Category Archives: Mitt Romney

by | October 10, 2012 · 6:39 am

Shocked and saddened, but not angry

This lady has real class. Please watch.

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Post-debate whining

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by | October 9, 2012 · 3:08 pm
by | October 9, 2012 · 8:05 am

Romney’s tax plan – The Reality and the Obamity

Two days ago, the Obama campaign blasted out another email claiming a report by Princeton economist Harvey Rosen says Romney’s tax cuts would require large tax increases on families making between $100,000 and $200,000.

Rosen says he has no idea how the Obama campaign “reached that characterization of my work.”

Sounds to me like a polite way of saying, “WTF did they come up with THAT?!”

According to Rosen himself (not Obama’s version of Rosen), the main conclusion of his study of Romney’s plan was that it could work just the way Romney says it would.

He also says the Tax Policy Center report, the one Obama referred to at the first debate, has three huge flaws in its assumptions.

(1) The TPC report assumes pro-growth tax reform can’t actually produce economic growth, when stimulating economic growth is the WHOLE POINT of the Romney tax cut plan.

(2) The TPC report assumes two tax expenditures worth $45 billion per year are not ‘on the table’ when they MOST DEFINITELY ARE.

(3) The TPC report assumes the costs of Obamacare are still in the budget, when Romney has been clear about REPEALING Obamacare.

Rosen says when you correct for these erroneous assumptions, Romney’s math checks out.

You can check the math yourself @ http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/check-math-romneys-tax-plan-doesnt-raise-middle-class-taxes_653485.html

SOURCES:

October 8, 2012 – Princeton Economist: Obama Campaign Is Misrepresenting My Study on Romney’s Tax Plan

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/princeton-economist-obama-campaign-misrepresenting-my-study-romneys-tax-plan_653917.html

October 4, 2012 – Princeton Economist: The Math Behind Romney’s Tax Plan Adds Up

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/princeton-economist-math-behind-romneys-tax-plan-adds_653618.html

October 3, 2012 Check the Math: Romney’s Tax Plan Doesn’t Raise Middle Class Taxes

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/check-math-romneys-tax-plan-doesnt-raise-middle-class-taxes_653485.html

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by | October 8, 2012 · 11:21 am

Romney’s wrong about one thing …

… not all of us in the 47% are stupid.

Some of us understand that:

A. The government gets the money it sends us from the taxes paid by people who have jobs.

B. The more people who have jobs, the more tax revenue the government has to put into assistance programs and the fewer people who need it.

C. The fewer people who have jobs, the less tax revenue the government has to put into assistance programs and the more people who need it.

For four years, Obama has been failing to get Americans back to work again.

When Obama took office, 60.6% of our population was employed. Today, only 58.7% are employed.

When Obama took office, 11.6 million Americans were unemployed. Today, 12.1 million Americans are unemployed.

When Obama took office, 2.6 million Americans had been out of work for 27 months or longer. Today, 4.8 million are long-term unemployed.

 Mitt Romney became wealthy creating jobs.

Bain Capital is one of the foremost private equity firms in the nation. It invests money in people with ideas who want to start new businesses and in businesses that are struggling or that want to expand. Bain itself employs about 115 employees. The companies it has helped create, build up and save from bankruptcy employ hundreds of thousands.

I’m in the 47% and I’m voting for Romney.

It’s simple really. I need my entitlement and I want the government to stay solvent so it will keep on sending it to me!

If you like this, you might also want to read @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/unemployment-under-obama/

Past and current U.S. labor statistics:

January 2009 Employment Report @ http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_02062009.htm

September 2012 Employment Report @ http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_10052012.htm

Unemployment Rate @ http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Employment-Population Ratio @ http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000

Discouraged Workers @ http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNU05026645

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by | October 7, 2012 · 7:01 am

Obama ads for Romney

I saw this today when I was doing my email.

I thought I’d help the Obama campaign think up some more good slogans to put on AOL.

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by | October 5, 2012 · 5:11 am

A little fact-checking of debate statements

October 3, 2012 Presidential debate videos embedded in seven parts @

http://www.therightscoop.com/obama-vs-romney-presidential-debate-open-thread/

H/t to Pistol Pete for the link. The CSB graphics used here are already up at Webshots. I’m just reusing them.

TRUTH: During the first 3 minutes of Part Two, Romney says,

“The president said he’d cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it. Trillion dollar deficits for the past four years. The president has put in almost as much debt held by the public as all prior presidents combined.”

LIE: Shortly after, at about 2:30, Obama says,

“When I walked into the Oval Office, I had more than a trillion dollar deficit greeting me.”

When Obama walked into the Oval Office, the 2009 budget that greeted him had been signed in 2008 by President Bush. But it had been passed by a Democrat-majority Congress, of which Senator Obama was a part. That budget contained a projected deficit of about $500 Billion.

The total deficit for 2009 rose to the “more than a trillion dollar” ONLY AFTER the Democrat-majority Congress and PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA passed the 2009 stimulus spending bill, an act that ADDED more than $800 Billion to that year’s deficit.

Obama also says, “We know where it came from”, and couches all the blame in such a way that Democrats are totally blameless … which is a lie. As you can see in the graph above, under the Republican-majority Congress, the deficits were coming DOWN. It was only after Democrats won control of the House and Senate, under Pelosi and Reid (with Obama in the Senate), that federal “credit card” spending sky-rocketed.

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by | October 4, 2012 · 8:58 am

THE POST-DEBATE GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

I was up late last night watching the festivities and at this moment I’m running on 100% caffeine and adrenaline.I wanted to post this before my morning nap (being retired has its advantages).I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at Romney’s performance and relished the reactions of the usual liberal suspects.Of course,every pundit has an opinion posted this morning and I’ve chosen some of the best.

One of the things I was glad to see was that everybody learned what we already knew:Obama is NOT the most gifted orator of our time.He’s a two-bit hustler with a decent voice that reads words somebody else has written to adoring crowds and is not used to being questioned.The few press conferences he’s had during his term were lovefests where he is never challenged on his lies and uses an hour to answer five softball questions.I likened him to a schoolyard bully who pushes the other kids on the playground around until somebody stands up to him and he is shown to be the consummate coward.Ill-prepared,ill-tempered and completely detached from events surrounding him.Apparently he thought he could waltz through last night on his thin list of talking points and have the masses swoon over his supreme being.He started out giving a shoutout to his brood mare and it was all downhill from there.

It was a classic case of a man who’s had to work all his life and been responsible for the welfare of others against one who’s led a sheltered life,had everything given to him and never wanting to be responsible for anything.Witness his short career in the State Senate and US Senate where he voted ‘present’ on all but rare occaisions.Romney came prepared with facts and an idea of what he had to accomplish,as a businessman does, while Obama pretty much went through the motions and paid a dear price for it.

I’m posting some of Romney’s best lines in Pete’s Pix,and Chrissy,I’m posting a link here that shows the entire debate in seven parts,since you only heard it on the radio.You’ll want to see it.Trust me.

The most surreal moment for me was overlooked by everybody.DW,who is totally apolitical,was watching it with me when Obama said something about Lincoln starting the transcontinental railroad and some college while the Civil War was raging.

‘What the hell was that?’ she queried.

I told her he was just slinging some bullcrap while he tried to think of something relevant to say.It’s in the video but it goes by quick so you have to watch for it.On with the Grudge!

Bob adds:

CtH adds:

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by | October 2, 2012 · 2:58 am

Will the truly selfish rich man please stand up?

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Obama’s net worth in 2010 was $11.8 million. His daughters attend a private school in Washington, D.C., where tuition is $30,000 a year EACH.

If I did the math right, that amount invested at a modest 4% would have generated MORE THAN ENOUGH INTEREST INCOME in a SINGLE YEAR to

  • pay for Malia and Sasha’s tuition for all four years they’ve been in D.C.,
  • bring the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School up to a standard significantly less than the D.C. public schools that aren’t good enough for Malia and Sasha, AND
  • keep 40 Kogelo orphans fed and housed for all of the six years since Barack Obama promised to help.

If you like this, you might also want to read @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/in-obamas-america-some-blacks-are-more-equal-than-others/

Sources:

http://www.wnd.com/2011/12/379341/

http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/politician/president/barack-obama-net-worth/

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by | September 29, 2012 · 10:59 pm

MSNBC Bias BUSTED AGAIN!

Sept 2012: The New York Times and MSNBC pushed the faux tale that Romney is campaigning with Ryan, because Ryan is more popular.

In the MSNBC version of this fairy tale, these Never-Honest-Purveyors-of-News ADDED a big subtitle saying, “RYAN”, on to the video, to present the idea that the crowd was yelling, “RYAN RYAN RYAN”, which made it appear Romney was somehow needing to insert himself on to the ticket, when he says, “Romney/Ryan. Romney/Ryan. Romney/Ryan.” If you listen for yourself, it is clear that the crowd was actually chanting “ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY”, and that what Romney was really doing was emphasizing that they are BOTH important to the Republican ticket.

It’s hardly the first time MSNBC has pulled this kind of stunt.

June 2012: MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell aired this “Richie Rich Romney is out-of-touch with the common folks” story [:49]

Mitchell introduces it saying: “I get the feeling–take a look at this– that Mitt Romney has not been to too many Wawa’s along the roadside in Pennsylvania,” Romney says: “I was at Wawa’s, I wanted to order a sandwich. You press the little touch tone keypad, alright, you just touch that, and you know, the sandwich comes at you, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there’s your sandwich. It’s amazing.” Her guest breaks into sharp laughter.

Too bad for American voters who NEED the fourth Estate to actually EDUCATE them, rather than act as an in-kind campaign donor to the Democrat of the moment, the clip above was carefully edited by MSNBC to make Romney look dim-witted.

His actual point was about the difference between private and public sector efficiency. After telling a story where his friend had to fill out a 33-page form twice to complete a change of address with the government, Romney presents touch-tone sandwich-ordering as an example of private sector efficiency.

“People in the private sector have learned to compete and it’s time to bring some competition to the Federal Government and to get it smaller, and have them respond to the customers, which are YOU!!”

Unedited version of Romney’s remarks [3:28]

The next day, Mitchell unapologetically aired a very slightly longer (by seven seconds!) clip, claiming they hadn’t had “time” to air the whole thing the day before. She made absolutely NO admission that the original clip and her introduction of it had been deliberately slanted to make Romney look ridiculous.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell refuses to acknowledge they misled their viewers over Romney’s Wawa [:56]

If anyone should be getting laughed at, it’s MSNBC. Check out where they are on this list of cable news viewership for Sept 27, 2012:

  1. FOXNEWS O’REILLY 2,841,000
  2. FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,511,000
  3. FOXNEWS BAIER 2,185,000
  4. FOXNEWS GRETA 2,080,000
  5. FOXNEWS FIVE 1,960,000
  6. FOXNEWS SHEP 1,857,000
  7. CMDY DAILY SHOW 1,832,000
  8. CMDY COLBERT 1,295,000
  9. MSNBC MADDOW 1,284,000
  10. MSNBC SCHULTZ 1,235.000
  11. MSNBC O’DONNELL 1,204,000
  12. FOXNEWS FOX/FRIENDS 1,149,000
  13. CNN PIERS 670,000
  14. MSNBC MORNING JOE 552,000
  15. CNN COOPER 477,000

P.S., In the longer version of the MSNBC “Sweet Jesus” clip, Scarborough used a sacred Catholic prayer to ridicule the Mormon-Catholic Republican ticket. That is very offensive to this devout Catholic; however, I will not be encouraging my co-religionists to chuck rocks at Joe. Just sayin’.

Joe Scarborough reacts to Romney clip – ‘Sweet Jesus’ [1:29]

Sources:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/09/28/MSNBC-Caught-Again-Doctoring-Video-to-Attack-Romney

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/some-never-learn-msnbc-caught-selectively-editing-romney-video-to-make-him-seem-out-of-touch/

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by | September 29, 2012 · 9:53 pm

SEIU pays people to support Obama

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If you like this, you might also want to read @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/the-only-poll-that-matters-will-be-in-november/

Source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5DTqvX74O4

 

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