- I’ll accept this premise and its coinage: Swift-Yachting is mostly about getting at Romney’s tax returns.
- Bain documents back up the story that he ceded management in 1999.
- Obama’s above-board favorability ratings may help neutralize disapproval of the job he’s doing.
- He says his biggest mistake in his first term was caring too much about good policy. Haven’t seen the whole interview, but he also probably said he was too punctual.
- The world is throwing its money at our Treasury Department, desperate to buy our debt. Fiscal policymakers remain unmoved.
- Tim Geithner recommended changes to LIBOR calculation in 2008.
- Congress underpays women.
- Republicans now dislike the Roberts Court.
- And Maine’s governor makes one of those Godwinian quips about the IRS being like the Gestapo and then actually explains how he thinks tax bureaucrats will kill people.
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"Americans Will Work More than 6 Months to Pay Cost of Gov't in 2012"
http://cnsnews.com/news/articl...
That is the Americans who actually pay taxes.
"Republicans now dislike the Robert's Court". Was his 'switch in time saves nine' due to the "lunatics" on the court? They've certainly made me quit pulling the lever for Republicans so the theory could have some basis of truth.
Adam, if you get a little free time before you call it a day, would you consider tossing out a "1000 Words" for the weekend? It's Friday the 13th btw. Gotta dig out the mask and a machette.
The lead-in...
"Bain documents back up the story that he ceded management in 1999."
...and this line from the article ....
"He didn't formally give up his title and firm ownership until 2002, once
the Games had been successful and he was interested in other elective
office."
....seem somewhat in conflict.
Romney may or may not have been making day-to-day decisions, but his responsibility doesn't end because he decided not to show up for work that day. He still had a title and ownership.
I know 'personal responsibility' has become a rhetorical punchline for Republicans, but think the phrase applies in this case? That's like saying that since Bush ceded management to Cheney on most foreign policy matters, he wasn't REALLY the President, and it's unfair to attack him for anything that happened while he was formally the President.
Did you not get the MSM memo? This issue is dead in the water. I read it on the front page of the NY Times. We're suppose to be talking about what each candidate will do should they win. Now it's up to the MSM to get Romney to speak up. Good luck with that one, Andrea Mitchell.
Hmm, which should have more weight? Internal documents constructed by Bain to selll their products or SEC filings and finiancial disclosure forms that are certified to be true. Hard to say.
Speaking of transparency....
Somehow Jay gets "college transcripts" mixed up with "birth certificates". Yes, we would like to see the college transcripts.
What are you hiding Barry?
"What are you hiding Barry?"
That GW Bush had a higher GPA at Harvard than Obama did. He doesn't want to admit that Bush is smarter than he is.
"Yes, we would like to see the college transcripts. What are you hiding Barry?"
Translation: "
There's no way some darky got edumucated! He must have been one of those affirmitive action cases!"
Tero1,
Odd that some Canadian backwoodsman keeps trafficking in racial stereotypes. What's going on up there?
Here's a question I haven't seen addressed yet. When Romney took his leave of absense, he turned responsibility for operations over to 26 "managing directors."
So what process led those people to become managing directors? I mean, if Romney's going to wash his hands over anything that happened after he left, he's going to have to figure out how to wash his hands of the personnel decisions that led to those decisionmakers being in place who did all the stuff he wants to deny.
Did Romney want to get booed?
Nancy Pelosi says the candidate wanted to
get booed at the NAACP. Why she might be right.
The big news out of Mitt Romney’s speech yesterday at the NAACP was
that the audience booed his pledge to repeal “Obamacare.” The jeers have
been cast as a rude slight against a candidate making a good-faith
effort to step outside his comfort zone and appeal to a skeptical
audience, but what if Romney went to Houston intending to spark boos all
along?
That’s what some top Democrats are alleging. “I think it was a calculated move on his part to get booed at the NAACP convention,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi told Bloomberg TV yesterday in an interview.
Romney
himself hinted at this in an interview with Fox News after the event,
saying he anticipated all along that he’d get booed. “I think we
expected that, of course,” he told host Neil Cavuto. Democratic
strategist Kombiz Lavasany suggested “Romney’s press staff was bragging about getting booed,” noting that his traveling press secretary had retweeted multiple news stories about the incident.
Pelosi didn’t elaborate, but she’s not alone. “I believe he included that part of the speech intentionally,”
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said on a conference call organized by the
Democratic National Committee. “He wasn’t speaking to the NAACP audience
at all … [but] to his base. It will make him look strong.” Rev. Al
Sharpton told MSNBC’s Tamron Hall, “I think that what was interesting to
me is, I think it was calculated,
Tamron, that he was going to attack the president’s Affordable Health
Care Act, call it ‘Obamacare’ and expect that he would get some kind of
displeasure from the audience.” Avis Jones-DeWeever, the executive
director of the National Council of Negro Women, said Romney had
accomplished a “calculated political ploy.” “That was exactly what he went there intending to do,” she said.
Mitt’s self-inflicted wounds
He made the timing of his Bain departure an
issue trying to deflect outsourcing charges. Why not embrace his past?
Mitt Romney’s campaign started Thursday with a rough ad calling
President Obama a liar for his charges about Bain Capital outsourcing.
It ended the day demanding Obama apologize for a campaign staffer who
suggested Romney’s confusing statements on when he left Bain might have
involved a “felony.” Oh, and for good measure? The campaign also
demanded that the Boston Globe retract the story that led to Stephanie Cutter’s “felon” suggestion:
It revealed that while Romney insists he left Bain in February 1999,
SEC filings show the firm still listed him as CEO as late as 2002.
I’m
not calling Romney a felon, but it seems like providing incorrect or
misleading information to the SEC could be a serious problem, either for
Romney or for Bain Capital. I admit, the actual details of when Romney
left Bain and what role, if any, he continued to play after February
1999 remain murky. But it seems to me Romney made these timing questions
an issue himself, by trying to insist that Bain’s outsourcing
adventures took place after he left the firm to run the Salt Lake City
Olympics. By the way, the Romney campaign also demanded that the
Washington Post retract its original story about Bain’s investments in outsourcing. The Post refused, and the Globe will too. Both papers had solid documentation for their stories.
The
real problem is that Romney made his qualifications as a business
leader his main calling card as a presidential candidate – and
immediately began backpedaling away from his career. First he described
himself as a “job creator,” but when his own GOP rivals began digging up
stories about Bain’s role in destroying jobs, he stopped making that
claim, while accusing his rivals of demonizing capitalism. Then, when
the Obama campaign, and later the Washington Post, began pointing to
Bain’s investments in firms that sent jobs overseas, and even firms that
specialized in helping other firms send jobs overseas, he insisted he
was being blamed for investments and/or decisions made after he left
Bain – setting off this search for proof of when he actually left the
firm. Before the Boston Globe, both David Corn at Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo also found documents listing Romney as still involved at Bain later than he claimed.
More
documents will almost certainly emerge. From SEC filings to Romney’s
various state and federal financial disclosure forms over the years,
there’s an amazing array of paperwork telling different stories about
when Romney left Bain.
It’s worth remembering that when he was
running for Massachusetts governor in 2002, there were questions about
his eligibility for state office, given that he’d spent two years
working in Salt Lake City. That’s when Romney described himself as only
on leave from Bain. In 2002 Massachusetts disclosure forms he signed in
2003, Romney listed himself as a Bain “executive,” making more than
$100,000 a year. So back when it was useful to have Bain ties, Romney
pointed to them. Now it’s politically useful to have cut those ties in
early 1999, so that’s the story Romney tells.
Thank go d for taxes
Politicians treat firefighters like pawns.
When my house burned down, I learned how valuable public servants can be.
The more I think about this the more amazed I become. The
firefighters told me that the fire had been an especially tricky one;
they’d had to play whack - a - mole as it darted through the back wall from
the basement to the attic. They were operating in the dark, in an old
wooden house — just a few days earlier, a similar house had caught fire
and the owner had died before the firefighters could get to her. Yet
somehow, in the midst of all that madness, one of the firefighters had
had the presence of mind and sensitivity to gather together some items
that obviously held emotional significance for my family.
Was it
the same guy who came out of the house with my Macbook and told me that
he had put the charger underneath a tarp over the coffee table “because I
know what a b tch it is to get those replaced ” ? I don’t know. Was it
the investigator who later attempted to console me by telling me that
what I had done was not “a criminal act ” ?
“You made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. He|l, I once burned down my own barn, when a trash fire got out of control.”
I don’t know.
What
I do know is that as I stared down at my daughter’s scrapbook, nestled
next to a picture of my mother and grandfather, the tears started to
flow for real. I was sandbagged by a sense of real human connection. For
what seems like a lifetime I’ve been immersed in political warfare in
which public sector workers — our teachers, our police officers, our
firefighters — have become little more than proxies for partisan
bickering. When we read about the bankruptcy of San Bernardino, Calif.,
someone is sure to point out the firefighter who is pulling down
$ 150 , 000 grand, or complain about the cost of pension obligations.
When
we look at public sector layoffs, someone else immediately launches into
a lecture about how government austerity is crimping economic growth. Mitt Romney tells us that the “lesson” of Wisconsin
is that Americans don’t want to pay for any more teachers or
firefighters or police officers and Democrats pounce. Obama’s last
budget would cut federal support for firefighting services, but not by as much as the most recent House appropriations bill. The International Association of Firefighters claims
that government cutbacks will result in thousands more layoffs
nationwide. Republicans shrug — the IAFF is another Obama-supporting
union.
And so the bullsh|t battle rages! Far too often, we’re forgetting what our public servants do.
All I can think about, right now, is that even while risking his or her
life to beat back the flames, a Berkeley firefighter took time out to
make my daughter smile.
That firefighter deserves a raise. Put it on my next ballot, please.
LiberalLies,
"An African American response to the NAACP's booing of Mitt Romney."
Somehow this smart lady has escaped from the inner city plantation.
Black race hustlers, rich black politicians and leaders are very concerned that this might be a trend and they will lose the source of their money and positions.
"...polls show he enjoys 87% support among black registered voters versus 5% for Republican rival Mitt Romney."
But keep comparing Democratic policies to slavery. That'll work. Keep telling African-Americans that food stamp programs are just as bad as slavery was.
"the inner city plantation."
3x has no idea how offensive that is, on multiple levels, does he?
Thank go d for taxes
Politicians treat firefighters like pawns.
When my house burned down, I learned how valuable public servants can be.
The more I think about this the more amazed I become. The
firefighters told me that the fire had been an especially tricky one;
they’d had to play whack - a - mole as it darted through the back wall from
the basement to the attic. They were operating in the dark, in an old
wooden house — just a few days earlier, a similar house had caught fire
and the owner had died before the firefighters could get to her. Yet
somehow, in the midst of all that madness, one of the firefighters had
had the presence of mind and sensitivity to gather together some items
that obviously held emotional significance for my family.
Was it
the same guy who came out of the house with my Macbook and told me that
he had put the charger underneath a tarp over the coffee table “because I
know what a b tch it is to get those replaced ” ? I don’t know. Was it
the investigator who later attempted to console me by telling me that
what I had done was not “a criminal act ” ?
“You made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. He|l, I once burned down my own barn, when a trash fire got out of control.”
I don’t know.
What
I do know is that as I stared down at my daughter’s scrapbook, nestled
next to a picture of my mother and grandfather, the tears started to
flow for real. I was sandbagged by a sense of real human connection. For
what seems like a lifetime I’ve been immersed in political warfare in
which public sector workers — our teachers, our police officers, our
firefighters — have become little more than proxies for partisan
bickering. When we read about the bankruptcy of San Bernardino, Calif.,
someone is sure to point out the firefighter who is pulling down
$ 150,000 grand, or complain about the cost of pension obligations.
When
we look at public sector layoffs, someone else immediately launches into
a lecture about how government austerity is crimping economic growth. Mitt Romney tells us that the “lesson” of Wisconsin
is that Americans don’t want to pay for any more teachers or
firefighters or police officers and Democrats pounce. Obama’s last
budget would cut federal support for firefighting services, but not by as much as the most recent House appropriations bill. The International Association of Firefighters claims
that government cutbacks will result in thousands more layoffs
nationwide. Republicans shrug — the IAFF is another Obama-supporting
union.
And so the bullshit battle rages! Far too often, we’re forgetting what our public servants do.
All I can think about, right now, is that even while risking his or her
life to beat back the flames, a Berkeley firefighter took time out to
make my daughter smile.
That firefighter deserves a raise. Put it on my next ballot, please.
Thank go d for taxes
Politicians treat firefighters like pawns.
When my house burned down, I learned how valuable public servants can be.
The more I think about this the more amazed I become. The
firefighters told me that the fire had been an especially tricky one;
they’d had to play whack-a-mole as it darted through the back wall from
the basement to the attic. They were operating in the dark, in an old
wooden house — just a few days earlier, a similar house had caught fire
and the owner had died before the firefighters could get to her. Yet
somehow, in the midst of all that madness, one of the firefighters had
had the presence of mind and sensitivity to gather together some items
that obviously held emotional significance for my family.
Was it
the same guy who came out of the house with my Macbook and told me that
he had put the charger underneath a tarp over the coffee table “because I
know what a b tch it is to get those replaced”? I don’t know. Was it
the investigator who later attempted to console me by telling me that
what I had done was not “a criminal act”?
“You made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. He|l, I once burned down my own barn, when a trash fire got out of control.”
I don’t know.
What
I do know is that as I stared down at my daughter’s scrapbook, nestled
next to a picture of my mother and grandfather, the tears started to
flow for real. I was sandbagged by a sense of real human connection. For
what seems like a lifetime I’ve been immersed in political warfare in
which public sector workers — our teachers, our police officers, our
firefighters — have become little more than proxies for partisan
bickering. When we read about the bankruptcy of San Bernardino, Calif.,
someone is sure to point out the firefighter who is pulling down
$ 150,000 grand, or complain about the cost of pension obligations.
When
we look at public sector layoffs, someone else immediately launches into
a lecture about how government austerity is crimping economic growth. Mitt Romney tells us that the “lesson” of Wisconsin
is that Americans don’t want to pay for any more teachers or
firefighters or police officers and Democrats pounce. Obama’s last
budget would cut federal support for firefighting services, but not by as much as the most recent House appropriations bill. The International Association of Firefighters claims
that government cutbacks will result in thousands more layoffs
nationwide. Republicans shrug — the IAFF is another Obama-supporting
union.
And so the bullshit battle rages! Far too often, we’re forgetting what our public servants do.
All I can think about, right now, is that even while risking his or her
life to beat back the flames, a Berkeley firefighter took time out to
make my daughter smile.
That firefighter deserves a raise. Put it on my next ballot, please.
Thank god for taxes
Politicians treat firefighters like pawns.
When my house burned down, I learned how valuable public servants can be.
The more I think about this the more amazed I become. The
firefighters told me that the fire had been an especially tricky one;
they’d had to play whack-a-mole as it darted through the back wall from
the basement to the attic. They were operating in the dark, in an old
wooden house — just a few days earlier, a similar house had caught fire
and the owner had died before the firefighters could get to her. Yet
somehow, in the midst of all that madness, one of the firefighters had
had the presence of mind and sensitivity to gather together some items
that obviously held emotional significance for my family.
Was it
the same guy who came out of the house with my Macbook and told me that
he had put the charger underneath a tarp over the coffee table “because I
know what a b tch it is to get those replaced”? I don’t know. Was it
the investigator who later attempted to console me by telling me that
what I had done was not “a criminal act”?
“You made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. He|l, I once burned down my own barn, when a trash fire got out of control.”
I don’t know.
What
I do know is that as I stared down at my daughter’s scrapbook, nestled
next to a picture of my mother and grandfather, the tears started to
flow for real. I was sandbagged by a sense of real human connection. For
what seems like a lifetime I’ve been immersed in political warfare in
which public sector workers — our teachers, our police officers, our
firefighters — have become little more than proxies for partisan
bickering. When we read about the bankruptcy of San Bernardino, Calif.,
someone is sure to point out the firefighter who is pulling down
$ 150,000 grand, or complain about the cost of pension obligations.
When
we look at public sector layoffs, someone else immediately launches into
a lecture about how government austerity is crimping economic growth. Mitt Romney tells us that the “lesson” of Wisconsin
is that Americans don’t want to pay for any more teachers or
firefighters or police officers and Democrats pounce. Obama’s last
budget would cut federal support for firefighting services, but not by as much as the most recent House appropriations bill. The International Association of Firefighters claims
that government cutbacks will result in thousands more layoffs
nationwide. Republicans shrug — the IAFF is another Obama-supporting
union.
And so the bullshit battle rages! Far too often, we’re forgetting what our public servants do.
All I can think about, right now, is that even while risking his or her
life to beat back the flames, a Berkeley firefighter took time out to
make my daughter smile.
That firefighter deserves a raise. Put it on my next ballot, please.
Thank god for taxes
Politicians treat firefighters like pawns.
When my house burned down, I learned how valuable public servants can be.
The more I think about this the more amazed I become. The
firefighters told me that the fire had been an especially tricky one;
they’d had to play whack - a - mole as it darted through the back wall from
the basement to the attic. They were operating in the dark, in an old
wooden house — just a few days earlier, a similar house had caught fire
and the owner had died before the firefighters could get to her. Yet
somehow, in the midst of all that madness, one of the firefighters had
had the presence of mind and sensitivity to gather together some items
that obviously held emotional significance for my family.
Was it
the same guy who came out of the house with my Macbook and told me that
he had put the charger underneath a tarp over the coffee table “because I
know what a b|tch it is to get those replaced”? I don’t know. Was it
the investigator who later attempted to console me by telling me that
what I had done was not “a criminal act”?
“You made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. Hell, I once burned down my own barn, when a trash fire got out of control.”
I don’t know.
What
I do know is that as I stared down at my daughter’s scrapbook, nestled
next to a picture of my mother and grandfather, the tears started to
flow for real. I was sandbagged by a sense of real human connection. For
what seems like a lifetime I’ve been immersed in political warfare in
which public sector workers — our teachers, our police officers, our
firefighters — have become little more than proxies for partisan
bickering. When we read about the bankruptcy of San Bernardino, Calif.,
someone is sure to point out the firefighter who is pulling down
$150,000 grand, or complain about the cost of pension obligations. When
we look at public sector layoffs, someone else immediately launches into
a lecture about how government austerity is crimping economic growth. Mitt Romney tells us that the “lesson” of Wisconsin
is that Americans don’t want to pay for any more teachers or
firefighters or police officers and Democrats pounce. Obama’s last
budget would cut federal support for firefighting services, but not by as much as the most recent House appropriations bill. The International Association of Firefighters claims
that government cutbacks will result in thousands more layoffs
nationwide. Republicans shrug — the IAFF is another Obama-supporting
union.
And so the bullshit battle rages! Far too often, we’re forgetting what our public servants do.
All I can think about, right now, is that even while risking his or her
life to beat back the flames, a Berkeley firefighter took time out to
make my daughter smile.
That firefighter deserves a raise. Put it on my next ballot, please.
Thank god for taxes
Politicians treat firefighters like pawns.
When my house burned down, I learned how valuable public servants can b.
The more I think about this the more amazed I become. The
firefighters told me that the fire had been an especially tricky one;
they’d had to play whack-a-mole as it darted through the back wall from
the basement to the attic. They were operating in the dark, in an old
wooden house — just a few days earlier, a similar house had caught fire
and the owner had died before the firefighters could get to her. Yet
somehow, in the midst of all that madness, one of the firefighters had
had the presence of mind and sensitivity to gather together some items
that obviously held emotional significance for my family.
Was it
the same guy who came out of the house with my Macbook and told me that
he had put the charger underneath a tarp over the coffee table “because I
know what a bitch it is to get those replaced”? I don’t know. Was it
the investigator who later attempted to console me by telling me that
what I had done was not “a criminal act”?
“You made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. Hell, I once burned down my own barn, when a trash fire got out of control.”
I don’t know.
What
I do know is that as I stared down at my daughter’s scrapbook, nestled
next to a picture of my mother and grandfather, the tears started to
flow for real. I was sandbagged by a sense of real human connection. For
what seems like a lifetime I’ve been immersed in political warfare in
which public sector workers — our teachers, our police officers, our
firefighters — have become little more than proxies for partisan
bickering. When we read about the bankruptcy of San Bernardino, Calif.,
someone is sure to point out the firefighter who is pulling down
$150,000 grand, or complain about the cost of pension obligations. When
we look at public sector layoffs, someone else immediately launches into
a lecture about how government austerity is crimping economic growth. Mitt Romney tells us that the “lesson” of Wisconsin
is that Americans don’t want to pay for any more teachers or
firefighters or police officers and Democrats pounce. Obama’s last
budget would cut federal support for firefighting services, but not by as much as the most recent House appropriations bill. The International Association of Firefighters claims
that government cutbacks will result in thousands more layoffs
nationwide. Republicans shrug — the IAFF is another Obama-supporting
union.
And so the bullshit battle rages! Far too often, we’re forgetting what our public servants do.
All I can think about, right now, is that even while risking his or her
life to beat back the flames, a Berkeley firefighter took time out to
make my daughter smile.
That firefighter deserves a raise. Put it on my next ballot, please.
When the Boston Globe reported yesterday that
Mitt Romney continued to be listed as Bain Capital’s president, CEO,
chairman and sole shareholder on SEC documents long after he claims to
have left the company, Bain responded with this explanation:
“Due
to the sudden nature of Mr. Romney’s departure, he remained the sole
stockholder for a time while formal ownership was being documented and
transferred to the group of partners who took over management of the
firm in 1999,”
The problem with this: Romney himself
provided a different – and more sensible – explanation when he appeared
before the Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission in 2002:
“When
I left my employer in Massachusetts in February of 1999 to accept the
Olympic assignment, I left on the basis of a leave of absence,
indicating that I, by virtue of that title, would return at the end of
the Olympics to my employment at Bain Capital, but subsequently decided
not to do so and entered into a departure agreement with my former
partners, I use that in the colloquial sense, not legal sense, but my
former partners,”
What Romney said a decade ago makes a lot more sense than what he and Bain are saying now.
When
Romney agreed in early 1999 to run the Salt Lake Organizing Committee,
there was no reason for him to think he’d jump right back into politics
when the games were over – and every reason for him to assume he’d
return to his private equity work. In fact, by 1999 he’d already taken
two similar leaves of absence, one to run Bain and Company in 1991 and
1992 and another when he campaigned for the U.S. Senate from November
1993 to November 1994. After each of those leaves, he came right back to
Bain Capital.
Romney now argues that February 1999 should be
considered his exit date from Bain, and that he ceased to have any input
into the company’s activities after that point. But it’s important to
remember the circumstances under which he first made that claim.
We
tend now to think of Romney’s political rise as a seamless transition
in 2002 from Olympic glory to the Massachusetts governorship. But his
opening to run for office that year didn’t come about until very late in
his Olympic tenure. Romney was clearly interested in a political future
when he took the Salt Lake gig, but there were no opportunities on the
horizon in Massachusetts. Both Senate seats were safely held by
Democrats, while a Republican, Paul Cellucci, had just been elected to a
full term, and there was reason to believe that he would run again in
2002. And even when Cellucci left in early 2001 to become ambassador to
Canada, it still didn’t help Romney, since it was assumed the party
would close ranks behind his successor, Jane Swift.It was only in
late 2001, when Swift’s governorship began to implode, that running in
2002 became a serious option for Romney. And it was only in 2002 that
Romney actually struck a severance agreement with Bain. Before Swift’s
demise, Romney’s only other possible post-Olympic political opportunity
had involved Utah’s governorship, which was possibly going to open up in
2004. In the summer of ’01, Romney took some tentative steps
to put his name in the mix for that race, but it was still several
years away and there were real questions about how viable he’d be if he
ran.In other words, it makes all the sense in the world that he
would have held on to his leadership titles at Bain and planned to
return after the games. For most of the time he was in Utah, politics
was not a realistic option for Romney’s immediate post-Olympic career.
And because of this, it makes all the sense in the world that Romney
would have remained apprised of Bain’s activities while in Utah and
maintained some level of engagement, even if he wasn’t directly involved
in the company’s day-to-day activities. That’s pretty much what Romney told the ballot commission in June ’02,
when he termed his ’99 departure a leave of absence and explained that
during his Salt Lake years he’d come back to the state for “a number of
social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts,
board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth.”Romney didn’t start pushing the idea that he’d severed all ties with Bain in ’99 until late in the ’02 campaign, when Democrats played up
Bain’s closure of a Kansas City steel plant, a move that cost 700
workers their jobs. Confronted with this potentially damaging attack,
Romney pleaded ignorance, insisting he couldn’t have had anything to do
with the closure because it came two years after he’d left. That’s the
story he’s stuck with ever since – and especially this year, as national
Democrats have taken up the GST story.The point here isn’t that
Romney was running Bain Capital and making all of its key decisions from
1999 to 2002. But the story he tells now absolves him of all
responsibility for anything and everything Bain did in those years. This
would be reasonable if Romney had forged a clear and total break with
the company in 1999, but he didn’t. His statement to the ballot law
commission 10 years ago was supported by just about all of his actions
between 1999 and 2002: Until the final few months of his Olympic tenure,
Romney’s break from Bain was supposed to temporary.http://www.salon.com/2012/07/13/why_m...
Howard Fineman in an article at HuffPo said of Romney:
"The impressiion you get is of a guy who was whatever the form in front of him required him to be."
Bain responded with this explanation:
“Dueto the sudden nature of Mr. Romney’s departure, he remained the sole stockholder for a time while formal ownership was being documented and transferred to the group of partners who took over management of the firm in 1999,”
Shorter version. He took the money and ran.
But if it wasn't true, the forms filed with the SEC were wrong.
Of course the tax returns could clear up the questions.
Gallup found in April that Republicans were five points more likely to vote than Democrats. More recent measures, including by the Pew Research Center in June, show Republican voters displaying more intense interest than Democrats. If 2008 stay-at-home Republicans vote, Mr. Obama's margin would shrink by more than one-third (to 6.1 million). Similarly, the 2.4 million veterans who voted in 2004 but did not in 2008 could turn out in 2012. Mr. McCain's winning margin among vets was 10 points.Nor can Mr. Obama count on winning the support of 9% of Republicans—or roughly 3.7 million—as he did in 2008 (according to exit polls). If he instead wins the same 6% of Republicans as Sen. John Kerry did in 2004, then 1.25 million Obama Republicans would be subtracted from the president's column and added to Mr. Romney's. That would narrow Mr. Obama's popular-vote margin to 3.6 million.
According to the exit polls, Mr. Obama won independents by eight points in 2008 (52% vs. 44% for Mr. McCain). But the July 1 CNN/Opinion Research poll showed Mr. Romney winning independents by seven points, 49% to 42%. The June 24 Gallup poll found Mr. Romney up by one among independents, 43% to 42%. Independents will shift back and forth, but if they split 49% to 49% (with the rest going to minor candidates), then Mr. Obama's vote total would be shaved by 1.1 million and Mr. Romney's would grow by an equal amount, cutting the president's margin to 1.4 million.
So, basically what you're saying is that everything has to shift in Romney's favor for him to make it close. If Obama is the most hated President in history, wouldn't Romney be something? Like leading in the polls? As it stands now, the most hated/unpopular/devisive President in history is still more popular than Mittens of the Swiss Bank Accounts.
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Obama went to Switzerland to pick up a Nobel Peace Prize. Romney went there to hide money.
Obama went to Switzerland to pick up a Nobel Peace Prize.Switzerland, Sweden ....oh good grief who cares, right?
LOL you dolts make it so easy, I swear.
I'm actually surprised you caught that Rusty. What with you being a semi-literate ignoramus and all...
Shame on you sacredh! Being corrected by a bagger... tsk tsk tsk
What will you change your handle to after November 6? LiberalWhys? LiberalHighs? NeoconSighs?
It's a foreign country so it doesn't matter which one it actually was. All I know is that they speak French.
LiberalLies,
"Run on your record Obama. Run on YOUR record."
He can't. If he did he would lose by a landslide.
he will probably lose by a landslide anyway.
I keep wondering where you get all this empirical evidence to the contrary of what most pollsters are receiving.
"President Obama believes that millions of Americans have lost their homes, their jobs and their livelihood because he failed to tell a good story. Being president is not about telling stories. Being president is about leading, and President Obama has failed to lead. No wonder Americans are losing faith in his presidency."
The above quote is from Mitt Romney after the TV interview of Barack Hussein Obama and his wife, Michelle appeared on CBS.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
This entire administration has been nothing but a far left liberal fairytale. Filled with "hopes and dreams", and "fundamentally transforming America". No one expresses it better than Michelle Obama herself.
"All of this for a damn flag?"
Na, I think its more that today is a pretty rough day for Rusty in the news. What with all the Mitt getting busted either lying or... lying.
Feign???
WE never operated an investment company and didn't know when we were no longer affiliated with it.
WE didn't lay off people.
WE didn't create the recession.
And WE didn't block the president from implementing programs that create jobs.
"People don't care about Romney's life at Bain and when he did or didn't leave the company. What they do care about are JOBS."
I love how you presume to talk for "people". You are a fringe-dwelling nut and fortunately there are not many of you. I also love how whenever you baggers get tired or boxed in in an argument you just go back to the "where are the jobs?" thing. I will tell you where the jobs the are; overseas. Who's responsible; Mitt Romney and others like him.
This Bain feign from the left is nothing more than political show to distort the fact this country is going down the tubes under the hand of Barack Hussein Obama.
People don't care about Romney's life at Bain and when he did or didn't leave the company. What they do care about are JOBS.
When Obama starts pulling JOBS out of his arse, then maybe they will look up and pay attention. Until then, he's toast.
What policies - specifically - were left wing?
Don't cast about empty phrases/talking points - what has he done that was left wing?
