Daily Archives: September 28, 2012

Mitt Romney got a tax break on 2011 return from a firm shipping Illinois jobs to China

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President Obama has been mocking Romney recently, over his tough talk on China. Here’s yet another reason why — one more American company and its employees harvested to China:

Mitt Romney Gets Tax Break Off Firm Sending Jobs To China

Sensata Technologies is a healthy manufacturing company that employs nearly 200 workers at a factory in northern Illinois. The company has become the focus of national attention because it has been taken over by Bain Capital, which plans to shut the factory down, lay off the workers, and outsource the production to China before the end of the year.

The workers have pleaded with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the founder of Bain Capital, to exert his considerable influence to save their jobs. Romney still makes millions each year in income from Bain. So far, he has declined to weigh in, and the factory is scheduled to close by the end of the year.

While the workers and the town may suffer, Romney himself has done well as a result of Bain’s work with the company. …

(Photo credit: Ilya Sheyman)

OFA ad “My job:” Mitt Romney, in his own words

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Mitt Romney behind closed doors:

“There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what …”

“… who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it …”

“… And they will vote for this president no matter what …”

“… And so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Jonathan Chait comments on why President Obama’s new ad may seal Mitt Romney’s fate.

“What’s devastating about the ad, aside from the juxtaposition of Romney’s words against photos of regular Americans, is something I only noticed the second time I watched it. It’s the sound of silverware clinking on china in the background as Romney speaks. That detail contrasts the atmosphere Romney inhabits with the one in which most Americans live. You can tell, even though you’re not seeing this, that the remarks are being made to people enjoying a formal dinner.”

“The damage of the remarks is twofold. Obviously, it deeply reinforces the worst stereotypes voters have of Romney. Indeed, the fact that he is currently running ads trying to make the case that he does care about all of America testifies to the grim position in which Romney finds himself… Worse still, the comments destroy Romney’s fundamental credibility. Here America sees what he says behind closed doors.”

Sen. Jim Webb issues stinging attack on Mitt Romney

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Roll Call: Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) joined President Barack Obama in Virginia Beach today and issued a stinging attack on Mitt Romney’s failure to mention veterans during his presidential nomination acceptance speech, while also noting that Romney did not serve in the military.

“They will not say this, so I will say it for them. They are owed, if nothing else, at least a mention, some word of thanks and respect, when a presidential candidate who is their generational peer makes a speech accepting his party’s nomination to be commander in chief,” Webb said, according to his prepared remarks. “And they are owed much more than that – a guarantee that we will never betray the commitment that we made to them and to their loved ones.”

The former Marine and Navy secretary appeared to poke at Romney for receiving draft deferments during the Vietnam War.

“Gov. Romney and I are about the same age. Like millions of others in our generation, we came to adulthood facing the harsh realities of the Vietnam War,” Webb said, adding that he didn’t envy or resent choices people made about how to handle the draft as a long as they did so under the law.

“But those among us who stepped forward to face the harsh unknowns and the lifelong changes that can come from combat did so with the belief that their service would be honored and that our leaders would, in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, care for those who had borne the battle, and for their widows and their children.”

The veterans of that war “are not bitter. They know what they did. But in receiving veterans’ benefits, they are not takers. They were givers, in the ultimate sense of that word. There is a saying among war veterans: ‘All gave some, some gave all.’ This is not a culture of dependency. It is a part of a long tradition that gave this country its freedom and independence.”

Photos: 1) Jason Reed / Reuters 2) Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP 3) Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images / September 27, 2012

Romney voting shenanigans in El Paso County, Colorado

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When you have a campaign built on nothing, cheat to win:

The person recording the video exits a Safeway grocery store and a young woman who is registering voters outside the store asks her, “Are you voting for Romney or Obama?”

The woman recording responds, “Well, wait, I thought you were registering voters a minute ago.” To which the young woman replies, “I am.”

The person recording then asks, “Well, who are you registering? All voters?”

“Well, I’m actually trying to register people for a particular party. Because we’re out here in support of Romney, actually,” the young woman registering voters says.

“And who is paying you for this?” The video recorder asks. “We’re working for the County Clerk’s Office,” the young woman replies with some hesitation and confusion.

[...] Later in the video the woman recording says to the volunteer, “Okay, you cannot come out here and register one party, lady.” The young woman now becoming clearly embarrassed puts her hands up in front of the camera to block her face. “You’re working for the County Clerk’s Office?”

“I believe so, yes,” the young woman says. “And you’re only registering Republicans?” The video recorder says with outrage. To which the young woman replies, “No.”

“You said you’re only registering Romney people,” says the video recorder.

And the young woman replies, “Well, we’re trying to, to be honest.”

— Romney Campaign Volunteer Says She Works For Clerk’s Office, But Only Registering Romney Voters (VIDEO)

NATURALLY the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams disavows what the young woman said. If you’re caught cheating, wouldn’t you also deny it?

If you live in Colorado, go HERE to check if you’re registered to vote. If you’re not, you can also register online from this site.

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Romney’s economic plan: there is no there there

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“Mitt’s economic “plan” is just a set of goals. Imagine I came up with a plan to become rich that went: write bestselling novel, start hit restaurant chain, invent next Internet.” — Michael Tomasky

Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN meme

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“Red lines don’t lead to war; red lines prevent war.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exhorted the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to draw “a clear red line” to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In a theatrical gesture, Netanyahu held up a cartoon-like drawing of a spherical bomb and drew a red line below the fuse, “before Iran completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment to make a bomb,” he said. ”It’s not a question of whether Iran will get the bomb. The question is at what stage can we stop Iran from getting the bomb,” said Netanyahu, who also accused Iran of aggression.

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Campaigns respond to Romney’s 1985 “harvest companies for profit” speech

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Both campaigns responded to yesterday’s article by David Corn, regarding the 1985 video of Mitt Romney saying that the goal of Bain Capital was to buy stakes in undervalued companies and then “harvest them at a significant profit” years later:

The Obama campaign, via Randy Johnson, a former worker at Ampad: “Today’s video confirms what I and other workers fired by Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital already know: that Romney’s business experience was never about creating jobs. Romney’s own words prove that his focus was putting profits before people from the very beginning, ‘harvesting’ companies to make a ‘significant profit’ for himself and   his investors – even if it meant investing in companies that shipped   American jobs to China. Any other explanation Romney puts forth about   this ‘private sector’ experience or understanding of the ‘real economy’ are just empty words from a man desperately trying to rewrite the past in order to win an election.”

The Romney campaign, via campaign spokesperson Amanda Henneberg: ”In addition to starting new businesses, Mitt Romney helped build Bain Capital by turning  around broken companies, creating and saving  thousands of jobs. The problem today is that President Obama hasn’t been able to turn around our economy in the same way.”

As David Corn noted yesterday, “Romney mentioned that it would routinely take up to eight years to turn around a firm—though he now slams the president for failing to revive the entire US economy in half that time.”

Bloomberg: George W. Bush is now viewed more favorably than Mitt Romney

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Next up for Mitt Romney’s campaign optics: Romney filmed clearing brush, driving a pickup, talking with a toothpick in his mouth, having a beer … no, scratch that last one.

Political Wire: “Dallas Morning News: “For all the talk about whether Mitt Romney should distance himself from George W. Bush — and the policies of the last GOP White House — a new survey shows that the former president actually has better favorability ratings than the Republican nominee.”

“The most recent Bloomberg poll shows Bush with a 46% to 49% favorable rating as compared to Romney’s 43% to 50%.”

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