Mitt Romney and his plan for ‘the little people’ out there
“Mitt Romney held up the waiters and waitresses serving donors at a fundraising event Monday night as examples of people who aren’t doing well under President Obama.
Addressing 300 contributors who paid $2,500, $10,000 or $50,000 to hear him speak in Jackson, Miss., Romney acknowledged that the people in the room were well-off compared to many Americans. It was the middle class that had been let down by Obama, Romney said, and he pointed to the wait staff serving finger foods as an example.
“It’s tough being middle class in America right now,” Romney said. “The waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room and offer us refreshments, they’re not having a good year. The people of the middle class of America are really struggling. And they’re struggling I think in a way because they’re surprised because when they voted for Barack Obama … he promised them that things were going to get a heck a lot of better. He promised hope and change and they’re still waiting.”
Let’s overlook the condescension in Romney’s description and instead focus on what the GOP nominee and his party propose to do for “the waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room,” serving his contributors drinks and food at Jackson’s River Hills country club.
More than 30 percent of Mississippi residents live in poverty. Some 650,000, including no doubt some of those waiters ferrying drinks and food, feed themselves and their children in part on food stamps, which Republicans want to slash drastically. The House Agriculture Committee just approved a measure cutting food stamps by $16.5 billion over 10 years. Among other things, the change would force some 300,000 children out of the free-lunch program at school.
One in five people in Mississippi — again including much of that wait staff, I’d suspect — have no health insurance. Romney is intent on repealing the only real hope they have of attaining health coverage that citizens of almost every other industrialized country somehow enjoy, and he has offered no plans on how to replace it.
In fact, Romney proposes to make it worse. To help finance his plan to cut individual tax rates by 20 percent, Romney proposes to slash projected Medicaid funding, a step that would significantly increase the number of poorer Mississippi citizens without health insurance.
On the other hand, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the resultant tax cuts would produce average annual tax savings of $231,971 for the richest 1 percent of Americans, including many of those in Jackson who contributed more than $1.7 million to the Romney cause Monday night. But it will have almost no impact on the take-home pay of those waiters and waitresses.
Births to unwed mothers are a major social and economic problem in Mississippi, where more than half of all births are to single mothers. Romney proposes to address that problem by eliminating Title X family planning funding, producing a savings of $300 million.
Federal support for worker training programs in Mississippi and other states would also be slashed. And if those waiters and waitresses serving Romney’s donors have a particularly bright child waiting for them back home, someone whom the family has high hopes of sending to college, that dream will have less chance of coming true under a President Romney, who proposes funding cutbacks in federal student loans and tuition assistance.
This is the deal that the compassionate Mr. Romney proposes to offer those for whom he expressed such concern Monday night in Jackson. But not to worry.
“We’re accused, by the way — in our party — of being the party of the rich,” Romney told the crowd among the tinkling of glasses. “And it’s an awful moniker, because that’s just not true. We’re the party of people who want to get rich. And we’re also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor. We want to help the poor.”
He just has a peculiar way of showing it.
– Jay Bookman
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Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 17th, 2012
10:07 am
“but Obama believes in giving away fish rather than teaching people to fish”
Stuff and nonsense.
Balderdash.
Piffle.
President Obama knows (like all wise folks) that while learning to fish one still needs to eat to stay alive.
Peter
July 17th, 2012
10:07 am
So now Romney is a bad person for making money and following the idiot tax laws to pay no taxes.
No…..But how did Bain make that money ?
Bankrupting American companies and selling off the parts after they increased the debt load by giving themselves huge bonuses…..Then out sourcing and cutting American workers.
You don't say
July 17th, 2012
10:08 am
K71
Appears you super sized that WHOPPER meal..
Not sure If I would have said all that
independent thinker.
July 17th, 2012
10:09 am
The only thing that will be trickling down from Willard is incontinence when he gets that letter from the IRS to come in and pay them a visit. Remeber who is in charge of the IRS. Of course you Repubs do not want Obama and the IRS to allow the rich to commit tax fraud?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
10:09 am
Granny:
Most people I see out there need to be on a diet !
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
10:09 am
10:05 – seriously – TDF-90s!!! show me!!!
straitroad
July 17th, 2012
10:10 am
Jay, I grew up in poverty as the government would define it but I didn’t know it at the time. I never heard my parents complain about what someone else owned whether they earned it or not. We never accepted government hand outs although we would have qualified. I don’t get your line of reasoning with regard to your view of Romney and I don’t see the “condescension” that you mention. It seems that it’s fine for a liberal democrat to be successful but not for a republican. Liberals didn’t have an issue with John Kerry’s wealth in ‘04. This country is upside down right now. We voted a president in office who had zero experience and now we’re supposed to believe that Romney isn’t the better choice because he’s been too successful? I don’t think the way you do and I’m thankful for that.
Erwin's cat
July 17th, 2012
10:10 am
Peter…must be substituting Kool-Aid for his coffee
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
10:10 am
independent thinker:
Do you know the difference between tax avoidance and tax fraud?
One is legal ………… the other isn’t.
Everytime you take a smart deduction on your return you are committing tax AVOIDANCE !
Joseph
July 17th, 2012
10:12 am
Just think if Oblama does win re-election think of the mess he will inherit???
GT
July 17th, 2012
10:12 am
The employee working in the ballroom is paid to do a job. He or she does that job, it is black and white, drink ordered, drink delivered, job done. It seems to me he or she has more business lecturing Romney about such matters than Romney lecturing them. Romney derives his satisfaction making money, these employees get their satisfaction completed the job they were paid to do. Seems we could use more of the job completion and less of the money grabbing and if I was there I think I would have told the bore exactly that. Romney is the problem not the answer!
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
10:13 am
I can always tell when my posts hit a Moonbat nerve. They have no legitimate rebuttal and start the personal attacks and defamation.
The homework assignment is GE and Jeffry Immelt. Until then, all this Bain Capital, Obama wants to help the poor, etc. is just a canard.
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
10:13 am
straitroad – “now we’re supposed to believe that Romney isn’t the better choice because he’s been too successful?”
No, you’re supposed to accept the fact that Romney sucks plain and simple, and that he drags a load of BS behind him that could fertilize the Sinai. John Huntsman was a superior candidate in every way, but unfortunately, the party faithful decided that the man who lost to McCain who eventually lost to Obama was going to be their favorite draft pick.
independent thinker.
July 17th, 2012
10:15 am
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801 – so if yiou misstate the value of investments and options put in an IRA to get under the $30,000 limit that is tax avoidance? . And if I misstate the amount of my deductions on my tax returns that is tax avoidance? I assume you have never been audited.
How many people you know take a $77,000 deduction for training a horse?????
I am going to try that as tax avoidance scheme with my cats.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
10:16 am
Granny, you are wrong about the fish give away. If he cared about people getting off free fish, he would approve of school voucher choice…………..But we can;t have that. a well educated kid might turn out to vote something other that a life sitting on a dirty couch on a front porch in Sec 8 housing waiting on the next fish delivery.
Ahem
July 17th, 2012
10:17 am
Poor pitiful little saps. Oh, Boy…more water here please.
Jack
July 17th, 2012
10:19 am
I waited tables a long time ago: Nothing wrong with that. It helped me pay my own way through school and if I’d been satisfied with being a waiter, I’d still be a waiter. Bookman’s righteousness gives me a headache
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
10:20 am
The dept of education needs to be abolished……..and the States need to totally control this….And if you don’t like your state………Move.
Tundra Dude
July 17th, 2012
10:20 am
Reasons to vote for Romney
5) Obama is a divider
Romney will be the Multiplier. (just multiply the Misery Index by 2 or 3)
7) Obama appoints Immelt as his Jobs Czar who is the poster child for outsourcing.
Romney will replace him with 2 poster Adults, Hubbard of Columbia U, and Mankiw of Harvard.
Both recycled Outsourcers from Bush 43.
Thomas
July 17th, 2012
10:21 am
“Jay, I grew up in poverty as the government would define it but I didn’t know it at the time”
Straightroad- How dare you provide evidence to the contrary. You are either demonic or a liar!
Jay- please cut this person off before he ruins the simple minded good time of you and your blog followers.
Greenspan- Stimulus 1 and 2 have not worked and perhaps have had a negative effect on the economy. Jay will be forced to write, within 30 days, that Stimulus 3 is necessary.
Has all the aid helped?
July 17th, 2012
10:22 am
Has 50+ years of social spending expansion (including Social Security/Medicare and Medicaid) really worked to improve the lot of average (and particularly poor) people in this country? Would be nice to have someone create one of those nifty charts that tells us how the trillions and trillions of borrowing has helped those in need by relieving the chronic problems in our society. There are certainly plenty statistics of how things have become worse, so will the standard Dem fair of “more and more of the same” help?
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
10:22 am
jack, most tax payers are working second jobs as a waiter/waitress to survive this administration. You see, some folks see the commercials by the government to get on food stamps……….and just refuse to take the bait. God bless’em
getalife
July 17th, 2012
10:23 am
willard helping the middle class is the biggest fairy tale this cycle.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:23 am
You’ll never admit it because you are probably one yourself.
Admit what? I was asking you to enlighten me as to what you actually consider “worse” (your term) than socialism. There’s nothing in your post @ for me to admit to.
But if you want me to come out and say for the billionth time that I’m farther to the left than the President on matters of fiscal policy, I’ll say it for the billionth time. I guess in Right Wing World, that makes me “socialist.”
(big friggin’ whoop.)
Jack
July 17th, 2012
10:23 am
Amen, Straitroad…
MiltonMan
July 17th, 2012
10:23 am
Oh yes, that finely ran fed program known as “free lunch”:
A large share of subsidized school meals are taken by families with incomes above the legal cutoff points. Program audits and statistical data have found that about one-quarter of those receiving free and reduced-cost lunches are not eligible. Those unjustified benefits cost taxpayers about $1.4 billion annually.
Medicaid cuts by Romney???. Let’s conveniently ignore what Obamacare does to medicaid: ObamaCare cuts a half-trillion dollars from Medicare over the next decade.
“And if those waiters and waitresses serving Romney’s donors have a particularly bright child waiting for them back home…” – a vast number of college scholarships are need-based now Jay – but, hey, let’s ignore that also.
Lib old tactics: Blame Bush; new lib tactics – blame Mittie
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:26 am
Has 50+ years of social spending expansion (including Social Security/Medicare and Medicaid) really worked to improve the lot of average (and particularly poor) people in this country?
Yes.
(THBAEOSATSQ.)
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
10:27 am
If Romney wants to change the current topic(s) of the campaign without releasing his returns, how about if he supplies some specifics around his spending reduction/tax cutting/revenue increasing budget?
Let’s see what he specifically wants to do as our new President.
If you lead with repeal Obamacare, you lose BTW.
Gimme some substance or gimme some returns.
Dirty Dawg
July 17th, 2012
10:28 am
Damn Jay, I can’t believe you did this piece on a high-price fundraiser in Jackson, MS…and, tone-deaf Mitt even mentioned the waiters and waitresses…and nobody here referred to em as THE HELP. And if Mitt thinks that any of them, The Help, blame Obama for the economy’s problems, then he’s just as off-key as he sounds singing America The Beautiful. By the way, I hope to hell they served chocolate pie at that event…nothing else could have been more appropriate.
JKL2
July 17th, 2012
10:29 am
Jay- Let’s overlook the condescension in Romney’s description
You’ve overlooked obama for 3.5 years now. Shouldn’t be too hard for you.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:29 am
Stimulus 1 and 2 have not worked and perhaps have had a negative effect on the economy.
Where “worked” would equal “all the nasty stuff we don’t like has been auto-magically made to go ‘poof’ and we now all have ponies!”
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
10:30 am
“A large share of subsidized school meals are taken by families with incomes above the legal cutoff points. Program audits and statistical data have found that about one-quarter of those receiving free and reduced-cost lunches are not eligible. Those unjustified benefits cost taxpayers about $1.4 billion annually. ”
link, please.
Cynthia Tucker needs someone to rub her feet
July 17th, 2012
10:30 am
All I hear Jay is “boo-hoo, wa-wa-wa-” You sound like a little girl,,”Sally has a better doll than me, I hate her” Disliking people b/c they have more money than you, really? It’s gonna be a long hard life for you if that’s how you feel. Quit complainig and pandering to a bunch of poor hands-out saps that are just upset someone has outperformed them in the game of life.
wealth envy=misguided & dumb
St Simons
July 17th, 2012
10:30 am
Well, I see the ‘Condi Rice’ boomlet thing synched with the wingnut
chain email on Friday didn’t work.
GT
July 17th, 2012
10:31 am
A majority of America doesn’t want the real facts. This leaves what we got. I dealt you could go into the darkest most uneducated jungles or caves and come out with more rubbish than what we Americans subscribe to. It is almost a national passage to not care about the truth any more. The great thing about the truth is doesn’t go away just because we have lost interest. It is outside your door conducting the real world and like the poor it will always be with us.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:31 am
You’ve overlooked obama for 3.5 years now.
anyone else think JKL2’s idea of pr0n would be looking at photos of Obama that appear especially uppity?
you know, like say this?
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/jun08/0608_250.jpg
Dick Morris
July 17th, 2012
10:32 am
Cynthia Tucker needs someone to rub her feet
Just tell me when and where. I am there!
Woodstock Mike
July 17th, 2012
10:34 am
How are the “little people” doing under Obama? Are Democrats this clueless?
You know, there has always been a percentage of Americans that think they deserve some of other peoples money but we now have a new breed…
We have Democrats now that no matter if they benefit in any way from other people’s money they still want other people to have less. Just for spite Democrats actually want other people to have less. That is sickening…
ragnar danneskjold
July 17th, 2012
10:34 am
I perceive no condescension in Mr. Romney’s plain talk, although I understand that the PC Police and the Perpetually Offended disagree. The leftists have yet to grasp that “activist” government is the enemy of job growth and economic progress. But, if your intention is to keep the little people in their place, and to preserve the power of the overlords, something like Obama’s programs make sense.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
10:34 am
“Greenspan- Stimulus 1 and 2 have not worked and perhaps have had a negative effect on the economy”
GREENSPAN???!!!!
You’re quoting GREENSPAN talking about the economy???
jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus, could you have found anyone LESS qualified???
Cynthia Tucker needs someone to rub her feet
July 17th, 2012
10:34 am
If people spend their whole life trying to qualify for a free luch programs and welfare chacks and food stamp cards and relief form this and relief from that, all they will ever be is low to middle class at best. The rest of us strive for more, take chances, invest in ourselves, stay our of trouble, avoid spending on junk we don’t need or can’t afford, respect others and ourselves, don’t have too many kids and we live much better lives. Too many people are brainwashed into thinking the govt owes them more, always more. Thye’ll never break these shackles as long as they keep voting for wealth evnying, class warefare politicians who in theend keep them down like dumb little sheep.
I’m glad you support this Jay, you’ll be on the govt dole soon as well.
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
10:34 am
From Heritage Action for America:
A United Nations threat to U.S. sovereignty has been halted. The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), a pet project of Senator John Kerry (D-MA), ran aground yesterday when opposition reached critical mass.
A total of 34 Senators, led by Jim DeMint (R-SC) and James Inhofe (R-OK), have now expressed opposition—enough to kill the treaty if it comes up for a vote.
___________________
DeMint and Inhofe – a couple of patirots stopping the little skinny boy with big ears occupying the White House from circumventing the Constitution and giving away your sovereignty. Next project – stopping US signature to the UN Arms Treaty.
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
10:35 am
Mitt’s next speech will highlight how this is Obama’s fault.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
10:36 am
“Has anyone seen my igloo? It was right here just a minute ago.” – James Inhofe
Recon 0311 2533
July 17th, 2012
10:37 am
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/17/bernanke-could-signal-fed-next-step-in-hill-testimony/
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:37 am
Of course, you must know that, sometimes, they really ARE out to get you.
For realz.
(And in the interests of full disclosure, “Destroyer” is, in fact, among the very lamest Kinks tunes of all time. Down in the pit with “When I turn off the living room light” and — ouch — “Black Messiah”, albeit for different reasons.)
GT
July 17th, 2012
10:37 am
“We have Democrats now that no matter if they benefit in any way from other people’s money they still want other people to have less. Just for spite Democrats actually want other people to have less. That is sickening…”
Wall Street now are Democrats I had no idea.
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 17th, 2012
10:37 am
The Obama transcripts grades thing is beyond dumb
Cons should drop it
Butch is a tax dodger
MiltonMan
July 17th, 2012
10:39 am
“Of course you Repubs do not want Obama and the IRS to allow the rich to commit tax fraud?”
What exactly has Mittie boy done illegal? You “CNN crack heads” are hilarious. And how soon it is forgotten that Obozo’s boys are criminals: Geitner, Ron Kirk, Nancy Killefer, Bill Richardson, etc., etc.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:41 am
You’re quoting GREENSPAN talking about the economy?
Hey, I followed his advice in 2004 and it’s paid off big-time today.
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
10:41 am
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
10:34 am
You do realize that oppostition to this is as misguided as believing GOP Leadership has your best interests at heart, right?
You understand that the US Navy and Coast Guard and Merchant Marines are in favor of this, right?
You understand that your knee-jerk reaction is based purely on you not understanding what is going on here, right?
Sheesh…
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
10:42 am
Jm – “Butch is a tax dodger”
Not at all, I simply follow in the footsteps of Mighty Mitt Romney. What I can’t figure out is why people that have less than me and Mitt support us.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
10:42 am
Mitt received his college degree in sophistry.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:43 am
How are the “little people” doing under Obama?
Better than they’d be under a Gramps/BibleSpice regime.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
10:44 am
dB – 10:41 – unfortunately, more people were taken out by his advice than were helped by it
St Simons
July 17th, 2012
10:44 am
anger-porn for the perpetually marginalized
its funny now, but will become more & more unhinged
i believe November is gonna push the wingnuts over the edge
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
10:45 am
I think it’s time for The Mitt to get behind the “living wage” proposals that have been voted down all these years… maybe then those waiters may have a reason to listen to how the GOP “cares” about them.
MiltonMan
July 17th, 2012
10:47 am
link, please. You libs are hilarious (and too lazy too research). When a link is provided – the lib modus operandi is to immediately discount said link with a “counter-link” from Huffington.
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/fraud-and-abuse
5,4,3… until USinUS tries to discredit this link because it is from the evil Cato Institute.
Woodstock Mike
July 17th, 2012
10:47 am
I love how Democrats think families making 250K and higher aren’t “hard working” Americans.
Do they realize how incredibly stupid that makes them look?
Woodstock Mike
July 17th, 2012
10:47 am
I love how Democrats think families making 250K and higher aren’t “hard working” Americans.
Do they realize how incredibly stupid that makes them look?
MiltonMan
July 17th, 2012
10:48 am
“its funny now, but will become more & more unhinged
i believe November is gonna push the wingnuts over the edge”
comparable to the 2010 elections pushing you guys over the edge?
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
10:49 am
East Lake Ira – the treaty not only would take away a piece of our soverieignty, but transfer wealth to other nations who would by the stroke of a pen have claim, via the UN, to a piece of our off shore natural resources. How anyone can be OK with that escapes me.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
10:50 am
Can the entire GOP retroactively retire now?
Finn McCool (The System Isn't Broken; It's Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign)
July 17th, 2012
10:50 am
comparable to the 2010 elections pushing you guys over the edge?
I think most liberals didn’t realize what had happened until that election was over.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:50 am
unfortunately, more people were taken out by his advice than were helped by it
yeah, ya think?
Greenspan also said U.S. household finances appeared generally sound, despite rising debt levels and bankruptcy filings. Low interest rates and surging home prices have given consumers flexibility to manage debt, he said.
“Overall, the household sector seems to be in good shape,” Greenspan said.
So those nice people who seem incredibly motivated to give you an ARM on that big house that seemed out of your league? the Chairman himself says it’s smart. Let’s do it.
Woodstock Mike
July 17th, 2012
10:50 am
Mitt Romney has provided a great living for hundreds and hundreds of families over the years that worked for his companies…
Mitt Romney has given more money back to his community and to charities than Obama has ever made in his life…
But, Romney doesn’t care about the “little people”, right?
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:51 am
(and no, I wasn’t an ARM-twistee, myself.)
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
10:52 am
“5,4,3… until USinUS tries to discredit this link because it is from the evil Cato Institute.”
actually, I know how to read footnotes, but thanks for the credit.
now, of course, I’d love to see the FULL testimony that they selectively quoted from – but, let’s say that it’s true.
you’re going to penalize 3/4+ of the lunch program recipients because up to 1/4 of the lunch recipients shouldn’t get it???
baby / bathwater mean anything to you???
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 17th, 2012
10:52 am
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
10:09 am
Granny:
Most people I see out there need to be on a diet !
Well….
Huckabee managed it. Christie will die early if he doesn’t and
Trump is looking chunky.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
10:52 am
Huntsman was the most qualified but idiots like Rush Duocheball were blinded by there hate.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
10:53 am
“So those nice people who seem incredibly motivated to give you an ARM on that big house that seemed out of your league? the Chairman himself says it’s smart. Let’s do it.”
and let’s not forget, it was the esteemed chairman who said that banks should come up with more “creative” mortgage products … and we see how well THAT turned out.
Recon 0311 2533
July 17th, 2012
10:54 am
http://www.politico.com/multimedia/video/2012/07/bob-schieffer-in-romney-ad-hope-and-change.html
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 17th, 2012
10:56 am
I’m a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with…cause we’re smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
10:16 am
Granny, you are wrong about the fish give away. If he cared about people getting off free fish, he would approve of school voucher choice…………..But we can;t have that. a well educated kid might turn out to vote something other that a life sitting on a dirty couch on a front porch in Sec 8 housing waiting on the next fish delivery.
Utter Nonsense.
Gutting the public school system would be such an incerdibly stupid thing to do.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
10:57 am
Mitt Romney has destroyed thousands of jobs.
Mitt Romney is Vulture Capitalist .
Mitt Romney is for universal Healtcare and 50 abortions.
barking frog
July 17th, 2012
10:58 am
Recon
How long were you subjected to the rigors of
combat and do you need
assistance with subsequent
problems?
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
10:58 am
Mitt Romney wears majic underpants
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
10:58 am
Mitt Romney is a draft dodger.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:59 am
it was the esteemed chairman who said that banks should come up with more “creative” mortgage products … and we see how well THAT turned out.
What would Andrea Mitchell’s retainer be, do you think, to ensure that he never actively breeds again?
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:01 am
Mitt Romney is for universal Healtcare and 50 abortions.
I think you meant $50 abortions.
(Or maybe you were thinking about 72 virgins, but that’s the wrong belief system, methinks.)
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
11:01 am
“Gutting the public school system would be such an incerdibly stupid thing to do.”
But Granny– that’s some of the “free stuff” that The Mitt says the Dems want to give away to everyone… how dare we think that our public school system is what made America so great for all those years!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
11:02 am
Mitt Romney has insisted that he gave up all control of Bain Capital in February of 1999, right before the company invested in firms that sent jobs overseas and laid off thousands of workers. But on Monday, Romney’s senior adviser couldn’t say who was running the company in his absence. “You should check with Bain, but it wasn’t Mitt Romney,” Eric Fehrnstrom told Reuters’ Sam Youngman. Romney claims to have turned over day to day management of Bain to a management team after he left for the Olympics, though the company continued to list Romney as its CEO well into 2002.
What a genius…. he does not know who ran his company while he was taking a salary for doing the same? I am sure he has a dirty couch in his son’s unfinished basement where he lived.
Mick
July 17th, 2012
11:02 am
Good morning from san diego, it’s a balmy 62 degrees – excellent! How can anyone in the middle or lower class vote for the mittsiah? It doesn’t make a lick of sense but…ain’t that america? The summer tour continues validating once and for all that from sea to shining sea, american drivers have no patience combined with lousy driving skills…it’s an epidemic I tells ya…
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:03 am
$50.00
GT
July 17th, 2012
11:04 am
Greenspan was totally for leveraging up the country in debt, personal debt. That is the amazing thing about Republicans, they are all for cutting government spending but turn a blind eye to easy money private debt so they can big dog it. I can remember the days before preachers wore Rolexs and bankers made a middle American salary, lawyers were so numerous my dad talked me out of being one. We went from that to my housekeeper buying a condo on the beach in Fla. This didn’t bother the GOP, drinks on the house, but no big government it may spoil our fun.
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July 17th, 2012
11:04 am
Granny:
You forgot Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnel ………. to name a few.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 17th, 2012
11:04 am
Hi Goldie!
Hope all is well with you.
Miss ya’ around here.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
11:04 am
To be fair, retroactive abortions were $75.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:04 am
Just to understand the depths of depravity involved here–there’s so much to digest of late–but do I take it to mean that a $100K/year salary among the likes of Mitt would be kind of like some lesser well-off sort taking a token $1/year salary?
If that’s how they’re gonna spin his “I wasn’t really a CEO when I said I was a CEO” business, that should be a great deal of fun to behold.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:05 am
Mitt Romney wants to be prsident so he can do what bushie did , rape the country.
ty webb
July 17th, 2012
11:05 am
silly “bainer”.
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July 17th, 2012
11:06 am
independent thinker:
If your “cats” are part of a breeding business from which you earn income you probably can. Or ……………… work harder and get some horses.
In any case, quit being jealous of the rich. I am middle class but I wish there were a million more millionaires …………….. that would only make it better for the country.
Mick
July 17th, 2012
11:06 am
Michael moore is a great american!!!
barking frog
July 17th, 2012
11:06 am
Little People have a plan for
Mitt Romney in place since
2008.
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July 17th, 2012
11:06 am
Felonists !
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:06 am
Tax returns = Mitts Waterloo…..lmao..
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July 17th, 2012
11:07 am
Mick:
Why? Because he is filthy rich ?
ken
July 17th, 2012
11:07 am
More poor people equals more Democrats. Obama has a smile.
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
11:08 am
hey Granny — so glad to see your postings again too! I exchanged a couple of posts with Paul, Jamvet and Getalife last week and hope to spend more time hangin’ with y’all during the next few months… looking forward to the conventions coming up in the next few weeks — ready for the real entertainment to begin!
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:08 am
If Mitts has so much money why does he want to be President?
TGT
July 17th, 2012
11:09 am
“…slash…repeal…cut…slash…cut…eliminate…slash…”
Sounds pretty good to me.
“We want to help the poor.”
He just has a peculiar way of showing it.
No, he has a very clear way of showing it. Unlike most liberals (as I pointed out AGAIN yesterday), he is personally very generous, and he doesn’t want the govt. to continue to be the vehicle for massive wealth redistribution that is bankrupting the country.
It is no act of charity to be generous with someone else’s money.