Well…had to get this one down before I forget it…the latest bit of nonsense coming out of ole Mitt’s campaign made me laugh out loud for the audacity of it…this weekend, one of ole Mitt’s advisers went on a Sunday talk show to try to explain why SEC filings show that Mitt was still the head honcho at Bain until 2002, not 1999, the date that Mitt has used to try to say he had no role in the outsourcing of jobs that Bain pioneered….and the adviser used the phrase “retroactively retired” to explain the discrepancy…You gotta hand it to these folks, creating their own reality that bears no resemblance to the truth and hoping that no one will notice….I am awestruck with the new ways they have found to lie…but, Mitt is such an expert that I shouldn’t be surprised…geez…
Oh, one last thing we should remember about these dates, most of the job creation that ole Mitt is taking credit for happened after 1999 when ole Mitt said he was no longer running Bain…so, he takes credit for jobs when he says he was retired but won’t take responsibility for outsourcing in the same time frame? Just more lies from the king of them…
Well…I have been trying to winnow out the happenings of the day to get to one that I want to write about, and have decided to go back to that gift that just keeps on giving…ole Mitt. Today, the story of Mitt not being responsible for all of the reprehensible behavior at Bain Capital fell apart with the disclosure that his assertion that he had left Bain in 1999 is not true…SEC filings show that he was still the CEO of Bain until 2002; well into the bad days of gutting companies for profit and throwing thousands and thousands of people out of work. But, this is just more of the same for ole Mitt who feels (like most repubs) that the truth is what he says it is, not what it really is…and goes along with the latest revelations that he has hidden large amounts of income in havens like the Cayman Islands so he doesn’t have to pay taxes on it…not something available to normal folks and a good indicator of what his administration would look like…more privilege for those that have money and connections and everyone else can go to hell. Coupled with his weird assed speech to the NCAAP the other day where he tried to convince the delegates there that he would be better for black people because he would end “Obamacare” and give more tax cuts to the rich, it is abundantly clear that ole Mitt is so out of touch with the 99% of us that have to work for a living that he should just go back to his house with the car elevator and leave the rest of us alone…geez…
Well…just a short one on some new revelations on who is trying to buy the election for ole Mitt…an article in one of the papers this morning lists 30 billionaires who make up the bulk of the giving so far with one saying he plans to give Mitt over 100 million dollars to defeat Obama. Now, I don’t care if it looks like I’m against rich people even though I’m not, but 30 people out of 330 million deciding the election? Do you think Sheldon Adelson is giving the 100 million out of the goodness of his heart? No, he is giving the money so he can get laws passed that will help him make back the 100 million in a couple of months if Romney is elected…an investment that anyone in the US would love to be able to do but that is restricted to those that can help the repubs buy the election…what happened to free and fair elections…after all, that is what the repubs used to favor but now all they want to do is rig them like some third world country…people, we need to defeat this money…if we do, and there is no return on investment for these billionaires, they will stop trying to buy elections…geez….
Well…just a little short one on an article that was reported the other day that goes to how ethically challenged ole Mitt is….and how he has no problem lying about anything if it will further his political prospects…a few days back it was revealed that in his days as a job killer at Bain, he instructed one of his subordinates to lie to obtain information about a competitor…a great example to set for people who work for you and not a trait that anyone should want in a president. Except the right, that is, who have absolutely no problem lying, cheating, and stealing to shove their warped vision of the US down our throats. It looks like the people are starting to get an idea of who the real Mitt is and the polls are reflecting it finally….if you haven’t seen it, there was a funny arc in “Doonesberry” this week that took ole Mitt’s job creation claims to task…he created lots of jobs but those jobs were in China and the Chinese government sent a representative to give him a plaque for it…funny stuff…
Well…I did get to the last one for the month and I’m not sure if I feel good about it or what…didn’t have as many fillers as last month so maybe my head is starting to work again…I did find it funny the other day when ole Mitt was describing what his healthcare plan was…exactly the same as Obama’s but ole Mitt has no plan to pay for it…just like the two wars, the medicare drug plan…and everything else the repubs do…so who is more responsible? It’s just more of the same magical thinking that got us into the financial mess we find ourselves in…and, the rest of the ole Mitt’s agenda is just more of the same “trust us” nonsense they have pushed in Wisconsin and even here in Michigan…and how did that work out? I am just so exasperated that people find this kind of nonsense acceptable when they have seen the extreme right wing crap come out after the elections…do you think the repubs are going to change? Nope, not when they have billions of dollars coming from the 1% and corporations that will be used to lie, cheat, and steal…geez….
Well…it has been a weird couple of days and I have the recurring fear that I might be running out of things to say…politics is not very interesting and my life has devolved into a bore with not having anyone to hang out with any more…so, what do I talk about now? Or, what do I do now? Questions, questions…and I don’t have any answers..one thing did just strike me as I sit here and try…why is ole Mitt tied with Obama in the polls when all he is proposing is exactly what drove the country off the road a few years ago? Nothing at all new…just more tax cuts for the rich and more safety net cuts for the rest of us…and yet, people are buying this nonsense…the more I drive my new car, the more I like it…and I’m even starting to get used to the idea that I can’t carry anything in it…I am going to let T drive it in the near future…she being a Fiat girl and all…she may appreciate it…we did have a nice lunch today but I am a little worried about her pace…but, that’s not my job anymore so I’ll have to let that go…I could do a spandex alert from the trail today…do these guys ever look in the mirror before they go out on their bikes? If they did, they would slink back and change I’m sure…no one over 250 lbs should ever wear it, especially when half of that weight is in their guts…okay…I’m about finished for now…at least I got a second one out…
Well…read a nice little nugget of who Romney really is, or who the modern republican party really is when an article from a couple of days ago revealed that ole Mitt has been going around to repub governors and telling them to stop telling the truth about the economic improvements that have happened in their states…and start saying that the economy still is in bad shape because of Obama and his policies…you know, lie about what it going on…something that Romney is really comfortable with. This just shows what the repubs are all about….they don’t give a damn that perception of an improving economy is important to the recovery…they have said all along that their only goal is to defeat Obama and they don’t care if they tank the economy doing it…in fact, they would love the economy to tank…then they can push more tax cuts for the rich and destroy more of the middle class…and, the recovery is sputtering because of the obstruction of the repubs and their asinine embrace of austerity that has driven Europe back into recession and will do the same here if they keep it up…geez…
Well…this one is going to meander a bit since I have a couple of topics that I want to cover…first, I read an article in the Detroit News…yeah, I know, a right wing rag that I should stop supporting, by the idiot Michael Barone, who asserts that it is unhealthy to only listen to news, or talk to, or associate with people from your end of the political spectrum…and the funniest part is that he was attributing that behavior to those of us in the middle and on the left. My jaw just about dropped since I don’t know of any republican that watches anything other than Fox News or listens to anything but the right wing echo machine. Talk about projection there Mikey? It is the right’s exclusive purview to be ignorant; to listen to no one but those on the right, and to build a worldview that consists of the talking points of the day….man, what a load of crap.
The second thing I wanted to talk about here is the resurgence of the nonsense of birtherism, driven by the rantings of the Donald and now, even the repub candidate for one of the senate seats from here in Michigan..I can’t believe…well, yeah, I can…that ole Mitt would be seen with Trump since he is eleven ways of crazy…then we have Pete Hoekstra here in Michigan that thinks we should have a “commission” that would certify that people that are running for president are eligible for the office…just a more disguised shot at Obama than the normal birther crap…this from a guy that thinks it would be just peachy to allow oil drilling in the Great Lakes…where do they find these idiots? Geez….and that makes the goal for the month!!!!
Well…there are more and more lies coming out of Romney again today..or maybe it was yesterday…who knows other than when he opens his mouth, you have a better than even chance to bet that it will be another lie…I still can’t understand that he doesn’t understand that there is videotape on all of this crap he is saying…I think he is counting on the fact that the media has gotten lazy and only a few reporters are trying to call him on this nonsense. The specific speech in the last couple of days took Obama to task; saying that the government stimulus actually held back the economy…spouting some weird, right wing propaganda that has no basis in economic fact. But the big lie is that, in 2009, he was on board with stimulus and the need for it in a severe downturn and made plenty of speeches that supported it….instead of an etch a sketch…people should be bringing flip flops to his rallies and waving them in the air…this man has no core…he learned nothing from that ivy league education…or he is just the worse sort of pandering liar that litters our political landscape these days…someone who would have been laughed off the stage 30 years ago…geez…
Well….I have been just trying to get my strength back all day without much luck but I thought I’d share this dream from last night before I forget it…and it is kind of political since ole Mitt is in it….okay, the dream was basically a set of vignettes where I followed ole Mitt around Michigan being an obnoxious jerk about all of his lies and blowing up the idea that he will move to the center if he is elected….got him so pissed at me that he that he had his tea party thugs drag me out a bunch of times and then barred me…but, that didn’t stop me and he and his followers got so annoyed that I was getting the press to start questioning as I was that they planted a bomb that I avoided but got the hint…..and then, I woke up at 4 and have been up since…I know, not really political but I thought it was interesting….I will try to get back later for another but I can’t promise anything…