Rush Limbaugh works with the Romney Campaign to make Mitt look really dumb

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

This is real:

Rush Limbaugh thinks the new Batman movie is a liberal conspiracy to take down Mitt Romney:

“Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie—what is it, the Dark Knight Lights Up or something? Whatever the name of it is. That’s right, Dark Knight Rises, Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? Bane. The villain in the Dark Knight Rises is named Bane. B-A-N-E. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran, and around which there’s now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time, the release date’s been known, summer 2012 for a long time. Do you think that it is accidental, that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?”

Sure. Why not?

Bane Capital: mask made in China.

However stupid this comparison is with Bane / Bain and Mitt Romney, let’s be clear: it was established long ago that Obama IS the Batman.

At least since 2008:

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And Obama was Superman on at least one occasion:

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“Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful.” — George W. Bush, today

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

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Look at this monkey

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

tastefullyoffensive: Monkey Discovers a Hidden Camera

Romney completely unaware of what waiters and waitresses earn, calls them “middle class”

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

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CBS News: “Addressing 300 contributors at a Jackson, Miss., fundraiser who paid $2,500, $10,000 or $50,000 to hear him speak, 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… 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.”

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We really are all the same to Mitt Romney. We’re the ones who serve him and his rich family and friends in thousands of ways daily, we’re the ones who sign the back of a paycheck, we’re the ones who scurry around doing our “jobs.” To Romney it doesn’t matter if a few bucks more or less per hour could change someone’s entire life for better or worse — all he sees are blobs of meat moving through space, serving finger food, while he collects millions at luncheons to spend on political attack ads.

There are only two classes in Mitt Romney’s world: those who attend his fund-raising lunches and everyone else (the middle class).

John Sununu says stupid shit about the President, thrills Buzzfeed: “Romney campaign lets the dogs out”

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

We’ve already heard several of the off-the-wall things that Romney surrogate and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu had to say about President Obama today, such as:

“I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”

Or, “He has no idea how the American system functions. And we shouldn’t be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S., he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago.”

It’s not surprising that this kind of crazy talk is beyond thrilling for Romney’s online PR firm, Buzzfeed — and especially for their Rovin’ Romeny reporter, McKay Coppins (who, coincidentally, happens to be Mormon).

Here’s how Coppins subtitles this load of crapola: “The Romney campaign lets the dogs out.” Yeah, because Mitt’s a badass like that.

Coppins gives Sununu / Romney high marks in summary: “The Romney campaign is coming off a week of of absorbing tough blows to the Republican’s business record and personal finances, and Republicans have been calling on their nominee to step up the intensity of his pushback. Today’s call could be an answer to that encouragement — as well as a bid to change to subject of the national conversation.”

Really. So we’ll pretend that legitimate questions about Romney’s tax returns and business record at Bain Capital (like actually seeing returns and when did he actually LEAVE Bain), are equivalent to shouting “Nyah, nyah!” and character attacks from 2008?

Besides wanting to give the wealthy more tax cuts, they really got nothing. Maybe it’s time to have Trump on a conference call to talk birth certificates?

You make Willard Romney’s lip curl

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

Charles P. Pierce doesn’t think Romney’s trying to hide anything by not releasing his tax returns. Pierce thinks Romney considers us “The Help” who really have no business looking at his tax returns:

“It is helpful always to remind yourself that, in the mind of Willard Romney, there are only two kinds of people — himself and his family, and The Help. Throughout his career, and especially throughout his brief political career, Romney has treated The Help with a kind of lordly disdain…

“The Help has no right to go pawing through the family books, giggling at the obvious loopholes and tax dodges, running amok through all the tax shelters, and probably getting their chocolate-y fingerprints all over the pages of the Romney family ledger. And, certainly, those members of The Help in the employ of the president of the United States, who is also part of The Help, have no right to use the nearly comically ostentatious wealth of the Romney as some sort of scrimey political weapon. He does not have to answer to The Help. I mean, jeepers, he’s running for office.

“This isn’t stubbornness. That’s often an acquired trait. What this is, fundamentally, is contempt. Contempt for the process, and contempt for the people who make their living in that process, and contempt for the people whose lives depend on that process. There are rules for The Help with which Willard Romney never has had to abide, and he has no intention of starting now. My dear young fellow, this simply is not done.”

FACT: In 2004, after John Kerry released 20 years of tax returns, a top Romney aide demanded more

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

His standards have dropped just a little since then.

“Throughout history, presidential candidates have disclosed income tax information prior to Election Day. We believe Americans value disclosure and transparency in campaigns.” – Senior Mitt Romney adviser Ed Gillespie, quoted in a 2004 RNC press release, urging Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) to release more tax information.

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Lunch!

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

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We’re currently living “the cookie joke” — income inequality is all about political power

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

Stan Sorscher argues that Americans are currently living “the cookie joke” — because income inequality is all about political power:

“A CEO, a Tea Party member and public employee sit at a table, with 12 cookies on a plate. The CEO grabs 11 cookies and tells the Tea Party member, “You better watch him. He wants your cookie.” The CEO took 11 out of 12 cookies. This isn’t a question of what’s fair. The CEO has the economic power to take 11 cookies, and he does.

“I found a conservative blog that explained this point of view. The CEO deserved 11 cookies. Without the CEO, the 12 cookies would never have been baked. No one would have anything without the CEO. Not only did the CEO deserve 11 of the 12 cookies, but if we somehow had 15 cookies, the CEO would deserve 14. If the CEO made 24 cookies in China, he should get 23. The Tea Party member and the public employee should thank the CEO for their one cookie. The conservative blogger acknowledged that his interpretation wasn’t funny.

“[...] By shoveling 93% of new income to the top 1%, we are currently living the cookie joke in full measure. This isn’t working. If trickle-down policies could ever work, then our figurative cookie-bakers would already have hired millions of new employees. They didn’t. It hasn’t worked for the last 35 years.

“It doesn’t work.

“Well… it doesn’t work for 99% of us. Stiglitz puts it this way, “We’ve been shaping our society to create people who are more selfish.” Increasingly, policies are created by the richest 1%, and for the richest 1%. Their interests are placed first, through globalization, privatization, deregulation and insanely expensive political campaigns.

“Meanwhile, 99% of us are put at risk. We risk losing our jobs, our economic security, our homes, health care, education for our children, and economic opportunities.

“As always [the rich] seem to be the winners from the policies that they advocated and that imposed such high costs on others.”

“This is bad for democracy, bad for our future as a nation, bad for our ability to solve serious problems on national and international levels, bad for the environment and the planet, and just plain bad.

“We could just as well shape society to restore balance to our social, political and economic life. We start with a rehabilitation of the Social Contract. We need each other to prosper. That is,our neighbors must prosper for us to prosper.

“We need to restore trust in institutions of civil society. That includes government.”

It’s no coincidence that the GOP / one percent want the good old reliable conservative voter base to keep buying into the Republican ‘ideal’ of less government, smaller government, government can’t be trusted, government is baaad, the only good government is currently drowning in a bathtub. And it’s funny because as the rabble expect less of government, and as they elect politicians who promise them less government (and who, when elected, actually give them government that truly doesn’t work, as promised), somehow the rich wind up with more for themselves – from government, in the form of policies, tax laws, and benefits. And the rich get even richer while the rest of us get poorer.

If conservative voters opened their eyes, they’d see the elite don’t use “boot straps” to get ahead. They’re using government.

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Meanwhile in Wickwar, South Gloucestershire: Love story of the day

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

A devoted farmer created this touching heart-shaped meadow as a tribute to his late wife – by planting thousands of oak trees.

positive-press-daily:

Dedicated Winston Howes, 70, spent a week planting each oak sapling after his wife of 33 years Janet died suddenly 17 years ago.

He laid out the fledgling trees in a six-acre field but left a perfect heart shape in the middle – with the point facing in the direction of her childhood home. The labour of love has now blossomed into a mature meadow – a peaceful oasis where Winston can sit and remember his wife of 33 years.

His meadow cannot be seen from the road and has remained a family secret until a hot air balloonist took this photograph from the air.

Mr Howes said: “I came up with the idea of creating a heart in the clearing of the field after Janet died. I thought it was a great idea – it was a flash on inspiration – and I planted several thousand oak trees. Once it was completed we put seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live. I sometimes go down there, just to sit and think about things. It is a lovely and lasting tribute to her which will be here for years.”

Mr Howes, who owns an 112-acre farm near Wickwar, South Gloucestershire, decided to seed housewife Janet’s legacy after she died from heart failure in 1995, aged 50. The pair got married in nearby Stroud in 1962. He created with the wood using small oak trees next to his farmhouse in the months after her death – marking out an acre-long heart with a large bushy hedge.

The entrance to the secret heart is only accessible from a track leading up to its tip.

Mr Howes said: “We got people in especially to do it – there are several thousand trees. We planted large oak trees around the edge of the heart then decided to put a hedge around it too. The heart points towards Wotton Hill, where Janet is from. We plant daffodils in the middle that come up in the spring – it looks great. I go out there from time to time and sit in the seat I created. I also flew over it myself about five years ago.”

Mr Howes’s memorial was shown in all its glory after keen hot air balloonist Andy Collett, 42, from Wotton-Under-Edge, Glos., soared over the wood last week. The transport businessman could not believe his eyes when he discovered the symbol of love hidden among the trees.

He said: “I have my own balloon and am quite a regular flyer – but this was the most amazing sight I have ever seen from the sky. It was a perfect heart hidden away from view – you would not know it was there. You can just imagine the love story.”

source: telegraph.co.uk

Video: Even Republicans agree: Mitt Romney is hiding something

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

Whatever Mitt’s hiding must be far worse than the pounding he’s getting over concealing his tax returns. Video featuring: George Will, Rick Tyler, Matthew Dowd, Michael Steele, Bill Kristol, Fmr Gov. Haley Barbour, and Gov. Robert Bentley.

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As Matthew Dowd says, “If he had twenty years of great clean everything is fine, it would all be out there.”

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What do the “real ‘Mericans” think about Romney concealing his returns / business history?

Posted on July 17, 2012 by UTMB

“The only person who has seen Romney’s taxes is John McCain, and he took one look and picked Sarah Palin.” — James Carville, interviewed by CBS News.

Does the fact that Mitt Romney isn’t going to show the American people his tax returns bother the Tea Party, Republican, Dominionist voter base at all? NOPE! Example:

See how they mentally side-step the uncomfortable fact that Mitt is concealing his tax returns and all the information they contain, WHILE running as their candidate for president? Just make a librul joke! Harhar! It’s sad. He wants to be president, he wants their vote, but he’ll only show them two years of his returns — and they don’t care!

Substance doesn’t matter to these voters, only the script:

1) call yourself a Republican,

2) repeat the pre-scripted “beliefs” whenever possible (more guns, less gays, no abortions), and

3) say you’re against government spending and for more tax cuts (even if you’re actually for more military spending and corporate welfare, loopholes and subsidies for the wealthy, big oil, and corporations — and paying for your spending by cutting programs and services for everyone else). Then…

4) BINGO! you’ve just earned yourself conservative supporters who wouldn’t benefit from anything you plan to do, but will cheer you on anyway.

These people have their heads so far up their collective asses that they can’t be trusted to tie their own shoes, let alone elect people to lead this country.

And it sounds like Romney is so deep in the mud right now over the tax returns and Bain Capital (when did he quit and when did he know he quit), that he’s going to try and change the conversation this week by announcing his running mate. That would be a great move for Romney (in the short term), since the media is fickle and worthless and would love nothing more than to gush over a new person for days on end — which is so much easier than trying to run down actual facts to report about boring stuff like numbers, and taxes, and history. We can’t let the media drop the ball on these important issues — they really matter.