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Subscribe to RSSDOSWELL, VA -- Once again throttling back on his most vociferous attacks on President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney continued his effort to paint the president as a partisan without a plan, and pledged to work across the aisle with Democrats if elected president in his second event of a three-stop Virginia campaign day.
Charles Dharapak / AP
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign stop at Meadow Event Park, in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012.
"I'm going to meet regularly with Democrat leaders and Republican leaders. I won't do that once a year, when I say regularly I mean much more frequently than that, because we're going to have to work together," Romney pledged. "These are critical times. This is an election of consequence."
Democrats immediately seized on the irony of Romney delivering these remarks while standing next to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., whom Democrats have long accused of using his power in the House to act as one of the "chief architects" of GOP obstruction to President Obama's agenda.
“For the sole purpose of political gain, congressman Cantor and Republicans in Congress, like Romney’s running mate congressman Ryan, have blocked efforts to achieve a balanced deficit reduction deal and to pass legislation to create jobs now," read a statement from Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith. "The American people need someone who will move us forward, not just serve as a rubber stamp for the right wing.”
Romney, who has dialed down his criticisms of President Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and as the campaigns move into the closing argument phase, continued to ding the president for what he said was a lack of an agenda and a campaign based upon attacks alone.
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney hits the campaign trail in Roanoke, Virginia criticizing President Obama's economic and energy policies.
"For a while there he was talking about saving characters on Sesame Street, and then it was word games with my name that he was playing, and then of course he got very anxious and went out there and just attacked me day in and day out," Romney said. "Attacking me does not create an agenda for him."
Romney makes one more appearance in Virginia today: a rally in Virginia Beach that was originally planned for Sunday night, but had to be rescheduled due to the approach of Hurricane Sandy.
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Romney is not bi-partisan, and has no record of it. Romney is a salesman, who will pitch anything for the 0.01%-ers, as needed. This man is out for himself and his backers, who want his "digit" (Norquist) to sign off on whatever they want.
"This is a candidate who said he would reject a deal to reduce the federal deficit and debt with ten dollars in spending cuts for every one dollar in tax revenue. If he were to become president, this prescription would make bipartisan progress on the deficit impossible.
This is a candidate who has pledged to entirely defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade —moves that would reignite the culture wars and drive a deep wedge between women and the GOP, as well as between the two parties.
This is a candidate who criticizes President Obama for not passing comprehensive immigration reform—but he vocally opposed comprehensive immigration reform when it was proposed by fellow Republicans like President Bush and John McCain."
"Because Romney’s campaign hasn’t produced substantive bipartisan policy proposals, his supporters reach for his time as governor of Massachusetts as evidence of his bipartisan instincts. But he worked with a Democratic-dominated legislature less effectively than his three Republican predecessors, and his core substantive achievement—an individual-mandate healthcare plan—he can’t even talk about because he has promised to end the federal version of it passed by President Obama on “day one” if he becomes president. Without an alternative plan to cover pre-existing conditions, millions of people in our aging population will be left more vulnerable and facing more out-of-pocket health-care expenses. This might satisfy the ideological base but it will not help build bipartisan support."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/31/as-campaign-closes-mitt-romney-peddles-a-bipartisan-myth.html
He'll probably shake the etch-a-sketch box on this too.
what an irony..that's Romney - standing with Eric Can'tor who was the architect of GOP strategy of putting GOP party interest before the interest of the country in the last 2 years?
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Time to kick that Can'tor rascal out...
Bottom line is, if Willard were a respected well liked former governor, his state would be in play. Nixon and Reagan did carry California five times between them!
Why should anyone believe a single word Romney says?
How do you know when he's lying? Simple: his lips are moving.
Vote to keep integrity in the Oval Office!
RE-ELECT OBAMA/ BIDEN
I swear Romney just updated his voter registration card to Democrat!
NitMitt is getting more desperate every day. He's going to work with Democrats? WTF does that actually mean, anyway? Is he saying that O hasn't tried to work with Repbubs, who have deliberately tried to destroy his presidency at the expence of the people? What a pandering little twat....
O&Joe 2012
To the first seven posters, if you weren't so pathetic, petty, childish and wrong, your posts would be funny. Besides it is also so pathetic that you spend so much time on a computer thinking you make a difference. All you do is chase away everyone with your hate and lies.
soundbite - nah - Democrats wouldn't have him. And, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT HIM BEING AN INDEPENDENT - We Don't Want Him!
Ben - when you have no argument - deflect! You've got it down pat, down ya?
Obama/Biden 2012
sanity -- continuing to try and convince folks you have an independent mind?? c'mon, after reading a few of your posts it is clear how far up obama you are
What a difference a hurricane makes...
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/imgs/home/121031-what-a-difference-a-hurricane-makes.jpg
"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised." —Mitt Romney, speaking about his Michigan roots during a rally in Commerce, Michigan, Aug. 24, 2012
Of course he pledges that today but just wait until tomorrow when Grover Norquist tells him differently!
CantAfford - NO HE DIDN'T - the Democrats overruled Romney on more than half of his programs. Our President tried to work with Republicans - not knowing they had pledged to do anything to make him a one-term President - to hell with the country!
Obama/Biden 2012
I admire the President for being brave ...facing Republican brutality in the last 2 years....The President has always put the country first...trying to persuade GOP to work with him to secure the nation's fiscal health by rasing taxes AND cut services. But the Republicans act like a bunch of homely old maids who play hard to get, constantly brushing aside kind gestures from the President, preferring to put the country at risk by defeating Obama's initiatives in creating jobs and promoting economic growth.
Hey, folks, don't forget that there are congressional elections going on...it's time to send Eric Cantor and his Tea Potty folks packing.
Republicans don't do bipartisan. Just look at the last four years.
Manufacturing in U.S. Expands at Faster Pace in October...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-01/ism-index-of-u-s-manufacturing-increased-to-51-7-in-october.html
Mysterious Anti-Obama Spam Texts Linked To Republican Consulting Group
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/31/164043351/mysterious-anti-obama-spam-texts-linked-to-republican-consulting-group
For a while there he was talking about saving characters on Sesame Street, and then it was word games with my name that he was playing, and then of course he got very anxious and went out there and just attacked me day in and day out," Romney said. "Attacking me does not create an agenda for him."
ROFLMAO! Seriously, Romney? Obama was attacking you? What exactly are you and Ryan doing? Wow! You have definitely lost your mind. The entire campaign has been about attacks. During your first and second debate you were angry and bully type. The third one you were apparently on meds. Loved that silly smile on your face the entire time as if "look at me" i'm on my happy pills.
5 more days and you will be gone! BTW, the billions spent on this campaign would do a great deal of help in the NE right now!
Mysterious Anti-Obama Spam Texts Linked To Republican Consulting Group
BO - That's been there whole campaign in a nutshell...
O&Joe 2012
Have you seen the cover of the new Bloomberg Businessweek?
IT'S GLOBAL WARMING STUPID!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/bloomberg-businessweek-hurricane-sandy-controversy-stupid_n_2056407.html
Mitt the Twit compares Hurricane relief to cleaning a football field.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/01/1153652/-Romney-Disaster-Relief-It-s-Like-Cleaning-a-Football-Field
Can't make this stuff up!
Backhouse
"Because Romney’s campaign hasn’t produced substantive bipartisan policy proposals, his supporters reach for his time as governor of Massachusetts as evidence of his bipartisan instincts. But he worked with a Democratic-dominated legislature less effectively than his three Republican predecessors, and his core substantive achievement—an individual-mandate healthcare plan—he can’t even talk about because he has promised to end the federal version of it passed by President Obama on “day one” if he becomes president. Without an alternative plan to cover pre-existing conditions, millions of people in our aging population will be left more vulnerable and facing more out-of-pocket health-care expenses. This might satisfy the ideological base but it will not help build bipartisan support."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/31/as-campaign-closes-mitt-romney-peddles-a-bipartisan-myth.html
Backhouse, You tell 'em.
MYTH is a slime ball
billybob - sorry to burst your bubble but Independents can also be passionate about someone they believe in. I KNOW with no doubt that President Obama is the best man running to lead this country!
Obama/Biden 2012
Obama doesn't even meet with his own party. He met with the big union thug boss more than he met with his cabinet for the first year of his being in office. For the democrats to say that the republicans stood in the way of bi-partisanship is laughable. Those idiot dems were told that they were not going to be allowed to raise taxes but they wouldn't ever even consider any legislation that didn't have tax hikes. What part of NO do they not understand?
1/20/2013 - the end of an error
Seeking sanity - Keep seeking you might find it someday.
"I KNOW with no doubt that President Obama is the best man running to lead this country" - Now that's funny, he has done such a superb job this past 4 years maybe if we give him 20 more we will get back to where we were in 2006. You remember the good old days don't you, before the dems ran everyhting?
BackHouse - you are spot-on, as usual! :-)
"Can't Afford" . . . wrong again.
Myth Robme was a "severely conservative" governor - remember?
He has NO history of bi-partisanship. He might "meet with" Dem's, if elected (he won't be) but that doesn't mean he would agree to ANYTHING they wanted.
He has taken the "Norquist Pledge" He has PROMISED his donors he will be a "severely conservative" president (GOD FORBID!)
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HERE IS HIS RECORD IN MASS, RE: (NON)BI-PARTISANSHIP:
Romney's False Claims of Bipartisanship in Massachusetts
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Romney Claims of Bipartisanship as Governor Face Challenge
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/us/politics/romney-claims-of-bipartisanship-as-governor-face-challenge.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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"Romney Says He Favors Abortion . . . . in Cases Where It Makes People Vote for Him"
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/10/romney-says-he-favors-abortion-in-cases-where-it-makes-people-vote-for-him.html#ixzz2AuJ0l2BE
.Just take out the word "abortion" and put in "Bi-Partisanship" . . . or any other claim that Myth Robme has made during this campaign . . . at one time or another, he has been for and-\/or against EVERY issue!
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O & JOE - we know where THEY stand on the issues!
Well, Ben, apparently we haven't been as successful at chasing everyone away as we'd like.
If you can take a hint.
Bob Schrum, David Corn, Joan Walsh, Stef Cutter, Krystal Ball, Karen Finney, Ezra Klein, Melissa Harris-Perry, Chris Hayes, Steve Kornacki
Daily Kos. Think Progress. The Obama Diary.
Eugene Robinson & Richard Wolffe & Jonathan Alter.
Like you didn't in Massachusetts? :)
I hate to tell President Obama but you can't work with someone only on your own terms! You need to listen to the other side!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/01/1153652/-Romney-Disaster-Relief-It-s-Like-Cleaning-a-Football-Field
BO - And to think that there are people out there who are going to actually vote for this idiot.
O&Joe 2012
At a press conference in Toledo, Bob King, President of the United Automobile Workers, will announce that his union and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have filed a formal complaint with the US Office of Government Ethics in Washington stating that Gov. Romney improperly hid a profit of $15.3 million to $115.0 million in Ann Romney's so-called "
blind"blonde trust.http://www.nationofchange.org/uaw-files-charges-against-romney-his-auto-bail-out-profiteering-1351783724
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Imagine that! MYTH wants to be President and the most powerful man on the planet; yet he is up for ethics violations due to Queen Ann's "blind", I mean blonde trust. How much does it take for these minions to Wake UP? Maybe they don't drink coffee when they consume their news in the AM.
MYTH is a slime ball. He does not deserve the Oval Office.
4 more 4 44
Whats Obama plan is to create another cabinet position and call it business czar... WTF happened to his blue ribbon economic jobs panel that he created with all the CEO's and owners of the top fortune 100 companys.. The same thief jeffery immelt the ceo of GE who's company made $245 billion dollars and paid no taxes instead got a refund of $215 million !!!
If you want someone to create jobs the hire Romney who is a businessman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Backhouse..........you're full of it!
EVERYTHING Romney did in Massachusetts was highlighted with bi-partisan support!
NOTHING Obama has done in the last four years earned the support of the GOP, and in some cases, he didn't even get the support of his own party!!!!!
You people try to say that Romney is untruthful.
But the REAL LIAR in this election is Obama, and the all of the things he said following the Benghazi incident PROVES IT!!!!!
DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!
That man Willard Romney lies so much, it's hard to imagine anyone voting for him and dismissing all of his repeated lies on every position. It sure bothers me and millions others, that this man a talking lying buffoon, is fooling so many.
JH - nope no matter how much I seek for sanity in the Republican party, you and others on this site (you can easily spot them) prove there is absolutel no sanity to be found in the GOP.
You just wallow in your pathetic hatred and cannot support anyone who isn't backward like you!
Obama/Biden 2012 for the truly sane in the US
You can not work with someone who is hell bent on no compromise. Tea Party in particular. Obama tried to work with the Repubs. You look at Faux news too much.
Romney promises to 'work across the isle'. that's what the tea party said in 2010. what a bunch of liars.
Where are those tax returns, anyway?
SeekingSanity
Seeking approval, now you are trying to sound like the person that you hate the most (Sarah Palin).
I'm sure that being a Business Person you have to talk to all sides. However, our Community Organizer does the opposite. That is what community organizer do, kind of Union Bosses do, get one side against the other.
Rasmussen Electoral College. Getting nervous yet?
Electoral College
Obama: 237 - Romney: 206 - Toss-up: 95
Seeking - BLAH BLAH BLAH
The only hatred I have is for the pathetic left wing nuts who lie all the time for political gain. You lefties OWN the biggest liar in American politics, scum bag Bill Clinton. Since the day he was caught perjuring himself you loonies have tried to call everyone on the right a liar. It doesn't work and next week your side will be sent packing your bags and heading for Chicago where you can all sit in one town and lie to yourselves. Maybe you should join the rest of the pathetic ones and wallow in your hatred.
So seeking how does that make you an Independent rather than a Democrat if you believe there is not one Republican you think is worthy of voting for. Just asking.
bubba-1946427
I hate to tell President Obama but you can't work with someone only on your own terms! You need to listen to the other side!
bubba
Who is NJ Gov Chris Christie? Better yet, tell me what have he and President Obama recently done?
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Pat @ 1.27,
Ya tebya panimayoo.
How many vetoes did Romney do while "working" in a bipartisan way with Massachusetts Democrats?
Over 800. And the Massachusetts legislature just overrode the Romney vetoes. Bipartisanship in action? I don't think so. Just more BS from Governor Romney.
For the love of all things sane let it be Nov 7th already...
There are no longer any winners in this thing, just clear losers on both sides.
Obama leads in Iowa 50%-44%, according to NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
The same survey puts the president ahead 49%-46% in Wisconsin, and 49%-47% in New Hampshire.
An NBC/WSJ/Marist poll released Wednesday gave Obama a 5-point lead in Ohio, 50%-45%.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2012/11/01/barack-obama-romnet-election-2012-iowa-wisconsin-new-hampshire/1673545/
How does a candidate of a major party run on his principles when he has none. It is amazing how his plans for the country have been kept secret. He refuses to do interviews where people could find out where he stands and he refuses to show his tax forms. How anyone, even the farthest of the right can consider this man as a president is beyond belief. Mitt is sure not his fathers republican, if you are a woman, or gay, or anyone that makes less then a quarter million a year, you ought to consider real carefully voting for this guy. He has kept his views from the public except for a few issues in which he has been on all sides of. My question is, which Romney are you going to vote for? I suppose your answer is, the one that is not Barack Obama. That is enough to elect this guy president? Not in my book.
Electronic Voter Fraud may be on the way in Ohio...
Secretary of State Jon Husted's office, in an end run around Ohio election law, have "experimental" software patches installed on vote counting tabulators in up to 39 Ohio counties.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4766
And..
More cheating in Ohio...
Court rules against counting ballots cast incorrectly in Ohio
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ohio-provisional-ballot-court-20121101,0,4789932.story
And...
Ohio cheating by Romney...
EXCLUSIVE: Romney Campaign Training Poll Watchers To Mislead Voters In Wisconsin
thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/30/1106961/romney-wisconsin-poll-watchers/?mobile=nc
And...
Just like in FL 2000...
Say Hello to the Ohio Official Who Might Pick the Next President
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/say-hello-to-the-ohio-official-who-might-pick-the-next-president/264201/
Bipartisan... I don't think so!!!
From the Sacramento Bee:
This is how things got done under "The Gov" Willard Mitt Romney almost all his vetoes were overridden. This is Romney's Real Record!!!
JH - well what an intelligent post - NOT!!! And, our President will not be returning here to live until after his 2nd term ends in January 2017. But, we'll be glad to welcome he and his family when they do return!
ksw62118 - because I look at each individual candidate - I don't believe any one party has all the right answers - until this year. And, frankly, the GOP has become such a party of hate and backwardness I can't justify voting for a single one of them. Hopefully the party will realize they have let the fanatics take over and they'll re-organize with some sense.
Obama/Biden 2012
“Glitch” wipes out 1,000 early votes in black FL neighborhood
http://americablog.com/2012/11/computer-glitch-votes-black-florida-county-election-fraud.html
Bipartisan to the Tax Pledged republicans means "my way or my way". The Republicans can't compromise because they are afraid of Grover Norquist. They signed their governing rights away to Norquist and the oligarchy. The republicans are puppets that dance on only one leg because the other string is cut. And when Obama is re-elected, it's time for him to hit that subject hard and take no prisoners. It's ridiculous.
Of course you will Romney....of course you will........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SUZGkNAUSvY
President Roosevelt said it best about men like Romney.
Let me warn you and let me warn the nation against the smooth evasion that says
“Of course we believe these things.
We believe in Social Security.
We believe in work for the unemployed.
We believe in saving homes.
Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things.
But we do not like the way the present administration is doing them.
Just turn them over to us.
We will do all of them.
We will do more of them.
We will do them better.
And most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything.”
Vote Obama/Biden 2012! Protect Worker's and Women's Rights!
EXCLUSIVE:
Romney Campaign Incorrectly Trains Iowa Poll Watchers To Check For Photo ID
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/01/1123641/romney-iowa-poll-watchers/?mobile=nc
And I'm a democrat, just can't find a good one on this ballot....
sirie - try your glasses. Clearly your vision is shot!
Obama/Biden 2012
L O L! The same regular meetings he promised Democrats in Mass. when he used his veto 800+times. Why is Mitt trailing by 28% points in his home state? Why is Ryan and Romney trailing in Ryan's home state! We all know liars when we see and hear them!
Romney used over 800 vetoes, while Gov. of Mass.
Over 700 of those vetoes, were overturned.
Bi-partisan record?
No.
If you have any doubts, listen to the people that know them the most...
Romney-Ryan Ticket Could Be First To Lose Both Home States Since 1972
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/01/1153676/-Battleground-snapshot-Romney-losing-big-ground
how can mitt possible reach across the isle in some so called bipartisan to democrats when mitt has no idea where he stands or believes in any agenda. the norquist 10finger president.
Beverly, Now you wait 4 years and you want to brag on it, all I here tell me tell me I listen, where are all the proposals that are given the Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi you think they listened to anybody lets not kid around, I'm originally from Chicago, my mom was a polling judge during DA Mayors reign I know Chicago politics better than the President I watched it on the Southside of Chicago for years, he's a nice guy, great family man but he's a politician and not a very good leader. I know almost nothing about the other candidate, I would rather not vote, but I like my voice to be heard. Like I said in one of the post below, I'm flipping a coin.
Late Super PAC Ad Buy Urges African Americans In Ohio To Vote Republican Because Lincoln Freed The Slaves
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/blacks-should-vote-republican-ad-ohio.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Are you Freaking kidding me?
Romney pledges.......ahahahahaha...which Romney said that?
Mitt Romney #1....says I said that.
Mitt Romney #2 ...says I didn't say that.
Mitt Romney #3 ...says I said what he said, not what he said and he didn't say!
Mitt Romney #4...says I don't rememember what I said but whatever I said I say I said , I stand by what I said.
MEANWHILE NORQUIST SAID YOU WILL DO WHAT I SAID, YOU SIGNED MY PLEDGE, AND ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS SIGN WHAT I TELL YOU TO SIGN!
I have no doubt that there will be more agreement between republicans and democrats under Romney if he is elected. But, I think that Obama is not telling the story. I believe that the republicans were so disrespectful that he refused to deal with them. Remember Joe Wilson? Being the first black POTUS was probably a lot to swallow for men who had been used to always being on top simply because of race. Many of those in the republican and democratic party are so far removed from egalitarian thinking with regard to race that it isn't funny. Some white men just find it hard to accept a black guy in charge. But, they better get used to it.
As if Obama and the libs are bipartisan. @!$%# Obama and the libs. I seem to remember:
We won get over it
Elections have consequences
Get in the back of the bus
All from that great compromiser, OBAMA There's only one way to deal with a dictator, his brown shirts, and his koolaide drinking minions.....
The one and only way Citizen Romney will enjoy "regular meetings with Democrats" is if either Rep. Ed Markey or Sen. John Kerry receive him as a private citizen and visitor.
I was kind of wondering if it's just me or do I see the tide turning in Obama's favor? Mitt is starting to react like he's desperate. Like McCain did in 2008. I smell fear. :)
Heck, his trolls here are plainly afraid. They are literally spewing froth out their mouths trying to backpedal and defend Romney. It must suck being a Romney supporter.
Romney: Able to break the gridlock?
“Just about everybody agrees Washington is a gridlocked mess. But who’s the man to fix it? After two years of brawling and brinkmanship between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans, more voters trust Mitt Romney to break the stalemate, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows,” the AP writes. “Romney’s message — a vote for Obama is a vote for more gridlock — seems to be getting through. Almost half of likely voters, 47 percent, think the Republican challenger would be better at ending the logjam, compared with 37 percent for Obama.”
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“Mitt Romney on Wednesday stepped up his support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, further rebuffing accusations that he would end funding for disaster relief if elected president,” the Boston Globe says. Romney said in a statement: “I believe that FEMA plays a key role in working with states and localities to prepare for and respond to natural disasters. As president, I will ensure FEMA has the funding it needs to fulfill its mission, while directing maximum resources to the first responders who work tirelessly to help those in need, because states and localities are in the best position to get aid to the individuals and communities affected by natural disasters.”
His campaign though walked a fine line: “Governor Romney believes that states should be in charge of emergency management in responding to storms and other natural disasters in their jurisdictions,” said Amanda Henneberg, a Romney campaign spokeswoman. “As the first responders, states are in the best position to aid affected individuals and communities and to direct resources and assistance to where they are needed most. This includes help from the federal government and FEMA.”
During the GOP primary when he said this about federal funding for disasters in a debate: “Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.”
But: “George Haddow, a private disaster relief consultant and former deputy chief of staff at FEMA during the 1990s, said Romney’s vision for FEMA sounds like that of former President George W. Bush, who was criticized for the government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ‘The problem is it doesn’t reflect the reality of major disasters,’ Haddow said.”
Haley Barbour on FOX: “The biggest change in the race is to Obama’s favor — and that's been this storm.” He added that he’d be “surprised if he doesn’t make a little bit of a comeback here.” He even said the storm was “like manna from heaven” for Obama.
“By the second rally at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, [Romney’s] surrogates appeared ready for something more combative,” USA Today’s Kucinich writes. “As the Red Cross donation number beamed near him, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., slammed the president's foreign policy. ‘Remember, and he went to Egypt to apologize, to tell the world that the United States was going to be humbler and mellower and that, frankly, we are so sorry for the sacrifices of the Americans for generations,’ he said. ‘Well, now — now Egypt is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, in Libya, they murder our ambassador, kill three other brave Americans, and the president is nowhere to be found to answer what happened.’
“Later, [Jeb] Bush, who at the first rally had focused on the changes Romney would make to the country for the better, said the president was more focused on shifting the blame than bringing people together. ‘His entire strategy is to blame others — starting with my brother, of course,’ he said, referring to former president George W. Bush. ‘Basically, he blames every possible thing rather than having the humility to be able to reach out and to find common ground.’”
Despite GM criticizing the Jeep ad, Romney’s campaign defended it. Adviser Kevin Madden said the ad "makes the case for why Gov. Romney would be stronger for the auto industry and why the auto industry's an important part of a strong economy."
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OMG I figured it out. Mitt's hypnotizing us!
Yeah, it's the old game of spinning you around in circles real fast until you're hypnotized into believing everything he says. Not knowing exactly what Mitt stands for and changing so fast your head spins!
It's Brilliant!!! :D
Not... :)
Mitt is the kind of guy you work for that so high up in the company anything he dictates affects you but you can never tell him how much a di** he is. :)
"I'm going to have to trump you on that, I won, you lost" said #44 in the first meeting with the republicans.
Independent Thought - so let me see if I get this straight. Because Mitt Romney's advisor says he would be better for the auto industry I should believe it? ARE YOU FRICKIN CRAZY????? Well, yes, it appears you are!
DB Akron - that was because McCain was whining about everything and being obstinate. He is clearly STILL whining!
Obama/Biden2012
sirie
SeekingSanity
Funny how you think and I use that word loosely that your opinion somehow supercedes anyone elses. Day in and Day out you belittle anyone with opinion outside your warped little world. In what dimension, what universe would putting someone with a differing opinion down equate to intelligence and fact? Tell you what seeking go grab effing dictionary and look up Ironic. And you're not an independent if the only party you will vote for is Democrat. HELLO McFLY.
Pride goes before the fall my arrogant one.
Ummm Zathrose, the 'brown shirts' were Republican zealots, or have you conveniently forgotten Hitler's Party? You must have also forgotten Boehner coming out of a meeting saying, "we got 98% of what we wanted.' He also hates the word 'compromise,' and you call that bipartisanship?
"You lefties OWN the biggest liar in American politics, scum bag Bill Clinton."
Well, JH, that's A) rich, and B) indicative of a real short yet selective memory that you have. Ever heard of Richard Nixon? His lying and obfuscation cost him the presidency. Not only that, but unlike Clinton, Nixon had neither the confidence in his position nor the stones to stick around for his impeachment. I guess that fellow Republican Barry Goldwater telling Nixon in early August of 1974 that Nixon had no support on Capitol Hill sealed that deal. Clinton lied about a bj while Nixon (repeatedly and over a period of two years) lied about criminal activity that was undertaken with his imprimatur. Meanwhile, Bush II lied about WMD in Iraq and people died in a needless war as a result. Seems to me that you righties own the TWO biggest liars in the history of American politics.
Romney: “Seeing Him (Obama) With Chris Christie is Tearing Me Apart”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/11/romney-seeing-him-with-chris-christie-is-tearing-me-apart.html#ixzz2B0KUaLga
Someone get Myth a tissue.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. The senate won't even pass obama's budget and the dems have control of the senate. Yet obama is out there on the campaign trail touting the strength of his economic policies. Having a complete lack of policy must be his vision of "strength". Any policy at all would be an improvement - he can only increase his strength when he starts at zero. However, his complete lack of a policy only spells doom for the country.
obama has two moving parts - his mouth and his arsehole. And they are interchangeable.
ABC tracking poll: Obama has gained 8 percentage points among independents, and Romney’s lost 7, since last week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/index.html
Johnson got impeached Norcal he was a democrat, what a short memory we have.
im pretty sure the piss poor proof was because of the intelligence community. Member how congress saw the same intel and based a decision to Authorize Use Force in Iraq. Member that.
Obama picks up more endorsements...
Harvard B School
The Economist
Bloomberg
Starbucks
lol see the Republitrolls are scared. :D
Actually, a new poll out today has Romney trailing by 32 points in Mass., when the former Governor of a state can't carry that state, it is NEVER a good thing. And "reach across the aisle"? IF he gets elected, he won't even give lip service to bi-partisanship, he CAN'T, his Corporate Masters and Grover Norquist, would NEVER stand for that! IF he ever held "regular meetings" with the legislators in Mass., it was to "TELL THEM" what HE wanted. And if by some chance, he makes it into the White House, that is just exactly what he'll do to the Dems. in the House and the Senate, "TELL THEM WHAT HE AND HIS MASTERS WANT"! He believes that he can run this country, "just like" he ran his business, tell everyone what you want done and they'll do it. Well, hate to break it to ya Mitt, but a President IS NOT AND CANNOT BE, A C.E.O.! Of course , the Koch Bros./Norquist crowd don't WANT a C.E.O.,the want a good little "puppet" to do THEIR bidding, Norquist said it himself "We want a candidate who has the right number of digits to hold a pen", (no real brain required), if THAT is ALL you want as a Commander-in Chief then you better be "VERY CAREFUL" what you wish for!!!
Kansas City woman claims she was refused medical treatment over her politics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014287201?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Nate Silver...
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http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/
How can you POSSIBLY say that, let alone stand by it? The Republicans have made it their primary goal to make Obama a "one-term president", and they were not shy about it. They didn't care about compromising, they didn't care about jobs or healthcare or the economy--they were nothing but immature, sore losers looking for revenge. The fact that Romney has to make a pledge for bipartisanship says it all--it should be a given that he would meet with Democrats, not a special exception.
"Johnson got impeached Norcal he was a democrat, what a short memory we have."
I wasn't around for (Andrew) Johnson's presidency, Caesar, so I don't think that I should be expected to remember that as it took place about 90 years before I was born. Quit begging by going back almost 150 years to make an obscure point like yours that doesn't apply to events of the last 40 years or so. It's not very becoming.
How can you prove Clinton had sex with that woman? Got a video? I think he got paid to say he did, just like Obama had to deny he belonged to a certain church. Obama can go to ANY church he wants to as far as I'm concerned. Its wall street that is king and ruler of this country, You will go to what church we want you to go to if you want to be president. If Obama had not denied his faith he wouldn't be president. Note how Clinton was not impeached as a result of his following the rules.
President Romney will not be like Mr. Obama: Mr. Obama to Senator McCain at a Universal Health Care Reform meeting:
That set the tone for the Obama administration during his ONLY term in office ----- No talking across the aisle, do it my way or the highway, I don't care if America goes over the fiscal cliff.
You cannot compare democrats from the Civil War era to democrats today--the parties are completely and entirely different. Johnson was a Southern Democrat, a white supremacist, who voted against civil rights and the 14th amendment. He was against abolition, a confederate sympathizer, and of course was all about limiting government spending. Sounds like a modern-day republican to me!
What a short memory we have...
Obscure as yours is. Thanks for seeing my point. In fact Nixon has little to do with the events of today. Tell me what someone born in 1990 is going to think of Nixon? after all that was nearly 20 years before 1990. Obscure indeed.
Pathetic Mitt just a copy cat. Christy comes out and thanks the President for his help.
Mitt flips out and flips his stand. Oh now I am going to work with dems. LOL he is like an unpopular kid in 5th grade.
Too Comical!
Democrats should announce that if Romney is elected from day one they will dedicate their entire party to insure Romney is a One Term President!
There is genius and then evil genius.
I don't like either candidate but Obama is considerably less Evil!
Oh, please, give me a break. You're not fooling anyone. If you don't know by now that many of the Obamacare provisions were Republican ideas in the first place, specifically modeled after Romneycare in Massachusetts, you are brain dead. It's the Republicans who refused to compromise, as McConnell so clearly explains only halfway into Obamas FIRST term:
"The SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president". Again, not healthcare, not jobs, not the economy--Obama on many, many occasions compromised with Republicans...bent over backwards for Boehner's demands, extending Bush era tax cuts, he agreed to Republican-backed budget cuts, despite Republicans filibustering everything at an unprecedented rate. It got to the point where Obama's own party asked him to compromise less.
I have to wonder who the mindless sheeple that actually believe this stuff. The truth is that a precedent has been set to refuse to cooperate with the other side, and then, blame the other side for not cooperating. We have Republicans who are openly defining "compromise" and "bi-partisan" as when Democrats agree with them. Democrats tend to be more subtle, but are no less guilty. This is obstruction from sides of the aisle with finger pointing and blaming the other side for what your side is actively doing.
I read the comments at the start of this, and it is apparent that there are those who either don't get or don't want anyone else to get it.
Congress is broken because both parties have forgotten what they are there for.
In the very unlikely event that Romney is elected, it is the conservatives who will be crying when they discover that they just elected Mitt the Moderate. He would have to meet with the Democratic leaders because the Rep[ublican leaders won't like anything he does.
Repeal ObamaCare - won't happen, he was the inspiration for it.
Cut taxes 20% across the board - won't happen, too much math for Mitt's tiny brain.
The foreign policy debate showed that Romeny agrees with Obama on every single issue.
And Ryan as VP? "I like firing people." - Mitt Romney
What Romney and his Zomney's mean is that they plan on rounding up the democrats in a room, douse them with gasoline and toast marshmallows and laugh and tell jokes as they burn.... (or something like that) Republican meaning of bipartisanship.... Right ?
Well personally I think the republicans are responsible for:::: Pompeii, Krakatoa, Mount St Helens, killing the Indians, slavery, The Civil War, World Wars 1 & 2, the need for the womens rights movement, Hiroshima, any eclipse of the sun, the and of course the economy....
Not based on fact, but based on pure speculation....
Romney is a piece of lying "Sheist!"
Yep! That's all it is gonna take, isn't it? After all, Obama didn't bend over backwards for Republicans, did he? Good luck with that, Romney! It is sure to work!
Hahahahahaha!
...says the one with the baby big-eared Obama avatar who removed (or lost the ability to show?) the comments he makes on his user page, so we can't see whether he practices his preaches. *shrugs*
Just remember that Romney has promised a lot of things, but hasn't come up with how he is going to pay for it. yes, he says Obama raided Medicare to put that same money for the people needing it in Obama Care. Lying Ryan's "Plan to Ruin American" takes that exact same amount and uses it to pay off Part of bushwhackers $4,000,000,000,000 war debt and nothing to help Americans in need!
Just remember that Romney has promised a lot of things, but hasn't come up with how he is going to pay for it. yes, he says Obama raided Medicare to put that same money for the people needing it in Obama Care. Lying Ryan's "Plan to Ruin American" takes that exact same amount and uses it to pay off Part of bushwhackers $4,000,000,000,000 war debt and nothing to help Americans in need!
Sure sounds better than Obama's "sit in the back of the bus" declaration.
No Ido, I agree President Romney won't... because he won't be president. Not of these United States. Only fools like yourself will vote for him, the rest of us will make sure President Obama sticks around for another 4 yrs. lol
Romney is about to be charged in court for violating the Federal Ethics in Government law.
In 2009, Ann Romney partnered with her husband's key donor, billionaire Paul Singer, who secretly bought a controlling interest in Delphi Auto, the former GM auto parts division. Singer's hedge fund, Elliott Management, threatened to cut off GM's supply of steering columns unless GM and the government's TARP auto bail-out fund provided Delphi with huge payments. While the US treasury complained this was "extortion," the hedge funds received, ultimately, $12.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies.
As a result, the shares Singer and Romney bought for just 67 cents are today worth over $30, a 4,000% gain. Singer's hedge fund made a profit of $1.27 billion and the Romney's tens of millions. G.Palast
By the time this thing is over, Romney would need to go across the aisle just to talk with Republicans!
This guy needs schizophrenia meds... or maybe just a good election trouncing.
He's desperate.
All the moderate Republicans or those with any kind of future are jumping to Obama... Powell... Christie... Bloomberg... Rove... okay, maybe not Rove... LOL
ED-2874315
Sounds plausible.. any sources?
If it were any other Republican candidate except Romney, I'd say 'read between the lines'. He said he'd meet with them. Boehner et al met with Obama, also, but gave in on next to nothing. Meeting with isn't the same as working with. However, since it's Romney, we don't need to qualify what he says or read between the lines because Romney couldn't care less if what he says is true or not.
Ryan has, as the writer of the Congressional bill, and will, as V.P., throw senior women under the bus by turning Medicare into vouchers.
Romney wanted to take FEMA away, but now he doesn't? He still will.
Republicans reaching across the aisle; they sign pledges to destroy and not create any jobs, not even through private sector contracts. They say one thing, but they are mean.
Will they build America? They have been in control of Congress, and all they do is repeat themselves again and again trying to defeat the health plan, but they are doing nothing for jobs, and they will do nothing at all but line their pockets and run somewhere else. And Ryan will suppress any science, not only climate science, and do you think that throwing away healthcare is going to help Americans? Our doctors will move away, and what will we have left?
Wow. You would think these spammers are in some kind of competition to out post the man next to them.
Yes, there is a source for Ed's statement LMarc. It is a charge made today by the UAW in Toledo, a conservative city. I don't want to quote the entire article though:
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17613-uaw-charges-romney-with-profiteering-from-auto-bailout
"According to ethics law expert Dr. Craig Holman of Public Citizen -- who serves as an advisor on the charge -- Ann Romney does not have a federally-approved blind trust. An approved "blind" trust may not be used to hide a major investment which could be affected by Romney if he were to be elected President. Other groups joining the UAW and CREW include Public Citizen, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Public Campaign, People for the American Way and The Social Equity Group.
President Obama's approved trust, for example, contains only highly-diversified mutual funds on which presidential action can have little effect. By contrast, the auto bail-out provided a windfall of over 4,000% on one single Romney investment.
In 2009, Ann Romney partnered with her husband's key donor, billionaire Paul Singer, who secretly bought a controlling interest in Delphi Auto, the former GM auto parts division."
Bi-Partisanship? This guy just took a collection of goods from Ohio to New Jersey. Do you know why they didn't go to New York also? Because the Governor of New York is a Democrat, he's not deserving of Romney's help. Do you know why Governor of New Jersey jumped all over the Mayor of Atlantic City? He's a Democrat! Where is their Bi-Partisanship? These two are two peas in a pod. Neither would help unless it was someone from their own Party and they have proved it! It's sickening how they can claim they will work together. I'll be Glad when Romney and this election are over. He needs to stay the hell out of Ohio, he is like swinging out of control destruction ball, you never know where it's going to strike next but when it does you can bet ($10,000) it will take jobs with it. I read some where if he loses he's going to ask all Republican owned business to lay off as many workers as possible. Right now there is a court hearing going on to investigate Romney and Bain over Bailout money they both received. My advice to Romney is do as his Grandfather did, run to Mexico and don't come back! Isn't running from the country he has been raping in his blood? I hope he's charged with fraud and spends some time in jail. It's probably the reason he's so desperate to be President so he can get away with his crimes. I hope he FAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notice he said he would have meetings--he didn't say there would actually be any discussions at those meetings. It'll be one of those "here's what we're going to do because I said so" meetings. Because Willard is always the smartest guy in the room, so he doesn't take advice.
And how is he going to react when somebody in the congressional leadership insults him personally? Not disagrees with him about a policy, but calls him a polygamous cult following dingbat? McConnell and Boehner can insult the President to his face, and he just has to sit there and pretend like what they think is important?
The real Mitt Romney:
Carl Bernstein on Mitt Romney's Radicalism
by Carl Bernstein Nov 1, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
Pundits and voters persist in believing that Mitt Romney is a covert moderate. But as Carl Bernstein reports, it's far more likely he'll enact the Tea Party's far-right agenda.
With only a few days to go before the presidential election, it may be too easy for voters and the press to ignore the single most salient aspect of Mitt Romney's candidacy: his unwillingness to reject or confront in any significant way the truly radical nature of today's Republican Party in Washington, including its record, tactics, and philosophy.
As a senior Romney advisor confided to me earlier this week, even some of the candidate's campaign aides seem unsure of his relationship to the ideological orthodoxy of the Tea Party forces that now dominate the GOP in Washington, especially in the House and among Republican lobbyists. No matter how moderate his underlying instincts or inclinations might be (a huge open question in itself), some in his campaign also wonder how, as president, he could restrain the radical forces driving his party.
"My own feeling about Romney is he's a very moderate guy forced to run to the crazy-right," said this advisor, a self-described moderate who served under two Republican presidents in significant jobs. "But even I'm not sure what will happen if he is elected."
Certainly those helping to drive the Tea Party agenda in Washington believe that in Romney--and his choice of Paul Ryan(philosophically one of their own) as his running mate--they have an ideal instrument to implement their agenda. "All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader," declared Grover Norquist at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February. Norquist, who has promulgated a no-tax-increase pledge that has been signed by 238 Republicans in the House and 41 in the Senate, went on: "We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go.... We just need a president to sign this stuff....Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen.... His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared."
Romney might appear to be just the man for the job, especially with his fealty during the primaries to the Tea Party's fiscal and social-policy agenda. However, his Houdini-like attempts in the last two presidential debates to transform himself into a centrist (in tone, at least) have once again raised the question of what his real beliefs might be. Given the ideological intensity of the party he seeks to lead, the stakes in answering that question could not be higher.
Plainly put, today's Republican Party (and its Tea Party wing) represent the first bona fide radical political party to rise to dominance in Washington in nearly 100 years. With good reason, "radical" is a term to be used with great caution; more often than not it has been employed in American history by demagogues and ill-informed ideologues as a way of labeling opponents as "un-American." It conjures memories of old McCarthyite tactics and outrages, and the labeling of decent and patriotic citizens and movements as traitorous. Even in comparatively benign usage, the term radical is often thrown around recklessly to impugn beliefs for being out of touch or foreign to mainstream thinking.
Yet the fact remains that the Republican ideas now ascendant in Washington would dismantle and transform social and economic policies that have been the basis of prevailing political consensus since the days of Teddy Roosevelt's presidency, through his cousin Franklin's New Deal, through the Eisenhower and Kennedy eras, and even from the Great Society through the Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton decades. If that doesn't register as radicalism, I'm unsure what would.
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society. This is especially the case in realms where private enterprise and the states cannot or will not do what needs to be done for the common good: from insuring food and drug safety (begun in 1906) to progressive taxation (1913) to the creation of the National Park Service (1916) to regulation of banking and securities (1933) to compulsory Social Security retirement accounts (1935) to protecting the civil rights of all citizens (the 1960s) to environmental protection (1970) to guaranteed medical care for the elderly (1965).
Mitt Romney, meanwhile, has applauded Republican/Tea Party efforts to privatize social security, eliminate environmental protection programs, restructure Medicare through voucher-like options, overturn Roe v. Wade, "self-deport" immigrants, and push for tax relief for the wealthiest citizens.
Like the Tea Party, Mitt Romney has railed in this election season against "government intrusion," particularly in regulating business and imposing higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans, arguing (as was so often heard during the era of racial segregation) that states are better at providing for the needs of citizens, especially those who cannot adequately care for themselves and their families financially. His oft-repeated hands-off philosophy extends even to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is so busy this week providing crucial support to the states devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Back in June 2011, Romney notoriously answered a question about funding for FEMA by denouncing the federal debt as "immoral" and explaining that any "occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better."
If there has been a single message in Romney's campaign--which has been purposely vague and strident, according to the campaign advisor quoted above--it has been that reliance on the private sector and the states will solve problems in essential matters that the federal government now regulates and maintains.
That position, like the campaign's bedrock opposition to abortion and gay rights, its unrelenting anti-immigration stance, regressive philosophy of taxation, and promotion of religious ideas as government policy, reflect the substantive part of the GOP's reigning radicalism. And then there are its tactical aspects: insinuating that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and thus illegitimately holds the office of president, changing voting rules to make it more difficult for poorer Americans to vote, flattering and encouraging (rather than shaming) those Americans who proudly reject the findings and methods of science, driving from office and purging such traditional conservatives and moderates as Bob Bennett of Utah, Bob Inglis of South Carolina, Richard Lugar of Indiana, and Olympia Snowe of Maine. In all of these ways, today's Republican Party declares its commitment to political radicalism.
There is no other word to describe the contemporary GOP's effort to break from our political culture's cumulative notion of normalcy and prevailing governmental philosophy. This extraordinary change in political direction is comparable in scale and intended effect to such transformational movements as the Radical Republicanism of the Reconstruction Era surrounding the Civil War and the Progressive movement of the early 20th century.
The previously quoted Romney campaign advisor (like a self-described "libertarian" former Republican governor with whom I discussed the same question recently) stresses the political necessity of courting and soothing the so-called "base" of today's Republican Party--actually, the ideological faction farthest right of the political spectrum on issues ranging from taxation to abortion--either to win the party's nomination for president or (as House Speaker John Boehner has discovered) to hold onto leadership positions in Congress.
"The Tea Party faction, or far right-faction, has been driving his candidacy, no question," said this life-long Republican, who insists on his belief that "Mitt Romney is not one of them." Rather, "the issue is how much can he move off that rhetoric [of Tea Party activists] and be moderate in governing, instead of responding to them. That's the basic question. And the answer to the question is unknown. My daughter said last night [two nights before the last debate], 'I can't vote for anybody who wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood. I can't trust someone who is willing to accept so much Tea Party bull.' That's the issue. How far right is he going to go if he is governing? And is he beholden to the Tea Party and extreme right? Or is he really a closet moderate who will govern from the center when elected? That's the issue about Mitt Romney."
As this adviser notes, the Boehner precedent serves as a powerful example of what happens when Republican leadership in today's Washington runs up against the Tea Party's agenda and policies promoted by its allies and enablers like the Koch Brothers (along with their political advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, which generously funds Tea Party causes), and even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on many issues. Time and again in the past four years, the House Speaker has capitulated to his Tea-Party-backed deputy, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who covets the Speakership, and the ideologically rabid freshmen elected in 2010.
"In private, John Bohener and Romney are both smart, good, reasonably moderate guys; but if the troops behind you aren't following you," says the Romney advisor, "that's tough. I don't think this guy [Romney] is radical but you can't govern as a moderate if your entire team is essentially extreme conservatives or radicals. Yes, it means he'll say any f**king thing in this campaign, just like George W. Bush did: a Republican today has to act very conservative to get the nomination...."
Would Romney promote a moderate agenda as president? The evidence from the campaign is inconclusive but also far from encouraging. As I was told by this campaign insider, the candidate and his inner circle of advisors decided months ago, during the primaries, that in order to blur the problematic ideological issue, the campaign needed to avoid releasing position papers on important issues, or laying out in any detail in any forum how he would address specific policy matters as president, or putting any distance between the candidate and the Tea Party radicals.
Beginning in the primaries, Romney's promise to "repeal Obamacare on the first day I am president," was seen as key to a winning hand, though there has been recognition among his advisors that such a promise is probably impossible to deliver, given the reality of Senate rules and the increasing likelihood of continued Democratic control of the upper chamber of Congress. The more realistic scenario discussed by his aides would be for a President Romney to push for extended delay--perhaps of five or six years--of mandated insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act as part of an overall budget deal.
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes. The contradictory character of his pronouncements over the course of his political career is perhaps the most consistent aspect of his public record, and it is hardly predictive of the kind of leadership that would seriously challenge and override the extreme desires and policies of the Tea Party. Indeed, Romney has been at his eloquent best when embracing its positions and arguments. His surreptitiously recorded "47 percent" remarks were the perfect expression of radical Tea Party ideology. "One of his problems, if Romney is elected, is going be fending off the right wing from pushing this nutty stuff, like Clinton had to fend off nutty stuff from his far-left," says the campaign advisor. "Clinton was fundamentally a moderate [president]. I think Romney would be too."
Radicalism as such is hardly dishonorable or misguided in itself. Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
Today's Republican Party, driven by the Tea Party movement, is equally radical. It represents as extreme a shift in political philosophy as any of the radical ideologies that have prevailed in our history. Even Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Jeb Bush, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush are all apostates from its ideological orthodoxy. In their place, the movement substitutes Eric Cantor, the Koch Brothers, Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Grover Norquist, and Glenn Beck.
One thing seems certain in this final phase of the 2012 presidential campaign: whatever Mitt Romney might "really" believe, his election would bring this radical belief system much closer to--not farther from--the power it needs to achieve its ends. From there it would be well positioned to do nothing less than overturn the political order that has prevailed in America for the better part of the past century.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/01/carl-bernstein-on-mitt-romney-s-radicalism.html?obref=obinsite
LMAO!!!
Flipper Romney worked so well with the Democrats in Massachusetts! I forget the exact numbers but in his tenure, he vetoed over 700 bills of which an extremely high percentage of the vetoes were overturned!
Sounds to me like the Mass. politicians had to get work done in spite of Flipper!
Obama 2012/Romney 1040
Can anyone here imagine a President Romney trying to negotiate something with another country? How could any other country trust what comes from his mouth with the record of outright lies and his flip-flopping. He could not be trusted as an ethical and honorable man who is good for his word. He comes across as a habitual liar and snake oil salesman.
In all sincerity, I wish you luck if he is elected.
I read some where he has poised Bain Capital to invest in anything he plans our Government to invest in. He stands to make Billions off of our loses. I can only hope he isn't the next President and the fraud charges that have been leveled against him and Bain Capital find ground and put him in jail for years. He's just another crook sucking the life out of hard working Americans.
Ayup! Romney's greed has come back to bite him. That blind trust is not so blind after all.
“The American people have a right to know about Governor Romney's potential conflicts of interest, such as the profits his family made from the auto rescue,” said King. “It’s time for Governor Romney to disclose or divest.”
As Palast reported, a trust in Ann Romney’s name listed “more than $1 million” invested with Elliott Management, run by hedge fund guru and GOP mega-donor Paul Singer. (That’s the minimum amount of disclosure required by law, so it could have been much more than $1 million.) Singer subsequently snapped up large amounts of stock in Delphi at pennies on the dollar, and then, along with other hedge funds, demanded that the government assume pension responsibilities and bail the company out—or they would shut it down, thus crushing General Motors as well.
The government acceded, Delphi became lucrative again and then went public, and Elliott Management and its investors—including Romney—reaped enormous rewards.
Did Mitt Romney Break the Law by Failing to Disclose Delphi Investments? | The Nation
Yes, Mitt -- but first all repubs must disavow the Norquist pledge.
I see you attacking the messenger...but not the message.
Typical
Watch out Mitt! Dems don't get mad, we get even. IF you should get elected, (which you wont) that would be the time for dems to treat you, just like the go-teas treated President Obama. There will be no rewards for you and your radical extremist! Dems can sit on their hands, say NO and fillibuster everything the go-teas want.
For all of you rombots, fauxbots and right wingers...
If NBC and MSMedia were truly a liberal media outlets why is NO ONE but the Huffpost and Nytimes covering this story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/business/questions-raised-on-withdrawal-of-congressional-research-services-report-on-tax-rates.html?_r=0
GOP mantra: If a report goes against our ideology (climate change denial, tax cuts DO create jobs, NLRB jobs reports, FACTS, Benghazi, etc.) then it is either BS or partisan. What a bunch of hypocritical ideologues that have PROVEN that they care only for there myopic views and a small cadre of special interests (BIG OIL, the top 1%, Big Agriculture, IMcomplex, etc.) to the DETRIMENT of the US as a whole. Obama and the dems are not the panacea we progressives hoped but the MODERN conservative movement (Tea party, GOP Congress (both houses), Romney/Ryan, Norquist, Karl "traitor" Rove, etc.) are the enemy of the middle and working classes of America. Don't be fooled by these self-interested A_Holes.
Intentions are not destinations. What people promise to do and what they end up doing may be two different things. The best predictors of character are not the words of the moment, but the actions of the past.
Nor does your non-stop attacks on the president mean you have an adgenda. You do say you are that candidate for change and that is true. You will change your promises, values, priorities, and your principals at the drop of a hat, depending on who you are pandering to? I suppose change can also be seen in your FEMA policy where you were against it before you were for it. I guess I should cut you some slack here as you did get your talking points out in 3 days, a near record for you! Too bad crisis that face the nation won't wait for you to get your talking points down.
Under the great leadership of Pres. Obama, our brave soldiers raided bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad Pakistan and killed bin Laden
Romney will authorize a raid on Big Bird Compound on Seseme Street and take out Big Bird.
It's the only thing he did, and I bet it's because the Pakistanis though it would help get him elected and he would give them more money. Not that we would turn on them for harboring a criminal. How long did he know he was in that Country and do nothing about it? Interesting one day he just pops up around an election, couldn't wait any longer might have gotten away, would have lost the election for sure.
Bubba
Obama ended the Great Recession in 6 months with his stimulus plan. He saved the GM and Chrysler from shutting down production, perhaps forever. He got health care reform passed which will reduce the number of uninsured by 30 million people who still got health care under the old system with many going bankrupt or leaving hospitals and doctors saddled with bad debt from their treatment.
Obama did so many other good things, but I don't know why I bother wasting my breath on a close-minded individual such as you.
Bubba, do you really believe what you type? Bush gave Pakistan more money then Obama has. It was suppose to be to help us get Bin Laden. What did Bush do when confronted with the fact that it was Osama that attacked us? He invaded Iraq. Obama is ending the wars. Good job Mr. President.
I don't know where you live but he has ended nothing. I am in the same boat as I was when he took office and that is just making it. I was better off under the last administration. I am not the only one. My pay is less, my wife still hasn't found a job, at least she is no longer counted as a un-employed statstic agains the Presidents jobless rates Ha! 7-8% lets count these people the one that fell off see what the numbers really look like. John Ya, and you will probally find out after he leaves office it's true. He is only ending wars because if he doesn't he WON'T get re-elected at all. You think he cares if he gets Americans killed if he did he do something about our boarders. IT"S NOT HEALTH CARE IT"S HEALTH INSURANCE, IT WILL COST YOU. Any one today can buy health insurance it just cost money which is what that are now forcing you to do or they will tax you if you don't more money for the Government. Health cost will not go down they never do. The Obama folly.
Shaak
The worst of the employment losses stopped as of March 2009 What little of the Stimulus that was released at the end of April and from the recovery website didn't actually hit the street until August 2009.
I know, I looked up all the numbers and looked at all the fine Print as to when the approved spending was sent.
Hey Bubba= Did you ever think that the Republicans in the House not passing our President's job bills may be the cause for your wife not having a job? As far as the illegals coming across the boarders, he has sent back more than the last president. Now Romney, he is different, he set up safe havens in his state when he was governor. Yea, thats right, a safe town for illegals to live and not be bothered. And you wonder why your wife can't get a job. The health care plan is not a dole, and it was patterned after Romney's plan when he was governor. He felt it could be a plan for the whole country. But to move to another job and not be turned down or to have students stay on the parents plan I think is a good thing just to mention a few.
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michael, those "shovel ready" jobs...lol;o)
Did Mr. Obama's Stimulus $$$ go overseas and NOT for American jobs ? Whaaat, THOSE shovel ready jobs ???? Yes siree bob-tail:
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Follow The Jobs
A Record Of Failure Spanning The Globe
Over his four years in office, Obama promised that he would focus on creating "jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced." However, as he racked up trillions in new debt, billions of dollars did go to create jobs that were outsourced or spent overseas. Whether it is electric cars made in Finland or solar panels in Mexico.
Taxpayers would be astonished to learn that their hard earned money went abroad for jobs that weren't created in the United States.
"And I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade - jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced; jobs building solar panels and wind turbines and a new electricity grid; jobs that will help us eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in ten years and help save the planet in the bargain. That's how America can lead again." President Barack Obama, October 30, 2008
Tracing Obama's Overseas Investments
Electric Cars. Obama handed over billions of dollars in loan guarantees and stimulus awards pursuant to his goal of putting one-million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Much of that money ended up leaving our shores. A $2.4 billion stimulus program to support battery production sent nearly half of its money to foreign firms, including two South Korean companies that used their awards to hire foreign nationals in Michigan to do work that Americans easily could have done. In the end, despite all the money Obama handed out, electric vehicle sales have lagged and The Washington Post deemed his goal of one million electric cars "overly optimistic."
Wind Farms. Obama's stimulus included over $8.5 billion in grants for wind farms that flowed overseas, despite Congressional criticismfrom both sides of the aisle. In total, over half of the money went to either foreign developers or foreign wind turbine manufacturers, creating thousands of jobs overseas with money that was supposed to create jobs within the United States. Even worse, hundreds of millions of dollars went to wind farms that began construction before the stimulus was passed. The end result of all this spending: the wind energy industry lost 10,000 jobs last year.
Manufacturing TaxCredits. As Obama was doling out over $2.3 billion in clean energy manufacturing tax credits that were supposed to create jobs in America, $880 million went to foreign firms. Worse still, some of those same recipients are now closing up shop and shipping jobs overseas.
Loan Guarantees. Remember Solyndra? The problems with Obama's loan guarantee program don't end there. The largest recipient of Obama's program to jumpstart green energy projects was the Spanish Company Abengoa, which took in $2.7 billion in loan guarantees for three of its projects. Other projects importing foreign-made solar panels are, much in the same way as Fisker Automotive, choosing to make their products overseas.
1. Switzerland. Swiss-Based Landis+Gyr Received Over $50 Million In Stimulus Contracts For Their Smart Grid Meters. Cathy Zoi, A Former Obama Energy Department Official, Held Over $250,000 Worth Of Stock In The Company As They Profited From Her Department's Policies. Zoi Had Previously Served As An Executive Director At Landis+Gyr Before Joining The Obama Administration.
2. China. North Carolina-Based LED Maker Cree Inc. Received Over $39 Million Through The Stimulus And Later Opened Its First Plant In China. Over Half Of The Company's Employees Are Now Located In China And Cree's CEO Says The Company's Strategy Is "Cree Chip, China Heart. Sempra Received A $337 Million Loan Guarantee For An Arizona Solar Plant. The Solar Panels Will Be Supplied By SunTech, A Chinese Solar Panel Manufacturer. General Electric Cancelled An Order From Wind Turbine Manufacturer ATI Casting In Order To Get The Parts Cheaper From China. After ATI Offered To Match The Price, GE Still Refused The Order. ATI Was Forced To Layoff 302 Workers Due To The Move. General Electric Has Also Been Criticized For Using Chinese Made Wind Towers Over American Towers At The Stimulus Funded Shepherds Flat Wind Farm In Oregon. Solar Power Industries Received A $5.4 Million Stimulus Grant Before Laying Off American Workers Based On An Increased Reliance On Imports From China.
3. Finland. After Receiving A $500 Million Loan Guarantee, Fisker Automotive Is Producing Their $100K Luxury Electric Sports Car In Finland.
4. Denmark. Subsidiaries Of Danish Wind Mill Maker Vestas Received $51.6 Million In Stimulus Grants To Build U.S. Based Factories. They Have Announced Plans To Layoff 180 U.S. Workers And Possibly Another 1,600 By The End Of The Year. The Windy Flats Project Began Construction Before The Stimulus Was Passed, Received A $218 Million Stimulus Grant And Used Wind Turbines Assembled By Seimans In Denmark. Danish Catalyst Company, Haldor Topsoe, Received A $25 Million Stimulus Award For The Construction Of A Demonstration Scale Biorefinery.
5. South Korea. Two Korean Manufacturers Of Electric Vehicle Batteries Were Given $300 Million To Build Plants In Michigan. Union Workers Are Now Claiming That Foreign Nationals Are Being Brought In To Fill Jobs That They Could Take. The Department Of Energy Has Admitted That 11 Of The 18 Contractors On Site Are Asian Firms. The Gulf Wind Project Received A $179 Million Stimulus Grant And Sourced The Parts From South Korea, As Well As Japan And Mexico.
6. Australia. The Melanoma Institute of Australia received a $162,000 stimulus contract to supply the National Cancer Institute with tumor samples.
7. Mexico. SunPower Admits That Some of the Solar Panels for the $1.3 Billion Stimulus Backed California Solar Valley Ranch Will Be Manufactured At Their Facility In Mexico Rather Than Their Facility In California. ABB Inc. Received Over $16 Million in Stimulus Funds to Create Green Energy Manufacturing Jobs, the Company Has Laid Off Workers in the U.S. and Transferred Work To Mexico.
8. Dominican Republic. Parago Used Stimulus Funds to Hire Hundreds of Workers in El Salvador
and the Dominican Republic to Administer a Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program.
9. New Zealand. A $817,000 Stimulus Contract Was Awarded To New Zealand's Connexionz To Install Bus Monitors For The City Of Santa Clarita. A Local Contractor That Could Have Performed The Work Objected To The Funds Going Overseas.
10. Thailand. After Taking A Taxpayer-Funded Bailout, General Motors Opened A $200 Million Plant In Thailand To Supply Diesel Engines For The Chevrolet Colorado Pickup Truck.
11. Vietnam. General Electric Opened A $61 Million Factory In Hai Pong To Produce Wind Turbine Components. GE's CEO Jeffery Immelt Chairs The President's Jobs Council And The Company Has Received Over $1.2 Billion In Stimulus Funds.
12. Italy. Brevini Wind Was Given A $12.75 Million Tax Credit To Build A Facility To Manufactuer Wind Turbine Gearboxes In Indiana. Over Two Years Later The Company Has Only Hired 70 Of The 450 Workers Promised And The Company Has Announced They Do Not Expect To Be Operating The Facility Until Late-2013. Cashing In Italian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Pulled In Over $84 Million In Cash Grants Through The Stimulus' 1603 Program.
13. Russia. Ener1 Received Over $118 Million In Stimulus Funds To Produce Vechicle Batteries. After Going Bankrupt, It Was Acquired Outright By A Russian Investor, Sparking Security Concerns Surrounding The Company's Work for The U.S. Military.
14. Germany. E.ON Climate & Renewables Received Over $440 Million In Stimulus Grants For Wind Farms That Began Construction Before The Stimulus Was Passed. At Least 25 Wind Turbines For Stimulus Funded Projects Were Supplied By German-Based Nordex.
15. Luxembourg. Luxembourg-Based ArcelorMittal's Subsidiary Received $31.5 Million In Stimulus Funds For A Waste Heat Recovery Unit.
16. El Salvador. Parago Used Stimulus Funds to Hire Hundreds of Workers in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to Administer a Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program.
17. Great Britain. $39 Million In Stimulus Funds Went To Navistar For Electric Delivery Trucks That Are Manufactured In Coventry, England. British Private-Equity Firm Terra Firma Received Over $40 Million In Stimulus Funds Through An American Wind Consortium It Bought Just Days Before The Stimumuls Funds Were Awarded.
18. India. India-Based Suzlon And Its Subsidiaries Installed Over 200 Wind Turbines Under Obama's Stimulus Grant Program With Most Of The Materials Coming From Its Operations Overseas.
19. Spain. Spain-Based Iberdrola Renewables Received $1.5 Billion In Loans And Grants And Claimed It Created Over 15,000 American Jobs But The Company Only Has 850 U.S.-Based Employees. Madrid-Based EDP Renewables Received Over $100 Million In Grants For Their Wind Farms and Announced In September 2011 That They Were Planning To Lay Off 10% Of Their North American Workforce.
20. Indonesia. The EPA Gave A $1.5 Million Grant To Indonesia To Reduce Air Pollution In Jakarta.
21. Japan. Japanese-Subsidiary Eurus Energy Received $91.4 Million In Stimulus Grants For A Wind Farm Completed Before The Stimulus Was Passed And Used 180 Turbines Manufactured Overseas By Mitsubishi.
22. France. French Wind Farm Developer EnXco Pulled In Over $69 Million In Cash Grants Through The Stimulus' 1603 Program.
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Yep, Vote for Mr. Obama: Tax, Spend, and Redistribute. Bi-partisan NOT DESIRED.
Stop blaming the government for your problems--get off your lazy butt and do something about it.
Sheesh. And your party talks about Democrats being entitled... you want the President to go on Craigslist, maybe update your resume for you? Get over yourself.
Al, the Rethuglicans won't change their principles because they have none. They are the party that believes in "POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLE."
Ldo -
Do know what you ignore? You ignore the previous Republican administration. You are so concerned about where the money went in Obama's stimulus, but what you ignore is where the monety went in the last Republican administration.
Let me ask you: where were you when Bush was running up $6.2T in debt? Where were you when we went to war on false premises? (just where are those pesky WMD's anyway?) Why is uit suddenly such a big deal, since you know, according to Dick Cheney... "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter!"
And do you know why that is important? Because Romney hired 75% of Bush's advisors! His administration would be no different than Bush's. I'll bet you think that's a good thing, don't you?
Sounds like hes anxious to get started with World War 3 too.... talking smack about about syria and russia too.... Only a damn fool would vote republican ever again....
28 years the republicans had their shot and the deficit grew, the economy went south (as in hell south) and the prices of things doubled, trippled and even quadrupled.... Romney & the Republicans vision for America is clear to me....
In 1981 the price for a loaf of bread was just .48 cents and today the average price is $2.79.... The price has gone up 5 times since then.... In May of 1981 the average price of gasoline was just $1.41 per gallon and today its about $3.50 which is about 2.3 times higher....
Now I don't ever or will ever give a hoot<<< (substitute 4 letter word) what any republican ever has to say....
Pigotry, there's more truth to that than you know! Romney would love to defund PBS and bring Big Bird and the Sesame Street brand into the private sector. Imagine what an abberation of PBS and Sesame Street could be made from that!!!
Not to mention the gold mine from 360 established tv stations and radio from whence the Cons could construct their own vapid tv network. Ish...
And goodbye commercial free tv. And goodbye to those "radical" leftist shows like NOVA, Nightline, PBS Hour, etc. Shows that help people clear the fog and think for themselves. Did I forget Boston Pops?
If Romney does meet or seek agreement with the untrustworthy, sorry-sack-of-dog-dung demlibs, he needs to have his head examined. Treat them as Bozobama treated Republicans, tell them to shut up and sit in the back of the bus when they lose.
DBAkron
We lost 750,000 jobs in April 2009 after stimulus was passed. $200 billion in aid to states immediately stopped states from massive layoffs they would have needed to make to balance their budgets. Shovel ready projects employed many by May 2009 when only 300,000 lost jobs. This lower number is the direct result of stimulus.
Further, the private sector knew help was on its way, so they could realistically delay tough cuts in their work force in anticipation of a speedy end to the Recession. Unemployment compensation extension in stimulus allowed many unemployed to continue paying their bills which kept their creditors from being hit with a mountain of bad debt.
The stimulus worked to end the Great Recession quickly.
Unemployment peaked in October 2009 at 10% and has been going down to its current 7.9%.
The stimulus did its job.
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Obama got him in 3 years. Bush couldn't in 7...end of story
Why just the other day, Romney said he would only work with "good" democrats. We all know Romney has yet to meet a 'good' democrat. What we do know is he loves him some good, tasty, yum-yum, democrat vetoes. Around 800 or so. Great examples of bi-partisanship there, Romney. Got any other classic examples of being bi-partisan you'd like to share, or are they, like your Q&A with the press, non-existent?
What makes Willard think Democrats would want to work with him?
Why would sane people in congress and the senate go along with his initiatives to destroy America?
Romney was forced to work with Democrats in Massachusetts because they were the vast majority in the state legislature, but he shouldn't waste his time trying to fool anyone into thinking he compromised and worked across the aisle. We know him better than that after all these years of his campaigning for the presidency.
Perhaps his meetings will go as well as these did while he was governor.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/02/romney-ceo-style-rankled-mass-lawmakers/#ixzz2B0TWjgn7
We are pulling out of the Bush Recession and are picking up steam to move forward to a full recovery. Why would anyone want to vote in a New Republican Repression to destroy the gains that have been made?
Kaybee
Glad you admit that the democrats are the ones with a cooperation problem. Admission of a problem is the first step to recovery.
is it true that Obama whats a Sec of Business because he knows nothing about business??????? grow govt because we do not have people in there that can do the job......
Atlas shrugging -- Checks and balances. Government isn't a business and shouldn't be run like a business. Part of government's job is protecting its citizens from the greed and excesses of corporations and CEOs LIKE ROMNEY. That's the difference between the U.S. and a third world country.
Lame attempt to twist my words, DB. You know my meaning was that Democrats would never support Romney's agenda to dismantle healthcare reform, ship more jobs overseas, continue the subsidies to Big Oil, destroy public education, social security and medicare... I could go on and on.
The sane people in this country don't WANT Romney's agenda, so compromise is not in the cards.
How does one compromise on the idea that a baby conceived via rape is a gift from god, or that a 13-year-old girl impregnated by her own father must bear the child?
How do we compromise on the idea that the super-rich should pay 1% in Federal Income Tax while the middle class pays 25-30%?
We don't want Romney, we don't want his insane ideas, and we don't want nuclear war with Iran. You'll have to start your own country to get all that, you righties.
Kaybee
Thankyou for making my point. The democrats are my way or the highway, but over half of the people voting seem to have figured that out.
kaybeetoys
Don't waste your time trying to explain anything to the republiClown shill, DB. You'd have better luck trying to teach algebra to a chimpanzee!
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Yeah and Meatloaf can provide the entertainment. This guy is rich, absolutely will say anything to get elected. Too bad for him it's not going to work. Romney sells the American people short, thinks we don't see through his lies. It will be so nice to see this guy go away never to be heard from again.
If there still is any wishy washy fence sitters still undecided on who to vote for, the idea of having Meatloaf, Ted Nugent and Kif Rock playing at the inaugural balls should bring them over to Obama. A nations ears will bleed if that happens.
Some real killer endorsements there from the has-been hall of flame-outs. My main point is that he thinks we are stupid and will buy what he's selling. Freakin' snake oil is what he's selling.
Like our president says, don't sell the American people short, don't bet against America!
My eyes! My eyes! Make the visuals go away! I would need some serious sedation to get through that inaugural lineup! Thank all that is sacred that we will not be subjected to a tea banger ball!
Obama/Biden 2012!
FOURWARD!
Don't forget Jenna Jameson and Lindsay Lohan
Skookum - who is Jenna Jameson????
Ya President Obama has the K girls and the gansta rapers that's what I want in the White House.
@ SS: A stripper?
seeking:
Jenna Jameson is a porn star.
Umm. My cubicle mate told me that.
Ah ha! So the Mormon is endorsed by a porn star! Well, that's a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one - and for the party of family values! OMG does it get any better????
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Well Obama is endorsed by Seeking Sanity ... sounds like it is equivalent to me.
Oh, I'm sorry .... I keep forgetting that YOU are probably not intelligent enough to realize that a candidate has NO CONTROL over someone else endorsing him/her. Does O.J. endorse Obama ???
little jimmie - OJ is in jail -not EVER able to vote again and I'm certain no one has asked for his endorsement. But, don't worry, Bernie Madoff has eagerly endorsed Mitt!
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jim you always sound so bitter and angry. You always seem to question people's intelligence, which says to me that you must have an inferiority complex. Are you one of those guys who is a control freak and whatever you say is gospel? Sounds like it. Have you ever thought of seeking therapy for these issues which you so clearly manifest in your comments? I really think you could benefit with some counseling.
Um, could it be that it be that Obama is bad for everyone?
Does anyone wonder why Romney home state is not supporting him or the surrounding states? What do they know that we don't?
AlaskaGirl,
you always sound so bitter and angry. You always seem to question people's intelligence, which says to me that you must have an inferiority complex. Are you one of those guys who is a control freak and whatever you say is gospel? Sounds like it.
Dont look now, but you just described Seeking Sanity.
LOL...yep unfortunately she'll never understand it. An angry seeking opens her mouth and shuts her eyes.
Well i'm sure Jenna Jameson will take one for the team (whom ever that may be) =]
Next he will be taking credit for the fall in jobless claims and the improving economy. Let's not forget that the stock market (DOW) is in the 13000's up greatly from where Bush left it. Etch-a-Sketch must have been responsible for that also!
What a lying POS, and to think people actually believe him (not sure which version) and would actually vote for him. If, heaven forbid, he becomes president God help us.
hankooooo, it does seem that job creation stated right about the time the Dem lost control of the house, hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The man just can't help himself. He stinks of desperation. Please! Someone hand the man a pit stick!
Obama/Biden 2012!
too bad the republicans didnt meet Obama half-way in his first years in office. never will i vote for someone that embraces for-profit charter schools, who does not realize the good parts of planned parenthood, who's advisors include kove, cheney, rumsfeld, who tries to tell other countries how they should be run, who pushes for more military spending, who wants to voucher medicare (the only people making out on that item will be the insurance companies), who does not believe in the purpose of FEMA, who changed his view according to people he happens to be speaking to, who does not release his tax returns (what is he afraid of), and according to his wife, has mental issues, which explains a lot of his actions.
Great post, Annie62 - you summed it up very well!
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O & JOE! 4 more, forward! :-)
Obama had a super majorty for the first two years! He could not even rally enough support from his own party and independants to pass all his BS. At some point you have to accept the fact that he failed to put forward good policy. The Republicans did not have power the first two years to stop his agenda if his own party could have supported it. It is plain old lack of leadership and inability to work with those with a desenting viewpoint.
Sane - YOU LIE! That talking point has been debunked umpity-ump times. Rehashing that crap will get you no where.
Sane - President Obama had a filibuster proof majority for a scant 44 days - then the Republicans in Congress filibustered everything he tried to do - more filibusters than any other time in history. This has been debunked over and over. Posting your lie makes you look - well - desperate!
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I really despise people who have no knowledge of how the House and Senate work, yet spout off lies and nonsense. Please, either get educated about it, or for the love of all things sacred......STFU.
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FOURWARD!
AlaskaGirl - I SOOOOO like you!
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Right back at ya, Seeking!
Obama/Biden 2012 OH YES WE WILL!
Sane--- The President DID NOT HAVE A"SUPER MAJORITY" his first two years!!! How many times does this have to be explained to you people??? There was ONLY a "simple majority" in the House of Representatives, and a majority in the Senate, BUT for there to have been a "SUPER"majority, the number of Dems. in the House had to represent 2/3rds of the total House of Representatives, and THEY DID NOT, in the Senate, the Dems. would have to have what is called a,"FILIBUSTER PROOF" majority, which means they had to represent at LEAST 60 of the total 100 votes in the Senate, they DID NOT HAVE THAT EITHER, so consequently almost everything was either never brought to a vote, or filibustered to death. So don't try to feed everyone that crap about a "super-majority", and "no support from his own party"! The same month that the President took office, Sen.Mitch McConnell, stood in front of a microphone and announced to the ENTIRE NATION, that "it is our NUMBER ONE political priorty to make certain that, BARACK OBAMA IS A ONE TERM PRESIDENT". Now does THAT sound like an atmosphere of co-operation to you? Someone obviously did'nt pay attention in either Civics, or U.S.Government class!!!
blueinut49 - well put and totally explained. But don't worry if Sane doesn't understand - doesnt' understand much of anything!
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I agree with Seeking. When Sane was creating his/her user name he/she forgot the "in" in front of his/her user name.
Yes the republican party showed us just how patriotic they are back in 2009 by closing up businesses, laying off many employees and such, as they stuffed their money anywhere they could in fear they were going to loose a dollar.... They need to crawl back under their marble statues and hide another 4 years in my opinion....
That- i'll never let them live down....
So you didn't explain what they did in those 44 days...
Again, it would be easier to teach a chimpanzee algebra than trying to teach Sane or any republiClown anything regarding history!
Okay republiClowns... try and solve this equation:
A+B = B+???
Someone?? Anyone??
Just as I thought. The republiClowns are too busy eating their bananas!
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I think i'm loving you also AlaskaGirl... You're getting to be professional at "Whack-a-Troll"...
O&JOE2012
Thanks Ninja! I do take pride in my resilient efforts to rid the planet of RWNJ trolls.
Mr. Etch-a-Sketch. Romney has morphed from "severely conservative" to a "cuddly pacifist". The man has no shame, he is so desperate to become President so he can tell all his fraternity brothers "I told you so".
Mr. Romney has to win two out of these three states to become president: Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa.
Two out of three.
The people who support him can yell all you want about Mr. Obama's record, Mr. Romney's experience, or anything else you feel like spouting today, but you can't yell your way out of this fact.
It is an impossible feat for Mr. Romney and even his own camp knows it.
It's time you did, too.
Now, you can respond to me with all the vitriol you have in your heart, but NONE of it will change that fact. Two out of three. Check the aggregate polls (that means the sites and organizations who put polls from all over together to come up with averages of all of them) and even those numbers aren't in your favor because Mr. Obama is ahead in. all. three. states.
And, no, I'm not even talking about Nate Silver's aggregate page, for those of you who want to come back with that.
It's not that he's not going to win two out of three of those states just because that's what we want to happen. It's not going to happen because it isn't.
Two out of three. Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio. Think about it.
But he is now ahead in two of those three states, and Obama has lost vertually all lead he had in the third. Guess it was not an impossible feat after all. Your advise was good, now it's time for you know it, as you said. You must be in shock, you should have checked the trend in polls before you wrote it.
Sane - (clearly you're not) He's slightly ahead in two of those states but losing ground. And, Florida will take a 2nd look at the idiot who said he'd dismantle FEMA - Obama will take Florida too! Ohio is President Obama's.
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Seeking, please tell us when the world will end, you know all, oh I forgot you said you voted already, so your candidate needs to win for you to be right. Me I'm going to wait until I get to the polls and flip the coin. President Obama gets heads, after all he is the head of State and Mr. Romney get tails, everybody says he's a back runner ;-}. Best out of 4, tie goes to the runner up. (Joe Bidde-Sarah Paline ticket).
bubba (I can't believe I'm actually trying to communicate with anyone whose moniker is bubba) I never claimed to know it all. Your point - you do have one, right?
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I agree that the lead is slight, but the swing in lost votes from Obama's projected lead is HUGE. Also the polls have not reflected the slight back swing that you suggested. It may be correct, but I believe that may be the opinion of democrat pollsters and not yet confirmed by any national poll. I don't think that would be a shock though. It does make it a very tight race. What is the trend in Florida? Not your own political leanings. It's hard not to get passionate about i,t but this really could go either way. And the trending has not been good for the president. But the real kicker is that we have not had election day yet. This much early voting may not indicate accurately, it is kind of unprecidented.
Sane - no, Romney is losing votes - not Obama. And, that IS huge!
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But he is now ahead in two of those three states, and Obama has lost vertually all lead he had in the third
Sane -
Where are you getting your info. As of this morning, O is leading in all battleground States, as usual. Must be listening to too much Rush....
O&Joe 2012
Seeking, I thought you liked taking it in the rear???? After all President Obama gave us all the shaft.
bubba - you're a disgusting piece of filth and now on ignore. I never understand why Republicans think being crude and classless is the way to go through life. It certainly explains your support of Romney who has no class.
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In reality, President Obama should win all states if people looked with an open mind at how much this presient has done to fix an economy that was in total collapse and fix our standing in the world community. And he did this against the party of NO, the Republican House. I ask you, do you really want to return to the Bush days of more war, higher debt and the rich get richer and the rest of us get poorer?
Obama/Biden for our future.
Every president has to draw a line in the sand. Every president has to determine just how far he's willing to be pushed around. Every president has to decide who his enemies are, and then face them down. President Obama has decided that his real enemies aren't Iranian genocidal dictators, anti-Semitic reporters or Muslim terrorists. His real enemies are conservatives and corporations. How can we tell? From his rhetoric.
malarson, you said Romney has to win two out of three. Wasn't it Meatloaf that sang Two Out of Three Ain't Bad. No wonder Meatloaf and Romney are buddies. What they fail to realize that in politics two out of three is bad.
Well I guess Obama should have continued campaigning instead of making sure the hurricane victims got help huh ?
Like Romney did.... Oh yeah Romney helped too.... He at least lifted 2 cases of water for the vitims....
Leopards have spots and dinosaures have teeth.... =]
wart,
And what exactly did Obama do to get out there and help? At LEAST Romney did something to help those directly affected...
@JK1963: What the heck are you talking about?
(in)Sane,
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
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Leave me aLone ok ... that was a great movie and line...
O&JOE2012
Latest news: Ohio's Three Leading Newspapers Blasted Romney's 'Jeep-To-China' Lie In Critical Swing State.
Suddenly Mitt is a nice guy moderate. Baloney.What makes you think that he is not lying about bipartisanship. He'll say anything and do anything to win.
Romney is full of $hit as a Christmas goose. Nothing but an audience pandering whore, already bought by big oil, coal, pharma, finance and the Koch brothers
Knowing what you put in your Christmas goose, may explain why you like the taste of the past four years. The rest of the comment was funny too.
Come on there Backhouse. To end this stalemate in Congress, someone has to act like a big boy and meet regularly with both parties of both houses. During this administration, how often has this happened? Rarely, and only for photo ops.
How often did this President address the American People on issues vital to their wellfare? Please don't include the ObamaCare in the answer.
Certainly didn't hear the President address the nation on the Benghazi incident.
Typical lazy RWNJ, to damn lazy to actually look it up.
No RedDev, I have the answer, do you? Look it up yourself and not be so lazy. Typical Progressive move to deflect the truth.
Where is the Republican outrage over Haliburton electrocuting our soldiers? Should we send an AC-130 to shoot up Haliburton's corporate headquarters?
notsofunny Deflect this -
Hmmmm.... The other side of the world.... Means its dark out side here when they have daylight over their.... I'm sure Mr. President wasn't doing anything special when the Benghazi incident occured.... I'm sure they first called the white house.... Those White House phones probably don't ring off the hook day and night do they....
So the President is supposed to drop what hes doing and call a press conference every time something happens in the world....
No instead he went and met the families when their bodies came home....
funnygirl,
You can see the desperation from those on the left. They start with the vulgar name-calling, and the bullying because you choose to believe someone else should be in the White House than Obama. Yes...this is the left showing their true colors!
Vote Romney/Ryan!
Is this a Comedy? Oh, the divorce proceedings will be conducted amicably. I.m outta here. Tragedy is starting to have charms
God, when I heard that thing screeching into the mic, I thought it was one of Ann's poor doped up horses realizing it had been sold to the glue factory. Didn't bother Mitt one bit, he thought it sounded just like Seamus begging to be untied from the roof of the car.
Probably good thing that he calls himself Meatloaf. If it were Dog, we know where he would be. View from the roof top.
He was a sucessful Republican governor of a heavily Democrat state. Now show me one credencial of Obama actually being good at leadership. I guess the 51st -57th states have had no complaints. The rest of us are ready for change.
If Romney was so successful in Massachusetts, why is he losing there by double digits?
Try facts instead of lies.
Dude, you really need to do some research on what his record was while governor of MA, instead of just spouting what his campaign says or what you hear on Faux News. He did anything but work with the legislature while governor. He issued over 800 vetoes during 4 years in office (national record), of which more than 700 were overturned. factcheck.org/elections-2008/dont_veto_the_truth.html
Do some research my friend, real knowledge will set you free.
If he was so successful, why didn't he run for another term? Why is he so detested by residents. He ran from a 2nd term because he knew he would lose by a landslide.
As should Obama... The choice is clear...why vote for the same person that has proven to be a failure over the last four years??
Since Romney is a proven liar you should not believe him or in him.
Yes, lets put in a politician that nobody thinks is a liar. There ya go Dangerfield another vote for nobody for President.
In the meanwhile, Obama is proposing to create another czar, Secretary of Business. Unfortunately, only Fox News has the courage to report on the imperial president's plan to increase the hoard of czars to bypass Congress and the established processes of government. We don't need more czars and more bureaucracy. We don't need a more bloated federal government sticking its nose into every aspect of our lives.
Yep, reliable information from FOX. NOT!
What we really need is fewer idiots in Congress.
You can even read about that brilliant idea of Obama's, Secretary of Business that is, right here on MSNBC. Yeah, I'm sure that will work wonders.
No, Mitt, I heard the Democrats have found the location of the "Obstruct and No Compromise" pills the GOP has used for the last four years. If you were to become President, some Democrats would probably take them just as the GOP Congress has and you would also meet with the some degree of partisanship. I would hope they would be more patriotic than the GOP has been since 2009 and try to solve our national problems but I have my doubts knowing politics. Did you ever think, Mitt, that you were just lucky in Massachusetts and had Democrats willing to work with you for the good of the state and it was not your winning personality? Please explain, Mitt, why Massachusetts is polling so badly for you with almost 66% for Obama and about a third for you?
Because it is polling as it always does in a national election. Mass is solidly in the blue as always. To implie it is a reflection on Romney is laughable. That state put murder by neglect Ted Kennedy in for life. At least they don't have that option this year. Maybe Romney is to good of a swimmer to get that vote.
"Romney pledges regular meetings with Democrats in pitch for bipartisanship".....
WHY...? He didn't do it in Massachusetts so why start now?
Ask yourself, If Romney was such an instrumental good governor then why is he not carrying the states in voter support. Those people know that man and how he ran the government there better than anyone in this country. The majority of them can't stand him. He vetoed 800 bills that they had to go back and reverse. He balanced the budget party due to receiving millions from the federal government. He partially paid for RomneyCare with millions of dollars of Federal funding. He "saved" the Olympics..YEP you guessed it...by receiving millions from the Federal Government.
"When I say regularly I mean much more frequently" as he stands by Contor ( Mr. No ). I think Obama tried to and did meet with Republicans regularly and frequently, how did that work Cantor?
Time magazine: The Party of No.
Read it.
lmao wow, people actually believe he worked with Dems in MA? lol dont think so..if one challenged him, hed try and get them voted out..check the history of his time there...when he actually was there that is. We have a choice here, Bush JR 2.0 or someone we know will try his very best to do whats right for us as a people.
Oh, NOW I get it! Put a RINO cult leader in the WH and we'll all be pals. Don't bet on it. Not with the plans your stinking repuke Ryan has. These men are DANGEROUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012-2020
I'm reminded of the old joke...
I'll be seeing you
not if I see you first...
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I was lost and asked a cop to help me find my parents. "Do you think we'll find them?" "I don't
know, there's so many places to hide."
He better check with his party first before making such a pledge. For at least the last dozen election cycles the Republican creed has been very explicit - no negotiation, no backing down, no compromise. Hence why very little has gotten done.
Romney is now suddenly going to toss that to the wind? Did he run that by anyone first?
Romney would be the talking dummy with boner and cantor the ventriloquists with their arms up his ass.