- Watch Mitt Romney talk about the 47% of Americans who pay no federal income taxes if you haven’t already.
- Before you declare endgame, consider our tendency to think gaffes that produce little change in a race are really big deals in the moment.
- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has an excellent guide to this segment of the population.
- Don’t believe them? Listen to Comrade Ponnuru at leftist rags National Review and Bloomberg.
- The latest in a series of polls show Elizabeth Warren opening up a narrow lead in Massachusetts.
- And a miscreant goes on Fox & Friends, Weigel has backstory.
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Americans
have short memories. Some think Obama crashed the economy and passed the
bailout some time after 2009. And that he got us off to losing lots of jobs and
has blocked a recovery by growing government.
The reality:
-We were losing -788,000 jobs a month when he took
over (over 3/4 of a milion jobs 4 straight months before). Now we are growing
jobs. We have now created over 4 million private sector jobs http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/0...
-The recession started in 2007 after 7 years of a
repub admin and repub congress. Recessions take several years of bad policies
to create. Eventually, there was a complete crash. And bailout of everything by
2008. Bush asked for and signed the bailout. Cheney went to Congress begging
that it be passed or his admin would experience "Hoover" time. The
repub candidate suspended his campaign just to pass it. Lyin Ryan voted for it
(as he did for all of Bush's big spending).
-GDP drop in Q4 2008 was -8.4%. Now positive
-Down was just over 6000 when Obama took over. Now
over 13000
-Eleven banks were closing a day when this admin
took over and banks were not even lending to each other. GM would have been
shut since no one would have given them credit if the government did not, as
Switch Mitt advised. That would have additionally wiped out over 2million jobs
in auto and allied industry accelerating towards a depression
-It took over 10 years to get out of the depression.
By 2009, the metrices for job losses and GDP drop was steeper than any
recession and only comparable to the depression, but many either forget how bad
it worse or expected the current admin would have waved a wand and fixed it in
two. They nearly did. But were constrained since 2010 the President has not
been able to pass a single initiative since. The current Congress also
implemented austerity measures prematurely (which was the response in Europe to
a worse recovery than we experienced).
-Government has been growing smaller actually
through Obama's term -- 2.8%
4. ROMNEY
IS THE "THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS DOING FINE" LIAR:
http://mediamatters.org/resear......
"Be afraid, be very afraid"
This is the future people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Thank heavens they will be too stoned to find the polls on election day!
3. ROMNEY IS THE WELFARE LIAR:
http://www.politifact.com/trut......
paulie the coward's new hero - Bank fraud, credit card fraud, identity thief, and parole violator.
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"Nakoula, whose name has been widely linked to the film in media reports, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2010 and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, to be followed by five years on supervised probation, court documents showed.
He was accused of fraudulently opening bank and credit card accounts using Social Security numbers that did not match the names on the applications, a criminal complaint showed. He was released in June 2011 and the film was produced later
that summer.
The terms of Nakoula's release restrict him from accessing the Internet or assuming aliases without the approval of his probation officer."
MomentoMori,
Horrors! An ENDTHREAD! Someone page outsider2011 stat!
Even felons have rights, Mori.
Actually, Mori, I think it is generally accepted practice to take felons' rights away from them.
Paulie the Antibirther? Associated with Credit card Fraud? Bank Fraud? Identity thief? Parole Violator? Known RepubliKKKrappers?
My goodness.
Are these the new Mormon Missionary Values? Like the new Mormon Bishop's Values The Dear Liar Mitt gave to us today?
Speaking of the events of the past 24 hours, The Dear Liar Mitt The Racist has said:
"I BUILT THAT!!!"
2. ROMNEY IS THE MEDICARE LIAR:
http://www.politifact.com/trut......
http://www.politifact.com/trut......
http://www.politifact.com/trut......
http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/126xx/d...
MrObvious,
"I believe that any black or white or anyone from any party that try to influence people through fear are wrong."
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That is the biggest crock of excrement coming from a member of the party of fear and racial animosity.
False
Below you biatch about how redstate does not speak for all conservatives and like a weasel you now accuse me of being whatever that links too.
Again
I BELIEVE. I personally don't give a shiat whatever fantasy you have of me. And as we see below with your attempt to disassociate yourself from conservatives attacking the mosque you obviously don't believe in the logic behind it.
Your regular hypocrisy is noted.
Obama: "The religion teaches peace, justice, fairness and tolerance. All of us
recognise that this great religion cannot justify violence," he added. I think this guy missed your memo.
Obama: "The religion teaches peace, justice, fairness and tolerance. All of us
recognise that this great religion cannot justify violence," he added. I guess this guy missed your memo:
WASHINGTON: A Salafist cleric in Egypt is calling for the
deaths of all those involved in the making of an anti-Muslim film that
has outraged the Islamic world, SITE Intelligence Group said on Monday.
In a statement, the terrorism monitoring service said Ahmad Fouad
Ashoush issued his fatwa, or religious edict, against the cast and crew
of " Innocence of Muslims" via jihadist internet forums over the
weekend.
"Those bastards who did this film are belligerent disbelievers," Ashoush said, according to SITE's translation of the lengthy Arabic statement.
"Belligerent disbelievers" are infidels at war with Islam. The Qur'an
prescribes their punishments: "This is the recompense of those who
fight against God and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do
corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their
hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be
banished from the land...." (5:33)
"I issue a fatwa and call on the Muslim youth in America and
Europe to do this duty, which is to kill the director, the producer and
the actors and everyone who helped and promoted the film," he said.
"So, hurry, hurry, O Muslim youth in America and Europe, and teach those filthy lowly ones a lesson that all the monkeys and pigs in America and Europe will understand. May Allah guide you and grant you success."...
Allah turns the disobedient Jews into monkeys and pigs in Qur'an 2:62-65; 5:59-60; and 7:166.
1. ROMNEY IS THE "DID NOT BUILD THAT" LIAR:
http://factcheck.org/2012/07/y......
http://www.politifact.com/trut......
Mitt Romney’s really stuck his foot in it when he declared that the 47
percent of Americans who, because they pay no federal income taxes and
receive government benefits, can’t be dislodged from the Democratic
column. The statement was wrong in 47 different ways. People who worked
all their life and now subsist primarily on Social Security aren’t
looking for a handout, and have not demonstrated an unwillingness to be
responsible. The same holds for people who are on Medicare. And ditto
for all the working poor, who would be paying income taxes if
Republicans hadn’t invented and supported the Earned Income Tax Credit.
What’s more, plenty of people who do pay income taxes rely on
entitlements. Mitt Romney may not need Medicare, but even well off
people in their 60s would be hard-pressed to buy their own insurance.
charlieromeobravo,
"The GOP doesn't have the monopoly on self sufficiency that they like to portray."
=========================================
The GOP is the opportunity party. The Democrats are the redistributionist party.
That's a bumper sticker, not an answer. There are plenty of registered Republicans on welfare, food stamps, and other forms of government aid. There are plenty of GOP politicians that do the same, that denounced the Recovery America Act in one minute and dipped into the money for their state's slice of the funds the next. Red states make up the majority of states that get back more in federal aid than they pay out in taxes. So if by "opportunity" you mean take advantage of our government while simultaneously denouncing its' practices, yes, the GOP is very opportunistic.
charlieromeobravo,
It may be simple but it's accurate. Republicans advocate maximum liberty and free enterprise. Democrats advocate government dependency.
But I thought that the Koran doesn't teach Muslims to kill.
WASHINGTON: A Salafist cleric in Egypt is calling for the
deaths of all those involved in the making of an anti-Muslim film that
has outraged the Islamic world, SITE Intelligence Group said on Monday.
In a statement, the terrorism monitoring service said Ahmad Fouad
Ashoush issued his fatwa, or religious edict, against the cast and crew
of " Innocence of Muslims" via jihadist internet forums over the
weekend.
"Those bastards who did this film are belligerent disbelievers," Ashoush said, according to SITE's translation of the lengthy Arabic statement.
"Belligerent disbelievers" are infidels at war with Islam. The Qur'an
prescribes their punishments: "This is the recompense of those who
fight against God and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do
corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their
hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be
banished from the land...." (5:33)
"I issue a fatwa and call on the Muslim youth in America and
Europe to do this duty, which is to kill the director, the producer and
the actors and everyone who helped and promoted the film," he said.
"So, hurry, hurry, O Muslim youth in America and Europe, and teach those filthy lowly ones a lesson that all the monkeys and pigs in America and Europe will understand. May Allah guide you and grant you success."...
Allah turns the disobedient Jews into monkeys and pigs in Qur'an 2:62-65; 5:59-60; and 7:166.
Mitt Romney’s statement that
Russia is the "No. 1 geopolitical foe" prompted former Secretary of
State Colin Powell, a Bush appointee, to respond on MSNBC: "Come on, Mitt,
think. That isn't the case." 9/13/12
Wow....The Dear Liar Mitt is caught lying, yet again
-- and called out by a RepubliKKKrapper!
MomentoMori,
'Community college is not part of Junior High or any of the other "lower grades" and aside from some freshmen, most people who are attending "Community college" are no longer "children".'
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Did you miss the video, Mori. That was not COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
That was a group of crumb crunchers being indoctrinated by left wing operatives.
Thanks for admitting you're wrong, endthreading coward. Why else would you move it here?
MomentoMori,
You become more deluded every day, Mori. These endthreads must be disrupting what little mind you have.
But, again...Mitt's on-camera suicide has made it all a moot point.
Obama in 2012-2016!!!!
Hillary in 2016-2024!!!!!
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!!!!
Romney's vacant, posturing view
of the world is born from his utter lack of experience and confidence, thus his
reliance on those same neocon ideologues that forged the disastrous Bush/Cheney
foreign policies. American citizens who consider themselves patriotic were
absolutely stunned that an an American politician running for president would
hold secret meetings in Israel and then return to announce those same warped
neocon policies all over again-- those same policies that we have been trying
to reverse for the last four years.
There is no need to speculate--all we have to do is
look around us now, without the filter of any ideology other than that of our
founding fathers', to see the devastation the neocons wrought upon this country
during their 8 years-plus of control of our government and the Pentagon.
To trust these men with our government again is to
risk the annihilation of our republic and everything we hold as an 'American
Value'.
We simply cannot share our government with that of
Israel's or any other country's--we most definitely do not share their vision
because we have our own unique 'American Vision', separate from Europe's and
separate from the Middle East's. We can help to protect and defend our allies
within reason, but we cannot allow them to shape both our internal political
structure and our foreign policy--this is suicide to America and our way of
life.
Total number of American’s on
welfare 15,000,000
Percent of the US population on welfare 4.1 %
Total government spending on welfare annually (not
including food stamps or unemployment) $131.9 billion
Percent of recipients who are white 38.8 %
Percent of recipients who are black 39.8 %
Percent of recipients who are hispanic 15.7 %
Percent of recipients who are Asian 2.4 %
Percent of recipients who are Other 3.3 %
Cost of Bush policies from
2001-2009: $5.1 trillion
Cost of Obama policies from 2009-2017: $983
billion
Since February 2010:
• Jobs: +4 million
• Wages: +1.5%
• DOW: + 30.80%
Since July 2011
• Jobs: +1.9 million
• Wages: +0.6%
• DOW: +8.72%
NP042,
"We don't like either candidate =\= vote for X"
==============================
Actually, I believe it means just stay home. Why all the sudden concern about politics in black churches? It has been going on for decades.
On
Obama's balance sheet:
+ affordable healthcare for all Americans + jobs are available for all who are willing to
work
+ protections for young immigrants who have been
working on behalf of USA
+ gay/human rights take a large step forward
+ gays serving openly in the military
+ new housing starts moving upwards
+ DOMA is effectively demolished
In less than 4 years he has managed to overcome much
of the gargantuan mess created and left to him by the previous incompetent
Republicrap administration.
In less than 4 years, he has managed to accomplish
more than any US president since Lincoln.
And now, The Dear Liar Mitt The Racist has guaranteed him 4 more years
in the White House!
Obama creates Osamas with new campaign slogan: We don't torture, we vaporize.
The fact that the administration is carrying out state-sponsored
assassination with absolutely no regard to legal due process in the name
of fighting Al-Qaeda is particularly brazen given the fact that the US has backed Al-Qaeda terrorists in both Libya and Syria in the effort to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi and Bashar Al-Assad.
“In the USA, it is illegal to impose executions on people under 18,
something that most Democrats would support, I suppose. Yet, their
vaunted president, Barack Obama, has declared that a 17-year-old girl is
to be gunned down if American spies can find her,” writes Bill Anderson.
DonQuixotic,
"No, I think they are unjustly influencing elections just like their white counterparts. Race has nothing to do with it."
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Which white counterparts? Names and dates please.
No. Look it up yourself, I'm tired of giving you evidence just so you can ignore it or change the subject on a whim.
DonQuixotic,
A simple "I am taking through my arse" would have served you better, Don. You have nothing, as usual.
Oh please. I'll take you seriously when you ever provide any backup for your bolded opinions that isn't from some ultra right-wing website, or when you respond to criticisms and evidence without changing the subject. You never have anything that can't be summed up in "Obama evil, Libruls evil".
None the less, here's a link you stooge:
The Dear Liar Mitt:
"I have a very good team of extraordinarily experienced, highly
successful consultants, a couple of people in particular who have done races
around the world. I didn't realize it. These guys in the US—the Karl Rove
equivalents—they do races all over the world: in Armenia, in Africa, in Israel.
I mean, they work for Bibi Netanyahu in his race."
Wait, WHAT? So, Netamyahu's recent
"We must make a Red Line for Iran" was not intended to interfere in
the US elections? Do they really have the same campaign consultants?
DonQuixotic,
Au contraire, Don.
"For Every $1 Added to the Economy, Obama Added More Than $3 in Debt"
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/gove...
Always singing the same old hymns when times get
tough.
This is Hymn 522, the Liberal Media Conspiracy.
All those old folks with land
lines...big democratic demographic there! Or they secretly adjust the numbers -
is that what they do?
So all the polls that showed McCain losing in 2008 - they
were wrong, too?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sucks to be a RepubliKKKrapper who was depending on The Dear Liar Mitt!!!!
And huffpo, new bacon, breitfarce, Flox, MSNBC etc.
As it should be when you see more punditry and spin rather then facts.
And every conservative website. Do you have a point?
Also why are you linking a HuffPo poll? Are you relying on the liberal media?
