Romney has many plans; you get to hear none of them
A tight-lipped Mitt Romney won't tell America his intentions as president. You see, it's on a need-to-know basis ... and you don't need to know
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Mitt Romney’s inability to close the gap with Barack Obama can be explained in many ways, from his stiff persona to his general disdain for working Americans to doubts about the Republican Party’s mad dash to the right. But at root, I think, it comes down to a lack of trust. Voters have no sense of who this guy is and how he intends to govern, and his continued flip flops and refusal to provide details only feeds those suspicions.
Of course, every politician tries to avoid getting nailed down on the campaign trail. But even with that as a given, Romney’s aversion to specifics has gained legendary status. For example, just yesterday Romney finally announced that if elected, he would not attempt to revoke special two-year visas granted to young immigrants brought here illegally as children.
“The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid. I’m not going to take something that they’ve purchased,” Romney told the Denver Post. “Before those visas have expired we will have the full immigration reform plan that I’ve proposed.”
The problem, of course, is that Romney hasn’t proposed a “full immigration reform plan.” He hasn’t even proposed small pieces of such a plan. He has merely promised to produce such a plan at some later date after the election, as if “that’s all you people need to know.”
Even conservatives find his refusal to engage frustrating. As the Wall Street Journal editorial board put it, “Mr. Romney’s pre-existing political calculation seems to be that he can win the election without having to explain the economic moment or even his own policies.” It drily notes that “such vagueness carries its own political risks.”
And as conservative writer Matt Lewis notes at The Daily Caller:
“Romney is keeping his tax plan a secret for many of the same calculating reasons he is keeping his personal taxes a secret. The problem is that his tax reform plan is of much greater interest to the public than his personal taxes. What is more, it’s not just the dreaded media he should be afraid of. It feels like Romney is hiding his real plans from even his base.”
The problem is epitomized by an op-ed published under Romney’s byline in the Wall Street Journal Monday. The Romney campaign has decided to make foreign policy a major focus, and this 760-word critique of the Obama record is intended to launch that effort.
I urge you to go read it. Like the rest of the Romney campaign, it is all noise and absolutely no content. It does not criticize a single Obama decision on foreign policy, other than his decision not to meet personally with Bibi Netanyahu. It also does not suggest a single new policy that a President Romney would undertake. When you have finished reading the piece, you will have learned absolutely nothing about how Romney would handle foreign policy.
And again, that’s by design, not by accident.
Romney’s problem is obvious. Policy specifics that would pass muster with his party’s right-wing base would alarm the general-election voter, while policies that would please the general electorate would outrage his base. So Romney and his staff have decided to sidestep the problem by avoiding any discussion of specifics whatsoever.
However, it will be interesting to see how Romney handles that problem in the debate tomorrow night in Denver (we’ll be live-blogging it here, by the way.) Obama has a four-year record as president to be analyzed and attacked, and Romney will no doubt attempt to make the most of that opportunity. But in a debate format, his refusal to deal in any way with specifics or details can’t be brushed aside easily, and it’s not a problem that extensive debate preparations is likely to fix.
– Jay Bookman
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Butch Cassidy (I)
October 2nd, 2012
10:18 am
Ben Shockley – “Obama’s energy czar stated that he wanted Americans to pay European prices for gasoline, and we are certainly zeroing in on that goal.”
Really? Please tell us which stations are currently selling fuel at $7.00 to $10.00 a gallon?
Adina Smith
October 2nd, 2012
10:19 am
Who was on THE VIEW instead of at the UN assembly? You can bet that would never be Mitt, Obama has brought this nation to it’s knees and is a complete joke, he’s done NOTHING he promised and 4 years later blames everybody else. How dense can you be.
jcinnga
October 2nd, 2012
10:19 am
“Romney has many plans; you get to hear none of them” That’s pretty funny right there, huh. Another article could have written titled “Obama has many plans; you get to see none of them work”.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:19 am
What does it mean that “MY COMMENT IS AWAITING MODERATION”?
Jm
October 2nd, 2012
10:20 am
Obama plans: none
At least romney has a plan
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:20 am
I think Obama also promised the most open and transparent administration in history. I think this also included posting new legislation on hte internet for 90 days or someting before it went up for a vote.
Another oops…………………………….
Doggone/GA
October 2nd, 2012
10:20 am
“I guess the Libyans didn’t get that hope & change memo”
I guess you didn’t see the reports about the arrests made, and the pictures of Libyans holding signs that said “We want justice for Stevens”
weetamoe
October 2nd, 2012
10:20 am
Ben, do you think the oval office buck stop is on the golf course along with those laser focusing devices ?
Aquagirl
October 2nd, 2012
10:21 am
What does it mean that “MY COMMENT IS AWAITING MODERATION”?
I’m guessing it means your comment is awaiting moderation.
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:21 am
“Really? Please tell us which stations are currently selling fuel at $7.00 to $10.00 a gallon?”
I didn’t say we were there, I said we were zeroing in. Gas has gone from $1.85 at Barry’s inauguration to twice that today.
Reading is fundamental…..
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 2nd, 2012
10:21 am
Who was on THE VIEW instead of at the UN assembly?
Don’t know. who? Obama visited the VIEW and then went over an hour later and made an outstanding speech to the UN GA. Mitt was on the VIEW, but I don’t think the UN wants to hear from him so much.
curious
October 2nd, 2012
10:22 am
This talk about how Obama hasn’t cured the financial problems is similar to:
The patient on the verge of dying, being saved by the Doctors and Medical community, then complaining about the bill.
He would have been happier if he had just died.
Jose
October 2nd, 2012
10:22 am
the middleclass PAYS for all TAXES
the term is called PASS-THROUGH
corporations and the top 10% PASS THROUGH all tax increases to the consumer……… which is MAJORITY MIDDLE CLASS —- except for caviar, bentley cars etc.
it gets built into the cost of goods and services
we also pay the full FICA tax
the D&R’s learned that if you skim the $ off before receiving your check people don’t FEEL the tax
they also learned that if you say the EMPLOYER is paying HALF of the SS tax……….. then people wont realize that the tax is PART OF THEIR COMPENSATION and if not charged that it would be SALARY/INCOME
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:22 am
“What does it mean that “MY COMMENT IS AWAITING MODERATION”?”
It means that Jay only allows name-calling from his lefty parrots.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 2nd, 2012
10:22 am
I didn’t say we were there, I said we were zeroing in. Gas has gone from $1.85 at Barry’s inauguration to twice that today.
Stupidity in action. Just breathless the depth of stupidity on display.
mm
October 2nd, 2012
10:22 am
Don’t you love how the cons AND the media call the expiring tax cuts “increases”.
WRONG. They are simply returning to pre-existing levels.
Doggone/GA
October 2nd, 2012
10:22 am
“but our President sure isn’t so specific on how he’s gonna cut the deficit…all’s he’s mentioned are tax increases and military spending cuts……”
What is your definition of “specific”?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:23 am
Seems that the allegation of obamaphones is not exactly accurate…at least according to one source..
http://factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/
Jm
October 2nd, 2012
10:23 am
How many policy specifics donee have from Obama? None
There is hope and change though
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 2nd, 2012
10:23 am
Ben Shcockley – “Reading is fundamental…..”
Yes, you should try doing it. The reason that fuel was so chep at the time Obama took office is because the global economy was imploding. Geez Ben, isn’t your recess over with yet?
jcinnga
October 2nd, 2012
10:24 am
Dang, I hate it when the democrat in me comes out. Like the AJC, I should have spent a second proof reading before I published my post. Here we go:
“Romney has many plans; you get to hear none of them” That’s pretty funny right there, huh. Another article could have been written and titled “Obama has many plans; you get to see none of them work”, and that one would have illustrated the past 4 years.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 2nd, 2012
10:25 am
Robme’s plan is very complex even he can’t explain it. The FAT Lady is warming up cons…
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:25 am
MM,
If I’m paying $100 in taxes currently and my taxes go up to $200 as result of letting Bush cuts expire, how is my tax bill not increasing? Semantics can’t hide the actual outcome as seen in all of our paychecks..
Welcome to the Occupation
October 2nd, 2012
10:25 am
…his refusal to deal in any way with specifics or details can’t be brushed aside easily, and it’s not a problem that extensive debate preparations is likely to fix.
What is your response to that, Gov. Romney?
Uh, wait…, there you go again.
Jay
October 2nd, 2012
10:25 am
Actually, Shockley, Libya is a very good example of that promise being kept. The terrorist leader Moammar Gadhafi is dead and gone, and the new government of Libya — and its people — are pro-American.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pro-american-rallies-benghazi-libya-gallery-1.1158457?pmSlide=1
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/does-not-represent-us-moving-photos-pro-american-rallies-libya/56803/
Greg
October 2nd, 2012
10:25 am
I don’t anybody disputes that coal is a pollutant. I just don’t know what you can replace it with. Nuclear energy terrifies a lot of people but how many accidents have there been in the last 50 years.(I live in Evans relatively close to where they are building a new reactor so I am not one of those who say talk about this as an alternative and then run for the hill when they want to build a reactor in my neck of the woods) The tech isn’t there for solar yet and wind isn’t an option in many places. Natural gas is probably the best bet, but it is expensive retrofitting all of these coal powered plants.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 2nd, 2012
10:26 am
Tax policy center: Robme’s tax plan is mathematiclly impossible..
barking frog
October 2nd, 2012
10:26 am
Adina Smith
“How dense can you be.”
…………
Not sure I understand the
question.
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
October 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
The conservative affinity for just making stuff up continues to amaze and dismay.
That is why Jesus invented AM radio.
curious
October 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:21 am
“Gas has gone from $1.85 at Barry’s inauguration to twice that today.”
Considering demand had dropped to record low levels due to the financial melt down leading up to Pres Obama entering office, any contimuation of the Pres. Bush plan would have lowered prices even more.
If we had just been willing to let “This sucker is going down” as Pres Bush said, they oil companies would have been paying us to use gas.
Reading is fundamental
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
Barack had to time to sit on The View couch while Whoopi swooned, but couldn’t make a meeting with the prime minister of Israel.
You really can’t make stuff like that up……….
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
AQUAGIRL/BEN
Thanks but I really didn’t make any real comments, just posted 3 fact check’s that cast Obama in a less than favorable light….
Morality?
October 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
“Plan to save America? Barrack ain’t got no G.D. stinkin’ plan. I voted for him ’cause he’s black”. Quote from Samuel L.Jackson in Ebony Magazine interview. Ross Perot recently on Barrack. “He has no clue of how to turn this economy around or reduce the Fed deficit”. “We are headed over a fiscal deficit cliff to disaster”.
Jay
October 2nd, 2012
10:28 am
You’re right, Kam, it was jt. But no, we never did that lunch. He indicated that he had no intention of coming inside the Perimeter if he could ever avoid doing so, which made it difficult.
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:28 am
“Actually, Shockley, Libya is a very good example of that promise being kept. ”
Yeah, I could tell from all the hate-filled demonstrations that muslims realy love us now.
stands for decibels
October 2nd, 2012
10:28 am
I tried, Jay, I really did. I got to this line:
These developments are not, as President Obama says, mere “bumps in the road.” They are major issues that put our security at risk.
and then I said… well, you know what I said, so I won’t repeat it.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 2nd, 2012
10:28 am
Natural gas is probably the best bet, but it is expensive retrofitting all of these coal powered plants.
So what’s the “cost” of the pollution on the rest of us that the for-profit utility is inflicting on us by using coal? And why can’t we recover that cost?
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
October 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
Crude oil peaked at $147/bbl in July 2008 then collapsed along with everything else by year end.
It is $100ish now.
They BOTH suck
October 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
Ben thinks because Bush waved a magic wand and said a few words that oil prices just went down…………
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
Ross Perot , seriously , go back to sleep dude.
Greg
October 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
MM – so would reducing spending back down to historical levels of GDP not be budget cuts?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
JAY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-claim-that-90-percent-of-the-current-deficit-is-due-to-bush-policies/2012/09/26/e9bfbcd0-077e-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_blog.html
Aquagirl
October 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
Thanks but I really didn’t make any real comments
You probably ran afoul of the auto-filter by using a word like Swee+w@ter. Or included too many links.
The Thin Guy
October 2nd, 2012
10:30 am
Everyone certainly knows what we will get if we are cursed with another 4 years of The Indonesian Imbecile and The Delaware Dummy: zerø economic growth, massive unemployment, corruption that would embarrass US Grant, and a totally inept, feckless, incompetent foreign policy that means the only foreign country you can visit without risking your life is the Dekalb Farmers Market. Worst of all in 2014 we will lose our healthcare system and be forced into zerØcare. Want to know what it will be like? It won’t work as well as the one they currently have in England but this is what they have
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210221/Just-GP-500-000-patients-True-scale-crisis-hours-NHS-cover-revealed.html
There is one physician for every 500,000 patients. Imagine what it will be like to walk into the waiting room and find there are 499,999 people in front of you. Then you will be confronted with rationing and Death Panels. As Long John Silver said: Them that dies will be the lucky ones.
Meanwhile the left wing lapdogs like Jay Bookman are reduced to slinging mud at Mittens and blaming George Bush and those rascally Republicans for the West Nile virus and The French and Indian War.
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:30 am
When gas was going up under Bush, it was because Bush was in cahoots with all his Texas oil buddies. gas goes up under Obama, now it’s a sign of improving economy.
Liberals are so funny……………………..
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:30 am
JAY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/4-pinocchios-for-obamas-newest-anti-romney-ad/2012/06/20/gJQAGux6qV_blog.html
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/10/01/fact-checker-destroys-obamas-bush-tax-cut-claim
Hopefully no need to moderate this one..
Jose
October 2nd, 2012
10:31 am
OBAMA PLAN
the CAPT. EDWARD SMITH TITANIC BLUEPRINT
FORWARD!!!
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 2nd, 2012
10:31 am
Robme plan : ” I have some good Zingers”. priceless …. LMAO
Sagegirl
October 2nd, 2012
10:31 am
“With zingers, of course.”
Not a good idea for Romney. It would just make him look like the spoiled bully he is.
bob
October 2nd, 2012
10:32 am
Jay, Ambassador Chris Stevens called ! He said the embassy was attacked twice before the 9/11 anniversary. He didn’t blame the videos like Obama did, he knew the attacks were coming, unlike the obo admin that would still like us to think it was the fault of the video.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 2nd, 2012
10:32 am
Jose you better hope Robme loses amigo.
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
” the only foreign country you can visit without risking your life is the Dekalb Farmers Market. ”
Dude, your entire post was hysterical (and true) but that part made me spit Coke out my nose.
And it was Coke the beverage, not the kind of Coke that Barry used to put up HIS nose……
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
THINGUY
It about time someone aside me is most concerned (beyond the currently estimated $2.8 trillion cost to taxpayers and projected premium increases to current insured families) about this excessively significant problem…heathcare supply shortage…especially re to doctors and nurses…
Reality
October 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
“I’m gonna vote for Mr. Obama.” He’s so nice looking and such a beautiful family. And lord he makes a great speech. And the ladies on the vent adore him along with Dave Letterman. What else could anyone want a President to do?
Morality?
October 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
Wake up America! Obama is a big spending ($6,000,000,000,000 added to the Fed Debt since he arrived in office just 4short years ago) socialist. Reduce the debt, reduce the size of the over reaching Fed gub’ment……. send Obama back to the private sector. He gets a “F” in Economics 101. He is just to naive to be president. Obama is Jimmy Carter reincarnated.
Aquagirl
October 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
the only foreign country you can visit without risking your life is the Dekalb Farmers Market.
Clearly Thin Man hasn’t been there on a Saturday afternoon. Cart-related fatalities are not pretty.
midtownguy
October 2nd, 2012
10:34 am
I don’t know of a single person voting “for” Romney, the Republican leaning voters I encounter are voting against President Obama. He hides a lot from the right of the base, like the fact that he ran the most gay-inclusive olympics in modern history actively recruiting volunteers at Gay Pride events. He doesn’t exactly trumpet that achievement to his base.
I read this yesterday, Jay, and thought of you: “Journalism is printing what someone else doesn’t want printed. Everything else is public relations.”
Jose
October 2nd, 2012
10:34 am
STEVIE-
YOU CANT RELY ON WORDS FROM THAT EVIL CONSERVATIVE MEDIA DEVIL – FOX NEWS……… UHHHH I MEAN THE WASHINGTON POST??????
The Pinocchio Test
We are not trying to make excuses for the fiscal excesses of the Bush administration — and Congress — in the last decade. But at some point, a president has to take ownership of his own actions.
Obama certainly inherited an economic mess, and that accounts for a large part of the deficit. But Obama pushed for spending increases and tax cuts that also have contributed in important ways to the nation’s fiscal deterioration. He certainly could argue that these were necessary and important steps to take, but he can’t blithely suggest that 90 percent of the current deficit “is as a consequence” of his predecessor’s policies — and not his own.
As for the citing of the discredited MarketWatch column, we have repeatedly urged the administration to rely on estimates from official government agencies, such as the White House budget office. It is astonishing to see the president repeat this faulty claim once again, as if it were an established fact.
Four Pinocchios
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:35 am
Jay, do you deny writing numerous columns back in 2006-2008 bashing Bush for $500 billion deficits, saying that he was mortgaging our children’s future, bankrupting our country, etc, etc?
And now the deficits are triple that amount….and nary a peep from Jay…
Greg
October 2nd, 2012
10:35 am
Nobody knows what the “cost” is of coal powered plants (I assume you are referring to the enviromental impact as well as the monetary costs). But last I checked, most people like cheap electricity to power their HVAC’s, TV’s, fridges, and all of the other wonders of 21st century American life.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 2nd, 2012
10:35 am
Morality is killing american jobs and profiting from it moral? Is evading paying taxes moral.?
detritusUSA
October 2nd, 2012
10:35 am
Mr Romney, I suggest for American foreign policy to “speak softly and carry a big stick” and back it up with an occasional “Mountain Meadows” to show we mean business. For domestic policy, nationalize the entire oil industry, top to bottom, since it is clearly a national defense issue, and would make middle eastern policy so much easier.
If you get elected and you act as I’ve outlined, I’ll vote for you next time!
getalife
October 2nd, 2012
10:36 am
Half our country will vote for a man for President that went crazy after a attack and has no plan for their future.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:36 am
BOB,
I didn’t know that embassy had been attacked twice before 911…that’s a real problem for President Spineless…has his UN crony denied this yet?
BTW, has the FBI arrived yet? Perhaps a cover-up may be in play here…no, our president would never suppress information for political gain…
Whatever
October 2nd, 2012
10:36 am
Has anyone actually fact-checked to see if the oceans have stopped rising?
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 2nd, 2012
10:37 am
From a letter-writer in the Sunday paper:
Vote Romney/Ryan, because we don’t need 4 more years of Republican gloom and doom!
Morality?
October 2nd, 2012
10:37 am
Ross Perot is a genius and you? Not so much……. dead zombies for Obama sleep full time.
St Simons
October 2nd, 2012
10:38 am
bu…bu…bu…Obama isn’t working cons, outside of your echo chamber
you need a knockout
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 2nd, 2012
10:38 am
I didn’t know that embassy had been attacked twice before 911
That’s because he made it up.
Steve-USA "None of the Above"
October 2nd, 2012
10:38 am
Romney should just say his plan is “hope and change” that seemed to work last time.
JamVet
October 2nd, 2012
10:38 am
I just figured out who Willard is.
He is none other than Colonel Flagg on the old M*A*S*H series.
He COULD tell you his plans, but then he would have to kill you.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_isUvlzkZPIQ/S_674Qfa8PI/AAAAAAAAGZ0/LamsGp5pZBY/s1600/Flagg1.jpg
Doggone/GA
October 2nd, 2012
10:39 am
“What does it mean that “MY COMMENT IS AWAITING MODERATION”?”
here: http://www.dictionary.com
Educate yourself on the meaning of the words you read
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
October 2nd, 2012
10:39 am
Conservatives have forgotten that terrorists killed 241 US Marines and Reagan did nothing but cut and run.
Aquagirl
October 2nd, 2012
10:40 am
For domestic policy, nationalize the entire oil industry, top to bottom, since it is clearly a national defense issue, and would make middle eastern policy so much easier.
How do you propose to nationalize Royal Dutch Shell? Invade the Netherlands?
TaxPayer
October 2nd, 2012
10:40 am
I suspect Ben is in that group of Republicans that are not better off than they were four years ago.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 2nd, 2012
10:40 am
Conservatives have forgotten that terrorists killed 241 US Marines and Reagan did nothing but cut and run.
History started on Jan 20, 2009, unless it was good history.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:40 am
JOSE,
I find it hilarious that the LEFT completely dismiss and in fact detest FOX news….IMO, it all has to do with ratings….I apply the same BS factor to everything I hear from MSNBC, major networks, and FOX..but the distain directly from LEFT posters, and MSNBC pundits as well as AMerica Left pundits is simply ratings envy…
Anyone who believes 100% of one side and 0% from the other really isn’t worth the time..
Steve-USA "None of the Above"
October 2nd, 2012
10:40 am
Wednesday night millions of people will watch the debate and then watch the pundit’s tell them who won.
TiredOfIt
October 2nd, 2012
10:40 am
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:30 am
When gas was going up under Bush, it was because Bush was in cahoots with all his Texas oil buddies. gas goes up under Obama, now it’s a sign of improving economy.
Liberals are so funny……………………..
++
No, it is going up because of your beloved free markets.
nelson
October 2nd, 2012
10:41 am
I think my comments are being censored before they see the light of the online news, am I being paranoid? There is a giant construction going on someplace in the west where all internet “musings” go to be analyzed . Does not sound like our 1st Amendment Freedom of Speech. The issue for the day, is Mitt Romney too distant, cold, unapproacable {sounds like hes married]. Not the huggable Prez that Mr. Obama is.
Do the populace want good ole fella sitting in the oval office, or a can do man that makes the tough decisions and makes them work. You can not have it both ways.
clem
October 2nd, 2012
10:41 am
nothing will change unless the extreme right in congress is voted out….which isn’t likely to happen espeicially in the south
Jose
October 2nd, 2012
10:41 am
ITS ALL BUSH’S FAULT
October 2nd, 2012
10:32 am
Jose you better hope Robme loses amigo.
MY HOPE IS THE BOTH LOSE
but absent of that happening
THE PLUTONOMY CONTINUES
and the minions of the left and right squabble while they play us for fools
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:42 am
DOGGONE,
Wow, you done went and made a funny!! How impressive there…I guess you learned how to be funny and make a dictionary work during your stellar education?
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck
October 2nd, 2012
10:42 am
Obama killed the Enron Loophole in 2009 and gas prices have fallen.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ai3AX4q7Xhn0
Don't Tread
October 2nd, 2012
10:43 am
“Romney’s aversion to specifics has gained legendary status”
Yeah, like “Hope and Change” was so specific. 4 years later, we’re learning the details. There’s something about that “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” detail that freedom loving self-supporting people don’t like.
Doggone/GA
October 2nd, 2012
10:43 am
“I don’t know of a single person voting “for” Romney”
I don’t either, and what I see (don’t see) on my drive to work is extraordinarily revealing. When McCain & Palin were running the signs popped up all along my route like some kind of invasive new flower. I have seen exactly ONE Romney/Ryan sign on the same route this year.
Road Scholar
October 2nd, 2012
10:43 am
“And it means using the full spectrum of our soft power to encourage liberty and opportunity for those who have for too long known only corruption and oppression. ”
And President Obama is not doing this??????
Morality?
October 2nd, 2012
10:44 am
Killing American jobs? Obama’s idea of “gub’ment job creation” is moving one person from the unemployment rolls to gub’ment disability. Voila! Obama has created another job in the private sector! Disability rolls have TRIPLED under the reign of Obama. I say Obama is so good for private sector job creation let’s send him back there REAL SOON.
Sagegirl
October 2nd, 2012
10:44 am
Jay,
Romney has announced his plans for Healthcare. It’s called “Stick It” to everyone, but the Rich.
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has a prescription for controlling soaring costs within the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare system, partly by making consumers pay more of their own medical bills.
Romney’s vow to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul has played prominently in the campaign, even as Romney has offered few details about his alternative.
But as he prepares to face Obama in their first presidential debate on Wednesday, Romney is giving a few hints. The former Massachusetts governor’s advisers say he would accelerate the use of high-deductible insurance plans that offer lower premiums but require beneficiaries to pay thousands of dollars more in out-of-pocket expenses than they would face under conventional coverage.
Romney’s overriding aim is to create a much bigger retail market in healthcare, with transparency on pricing and services, more flexible insurance pools and interstate insurance markets.
That would allow consumers to choose up front what products and services to buy and from whom, according to the Romney campaign. But consumers would cover most routine medical expenses themselves, including annual check-ups, with assistance from health savings accounts and new tax breaks intended to align the private markets for group and individual insurance that cover more than 160 million people.
“The result,” Romney wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine, “will be patients who can confidently choose the coverage that is right for them, who know and care what healthcare costs.”
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/romney-health-care-plan_n_1931711.html?1349181074&utm_hp_ref=politics
stands for decibels
October 2nd, 2012
10:44 am
Yeah, like “Hope and Change” was so specific. 4 years later, we’re learning the details.
I’m sure that, like most guys who put yellow snake stickers on the back of their car, you carefully analyzed the candidate’s policy statements that were posted on his website and followed the progress of those proposals via some third-party analysis, like say the “Promises Kept/Broken” page over at Politifact, right?
Right?
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
October 2nd, 2012
10:44 am
“Has anyone actually fact-checked to see if the oceans have stopped rising?”
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The last time I was at the ocean, it rose twice a day. Then it fell twice a day.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:46 am
BYTEME
This is gonna hurt and I expect no retraction of your post but check it out..
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/02/u-s-consulate-in-benghazi-bombed-twice-in-run-up-to-9-11-anniversary.html
TaxPayer
October 2nd, 2012
10:46 am
Republicans should put back up their McCain/Palin signs. It might help them deal with their depression.
Steve-USA "None of the Above"
October 2nd, 2012
10:46 am
“The last time I was at the ocean, it rose twice a day. Then it fell twice a day.”
That made me laugh, good one.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 2nd, 2012
10:47 am
There is one physician for every 500,000 patients. Imagine what it will be like to walk into the waiting room and find there are 499,999 people in front of you. Then you will be confronted with rationing and Death Panels. As Long John Silver said: Them that dies will be the lucky ones.
Lol. That’s a hoot.
Courtesy of the Daily Mail no less.
Jose
October 2nd, 2012
10:47 am
stevie
what i find hilarious is that they can’t distinguish from NEWS programs and from ENTERTAINMENT programs……………
i find it funny too that the AJC is dwindling into oblivion……….. COX’s cashcow is Autotrader NOW
but it goes to show TWAIN was right…..i paraphrase him
I USE TO NOT READ AND WATCH THE MEDIA—— I WAS UNINFORMED
I KNOW READ AND WATCH THE MEDIA——– NOW I AM MISINFORMED
Morality?
October 2nd, 2012
10:48 am
Gas prices have fallen? You must not be in Georgia. $3.67 a gallon for regular yesterday. Cut and run? Can you say “Black Hawk Down”…… on Slick Willie’s watch.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 2nd, 2012
10:48 am
From one of Jay’s linkees, the WSJ op-ed thingie from Romney:
This means restoring our credibility with Iran. When we say an Iranian nuclear-weapons capability—and the regional instability that comes with it—is unacceptable, the ayatollahs must be made to believe us.
How will he make the ayatollahs believe this?
With a tax cut, of course.
Ben Shockley
October 2nd, 2012
10:48 am
“I suspect Ben is in that group of Republicans that are not better off than they were four years ago.”
Wrong, but thanks for playing.
You do bring up an intersting point though. The people celebrating Obama the longest and the loudest are the ones who are the most screwed by his policies.
Guys like me, I’m in my late 40’s, I’ve had some success, I’m comfortable. Obama and you libs THINK you can screw me, but you can’t.
It’s all the young people who haven’t already started a good career and/or started accumulating wealth who will never have a chance to do so under Obama’s world view.
Enjoy!!!!
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 2nd, 2012
10:49 am
STANDS,
If there is a source that suggests that the deficit was cut in half, it was all due to Bush’s tax cuts, lobbyist no longer control DC, immigration reform as introduced by BO becomes law (or that he proposed anything in the first place), his foreign policy resulted in outsiders liking us more on day one of his presidency, please point me in that direction.