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01.26.12 - 6:15 PM
Romney Has Even More!

It seems Mitt Romney wasn't entirely honest when he released tax returns showing that his daily "earnings" - from returns on investments, not actual work - equalled most people's yearly earnings. A review by the L.A. Times found at least 23 funds omitted, including 11 in tax havens like the Caymans. The Romney campaign called the discrepancies “trivial,” but acknowledged they are making “some minor technical amendments” to the disclosure. Let us be clear: The issue isn't simply that the guy is filthy rich; it's possible, if not likely, he could be a decent human being with all those millions. The issue is his two-faced, tone-deaf, arrogant and sanctimonious sense of entitlement to it, and the slimy lies he tells, at every turn, about it.
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Show AllOh Abby - I just love it when you don't mince words!
I'd add that the CD posting of the YES! interview which would also seem to support the notion that the rhetoric in this election cycle reflects GOPpy perceptions of their corporate coup détat as fait acompli - hence why should anyone focus on anything other than theatrical style (such fabulous coiffure!) and refining their deliveries in denial (not the river but .... a dunking might be a good idea)
Its like professional wrestling with heavy applications of grease. Newt Romney and Mitt Gingrich - joined at the cancerous hip with their surprisingly terse, highly constrained, corrosive, vacuous, venom thrown in for good measure. They're meeeelllltttinnnggg.... into four comma descriptive litanies of ________________. (fill in the blank)
Why not make it easy, Willard is a damn lying greedy bastard.
Turns out Mr. Romney's investments made in Fannie and Freddy were NOT made by his blind trust. Surprise!
Santorum made it quite clear that Romney is also lying about RomneyCare. Surprise!
It's what I love about Mitt. A continous delivery of surprises.
Anyone else remember the 1960 Presidential campaign when Joe Kennedy openly bought the West Virginia Primary? He literally distributed greenbacks.
And election night, when Chicago mobster Sam Giancana threatened to kill the dead people of Cook County if they did not vote a third time? This bought the state of Illinois and the Electoral College.
We called the result Camelot.
Ladies began wearing pill box hats. Men stopped wearing ANY hat at all.
JFK kept a campaign promise he made to himself - to have sexual intercourse with one female stranger per day, and periodic affairs with molls and baby sitters and women found waiting too long at D.C. bus stops. This behavior was a service to his country and good for his low back problems.
Shot by someone other than a cuckold, John F. Kennedy was beatified and got a large airport named for him.
This nation deserves the name Absurdia.
Trylon.
David Stockman (Reagan's OMB Director) explains Romneys private equity "success":
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2012/01/23/david-stockman-on-mitt-newt-and-crony-capitalism/
Stockman: "So when you look at the record, $100 in and — $200 in a billion out.One was an Italian Job, one was an inside job, and five were a screw job. And that’s how you make a billion dollars."
Stockman did not mention that Romney's seed money came from the tyrants running El Salvador.
Just how did Romney bankrupt five companies and still make $500 million. I'd bet the employees pensions were dumped on the government.
Private equity explained:
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/plain-talk-about-private-equity
Romney is a liar and a hypocrite which puts him in the mainstream of presidential candidates in this money driven system.
Pd for by http://www.winningourfuture.com/ aka invest in america aka Gingrich: "Bain, under Romney’s “supervision”, purchased and ran the Damon Corporation, who pled guilty to Federal conspiracy charges as a result of tens of millions of dollars in systemic Medicare fraud committed under Romney’s and Bain’s control. Damon was fined over $119-million which was, at the time, the largest criminal healthcare fine in Massachusetts history and Mr. Romney’s participation was characterized in 1996 by Corporate Crime Reporter..."
Abby, you're nice gal with a good heart, and some of what you say here is true. But let's understand that one of these Republicans is going to be the next president. In the 1930s hard times crossed up with the worst of 1952, it can't be otherwise. Sad to say!
Why not just let all us progressives just concentrate on the OWS movement and getting such as Norman Solomon elected to congress and other offices in electoral politics? I know you're decent person, Abby. But I wish you'd understand that Mitt is the least of our problems right now. No corporatons aren't people, but we all know he's going to say that to get through the GOP contest. He has to. This president is already doing worse than almost anybody ever has as president. The evil of two lessors just gets us more evil. Not that you're saying it doesn't.
Final word! We love you Abby. Just bear in mind how serious our times are with no good choices out there for us progressives for president-- otherwise just keep after the neo con dogs.
"The issue is his two-faced, tone-deaf, arrogant and sanctimonious sense of entitlement to it, and the slimy lies he tells, at every turn, about it."
Wow. Feel better after that rant? The issue actually is he's so concerned with what he's legally forced to report that he's probably ruined his chances to be nominated. Unless Rove can pull some sort of miracle save for Romney.
RP4-PRZ
CRIME DOES PAY. We are a very sick nation as evidenced by these people who are running for POTUS. It's one thing to have a stupid population, it's another to have blatant ignorant thieving bigoted religious fanatical jackasses actually on the ballot. And if you think Mormonism is a Christian church, you may want to read THEIR Bible.
If you think the present republicans are Christians your crazy. They will not allow a small tax increase on incomes over a million to make sure that Social Security and Medicare are secure. Meanwhile they are buying stocks with their insider trading privileges in companies like the one that is building the keystone pipeline, pollution and public killing for profit in the name of GOD, may they rot in hell, with their off shore money shelters. And the Democrats are not much better, doesn't take long to become a multiple-millionaire once you get elected.
Abby gal, the Mitt has finally pushed my button. He's now engaged in the sordid pandering to the absolutely fanatical anit Castro Cuban exile crowd in Miami who are just plain fruit cake, Neanderthals even for Florida. I lived there. They carry guns on their hips today. They shoot up beaches while law enforcement is helpless in the area. The New Year before a neighbor of friend of mine ended up with his young child gunned down on the beach by these slime balls while the law enforcement couldn't even seem to handle these jack asses. Miami, the highest unsolved crime rate in the nation-- the gangsters top spot!