security and seed money to start my small business after I reached an age where my kids were all raised and out of the house. At that point I did not need to work so steady and could take a chance on a varible income which comes with the territory when you own your own business. Honestly when I shut that down with all the talk about how bad the unemployment is and at my age I was a bit nervous, but like I said I found work immediately and it was a pretty decent paying union job. I quit because I am not in the physical shape I used to be, because with my mother in laws passing I no longer felt guilty if I had to travel, I had no trouble finding and landing that job, and quit frankly I have grown accustomed to calling the shots. Now at my age to be embarking on a new career with a huge company based on my expertise in a certain industry yes personally I definitely feel that I am better off.

It's not too early to ask the question, do you right wingers feel it slipping away yet? because it is.

Beverly,

LIke being a bigot?? Your comment about Christie being overweight is equal to the squealing you do about someone criticizing Obama about his skin color... Total hypocrite...

President Obama's policies undermine the traditional family, weaken the education system,

Says Santorum. What a tool! His speech was a sorry lamentation that he was not the NOMINEE. He had NOTHING NICE TO SAY ABOU FLIP-FLOPER Romney.

We can tell how much "He cares" about Mitt, Ann, Ryan, and especially boss Norquist.

Here is Barack Obama's Main Accomplishments

Barack Obama's Main Accomplishments:

Signed the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) Bill into Law allowing any US citizen to Be Detained WITHOUT trial (A federal Court Blocked it in May because it Violates the Constitution, but Obama is not trying to get it UNBLOCKED!).

He has Killed HUNDREDS of Innocent people (Including 3 American Citizens) in Pakistan and Yemen with Drone Strikes (He’s Ordered even more drone strikes than Bush!).

The rate of National Debt under George Bush was Around $60 Billion a Month. Under Obama, it’s been $190 Billion a Month, so that would be Nearly $600 Per US Citizen (Thanks Obama!).

Obama Care: Page 22. MANDATES, The Government will Audit Book of ALL Employers who Self Insure. Page 50, Section 152, Health Care WILL be Provided to ALL Non US Citizens, Illegal or otherwise. Page 126, Lines 22-25, Employers Must Pay for Their Part time Employees Health Care AND Their Families. Page 127, Lines 1-16, The Government WILL Tell you How much Money you can Make.

Obama has By-passed Congress to Enable the DREAM Act (Unconstitutional to By-Pass Congress, and the Illegals he allowed to become Legal Citizens has Committed over 19 Murders and Over 142 Sex crimes).

Obama Claims he Campaigned in 57 States (Maybe he wasn’t Born in this Country?).

I see that some people who cannot come up with an answer, resort to cussing and bashing!

About the country being broke: Van Jones of Rebuild The Dream recently stated that America is not broke, she is being robbed. The Robber Barons are getting all of the subsidies, tax breaks, and all the riches, all at the expense of rest of us (99%).

What the President has done. One of the best thing he did was health care. I know, I know, it is not really what everybody wanted. But I judge success by the good it causes and by the impact it has on the country.

.For the first time in the history of the country, insurance companies must spend 80% of your insurance payments on your medical care or give you back refund. This year more than 12 million people will receive more than a billion dollars in refunds. That smells like success to me! The insurance companies cannot deny you coverage just because you are sick (preexisting conditions). Everyone must have coverage. Again, a good thing! Much of our medical cost come form the uninsured going to emergency rooms at two to three times the cost of a normal doctors visit. Children in college can stay on their parents policies until age 26. I'll bet a $ to every doughnut that parents in this situation saves a ton of money as well as worries. Closed the doughnut hole (after receiving $800 some seniors had to start paying for their own prescriptions) in senior prescription drug benefits. This is the basis for the $1.76 billion dollars lie that Romney and republicans are putting out. The president took this money from ineffectual programs and helped seniors. We should be remindful that President Bush and his republican controlled congress passed the doughnut hole, under guise of Medicare reform????

..End time limits (statues of limitation) on when and individual can file a law suit once they discover that they have been wronged by their employer(s). Of course this was happening to women the most, so the republican had no interest in fixing this problem.

...Decreased student loans interest burden on our children. The government used to lend money to finance companies to lend to students. The finance companies made bundles while too many of our children were sent into financial slavery, just to get an education. The President decided that this did not make any sense. He conceived the idea that the government should loan the money directly to the students, which ensured more students could go to college, and at a reduced rate. I wish he had been in a position to grandfather all the prior students, but again success. Of course the finance companies died from hebbie jebbies, and that's alright!

Listen, I could go on, and I think many others could too, if they would lay down their hate for a moment or two. I dare anyone to convince me that these actions were not successes and did not have a positive effect on the American people. After all folks, that is the number one job of the President of The United States of America. I'll report and you decide!!!!

witchrunner

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?

yes! 4 yrs ago was 2008 during which we witnessed Financial Meldown, Housing bubble exploding, 2.6 million jobs lost (another 2 million in the following 3 months), everyone's 401(k) evaporating, Bush's No-Strings-Attached blank checks made out to banks (later used for exec. bonuses), etc.

I can keep going on but you get the point.

Obama 2012/Romney 1040

fedupwthisite

The truth is we are going bankrupt, have an incompetent President who is a socialist. Where have you been?

Bush created a $500,000,000,000 UNFUNDED spending burn rate that will add to our debt for many years to come. Bush handed us a collapsed economy that provides $500,000,000,000 LESS revenue... making $1,000,000,000,000 of our annual deficit traced back to Bush. This would be true no matter WHO was president.

Artificially low taxes at the top and on capital gains ENCOURAGES executives to remove money from business and send it to the Cayman Islands INSTEAD of reinvesting in business or creating jobs. It is at the heart of our high-profit-slow growth environment. It is fundamental to the fact that the rich got richer during this recession while the rest of us lost 40% of our net worth. And Romney and the GOP want to lower the taxes on the rich even more. This isn't a fairness issue, it's an economic issue. They are incenting the EXACT wrong behavior for their own gain.

Doing the math on such huge numbers, there is NO WAY to balance the budget in this economic environment... in fact, austerity would send our economy into an irreversible death spiral. Ryan's plan, besides balancing Bush's brainless unfunded spending on the backs of the people, would put us on the EXACT wrong track and would, indeed, push us into full bankruptcy.

The only way to address the debt is to recover and grow the economy, and we sure as hell don't do this on the moronic notion of less taxes at the top and less regulations... we do it with a cooperative political system that encourages consumers and markets. It's the ONLY way we will recover.

Soooo... incompetence? Socialist? Hardly. In fact, if you and yours were the least bit interested in recovery or avoiding bankruptcy, you would start working with this administration on JOBS instead of your social agenda and need for power.

Romney and Ryan are so far off target on real solutions that they are jokes in the technical economic world.

I'm sure my concrete business will do better with lower taxes on the money I won't make... and by eliminating all those regulations that aren't in my way in the least... and by getting rid of Obamacare that is the only thing between me and medical bankruptcy... and by forcing rape victims to carry to full term... yep, they sure got me covered!

I wouldn't vote for these morons on a bet.

Well, hell. I wasn't going to vote for Mitt, but now that I know his wife had MS and breast cancer and ATE off an ironing board, how can I NOT vote for him?? I mean, now that I know he CAN fix the economy??

drive-by-observer

Well, hell. I wasn't going to vote for Mitt, but now that I know his wife had MS and breast cancer and ATE off an ironing board, how can I NOT vote for him?? I mean, now that I know he CAN fix the economy??

Also, according to Queen Ann, Mitt walked her home SAFELY after their high school date so he is sooooo qualified to be POTUS. What a bunch of morons!

• I want Mitt Romney to explain to me how he plans to make the failed economic policies of George W. Bush work this time around.

Whining, crying libs. Watch the difference next week on these boards when the DNC has their party. I'm going to have to break out the Dawn liquid to keep my screen clean from all the dripping, oozing flow of sugary substance flowing from it. I'm stocking up on paper towels as we speak.

Libs are the only creatures alive that think the DNC are honorable, worthy politicians.

Hey libs... let's talk about the war on women for a moment. Should the republican men take on the mantle of democrats like Bill Clinton with his respect for women... or how about John Edwards... and the love he has for women... and then there's always the late Ted Kennedy and how much respect he showed for Mary Jo... You know, the same Ted Kennedy that was voted back into office many times after Chappaquiddick. Fine upstanding examples of democrats and their love for women.

FZ6man:

more lies. Is that all you guys can do is lie, lie lie? Did it ever occur to you to fact check before you post info from a chain e-mail? I guess thats how you guys get your "facts" now-chain e-mails and Fox news.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/twenty-six-lies-about-hr-3200/

it took me about a minute and a half to find this and disprove it

Hey Charlie - I can do that... it's very simple... Mitt won't be using the failed policies of Bush... unlike Obama who has Bush's policies all over his administration.

See, that wasn't very hard now, was it?

I'm not impressed by the candidates of ANY party this year, but stop with the garbage of trying to blame our now average trillion dollar budget deficits on a President who has been out of office for over three and a half years !!

Bush deserves plenty of the blame for our current economic mess not only for allowing Wall Street anarchy but for signing off on the idiotic corn sourced ethanol* of the Alternative Energy Act of 2007. Gas prices are nearing $4 a gallon again here and are unlikely to fall below $3.50 after they recover from the current spike. Corn sourced ethanol has a great deal to do with that, since the corn crop has been damaged by this summer's extreme drought (I support ethanol production, but not corn sourced ethanol, since it is an inefficient biofuel and using 40% of a drought reduced food grain for fuel is sheer stupidity) and prices have risen as a result of a smaller crop !!

But blaming Bush for four years of trillion dollar deficits when President Obama had fiscal input in EVERY ONE of those trillion dollar budget deficit years and two of those years had a Democrat Controlled Congress to work with rates a fail with me. You might get me to give W one of those years and twist my arm to blame him for half, but all four?? Not happening !!

I am sure I will be very disappointed in the performance of whoever wins in November, but if they suck for four years, it will be THEIR fault, not Obama's (unless it is indeed Obama ) or Bush's.

As far as Santorum, if he was the nominee, the President could count on my vote. As it is, I'm leaning heavily against a second term for the President, but (sadly) can't rule anything out, since I strongly oppose the social conservatives that Santorum represents, folks who claim to believe in "small government" but in reality want to impose their own regressive religious nanny state in place of the namby pamby secular "progressive" nanny state favored by far too many Democrats !!

Hey bayllie - That's not half as bad as Obama taking Mooschelle all the way to New York in Air Force One for a dinner date at your expense. I guess that qualifies him for the job of POTUS too, eh?

Santorum pivoted on the Romney welfare lie about the President gutting the welfare work requirement so welfare recipients wouldn't have to work(which Obama actually strengthened to requiring a 20% improvement in job placement of welfare recipients before state's changes would become permanent) to that he gutted the welfare work requirement legally by changing it without Congressional approval.

He did this by only briefly mentioning the Lie in his speech, but then in followup interview with Andrea Mitchell he claimed Obama gutted it by changing it without Congressional authorization. He also claimed that he knew this because he helped write the law. When Mitchell moved on to another subject, Santorum responded with this huge smile and I knew then that he believed he had succeeded in spinning the exposed GOP welfare lie from gutting welfare's work requirement to gutting welfare's work requirement based on legal authority.

I worry that this strategy may succeed. The Republicans have turned lying into an art form.

I find it puzzling that Mitt will not tell us about how much he has helped people because he is such a humble man (Ann Romney's contention) while pursuing such a sophisticated BIG LIE strategy. In Mormon morality, it's not OK to brag about your accomplishments, but is it OK to lie about your opponents accomplishments? In my world, lying is a very bad thing to do. Yet, Romney does it almost casually while claiming to be a man of high morals. I don't get it.

So, brianb: the black President of this nation is not entitled to Air Force One, that ALL Presidents have used for security as well as access to the world events?

Bigot.

Force the kids into the world and then take away their morning breakfast program!!!! Time and time again the Republicans show how hypocritically sick they are ..........

newday,

I believe that the Secret Service has the last word on
what is acceptable for Presidents travel accommodations.

“I helped write welfare reform; we made the law crystal clear -- no president can waive the work requirement.

well then, it's probably a good thing that President Obama didn't do that then, huh Ricky?

Seriously. What is the Republican fascination with people on welfare every election cycle? Do they honestly think it's welfare recipients that caused our fiscal hole? Or food stamp recipients?

Apparently, from the Republican standpoint, this country is flat broke because poor people have too much and rich people have too little...

Nah, not great, but fair. He would've done a lot better had not his good buddies Lil' Timmy Geithner and Larry Summers not fused his neck bones so he couldn't look left. This is one case where I wish the republicans were right and Obama WAS actually a Socialist.

Well F'in said.

Additional thought,

Santorum's pivot revolved around the word "gutting". In followup with Mitchell she quoted his words, then stated the fact that Obama had strengthened it. He responded by citing the question of Obama's legal authority and in his answer to the final followup question he again used the phrase "gutted welfare's work requirement" while only referring to the legal issue. Tricky. It didn't sound like the word "gutted" fit into what he was saying. This is the essence of changing the discredited BIG LIE about welfare work requirement to something way more confusing.

Absolutely, Dennis, and if brian doesn't know that, he should do some reading.

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Do you want 4 more years just like the last 4 years?

As a matter of fact I am making around $7K more a year now then 4 years ago so yes. :)

So, brianb: the black President of this nation is not entitled to Air Force One, that ALL Presidents have used for security as well as access to the world events?

Bigot.

Ignore brianb, he's a racist living behind bars in prison.

Right to life, Rick?

How about a right to a physically and emotionally healthy life? How about a right not to be born out of incest or rape? how about a right not to be born with fetal alcohol syndrome, or born addicted to drugs? How about a right to be born into a family where the parents are healthy and ready to raise another child?

How about a right to choose that for ourselves, without interference from government?

Santorum's answer to all the nation's problems: vote for god for president.

No wonder he lost, and lost big.

LMarcT

Great Post!!

Newday - what does Obama being black have to do with anything? I'm glad you exposed yourself to be the racist you are. Did you even understand my point? When was the last time your spouse flew you to a dinner date at other people's expense? The total trip cost taxpayers over $700,000.

I realize you feel poor Obama needs to take his wife out on the town... even though that town involves a flight in Air Force One... Just for an evening of entertainment. While this nation struggles under the economic weight of $16 Trillion in debt and deficits exceeding $1.2 Trillion, what's a mere $700,000, right? After all, he is Obama, the ruler of the nation... a person you worship and adore.

In a moment of clarity Joe Biden had it right with his statement about keeping y'all in chains. He was not referring to the republican party,he was referring to the democratic party and President Obama. The more freebies that the democrats give you, the more control over your lives they have. If you don't do this or that then you don't get the freebies. Granted some need those freebies, others just want to live off the government dole. And I reference Pelosi's daughters documentary where those individuals were interviewed and they were all able bodied, healthy and young but sitting outside the welfare office waiting for their money and asking for more so they could get dates. You libs remember that one don't you. But in hindsight probably not.

kaybeetoys - how about personal responsibility? Is that located anywhere in your thesis? How about people taking on responsibility for their actions? Since you are an advocate for abortion, how about other forms of government interference? Should all drug use be allowed? Should people be able to kill other people? Why not go all the way since you seem to feel that interference only applies to a women's right to kill her fetus. Why limit yourself? Why not advocate for all forms of anarchy... I mean since you feel it's OK to kill a fetus... and depriving that human the right to life... what's stopping you from taking it to the next level... How about killing a new born? It can't take care of itself so it's not viable. That's the liberal argument isn't it? The fetus doesn't have a right to life because it's not viable.

The insanity of the left is the reason 6 million people never make it past the doctor's knifes.

Jeff, you can kiss my ass. I didn't mention race at all, but the moment a liberal tosses race into the conversation, it's the conservative that automatically becomes the racist. You must be a racist too since you advocate this practice. Forget the fact that what Obama did was totally wrong... I'm a racist because I don't feel his expenditure was practical or even worthy. Keep on playing your racist games...

How did Bush get to his ranch in Crawford, Texas from Washington D.C. Brianb?

He spent more time there than any other president in U.S. history has spent away from the capital.

Did he ride his bike?

Focus on the real issues in this campaign.

Hey Charlie - I can do that... it's very simple... Mitt won't be using the failed policies of Bush...

• Briand -- you're either completely stupid or completely uninformed -- or both. The Romney economic plan is a carbon copy of the failed Bush plan -- more tax cuts for the richest of the rich and more deregulation. So tell me why will it work this time around?

"Jeff, you can kiss my ass."

Well Briand -- you just answered one question. You're completely stupid. How old are you -- 5 -- or perhaps even 9??

I think BrianB has been put on ignore by most people here judging by the number of rants he posts without anyone responding back to his nonsense. Apparently he is fond of hollering in a barell so he can hear himself talk.

Drowning Grover said: Seriously. What is the Republican fascination with people on welfare every election cycle? Do they honestly think it's welfare recipients that caused our fiscal hole? Or food stamp recipients?

Hey Grover, have you ever looked at a chart of government spending? Do you know that among the largest segments of that chart, social programs dwarf the other segments? Of course you don't. If you did, you wouldn't be spouting off like you do. Become educated on how the government spends money. Defense isn't half of what all social programs are... so as far as creating a hole in the national budget... welfare programs are pretty much up there at the top.

I don't care how many liberals put me on ignore. The more the merrier. It only goes to show exactly how they want to limit freedom of speech... besides they can't handle what I have to say because it cuts right into the heart of their delusions.

kaybeetoys - how about personal responsibility? Is that located anywhere in your thesis? How about people taking on responsibility for their actions?

That is EXACTLY what I advocate, freedom and choice. We should take responsibility for having children if and when we can afford to raise them, both financially and emotionally. Women should not be forced to bear and raise the child of a rapist or an incestuous pedophile. Unless, of course, you want the American gene pool to resemble something out of a horror film.

Since you are an advocate for abortion, how about other forms of government interference? Should all drug use be allowed? Should people be able to kill other people? Why not go all the way since you seem to feel that interference only applies to a women's right to kill her fetus.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but abortion has existed in the human population for thousands of years. You can make it illegal for a woman to choose when to have a child...you can make it illegal for a woman to chose whose child to bear and raise. But your laws will never stop women from choosing. We'll just return to back alley abortions.

Since you are not a woman and can blithely skip away from the woman you impregnate and from your own child, you have no platform on this issue.

Why limit yourself? Why not advocate for all forms of anarchy... I mean since you feel it's OK to kill a fetus... and depriving that human the right to life... what's stopping you from taking it to the next level... How about killing a new born? It can't take care of itself so it's not viable. That's the liberal argument isn't it? The fetus doesn't have a right to life because it's not viable.

The insanity of the left is the reason 6 million people never make it past the doctor's knifes.

Your position is insane. Look up the definition of anarchy. Forcing a human being --a WOMAN--to bear the child of a rapist? Of her uncle, father, or brother?

Go live in that kind of society and then you will know the meaning of anarchy.

Always trying to have it both ways.

President Obama Speech - Repuks say "You can't just make a great speech and everything will be alright

Candidate Robbeme Clowns Speeches - Repuks say "Myth is lovable and kind and cares about poor people and the middle class and women too"

I say that Bull Sh!t - Telling a LIE wont get people to vote for you.

xray...Santorum probably will not form any policies in the Romney administration, he lost. Remember at the FIRST joint meeting of the house and senate leaders when the Speaker of the House offered a suggestion and the president said I won. You lost. That was the end of comprise.

Also, do not judge all republican policies by Santorum that would be like judging the morals of all democrats by John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, and Clinton. But then one of their main speakers is Sandra Fluke who wants you to pay for her unprotected sex as a single.

You are a racist Brian, and if you don't like that, then quit being one.

You are making an issue of the President using Air Force One, something that is required of President's for security as constant communications.

That you decry this for this President, and since I didn't hear you bitching about it when Bush took Air Force One out so he could go cut brush on his "ranch, " that makes you a grade A bigot.

What do you want this President to do, take commercial air flights?

Yeah that will work.

I think BrianB has been put on ignore by most people here judging by the number of rants he posts without anyone responding back to his nonsense. Apparently he is fond of hollering in a barell so he can hear himself talk.

:D He's a classic example of a brain damaged Republitard. He went on my ignore list a long time ago. That's why he rants so much. No one pays attention to him.

Hey Grover, have you ever looked at a chart of government spending?

You mean like this one?

http://thefalconpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Budget-Pie-Chart.jpg

Do you know that among the largest segments of that chart, social programs dwarf the other segments?

I wouldn't call 20% of spending "Dwarfing", but this isn't a scientific estimate anyway.

Of course you don't. If you did, you wouldn't be spouting off like you do.

Based on many of your posts, I think it'd be fair to say I'm as informed, perhaps moreso, than you.

Become educated on how the government spends money. Defense isn't half of what all social programs are...

DoD takes up 18%, HHS (which is FAR FAR more than just welfare and foodstamps) takes 20%. Defense is far more than "half" of what social programs are, unless of course you're lumping Social Security, Medicare, etc., into your "social programs" diatribe at which point I think you may have a bone to pick with the millions of Americans who paid into these funds their entire lives...

so as far as creating a hole in the national budget... welfare programs are pretty much up there at the top.

Again, not so much. Welfare spending is roughly $500 Billion. We spend $400B per year servicing the national debt and $800B on the military. But much of what we spend on welfare comes back into the economy as it's spent almost entirely and immediately on goods/services in the private sector. Can you say the same for interest payments (that's a black hole) and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

We spend a lot on money on welfare programs in this country, true, but what's the alternative? Cut everyone off at the knees and watch our people starve as we enter a second depression? No thanks.

Brianb-999431

Drowning Grover said: Seriously. What is the Republican fascination with people on welfare every election cycle? Do they honestly think it's welfare recipients that caused our fiscal hole? Or food stamp recipients?

Hey Grover, have you ever looked at a chart of government spending? Do you know that among the largest segments of that chart, social programs dwarf the other segments? Of course you don't. If you did, you wouldn't be spouting off like you do. Become educated on how the government spends money. Defense isn't half of what all social programs are... so as far as creating a hole in the national budget... welfare programs are pretty much up there at the top.

Well, BB, normally I avoid responding to your nonsense because it's always so void of facts. But the demonizing of the poor bastards people like you step on daily just goes beyond belief.

Stick this where the sun doesn't shine (I'll try to keep this simple):

1) Clinton provided Bush a balanced budget.

2) Bush spent like a drunken sailor on two wars, an ever expanding Homeland Security, Medicaid, and years of unfounded unprincipled tax cuts and NEVER FUNDED A F@#KING THING.

3) Bush then handed us a collapsed economy... between his two irreversible actions, it costs us $1 Trillion a year in deficit spending that continue today.

4) Then the brain dead come back and blame the deficit on Welfare recipients.

What a bunch of self-centered a$$holes...

So the Republican party nominates a man who embodies everything that is wrong with America. When he's not gutting companies, offshoreing jobs and stealing peoples retirement accounts, leaving the American taxpayer to foot the bill, he's helping other companies offshore jobs and use agressive tax evasion tactics to screw the United States. There are used car salesmen, and there are snake oil salesmen. And then there's Mutt Rombot, the Used Snake Oil Salesman. Liar and Flip-Flopper Extraordiniare. Willard and his party want Obamacare overturned, it's Socialism! So, they are saying Willard is a socialist. The new CAFE standards for 2025 had been realeased less than an hour before Rombot labels them "Extreme". Yet 70% of Americans want cars with better fuel economy. In Rombot's world 70% of citizens mean nothing compared with what big oil wants. What an all around Douchbag.

brianb is SO right. a better use of air force one is delivering birthday cakes to sitting senators on an Arizona tarmack while Katrina rages on.

not to mention the countless trips back to clear that pesky, national security threat BRUSH in Texas, right?

sheesh. petty party of one, your table is ready.

You've hit the nail on the head, LMarcT.

Republicans screwed us for eight years under Bush/Cheney, and now they want to screw us some more to pay for their mistakes.

They want to take away our Social Security and Medicare, which we have already paid for in our payroll deductions, because they threw our money away to fight a useless, senseless war in Iraq that enriched companies like Cheney's Halliburton.

They gave huge tax deductions to large corporations that sent jobs overseas, and now they're blaming Obama for the unemployment rate.

They use lobbyists to write their legislation and buy their places in congress with campaign donations from people like the Koch brothers. The crook Sheldon Adelson, the nitwit Donald Trump, and the lobbyist Grover Norquist have more power than our duly elected officials.

They say we have to make do with less, and yet their anointed leader hides millions in offshore accounts and won't be open about his own financial interests.

Do we need more of their GOP crap? Hell no!!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

" ... Maybe it is the $6 trillion increase in the federal deficit ... "

You see, there's the problem. You have no clue how the system works. So, if you had really read and understood that piece of paper that the Right keeps waving around, the Constitution, you would know who actually owns that "$6 trillion increase in the deficit". As well as the rest of the crap you spewed out.

The BUDGET and it's deficit belong to Congress. Specifically, The House. And Paul Ryan. The Budget, and there fore the debit and deficit, is the sole responsibility of the House. Not the President. Not the Senate.

The House, which by the way is Republican controlled. So if you want to whine about what was, is being done to this country. Blame those that are doing it. Blame those that have not only said no, but "Hell no!" ( That would be a quote from the Republican Speaker of the House. ).

But then, the Right doesn't need facts or the truth. They have nothing to do with anything. Then again, the rest of us know that.

Brianb-999431

Hey bayllie - That's not half as bad as Obama taking Mooschelle all the way to New York in Air Force One for a dinner date at your expense. I guess that qualifies him for the job of POTUS too, eh?

you mean like George Bush being on vacation about 1000 days out of 8 years? You mean like GWB's about 2.75 years playing LANDSCAPING BOY at his ranch in TX while using AF1 to fly back and forth?

You mean like GWB that was too busy clearing brush to listen to the CIA intel about the planned terrosists attack using planes? How much did that cost us? You want to compare presidents?

And please show me ANYTHING that show Obama spends more on his vacation than any other president. I won't hold my breath though....

BTW, ask any Mass resident how they feel about Romney using Massachusetts like a pimp uses a prostitute. He racked up bills using Mass State Police like his personal escort because for one year, instead of being the governor, he travelled around to make connections for his 2008 presidential candidacy WHICH BY THE WAY HE LOST TO MCCAIN, AND THEN EVEN WORSE - TO FAILIN PALIN hahahhahahaha!

kaybeetoys

How did Bush get to his ranch in Crawford, Texas from Washington D.C. Brianb?

He spent more time there than any other president in U.S. history has spent away from the capital.

Did he ride his bike?

Bush couldn't eat a pretzel and watch TV at the same time so riding a bike would not be recommended for him

I am amazed daily by the number and size of the hypocritical lies of the GOP.

They want regulatory reform, until the black Democratic President gives them regulatory reform.

Delegates throwing peanuts at black camera operators and telling them "this is what we do to animals"

The GOP is just a sick, sick, sick group of people. The presidential candidate making birther jokes. At least John McCain had the class to tell the party to cut that out when he was running for President.

I really do hope the GOP purges itself of the extremists after they lose this election. The USA is supposed to be a land of opportunity for all groups, tolerant of change and progressing to the future. If the GOP gets in control, they'll lead us to the '20's, the 1520's.

I strongly encourage everyone to read the comments left by "to the top" and "brianb" to fully understand what the "tea" party is all about. Little brian doesn't seem to get that when you use tactics invented by the KKK, people generally consider you to be a racist.

America take heed, when a president can simply give a speech or write a memo and change the law to do what the law says he can’t, we weaken our republic.

And does Mr. Santorum think that the republic is strengthened when he lies about what the President did? Does he not have any responsibility himself to tell the truth?

And does Mr. Santorum think that the republic is strengthened when he lies about what the President did? Does he not have any responsibility himself to tell the truth?

It literally is the lack of truth in the GOP which makes me sick. I voted for Republicans before, even as recent as the 2008 elections. But no more. Not until I hear something truthful or those who ignore liars in their own party to step up and call out those liars. Maybe someday but not for a while I am sure. These "new" Republicans not only figure the ends justify the means, they will actually ruin lives or worse to make those means the end...

There's liars in the Democrats too, but it's no where near taken to a fine art like in the GOP. The ghost of Nixon is alive and well in the GOP.

here's an example of folks who need to start saying no:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/even-critics-of-safety-net-increasingly-depend-on-it.html?pagewanted=all

psst. wait for it,...here comes the shout out to Zuckerberg

here it comes

what? wait? he's not going to mention the cuts to education that were COVERED by philanthropy?

He's going to take credit for that? over 30 years? really? phony ass. oh here he goes; blame the teachers.

Yeah,...

We will see if Ann manage to hide the probe enough to move women. Her's was the best speech. Unfortunately, I had to watch on CNN, they lost their way years ago ... we are CNN and you are not. Ari Fleischer ... yuck.

While Mrs. Romney hit it out of the park, I suppose you must have been watching NBC's coverage of tonoght's speeches- because Artur Davis, former Obama camping co-chair, gave a brilliant speech.

And Christie did his usual, fabulous job.

Maybe the Canadian coverage is not so good.

Ann was good but for me, Artur Davis, the man who introduced Obama at the DNC in 2008, gave the best speech.

Strange that MSNBC did not televise the RNC speech by Artur Davis, the man who introduced Obama at the DNC in 2008???? All the other stations carried it. No bias here at MSNBC.

Santorum sucked.

NoJo ... CNN is American and there is not a Canadian edition ... and I am not in Csnada, nor am I Canadian. I have resided in many countries including yours.

Of course, the welfare attack has been widely discredited, and there is still a work requirement for welfare. There also was limited crowd reaction to the attack, which has become a mainstay of the Romney campaign on the trail and in millions of dollars in television ads.

When even the Tea Party crowd stops cheering for your lies, you better go make up some new ones.

Obama/Biden 2012
The only sane choice

no joe, no bo, nj

While Mrs. Romney hit it out of the park, I suppose you must have been watching NBC's coverage of tonoght's speeches-

No No No Jo

I think she did a terrible job of reading her teleprompter. Did you see MYTH pulling Mrs R-money's shirt as if to say--That's enough? The only thing I could see is that she loved her husband and their money.

because Artur Davis, former Obama camping co-chair, gave a brilliant speech.

How much money do you think the Koch bros paid Artur Davis to give that Benedict Arnold speech?

And Christie did his usual, fabulous job.

He sure did. I thought. He didn't break the platform. Gov Krispy Kreme was thinking of 2016 and all those flaky donuts he needed to get to behind the curtains before the platform fell apart.

Your governor never paid back that nice big , $271 million, bill he got from the federal government for the cancelled tunnel.

Big government lies AGAIN, No No No Jo ; huh?

Even Charlie Crist can't stand this crowd.

• “Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.”

~Rick Santorum, calling Mitt Romney the worse Republican anyone can possibly pick to be the nominee, Racine, Wisconsin, March 2012

He's going to take credit for that? over 30 years? really? phony ass. oh here he goes; blame the teachers.

Yeah,...

You have all the info. WRONG. The people that are blaming the teachers are the REPUBLICANS, not the DEMOCRATS. And if you have not read about it, Mitt Romney is planning on cutting education even more. He needs more stupids to vote for the GOP.

The earth is flat, and Jesus was hanging out with men and dinaosaurs. RIGHT!!!

Rick Santorum --- thrown out of office by the people in PA by more than a 2 to 1 margin.

All those praising Ann's speech need to get a grip. I feel the pain of any family dealing with MS or cancer, like my own, but Ann and Mitt have the best health care money can buy, kudos to them. But let's not forget a lot of America that are either on the brink of bankruptcy due to health care costs or will be deciding to heat their homes or pay for treatment this winter.

The idea that Ann was trying to make her family look like a typical American family was a bad joke.

A really bad joke since Queen Ann can access the best care and pay for the meds necessary for MS, some of which, are very expensive.

That she is not out there, fighting to make sure that ALL Americans can have the health care she has is indicative of the selfishness of her character.

I have MS and with insurance my co-pay was $1350 per month. Thank goodness the medicine's manufacturer has a patient assistance program otherwise I would not be able to afford my medicine. The medicine that keeps me able to work and function and keeps me off of welfare and medicaid. I also can't afford a "therapy horse" that can double as an olympian. She writes off $77000 for the horse, I don't even make that in a year!!

But as far as the republicans are concerned--who gives a sh!t about me. If I lose my insurance without the ACA I would never be able to get coverage (pre-existing) and if I could the premium would be so exorbitant that it would be cost prohibitive.

So yeah Ann Romney has MS just like me, but she will never suffer the way that I do.

Andie...and you have PERSONALLY seen the tax forms of the Romenys and you SAW for yourself that she writes off $77,000.00 for the horse she owns 1/3 of.

Do you really think that Obama and his wife with her $600.00 sneakers going to Hawaii that my house is now worth 1/32 of what it was in 2009 and the taxes have gone up 35% This situation is not even in their realm of thinking.

Sorry about not catching the error...my house is worth 1/2 what it was in 2009 according to my tax forms from the county.

COCO

It's in Romney's 2010 income tax return he released (the only one he has released). $77,000 deduction for therapeutic reasons (medical deduction). It has been widely covered in the media.

He also listed assets in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland on this tax return. He paid an amazingly low rate on the Cayman income 2.5%. 13.9% overall.

iRespond,...you should re-read my post for sarcasm.

I am well aware that Christie cut hundreds of millions from education in Jersey. My point was that he never thanked Zuckerberg for the donation that allowed him to make that 'tough' call.

Plus,...he never acknowledged his own partaking of the stimulus money, or the fact that he cancelled a contract and pocketed the federal matching money.

The guy is a hateful, classless slob; but I sure hope he gets the Repub nomination in 2016.

CoCo-1551796

Andie...and you have PERSONALLY seen the tax forms of the Romenys and you SAW for yourself that she writes off $77,000.00 for the horse she owns 1/3 of.

Uh.....YES. Clearly you haven't a clue. Any more brilliant questions?

Or better yet support marriage equality.

Yeah, kind of funny to moan about marriage "disappearing" and in the next breath deny people who want to get married the right to do so.

Someone please shut the hateful pig Beverly up. One, her posts are ignorant, and two, racist, and three, incoherent. Maybe she shouldn't booze it up and snort her coke before she tries writing. By the way, where are all the jobs George Soros is creating for the lazy ass libbies? Look to China, you hypocrites!! C'mon, Beverly, get your fat ass off the couch, grab your fat lesbian sister, Feisty, and take one of those Chinese jobs George is creating for you. Or continue to be a laughable dumb ass.

At least with Mitt Romney's money he won't have to knuckle under to the likes of George Soros and Valerie Jarrett to make his decsions. He does not need their money. Sorors and Jarrett call the shots, don't fool yourself.

Kenva..please do not stoop to the filthy name calling of Beverly and Feisty. these gutter snipes are not worth your time. Go back and read the foul venous sadistic readings ...pure gutter.

Coco...

Kenva..please do not stoop to the filthy name calling of Beverly and Feisty.

...and then...

these gutter snipes are not worth your time. Go back and read the foul venous sadistic readings ...pure gutter.

...and all of this is in defense of:

lazy ass libbies

fat lesbian sister

laughable dumb ass

...and little coco sits in a tizzy wondering why people think he/she is a total hypocrite. It is not very intelligent to attempt taking the moral high ground on something you then proceed to do, coco...not to mention that you sympathize with the hateful bigotry that kenva barfs out.

Isn't there a cross burning that you morons should be attending?

Not to pile on, but don't forget the other part of the RNC ticket - the VP candidate, a Christian who reserves his highest admiration for a Russian atheist/hedonist (Ayn Rand). Think the Christian Right will overlook that too? (Of course, because it's not really about faith, it's about getting rid of that black president).

SoNotRight.

Not to pile on, but don't forget the other part of the RNC ticket - the VP candidate, a Christian who reserves his highest admiration for a Russian atheist/hedonist (Ayn Rand). Think the Christian Right will overlook that too?

Oh no, they didn't. That's why Paul Ryan's new slogan is Ayn Rand who? He claims now that he knows a little about her but doesn't really know what she stands for. Another lying hypocrite.

That 's not what he said when he was interviewed. Ryan acknowledge Rand's being an atheist and her view on government and stated he wasn't an atheist but a Catholic and he didn't agree on her view point of government. What he talked about was being motivated by her books Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead. I read both of these book and thought they were great but I don't consider myself an atheist.

It's alright by the left that Obama grew up being influence by a Communist Davis and Bill Ayers and you give Obama pass but not Paul Ryan. Who is the true hypocrite.

These stupid right wing religious extremists would vote for Charlie Manson or Jim Jones before they would vote for a black man. The surprise they are in for is that Romney is simply pandering to these ignorant single issue voters and no one really knows where Romney really stands on the issues.

so...gideb gets to pick and choose what parts of Rand's philosophy to be inspired by, but no one else can do the same with anyone else? Interesting.

Perhaps gideb should look up the word hypocrite and do a minimum amount of soul searching.

@BethanyB Me--I am still waiting for the promised jobs from 2010!

According to the BLS, unemployment at the end of 2010 was 9.4%. Now it is 8.3%. The total workforce is 155 million. 1.1% times 155 million is 1,705,000 jobs created after the Republicans took over the House.

Wait no more Bethany - there they are!

Where is the vision, where is the focus. All I hear is attacks. I don't hear what they are offering.

Reclassified jobs account for many of your number and the rest of are at minimum wage mostly part-time no benefit positions. Sure -- I will almost say your correct - but - how come it is the only HOUSE that gets the credit and not the Admin (read Obama)?

ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If your waiting for a story, then I guess horror, is your bag! Romney(the flipper) has no story. He is made of dung, from the sewer, and ryon his attact dog, has to ride on the roof of romney's car. NOW that's a picture to keep. After ryons persons bill, he is now sitting in his crap!

Kannin

According to the BLS, unemployment at the end of 2010 was 9.4%. Now it is 8.3%. The total workforce is 155 million. 1.1% times 155 million is 1,705,000 jobs created after the Republicans took over the House.

show me one piece of legislature that would give Republicans credit for this!

Well, gee, Bethany, how many jobs has Obama sent your way? You want to wait 4 more years? Look in the mirror, dear. That's a moron looking back at you, if you plan to vote for Barry again. He doesn't know how the economy was built. How would he know how to fix it? He's just a big bag of wind.

I live in VA and we got plenty of Government Money. Mostly Military, which is one of the reasons we have a low unemployment rate that by passed the recession.

Bethany you cannot see the promised jobs of 2010 until HARRY REID brings even ONE of the 32+ jobs bills on his desk to the floor of the Senate. I would like to see even one of these bills. ??What is in these bills that Reid is AFRAID to bring to the floor? Is he afraid it will pass and he will look like a fool? Why has Obama not publicly chastised Reid for hiding the bills on his desk?

My question is: how did the leader (any leader) get the power to keep bills on his desk and not even bring them to the committee let alone the floor?

The reason is that not one of the bills you speak of were actual Jobs bills. The problem for you lying right wing tea baggers is that there is this here new fangled machine called a computer. When hooked up to the Internet a person can look stuff up so your lies become exposed.

Isn't it cute when the simple-minded think that Republicans are attempting to pass legislation that will effect jobs? Just because you call it the "Job Creating Vaginal Probe Bill" doesn't mean that it will actually create jobs.

Harry Reid is chastised and yet little coco gives Mitch McConnell a free pass. Someone's been drooling in front of the foxy-notsy news channel a bit too much, I think...

Is it bad when big oil receives govt. handouts??? What about when Chris Christie gets them??? What about when Halliburton gets them???? Are those govt. handouts okay?

Sorry even Karl Rove was quoted as sayig the moe education a person has the more likely to vote democratic. And if you want to talk handouts you need to get your numbers straight. 67% of federal aid (foodstamps, welfare, disability) goes to states that vote overwhelmingly republican. It seems it is the republican base that wants to stay where they are, uneducated, poor and voting for the republicans to keep them there.

On this point, I am rather amused at the passion with which so many talked about their grandfathers and fathers working hard and making a better life for their children, of the upward mobility which used to be part of American life, and doesn't seem to exist any more. Oh, they all want that back so badly!

And of course, if you know your history, what they're referring to is the New Deal years, when government policy made it harder for business to exploit the desperation of the American citizen, which led to 50 years of stable economic growth driven by that new upward mobility (of their grandfathers) into the middle class. Of course, those are the policies which came under sustained and vicious attack by republicans in the '80s, who succeeded in replacing it with 'trickle-down' economics.

I'm with the republicans. I also want to go back to a time when hard work could improve your condition. Bring back the New Deal.

Dean P. Lacy, a professor of political science at Dartmouth College, has identified a twist on that theme in American politics over the last generation. Support for Republican candidates, who generally promise to cut government spending, has increased since 1980 in states where the federal government spends more than it collects. The greater the dependence, the greater the support for Republican candidates.

Conversely, states that pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits tend to support Democratic candidates. And Professor Lacy found that the pattern could not be explained by demographics or social issues.

www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/even-critics-of-safety-net-increasingly-depend-on-it.html?pagewanted=all

Snakebone,

Don't forget that during that period the tax rate for the top was between 70 & 90%.

Yes, lets go back to those days.

People who are poor are much less likely to vote. Democrats want to help these poor people have a better life. That is why the earned income tax credit was expanded under Bill Clinton. It helps no one to have people remain out of work on welfare. But the reality is that they need help to make a low paying job meet the costs of childcare and housing and food and the earned income tax credit helped make their working more practical. It helped and continues to help in getting people get off welfare and lower income families to be able to make ends meet. It helps keep them in the work force by helping work make sense when they look at their household budgets. This is also the reason why Democrats consistently want to raise the minimum wage. This also helps the working poor see some additional rewards from working. It provides added incentive to get off of welfare to work. It is the first step in the economic ladder.

The Republican answer has always been to build more prisons to house all the desperate people who commit crimes out of need. I am not justifying criminal behavior, but am just trying to present a realistic assessment of the problem with the poor and their entry into the work force.

The average welfare recipient (family of 3) only gets $350 per month in income. Food stamps add an additional $250 per month. The number of people on welfare has not grown during Obama's Presidency. People are only eligible for it for two years and there is a work requirement. States have limited its growth by tightening eligibility requirements.

Welfare is only an issue now because Romney is pursuing that old "welfare queen" strategy. He has lied about the work requirement which hasn't been gutted, but actually has been strengthened at request of some Republican governors. But he is trying to get his base riled up and he will lie to do it.

What else will he lie about?

Romney is a LIAR and cannot be trusted.

If you don't want government handout stop the following because it makes you look like 1 a fool and 2 a socialist.:

1) If you make From $13,660 to $49,078 single to married, with zero to three qualifying children - DON"T CLAIM THIS EARNED INCOME CREDIT (EIC) It's a government subsidy

2) If your children go to public schools - TAKE THEM OUT IMMEDIATELY. It's a government subsidy

3) If your mother, father, grandmother, grandfather collects social security - Tell them to give back every dime they ever taken minus the amount they paid into it. - It's a government subsidy

4) If your mother, father, grandmother, grandfather currently have medicare and medicaid - Tell them drop it immediately. It's a government subsidy.

5) If you vote for Republicans nuts jobs who agree to give the corporations and oil companies billions of tax dollars- You are a socialist - It's a government subsidy.

Sorry Kannin, But that club is closed to most of us

Andie: Yep, and the rich still started big corporations and still got richer, which is why I laugh at the argument that if we roll back some of the massive tax cuts we gave them, the rich will all leave the country.

Why is it that only the liars or the grossly misinformed are coming out in support of Miss Mittsy?

Is there one, just ONE, informed, intelligent and honest person out there that can give us exact specifics as to what the mysterious Mittsy plan for America is?

Judging from "his" supporters, I'd say that Miss Mittsy has no problem wallowing in the muck that lies beneath the bottom of the barrel.

AMAN to this one!

@BethanyB what exactly is the Romney/Ryan ticket going to do?

Just as Romney was able to take failing businesses and return them to prosperity, he will do the same for our battered economy. He has produced innovative plans, but more importantly, he has produced plans that can actually be implemented and work.

Unlike Obama's fumbling attempts to solve problems just by blindly throwing our money at them.

For example, his energy plan: I especially like the fact that it returns the means of production to the ones who will benefit by efficient energy production – the states. Specifically:

“States will be empowered to establish processes to oversee the development and production of all forms of energy on federal lands within their borders, excluding only lands specially designated off-limits;

State regulatory processes and permitting programs for all forms of energy development will be deemed to satisfy all requirements of federal law;

Federal agencies will certify state processes as adequate, according to established criteria that are sufficiently broad, to afford the states maximum flexibility to ascertain what is most appropriate; and

The federal government will encourage the formation of a State Energy Development Council, where states can work together along with existing organizations such as STRONGER and the IOGCC to share expertise and best management practices”

It will stop wasting our tax dollars on inefficient Federal bureaucracies - which is a major theme of all his plans to return our country to prosperity.

Is Romney going to ship federal jobs overseas?? Is that the plan?? That will save a ton of money for sure. It's amazing how you eat that stuff up.

Just how much effort and money do you think Alabama will throw into wind energy, they can't even build sewer systems. How vigorous do you think West Virginia or Montana will monitor their energy systems? West Virginia is coal country full of poor miners; mining interests would crush them in court and even if they didn't their tax base is piss poor and thinks Jaysus will fix the problem. Montana's is even smaller, it has two headed fish swimming in its river. Texas has little left to safeguard, it will never even try to compete with its oil interests, which will end up in any kind of state run organization at the helm making sure it does nothing whatsoever.

Kannin

State regulatory processes and permitting programs for all forms of energy development will be deemed to satisfy all requirements of federal law;

I worked for the TX regulatory agency that oversees the oil and gas industry. The Feds ceded primacy to the state years ago. In fact, with the exception of federal lands, some air quality issues, and a few saltwater disposal issues, the states all govern their own drilling and production. As for the few issues I mentioned, the states can already get primancy if they meet federal regulations.

This is a completely empty promise that addresses a problem that doesn't exist.

He's a unborn sperm cell, run amuck!

Why? Are you moving?? Reserve it yourself. The President and family will be living at the White House until Jan 20, 2017

say,

Pretty delusional assertions... Obama had and wasted his chance to be president another four years...

• “We can’t nominate such a weak candidate. I’d love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.”

~Rick Santorum, ABC, March 2012

My dream debate would be Gingrich (such as he is) wiping the floor with Biden

Wasn't Vice President Biden a member of the Senate when Newt was forced to resign as Speaker of the House, in disgrace, BY HIS OWN PARTY?? Yeah - I would LOVE to see Biden take down Newt.

I've heard of "coo coo for cocoa"....but coco for coo coo????

Marxist? Communist? Socialist? Not hardly! Hell, he ran so hard and fast with the Bush/Cheney playbook on Homeland Paranoia his resume would make any decent neo-con proud.

Stein/Honkala 2012

i've got some bad news, the things you hear on Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh while you're scratching your face bloody in anger are fabrications meant to get you to stick around for advertisements so they can cash in. Saying the words Marxist, communist, socialist and Bill Ayers will not make him disappear no matter how often they are repeated, nor in what order.

Sweet a Bonnie Prince Charlie fan, whats up

Just tryin' to make my way in the modern world Todd! Cheers mate.

top drum, you are so full of crap I had to respond. A president and all his minions couldn't turn America Commie or socialist or any other radical bull you're spewing. You supposedly "religious" "Christians" on the right are liars and hypocrites. George retard Bush Screwed this country harder than anyone in history. Jammed the patriot act up our ass denying us more of our rights than anyone in history, and you ignorant buffoons just keep lying and lying. Pres Obama IS going to win because the Republican Party has become insane. Practice your Christianity, which clearly teaches compassion. Liar.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down
it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot, named Top Drum yelling nonsense down
a hole.

Its amazing how so called Christan's in the GOP can just tell lie after lie. Which tells they are not Christan's. Here a bit of fun for you all,

The beast (666) is upon us, FOX news F=6, O (15th letter) 1+5=6, X(24^th letter) 2+4=6. Fox = 666

Revelations tells us the beast has 7 heads and 10 horns and 10 crowns which equal 27. If Romney is elected he will be the 27^th elected Republican president. (Remember the Democrat- Republicans and the Whig Parties both turned into the Republican Party). FOX (Murdock) also owns 27 television stations in the USA.

Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beastcoming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Bain Capital (Romney’s Baby) Owns Clear Channel which owns866 radio stations and Premiere Radio Networks, a national radio network that serves nearly 5,800 radio station affiliates and has over 213 million weekly listeners. Programs include the Rush Limbaugh Show, Glenn Beck and the Sean Hannity Show (Revelation 13:11 and he spake as a dragon)

Just maybe there is somthing else going here!

Christains for Obama/Biden 2012

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, we're DOOMED!.........................Sorry, I panicked there for a moment.

American,

Care to defend then why Obama adopted and even added to the Patriot Act? If he is such an opposite of Bush, then why is he like a twin when it comes to the Patriot Act? Obama had every chance to cancel the Patriot Act and yet what did he do? Perhaps you need to rewrite your recollection of history to fit the facts instead??

Time to get Top Drum back on those anti-psychotic drugs.

That you buy the Socialist, Marxist LIE about Obama is an indictment of your intellect. I joke about the drugs, but I cannot see how you can continue to recite such dribble when Obama has returned the auto industry with the help of consumers to profitability. That is not Marxist. The stock market has doubled during Obama's term. That is not what would have happened if he is a Marxist. Even the rocket program of NASA has been privatized, the opposite of what a Marxist or Socialist would have done.

It's way past time to drop your paranoid ranting and read some books. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Its amazing how so called Christan's in the GOP can just tell lie after lie. Which tells they are not Christan's. Here a bit of fun for you all,

The beast (666) is upon us, FOX news F=6, O (15th letter) 1+5=6, X(24^th letter) 2+4=6. Fox = 666

Revelations tells us the beast has 7 heads and 10 horns and 10 crowns which equal 27. If Romney is elected he will be the 27^th elected Republican president. (Remember the Democrat- Republicans and the Whig Parties both turned into the Republican Party). FOX (Murdock) also owns 27 television stations in the USA.

Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beastcoming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Bain Capital (Romney’s Baby) Owns Clear Channel which owns866 radio stations and Premiere Radio Networks, a national radio network that serves nearly 5,800 radio station affiliates and has over 213 million weekly listeners. Programs include the Rush Limbaugh Show, Glenn Beck and the Sean Hannity Show (Revelation 13:11 and he spake as a dragon)

Just maybe there is somthing else going here!

Christains for Obama/Biden 2012

Santorum is prone to lying. I am a lifelong Pennsylvania resident and after 6 years of having him represent us in the Senate we gave him the boot.

I'm sure if he had an honest moment, he would say he LIES for a higher purpose.

He is now a rich man, yet he billed the school district in his home town in PA for the expensive on-line home schooling ($160,0000) his kids got in Virginia. Working the system for his own benefit did not sit well with PA voters.

So it doesn't matter at all to you that he's just standing up there lying?

And that everyone (even the GOP crowd) knows it?

Okay, the Republican campaign is starting to make more sense to me...sort of.

So, bob. I see you have given up trying to push your perverted governor as the VP pick. You can make your little comments about "liberal shills"...but you can't escape the fact that you are the biggest loser here today. Please - keep announcing your support for candidates and we will keep laughing as they drop like flies.

Time to go make some lemonade, little boy!

Take welfare/medicaid away and murder the living instead right? Have YOU adopted any unwanted children? Didn't think so!

Are you willing to support the babies that are born in to poverty because the mother couldn't get a legal abortion?

Didn't think so.

Hypocrite.

Matt-998651

Abortion is the ultimate in domestic violence!

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Nope, sending my son to fight for WMD's that didn't exist was, but don't let that bring you down off of your high horse.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down
it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot, named Mike Matt998651 yelling nonsense down
a hole.

Matt...They say that suicide is the ultimate self-criticism.....give it a try

If Democrats want to kill unborn children, you pay for it. Don't expect that I will. If you aren't willing to pay for it, shut your ugly face. Have all the abortions you want. But keep your filthy paw out of my pocket.

The Teapublications want to create more jobs. Like abortionist of old. A wire hanger in a back alley. That's what happened before Roe/Wade.

Kenva.. you might want to do a little research before you post. There are already federal laws on the books banning federal funds to be used for abortions.. So rest assured, your tiny little pocket is safe...

MickWick - I haven't adopted any unwanted children but as a taxpayer I support plenty of bas*ards children from irresponsible women who had unprotected sex knowing if they got pregnant they couldn't support their child without living of the government teats.

I agree. The one thing that the crowd seemed to love was her example of a very liberal scholarship plan that he supported in Massachusetts. When she raised her voice to supposedly get enthusiastic she sounded quite fakey.

• “I heard Governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn’t a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that’s the experience that we need? Someone who’s going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America.”

~Rick Santorum, Rockford, Illinois, March 2012

Romney's campaign slogan: "What you don't know won't hurt me."

• “Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in ’94 and lost. That’s why you weren’t serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn’t have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.”

~Newt Gingrich, NBC News/ Facebook debate, January 8, 2012

Mormen...is that plural for Morman?

It's the new GOP - Mormen.

Because they ain't gonna have no Morwomen.

Hey Melvin, it's Morman you dip@!$%#. And get a brain, everything the Dumbocrats tell you isn't any truer than what the Repubs tell you. What a moron.

he meant "Mermen", a type of fish person. If you can catch one they flip flop around a lot.

• “Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.”

~Rick Santorum, CNN, March 2012

So true he's running the whole country and has to be invested what's going on overseas. What has rich Rick Santorum done except vote for two wars under Bush and try to invade women's rights to healthcare.

What is all the Santorum bashing about? he was given a token slot by the RNC...not Romeny...and he is NOT an public official. Discuss something/someone that matters...Eric Hold, Joe Biden, Emanuel, Pelosi, Reid, security leaks, Fast and Furious etc. Santorum is a has been that shall not return. The voters have spoken.

Okay, coco, since you are so concerned about important things, here's a question about ethics and integrity for you:

Mr. Anal Lube repeats the "No Work For Welfare" lie that Williard endorses. And Willard repeats, every day on TV.

Why? Everyone knows it's a lie, except perhaps the republican base. So why would they keep repeating it? What are they saying to their base?

• “Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.”

~Rick Santorum, Detroit, Michigan, February 2012

Big Lou ...

That's right on, holy crap we are saved! :-) One of the real heroes in the historical pantheon of GOP 'gods' was Herbert Hoover. In the free and easy run-up of the economy with the totally unregulated Wall Street boys and Banks in the 1920s, old Herbert Hoover actually had the audacity to proclaim in his 1928 Presidential campaign..."I promise every American citizen a chicken in every pot!" Less than one year later there was not one miserable American who even had the pot. 'The Romney / Ryan Corporation' is a slick take on that mantra with their totally unbelievable diatribe and drivel. Their only agenda is to finish 'privatizing' and 'vouchering' virtually everything in sight to insure another tsunami of profits to their uber-rich cronies in Big Oil, insurance corporations, the Wall Street 'casino boys', the global financial houses and the military /industrial complex that Tricky Dick Cheney and Co. used to drain the US Treasury with two needless wars. Mitt 'the magic underwear man' and bible-thumping 'Little Eddie Munster' Ryan are nothing but schills for the Koch Brothers and their uber-rich ilk who already control most of the power and wealth in the nation, but that's not enough ... they want 100% and it's going to come from the backs and the sweat of the working poor and the struggling middle class. These guys are wolves in sheep's clothing and are a clear and present danger to the futue of the nation .. period. Thank you for your post, have a nice evening.

Peace ~

True an unemployment rate of 4.7% would be bad, that is why Obama likes his 8.3% so much better, what a fantastic job he has done.

The wall street banks were give loans from Freddy Mac, and Fanny May which backed the loans) because the banks knew they were hi risk, and would not give them otherwise. GM on the otherhand was poorly run, and should have declared bankurptsy and would have come out of it a better company, but Obama wanted to keep the Unions in Power, so he used Billionns of taxpayer money to purchase GM stock at $53, (now worth about half that) and gave the unions a stake in the company. At taxpayer expense. Needlsess to say it was a raw deal for the taxpayers.

Hoover had a democratic Congress before he even ran that changed the laws governing stock market purchases. That lead to the buying on margins, (just like the Democratic home loan law passed in 07 tjat lead to the Home mortage recession) People just walked away. Hoover got the blame for Congress mistake. Lean from History.

Romney is NOT either George Bush and he is also not Ronald Reagan. If you are actually really paying attention you will see his plans and policies are different...just like Obama is NOT a Bill Clinton. Paul Ryan is NO Joe Biden!

Yeah, love the unborn, but they sure can't eat off food stamps once they're here!

Well...at least they weren't murdered by their mothers, right?