Morning Bunker Report: Saturday 4.28.2012

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——————————WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY

 
Source: sandandglass

MITT THE PROBLEM SOLVER! ROMNEY TELLS STUDENTS to just borrow money from their parents. Mitt Romney is the most tone-deaf motherfucker to ever run for president. HANDS DOWN. This afternoon at an event in Ohio—which students apparently were forced to attend, if the gentleman falling asleep in the front row is any indication—Mitt Romney yammered on about class warfare, and how President Obama is always attacking success, and why don’t kids today have the bootstrapitude it takes to up and start a multimillion dollar sandwich chain like Romney’s good friend Jimmy John did by borrowing $20K from the parental units. – ABL: Balloon Juice | read more: ABL: Raw Story

  • OBVIOUSLY, THE ADVICE FITS RIGHT INTO THE CHARACTERIZATION that Romney is ‘out of touch’ with regular people. Most students don’t have parents with $20,000 in disposable capital sitting around to give to their kids to start a business. — Think Progress
  • REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE MITT ROMNEY campaigned [yesterday] at Otterbein College — a school that benefited from the passage of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus. Otterbein received a grant worth more than $80,000 for a federal work-study program in July 2009. Ignoring that fact, though, Romney proceeded to attack the stimulus in his speech to students. – Romney Attacks Stimulus At College That Took Stimulus Funds

YESTERDAY RUSH LIMBAUGH said Hillary Clinton is just a secretary who needs to wear Spanx. [He] said that Clinton “has reached a pinnacle and all she is is a secretary,” adding that the left has “the strangest definition of success.” Limbaugh then said he was being prodded to talk about Clinton’s need to wear “Spanx,” but suggested she had a greater need for “Spankles.” – Rush Limbaugh On Hillary Clinton: ‘All She Is Is A Secretary’ Who Needs To Wear Spanx || Your “Imaginary” GOP War on Women, people!


Because feminists are dykes. GET IT? — Fox News Douchebag Of The Day

BUZZFEED POLITICS IS TRYING SO HARD to campaign for Romney:

MEDIA DARLING SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ) is blasting Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for spending too much time in front of the television cameras. [...] “I have never seen Sen. Schumer address any issue unless it was political in the United States Senate,” McCain told Van Susteren. “Bob Dole once said, the most dangerous place to be in Washington D.C. is between Sen. Schumer and a television camera.” “That holds true today,” he added. But very few, if any, senators in recent years have been given more airtime than McCain himself. [...] Between his loss in the November 2008 presidential election and January 2010, McCain had appeared on Sunday morning talk shows at least 19 times. By March 2012, he had broken former Sen. Bob Dole’s (R-KS) record by appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press 64 times. – Crooks & Liars

PRESIDENT OBAMA / DEMOCRATS————————————————————

PRESIDENT OBAMA ON FRIDAY SIGNED an executive order that will help protect veterans from the deceptive practices of some for-profit colleges that seek to take advantage of them. The news was greeted with praise from veterans groups, who have “long felt that student veterans need to have the tools to succeed when it comes to their education.” The American Legion called it “an important victory on behalf of our young servicemembers and veterans who, in seeking to better themselves educationally, have been wrongly and unconscionably victimized by some institutions who see America’s finest as nothing more than a vulnerable market.” — MMFA

NEW WEB VIDEO FROM OBAMA CAMPAIGN — ROMNEY’S PRIORITIES: Mitt wouldn’t have killed Osama bin Laden (but remember, he would have let GM go bankrupt) — A new web video from the Obama campaign, featuring former President Bill Clinton, suggests Mitt Romney wouldn’t have made the decision to go after Osama bin Laden almost one  year ago today — TPM

  • NATURALLY THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN is in hysterics.  Chait comments: In 2004, Democrats were furious that Bush used the 9/11 attacks as a political asset. Now, Republicans are indignant that Obama is running on having killed Osama bin Laden. (Of course, the difference is that 9/11 was at best something Bush had no responsibility for and at worst a colossal blunder, while killing bin Laden is an actual accomplishment.)
  • GOOD OLD ‘SOUR GRAPES’ JOHN MCCAIN who lost the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama, harshly criticized him for politicizing the death of Osama bin Laden, which he called the “height of hypocrisy.” – John McCain: Obama Playing Politics With Anniversary Of Bin Laden’s Death
  • BUT REMEMBER THE 2008 CAMPAIGN AND JOHN MCCAIN’S ‘SUPER SECRET PLAN’ to capture bin Laden? John McCain says in almost every stump speech that he knows how to capture Osama bin Laden and that he’d follow the al Qaeda leader to the “Gates of Hell.” So Washington Wire was wondering, what does McCain know that President Bush and the Pentagon don’t about how to sweep up America’s most elusive enemy. If there are “certain policies and procedures” that could lead to OBL’s detention, and a president could implement those policies and procedures now, why wouldn’t McCain stop by the Oval Office for a chat with Bush about how best to proceed? By McCain’s own reasoning, it sounds like he’d rather let bin Laden remain free for another year, until McCain and his “own ideas” can get to work. – McCain’s ‘secret plan’ to get bin Laden
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