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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St Simons
July 17th, 2012
11:09 am
They couldn’t shake this with the Condi Rice deflection Friday, sooo..
watch – here it comes – this week on wingnut radio & teevee –
anger-porn gold –
a) the gestapo, gestapo, gestapo (repeat) wants his taxes!
b) Abolish the IRS!
lovelyliz
July 17th, 2012
11:09 am
It’s the propserity gospel that’s replaced the gospel of Jesus in the conservative’s version of the Bible
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
11:09 am
Headlines:
“IRATE CABBIES SHUT DOWN LONDON”
” Cops pulled off beats for Games security duty…”
It’s hard to imagine a worse Olympics than Atlanta but let’s give London a chance.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:10 am
Mitt is a Con man and the people are not buying what he is selling. W has left a bad taste .
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
11:10 am
lovelyliz:
Is that why heaven’s streets are pure gold ?
larry
July 17th, 2012
11:10 am
You know, Mitt can’t catch a break.
The villian in the new Batman movie. His name ?
Bain. OUCH!!
Donovan
July 17th, 2012
11:11 am
Jay and his band of liberal followers have their “particular way of showing it” also.
Let’s call it for what it is. Low class, low character, and the Democrat way.
Can’t campaign on the merits of Obama’s record. Can’t use hollow words like Hope & Change anymore. Can’t brag about employment being under a whopping 8 percent. Can’t justify not balancing a budget in 3 years. Can’t justify spending more money than all of the past presidents collectively. Can’t justify why Obama won’t release any of his sealed personal records. Can’t explain why they oppose capitalism. Can’t explain why their empty suit leader’s popularity numbers are in the toilet.
Based on the above demerits, the only thing left for the liberal establishment to do is character assassination, foment action of class warfare, and low class misinformation.
When Obama unseals his personal records Romney should let you hypocrites look at his tax returns. When Obama stops his never ending pandering fund raisers Romney will will do the same.
When Obama explains his Chicago house buying deal with an indicted fund raiser Romney will explain his off shore investing.
When Obama stops eating dogs Romney will stop putting his dog on the family car roof.
You people are pathetic in your character and your methods of operating. You go out and get an unknown liberal radical elected for president. He has no job skills in the world of reality. He was elected to the Senate by means of Chicago corruption. He chooses a VP because the fool said that Obama was clean and well spoken. He gets to the Senate and votes “present” 85 percent of the time. His past associates are radicals, racists, convicted felons, academia elitists, and union thugs. His last presidential campaign was handled by the convicted ACORN. And his administration is filled with left wing kooks in energy, justice, labor, and treasury.
With that said, no wonder his experience and leadership is the result of a country in such bad shape. He has nothing. You have nothing.
His only skills, one might say, is that he is “present” in his every day on the job. Your skills, one might say, is that low class attacks and low character accusations are your only measure.
Shameful and disgusting.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 17th, 2012
11:11 am
Well, one good thing has come out of this Bain business. If anybody out there ever gets fired, they can tell people they retroactively retired before it ever happened.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
11:11 am
Where’s Orly hanging out these days.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:11 am
I guess the repukes can blame it on BUSH……hahahaha
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
11:12 am
“If Mitts has so much money why does he want to be President?”
Bushs Fault– great question! Why exactly does The Mitt want to be Prez, other than to stuff his and his pals’ coffers with more $$$$$$$$…
Mr Right
July 17th, 2012
11:12 am
“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that,” “Somebody else made that happen.”
What American President made these staments ?
Mick
July 17th, 2012
11:13 am
scout
Why so cynical? I like his work and the passion of his views…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
11:13 am
Careful out there ……… the “Dangerous” flash mobs are loose:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Flash-mob-targets-Troutdale-Albertsons-store-159463245.html
http://www.news4jax.com/news/Flash-mob-causes-havoc-at-Walmart/-/475880/15568130/-/vt1vdlz/-/index.html
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
11:14 am
And Donovan admits in his own unique way that Romney cannot campaign on his merits.
Proud to be me
July 17th, 2012
11:14 am
“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.” Jay obviously the Title X family planning isn’t working in Mississippi if more than half of the births are to single mothers!!!
Bottomline the liberals are the reason for the “poor” in this country. They are the party of “dependency” . . . if they really wanted to help the poor — they would have some “tough-love” for the people they have help create.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:14 am
Let’s just take one little line out of Donovan’s post @ 11.11:
Can’t justify not balancing a budget in 3 years.
Can you please explain how a McCain/Palin administration would’ve got us to a balanced budget in 3 years, had they taken office in Jan. 2009?
I ask this virtually every time some guy cries about our debt. I am still waiting to hear how the 2008 alternative would’ve played out with a lower debt load.
So go ahead, Donovan. Enlighten me.
nelsonh
July 17th, 2012
11:14 am
I can hardly believe what I just read, now if i get it correctly, Mitt and the republican party are responsible for all the unwed mothers in Mississippi. Give me a break, are the “dirty trick democrats” trying to pin that rap on the opponents, have they no shame.I thought I heard it all, first it is Mitt’s tax return and now this. It will only get worse, there is nothing more desperate than an administration that promised but did not deliver, an upward moving economy. When has aspirations for wealth or a better life been a negative.
I might add, LDS [Later Day Saints] live by and for a better country for all.
larry
July 17th, 2012
11:14 am
If Mitts has so much money why does he want to be President?
That is a great question , i agree, Goldie.
It’s one of many questions he just refuses to answer.
Jm (LL) -pass TSPLOST silly people
July 17th, 2012
11:15 am
Butch 10:42 yes you do
So let’s hope you’re intellectually honest and don’t criticize romney’s tax strategies or tax returns or offshore accounts
Because if you do, you’re the mother of all hypocrites
Mick
July 17th, 2012
11:15 am
donovan
Geez, you need to get your hemaroids nipped and tucked, sour is not a good place…
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:15 am
Repukes how do you retroactivley retire?
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
11:16 am
Sheldon needs to funnel some more of that Macau money to MittPac. He needs all the diversions that money can buy.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
11:16 am
Mick:
In my opinion he’s a fraud and hypocrite.
http://www.mooreexposed.com/
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
11:16 am
Woodstock Mike – “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…”
So has John Hunstman, plus he is experience in dealing with China, and has no baggage to speak of and no record of flip flopping like Mitt. And yet, you went with the third string option.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
11:17 am
larry:
The same answer is true for both sides.
Power.
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
11:17 am
“You people are pathetic in your character and your methods of operating.”
Donovan– “you people”??? Are you just another angry white man who’s been so discriminated against for so long and you just can’t stand “you people” who get out and vote for someone you spend 24/7 hating hating hating???
I hope you find some medication for your problem Dude!
ty webb
July 17th, 2012
11:17 am
“If Mitts has so much money why does he want to be President?”
perhaps what’s left of the kennedy clan could answer that one.
Mick
July 17th, 2012
11:17 am
1811
I’m ok with your opinion, I like him and think he is on message with things that need to be said…
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:18 am
Jay obviously the Title X family planning isn’t working in Mississippi if more than half of the births are to single mothers!!!
good lord, the stupid burns here.
Oblama
July 17th, 2012
11:18 am
Jay’s MYTH: There are no “little people”……. today’s divergence from “The Great Divider” (Oblama) – CLASS WARFARE. This election is about the economy, unemployment and this alarming Fed debt. Obama wants to create smoke and mirrors. Sex Warfare/ Race Warfare/ Age Warfare/ Victim Warfare/ Class Warfare, etc, etc., etc., – talk a bout ANY thing but the economy , an Oblama loser. And now I knight Jay “The Great Enabler”. He is a strong and faithful member of the smokescreen for Oblama.
Peter
July 17th, 2012
11:18 am
Erwin’s cat……. puke up your hair balls please…….. You are confusing Mitt with a guy who actually cares…..all while playing Michael Douglas of Wall Street fame in real life.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
11:19 am
I want to retroactively unretire and get $100,000 a year in unretirement pay. Oops. What’s that. I can get $100,000 per year in back pay by retroactively retiring. Well that’s even better.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:19 am
Shorter Gooperville c. 2012:
repeal SCHIP expansion. repeal Lily Ledbetter.
it’s too much for the little people to bear.
They get uppity, don’t you know.
Peter
July 17th, 2012
11:21 am
Think about what George Bush Jr did for America…..
Bankrupt the US, and create wealth for a few…..Halliburton and the War industry, and guys who bankrupted American companies like Mitt.
This is what the Republican’s bring to the table.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
11:21 am
““IRATE CABBIES SHUT DOWN LONDON””
really???
funny, it seems to be working fine to me.
Obama is over
July 17th, 2012
11:21 am
Obama informed us over the weekend that there is no such thing as a self made man in America. The Government was responsible for the success of all small businesses. Apparantly the Axelrod talking point was that the financial services industry needs more regulation as reflected in Jay’s weekend column. The “Volker rule” which is the portion of the Dodd-Frank act added by Obama to regulate propriertary trading goes into effect on July 21st. The only problem is that this piece of legislation, written when the Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate, has not filled in the blanks on how the rule is supposed to work. Obama has had two years to make sure that the details were in place, yet next week, evil empires like Coca-Cola will have no idea what taxes, rules ,and regulations will apply to their hedges of purchases of sugar and vanilla beans. In the meantime, last week the parents of a 15 year old African American boy turned him into the police after seeing his picture on WSB. He had kidnapped a guy in Grant Park at gunpoint and was photographed at an ATM forcing the victim to remove money. I guess Obama would tell that young man that his best chance of fulfilling dreams in the future lies in Government assistance because no one in America can achieve success without it. In this case government assistance must mean prison. Teenage African American unemployment is currently at 39.3%. Thanks Obama, you are doing a fine job.
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
July 17th, 2012
11:21 am
I want to retroactively play the lottery.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
11:22 am
Oh fer crying out loud, UK…. if Scout read it in some fearmail, it must be true. The fearmail never lies…. I mean its not like you have actual experience and information that contradicts fearmail.
Here
July 17th, 2012
11:23 am
Most people would rather have jobs than food stamps. Then they could afford health insurance. The focus should then be on jobs.
Shawny
July 17th, 2012
11:24 am
Let’s balance this, shall we…
“What’s perhaps more startling—and ironic, given the Obama campaign’s frequent bashing of Mitt Romney’s private equity record—is that the Obama Administration is keen on bringing back a similar approach that led to disasters like L Capital. It’s launching two new funds of $1 billion each that put money into early-stage companies, in concert with private funds. Except this time the government gets no potential upside.”
Read about it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/07/17/barack-obamas-2-billion-investment-fund/?partner=yahootix
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 17th, 2012
11:25 am
Yep….
Nothing funnier than hearing a rightee suggest
that seeking the truth is low class and low character.
That’s the problem with the right in a nutshell.
190 more days
July 17th, 2012
11:25 am
To say that Romney is a tax cheater is like calling Kerry the same when he moved his yacht to another state to avoid taxes.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
11:25 am
focus on jobs? Why that sounds like something someone should make as a campaign promise to win an election and then, ha ha, do the radical things they really wanted like stopping abortion.
getalife
July 17th, 2012
11:26 am
Most of drudgey is wishful thinking.
President Obama by 10 again.
Brace yourselves for this inevitable fact cons.
Reignbeaux
July 17th, 2012
11:26 am
I don’t have a dog in the Dem vs. GOP fight, but I do believe that 46 MILLION people on food stamps (aka SNAP) indicates something is seriously out of whack in America. The “change” guy doesn’t seem to be getting the job done, maybe time for a new change.
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
11:28 am
Jm – “So let’s hope you’re intellectually honest and don’t criticize romney’s tax strategies or tax returns or offshore accounts”
I haven’t criticized him yet. However, I would be curious as to how he got $100,000,000 into an IRA. That’s a loophole I would love to take advantage of.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 17th, 2012
11:29 am
Well, I’ve decided I want to retroactively be a teenager again. None of this army stuff this time. I’ll know I don’t need to serve to know all there is to know about defense and politics. And this time I’ll buy me a colledge degree—maybe even a PhD—before I move away. Dr. Redneck. There’s the ticket!
getalife
July 17th, 2012
11:30 am
What is out of whack was the global economic collapse.
He needs another term to recover the 9 million jobs the gop lost.
Not that complicated cons.
Don’t ignore it cons.
BADAss BING
July 17th, 2012
11:30 am
There are a lot of you out there that are on Welfare, WIC, SNAP, Free Lunch Program, etc, that think that you got there on your own. But, you owe all that to years of liberal policies and dedicated con artists that have allowed you to live on the Gov’t dole. Somewhere along the way, a relative, friend, or an experienced criminal has guided you thru the miriads of Gov’t programs that you could scam. The Gov’t built roads and bridges that the PO uses to deliver your checks and freebies. Dozens of Gov’t agencies have been developed to process your false claims and determine what programs that you could cheat. You didn’t do that on your own.
Erwin's cat
July 17th, 2012
11:31 am
income taxers!
Steve
July 17th, 2012
11:31 am
Romney the outsourcing pandering flip flopping plutocrat is sunk.
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
11:31 am
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” — Winston Churchill
Authors of the following unknown (but it’s a good bet they were not Liberals).
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
3. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
4. The government cannot give to anybody anything, that the government does not first take from somebody else.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
11:32 am
Libs do loves they class warfare they do.
Steve
July 17th, 2012
11:32 am
Why would anyone vote for someone who only represents a group of people (very wealthy) who are already doing incredibly well, AND someone who ships jobs overseas? Why?
Steve
July 17th, 2012
11:33 am
Joan Walsh at Salon:
So what would be more damaging than what Romney’s 2010 and 2011 returns told us? We already know that he’s insanely wealthy, that he’s got his money in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, and that he paid an obscenely low 13.9 percent tax rate because he made his money from investment, not work, a result of the way our tax system privileges the investor class over even rich people who have to labor for a living. If that’s the kind of thing that outrages you, you’ve got enough to be outraged about.
But what if Romney had years where he paid no taxes at all? The New Yorker’s John Cassidy surveys the list of possible reasons for Romney to hide his returns and seems to think that’s the most plausible explanation. Cassidy admits he’s in the realm of “speculation” – but that’s where Romney has left the electorate with his refusal to release more than two years of filings.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:33 am
Reb , you also cannot multiply wealth by stealing and hoarding it.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
11:33 am
I want to be a retroactive stock holder, buyer and seller…. oh wait, I think some Wall Street people are already doing that.
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
11:34 am
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for president – because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.”– President Obama
Thank God for Our President today!
GT
July 17th, 2012
11:34 am
Donovan, “Let’s call it for what it is. Low class, low character, and the Democrat way”
You think that might be an example of what you are calling us? You really don’t pay much attention to what you say do you. That is the reason you must like Romney. He is a man like you app to contradict himself. He does it so much his handlers have taken him off the freestyle and given him a strict diet of talking points. Every once in a while his true self comes out and points out the help at a rich man’s coattail party and explains to them what they are and how he understands them. Then about 20 handlers surround him like a rich grandfather at a Thanksgiving dinner who is showing an aging mind, knowing a good show will get them their inheritance. The “help” is a bit like the characters in that movie by the same name, knowing they are being used by some clueless idiot, that has about as much right to speak for them as a Jewish Rabi speaking for Oral Roberts, but must endure it. In Romney’s world he is use to people speaking for other people, it is the only way he has survived that far. It is when he speaks for himself or worse for some poor passerby that the wheels come off.
getalife
July 17th, 2012
11:34 am
It comes down to this fact.
If you want to finish our recovery, vote dem.
If you want to finish off our country vote gop.
Expecting a different result cons?
You might be insane.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
11:34 am
“Libs do loves they class warfare they do.”
no, but we do acknowledge it … which your team doesn’t
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:34 am
Authors of the following unknown
Scout’s favorite author.
(probably some skank-ho working in Karl Rove’s boiler room, if truth be told.)
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
11:35 am
Steve – before you spread more BS, I suggest you investigate Obama’s association with GE’s Jeffry Immelt, how GE has benefited from government loans and grants while more than half of their employees don’t work in the USA. Plus, GE does not bring money earned outside the USA back into the USA, and paid Zero income taxes in 2010.
Obama has embraced GE and Immelt while defaming Romney. Obama is full of BS and you can’t recognize it.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
11:35 am
Recon — “The Democrat solution is to get more people beholding to the federal government, so they can buy votes through food stamps and other government provided sustenance programs.”
I’m sure you know that vote-selling is a Federal offense, but it’s not like you ever let facts get in the way of your rants before.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:36 am
I do believe that 46 MILLION people on food stamps (aka SNAP) indicates something is seriously out of whack in America.
mandate a living minimum wage, improve workers rights, and it’ll be back in “whack,” I think.
Somehow though I don’t think that’s what you want to see.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:37 am
Class warfare: I have to have a state issued I.D. to vote . But the millionaire capaign money bundlers remain anonymous?
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
11:38 am
“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.”
There ya have it. The perfect example of the difference between libs and cons. Jay laments the large number of out of wedlock births and then complains about the loss of a govt program- as if the govt program was having any success whatsoever to begin with. Typical liberal thinking. An argument can be made that the govt caused the whole single mother problem- the liberal Patrick Moynihan’s book details this govt destruction of the black family through govt dependency. And then people like Jay and other libs on here thinks only the govt can solve a problem that they created to begin with. God help us from these do gooders who make more problems then they solve.
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
July 17th, 2012
11:38 am
Turn out the lights the parties over
Romney is toast.
He allowed Obama to frame him as the guy shipping jobs overseas and refusing to release his tax returns will in the long run be worse than just releasing them and taking the hit for the stuff in there.
Its all over.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:39 am
But the millionaire capaign money bundlers remain anonymous?
Hey, it doesn’t remain anonymous by itself. Takes hard work to dismantle a democracy.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
11:39 am
J. Reb — “Bill O’Reilly hit the nail on the head last night comparing Obama’s attack on Mitt and Bain Capital versus Obama’s embrace of Jeffry Immelt and GE.”
“Obama choose Immelt to head a committee on increasing employment. Was that increase in Europe/China?”
“Point being, the whole attack on Mitt is BS. Who has taken more jobs overseas? Mitt or GE? Who is Obama’s buddy? Moonbats – grow up.”
What a patently stupid argument. Why would you hold a candidate for President to a LOWER standard than the standard you’re holding a non-candidate to?
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:40 am
Mitt you cant etch a sketch your way out of the the IRS.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:41 am
Its all over.
Cheesy, they still have plenty of cards up their sleeves. Hire some terrist to blow up a Mickie D’s, organize a cabal to do some well-timed corporate layoffs that they can blame on “Obamacare” — I’d put nothing past these thugs.
Goldie
July 17th, 2012
11:41 am
“There are a lot of you out there that are on Welfare…”
Yeah BADA — keep goin’, tell us all about your Corporate cons who bilk BILLION$ from the American taxpayer year after year, and you Cons have no problem whatsoever with them doing that!
GT
July 17th, 2012
11:41 am
Steve I think we will find Romney made money off his Olympic contacts. All of a sudden he is dealing in off shore deals, not before 1999 but after. Then like a criminal defense he says those were not his decisions. He took over a ghetto in Salt Lake City, fixed it they say. I am betting the books will show Enron type accounting and he fixed it off the books with off shore investments tied into the Olympics and its already dirty dealings and in doing so made himself richer than ever along with the characters he is said to have fixed.
Steve
July 17th, 2012
11:42 am
Agreed – Romney is toast. We don’t have enough uber rich voters.
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
11:42 am
“mandate a living minimum wage”- looks like someone hasn’t done much studying on the minumum wage and employment.
“improve workers rights”- well of course because so many of them are being forced at the point of a gun to work 18 hours a day with no potty breaks in 3rd world wretched conditions.
Libs do love they emotionalism they do.
getalife
July 17th, 2012
11:42 am
willard refused to release his tax forms was a major mistake.
He is not man enough to be President. Period.
“Hillary Clinton Sets New Travel Record”
The hardest working politician ever.
She deserves a break.
Steve
July 17th, 2012
11:43 am
Who can relate to Romney? Rich people? Mormons? That’s about it… it is over.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
11:43 am
“Jay laments the large number of out of wedlock births and then complains about the loss of a govt program- as if the govt program was having any success whatsoever to begin with”
ohfercryingoutloud … you are the only person who thinks that birth control is CAUSING out of wedlock births
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
11:43 am
Anyone wanna bet Anne’s horsey gets booed at the Olympics?
C’mon Brits, I know you got it in you.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
July 17th, 2012
11:43 am
Why did Mclame pick Palin and not Mitt..
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
July 17th, 2012
11:44 am
There ya have it. The perfect example of the difference between libs and cons. Jay laments the large number of out of wedlock births and then complains about the loss of a govt program- as if the govt program was having any success whatsoever to begin with. Typical liberal thinking. An argument can be made that the govt caused the whole single mother problem- the liberal Patrick Moynihan’s book details this govt destruction of the black family through govt dependency. And then people like Jay and other libs on here thinks only the govt can solve a problem that they created to begin with. God help us from these do gooders who make more problems then they solve.
Typical conservative nonsense. They create the problem with silly ” Abstinence ” programs and wont let condemns be passed out in schools then blame liberals and a program designed to actually help for the problem.
Pure idiocy. One of the biggest reasons for all the out of wedlock marriages in Mississippi and the south in general is the belief that ” Abstinence ” works. It doesn’t.
Start passing out condemns in high schools like liberals want to do and you’ll see that number come way down. But the Christian conservatives will never have that. No way.
Just when I think you cant get any dumber Thulsa. You set a new standard almost daily.
Pass the Cheesy Grits Please
July 17th, 2012
11:46 am
“improve workers rights”- well of course because so many of them are being forced at the point of a gun to work 18 hours a day with no potty breaks in 3rd world wretched conditions.
that’s just about what they do at Wal Mart. Ever worked there?
The compassion conservatives show for his fellow man is remarkable. Would make Jesus proud.
getalife
July 17th, 2012
11:46 am
Our President ran over weak wiilard
Weak willard did not even put up a fight.
ty webb
July 17th, 2012
11:47 am
“Start passing out condemns in high schools like liberals want to do and you’ll see that number come way down.”
hey I’m all for this…though these condemnations might affect the fragile egos of our youth.
Doggone/GA
July 17th, 2012
11:47 am
“One of the biggest reasons for all the out of wedlock marriages in Mississippi and the south in general is the belief that ” Abstinence ” works. It doesn’t”
Let’s be accurate here. Abstinence DOES work, if you actually practice it. It’s thinking that “Abstinence only” programs work that is false.
Martin the Calvinist
July 17th, 2012
11:47 am
First of all, welcome back Doom. Second of all, Democrats have been raging a war on poverty for almost 40 years and poverty is kicking the Governments butt! Taking from a prosperous man and giving it to another is not going to work to bring up the lower class and the lower middle class. Obamacare, welfare, (which by executive order you don’t have to get a job you can stay on welfare), food stamps, free lunch, ect, ect only keeps the poor poor and dependent, which is exactly what big large instrusive gov’t types want.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
11:48 am
JohnnyReb @ 11:31
Most of the libs. on here don’t care about what you posted because …………. they “want” to be socialists.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
11:48 am
W. Mike — “Mitt Romney has given more money back to his community and to charities than Obama has ever made in his life…”
Because his church obliges him to do so. The LDS church takes tithing VERY seriously.
Don’t make the man out to be some kind of saint for doing what his church *requires* him to do.
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
11:48 am
“But the millionaire capaign money bundlers remain anonymous?”
Not really. It was pretty well publicized about Clooney’s 35k a plate dinner. Same with the big money bundlers of the nation’s largest private equity firm Blackstone when their boss and his buddies were forking over 35k a plate for Obama. What’s up with Mitt that he’s only raising 2-5-10k per person at these events. He needs a few more millionaire friends- like Obama.
paulo977
July 17th, 2012
11:49 am
JamVet
Yeah, no shiite, Mr. tax dodging, union-busting, wage crushing, welfare beneficiary, 1%er.
Like you would know. Or care.
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Says it ALL about the guy some are so eager to send to the White House!!
Well said
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:50 am
C’mon Brits, I know you got it in you.
That’s a pretty tone-deaf thing to hope for.
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
11:51 am
Harry’s gonna fix the filibuster, finally:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/17/harry-reid-promises-filibuster-reform-if-dems-win-the-election/
Mitt is risk averse:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/17/romneys-risk-free-deal-with-bain/
Lunchtime.
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
11:51 am
TaxPayer — “Where’s Orly hanging out these days.”
I heard that she got her dentistry license pulled for some reason, but I haven’t been able to find confirmation of that.
Peadawg
July 17th, 2012
11:52 am
Thulsa Doom
July 17th, 2012
11:48 am
That was…actually pretty funny. I don’t care who you are.
GT
July 17th, 2012
11:52 am
This would make a great SNL! The stiffest white guy in America first giving a speech at the NAACP, telling them what they need is more stiff white guys like him. Then he is chasing the help around a ballroom explaining if it wasn’t for my silver spoon, ivy league, good looks and rich daddy, and that I am a heterosexual white male, I would be exactly like you. I feel your pain so vote for me, one of us has to live large, sorry it is not you. I need your vote.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
11:52 am
What’s up with Mitt that he’s only raising 2-5-10k per person at these events
Oy vey, the stoopidity of this nonsense commentary. “Where’s the VIP parking, we’re VIPs. Tell him who’s staying in your yacht…. the hotels are full.” Oh if only the little people understood our problems.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:53 am
looks like someone hasn’t done much studying on the minumum wage and employment.
Such “studying” generally ends in the devout belief that a $0/hour floor would lift all boats.
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
11:55 am
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
11:50 am
Yeah, I can’t carry a tune to save my soul.