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A couple more things…

Well…have been reading quite a bit today….okay, I do that everyday so I guess it’s not unusual…in that reading, I did find a couple of tidbits that shed some light on the effects that ole Mitt’s economic proposals would have if he were elected…first…the WAPO has a new series going on where they ask noted economists whose plans will have the best effect for the economy if implemented…so far, they have all come down on Obama’s side saying that Mitt’s plans to cut spending and lower taxes for the rich will make the economy worse….since those spending cuts will result in real job losses across the economy and tax cuts for the rich will explode the deficit. One of the other planks of ole Mitt’s plans is to continue to deregulate everything in business, but an interesting story in the Trib today shows how drug companies, in the part of the industry that is not regulated, have been stealing billions from you and me by paying generic drug manufacturers to not introduce generic versions of their cash cows…in essence colluding to fix prices…and ole Mitt wants more of this? Oh, yeah…that’s right, he has gotten the bulk of the campaign funding from this industry…I guess they are trying to ensure there is no competition in the presidential race, too. No wonder ole Mitt doesn’t want to reveal any details of his plans, stupid as they are….geez…

Mitt is just an idiot…

Well…I laughed my butt off today when I saw the latest pivot from ole Mitt…since his meme that his business experience makes him qualified to be president has been widely discredited by the Obama campaign’s attacks on his years at Bain, we now have ole Mitt changing his focus to his time as governor and the supposed great things he did then. One of the lines that he used in a recent speech is that “he created more jobs than Obama has”…I guess no one in the repub party reminded him of their talking point that government can’t create jobs…what is it, Mitt? Does government help create jobs or not? This just exposes the lie that ole Mitt bought into and shows that he has flip-flopped again. One other point that he made in the same speech was that while he was governor, housing prices went up…of course they did, moron, they went up everywhere until the crash of 2008…now he’s taking credit for it? I am just exasperated that this guy is still in the race…the only way he was ever successful was when he started ahead of everyone else…in money, name recognition, and connections…we all should be so lucky…geez…

Can’t let this one go…

Well…I rarely repeat myself here but today I really feel the need to, I need to go back to Romney’s tax plan and the fallout of the Tax Policy Center’s analysis of it. I just love the fact that Obama has finally found out how to take some wind out of the “trust me” crap that Romney is peddling and is forcing him to respond to facts…something that the repubs really can’t do since they don’t believe in them. To recap, the TPC has stated that there are only two outcomes possible form ole Mitt’s plan, either he will raise taxes on the middle class and poor to pay for his tax cuts for the rich, or he will explode the deficit. Ole Mitt’s campaign has complained that the TPC’s analysis is flawed since it doesn’t have the details of his plan included but they have a problem since they have not released the details of the plan, instead doing what all repub candidates do; lie or stay vague so the real effects of the policies can’t be determined by the voters…just like ole Walker did in Wisconsin and like Snyder did here in Michigan. So, I have to applaud the new Obama tactic of calling him out on this vagueness since once the real effects are known, no one but his base will vote for ole Mitt…maybe there is hope after all…

The numbers don’t lie…

Well…sitting here waiting for the maint guy to come so I thought I’d comment on the tax plan being put forth by ole Mitt…in an analysis done by the non-partisan Brookings Institute and the Tax Policy Center shows that this reverse Robin Hood plan would shift even more of the tax burden from the rich to the middle class and poor…and, on top of that, would increase the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars a year…and it would shift the tax burden by 86 billion dollars a year from those making more than 200K a year to those that make less…essentially making the workers pay to subsidize the rich who already pay less of a percentage of their income than they’ve paid in 80 years. As you can see, ole Mitt is not serious in trying to fix the problems of the US, is not serious in trying to fix the infrastructure and schools that we need…he is only interested in stealing more for the rich…if you want your taxes increased, vote for Mitt….geez…

Last one for the month…maybe…

Well….they say that laughter can make you live years longer, if that’s true, I have to thank ole Mitt for extending my life for many, many more years with his gaffe filled overseas trip. Then, he forgot that there are other news organizations other than the fawning propaganda experts over at Fox and the fact that he is going to have to answer questions from people who want the truth…not the daily talking points. This idiot then even went on Fox to bitch about his missteps being covered instead of what he thinks they should cover….then, there was the column by Eugene Robinson that touched on the same theme I have touched on here many times…the fact that ole Mitt is so arrogant when it comes to his “accomplishments”, thinking that anyone should be able to do what he did no matter how they started out in life…no matter that he has been wealthy his whole life and used his daddy’s connections and his friends money to start Bain where he gutted companies for his own personal profit. It is like many of the rich that I have crossed paths with during my life…they just can’t understand why everyone can’t be a ceo of a family company, or can’t understand that it takes more than a year or so to go from an entry level job to vice president….it’s like these people are aliens…geez…

Mitt stumbles again…

Well…I am laughing quite hard today as I watch ole Mitt put his foot in it again and show that he does not have the temperment or the intelligence to be president; especially when it comes to the diplomatic nuances that are necessary to operate in a complex world. In Israel the other day, while he was trying to raise foreign money to support his campaign, ole Mitt gave a long, rambling answer to a question on the economic success of the Israelis versus the poverty that most Palestinians endure basically saying that it’s the Palestinians fault that they have not had as much success. Now, does this guy even understand that everyone can hear him when he spouts this nonsense? Does he even understand that, god forbid he gets elected, that he has to deal with everyone not just the friends of the US? In one fell swoop, this idiot has destroyed any goodwill that we may have garnered and has set the middle east peace process back 50 years since the Palestinians will never trust a Romney administration. This is just like all of the repubs, though, they only care about those who vote for them…everyone else can go to hell….geez…

Almost forgot this one…

Well….I really laughed at the stupidity of the Romney “advisers” the other day when they made a comment before ole Mitt’s trip to England that Romney would be a better friend of England since they “shared an Anglo-Saxon heritage”…basically code words that it’s because ole Mitt is white and Obama isn’t. I laugh because there is a thriving community of citizens of color in England but I guess the repubs think of England just like they think of the US…that if you’re not rich and white, they don’t have to think about you and they have no use for you…especially if you are not a fellow repub…and, there was another thing that happened that shows that ole Mitt can only talk to his base and has no clue about how diplomacy works…as he was interviewed before the trip, he expressed concerns that England had the capability to pull off the games and insulted every Englishman in the process….do we need this idiot supporting the stereotype that Americans are stupid and full of themselves? I just can’t believe that anyone that has made so many mistakes is even close to Obama…maybe no one is paying attention….geez…

A Romney win will be illegitimate…

Well….have had this thought rattling around in my head for the past month or so and thought I’d get it down before I forget to deal with it…what happens if the voter suppression efforts by the repubs work and Romney is elected by a margin smaller than those votes that were prevented by the fake voter fraud laws that have been passed by repubs across the country? To me, it would make his presidency no more valid than Putin’s in Russia where it was clear that much of the vote was fraudulent….what does that say about our country that we no longer have “free and fair” elections but ones that have been rigged by the repubs? With all of the talk from the repubs of their love for the country and our sytems, they obviously are the most un-American party in the history of our country and are the cause of the political dysfunction that we see….no one else is to blame, just them…and, just as the unfounded wars and torture that the repubs supported ruined our standing with the rest of the world, how can we ask or tell other countries to have fair elections when ours are just as rigged as any banana republic….geez….

Mitt’s just such an easy target…

Well…I know you may be getting tired of all of the focus here on ole Mitt, but he is just so darn tone deaf about everything that I just have to keep hitting these hanging curveballs. The latest bit of idiocy from his campaign just points up the crony capitalism that is part and parcel of the circles he runs in and should disqualify him from the presidency if only for his stupidity. The latest, if you haven’t heard, is his fundraiser that is being put on in London in a couple of weeks…and who is it being put on by? The chairs of this event are all involved with the interest rate fixing scandal that just cost Barclays bank (headed by one of Romneys supporters) 450 million dollars in fines…and these folks include at least three other bank executives that are also involved in the scandal….one of them being Barclays chief lobbyist in Washington. So, these are the type of people that Romney is “pallin’ around with” and who are trying to buy Romney the election so they can steal even more money by their unethical behavior. Is this the kind of America we want…one where the banks can steal with the blessing of the president? I sure don’t…but if anyone votes for Romney, that is exactly the America we’ll get….geez….

Gonna keep piling on ole Mitt….

Well….I had to laugh the other day when ole Mitt came out and said that some of the things that the dems have said about him and his time at Bain have hurt his feelings and that Obama should apologize for the ads….what would ole Mitt do if another world leader called him names or hurt his feelings…would he ask for an apology? This just points up something that Mitt has been his entire career…thin skinned and eager to play the victim…would he do this going up against Putin? I think he just doesn’t have the stones to be a world leader and to have someone actively oppose what he thinks…when that happens, he crawls back to his rich supporters and insular world to lick his wounds. How is he going to stand up to anyone when he has never had to in his entire privileged life?

Oh, one last thing that I found interesting in the papers today is the speculation that the reason ole Mitt won’t release his tax returns from 2009 is that he may have been one of the Americans that took the IRS amnesty for hiding income in Swiss banks and not paying the taxes he owed on it. With the revelation of the hidden accounts in the Cayman Islands and the other financial chicanery that he has used to avoid paying his fair share of taxes…this could be the smoking gun that finally reveals how un-American ole Mitt really is…geez…