Posts filed under ‘2012 Election’
The Tea Party’s Definition of Bipartisanship
Here is my quote of the day from the obviously brilliant and wise (I hope you detect my sarcasm) Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party Republican who defeated long-time Republican Senator Richard Lugar in yesterday’s Indiana primary:
(Photo: AP)
“I certainly think that bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”
(Via.)
Ah yes, that from the party of Dumb is Cool.
Romney “Still Deciding” His Position on Immigration?
Mitt Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Since 2007 he has been running for president but he’s “still deciding” what his position is on immigration? Really?
The Republican National Committee attempted to walk back a potentially bruising botched response Tuesday after an official said Mitt Romney is still making up his mind on immigration.
“As a candidate, to my understanding, he’s still deciding what his position on immigration is,” said Bettina Inclan, the RNC’s director of Hispanic outreach.
Inclan was speaking at an RNC event unveiling six new regional staffers who will direct Hispanic outreach in swing states. But asked how the RNC will speak with Hispanic voters about immigration, Inclan said she couldn’t speak about what policies GOP candidates would put forth.
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Within minutes, as Inclan’s comments started spreading on Twitter, RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski stepped in and said Inclan’s comments had been misconstrued.
“We never said the governor is still deciding on immigration,” said Kukowski. “I want to make sure we are exponentially clear.”
Kukowski said the RNC only started the transition to joint operations with Romney’s campaign within the past few weeks, and that the RNC’s task is to peform voter outreach and get-out-the-vote efforts, not to talk specific policy.
“We are going to be able to talk about Mitt Romney’s position. Right now what we are here to talk about is what our outreach effort is going to be,” she said. “I would ask that you give us a little time.”
The incident was also risky for Romney because it played into a narrative pushed by Romney’s opponents that he alters his positions to please the electorate.
Ah, yeah. If a guy who has been running for president since 2007 doesn’t have a firm position on immigration, you’re damn right he looks like he “alters his position to please the electorate.”
Bravo! — Gay Donors Withholding Money from Pro-Obama SuperPAC
On April 12 I posted about President Obama’s refusal to
[S]ign an executive order banning discrimination [toward gays and lesbians] by employers with federal contracts.
The executive order, which activists said had support from the Labor and Justice Departments, would have applied to gay, bisexual and transgender people working for or seeking employment from federal contractors. Current law does not protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and legislation to do so, which Mr. Obama endorses, lacks sufficient votes in Congress.
This sets my hair on fire. Any company our government hires via a “federal contract” is paid with our tax dollars. No company receiving our tax dollars should be allowed to discriminate in any way whatsoever because, hello, it is paid via the pool of money we all contribute to. (Think about it: gays and lesbians pay taxes like the rest of us even though the United States officially treats them like second-class citizens. Would you put up with that?)
So I’m all for this. Maybe withholding money will compel Mr. Hope and Change to grow a pair (since he doesn’t seem to have the cojones to do what’s morally right on his own, without being pressured):
Some leading gay and progressive donors are so angry over President Obama’s refusal to sign an executive order barring same sex discrimination by federal contractors that they are refusing to give any more money to the pro-Obama super PAC, a top gay fundraiser’s office tells me. In some cases, I’m told, big donations are being withheld.
Jonathan Lewis, the gay philanthropist and leading Democratic fundraiser, is one of many gay advocates who has been working behind the scenes to pressure Obama to change his mind. When Obama decided against the executive order last month, arguing that he would pursue a legislative solution instead, advocates were furious — such a solution will never pass Congress, the executive order has been a priority for advocates for years, and the move smacked of a political cave to conservatives who will not support Obama no matter what he does.
Want a Republican in Your Vagina?
Just watch:
Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer and Andrea Savage “spread” the message that the one thing women really want in their vagina is the government.
Via FunnyOrDie.com.
Romney’s Vacation Time
Evidently Mitt Romney and wingnut bloggers are flinging around accusations today about President Obama taking a whole bunch of vacation time while supposedly being on the job. So, for the record, I wanted to put this little factoid up so it will be handy because that issue will come up over and over again (only six more months to go!):
Mitt Romney Spent 219 Days Outside Massachusetts In 2006
In his run of the first run for the presidency in 2006, Mitt Romney spent a total of 219 days outside of the Massachusetts, an average of four days each week. Romney visited over 35 states in the efforts to build his Presidential network, with state taxpayers picking up the tab for his security detail.
Romney’s spokesmen at the time, and current campaign guru Eric Fehrnstrom defended his frequent trips away from the state saying, “Governor Romney is a national leader in the Republican Party. He was increasingly called upon to help candidates from his party, and he took a leadership role in the Republican Governors Association.”
Romney also took vacations that year, including trips to Utah, Michigan, California, and Alaska. The trips combined his Presidential ambitions with downtime with his family.
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Romney has been on the campaign trail, more or less, ever since.
Fox Uses Misleading Pic to Imply Small Crowd at Obama Rally
This “Pic of the Day” is up on FoxNation.com‘s homepage right now (4:01 p.m. ET):
If you click on the headline, “Pic of the Day,” you go to Fox’s “Pic of the Day” page and you see that the photo was actually the “Pic of the Day” on May 5
but apparently they’re loving it so much they have left it up. (You’d think they would be professional enough to change the caption to indicate that the rally in Ohio wasn’t held “today,” but on May 5.)
Anyway, PoliticusUSA has proof that the photo, showing lots of empty seats along the upper bowl, above the blue neon line, was taken before Obama began speaking, and while attendees were still entering the arena.
By comparing the first two photographs, we can see two things that prove that picture of Obama “failure” was taken before the event began. Notice that the crawler between the lower and upper bowls is blank in the first photograph, but once event began, the crawler/scoreboard featured a blue Obama/Biden logo.
If you look closely, you can see the shadows cast by the people standing on floor. The lighting likely wasn’t at full power, in other words the stage lighting is not on. As anyone who has ever been to a concert knows, the stage lights aren’t turned on until an act takes the stage. The house lights, which are the lights beneath the retired jersey banners, are used pre-event, post-event, and during intermissions.
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The truth is that President Obama drew 14,000+ in an 18,000 seat arena. It wasn’t a sellout, but it was about 13,500 more people than Romney’s largest crowd in Ohio. As the Washington Post pointed out Romney has drawn crowds of several thousand during the campaign, what they didn’t mention is that most of his thousands were bused in Mormon college students, but Obama’s crowd today was exponentially bigger than anything Mitt Romney has drawn this year.
Not only that, they have a third “pic” as well as a video that shows the place was packed.
So, Fox is using a photo posted by the likes of Breitbart and Drudge to imply Obama’s crowd was much smaller than it actually was because, well, because I guess doing so makes their sorry ass feel better.
A Musical Tribute to Mitt Romney: “You’re So Bain”
This is good, via FreakOutNation:
(Note to progressives: Let’s change the language surrounding “pro-choice.” Let’s stop saying one side is “pro-choice” while the other is “pro-life.” Both sides are pro-life. One side is pro-choice. The other is anti-choice. Thanks.)
Elections in Greece Today
Greece is holding elections today. Should be interesting to see what happens because the people there are furious about the austerity measures that are crushing them but (sound familiar?) none of the bankers or politicians who caused the financial crisis are being held accountable.
Sigh.
My Tweet of the Day:
Colorado Ski Resorts — Give Money to Republicans and Slit Your Own Throat
The tireless hero Bill McKibben and his group 350.Org staged a “Connect the Dots” action today to raise awareness about climate change.
The corporate-owned media is ignoring it of course but McKibben has been tweeting pictures all day of the events that have taken place around the world. See them here.
As a Coloradoan who lives in a state that is dependent on tourism and the winter ski season, this is my fave:
In 2009, at 17,785 feet in Bolivia’s Cordillera Oriental was the
Chacaltaya glacier. Before its unexpected melting, it was home to
Bolivia’s only ski resort and the first tow-rope ever to be built in
South America. Today all that remains is a rocky mountain-top that
only receives seasonal snowfall.
photo cred:
Lauren Farnsworth
Site altitude-Wikipedia
Heads up to Aspen and Breckenridge and all the other mega-corporate-run ski areas around here. You guys better take climate change seriously or your resorts will look like this too. (I.e., Vote Republican!)
How Dare President Obama Politicize Killing Osama bin Laden
How dare President Obama politicize killing Osama bin Laden, right? I mean, Republicans who are jumping up and down would never do something like that.
(Via TPM.)
Wingnut Extraordinaire Bryan Fischer Thinks Mitt Might be a Wimp
On Tuesday, newly-appointed, openly-gay Romney spokesman Richard Grenell was forced to resign after his gayness caused him to be targeted by radical religious right uber-conservatives lead by Bryan Fischer.
(Image via RenewAmerica.com)
Today on his radio show, “Focal Point,” Fisher wondered:
Let me ask you this question, people have raised this question, if Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, coopted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don’t think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership. I don’t think for one minute that Mitt Romney did not want this guy gone; he wanted this guy gone because there was not one word of defense, not a peep, from the Romney camp to defend him. They just went absolutely stone cold silent, they put a bag over Grenell’s head, they even asked him to organize this phone conference and they didn’t even let him speak at the conference that he organized.
(Via.)
Fischer is amongst the wingnuttiest of the wingnuts. He’s the kind of guy who, 30 years ago would have been thought of as pretty close to insane and so fringe as to be waived off and ignored. But now, what with Republicans having devolved into a pulsating mass of ignorance and hate, someone like Fisher has the power to boss their presidential candidate around. But I have to say that in this case, I agree with the guy.
Romney Erasing His Work as a “Career Politician”
Mitt Romney wrote an Op ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer this morning in which he challenged President Obama: Where are the jobs? (Republicans are all about jobs again even though Republican-controlled state legislatures all across the country have been obsessed for the last two years not with creating jobs, but with passing bills having to do with restricting the right to vote and limiting the control a woman has over her own body.)
Anyway, back to Romney’s Op ed. In it he describes the government as an “enterprise” and he emphasizes his business expertise and claims he isn’t a “career politician.” Slyly, he never uses the words “governor” or “Massachusetts” and though he has been campaigning for president for six years, that isn’t mentioned either.
More Etch A Sketching.
Romney: “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”
Three hours ago:
GM reports $1 Billion First-Quarter Profit, Beating Estimates
GM (GM) posted a profit of $1 billion in the first quarter, beating Wall Street expectations on strong demand in its key North American market.
GM also said the U.S. economy was improving and it expected its core North American results in the second and third quarters to largely match the first quarter due to scheduled downtime at its large truck plants.
“We’re clearly seeing some improvement in the (U.S.) economy,” Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann told reporters. “It’s a modest underlying improvement, but it’s patchy and it won’t necessarily all go in a straight line.”
The quarter included the impact of $800 million in higher vehicle pricing and lower consumer incentives, half of which came in North America. Last year, GM offered heavy consumer incentives to drive sales in the U.S. market, something it did not do this year.
With all due respect (i.e., none), it’s a good thing we didn’t listen to Mitt.
Republican Logic: Ban Water Guns, Allow Hand Guns
Vote Republican in November and we can have this kind of crazy everywhere:
(Image via Gawker.com)
In the politically-charged and likely protest-filled streets of Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention in August, water guns will be strictly prohibited. Concealed handguns, on the other hand, will be perfectly legal.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said this week that banning handguns from downtown Tampa during the convention, as the city’s Mayor Bob Buckhorn requested, “would surely violate the Second Amendment.”
“It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law,” Scott said in a letter to Buckhorn Tuesday, emphasizing the words “law-abiding.” “It is at just such times that the constitutional right of self defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.”
Buckhorn said today that he was “disappointed” by Scott’s decision, but that the city will “plan and train accordingly.”
Tampa officials are expecting thousands of protesters to descend on the Florida metropolis for the GOP convention. While no handguns will be allowed inside the convention, which is being protected by the Secret Service, concealed carry license-holders will be able to carry their weapons in the streets surrounding the convention.
They will not, however, be able to have “super soaker” water guns, sticks, poles, portable shields or glass bottles.
The police will be freaked out (as they should be) at the potential of literally everyone carrying a gun; the delegates will be freaked out; the press will be freaked out. It will be a terrifying place to be. I can’t imagine Scott’s order will stand, but hey, who knows. The NRA rules.
I’ll keep you posted.
Fox Pushes Condoleezza Rice for VP
Checkout this glaring headline at FoxNews.com:
Fox doesn’t do anything by accident.
Bryan Fisher Owns Mitt Romney
Good point here raised by none other than Ari Fleischer (George W. Bush’s former press secretary) about the resignation today of Mitt Romney’s openly gay spokesperson, Richard Grenell. The Romney campaign said they wanted Grenell to stay but if that’s true, what about this:
Why was Grenell completely absent from the public stage in the last few days, when his subject area — foreign policy issues — were front and center in the political conversation?
Ari Fleischer, a former Bush administration official and one of Grenell’s most vocal defenders, raised that question in a telephone interview moments ago.
“Why wasn’t Rick the spokesman in the last couple of days, when foreign policy was paramount? That’s the piece I don’t understand,” Fleischer said. “I don’t know why he wasn’t the spokesman on foreign policy for the last several days. It’s something that nobody understands.”
(Image via thirdWayMattB on Twitter)
Ah Ari: What you don’t understand is that the Romney camp is L-Y-I-N-G. As of today, it has been officially owned by the super-extreme radical right wing of the Republican base but it’s pandering to gay Republicans, trying to keep them on board (while hoping they’re stupid).
OMG. Romney’s trying to satisfy the crazies while simultaneously appealing to everyone else.
Good luck with that.
Bryan Fisher is Romney’s CEO
So, Mitt Romney is supposedly the big, bad CEO honcho huh? I don’t think so. Looks to me like winger Bryan Fisher is his boss:
(Image via RenewAmerica.com)
It was just last week that Bryan Fischer was declaring that if Mitt Romney wants to win in November, he’d “better start listening to me.” And the first thing that Romney needed to do was fire Richard Grenell because all week Fischer had beenrelentlesslyattacking the campaign for having hired an openly gay man to serve as the foreign policy and national security spokesman.
Today, during the second hour of Fischer’s daily radio broadcast, the news broke the Grenell had in fact resigned from the campaign and Fischer could barely contain his glee, declaring it a “huge win” for the Religious Right because it means that they have forced Romney to back down and taught him that he cannot do anything like this again.
See video here.
Romney Abandons Openly-Gay Spokesman — Driven Out by Gay Haters
So, less than two weeks ago, Mitt Romney appointed openly-gay Richard Grenell as his Foreign Policy and National Security spokesman. Grenell didn’t get off to a very good start but that didn’t seem to be a problem. Then suddenly today, we hear that Grenell is out. It wasn’t his nasty tweets (above link) that got him in trouble, it was the openly-gayness:
(Image via The Huffington Post)
Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
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According to sources familiar with the situation, Grenell decided to resign after being kept under wraps during a time when national security issues, including the president’s ad concerning Osama bin Laden, had emerged front and center in the campaign.
Pieces in two conservative publications, the National Review and Daily Caller, reflected the uproar by some social conservatives over the appointment.
[...]
In the National Review, Mathew Frank wrote late last week: “Suppose Barack Obama comes out — as Grenell wishes he would — in favor of same-sex marriage in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. How fast and how publicly will Richard Grenell decamp from Romney to Obama?”
Romney can cross women off his list of potential voters, and Latinos and — woohoo — now gays. Interesting election strategy.
About Romney, Obama and bin Laden
This, my Tweet of the Day, pretty much sums up the GOP’s current freak out about Obama and bin Laden:
The DCCC Endorses Republican-Lite in North Carolina
My Tweet of the Day: 
It drives me insane when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee endorses Republicans-lite. We’ve got a lot of work to do to purge the people at the top there. Give voters a choice for God’s sake. If they believe what Republicans believe, they’ll vote for the real Republican, not for the Blue Dog “Democrat.”
Give the people a choice between a Republican and a real Democrat you idiots.
Anti-Bailout Tea Party Congressmen Taking Money From Banks
Remember when Teapartiers were rallying against “government handouts” and bailing out the banks and then in 2010 they elected all those ahem, patriots to congress who were going to kick some ass?
Well lookie here. What a difference two years make:
Tea Party favorites such as Stephen Fincher of Tennessee were swept into Congress on a wave of anger over government-funded bailouts of banks.
Now those incumbents are collecting thousands of dollars for re-election campaigns from the same Wall Street firms whose excesses they criticized. They have taken no significant steps to curb them or prevent future taxpayer-financed rescues.
Republican freshmen have made clear their disdain for expanding government, and openly opposed a financial regulatory overhaul enacted by Democrats in 2010 before the newcomers arrived in Washington. Their ranks include ten Tea Party-backed freshmen on the House Financial Services Committee, part of a force that won election in a populist backlash to government spending that included emergency lending to major banks and bailout of firms including U.S. automakers.
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The political action committees of those institutions have distributed $169,499 through March 31 to the campaign coffers of the ten freshman Tea Party-backed lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee, according to an analysis of campaign finance disclosure records.
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Fincher, a gospel musician from Frog Jump, Tennessee, has received $11,500 from the political action committees run by Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. Citigroup’s political action committee had not contributed to the lawmaker through the end of March.
Two other members of the committee not listed as members of the Tea Party Caucus yet who won election to the House with Tea Party support are Representatives Steve Stivers of Ohio and David Schweikert of Arizona. Both ran ads attacking bailouts.
If Romney Wins, Will He Strap a Dog Crate to the Roof of Air Force One?
I have a big problem with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Rather, I have a big problem with White House “correspondents” hobnobbing with the people they’re supposed to cover. One of the primary responsibilities of a correspondent journalists is to expose corruption and wrong-doing on the part of government and corporate officials, but when they become friends, that tends not to happen.
That said, here is my favorite shot from last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was held at the Washington Hilton:
(Image via C-SPAN)
Here is the full video of President Obama’s hilarious, kickass, wonderfully sarcastic speech. (The screenshot above was taken from a faux campaign ad that airs beginning at 12:11 in the video.)
(Video via C-SPAN.)
Enjoy.
Mitt Romney is a Liar — Auto Bailout Edition
Remember Mitt Romney’s 2008 oped in the New York Times titled: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt? Yeah, me too.
Fast forward to April 2012 and the Romney campaign says what Obama did (can you hear me screaming?) was follow Mitt’s advice:
Romney Advisor Says Saving The Auto Industry Was Mitt Romney’s Idea
Mitt ‘The Flipper’ Romney is flopping again. After years of criticizing the auto industry bailout and declaring that Detroit should just be left to go bankrupt, Romney is now trying to take credit for saving it. Eric Ferhnstrom is the advisor who said that Mitt Romney would be like an Etch-A-Sketch coming out of the Republican Primary. He said that the campaign would reverse course on many different issues…
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During an appearance at a discussion hosted by The Washington Post, Ferhnstrom claimed that President Obama took Romney’s advice to go with a managed bankruptcy to save the industry, and thus, Mitt Romney is really the one who deserved the credit for rescuing the American auto industry.
“His position on the bailout was exactly what President Obama followed,” Fehrnstrom stated. “He said, ‘If you want to save the auto industry, just don’t write them a check. That will seal their doom. What they need to do is go through a managed bankruptcy process.’ The only economic success that President Obama has had is because he followed Mitt Romney’s advice.”
But President Obama didn’t follow Romney’s advice at all. Romney wanted to wait for private loans to magically appear to relieve the industry of its woes. But private industry could hardly be persuaded to give out $10,000 loans, so they certainly weren’t going to hand out billions of dollars of loan money. Romney’s plan would have allowed the industry to crumble, resulting in millions of job losses that would cruelly trickle down to everyone and anyone connected with the industry.
Romney is a loathsome, repulsive, weasel of a human being.
Romney is a Liar — Foreign Policy Edition
Just sayin’:
(Via.)
Romney should heed his own words:
Addressing the campaign directly, Romney turned to a Founding Father. “I love what, was it John Adams, who said that facts are stubborn things,” said Romney. “Words are easily malleable but facts, they’re stubborn. And so I suggest that in the campaign ahead and in the campaigns of various officers running for various positions ahead, that you consider not just the brilliance of their words, but also the facts of their record and what they’ve done. And that will be the best predictor, I believe, of what they’ll do going forward.”
If we apply what Romney said to Romney, the “best predictor” of what he’ll do “going forward,” is he will continue to lie, lie, lie.
Take this from the LATimes last night:
Europe has long been a pejorative in Mitt Romney’s lexicon, a laugh line popular with conservative crowds as he has campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination.
So it came as no surprise when he told an Ohio audience Friday that massive government borrowing and spending under President Obama was putting America “on track to becoming Greece.”
Describing Obama’s “government-dominated society” as a breach of America’s tradition of letting free enterprise thrive, Romney said, “In my view, that takes us down a path to becoming more and more like Europe. And Europe doesn’t work in Europe.”
Romney skirted any mention of Britain and other European nations recently sliding back into recession after they pursued the sort of austerity agenda that he proposes for the United States.
The remarks were only one demonstration of Romney’s sometimes selective rhetoric clashing with facts as he adjusts his pitch for the general election.
It’s astonishing, isn’t it, that we have a man who’s running for the most powerful position on Earth — the President of the United States – who seems to be a pathological liar? Has lying become that acceptable?
Republicans Scrubbing Attack Ads Against Each Other From You Tube
Let the Etch A Sketching begin:
The Republican Party has decided that it is time to hit the reset button. After an acrimonious primary that featured millions of dollars spent on negative ads, the candidates and their supporting super PACs are now in the process of scrubbing their YouTube pages to remove any evidence of their attacks on one another.
The most negative of all the 2012 Republican primary players, Restore Our Future, is now in the process of destroying the past. The impossibly named super PAC that spent more than $40 million to tar and feather opponents of Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary has begun removing the vicious attack ads against Romney opponents from its YouTube page.
The good news:
The scrubbing of official YouTube accounts shouldn’t be too worrisome, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the president of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, which runs the FlackCheck.org website, an attack ad watchdog.
“Since the attack ads survive in the relevant archives, they aren’t lost to history but instead a bit more difficult to locate,” Jamieson said in an email to HuffPost. “Some parts of some will undoubtedly live on in Dem attack ads.”
I laugh at the thought of the furious activity going on behind the scenes
in Republican offices everywhere.
It’s time kumbaya time.
State Senator Terry Moulton (R-WI) Speechless When Asked Where the Jobs Are
Check out this video. You will see Wisconsin state Republican Senator Terry Moulton being asked: “Were there any bills passed that affect business, and what was done, in the last session that promotes job growth? How many bills that affect business and then what was done to affect job growth?”
You won’t believe his answer.
Anyone who votes for a Republican is nuts. These guys scream “jobs, jobs, jobs” when they want to scare voters about Democrats but when they’re the ones in a position to create them, this is what we get.
(Video via.)
Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Not All That Good at Foreign Stuff
This morning the Romney campaign “organized a conference call today with three of Romney’s foreign policy advisers… During the call, Romney adviser Ambassador Pierre Prosper attacked President Obama for dealing with Russia…”
The United States has become a spectator on issues of national security. We’ve also been embarrassed by North Korea where again it continues to be a conciliatory leaning forward approach and yet the North Koreans will launch a missile surprising the United States by violating their agreement.
You now Russia is another example where we give and Russia gets and we get nothing in return. The United States abandoned its missile defense sites in Poland and Czechoslovakia, yet Russia does nothing but obstruct us, or efforts in Iran and Syria.
Oops.
From Wikipedia:
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia[1] (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko[2]) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945, the state did not de facto exist because of its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945, the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Not a good sign.
Mitt Romney’s “Hero,” Scott Walker, Not That Good at Creating Jobs
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the pipsqueak who’s wholly owned by the Koch Brothers and a “hero” to Mitt Romney, is good at one thing for sure. Screwing things up. Take creating jobs for example. This would be the headline in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel yesterday: State Posts Largest Percentage Job Loss in U.S. Over Past Year.
Here’s a graph that accompanied the article. Check out the red line at the bottom. That’s Romney’s “hero’s” work.
So folks, if you like what Scott Walker’s doing in Wisconsin, vote for Mitt and all of our states will have red lines after their names. It’ll be kinda like what’s happening in the UK where they’re proving that austerity doesn’t work. British Economy Slips Back Into Recession.
Obama Eats Dinner While People at CU Boulder Wait and Wait and Wait
UPDATED
If I have to wait 45+ for an appoinment, I’m pissed.
Obama is keeping people waiting at the University of Colorado – Boulder for his speech on students loans while he freaking eats dinner for God’s sake.
Don’t they have food on Air Force One?
This is the Twitter feed via the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper. Bear in mind Obama’s speech was supposed to start at 6:00 p.m. local time. Note the time stamps on the pics below:
Meanwhile the CU band is trying to entertain the crowd who started filing into the Coors Events Center three hours ago.
Geezus.
So disrespectful.
UPDATE: Obama arrives, as hour late:
So glad I didn’t go.
CU Students Line Up to See President Obama
President Obama is scheduled to speak at the University of Colorado – Boulder in about an hour (8:00 p.m. ET). Here is a picture of students lining up to get into the Coors Events Center where the event will be held:
CU student Guillermo Baca rests in the grass as he waits in the long line to get into the President Obama speech on the CU Campus on Tuesday. The line snaked all over campus. (Photo Photo by Paul Aiken / Boulder Daily Camera)
(Via.)
