Day: 7/12/2012

Mitt Romney: Original Bankster

Posted by on July 12, 2012 at 2:58 pm. 1 Comments :

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Mitt Romney - Original BanksterMitt Romney (or RMoney, as his Highlife Homies call him) is relying on a resume of alleged financial acumen to propel him into the White House. Unfortunately, his expertise lies more in the area of sucking the wealth out of companies, terminating employees, and sending those jobs overseas – along with his own lavish proceeds so as to avoid contributing his fair share to America’s prosperity.

Romney is the quintessential candidate of the GOP (Greedy One Percent) who callously admits that he likes to fire people, that his wife drives two Cadillacs, that corporations are people, and that he’s not concerned about the poor.

He advocates an agenda that reeks of plutocracy, favors the wealthy, and if I can quote Ice-T, he’s “Dazed by the game in a quest for extreme wealth.” He’s OB – The Original Bankster.

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  • Who maintains an unprecedented camaraderie with the Wall Street Hoodlums and Vulture Capitalists that thrust this nation into an enduring recession.
  • Who refuses to level with the American people by releasing his tax returns even though his father set the standard for such transparency by releasing twelve years worth.
  • Who has been untruthful regarding his expatriated finances, his stewardship of Bain Capital, and pretty much everything else he says.
  • Who embraces endorsements from far-right, extremists like Allen West and Ted Nugent, who recently lamented that the south lost the Civil War.
  • Who is incapable of empathizing with average Americans, but who is right at home with Donald Trump, the Koch brothers and other greedy elites.
  • Who resists disclosing his plans for the nation he seeks to lead, but when he does he reveals an overt favoritism for others in his class and a determination to punish the less fortunate.

Mitt Romney is singularly unfit to represent the American people or to set the nation on a course of recovery. He is the embodiment of the policies that drove the country into an economic ditch. And he doesn’t have the experience or the vision to advance the sort of progress that is the best part of America and its legacy in the world.

Not So Breitbart: Biden Does NOT Address Empty Seats, Nor Jeremiah Wright

Posted by on July 12, 2012 at 1:55 pm. 5 Comments :

The mental deficients at Breitbart News have done it again – twice.

Breitbart News

The picture above shows a packed house at the NAACP conference for the appearance by Vice-President Joe Biden. The speech was well received with the crowd even booing when he announced that he was wrapping up.

Nevertheless, the Breitbrats found a photo that was tweeted prior to Biden’s arrival and decided to post that with an article that said that “Biden Addresses Empty Seats at NAACP Convention.” Obviously, that was not true. The larger photo of an enthusiastic crowd was taken by an actual reporter from Reuters. Not surprisingly, the mysterious editors at Fox Nation (who Fox refuses to identify) re-posted the Breibrat item as if it were certifiable news.

In addition to the false assertion of an empty hall, the Breitbrats sought to portray their fabricated story as a “misstep for a presidential campaign unable to find its footing.”

“The low turnout could be due to weather, as Hawkins suggests, or perhaps it could have been in protest because the NAACP was snubbed by Obama. Or, maybe people didn’t feel it imperative to hear America’s Grandpa ramble on about how much he learned in a Reverend Wright’s church.”

Of course, neither the weather, nor an alleged snubbing, prevented the conferees from attending in force. But what’s worse is the reference to Rev. Wright. That bit was cribbed from Michelle Malkin. As it turns out, Biden was not referring to Jeremiah Wright at all. It never occurred to these goofballs that there might be more than one Rev. Wright in America.

Andrew Breibart’s ghost must be so proud of these idiots.

Fox News Conservatives Suddenly Opposed To Free Enterprise

Posted by on July 12, 2012 at 12:16 pm. 1 Comments :

A few days ago the kiddies at Fox & Friends went all limp because of a report that the American Olympic team would be donning berets as part of their official apparel. Steve Doocy and the others on the curvy couch were aghast that our athletic heroes were being forced to wear unpatriotic chapeaus from France that made them look foolish. But the Foxies apparently forgot that berets are also worn by some other Americans:

Fox Nation

Now the outrage at Fox continues as reports reveal that the Olympic uniforms are being manufactured in China. Conservatives across the media landscape are slamming the decision to outfit our athletes in clothes produced by the same communist nation that produces almost all of the clothes that the rest of us wear – as well as our computers, cars, televisions, etc.

So now the right-wingnuts are in a frenzy because of the off-shoring of sports apparel. However, the Olympic Committee is privately funded. The decision to manufacture the uniforms in China was made solely by the Ralph Lauren Company for purely financial reasons. The Committee could have required sponsors to source all Olympic manufacturing in the U.S., but that would be the sort of “regulation” that conservatives adamantly oppose.

The evils of regulations are a core principle of the Republican Party and the right. But when they can exploit some purely partisan pseudo-patriotism in order to induce mouth-frothing anxiety from their glassy-eyed followers, then all of a sudden regulations are the American Way.

So which is it, Teapublicans? Blind adherence to pure free enterprise, or rational policies that advance the interests of all Americans? If you choose the former than STFU about Chinese-made Olympic wear. If you choose the latter than stop pretending that unfettered free enterprise is a sacred rite that cannot be defied.