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“I don’t know how he’ll handle the head of state job. He’s made a mess of being a tourist.”
Willard is a simple fuck-up. Or, as my source close to (back in the day) Willard’s Dad aka George Romney has said “He’s [Mitt Romney] a jerk. He was a jerk as a kid, and he’s a jerk now.” Must be why George Romney's former lieutenant governor, Bill Milliken, has not endorsed Mitt.
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Scalia admitted there could be, such as “frighting” (carrying a big ax just to scare people), but they would still have to be determined with an 18th-Century perspective in mind.
“ We’ll see. Obviously the Amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried — it’s to keep and “bear,” so it doesn’t apply to cannons — but I suppose here are hand-held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes, that will have to be decided. ”
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“It's been quite amazing so far. I'm almost speechless. That doesn't happen too often.”
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“ One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show. ”
Mitt Romney’s father set a precedent which every presidential candidate since has followed. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has released only one return, and refused to release more, despite calls from leaders in both political parties. There is a reason for this. This man is trying to delude the American people, all of us, including Republicans.
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“ What I think we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking and have banks be deposit takers, have banks make commercial and real estate loans. And have banks do something that will not risk tax payer dollars. And that is not going to be something that will not be too big to fail. If banks want to hedge what they are doing in their investments, let them do it in a way that is marked to market so that they are never going to be hit. ”
“ I’m suggesting that they be broken up so that the taxpayer will never be at risk, the depositors won’t be at risk, the leverage of the banks will be something reasonable, and the investment banks can do trading, they’re not subject to a Volcker Rule, they can make some mistakes, but they’ll have everything that clears with each other every single night so they can be market-to-market. ”
According to The Hill, lawmakers in Washington took the opportunity to talk about additional financial regulation, which would be a very good thing. But let’s get real here, nothing, absolutely nothing will happen until and unless we elect a Democratic House, Senate, and President in November.
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“Those ads, taking my words about small business out context, they're flat out wrong. Of course Americans build their own businesses. Every day, hard-working people sacrifice to meet a payroll, create jobs, and make our economy run.
Now what I said was that we need to stand behind them, as America always has by investing in education and training, roads and bridges, research and technology.”
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This time (last time it was Pennsylvania House Majority Leader, Republican dope, Mike Turzai) it’s Wisconsin state senator, Glenn Grothman, and I’m sure I need not state that he is a…what else, a Republican piece of horseshit, another one of those who are determined to disenfranchise voters in order to win an election. From his interview with Think Progress (Keyes):
KEYES: If it were upheld and in place in time for the November election, do you think — polls have shown a pretty razor-thin margin — do you think it might ultimately help Romney’s campaign here in the state?
GROTHMAN: Yes. Right. I think we believe that insofar as there are inappropriate things, people who vote inappropriately are more likely to vote Democrat.
KEYES: So if these protections are in place of voter ID, that might ultimately help him in a close race?
GROTHMAN: Right. I think if people cheat, we believe the people who cheat are more likely to vote against us.
While the Wisconsin law has been by permanently blocked by Circuit Judge David Flanagan, the ruling is likely to be appealed, and if it is in fact reinstated, the law may very well allow a Romney win unfairly (and by absolute intention of the Republicans), disenfranchising at least 300,000 people in Wisconsin:
Wisconsin is perennially a swing state in presidential elections. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) carried Wisconsin by just 0.4 percent in 2004; polls this year suggest it could be another nailbiter. PPP gives President Obama a 6-point edge, 50-44, but Rasmussen put Romney ahead by 3 points, 47-44.
Approximately 300,000 Wisconsinites lack a government-issued photo ID, more than 27 times the margin that Kerry won by in 2004. If the polls are still close in November and voter ID is reinstated, Grothman may very well be correct that the new law will give Romney an edge on Election Day. [….]
[….] A spokeswoman for Wisconsin’s Department of Justice, which defended the law in court, said state lawyers are currently reviewing Flanagan’s decision but will likely appeal the ruling.
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“ Including as many Americans as possible in our electoral process is the spirit of our country. It is why we have expanded rights to women and minorities but never legislated them away, and why we have lowered the voting age but never raised it. Cynical efforts at voter suppression are driven by an un-American desire to exclude as many people and silence as many voices as possible. ”
Via Josh Marshall, who noted “Voter suppression is as close as you get in democratic politics to mortal sin. And it's going to be one of the prime features of the 2012 election. It is shameful, cynical and frankly disgusting.”
Adding…..voter suppression is the last resort of a flailing political party which cannot win on its own merits.
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“I'm sure you have been following the dust up over government officials demanding that news organizations permit them to clear their quotes [touched off by a piece last week by NYT's Jeremy W. Peters ... A quotation is just as important as any other paragraph in your story. ... So how is ceding control of an interview or quote any different than letting a press secretary edit any other paragraph? The entire story? All your stories? It's not. Don't do it. If a public official wants to use NJ as a platform for his/her point of view, the price of admission is a quote that is on-record, unedited and unadulterated. Proposed exceptions can be discussed case-by-case with your editor. We can't hold leaders accountable while allowing them to pull our punches.”
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“ Mitt Romney has put forward as his main credential his tenure as a corporate-buyout specialist at Bain Capital, but he’s bristled at any discussion of that record because he profited off bankrupting companies and outsourcing jobs, applying an economic philosophy that the American people strongly disagree with. ”
Really, Romney’s people do one thing very consistently. Whenever the Obama Campaign pokes at Romney’s flaws and lies, the Romney Campaign simply returns the same/similar accusation regardless of any basis in truth. It’s a game that Mitt’s been playing all of his life, and the lies fly from his lips without forethought or concern.
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“ Talking about the president's tax proposal, Ms. Cupp rather loosely termed the president's tax policy "collectivist." (And, yes, both Mao and Stalin laughed uproariously as their spits turned over the flames of hell.) Kornacki gently reminded her that an increase in the marginal income tax tax rate is a lot of things — including, to my mind, a pretty good idea, but no matter — but it is in no way "collectivist," if English words have any meaning in, you know, English. Kornacki asked, quite reasonably, whether Ms. Cup believed the country was in the grip of a collectvist regime when Dwight Eisenhower was president and the marginal rate was in the 70's. He then asked her if she thought Bill Clinton, who got passed the rates to which the current president is trying to return, was a "collectivist." She then said, "No." This caused Kornacki to take on the general mien of a man who has spent five minutes arguing tax policy with a marmoset. Ms. Cupp then started flapping her gums about this president's "political" philosophy of taking your salary and making it belong to everyone, or somebody or something. I lost a few minutes because I heard a high whistle and everything went black. ”
One has to wonder if Republicans are all collectively brain damaged.
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“ In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the failure of the president to reignite our economy. And I'm simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about. ”
I’m just wondering how many years it was that Mitt Romney paid zero in taxes.
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“ The only person who has seen Romney's taxes is John McCain and he took one look and picked Sarah Palin.”
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“ I think there's no doubt that I underestimated the degree to which in this town politics trump problem solving. Washington feels as broken as it did four years ago. ”
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“ If they want more stuff from the government, tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff. But don’t forget nothing is really free. ”
As if the members of the NAACP who support the Obamacare expect to receive free health care.
On the other hand, isn’t it a form of welfare when Mitt Romney stashes his money in offshore accounts in order to avoid paying taxes on it? I think it is, and he surely does it for that reason, admitted or not.
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“ We know that voter suppression has been taking place, is [taking] place and is planned [to affect the 2012 election]. We are witnessing a concerted effort to place new obstacles in front of minorities, low-income families and young people who seek to exercise their right to vote. A poll tax by another name would smell as vile. ”
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“Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not. Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them. We call those poll taxes.”
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“ He wants you to show your papers, but he won't show us his. ”
“ This is the man who says President Obama is out of touch? This coming from the man who until recently had a Swiss bank account, and millions of dollars invested in the Grand Cayman Islands beyond scrutiny, and the president, Obama, is out of touch? ”
“ It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally. ”
Adding…..if it were President Obama who was found to be holding offshore accounts, you know, I mean, you really know, Republicans could not shut up about it until the President was drawn and quartered. Or lynched. On the other hand, Republicans are no better than creepy facsimiles of human beings thugs these days.
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“ Imagine what the Supreme Court will look like after four years of Governor Romney. Imagine what it will act like. Imagine what it will mean for civil rights, voting rights, and so much we have fought so hard for. Imagine a Justice Department that supports, rather than challenges, continued efforts to suppress the right to vote. Because that’s what will happen if they win. ”
Via Bob Cesca
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“ During the June 2011-June 2012 period, each of the 13 consecutive months ranked among the warmest third of their historical distribution for the first time in the 1895-present record. The odds of this occurring randomly is 1 in 1,594,323. ”
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“Americans need to ask themselves: why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account and secretive investments like that.”
That should be on a bumper sticker.
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“"The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney.”
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“ This [Mitt Romney] is the most secretive candidate since Richard Nixon. ”
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“ (1) Why did you park so much of your money outside the United States? (2) Did you create a Bermuda-based corporation to avoid U.S. taxes? and (3) when can Americans see the decades' worth of tax returns you turned over to John McCain in 2008? ”
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“ Understand something about John McCain. His political advisers, day after day, had to take him and almost throw him against a wall and hit him against the head and say, “Senator, you have to let people know you served! You have to talk about what you did!” He didn’t want to do it, wouldn’t do it. Day after day they had to convince him. Finally, he talked a little bit about it, but it was very uncomfortable for him. That’s what’s so noble about our heroes. Now I’m running against a woman who, my God, that’s all she talks about. Our true heroes, it’s the last thing in the world they talk about. That’s why we’re so indebted and in awe of what they’ve done. ”
Joe Walsh’s disgust for our veterans’ sacrifices knows no bounds. First, he falsely and maliciously claims that Tammy Duckworth, a veteran who lost her legs in Iraq didn’t have much of a record of service. Now, he denigrates that same American hero for talking about how her experience shaped her worldview and strengthened her resolve to serve even more – a conversation that isn’t just legitimate to have, but crucial as America charts its course domestically and internationally. This is a new low for this deadbeat dad. Telling a veteran to shut up on the 4th of July is beyond the pale. We are past the point of calling on Joe Walsh to apologize. He should step aside and and stop embarrassing his district and America.
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“ What he has done in his brilliant opinion is to sacrifice a pawn, called the individual mandate and put the entire Great Society in check. And he has done that by getting two liberal justices to agree with him in a seven to two ruling that there are serious limitations on the federal government's ability to use its spending power to get the states to cooperate in welfare and education programs, which is really how everything works, or a lot of things work including education, Medicaid, etc.
And he has done that and gotten liberals to applaud him for it, so that now, next term when Voting Rights Act Section 5 and affirmative action in colleges come up before the court as they're going to and he votes with the other four conservatives to strike them down, all those liberals who might otherwise complain will now have to acknowledge that this fair-minded statesman, John Roberts, was involved in that decision.
This is a man of great brilliance and all those conservatives who are griping about this ruling need to give it a second thought.”
Hahaha……I don’t think so.
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“ It's going to be very close. We're not looking for -- and don't expect -- seismic movement. ”
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“ The only health care mandate they can embrace are transvaginal probes for women. ”
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“ When a gang of criminals subvert legitimate government offices and seize all power to themselves without the real consent of the governed their every act and edict is of itself illegal and is outside the bounds of the Rule of Law. In such cases submission is treason. Treason against the Constitution and the valid legitimate government of the nation to which we have pledged our allegiance for years. To resist by all means that are right in the eyes of God is not rebellion or insurrection, it is patriotic resistance to invasion.
May all of us fall on our faces before the Heavenly Judge, repent of our sins, and humbly cry out to Him for mercy on our country. And, may godly courageous leaders rise up in His wisdom and power to lead us in displacing the criminal invaders from their seats and restore our constitutional republic. ”
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“ I would like to see governors be tough and opt out of this and exert “our” 10th Amendment rights and tell President Obama – who does not understand the Constitution, he even being a Constitution lecturer and supposed scholar in our Constitution – not understanding, probably never reading, nor absorbing the 10th Amendment to understand that states have rights. ”
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