Romney dawdles and ducks on immigration
Mitt Romney spoke today to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, where he was expected to finally take a position on President Obama’s recent decision not to deport illegal immigrants who were brought here as children and are now seeking an education or serving in the military.
The remarks were much-anticipated. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for example, has been saying this week that he didn’t want to take a position on Obama’s move until Romney had done so, explaining that Romney “is the leader of our party from now until November.”
However, Romney’s speech did nothing to clarify his position, as you can see for yourself:
“For two years, this president had huge majorities in the House and Senate – he was free to pursue any policy he pleased. But he did nothing to advance a permanent fix for our broken immigration system. Instead, he failed to act until facing a tough re-election and trying to secure your vote.
Last week, the president finally offered a temporary measure that he seems to think will be just enough to get him through the election. After three and a half years of putting every issue from
loan guarantees for his donors to Cash For Clunkers before immigration, now the president has been seized by an overwhelming need to do what he could have done on Day One. I think you deserve better.Some people have asked if I will let stand the president’s executive action. The answer is that I will put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president’s temporary measure.
As president, I won’t settle for a stop-gap measure. I will work with Republicans and Democrats to find a long-term solution. I will prioritize measures that strengthen legal immigration and make it easier. And I will address the problem of illegal immigration in a civil but resolute manner.”
I’m sure McConnell and his fellow Republicans appreciate the clear, “resolute” roadmap drawn for them by their party’s nominee.
In the primaries, of course, Romney had no such problem with clarity.
As usual with Romney, it is also necessary to point out that the words in his speech had only the vaguest of relationships to the truth. For example, he claims that for his first three and a half years as president, Obama “did nothing to advance a permanent fix for our broken immigration system.”
In 2010, and at Obama’s insistence, Democrats in both the House and Senate pushed passage of the so-called DREAM Act. The measure passed the House 216-198, although only eight Republicans supported it. It also drew strong majority support in the Senate, 55-41, but because Republicans had invoked the filibuster rule, it fell short of the 60 votes required for passage.
Only three Republican senators dared to vote to override that filibuster. Let’s take a look at their fate, shall we?
– At the time of the vote, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska had just been re-elected as a write-in candidate after being rejected as insufficiently conservative by GOP primary voters in her state.
– Bob Bennett of Utah had also been defeated earlier that year in a GOP primary, again on grounds that he had been insufficiently conservative.
– Richard Lugar of Indiana was defeated this year in a Republican primary, again because he was considered insufficiently conservative.
In other words, there is no chance whatsoever that Republican leaders — terrified of their base — will gather the courage necessary to address this issue. But they are indulging in hypocrisy of the highest order in an attempt to disguise that reality.
For example, House Speaker John Boehner had the gall this week to complain that by taking executive action, Obama had short-circuited any chance of congressional action on the DREAM act:
“It puts everyone in a difficult position. I think we all have concerns for those who are caught in this trap, who through no fault of their own are here. But the president’s actions are going to make it much more difficult for us to work in a bipartisan way to get to a permanent solution.”
Note Boehner’s expression of deep, humane concern “for those who are caught in this trap, who through no fault of their own are here.” Note his yearning for “a bipartisan way to get to a permanent solution.” I tell you, it almost brought tears to my eyes.
Then note the GOP’s overwhelmingly rejection of the DREAM act in 2010, led by Boehner. Note Romney’s promise to veto such legislation should it ever reach his desk as president. Note what happened to Rick Perry in the GOP presidential primaries after he defended a Texas version of the DREAM act.
The truth is, there is no give on this issue among Republicans. None. The party has taken an absolutist position and has badly punished any of its own who has dared to challenge that absolute. And while this predicament may be frustrating for party leaders, it is a predicament of their own making. The animus that they helped to generate within their base as a means of building voter loyalty has now become real and heartfelt, and as a result it is now impossible for them to make the adjustments needed for the long-term health of their party and the long-term health of this country.
– Jay Bookman
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They BOTH suck
June 21st, 2012
9:54 pm
Pigtronix,
Great for them……….. Great story
Recon 0311 2533
June 21st, 2012
9:57 pm
Jm,
I look at Gallup and Rasmussen. These two polling organizations poll daily and they’re typically close together most of the time. They both have on average Obama’s favorable ratings below 50%. I don’t think Obama is in a comfortable position to win the necessary swing states to win a second term. We shall see.
Josef
June 21st, 2012
9:58 pm
Mama
Yeah, me, too!
getalife
June 21st, 2012
10:00 pm
willard is not ready for prime time .
Weak, wishy washy, flip flopping weirdo.
Soothsayer
June 21st, 2012
10:00 pm
AJC.com is experiencing technical issues. What a relief! I thought it was the usual NSA and CIA monitoring of my posts. Thank God!
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:00 pm
Frog
No farting on the blog
Jay said so months ago
barking frog
June 21st, 2012
10:01 pm
water is wet.
depends on the temperature.
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:01 pm
Recon
Romney needs 2/3 of the swing state votes
We’ll see, he can win
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:03 pm
Bs foul call
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:04 pm
Brawl ball right now
Soothsayer
June 21st, 2012
10:05 pm
This damned immigration shyte is giving me heartburn!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 21st, 2012
10:06 pm
Willard is owned by the Ohio Art Company.
Etch-A-Sketch Man.
ld
June 21st, 2012
10:07 pm
Mama Says
While I have no objection to anyone having their own beliefs, I object to laws that enforce morality, imposing religious doctrine on others.
Some believe that life begins and conception (oppose abortion); others believe life begins at erection (oppose contraception); I believe life begins at birth when a child can live without the massive medical intervention now possible but rather as children lived when born when the man named Jesus walked this earth. I’ve never needed, nor wanted, nor had an abortion–nor will I (pregnancy now physically impossible) –however, there are good reasons for having them. Objections on religious grounds should do not make those reasons any less valid for a woman making a very personal and often difficult decision.
I find it astounding that some people pick and choose the lessons and/or instructions they take from the Bible and yet want to impose upon others those lessons they choose to embrace but refuse to impose upon themselves the other lessons of the Bible, not the least of which is ‘judge not that ye be not judged.
I acknowledge that not killing is one of the Bible’s better lessions. We all agree that killing is wrong. We do not all agree that an egg is a chicken or a fetus is a child. We do not all agree on the death penalty. We do not all agree on issues of war–which murders innocents.
Your idea of a united North America or at least USA south is something that seems likely if not inevitable, given the immigration reality. I’m not all that sure it will be a union entirely peacefully formed.
Soothsayer
June 21st, 2012
10:09 pm
?Get your story straight, Mitt!
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:10 pm
Kam
Obama is owned by Goodyear tire and rubber
He goes in circles and is very flexible
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 21st, 2012
10:10 pm
josef:
“Jump in? My whole point on it all, is why was it ever brought up to begin with.Put another way, if he got his BJ at home, would that be different? Well, he WAS at home…he just happened to be living at 1600…”
And you would be wrong. Parts of the main building are the president’s residence. The West Wing if federal office space ………….. and in any case ………. it was with a suboridinate employee under his chain of command.
Now I ask again. Should a president be held to a higher, the same or a lesser standard that those who work for him/her.
They BOTH suck
June 21st, 2012
10:13 pm
Jm
Did you hear that the guy who is doing the DNC did a Romney fundraiser?
That could tip the election for sure………. the ripple effect of this will be felt for elections to come
Donovan
June 21st, 2012
10:15 pm
Romney said this and Romney said that…I love to see you liberals on the run. Scared little kittens. November will finally take you off the magic carpet ride you have enjoyed since Obama’s election.
Hope & Change just didn’t work out did it? Hollow dreams for hollow heads.
That Black Guy
June 21st, 2012
10:16 pm
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 21st, 2012
9:03 pm
Josef honey, nobody reading this blog would EVER confuse you with Joseph.
_____________________________________________________
G Mare, that’s OH SO TRUE.
Get Real
June 21st, 2012
10:16 pm
Paul…I have difficulty discussing a topic when one who thinks the sky is green and the grass is blue; besides I was on a plane and had to shut down.
Now I am back home and would like to state for the record that if you do not have issues with the Obama Whitehouse holding back information that will shed light on how a border agent was shot in the back and murdered then trying to debate you is a complete waste of my time.
And again, keep drinking the Kool-Aid
They BOTH suck
June 21st, 2012
10:18 pm
“And again, keep drinking the Kool-Aid”
A recommendation from someone who has surely drank his share…….
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 21st, 2012
10:19 pm
The guy who is doing the DNC did a Romney fundraiser?
ZOMG!
This is DEFINITELY a game changer.
The ramifications will be felt for EONS!
They BOTH suck
June 21st, 2012
10:19 pm
Everyone have a great night and an even better tomorrow
Peace
ld
June 21st, 2012
10:20 pm
Josef calls someone a dumb a33 and says I intend to offend? Interesting.
They BOTH suck
June 21st, 2012
10:21 pm
Kam
Messing with Jm. Not sure how many times he has posted that. Guess he thinks it has some sort of relevance in terms of the election outcome
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 21st, 2012
10:22 pm
Messing with Jm. Not sure how many times he has posted that.
Yeah, I get that.
ld
June 21st, 2012
10:28 pm
Back to the subject:
Why is this “policy” announced w/regard to immigration considered to be any meaningful change? During all of the Bush/Cheney administration and into this one, I’ve not really been hearing about massive numbers of deportations given that there are, supposedly, some twelve+ million illegals in this country? Making it a formal policy not to focus on one is a change on paper; however, in practice, just how much “change” is it? Since funds are limited — as is the will to enforce those laws, to some extent–the focus on any deportations made seems to have been on those that, for whatever reason, were brought to the attention of authorites by others rather than the authorities actively searching for illegals to deport.
Josef
June 21st, 2012
10:29 pm
ld
Just for the record, I didn’t call “someone” a dumbass. I called a ridiculous parody a dumbass. But, if I do, and from time to time I do, then, yes, I do intend to offend. Duh.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 21st, 2012
10:29 pm
Paul, I don’t think JOSEF is confused. You, I’m reserving judgement.
Get Real
June 21st, 2012
10:30 pm
Not at all Suck…just calling it a ball or a strike..it is what it is…
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:32 pm
Tbs 10:13
yeah yeah
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:33 pm
Sooth
Tin foil hats r on aisle 3
bman
June 21st, 2012
10:33 pm
sooth .. .. do you even know how odd of a person you are? lol
That Black Guy
June 21st, 2012
10:33 pm
Doggone, if you are still here, did you see my question about my dog (bull mastiff/Chow mix) and a caine corso? Male/female. Think it can work?
MSM - Fair and Balanced???
June 21st, 2012
10:34 pm
“On June 13, the CBS Evening News devoted a story by David Martin to the Afghanistan death count reaching 2,000, as Martin interviewed a mother of a fallen Marine. CBS was alone. There was no story last week on the Afghanistan death “milestone” on ABC, NBC, the PBS NewsHour – or even on the MSNBC programs found in Nexis, including Rachel “Our Military’s In a Perilous Drift” Maddow.
But the networks were all more aggressive when the 2,000 mark arrived in Iraq on October 25, 2005. The Big Three networks devoted 14 morning and evening news stories to the death toll from October 24 through the end of October, and another 24 anchor briefs or mentions. They used the number to spell “disaster for this White House.””
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/06/21/unlike-2000-death-count-iraq-abc-nbc-pbs-msnbc-skip-2000-marker-afghanis#ixzz1yUAZ1bJK
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 21st, 2012
10:35 pm
And again, keep drinking the Kool-Aid
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”, but only if, “the ball is in your court.” If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door”, just make sure you “burn the midnight oil” and “bend over backwards.” “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” but you can only “knock it out of the park” if you “keep your nose to the grindstone.”
godless heathen
June 21st, 2012
10:35 pm
I hope President Romney will rename it to Department of Homeland Insecurity
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 21st, 2012
10:36 pm
Tbs
I think it does ave relevance
Why on earth would a dem, in particular a lead dem, do a Romney fundraiser?
Obviously he’s a DINO, or more likely he just thinks O sux
Soothsayer
June 21st, 2012
10:36 pm
Hey! Don’t blame me, I’m just the messenger! Creeps!
getalife
June 21st, 2012
10:37 pm
Yeah, the geniuses are voting for a party that collapsed the global economy.
The gop will show you a real depression.
Party first failures.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 21st, 2012
10:39 pm
…it is what it is…
And it ain’t what it ain’t.
And repetition is repetition.
And tautology is saying the same thing, but just using different words.
Josef
June 21st, 2012
10:40 pm
Gmare
Paul’s my buddy…we like to twit each other…
Disillusioned Dem
June 21st, 2012
10:41 pm
I’m sure the GOP will find a way to make their shortcomings on immigration seem like the Democrats fault, and given the ineptitidue of the Democrats they will succeed and it will seem like the GOP is really the party that is pushing positive immigration reforms or at the very least they will make it seem like the Dems aren’t any better.
I firmly believe that the only reason why the GOP is as emboldened as they are and can get away with whatever they want is because the Dems are completely spineless. On nearly every issue, right or wrong, the GOP has managed to get out in front and define the dems position. Are there any fighters in the entire democratic party? I have fundamental disagreements with the GOP positions on just about everything, but if I’m honest with myself I admire the fact that they put up a fight.
I don’t want the GOP to win in 2012, but I’m almost to the point of sitting this one out in protest. Maybe a GOP win will produce some democratic leaders with backbone…then again I seriously doubt it.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 21st, 2012
10:42 pm
Sooth@10:30, if that is true, I hope you are packed for Gitmo:)
Soothsayer
June 21st, 2012
10:47 pm
“Sooth
Tin foil hats r on aisle 3″
“sooth .. .. do you even know how odd of a person you are? lol”
I’m glad you brought that up because the strangest thing happened the other day.
A bird (a dove, I think) flew into this 110-foot tall pine tree in my back yard. Of course, the bird disintegrated on impact, so I really didn’t give it much thought.
Then, about an hour later, I heard this loud “bang” and went running out to see what had happened.
To my shock and amazement, the tree had “collapsed” into a pile of sawdust.
Not only that, but a nearby tree that the bird didn’t even run into also “collapsed” into a pile of sawdust.
I’ve tried and I’ve tried to understand it, but it just doesn’t make any sense to me.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 21st, 2012
10:48 pm
Cammie:
Depends on “what is is”.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 21st, 2012
10:49 pm
Josef@10:40, did you say TWIT?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 21st, 2012
10:53 pm
Depends on “what is is”.
Absolutely
It also depends on what is meant by “I have made the decision to end my time here as a contributing poster.”
Seems that your words have a “double standard” also.
Glass houses, stones. That kind of thing.
That Black Guy
June 21st, 2012
10:55 pm
Completely off topic, but chilling:
http://www.adamgoldfein.com/2012/06/child-molestation-is-all-too-common/
Josef
June 21st, 2012
10:57 pm
Gmare
Damned iPad
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 21st, 2012
11:03 pm
Cammie:
Well then ………. here you go again !
You left some things out:
“After much soul searching I have made the decision to end my time here as a contributing poster. I could give several reasons why but the main one is the continuing decline of civility among posters. I wish to use my time for more uplifting endeavors.
If I have offended anyone I apologize and I can assure you it was just my particular brand of satire or hyperbole. Nothing was ever intended to be personal.”
I hope all of you will make a concerted effort to “raise the bar” as I believe the posters on these threads are a representative cross-section of this country – and right now that is not good.”
#1) I am not running for president and what I posted had to do with me personally at the time NOT what I was promising to do for the American people if elected.
#2) I’m baaaack !
#3) It’s good to know I get under your skin with my favorite Romney campaign slogan to the point that you would take the time to find my previous post. Look for it again and again.
#4) In the meantime, you have a president that is in serious trouble of being re-elected.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 21st, 2012
11:06 pm
Yeah, I do know, being on one myself. Okay, Paul, it seems Josef is vouching for you & I am SO not here to make enemies, I will continue reading your posts. Okay, friends, or at least tolerant of our differing views?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 21st, 2012
11:06 pm
P.S. to Cammie:
I changed my mind and came back.
Obama wrote a check he couldn’t cash.
Big difference.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 21st, 2012
11:06 pm
P.S. to Cammie:
I changed my mind and came back.
Obama wrote a check he couldn’t cash.
Big difference.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 21st, 2012
11:07 pm
“is” ……….. “was” …………….
getalife
June 21st, 2012
11:07 pm
Looks like there will be a party in Miami tonight.
Atlanta1
June 21st, 2012
11:09 pm
Fast and Furious
Get used to it…
It’s going to dog the Democrats right up to Election Day.
And it should…
Unethical
Badly mishandled
Apparently went all the way to the top.
That Black Guy
June 21st, 2012
11:12 pm
getalife
June 21st, 2012
11:07 pm
Looks like there will be a party in Miami tonight.
__________________________________________
I didn’t see that coming.
Not in 5
Josef
June 21st, 2012
11:25 pm
Gmare
Paul is the founder and CEO of the blog’s EOI (of which I am a charter member) EOI.? Equal Opportunity Instigator.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 21st, 2012
11:33 pm
Works for me! Uh, what happened in Miami tonight (been playing words with friends)?
Josef
June 21st, 2012
11:33 pm
G’night
getalife
June 21st, 2012
11:36 pm
TBG,
Miami was more focused this time.
They should win a few more.
GMare,
NBA Championship.
Miami won.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 21st, 2012
11:36 pm
Ah, a sports thing. Thanks, google.
tc
June 21st, 2012
11:40 pm
JB – you crack me up! Just thought I’d check in on the looneys while watching some sports. Always good for a laugh. How do you live day to day with all of the “evil” conservatives amongst you??? HA!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 21st, 2012
11:57 pm
Cammie:
Now that wasn’t very nice.
Too bad those weren’t to my face.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 22nd, 2012
12:00 am
For Cammie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nemt6iIEsZU
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 22nd, 2012
12:11 am
Thanks, Geta. Obviously, I don’t “do” sports. Probably because too many holiday celebrations had to be centered around whatever game was on. Perhaps, also,because my dad would watch tiddlywinks if it was called a sport.
Must say, however, that I & my sibs spent many a happy hour in a nearby park learning to throw footballs & softballs, and to catch same in those old flat mitts. Remember “Put me in, Coach?”
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 22nd, 2012
12:27 am
Yeah, okay, we didn’t catch footballs in those flat mitts, but we did have fun. And Dad taught us girls along with our brother. Ah, I do, after so many years, miss my dad.
Goodnight all. Thanks for being here to let me say what I need to say. Balm in Gilead? Chicken soup of the soul?
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 22nd, 2012
12:28 am
FOR the soul ( damned Ipad).
Oblama
June 22nd, 2012
12:50 am
Brilliant Idea for Obama – Observe the laws on the books for a change. It’s criminal how he is ignoring the laws of this country when it suits him politically. Disgraceful.
ken
June 22nd, 2012
12:52 am
Jobs please
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 22nd, 2012
1:08 am
Hi, Oblama. Seems you & I are among the few left here so late in the night. Must tell you that I mostly scroll past your posts because you continually dis our President. That said, I respect your right to disagree. But is too much to ask that we disagree respectfully? Please respect the office if not the person holding it. Must admit, however, that I had a really hard time respecting it when Bush held that office. So it is what it is & we are where we are. Rodney King was far from being an exemplary citizen, but his words must resonate: can’t we all just get along.
Tundra Dude
June 22nd, 2012
1:42 am
“Insults are the arguments of those who have no arguments.”
~Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, (1712-78), French philosopher and social critic
Tundra Dude
June 22nd, 2012
1:48 am
Romney dawdles and ducks on immigration
So what. This is not a game-chsnging issue, imo.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
June 22nd, 2012
6:02 am
I see 43% at 0153 was the smartest thing he said…
Good, good Friday morning to all the rest of y’all!
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
June 22nd, 2012
6:07 am
This what every “Republican” who is not in the top 1% should be thinking…
http://lolcats.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/06/21/funny-cat-pictures-classic-lolcat-76/
Uncle Billy
June 22nd, 2012
6:52 am
Mitt has the appearance of a punch drunk boxer. He just got hit from a direction he did not expect to get hit from. Perhaps Ali is one of Obama’s campaign advisers. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Jm-pass Tsplost unless you really love congestion
June 22nd, 2012
7:08 am
I hope Sandusky goes to jail for a looonnnnge time
Justice may be coming
ken
June 22nd, 2012
7:11 am
Jm-pass, me too
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
June 22nd, 2012
7:18 am
Dawdles and ducks.
And they called 41 a wimp.
godless heathen
June 22nd, 2012
7:24 am
Oh no, Even Granny has turned on Obama. The one that has dawdled and ducked the immigration issue for 3.5 years before making a timid gesture right before the election.
MiltonMan
June 22nd, 2012
7:32 am
Yes it is wonderful that the current clown-in-chief has been so open and honest with us:
(1) I will be the most transparent president – ever.
(2) I will cut the deficit in half
(3) I will close Gitmo Bay
(4) It’s all Bush’s fault
etc.
etc.
Libs blast Mitt yet panders to their man who is doing nothing more than dividing this country even further.
MiltonMan
June 22nd, 2012
7:34 am
“Please respect the office if not the person holding it.”
Good God. A typical lib who all of a sudden wants to be civil with their clown is in office. Where were you when the libs were slamming W left and right pal???
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
June 22nd, 2012
7:38 am
godless heathen
do you start every morning with a false and foolish assertion?
i prefer raisin bran.
sometimes you are such a ninny.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
June 22nd, 2012
7:46 am
Speaking of dawdle and duck….
From TPM
Here are seven major issues on which Romney has refused to take a stand:
1. Romney won’t say whether he would undo Obama’s decision to end deportations of DREAM-eligible immigrants.
2. Romney won’t say whether he’d support the Paycheck Fairness Act.
3. Romney won’t specify which tax loopholes he’d close.
4. Romney won’t say which federal agencies he’d eliminate.
5. Romney won’t say whether he supports the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
6. Romney won’t say whether he’d support full reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
7. Romney won’t say whether say whether he’d eliminate the “carried interest” tax break for private equity partners.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
June 22nd, 2012
7:48 am
MiltonMan
June 22nd, 2012
7:32 am
Regurgitating stuff from yesterday? Have nothing new for today? Pity, that…
Jay
June 22nd, 2012
7:59 am
sheetz
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
June 22nd, 2012
8:02 am
Good God. A typical lib who all of a sudden wants to be civil with their clown is in office. Where were you when the libs were slamming W left and right pal???
Good God. A typical con who all of a sudden wants to be concerned with the deficit. Where were you when the cons were spending like fools and cutting taxes and starting unpaid for wars left and right pal???
Which is the more significant issue?
TiredOfIt
June 22nd, 2012
8:05 am
This is the only quote you need to know from Romney:
I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was. I’ll go back and take a look at what was said there.
That’s scary!
Tundra Dude
June 22nd, 2012
8:13 am
He’s no dawdler at welfare sucking.
Mitt Romney, ‘welfare queen’
Romney’s wealth is based on the private equity business model, founded on tax-payer subsidies.
(snipped)
The fact that Romney shifted focus from venture capital to private equity tells you everything you need to know about what his priorities were. “Creating jobs” was clearly not among them. Nor was creating lasting value. That’s simply not what the private equity world is all about. And that world reflects the values that have come to define the one per cent, increasingly at odds with the welfare of the US as a whole.
http://aje.me/yqSwgY