Daily Archives: August 10, 2012

Tax returns: even Jon Huntsman Sr. has had enough of Mitt Romney’s bullshit

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“Mr. Romney ought to square with the American people and release his taxes like any other candidate.” — Jon Huntsman Sr., national finance chairman of Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign

Greg Sargent spoke to Huntsman:

“…in a move that could be significant, Huntsman forcefully called on Romney to release his tax returns. This matters, because Huntsman is a longtime backer of Romney — he has long been close to Romney; he supported his early campaigns; he was the national finance chairman of Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign; and he has raised a lot of money for him over the years. (He backed his own son in the latest GOP primary.) “I feel very badly that Mitt won’t release his taxes and won’t be fair with the American people,” Huntsman told me.”

(via: ericmortensen)

LOL Romney’s tax returns

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Listen tea party Republican conservative fundagelicals: you would never ever let Pres. Obama get away with this kind of secrecy. It’s time you let YOUR presidential candidate know that he needs to show the American people at least 10 years worth of tax returns. And the only reason it hasn’t happened yet is because he’s hiding something. We get to ask what he’s hiding and expect to find out. And don’t even try to compare fake “birth certificate” or college transcript conspiracies with Romney’s tax returns.

Steve Benen asks, incredulously: “Reince Priebus thinks questions about Romney’s secret tax returns are as legitimate as questions about Obama’s college transcripts?”

“As a purely objective matter, there are important unanswered questions about Romney’s offshore finances, controversial investments, unanswered questions about his individual retirement account that somehow ended up with more than $100 million, and claims about his business that contradict SEC filings. Romney himself promised to “go back and look” at these returns to look at the tax rates he paid — a promise he’s apparently already broken.

“These are legitimate areas of inquiry in a presidential race. Donald Trump’s wild-eyed conspiracy theories are not. That Priebus can’t tell the difference is discouraging.”

No. No, of course Priebus doesn’t believe they’re both legitimate areas of inquiry — but what else is he going to say at this point? That’s the best aid and comfort the rightwing nutjob apologists can come up with to distract the dittoheads from really thinking about what exactly the King of Bain is hiding from them. The GOP motto might as well be ‘Vote Blind’ because that’s what they’ll be doing, willingly, if they continue to make excuses for their candidate.

Ann Coulter: Pres. Obama is trying to get the base Dem voter which is “stupid single women”

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Raw Story reports on some new outrageous thing that Ann Coulter said on The Sean Hannity Cartoon Hour: 

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter on Wednesday said that President Barack Obama was campaigning with women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke because his base was “stupid single women.” 

[...] Romney has said that he would “get rid” of Planned Parenthood and “kill” the Affordable Care Act health law, which provides free contraception for women.

“I think it’s probably a good sign that Obama is so desperate just to get the base Democratic voter — stupid single women — to vote for him,” Coulter told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday. “This is good news that he needs to lock up that part of the Democratic vote.”

“He’s trying to get the stupid single women voter, which is the Democratic Party base,” Coulter repeated. “And I would just say to stupid single women voters, your husband will not be able to pay you child support if Obamacare goes through and Obama is re-elected. You are talking about the total destruction of wealth. It is the end of America as we know it.”

“Great, you will get free contraception; you won’t have to pay a $10 co-pay, but it will be the end of America. Think about that!”

YEAH, stupid single women! The woman with the androgynous neck, who’s never been married, never had kids, wants you to know that Obamacare is anti-MAN and it will be the END OF AMERICA! Think about THAT.

No, really. Think about that — and then, for Ann, get your stupid single butt out to the polls on November 6th and vote for the end of the world.

(h/t: questionall)

Coulter & Hannity: where Jon Stewart points out, again, that Fox is not a news network

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And for the 1,000th time… Fox is not news. Fox is the official Republican Propaganda Channel. I’d call them an entertainment network, but they’re really not that entertaining.

Headline of the day (from Fox “News” no less!): Obama’s lead grows, Romney slipping

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Fox News poll: Obama’s lead grows as Romney’s support slips | Fox News

And a new CNN/Opinion Research poll finds President Obama leading Mitt Romney nationally by seven points, 52% to 45%.

In light of the polls, Buzzfeed found “a group called “Jews and Christians Together,” which backed Rick Santorum in the Republican primary, is sending a memo to Republican National Convention delegates urging them not to vote for Mitt Romney at the convention, even if they’re bound to him. [...] A press release from the group reads:”

“DUMP ROMNEY” contends that no delegates are actually “bound” by law or GOP
rules to vote for Romney and that, to win the White House and toss-up
Senate seats, delegates must exercise their right to “conscientiously
abstain” from Romney on the crucial first ballot, aiming for a
stronger ticket leader in subsequent convention voting rounds.

The core of a hard-hitting new 80,000 word book and incubating Tampa
insurgency, the entire memo can be read online free via Amazon Kindle
Cloud Reader using the Amazon.com search term “DUMP ROMNEY.” “Were
frontrunners simply entitled to the nomination, a convention wouldn’t
be necessary,” the texts say, noting that Intrade predictive markets
gives Obama odds of about 60-40 over Romney and that New York Times
political analyst Nate Silver projects about 300 electoral votes for
Obama, rating Romney’s current odds around 21%.

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Michael Tomasky may have figured out what’s happening: people are getting to know Mitt Romney a little better. Tomasky says:

“This is not broadly remarked upon, but have you noticed that Romney’s favorability ratings, after heading the right direction in spring and early summer, are going southward again? This CNN survey from last week is representative of the stuff I’ve seen: According to the Pew Research Center survey, 37% of respondents said they hold a favorable view of the presumptive GOP nominee, compared to 41% in June….”

Yeah, so the awkwardly creepy aristocrat who doesn’t like your garbage bag raincoats or your cheap ass 7-Eleven cookies — or YOU, the help, for that matter (you people have seen as many tax returns as you’re ever going to see!), is wondering what on earth has happened lately, as Buzzfeed reports:

“You’ve got to have something precipitate that sort of sea change, and we haven’t,” said a top adviser. Dumbfounded by three bad polls.

Mitt Romney poo-poos any opinion that suggests it might have something to do with his Gafftastic World Tour, or HIM personally, or the fact that he’s refusing to show us his tax returns yet he’s asking for our votes! Gallup and Rasmussen have him sitting fabulously (!) as they are paid to do, so enough of your backtalk.

Mr. Romney would ask that you go back and do your little polls again. Unacceptable work, my friend. Do them until you get them right.

Okay, Teabagger, you built that: with help from the following…

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Jack Cluth:

“At the risk of sounding like Elizabeth Warren, if you built a successful business, then congratulations. Your success wasn’t achieved in a vacuum, though. Government and the rule of law it maintains allowed you to build your business. It provides roads, standards, postal services, customs regulations, and many other services that create an air of certainty and consistency, which any business needs in order to survive. Ray Gaster no more created his business all by himself than houses build themselves. For him, and others like him, to claim otherwise only reveals the depth and breadth of their ignorance and racism.

“If Gaster would choose to argue that point, there’s a very simple way to vet his argument. let him try to maintain his business without ANY of the guarantees and services government provides him. I’d submit that Gaster Lumber and Hardware would wither and die posthaste. And Ray Gaster would be revealed as the hateful, ill-informed ideologue he is.

“Ignoring the way things are doesn’t validate your argument; it just proves that you’re a fool.”

The Obama Camp begins public education campaign on Romney’s potential VP picks

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The Washington Post reports that “the president’s campaign started swinging at the potential Republican running mates this week while urging home-state Democrats to chime in about the shortcomings that — as emails to donors and supporters put it — ‘Americans need to know.’”

  • Tim Pawlenty? The former Minnesota governor is a fee-raiser whose record “is painful for the middle-class families who lived under his leadership.”
  • Rob Portman? The Ohio senator is “one of the architects of the top-down Bush budget” that the Obama team blames for “crashing our economy.”
  • Marco Rubio? The rookie Florida senator has “led the way on almost every extreme position Mitt Romney has embraced,” according to the missive that seeks examples of “the good, the bad and ugly” of Rubio.
  • Chris Christie? There’s “no lack of material to work with” about the pugnacious New Jersey governor.
  • Bobby Jindal? The Louisiana governor and former congressman tried to harm Social Security and Medicare and “had the same issues with secrecy and lack of transparency as Mitt Romney.”

The Post notes: ”Those views are far from how Republicans regard the group.” No kidding! Ha ha.

And there are still so many other logical choices for Mitt’s running mate: Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, a statue of Ronald Reagan, BiBi Netanyahu, Sarah Palin, Mitt’s wife (she’s now an empty nester), Michele Bachmann, Donald Trump, General Jack D. Ripper, Joe Arpaio, Republican Jesus, Joe Walsh, Batboy, Liz Cheney, Boo Boo Child, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, the Koch brothers, Ted Nugent, Jack Abramoff, Michelle Malkin, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, a corporation (they’re people too!), Charles Montgomery Burns, Condoleezza Rice, or Allen West.

It’s believed that Romney will announce his choice of running mate during a bus tour which begins Saturday, taking him through Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and ending in Ohio. Four years ago at a rally in Ohio, John McCain inflicted Sarah Palin on us as his running mate. Ah, memories!

Video: John McCain on Harry Reid’s allegation that Romney hasn’t paid taxes for 10 years

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Anderson Cooper asked John McCain about Harry Reid’s allegation that a Bain Capital source told him that Mitt Romney hasn’t paid taxes for 10 years. Remember McCain saw 20-22 years worth of Romney’s returns in 2008 and chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. In answering Cooper, McCain never calls Reid a liar or says the allegation is false — McCain’s complaint seems to be that Reid has offered no proof:

McCain: First of all I’ve, I’ve know Sen. Reid for many, many years and occasionally he displays some rather erratic behavior. Uh… to accuse someone of doing something without a shred of proof that… the… the allegation has any substance… is really something I frankly don’t understand. I hope that Harry will, that Sen. Reid will correct that and say — unless he’s willing to come forward with the evidence that he has, that… that is the case that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for 10 years — uh… really… uh… this… uh… we’re… uh… not playing bean bag and uh… thi… things… politics are tough and I enjoy the give and take but uh… I think Harry might have gone over the line here.

We’re not playing ‘bean bag‘? So what’s your read on McCain’s extra careful, measured, hemming and hawing, tiptoeing, walking on eggshells, sort of non-response response?

[h/t: addictinginfo.org]

Rep. Joe Walsh wants to “pat [Pres. Obama] on the head” and call him “son”

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“There’s something different on the ground, and I think it’s going to overtake us all again, think it’s going to overtake the political class, I think it’s going to respectfully pick this president up and pat him on the head and say, son, son, son, Mr. President, you were never ready to be president, now go home and work for somebody and find out how the real world works.” — Rep. Joe Walsh (Tea-Racist), Sunday at a campaign event.

This past Fourth of July, Joe Walsh also said that Tammy Duckworth, a combat veteran who lost both her legs in Iraq, wasn’t a “true hero.”

This is the type of person who the tea party worships. The country would be a better place if this guy was voted out of Congress.

Slippery Mitt’s belly flop of the day: “President Obama’s soft on welfare”

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President Obama is hardly the candidate who’s anywhere near “soft” on welfare. Did you know the Boston Herald used to call Governor Romney’s welfare program in Massachusetts “Welfare Wheels“? Joe Klein has the details:

The theme of the day for the Romney campaign was, as Alex Rogers notes below, that Obama’s Soft on Welfare. It sort of flopped. The factoid planted at the microscopic center of the non-story is that the Obama campaign allegedly granted states the right to request waivers from the current welfare work requirements…which is true, except for the following things:

1. The waivers would be granted only if states came up with alternative ideas to create jobs for people on welfare.

2. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney himself asked for such a waiver in 2005.

And, this third bit is just too good…

3. As governor, Romney offered welfare recipients free auto insurance, registration, inspections and memberships in AAA.

Mitt lies and withholds information like this EVERY SINGLE DAY just to convince the feeble minded Fox / Rush fans to vote for him. I can only imagine what those tax returns he’s hiding would really tell us.

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