Newt’s not done playing the wealth card vs. Romney

rupertUPDATE: As the tweet to the right suggests, Newt’s not the only one who believes that Romney’s tax records make good fodder.

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I think some Republicans were hoping that Newt Gingrich might stop targeting Mitt Romney’s wealth after widespread criticism that the tactic played into Democratic hands.

Yet here’s Newt today, dismissing the Romney argument that illegal immigrants would solve the problem by “self-deporting” themselves:

“You have to live in a world of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatically $20 million income for no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.”

So I guess that hope was in vain.

Two more quick points:

– Newt is doing it because he knows it’s working, even in a GOP primary. Again, that bodes poorly for Romney in a general election.

– The pleas from fellow Republicans are rather interesting. Are they asking Gingrich to put the best interests of the group ahead of his own selfish interests? What are they, Marxist or something?

– Jay Bookman

528 comments Add your comment

Erwin's cat

January 25th, 2012
7:46 pm

I have no doubt the universities have been gaming the system for a very long time…yet their endowments are tax free,…$21B at Harvard alone, so I hear…..if anything they should sponsor the educate American unemployed and unfortunate campaign

Jm

January 25th, 2012
7:46 pm

Yellow card for a lib!!

Heaven only knows what he said to deserve that.

A string of f bombs probably plus worse

Doggone/GA

January 25th, 2012
7:47 pm

“Yeah we just question your sanity”

Those who are insane are quite often convinced that everyone is nuts except them.

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
7:47 pm

Yes, but his man-on-dog rhetoric is *totally* suited to polite society and is *never* inappropriate.

To say nothing of his professed belief that women should be EZ bake ovens for rapists.

Bill

January 25th, 2012
7:47 pm

Back of the bus, Amvet.

Doggone/GA

January 25th, 2012
7:47 pm

“Thot surely we’d hear about Obama’s little performance of last evening instead of more Newt bashing.”

blogspot.com is ready when you are

josef

January 25th, 2012
7:50 pm

Doggone

“Those who are insane are quite often convinced that everyone is nuts except them.”

Well, they ARE! :-)

0311/1811

January 25th, 2012
7:50 pm

Erwin’s cat & Kentucky Jacket:

The “Hope Scholarship” is generally (with exceptions) nothing more than the poor class putting the rich class thru college. Plus it caused such “grade creep” that it means almost nothing anymore.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
7:51 pm

I cannot help but find it highly ironic if the following happens:

1. Mitt complied with the tax laws
2. The rate he pays becomes an issue that personally tarnishes him
3. He loses the election

The irony obviously being that the carried interest promoters and their lobbyists have been so successful that they’ve made a perfectly decent guy (mitt), and for that matter any other private equity person, unelectable.

Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)

January 25th, 2012
7:54 pm

If we put them on TSA duty, do you think complaints would drop?

Hey Keep, you got any more footage of that, something a little juicier? Heck, I had to set thru a 30 second ad just to get to 30 seconds of content. I thought at first I might of found something to beat Sooth’s picture of Michelle Bachmann and the big hot dog. What a outright cheat you are!

josef

January 25th, 2012
7:54 pm

Jack

January 25th, 2012
7:45 pm
Thot surely we’d hear about Obama’s little performance of last evening instead of more Newt bashing.

********************

Not enough substance in the SOTU…but Newt bashing? The gift that just keeps on giving…

THE TRUTH

January 25th, 2012
7:55 pm

Typical Bookman, always bashing GOP, I bet he wet his pants last night watching Dumbo.

barking frog

January 25th, 2012
7:56 pm

service employees international union and super pac Priorities
Usa Action funding radio attack ads on romney in Fla

0311/1811

January 25th, 2012
7:56 pm

josef:

This is what happens to our court system when unbridled liberalism sits on the bench.

The idiotic Ninth Circuit gets reversed again (they hold the record) but I think you would agree with this Supreme Court decision regarding school safety:

http://llrmi.com/articles/legal_update/2012_us_ryburn_huff.shtml

Jay

January 25th, 2012
7:57 pm

Jack, Josef, first item posted today.

Bud Wiser

January 25th, 2012
8:02 pm

I heard more people talking today about Biden’s nose-picking during the speech than the speech itself.

It goes without saying that Biden’s finger exploits probably went deeper than Obama’s.

On a related note of interest here in Georgia – ATHENS — A relatively new Georgia Board of Regents policy regulating the admission of undocumented students and illegal immigrants has prevented a football recruit (Chester Brown) from gaining admission to the University of Georgia….Brown’s mother insists that her son was born in the United States, which would make him a citizen, but Brown may not have been able to provide documentation to that effect.

Maybe these guys could straighten out how a Kenyan got elected to a prominent political office in the United States as well.

Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)

January 25th, 2012
8:02 pm

The irony obviously being that the carried interest promoters and their lobbyists have been so successful that they’ve made a perfectly decent guy (mitt), and for that matter any other private equity person, unelectable.

Well, I don’t know about you, but when I heard some reporter explain carried interest, I about choked on a fried pork skin, I was so excited. I learned that carried interest is the cut you take out of somebody’s money before you give him what’s left. This just filled me with ideas. I’m going to go down to see the boss at the warehouse to see if he’ll treat my pay as interest money. That way, he gets the capital gains rate on his cut and I get the capital gains rate on what he gives me. Everybody’s a winner except the worthless guvmint. What a scam great idea this carried interest thing is!

josef

January 25th, 2012
8:05 pm

SCOUT

I scanned it and on first read, it seems the SC got it right…especially considering that this is school safety we’re addressing above and beyond the narrow constitutional interpretation….and I must admit, the 9th can come up with some doozies…this one is mild!

JAY

I tuned in late today…but, hey, you know me, can’t pillory that Dog Third enough to satisfy me… :-)

josef

January 25th, 2012
8:07 pm

BUD

When I heard that one, I nearly choked on my oatmeal…this is foo-ball we talkin’ ’bout now…watch for as much change of stance here as the evangelicals in South Carolina…but…but… :-)

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:08 pm

Occupation, if you return, you said:

The reason I took issue with that is that while Greece may potentially be insolvent, that’s a far cry from saying that Europe as a whole is at the brink of bankruptcy. Furthermore, the question of its fate as an economic union is a purely political one, not economic really. In other words, it’s a matter of whether the ECB will do what needs to be done and guarantee the debt.

I’ll address in the morning if you see this and remind me. It has to do with who owns that Greek debt (and Portuguese debt, and Spanish debt and Italian debt, and even French and Irish debt).

kayaker 71

January 25th, 2012
8:09 pm

Michelle my belle….. all of us watching intently while her husband was bashing those of us who had worked hard for our money…. wearing a $2,400 dress. That ought to make a hit among those who have been “disadvantaged” or “forsaken ” or “disenfranchised”, or some other liberal description for the down and out. Michelle doesn’t hesitate to make hay while the sun shines while she is lecturing America on what they should eat and how they should raise their children. Enjoy the ride Michelle…. it is about to end.

josef

January 25th, 2012
8:14 pm

kayaker

For the love of G-d, Mate, she’s the First Lady of the United States of America! She should wear sack cloth and ashes? And this was the State of the Union address, a big-time thing. She usually buys her clothes off the rack…and the cost of those suits so many of the Congressmen were wearing? Really…that’s petty….

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:15 pm

all of us watching intently while her husband was bashing those of us who had worked hard for our money…. wearing a $2,400 dress.

ah, more manufactured poutrage from the right. No verifiable facts, just repeating the same made-up story over and over.

Doggone/GA

January 25th, 2012
8:15 pm

“She should wear sack cloth and ashes? And this was the State of the Union address, a big-time thing”

and $2,400 really isn’t a lot for that kind of dress. Heck, wear-em-one-time wedding dresses can cost 10’s of thousands of dollars.

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:16 pm

Slick Willy, if it ain’t the Magic Bus, I’d never even consider getting on it.

You and your lame-o buddy Naughty Newtie can have your p*ssin’ contests without me, thank you very little!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl9bvuAV-Ao

harvey

January 25th, 2012
8:17 pm

This was supposed to be a capitalist country. I am sick of all the socialism, communism, or whatever ism people want to lean on as a crutch against accepting responsibility for their own pathetic lives. They need to get off their butts, work hard, study hard and make themselves worthy of drawing breath by working and contributing.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:17 pm

I like the Reid version of the belt line plan

Makes more sense than the original version

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 25th, 2012
8:19 pm

In 2010, Romney carried over $4.9 million in capital losses from 2009. But as tax lawyer Ed Kleinbard told reporters during a Tuesday conference call organized by the DNC, ‘that means he paid no tax on any of his capital gains in 2009, including tax on his carried interest in 2009′ That’s not necessarily because Romney actually lost money in 2009 either.

Ohhh….. I am a taxer. Show us more of your returns Mitt!

josef

January 25th, 2012
8:20 pm

Doggone

I was thinking something very similar…I guess men (or breeder ones, anyway :-) ) have no idea what women’s clothes do cost…

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:21 pm

I heard more people talking today about Biden’s nose-picking during the speech than the speech itself.

And Mrs. Obama’s dress???

Some people sure does hang out with a recondite crowd, huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04r_tlWdRs

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:21 pm

This was supposed to be a capitalist country.

Really? Does it say that in the Consistution? If not, then it’s up to the states, right?

josef

January 25th, 2012
8:22 pm

HARVEY

We of the uppity elite do not accept your application for membership…try the petit bourgeois club down the street…

Doggone/GA

January 25th, 2012
8:22 pm

“I was thinking something very similar”

Yeah, I wonder how many times he questioned how much Laura Bush paid for HER clothes.

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:22 pm

Watch that the dress is a knock-off for $250 from Macy’s… :lol:

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:23 pm

Josef 8:14

No

I’m taking kayakers side on this

Liberals want to rub con faces in it when a family value con does something like cheat on his wife etc

Justly

It is perfectly fair game to attack democrats, who espouse the need to not waste money on frivolous things so we can help the poor, and then go spend tens of thousands on ritzy vacations and expensive dresses while giving a pittance to charity (1% in bidens case and 4% in onama’s)

It’s not that they spend money

It’s the hypocrisy. They just want to spend your money on helping the poor ot theirs

They want to live like kings and proclaim themselves helpers of the little people?

Pure BS

Sh-t. I give more to charity than Obama does and I make significantly less.

What a joke.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 25th, 2012
8:24 pm

You bet if Michelle Obama did not look appropriate, she would be attacked for that.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:26 pm

Sadly there is an element of truth to the Michelle Antoinette meme

If she doesn’t like the whitehouse, she should leave

Hopefully she will take her husband too

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:27 pm

Keep

There’s a happy middle ground

Michelle’s not anywhere near it

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
8:27 pm

Biden is Obama’s Palin.

Yep.

at least he is a good boy and wears his muzzle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqOEr_yfak

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 25th, 2012
8:28 pm

Jm has wealth envy…… slowly he comes away from the darkside. :D

josef

January 25th, 2012
8:29 pm

Jm

Canna go there w’ye…liberal, conservative or in-between, there are special events in all our lives which allow, nay REQUIRE, we splurge within our means. And as Florence King has said over and over, for all our democratic egalitarianism, we do long for a touch of the purple…

wet wiccan

January 25th, 2012
8:30 pm

but, hey, you know me, can’t pillory that Dog Third enough to satisfy me…

josef – you might find this an interesting read

http://williamlkatz.com/gingrich-confronts-history-in-south-carolina/

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:31 pm

josef, maybe harvey will convert and join the Zionist banking cabal.

Talk about some upward mobility!

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:31 pm

Josef

The SOTU is not such an occasion

Michelle likely goes through a $2400 dress every 2 days given the state dinners etc

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 25th, 2012
8:31 pm

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
8:32 pm

Shorter Kayaker:

The Uppity Negress oughta know her place.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:32 pm

The trip to Spain

Martha’s vineyard

o is an elite who cares as much about the little guy as does subsidy fat Faneuil

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:34 pm

Keep 8:31

You didn’t get my point

It’s the hypocrisy

Republicans don’t bash wealth

Democrats do

There’s a dichotomy

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:35 pm

Keep, he does not give a flying ____ about any of that.

His ODS is so enlarged, his prostate has had to shrink to accommodate it!

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:36 pm

Michelle likely goes through a $2400 dress every 2 days given the state dinners etc

She wears them more than once if she likes the dress.

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
8:37 pm

wow, and again stands throws around the “n” word.

Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)

January 25th, 2012
8:37 pm

Well, you can go to K & G women’s warehouse off Ellsworth Dr. in Atlanta and get a dress for maybe $125. I got to admit some of them you wouldn’t use for your dog’s bed, but if she looked hard enough Michelle Obama might could find something to wear that won’t bust the bank. I know because it’s about the only place that has dresses that will fit the missus. When you tip the scales at 350 you can’t be that choosy. And if Michelle Obama shows up looking a little frowzy, well, us Conservative Republicans probly wouldn’t say anything about how she disgraced the nation after a year or two or till the election is over, whichever comes first.

I know it’s kinda suprizing I’d be giving fashion tips, but a buck is a buck. Have a good night everybody.

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:37 pm

The SOTU is not such an occasion

Yeah, when your husband gives a speech in front of both houses of Congress on national television that’s aired on 10+ networks and you’re sitting in the audience, that’s not a big deal. :roll:

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:38 pm

Amvet

Careful or you’ll get another yellow card

:)

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:39 pm

Byte me

Just a speech

Just a speech

Kamchak

January 25th, 2012
8:39 pm

Careful or you’ll get another yellow card

And getting put on permanent ignore lasts forever.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:40 pm

Amvet needs his meds…. Someone call his doc for him

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:40 pm

wiccan, I always love how cowards like Newt reference men like Jackson as if there was some possible connection between them.

The Serial Philanderer does what he does best – rouse the chickenhawk rabble like Jm…

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:41 pm

Kam

Are from the department of redundancy department?

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:41 pm

Is Newt the new N word?

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:42 pm

Just a speech

easy to write when you’ll never be asked to give one in front of both houses of Congress and broadcast on 10+ networks. Just sounds like fake poutrage and envy.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:42 pm

Amvet

Chicken hawk?

I’m a fiscal conservative dimwit. Not a war hawk.

Keep Up the Good Fight!

January 25th, 2012
8:43 pm

Jm…so now when you are bashing M Obama’s dress its not about wealth its about hypocrisy….but if a lib bashes something similar, its wealth bashing…… oh sure, I get it. :roll:

josef

January 25th, 2012
8:44 pm

moonbat

Got that one marked for a real read when I can give it the attention it deserves…THANKS a million

ZamVet…

:-)

JM

The SOTU message IS just such an occasion, and so are state dinners…would you say the same thing about Jackie Kennedy?

Look, I didn’t have the highest opinion of Mrs. Obama at the outset myself…but I am pleased to say, she has more than won me over…she’s a class act…and I realize that’s a bitter pill to swollow, but I swollowed it…

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
8:44 pm

Careful Jm, that little “Report this comment” link is used furiously often by the “liberal left” to let free speech reign here on the blog /snark.

watch out.

and you wonder why they had to suspend obama’s flag@whitehouse.org or whatever it was….

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:44 pm

Byteme

No doubt I won’t be giving that speech….

You can get as nice a dress as you’ll ever need for less than a thousand ex wedding dress

I’ve had to buy a few for my wife so I know

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
8:44 pm

um, Moonbat? when people talk about the “n-word,” they ain’t bowdlerizing “Negro.”

Mick

January 25th, 2012
8:45 pm

jm

You are more like a sparrow, finch, or really just an annoying parrot…

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:45 pm

Doggone/GA

January 25th, 2012
8:46 pm

“Careful Jm, that little “Report this comment” link is used furiously often by the “liberal left””

got any proof of that?

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
8:46 pm

ha ha Am – hmmm. doubt it.

ask sfd.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:47 pm

No keep

Libs bash con moral hypocrisy on family values. Fine

Cons bash lib moral hypocrisy on wealth. Fine.

Fair play. Roast both sets of hypocrites

I dont like newt

And I don’t like Obama

They’re only slightly different, the two of them

Both are political whores

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:47 pm

Fiscal conservative.

That’s rich.

And the laugh of the evening…

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
8:47 pm

sfd, if you are not black, then sftu.

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:48 pm

You can get as nice a dress as you’ll ever need for less than a thousand ex wedding dress

Let me know the next time you go dress shopping with 10 secret service agents. I want to come watch that.

And, again, you have no proof of the cost of the dress, because no one who knows is saying. And you don’t know if the dress was donated, like at the Oscars, because no one who knows is saying.

So it’s just fake poutrage.

Paulo977

January 25th, 2012
8:49 pm

AmVet :who turned me onto this gem.
____________
Agree …great!

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:49 pm

Amvet

You would be more funny if you had something intelligent to say first

Recon 2533 1811

January 25th, 2012
8:50 pm

I predict that you’ll hear a lot more about Obama being the reincarnation of Saul Alinsky that will resonate more with voters than Obama’s drumbeat of the “wealthy should pay their fair share.”

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
8:52 pm

Jm, it’s virtually impossible for a liberal to be fiscally conservative…

unless it’s their OWN $$!

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:52 pm

O. Sh-t. 2012

:)

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
8:52 pm

Mick, LOL.

But at least by his own words he admits to being a dimwit, so he is taking little baby bird steps…

(CNN) — For a century, the bedrock principle of our tax code has been progressivity: The rich pay a larger share of income than the middle class and poor. Yet Mitt Romney’s revelation that he paid 14% in federal income taxes on more than $40 million in income in 2010 and 2011 reveals an increasingly open secret: Progressivity is dead for the superrich.

It also suggests that the main argument made by Romney and others for this highly unequal state of affairs — that it’s essential to spur job creation and economic growth — is false.

Yeah, no ____, Sherlock…

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/11/7/129021008687645509.jpg

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
8:55 pm

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:55 pm

Moonbat

They don’t know the meaning of the word

Ive saved up every nickel I could and invested it well. Over time it’s a lot of nickels

Liberals don’t know how to save

That’s part of the problem

They just want to live off someone else’s savings because they’re too lazy to do it themselves

Until you learn to save personally, you can’t grasp what the government needs to do

So liberals go on doing ignorant things like voting for Obama who will make them very very poor

ByteMe

January 25th, 2012
8:55 pm

predict that you’ll hear a lot more about Obama being the reincarnation of Saul Alinsky that will resonate more with voters

Yeah, because it resonated so well with voters in 2008 when it was brought up. :roll:

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:57 pm

Amvet is clueless as always

The average tax rate paid by the American taxpayer is 11%

On that metric, mitt is paying more than average

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
8:58 pm

moonbat, you’ve cut me to the quick! I think I’ll sooth myself by listening to some n-word spirituals. or, perhaps, watch some old clips of ballplayers from the n-word leagues.

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
8:58 pm

or perhaps soothe. One of those…

Jm

January 25th, 2012
8:58 pm

Obama the pro poverty president

Recon 2533 1811

January 25th, 2012
8:59 pm

I pay attention to the Gallup and Rasmussen polls as more reasonably accurate barometers of the majorities attitudes. Obama did not get a bump up from his performance last night. That does not bode well for the Obamanites in this years national election.

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
9:00 pm

That’s cool stands.

you make me laugh.

and I thank you!

AmVet - Every time a publicly educated neo-con drives on public roads they are Marxists.

January 25th, 2012
9:00 pm

Newt’s implicit and indirect bigoted and racist comments are fair game.

And why the No Minorities Party will probably remain so for a very, very long time.

“Newt wants to be our age’s Disraeli; he is in fact its Eddie Haskell.”

Hysterical…

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/18/michael-tomasky-newt-s-racist-surge-may-sink-romney-in-south-carolina.html

Mick

January 25th, 2012
9:01 pm

jm

Everything is OK, obama is not the master of the universe but he really, really really, occupies some serious real estate in your cerebral cortex. That being said, there’s a brave new world of great things out there to focus on, if you choose to find it, good luck…

0311/1811

January 25th, 2012
9:02 pm

Anyone mention this yet ? A little “fingerpointing” going on !

Headline (NBC): “Arizona governor, Obama in ‘tense’ exchange over book”

“Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama engaged in an apparently tense exchange on an airport tarmac shortly after Air Force One touched down outside Phoenix on Wednesday.

The two leaders could be seen talking intently at the base of Air Force One’s steps. Both could be seen smiling, but speaking at the same time.

Obama appeared to walk away from the Republican governor while they were still talking, according to a White House pool reporter. Brewer confirmed that by saying she didn’t finish her sentence.

Asked moments later what the conversation was about, Brewer said: “He was a little disturbed about my book.”

“http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/25/10238029-arizona-governor-obama-in-tense-exchange-over-book

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
9:03 pm

I guess I too, am a racist like sfd.

Mick

January 25th, 2012
9:04 pm

1811@9:02

Big Whoop…

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
9:05 pm

and I thank you!

you’re saying I didn’t have to do what I did but I did, yes I did?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLtKYFP-Zso

Recon 2533 1811

January 25th, 2012
9:06 pm

“Obama the pro poverty president”

Yes that’s exactly it. Obama and his inept handlers like axelfraud are hoping to convince Americans that our world economic leadership is over and that we should consolidate individual wealth and share it among the masses. We should redistribute wealth among the masses and depend on the ruling class to place America within a global governing system.

stands for decibels

January 25th, 2012
9:06 pm

Obama did not get a bump up from his performance last night.

pretty sure, historically, SOTU addresses don’t have much of an effect either way. That’s what one of the seven-figure bobbleheads told me on the Teevee, anyway.

Jm

January 25th, 2012
9:07 pm

Mick

When you have more to lose, and care more about people, and when you know how poorly run our government is (under w and O), you tend to care about it a fair amount

That said, life will go on no matter what. But not for all people

Obama’s pro poverty program will put some people over the edge and result in a shorter life for them than they should have had

Very sad that Obama is ok with this

I’m not

moonbat betty

January 25th, 2012
9:07 pm