Well…You know I didn’t watch the repub debate last night, but I did read about it in the papers this morning and one of the things that I saw as the ultimate irony has to do with the outrage that ole Newt showed to Jon King when asked about his affairs. As you know, I don’t think that much of a candidates personal life should be part of the political process, but, when a politician has the track record that Newt has, it should be fair game because it goes to his character. If you remember, ole Newt was one of the repubs that was leading the impeachment charge in Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky affair, and in comparison, what ole Newt did in his life is so much worse with his serial affairs and general callousness toward the wives he was cheating on. I think this shows that Newt lacks any sliver of empathy that I feel a politician needs to be able to understand the rest of the people in the country…geez….
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The new defense of Mitt..
Well…I was laughing my butt off this morning when I read of the new defense of ole Mitt only paying 15% in taxes on his investment income with the right trying out the line that he followed the law, didn’t he? I agree he may have followed the current law, we’ll wait for the tax returns before I accept that he has, but I think the right and the media are missing the point…what makes investment income different from the income that comes from wages? Income should be treated as income no matter what the source, there should be no privileged income…and the problem as I see it is that that rich have bought themselves different treatment than the rest of us by campaign contributions and the connections of the old boy network here in the US. That is where the rich diverge from the rest of us and is why the 99%’ers are so angry…and the difference is that most of us don’t mind paying our fair share and can’t afford the cadres of lawyers that the 1%’ers use to ensure they pay the very least that the code allows….we need to fix the code that allows this kind of nonsense that makes an unemployed person pay more taxes than a millionaire…
Another example that ole Mitt is out of touch…
Well…just a short one on a comment that ole Mitt made yesterday about his income from speakers fees that he made last year….when asked about the amount he replied “not much”…okay, Mitt, your not much was 374,000 dollars…374 K, which would put anyone else in the top 1% is just pocket change to ole Mitt…how can anyone who answers that 374K is “not much” ever understand what the 99% of us go through in our daily lives? This alone should disqualify Mitt form the presidency since the only people he can ever identify with are those of the silver spoon class; those that were born to wealth and have the delusion that they earned it…geez…
Okay, I’m going to add a little to this one about how out of touch many of our rich politician class is…if you remember, back in the 90′s when the elder George Bush walked into a grocery store and marveled at the price scanners that those of us that actually have to do our own grocery shopping had seen for many years…and, to be fair…there have been many of the patrician class of the dems that have done the same thing, I seem to remember one of the Kennedys who never carried money because they had people to do that for them…but the difference is that most of them really did care about the middle class and their legislative efforts showed it…none of the trickle-down nonsense that the repubs have pushed for the last 30 years…
Phase one of “operation goodbye Scott Walker” is complete….
Well…I hope you’ve been following the drama that has been going on in Wisconsin over the past year where the repub governor Scott Walker and his cronies have attacked the rights of the people and have tried to enact the Koch brothers radical view of the world that includes making the middle class go away. I was heartened yesterday when the first phase of ridding the world of this nonsense was completed by the people of Wisconsin filing over a million signatures to recall this troglodyte idiot and a few more of his extreme right wing minions. But, there is still an election to be won in phase two but you can see how concerned his owners are with Walker being in NYC to raise more money to try to lie his way into the rest of his term…there is something wrong with how the repubs do politics when the majority of the money Walker has used to get elected and to try to defeat the signature drive has come from big-money sources outside of Wisconsin…I stand with the people of Wisconsin while they take back their state from these radical outside interests…and I hope this puts the gov here on notice that the people don’t want the repubs radical nonsense….and that we remember the right of the people to freely associate and form unions is a human right that can’t be taken away by big money….nice job!
I was right about Romney…
Well…if you were here a few days back, you heard me make the assertion that one of the reasons that ole Mitt wasn’t releasing his tax returns was that it was going to reveal a dirty little secret of those whose income is derived from investment; not from wages….that those who live off securities and investment income only pay about 15% of their income in taxes…and that is exactly what happened today when ole Mitt’s campaign revealed just that. Now, I don’t know about you, but I just don’t think it’s right or fair that the 1% can buy tax laws that allow them to avoid paying their fair share while the rest of us pay 25% or more..even in my case, where I am living on savings from my lifetime of work and I pay more than the multi-millionaire Mitt…c’mon Mitt…let’s see the pretzel you are going to twist yourself into trying to justify these facts….I hope you can now understand why the 99% is so pissed off…geez…
Ole Mitt and his tax returns…
Well…just have to comment on the new flap over the refusal of ole Mitt to release his tax returns…and you and I know why that is…I’m sure they are going to show that this person who has over 250 million dollars is not paying his fair share of taxes like the rest of us. You can see that this will be the case if they are ever released since much of his holdings are in tax havens like the Cayman Islands where his rate will be around 15%…when was the last time you paid only 15% in taxes on your wages? Never is the answer…and that is the problem with people like ole Mitt…the rich are treated differently in this country and it is just that sense of entitlement that is rife in the 1%’ers that is shown in his campaign…he has felt since he was little that he was owed a Harvard education, that it was his birthright to have whatever elected office he chooses….that’s elitism at it’s worst. geez….
Hypocrisy from the Republicans…again
Well…I have a few thoughts that I want to get down on here so I will be adding to this one as the day goes on…first, I wanted to comment on the furor that is coming from the right on the recess appointments made this past week by the president and the subsequent ruling from the DOJ that the appointments are legal. The attacks center on the idea that since the senate repubs are trotting a senator out every few days to stand around in the senate chamber, the senate is in session and the president can’t appoint anyone until they can consent. This is utter nonsense since every president in history has made recess appointments and the DOJ has said that this is legal….but, that just drove the second set of attacks that ridicule the DOJ ruling on the appointments legality since the AG was appointed by Obama….but, they conveniently ignore the fact that the AG appointed by ole GW did exactly the same thing when it approved indefinite detentions for terror suspects…so, I call hypocrisy, again, on these idiots…maybe this one is long enought without adding to it…and if I do another, I will be caught up for the month…
Too much confusion…
Well…it has been a tumultuous week in politics and the happenings are making my head swim a little, sowing the seeds of confusion while I try to make sense of it. One of the things I find quite interesting is the attack line that is being used on ole Mitt…you would think that the other repubs in the primaries are really democrats with the populist attacks on Mitt’s tenure at Bain Capital…didn’t they get the memo that capitalism=good and, to quote Mitt, “the only people that are really successful are those that are in the 1%…”? It doesn’t matter to him that the majority of the 1% started out with lots of money (like him or Huntsman), or used their government connections (like Santorum or Gingrich) to get rich and these guys truly believe that it’s okay to rail against government on one hand and then profit from government on the other hand. I truly hope this continues since it is making me grin…but I will say it doesn’t take much to amuse me…
Bain Capital’s brand of capitalism…
Well…interesting research in the papers today that revealed some facts about ole Mitt’s tenure at Bain…and his new stump speech claiming that, while at Bain, the company never took any “bailouts” or government assistance of any sort. Mitt, Mitt, Mitt…I really don’t understand how you guys don’t understand that there are records out there, that things can be fact checked…and this one is just a huge lie…in two instances, Bain was bailed out of debt by the government…once with the FDIC forgiving 10 million dollars that was owed…and the other when they killed a steel company and then dumped the pension liabilities on the government to the tune of 45 million dollars while the execs at Bain walked away with 10 million in bonuses…yep, that’s ole Mitt’s form of capitalism…swoop in, gut a company, and then profit from pushing the liabilities of those companies on the taxpayers. I don’t see this as any different from any other bailout that happened over the past few years…just another case of the rich taking advantage of the system to steal from you and me…geez…
The true republicans come out…
Well..I hope you’ve been watching the lead up to the NH primary on the repub side and all of the Mitt bashing that has been done by the others in the race…I find it one of the funniest things I’ve seen in years but my neck hurts from watching all of the flip-flopping that has been going on. One of the most hilarious attacks centers on ole Mitt’s job creation record at Bain capital, with the crowd of contenders abandoning the central tenet of modern repub thought that business equals good and the hell with everyone else…and citing the fact that jobs were killed when Bain took over many companies while ole Mitt was running it as a reason to not elect him. What are these guys going to do if they do defeat Mitt? I just love how much ammunition the left is getting from all of these sound bites…and the fact that all of this sound a fury is exposing the repubs for what they are….unprincipled idiots who will do or say anything that they think will get them elected.
One last thing…one of the things that ole Mitt cites that makes him a job creator was Bain’s investment in Staples and he even goes so far to make it sound like he created Staples from his own ideas…it’s just not true..Bain supplied money and that was it…