Saturday, July 14, 2012
Rachel Maddow drills down on the MItt Romney Bain Capital confusion.
I actually sort of sat back and watched this Bain Capital thing play out.
I have been watching reports from MSNBC, CNN, and yes even Fox, to determine if the Democrats went too far in their assessment that Romney is completely lying concerning his role at Bain during this crucial 2000 to 2002 period. I have also read reports from ALL over, many with completely different takes on the story, about who is, and is not, lying about it.
I KNEW that Rachel would do the very best synopsis of the story, and of course she did.
In the end there seems to be no doubt that Mitt Romeny is a lying scumbag, and that the CENTRAL reason that he tells America they should elect him in 2012 over President Obama is based on a false premise about his business acumen.
Here is a little something that Andrew Sullivan also discovered RIGHT IN Bain's 1999 press release:
It was hidden in plain sight as a Bain press release in July 1999. Here's how it described Romney's position at Bain when he says he had no responsibility whatever, despite remaining CEO, Chairman and Sole Owner as far as forms filed with SEC testify:
Bain Capital CEO W. Mitt Romney, currently on a part-time leave of absence to head the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee for the 2002 Games said ... So Bain now contradicts Romney.
And one of the men mentioned in the press release, Marc Wolpow, described his relationship with Romney when Romney was on a previous part time leave in 1994 when running for Senate (while remaining CEO of Bain):
“I reported directly to Mitt Romney . . . You can’t be CEO of Bain Capital and say, `I really don’t know what my guys were doing,’” Mr. Wolpow said of Mr. Romney role at the company during his leave.
Is anybody else getting a Sarah Palin vibe off of Mittens right about now? I mean didn't he JUST launch a campaign calling President Obama a liar for bringing this Bain Capital connection up, and saying that he was actually there longer than he claimed he was there? Yet at the very same time he was calling the President a liar, he was lying his ass off!
Personally I think THAT is the takeaway here. The man is a chronic liar. He is essentially Sarah Palin in magic underwear!
And just like Trig's never produced birth certificate, Romney has NO intention of ever providing more of his tax returns which would, according to him, prove he is NOT lying. This from Business Insider:
First of all, we've complied with the law. The law requires us to put out a full financial disclosure. That I've done. And then, in addition to that, I've already put out one year of tax returns. We'll put out the next year of tax returns as soon as the accountants have that ready. And that's what we're going to put out.
I know there will always be calls for more. People always want to get more. And, you know, we're putting out what is required plus more that is not required. And those are the two years that people are going to have. And that's all that's necessary for people to understand something about my finances. And, look, if people believe this should be a campaign about attacking one another on a personal basis and go back to the kinds of attacks that were suggested in some campaigns in the past, I don't want to go there.
Look, just like Palin with Trig's birth certificate, the ONLY reason Romney would not be willing to provide the tax returns, which he had no problem providing to John McCain in 2008, is that he KNOWS they will prove that the Obama campaign is telling the truth and that HE is lying.
Period!
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That was hot! Go Rachel!
ReplyDeleteMittens and his advisors are playing minor league ball with a team of heavy hitting professionals. It doesn't matter now if he releases 20 years worth of tax returns...there are other ways of getting enough information about Romneys Bain years to create a complete narrative about him that will make him unelectable.
ReplyDeleteAlready an ex Bain dude will be going on Chris Hayes show tomorrow to talk about Mittens, more SEC filing will be published, more press releases found, and then the inevitable email leaks will surface from anonymous sources. If Mitt thinks he put this issue to rest last night, he needs to fire his entire campaign staff and start over. I have seen the Obama is lying ads already up on tee vee here, and they only create more confusion about the issue.
Mitt Romney just wrote his political obituary last night.
Ask any woman who's dated a Mormon man. She'll tell you what prolifigate liars they are. It's part of their "training."
DeleteRemember, the second "m" is silent.
Romney's tax returns have been an issue and a distraction for his campaign since the primaries. Why would anyone avoid putting this to rest unless doing so would raise even more significant issues?!
ReplyDeleteI don't see any other conclusion than that his refusal to release these tax returns like so many other candidates before him is an admission that they contain information which would do even more damage to his campaign.
If he gets away with this, I will be stunned.
Romney the Robber Baron will magnanimously permit not just one but TWO tax returns for our reading pleasure.
DeleteIn 2008 he offered years of tax returns to John McCain in hopes of being the vice-presidential candidate.
Unfortunately, for him and the nation, John chose Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Why, only four years later when he is running for president, does Romney adamantly feel no need to provide those same multiple tax returns? What is he hiding? This does not bode well for open and honest disclosure.
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." ~Mark Twain
"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar." ~Abraham Lincoln”
Romney the Robber Baron will magnanimously permit not just one but TWO tax returns for our reading pleasure.
DeleteIn 2008 he offered years of tax returns to John McCain in hopes of being the vice-presidential candidate.
Unfortunately, for him and the nation, John chose Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Why, only four years later when he is running for president, does Romney adamantly feel no need to provide those same multiple tax returns? What is he hiding? This does not bode well for open and honest disclosure.
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." ~Mark Twain
"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar." ~Abraham Lincoln”
Sorry for the double post!
DeleteYou nailed it Gryphen ---yes, i've been getting a Palin vibe in two ways --1) not providing the available documentary evidence that he claims supports his statements; 2)lying about easily refuted documented facts (such as in Andrew Sullivan's "The Odd Lies of Sarah Palin).
ReplyDeleteIn Palin's case i think it's becuz she's a combination of dumb and unbalanced. In Romney's i think it's becuz he thinks we're dumb and unbalanced, and won't care.
Looks like Mitt and most of the Republican Party took Sarah Palin training in Chronic Lying 101. Too bad they didn't pay attention to how it worked out. I think your photo in the previous post says it all.
ReplyDeleteTalking Cardboard Man is in for a LONG HOT SUMMER! Meh is going to have to keep changing those magic drawers of his if he thinks that smiling at the cameras and DEMANDING apologies is going to make the "Obama machine" (H/T to Baldy!) stop the steam roller that's headed his way!
DeleteAnd you just KNOW that the Bald One is LOVING every bad thing that comes out on Meh! Those two were in cahoots back in Alaska and you know he has a dossier on her and band of ruffians that go WAYYY back!
So she may be on FAKE News reluctantly supporting Cardboard Man but she's happy that it's not her dumbass getting torn to shreds and exposed. The alkie is a lot smarter than we've given her credit that's for sure!
Mitt's tax returns and Trig's birth certificate have been lost in the Bermuda triangle or are locked away in a Swiss bank vault.
ReplyDeleteNeither will ever see the light of day.
Mitt has been trained in the Palin school of "poor me". He is asking for an apology from the President? Now who, other than the Palins, ask for apologies from anyone who dares to criticize - in particular President Obama. Is it Sarah or Bristol who has been sitting next to the phone for a couple of years waiting for that apology?
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin started the nonsense of a politician who cannot handle criticism. If she had to cope with 1% of what the President has handled without blinking - over the past 4 years - she would be curled up under the bed.
And, just to add, also, too - it seems that when you lie, being called out on said lies - instantly starts those requests for apologies. Mitt knows there is no apology coming, even GOP pundits are telling him this is a REAL campaign - Sarah on the other hand was/is so delusional, she just keeps on complaining.
Back in March 2012, Rachel Maddow already tagged Romney as a lying liar.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/8aURcJd4jBU
She details Romney's habitual lying at about 6:45 on the YouTube video, above.
DeleteThe other night O'Donnell did a whole show dedicated to Romney's lies too. It was interesting.
DeleteM from MD
Jesse G,
DeleteDid Rachel ever report on Mitt's illegal coordination with Palin's campaign staff as Chairman of RGA in 2006?
If not, I'd bet that she'd be interested in presenting it as part of the narrative that illustrates just how the privileged "rogues" behave corruptly to the benefit of themselves and their cronies whenever proper oversight is lacking.
Please, G, take another bite at the Palin apple on the Bailey story. Maybe in their struggle to save their own asses, Mitt and Sarah will pull one another down.
Damn, that two-fer would be sweet, huh?
Haven't read all the comments yet, maybe someone else has mentioned this, but... Romney and Bain's involvement with a company called "Life Like Dolls" made me go ..."Hmmm"
DeleteRachel is one hell of a reporter, and I hope she keeps after this story. The whole truth about The Great Mittsby needs to be told because the real truth about his candidacy is that he would be a truly horrible president to lead this country.
ReplyDeleteHis candidacy is driven by only one thing: his deeply ingrained love of money and power, and his goal to get more of it for himself no matter who or what it hurts.
He is the epitome of a classic sociopath, plus he has the love-of-money syndrome which is so destructive to anyone who comes into contact with him.
I agree with your diagnosis of sociopath. Who lies about so much stuff that can be so easily proven? Anyone pop into your mind?
DeleteI think, like Sarah, Romney thinks he can get away with anything. But, like Romney used to say during the primary,"This ain't beanbag." As an aside, does anyone on the planet play fucking "beanbag" anymore? Anyway, his lies will come home to roost. If the President's campaign has Romney on the ropes in July, what's he got for October?
"I agree with your diagnosis of sociopath. Who lies about so much stuff that can be so easily proven? "
DeleteBecause they can and do get away with it. More puzzling is WHY there are so many that fall for it?
Think how many years Romney has been trying to get away w/this crap (lies!).
DeleteIt's amazing to me! He and so many other Republicans need to be brought down and squashed! Palin especially!
And, he's a Mormon!
DeleteMormon Man thought he could do or say anything regardless of truth and not be held accountable. That was before his hare-brained egotistical idea of running for president surfaced. Now everything is open for discussion and disclosure.
DeleteHe is a pathological liar who is without empathy. Robme is totally self-absorbed, unable to consider alternative perspectives. Rmoney is highly threatened by differences of opinion or alternative viewpoints.
Oh yeah, this is the man for president ...of Amercia.
OBAMA is the man for president of the United States of America!
Obama's doubling down and taking Romney balls to the wall on this:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/Ud3mMj0AZZk
BOOM! That was an uppercut to Mitt's chin.
DeleteThe only thing worse I can imagine hearing would be Mitt singing a duet with Screechy, and it makes my head hurt to even think about it so I won't anymore.
Here's the 30 second vid imbedded at D Kos starring "OUR" Sarah.
DeleteIt's called "Wink"
http://youtu.be/_EiRFB00gLM
Love it!
DeleteWow. Just wow. Mitt is a crook, just like Bush, Cheney, Palin. The whole lot of loudmouth GOP rich white folks who just want the people they are screwing to believe they are above the law because they are 'successful in America," and anyone questioning them is just plain jealous. How often do we hear that from the Palins? Anyone not on their side is just lazy and jealous.
ReplyDeleteWell, I am neither, but I am concerned that a major political party in the US has fallen so far that they intend to nominate this slimy greedy entitled man for the highest office in the land. That Palin can get away with smirking that Condi Rice, who was elected to no office, is somehow more 'experienced' at governing than President Obama, whose accomplishments are heroic. That Fox can continue to lie about Romney and pretend these charges are trumped up by the left. It is a sad day in America.
Palin is no where as rich as Bush, Cheney and Romney. She's wishful though! Haha!
DeleteO.T. (sort of)In the soon-to-be-released film, "The Dark Knight Rises"(Obama?), the arch-villain is "BANE"(Bain Capitol). How ironic is that?
ReplyDeleteCould you please add a link to the Bain 1999 press release? That needs to be circulated. I'm having trouble finding it on Sullivan's site.
ReplyDeleteI second that request.
DeleteWhat you will see next is the rats leaving the sinking ship. Look for staff to begin removing themselves from this mess of a candidate, slowly but surely. They'll try to keep it under wraps, but it's what happens at the end of political campaigns when the players see the writing on the wall, they bolt.
ReplyDeleteLots of pushback and empty bluster will NOT make this go away. The media is smelling blood and they are going in for the kill. It won't be Obama who will 'kill mitt', it will be Mittens himself who will do himself in, all the Obama campaign has to do it sit back and shine a light.
Just a few hours ago, Talking Points Memo (TPM) released evidence that we have been aware of for 11 1/2 years. That Mitt Romney "WAS" CEO of Bain Capital in 2001. Their source is non other than the irrefutable public docket records of the SEC. In the TPM wonderful article entitled "No, Romney Didn’t Leave Bain in 1999" it states;
ReplyDelete"The gist of the disagreement comes down to this: There’s no question that numerous public filings and some contemporaneous press references say Romney was still running things at Bain after 1999. But his campaign insists that whatever securities filings may have said, in practice, he was so busy running the 2002 Winter Olympics that he actually had no role at Bain after early 1999. That’s possible in theory. But there’s no evidence for it besides self-interested claims by Romney. And there’s plenty of documentary evidence to the contrary. After all, what you tell the SEC is really supposed to be true".
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/10/1108392/-Breaking-Mitt-Romney-CEO-2001-TPM-Nails-Mitt-w-2-SEC-Filings-Proof
Well, if Romney wasn't running Bain after 1999 then he was lying to the SEC; if he was running Bain after 1999 then he has been lying to everyone else. Interesting how Romney is always lying no matter to whom he is speaking.
DeleteBeaglemom
Romney can get red in the face defending his honor. He can hold his breath until he turns blue waiting for an apology. But he can't deny what he wrote in black and white. Well, he can try... but it won't work.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the database holding documents relating to Romney's tenure at Bain shocked me. I was shocked to realize this was the same database that introduced me to the web twenty years ago.
In 1992, a software application called Lynx was released for beta testing. By today's standards it wasn't very exciting. It was a crummy little text-based browser for something called the World-Wide Web. But twenty years ago, when 28.8 modems were the norm, it was revolutionary. For the first time in history, individual investors had the tools they needed to search the EDGAR database on their own FOR FREE.
EDGAR has matured over the last twenty years. But the output is still basically the same. It is flat text. No fancy graphics. No cute animations. Just boring legal documents companies file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. That's the government agency responsible for regulating the financial industry.
As you would expect, this is dry stuff. But it is searchable. THAT makes it interesting. For example -- if you enter the search string "Romney Bain" and limit your search to the time frame 2000 and 2012, you know what you find?
You don't have to guess. I can show you. Voila......
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/14/1109807/-Mitt-meet-EDGAR-Hammer-meet-nail
Many thanks for the link, Anonymous7:39 AM
DeleteNot to nitpick, but in the doc Rachel shows, it states Romney made 'OVER $100,000' when he was allegedly not doing anything with Bain.
ReplyDeleteBuilding on what Rachel said, the real question that Romney should be asked is this: how much were you actually paid during the years between 1999-2002? You'll notice that it just says "over $100,000" - it could have been a million. Could have been ten million. The media should dog this guy and all his surrogates with that question until they get an answer.
ReplyDeleteI so want a 'real' journalist to go after Romney and document his evil ways from the time he started running for Gov of Massachusetts to current days. (Which state did he actually reside? Utah or Massachusetts?)
DeleteThe federal government should investigate him too due to his SEC filings. (Bain)
Willard is a liquified sack of shit, just like Sarah Piglin.
ReplyDeletelies with ease
ReplyDeletedeflects endlessly
cries victim
employs staff blind to truth
incapable of self-assessment
Palin or Romney? same difference
Evidence Mounts...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/07/14/evidence_mounts_of_mitt_romneys_continuing_ties_to_bain_after_1999/?page=full
Another comparison of Mitt being like Sarah -- He, too, relies on his looks. In a "dumb" culture where people don't read or listen to the news, "looks" have an advantage. Dumbed down voters treat a political election like a beauty contest..
ReplyDeleteIf you look at pictures of Mittens when the campaign first started - to now - he is losing weight and is getting darker circles under his eyes and puffiness.
DeleteLook at what physcially has occurred w/Palin - she doesn't look one bit as attractive four years later!!! Their evilness eats them from the inside out!
Romney's Got Nothing
ReplyDeletehttp://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/romneys-got-nothing.html
Mitt started this campaign with no real convictions. The way things are going, he may definitely have one before it's over.
ReplyDeletehttp://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c101/BlueDjinn/romney_conviction.jpg
Well put 7:49. Romney and sons should be put under federal investigation!
DeleteDoes BAIN Capital Still Own Rush, Sean, and Glenn? DOJ Anti-Trust Final Judgement
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/14/1109869/-Does-BAIN-Capital-Still-Own-Rush-Sean-and-Glenn-DOJ-Anti-Trust-Final-Judgement
Mitt Romney is almost entirely a living breathing myth. He's not smart, he's not even smarter than George W. Bush, or even Dan Quayle, was. He's not a good businessman, he's just another guy who contributed to why Wall Street is a simmering toxic mess. He's not a saavy leader, he does what he's told and makes it look like whatever he was doing was his idea. He's not bold, he's fundamentally one of the biggest cowards in the GOP. He's not an idea driven individual, he's an empty suit who has learned from Newt Gingrich to be 'what a stupid person thinks a smart guy sounds like'.
ReplyDeleteNow we find out that he's a serial (rather than a cynical/tactical) liar, a sadly fragile egomaniac, and that on top of everything else... he's all not good at all under pressure.
God help us all if he's ever President.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/14/1109431/-The-Darker-Side-of-Romney-Fail
I recommend everyone review the movie "Wall Street" again that has Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen as the main actors. It reviews exactly what we are seeing w/Mittens - purchasing a company and bringing it down to make millions!
DeletePretty frightening but thought provoking.
Anon754
Delete"he's an empty suit who has learned from Newt Gingrich to be 'what a stupid person thinks a smart guy sounds like'."
there's your big applause line.
very nice.
What you are saying, Anon at 7:54 am, is absolutely true. He does not impress me as particularly intelligent either having done nothing since 2006 to learn anything about the issues facing the country and the world today. How lazy can he be? No job since 2006 except running for president and he did nothing to learn about the world around him?
DeleteI for one don't want a do nothing president who rakes in the dough. I want one (we've already got him) who rolls up his sleeves and gets to work for the people of this country.
ReplyDeleteLynne,
DeleteYou sounds like you're ready to roll YOUR sleeves up and get out there on the stump for our candidate.
It's so hot outside now to do anything outside of the shade, but I can't wait until Labor Day when it cools a little and the campaign kicks it into overdrive.
Of course by then, Mitt's campaign might have melted down already. And that's fine with me.
Careful Lynne or you'll lose Krusty Fartullo's admiration.
Delete"And that's all that's necessary for people to understand something about my finances."
ReplyDeleteThe operative word here is "something."
But we are not owed "something." We're owed everything about his finances. His very own father showed what a politician should do, releasing eight -- or twelve -- years of his tax returns when he ran in the 1968 primaries.
For Mitt Romney to claim that all anyone needs to know is two years of his finances, when he's been hell-bent on running for President since at least 2002 shows that he has a great deal that he's hiding, and he thinks we can be hoodwinked and lied to by getting only "something."
The reason he lied about his time at Bain is clear. The Romney/Bain Vulture Capitalist model is based on a smash-and-grab strategy that sucks out all the assets of a faltering company, immediately pays huge bonuses to the Bain management, defunds pension plans at the expense of the tax payer and basically takes no risk with their own money. This immoral business model illustrates why he is unfit to be the leader of this country. Along with his off-shore bank accounts Romney wants to brush part of his life aside.
ReplyDeleteLet's see. Mitt wanted to run for governor of Massachusetts, yet had been living out of state in Utah where he'd taken a property tax deduction given to *legal residents* of Utah. His Utah residency would have disqualified him for running for governor. It was *essential* that his Bain status be portrayed as a leave of absence, not a separation, so he could make the case he had always planned to return to MA after the Olympics were over. As it stands, he had to refile his tax returns to not claim that Utah resident deduction and go before the ballot commission in MA. Now that Bain's activity during his leave of absence is called into question, he claims he retired from Bain in February of 1999. While he might get some benefit of the doubt for his name on certain entities created prior to his leaving, completely new entities bearing his name? Being listed as CEO on SEC filings? If he's retired, he can't be the CEO. It's just that simple. Either he has operating control, or he doesn't. SEC filings require a high degree of precision, and it's impossible to believe that Bain's attorneys handling compliance would have let this slide.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that this doesn't matter is ludicrous. Mitt desperately needs to be retired in February 1999 for the purposes of this election, just as he desperately needed to be on a leave of absence when he ran for Governor of MA.
8:04AM
Delete"The idea that this doesn't matter is ludicrous."
Great comment throughout. Very well stated. We don't even need VP Biden to tell us "This is a BIG fucking deal".
And, he needs to be put on leave for this coming election.
DeleteWhat a lying sack of shit!!!
That residency issue is another example of Romney lying to one group to appease or get a favor from the other group. One lying rich grifter!
DeleteI'm sorry, but anyone who keeps their capital assets offshore in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Switzerland would seem to have an utter lack of faith in the American banking system. This creep should NOT be running for President of the US. Besides the fact that he lies about virtually every issue during his campaign. Add to that the amount of American jobs he has dissolved, lives he has disrupted, the ruthless nature of his business deals, and you have a composite nd very grim picture of what a Romney presidency would mean for the 99% of us who struggle to survive daily, while this out-of-touch Crudbrook Academy homophobe pretends he's Joe Six-Pack America, all the while loathing the constituency he's attempting to court.
ReplyDeleteHe's got some in Luxembourg and the Channel Islands as well.
DeleteAnyone who wants to be president of the United States ought to, at the very least, keep his investments and his money in this country. How unpatriotic of Romney!
DeleteMitt can't claim that he isn't responsible for what Bain did post February 1999. That's what's important. Bain investing in Stericycle, a company that disposes of remains from abortions? Mitt will tell you that happened after his retirement. You think evangelicals will care if he had "significant involvement" in the Stericycle investment?
ReplyDeleteMitt can't simultaneously have been on a leave of absence which would let him run for Governor of MA *and* retired which would inoculate him from Bain's business decisions post-February 1999 while running for president in 2012. These two things can't exist simultaneously. So, which was the truth? What Mitt claimed to be Governor of MA, or what he's claiming now in his effort to be president?
Romney lied. Whenever a Democrat lies, no matter how small and unimportant the lie, conservatives jump all over it and talk about "character" and use it as a reason why said Democrat is unfit to lead our country. I'm just sayin'... and this lie has much bigger consequences than anything Liz Warren said or didn't say about her ethnicity, anything Bill Clinton said about having an affair with an intern, or anything Obama... wait, when again has Obama told a major lie with serious consequences? Anyone to tries to answer this (with something like "Obama said he would lower unemployment below 8%"): an unfulfilled promise is not the same thing as a lie. A lie is an intentional misrepresentation of facts.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this particular lie means Mitt is avoiding responsibility for major job losses at a company he was running, and yet his campaign (during the rare times when he stops disparaging Obama for a few minutes and actually talks about himself and why he should be President) is centered around how he's an experienced businessman and will run the country like he ran his business! Maybe we'll finally wake up and remember that the USA is not a business, and isn't SUPPOSED to be run like one. We're here to ensure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ALL our citizens, not just the rich ones. Mitt, I sure hope you are toast this November, and I sure hope this story contributes to your toastiness.
I know that I'd never pick Romney to run my business! He is too damned sleezy! I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him!
DeleteRomney is a born liar.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, if he signed fraudulent notices that Bain subsequently submitted to the SEC, he'll soon be a convicted one as well.
Here's hoping for truth, justice and the American way to triumph over Fraud Romney and The Bain Way of Doing Business --- lie to thy customer; cheat thy customer; abuse thy customer; fire thy workers; slash thy workers' health care coverage and that of their families; outsource thy factories and their jobs to Third World countries; and pay those in sweat houses pennies a day while making millions in blood-stained profits.
I think the problem for Romney is that the SEC filings are accurate, which means 2012 Romney has a lot of explaining to do about Bain's investments 1999-2002. Mitt's problem is having to explain how being listed as CEO in a 2001 or 2002 filing squares with his claim that he had nothing to do with the operations of the company. Bain says Mitt retired in 1999. My guess is that there is a lot of nervousness on the upper floors of the Pru today, as Ropes and Gray is trying to figure out if Bain has thrown them under the bus.
ReplyDeleteHe has even more to do with eToys, which is a scandal of epic proportions.
DeleteFor even more information on Romney look for articles by David S. Bernstein in the Boston Phoenix. Read one yesterday that was written in 2007~most interesting.
ReplyDeleteScorpie
Wow, you can tell this subject is REALLY hurting Republicans because they keep throwing out topics not even remotely related to this candidate and his habit of lying and deception.
ReplyDeleteHe hasn't won the nomination yet. He hasn't announced a potential VP choice yet. He's only released one year of Tax Returns, which will show more lies and he knows it.
The Polls are ALL showing he's losing and this will worsen that situation because even some Republicans distrust him now. He won't ever get the Southern Evangelical vote (see the primary results in the south). Those people already distrust him and they don't take to kindly to liars!
The upcoming Republican Convention in Florida is going to be very interesting to watch!!!!
DeleteDon't think things are going to go smoothly!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Toooooooo funny. The fools and ignoramuses (technotard) at the PeePond are now touting Coolidge by copypasta-ing from american (non-)thinker:
ReplyDeleteThen from BriANUS comes this:
"Great: Thanks, techno, for this key information on one of the greatest American Presidents, even if he is now mostly passed over in SILENCE ...
"SILENT CAL" COOLIDGE!!"
Have to wonder what the doofus's would think of this. Because Coolidge's tax policy sure sounds a lot like President Obama's of keeping tax liability on the richest folks who can afford it.
Coolidge's taxation policy was that of his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon: taxes should be lower and fewer people should have to pay them.[115] Congress agreed, and the taxes were reduced in Coolidge's term.[115] In addition to these tax cuts, Coolidge proposed reductions in federal expenditures and retiring some of the federal debt.[115] Coolidge's ideas were shared by the Republicans in Congress, and in 1924 Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced income tax rates and eliminated all income taxation for some two million people.[115] They reduced taxes again by passing the Revenue Acts of 1926 and 1928, all the while continuing to keep spending down so as to reduce the overall federal debt.[116] By 1927, only the richest 2% of taxpayers paid any federal income tax.[116] Although federal spending remained flat during Coolidge's administration, allowing one-fourth of the federal debt to be retired, state and local governments saw considerable growth, surpassing the federal budget in 1927
Uh oh, Mitt's trying to row upstream with no paddles. All he can do now is try to :
ReplyDelete1. Deflect.
2. Distort.
3. Deny.
4. If none of those work, Lie.
5. Lie some more.
6. Counter-attack Obama with similar charges.
7. Whine about the MSM on Fox News.
8. With aid from FNC, try to change subject.
9. Rinse.
10. Repeat steps 1-9 as necessary.
Hey Mitt, do you still want to deceptively edit and splice some tape of the president speaking in order to completely change the context of his words and position on an issue? A little advice here, Mr Romney. You stepped in a big cow pie and now you have shit all over yourself. Running around in circles while trying to convince everybody that shit smell is Ralph Lauren's new fragrance is just going to make you look even more clueless in insulting those of us who know our shit.
Welcome to the big leagues, Mitt. You'll be fighting the rest of this bout from your heels, in reverse gear only, as Axelrod & Co. chase your terrified punk-ass around the ring until November.
Thereafter, it will only be by either your "extreme" luck or the graceful benevolence of our President if you aren't indicted, you lying sack of 1% shit. But you best not count those chickens just yet. Because your nightmare has just begun.
Whatcha think about that scary black man in the White House now, Mr Mitt-shit? Pretty scary, huh?
Remember, it won't take our wonderful President Obama to start an investigation of Romney - it can be done by others - i.e. some good journalists - as was done w/Watergate.
DeleteIt sure seems as though there is much more to find out about Willard and his sons that we would find interesting - as well as our government (SEC). I sincerely hope this matter is continued.
This guy cannot be trusted and will pander to no end just to get special interest votes. He means none of it. His wife said he is considering a female VP but the ones on the list are political suicide for him--no way he will pick one of those women. He is pandering to female voters and voters in swing states like NH and NM.
ReplyDeleteHe told NAACP he will do more for African Americans than President Obama. Right. He told Massachusetts voters that he would do more to advance gay and lesbian rights than Ted Kennedy but now has signed a pact with the christian right to ban gay marriage.
If you believe and elect this guy, you deserve the knife you will get in your back.
What is disturbing is the fact that the neocons are willing to elect a carbon copy of Dubya and all the dirty baggage that goes along with him simply because of their hatred of President Obama.
ReplyDeleteThey were, and still are, willing to see "facts" that no one else sees in Palin's record, so why not? It's about the TEAM, good or evil, not the person.
DeleteMitt Romney’s stories just don’t jibe.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/opinion/blow-what-a-tangled-web.html?_r=2&ref=politics#comments
Romney is a slippery politician with lots of money who also has little regard for the voters of this country outside of the Hamptons, outside of "secret meetings" and outside of other super wealthy supporters.
ReplyDeleteAnd, the fact he secretly was at a fund raiser (for him) at the dwelling of Cheney should especially give everyone the creeps!
DeleteHe will not show himself (photos or voice) with either Bush or Cheney. Far too secretive for me! He's not ethical and has many of the Bush/Cheney group on his team as 'advisors' for further wars for the USA.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 WITHOUT A DOUBT
Mr. Romney's idea of propriety is vastly different than most of ours, as taught by our mothers and fathers. Mr. Romney hides behind arcane rules, twists of the intent and meaning of laws, up to and including hiding money overseas in order to have to pay less in taxes. Then, when the heat level gets too hot, he breaks down and goes on a media junket to tell us that we should only hold him responsible for half the things that any other rich human would be accountable for.
ReplyDeleteReally? We are not stupid. We are not devoid of ethics. For all of his money, which may well have been ill-gotten, Mr. Romney doesn't have an ounce of common sense or decency. While many of us 98 percenters don't hold three degrees from Harvard, we know right from wrong and we can sure smell a rat. Mitt Romney's a big, fat, smelly rat.
"Blind trusts, Swiss bank accounts and Bermuda accounts designed to shield your money from the taxing agency of the country you want to lead just doesn’t sound right."
Game, set, match. Need anything else be said?
Romney's defense this afternoon seemed less like a denial and more like a temper tantrum that the press and the Obama campaign are trying to subject him to scrutiny. The whole thing is rather obtuse and perhaps not too important, but Romney's assertions don't pass the smell test, which is very important. Bain capital has been his albatross in the past, and it may be again.
ReplyDeleteRomney has proved to be rather cavalier with the truth, a flip flopper on positions, and short on transparency. It will take a lot of Citizens United ads and some real bad news on the economy to erase Obama's leads in the swing state polls. I can't envision him beating Obama in the debates.
I think President Obama will beat him in the debates without a doubt.
DeletePresident Obama will press, press, press with experience, proof and questions and Mittens will deny, deny, deny and say the same stuff we have been hearing from him that have proven to be lies.
I think President Obama will 'one up' Mittens drastically and be reelected in 2012.
Mitt Romney is a congenital liar.
ReplyDeleteHe told lies when CEO as Bain did its leave-them-after-squeezing-them to companies while outsourcing their jobs to other countries.
He has told lie after lie after lie since running for President. It's more than "flip-flopping". Everyone has something to hide, and few if any politician is without some dissonance from truth.
But Romney has everything to hide.
Everything about him - from the ever-present smirk on his face to his limitless self-righteousness - reeks of falsehood. When he speaks fact, it's with exaggeration to glorify himself or to degrade Obama.
As a human-being, Romney is without humility. He cannot acknowledge doing wrong because he believes everything he does is right.
That pretty much describes most sociopaths.
He sure reminds me of the idiot Sarah Palin ONLY he has one hell of a lot more money!
DeleteNeither will be elected to anything. Both should be federally investigated!
The new questions about Mitt Romney’s sworn version of his 1999 departure from Bain Capital—which seems to contradict statements in SEC filings, testimony given to prove his Massachusetts residency, and corporate annual reports—are causing his campaign such a headache that someone in Romneyland was moved to float Condi Rice’s veep prospects last night as a diversion. The renewed focus on Bain, as I wrote yesterday, vindicates the Obama team’s decision to press forward with its criticisms of Romney’s tenure year despite the much-ballyhooed warnings of the mayor of the 68th biggest city in the country.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/104930/mitts-luck-the-mistaken-focus-99-pivot-point
Romneybot is as big a liar as Palin
ReplyDeleteWhen you go back over the explanations the Romney campaign used to beat back Obama/Priorities USA attacks, you see them fumbling the 1999/2002 distinction like a retired NFL-er with busted knees. In late May, for example, Ed Gillespie (a Romney adviser and surrogate) gave Romney credit for all the jobs created by Bain over its entire history -- not stopping in 1999, not even stopping in 2002. Every time Romney's been hit over something that happened after February 1999, it claimed more definitively than it could prove that he had nothing to do with that stuff.
ReplyDeleteThis is a truly bizarre scandal. At base, we're seeing a candidate get shamed because he took a (paid) leave of absence in order to successfully turn around the Olympics. But the way he described that decision in his 2006 book Turnaround made it clear -- he kept up some Bain Capital ties. "When I talked to my partners at Bain Capital," he wrote, "I opined that it wouldn't make sense for me to come back to the company at the end of my tenture at SLOC as I had following my [1994] campaign." They disagreed and came to a different arrangement -- not as much control as he'd retained in 1994, but not zero influence.
If only the campaign had explained this clearly. The reason that Romney's having trouble escaping this language trap is that it was built and baited by hasty "war room" responses.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/07/13/did_the_romney_campaign_create_the_swift_yachting_story_.html
His campaign definitely sucks at handling crises. What do they do to change the topic in the media from this Bain shitstorm? They float that Condi Rice is at the top of the VP list, and that pisses off the evangelicals who don't trust Romney at all. Smooth move, Willard!
DeleteThis election might be more fun than I originally thought (as long as our president wins)!
Watch this video of Mitt losing his cool with Gary Johnson, AP reporter, back in 2011. Watch all the way to the end where Eric Fehnrstrom tells Gary Johnson, "Don't be argumentative with the candidate".
ReplyDeleteTranslated: Don't question Mitt. He can do and say what he wants. If a reporter questions him about his lies, the reporter is rude, out of line.
Such arrogance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVA2Tr_GTlk&feature=related
Ah, the Bane of Mr. Romney's (capital) existence, an old cash cow that won't stop mooing, no matter how far offshore it's been parked. Now he's calling more attention to it by demanding Mr. Obama apologize for calling attention to it. And the tax return thing--OY! The next shoe to drop, I predict, will be Mr. Romney firing his campaign staff. He's getting lousy advice.
ReplyDeleteIn his long-standing hard-pressed ambitious quest for the white house Romney´s had to kowtow to a radicalized GOP, reversing a wide spectrum of his personal views on key domestic matters to accommodate an extreme right-ideology agenda - repeal Obamacare, no abortions, return to reaganism, deregulate environmental controls and gun control regulations, endorse union busting, no new taxes pledge, stop TARP, and dismantle a host of essential govt support programs (e.g. HUD, Planned Parenthood). As a consequence he has quite appropriately earned the reputation as a "flip-flopper", a charge he´s constantly having to defend against Obama.
However, blithely reversing stands on key domestic issues willy nilly is one thing, but frankly far more serious is Romney´s proclivity for lying. He lies repeatedly and unashamedly. It doesn´t bother him either when he´s caught. He lies about himself, the president, gov´t policy and fiscal matters. Somehow his election organization has determined that he gains more by lying than not lying. Saying for example that when Obama took office the economy was in recession, and that he made it worse and longer, even though entirely false, they figure it still gets traction amongst voters. This is the reprehensible campaign calculus the Romney election team whole-heartedly embraces.
Interesting that it was his father who, when he released 12 years of tax returns, said that a single year could be manipulated.
DeleteSo... which was it? A "part-time leave of absence' or did he "retire" from Bain? Both Mittens and Bain have referred to it both ways, even while signing SEC documents as president, CEO, sole owner, etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd which was it... did he leave Bain completely for Utah and the Olympic committee, or - as he claimed when challenged about Massachusetts residency during the 2002 governor's race - he really still worked for Bain and attended various board of directors meetings at Bain companies?
Is he qualified for the presidency because he know how to "create jobs" or was he in fact fully involved in Bain when it outsourced jobs overseas (and in 1998 made millions on a company whose business model relied on exactly such outsourcing), pillaged the assets and sucked so much cash from companies that they went bankrupt and/or fired hundreds of workers, and in general practiced the most predatory, destructive economic scavenging for decades.
Mittens truly is the embodiment of the political rot within the GOP - say anything, no lie too outrageous, no projection too extreme - just win at all costs.
I this country elects this man after all that's coming to light, heaven help us.
Be sure to go to Sullivan's link, the references are live and clickable there.
ReplyDeleteHe's Drowning Not Waving: A Roundup
Today was another big day of Bain-blogging. Here, aided by new info from HuffPo, we cornered the Romney campaign for being unable to quell two major concerns: why he made a six figure salary for three years while claiming to have no active involvement in Bain and why he told the SEC in 2001 that he remained the CEO. Here we brought more bloggers into the inquiry and asked pro-Romney Catholics if they were comfortable with a candidate who had invested in a company that disposed of dead fetuses. Here and here we butted heads with WaPo fact-checker Glenn Kessler over his continued support for Romney's version of events. Here we did the same with Factcheck.org. Here we featured Dish readers with legal expertise and here we highlighted a reader with especially wise words. Late in the day, we took stock of the situation in light of new damning evidence and reacted to Romney's vehement but vacuous words against Obama.
Yesterday in Bain coverage, the Dish first examined the Boston Globe report calling into question when Romney resigned from Bain Capital; we wondered whether the SEC filings would constitute a felony; we countered the Romney campaign's initial response; we considered the latest reporting from Fortune; we checked in with the WaPo's fact-checker; and a Dish reader with legal expertise helped us raise more questions.
Coverage of Romney's Bain problem prior to yesterday - in chronological order - here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/hes-drowning-not-waving-a-roundup.html
Mitt Romney and his son Tagg Romney have been implicated in a 8.5 billion dollar ponzi scheme with Wall Street investors Allen Stanford and James M. Davis.
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.politicolnews.com/romney-son-investigated-for-8-billion-ponzi-scheme/#ixzz20cRbNg00
Boy oh boy, it sure looks like Romney, et al (sons) need to be investigated. It appears there is much out there that could put him in jail!
DeleteThe President’s Official Apology To Mitt Romney
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicolnews.com/the-presidents-official-apology-to-mitt-romney/
“I’ve released all the tax records voters need”.
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.politicolnews.com/romney-ive-released-all-the-tax-records-voters-need/#ixzz20cSHrzex
The explosive information about Mitt Romney continues with a former SEC Commissioner who states “Mitt Romney is legally responsible for what Bain Capital did between 1999 and 2002, says Roberta Karmel on “The Last Word”.
ReplyDeleteShe states: Romney is Legally Responsible for Bain
“Generally, when a businessman is the chairman, CEO, and, in this case, sole stockholder, he’s accountable for the business and affairs of that company,” said Karmel, who is currently a professor at Brooklyn Law School.
“And even if he’s not making day-to-day decisions or managing the investments of a company like this—which was a venture capital company—he’s still legally responsible, and should be accountable, for the business and affairs of that company.”
http://www.politicolnews.com/sec-commissioner-romney-accountable-for-bain-1999-to-2002/
That was my first thought, as a former lawyer. If Bain had somehow committed gross negligence, killing or maiming people, there is no question Romney as CEO et al would be legally responsible.
DeleteRomney held all the top positions w/Bain plus owned 100% of the stock!
DeleteIf he didn't have an interest (or was not involved) in how the company was run after 1999, he is one weird business man!
And, I don't believe him. There is no way he is ethically qualified to be elected president.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
A good friend, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, said that he'd voted in every election since he'd turned 21, except in 1964, when he couldn't in good conscience vote for Goldwater or Johnson.
ReplyDeleteHe's already admitting that he may not vote this November.
Believe me, this admission is monumental for this lifelong Republican. If he's already giving up on Romney, there's no hope left for Mitt.
Why The Timing Of Mitt Romney’s Bain Exit Matters
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney is locked in a pitched fight over whether he left Bain Capital in 1999, when he took a job running the Olympics, or stayed involved in the firm over the next several years. The battle has swelled to a dizzying multi-front conflict encompassing both presidential campaigns, a horde of fact-checkers and reporters and Bain Capital itself.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/why-the-timing-of-mitt-romneys-bain-exit-matters-a-guide.php
"He is essentially Sarah Palin in magic underwear!"
ReplyDeleteExcellent, Gryphen! And SO true! I guess Willard thinks the magic underwear will protect him from his lies. President Obama showed his Birth Certificate, now Willard the Rat needs to show us his "Worth Certificate."
Right on!
DeleteEven fellow Mormon Harry Reid has called him on his Bain and tax evasion lies. Willard, you and your mentor Sarah Piglin, are Idiots.
ReplyDeleteDamn it, I can't paste from my iPad, but holy crap take a look at Obama's ad in response. The link is at Huffpo. Just 30 seconds of Romney singing America the Beautifull off key while showing visuals of Romney's offshore accounts.
ReplyDeleteA thing of beauty. Bidenesque, in a righteous attack dog kind of way!
YOWZA! Now THAT is a campaign ad! Whooeee!
DeleteThe Obama campaign is out today with a new ad hitting Mitt Romney’s jobs record. Over Romney’s slightly off-key rendition of “America the Beautiful,” the ad flashes headlines of the former governor’s outsourcing and offshore accounts.
The ad will run in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Watch:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/new-obama-ad-bashes-romneys-jobs-record
An unrelenting President Barack Obama jabbed at Mitt Romney's record with a private equity firm in an ad Saturday that aimed to keep his rival on the defensive just as the Republican challenger's campaign hoped to take advantage of poor economic data to gain an edge on the incumbent.
DeleteObama met Romney's plea for an apology for the attacks with a mocking ad that charged that the firm shipped American jobs to China and Mexico, that Romney has personal wealth in investments in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, and that as Massachusetts governor, he sent state jobs to India.
"Mitt Romney's not the solution. He's the problem," the ads says as Romney is heard singing "America the Beautiful."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/14/obama-ad-firms-slams-romn_n_1673112.html
Thanks for the link!
Delete''I'll tell you what, ten-thousand bucks? $10,000 bet?''
ReplyDelete—Mitt Romney, attempting to make a wager with Rick Perry during a Republican presidential debate to settle a disagreement about health care (December 2011)
''I know what it's like to worry whether you're going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.''
—Mitt Romney, attempting to identify with the problems of average folk (January 2012)
''I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.''
—Mitt Romney, who earned $374,000 in speaking fees in one year according to according to his personal financial disclosure (January 2012)
''Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend.''
—GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair who suggested that taxes should be raised on corporations to help balance the budget, Aug. 11, 2011
''I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners.''
—Mitt Romney, after being asked whether he follows NASCAR racing (February 2012)
''[Obama's stimulus program is] one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.''
ReplyDelete—Mitt Romney in April 2011, while U.S. troops were fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and involved in airstrikes against Libya
''I'm Wolf Blitzer and yes, that's my real name.''
—CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the beginning of a November 2011 Republican presidential debate
''I'm Mitt Romney -- and yes Wolf, that's also my first name.''
—Mitt Romney, getting his own name wrong (his first name is ''Willard,'' and his middle name is ''Mitt'')
''Who let the dogs out? Who, who.''
—Mitt Romney, during an awkward photo op with a group of African Americans kids at a Martin Luther King Day parade (January 2008)
''My sons are all adults and they've made decisions about their careers and they've chosen not to serve in the military and active duty and I respect their decision in that regard. One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I'd be a great president.''
ReplyDelete—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2007
''I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.''
—Mitt Romney (January 2012)
''I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.''
DeleteWow. That's beautiful! I'm not crying, I really have a bit of dust in eye! Mark my words: someday, schoolchildren will recite this meaningless gibberish in honor of a man I like to call Milliard Willard Mittens "Mitt" Rmoney, aka The Mega-Rich, Lying, Socially Awkward Douchebag Who Wanted to Be President. Very inspiring...
Mitt is running the same theme he did in Mass, in Bain and now to the people of America, lie to get in, Improve his stakes and earnings and then run and let everything crumble without taking responsibility! It is part of His Mormon background, he knows no other way! Plus he is still running in the shadow of his father except that as Rick Perry said he is still a vulture capitalist!
ReplyDeleteHe cannot be honest because his whole life has been built and trained on how to be deceptive! From his lies about his humble beginnings where he said no one gave anything to him! The GOP/TP know it and that is why they will not tell the truth, watch as the lies and deception get bolder and more Racial as they use Ralph Reed's and Karl Rove Racial and well tested tactics with their base and those who are still caught in the 60's mindset! More truth comes out about Willard and his antics, we are only seeing the beginning!
Bain & Co: The 1994 Ad By Sen. Ted Kennedy
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdYx19temU8&feature=related
1994 Mitt Romney Debates Ted Kennedy on Healthcare
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn0GYg1PjUY&feature=related
I wouldn't vote for Romney if PALIN were running against him!
ReplyDeleteRight now, I believe the ONLY reason the SEC hasn't ordered him to explain things is his position as the apparent Republican candidate for President. If they DID call him to testify, then he would scream bloody murder that the Obama Administration was ordering the government to scuttle him!
Personally, I am going to just sit back and watch his campaign self-destruct. You know SOMEONE is going to keep pushing on this, just like they did with Watergate! It's just too big for someone NOT to!
George Romney former AMC chief speaks at American Motors cars show in 1994. Mitt Romney's father
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZHYbyA9Ovo #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKyzZhOeDL8& feature=channel&list=UL #2
''I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.''
ReplyDelete—Mitt Romney, using an unfortunate choice of words while advocating for consumer choice in health insurance plans (January 2012)
''Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.''
—Mitt Romney, defending banks and kicking people out of their homes
''PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air.''
—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2007, responding to criticism from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals following revelations that he had once strapped the family dog to the roof of his car during a 12-hour road trip
''I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed.''
—GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speaking in 2011 to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.
''I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.''
—Mitt Romney (January 2012)
"Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.''
Delete—Mitt Romney, defending banks and kicking people out of their homes
He ended that statement with "and let investors come in, buy the properties up and rent them out".
"I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." (Romney's campaign later said he'd been hunting twice, once when he was 15, and once in 2006 at a Republican fundraiser
ReplyDelete"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King." (Romney's campaign later admitted that they didn't march on the same day, or in the same city)
''I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose.'' —Mitt Romney in 2002
''Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position. And I get tired of people that are holier-than-thou because they've been pro-life longer than I have.'' —Mitt Romney in 2007
LOVE OUR PRESIDENT!!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/newsinc/landing_page.html?vid=517418175&sitesection=huffingtonpost_pol
Obama Tells Romney to Take His Apology Demand and Shove It
ReplyDeleteThe Obama campaign has responded to Mitt Romney’s demands for an apology with a new video that tells him to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Here is the Obama campaign’s response to Romney’s demands for an apology:
http://www.politicususa.com/obama-tells-romney-apology-demand-shove.html
I love seeing our President get tough!!! He is doing one hell of a job in this matter as well as being President of the United States of America.
DeleteI know, I'm not looking for a change and will vote for him again!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Game Changer: Obama’s Unrelenting Assault on W. Mitt Romney’s Bain Secret
ReplyDeleteThe Obama campaign put this hard hitter out Friday – a Friday the 13th I’m sure W. Mitt Romney will remember for a very, very long time as Game Changer day.
Watch here:
http://www.politicususa.com/game-changer-w-mitt-romneys-bain-secret-exposed.html
I've viewed all the coverage on this subject - enjoying Rachel Maddow the most - and think Romney provided his additional facts and statements which are already being proven incorrect/lies!
ReplyDeleteHave to admit that every Mormon male I've met during my lifetime has turned out to consistently lie! (Both personally and in business.) I'm a senior now, retired, and if you mention "Mormon" to me, I go on the elert!!!
For Romney to blame President Obama for bringing this subject forward (Bain) cracks me up. It's OK if he brings the crud forward (re: Gingrich - primary race), but it's NOT if someone does it to him?
I do not think this matter (Bain) will go away - as he is hoping it will. And, I do not think Mittens will be elected!! He is one creepy guy!
He said he will release his 2011 returns (which will be a total of two), but watch - I'll bet they come out just prior to the election (November) so as not to allow much time for their in depth review.
The guy seems like a sly fox to me and I know I don't want him serving as the leader of our country. He likes war too and has Bush/Cheney advisors surrounding him which should really scare the hell out of everyone!
The guy is a friggin' disaster!!!
ReplyDeleteOBAMA/BIDEN 2012
During the Cheney fundraiser, don't you just know that the donors were advising Mitt to go on the networks and make a statement. Why else would he appear anywhere but on Fox? He expected to smile his smarmy smile, make his statements and "that's all you get, folks". The KING has spoken!
ReplyDeleteOh Beautiful, for spacious skies ... hehehe
Is it just me, or did the clip of the debate imply that the rape and pillage of Ampad occurred while Rommey was running the Olympics? I don't understand why neither Rachel nor Shannon clarified that it occurred in '94, during Romney's previous "leave of absence" from Bain.
ReplyDeleteI think this a very important point that should not be overlooked. It shows a pattern of Romney denying any responsibility for business practices of Bain that turn off voters.
Early Thursday afternoon, I did a google search on "Romney Bain" from '99 to '02. The first page of hits consisted entirely of news stories about Romney claiming to have been on leave of absence during the takeover of Ampad. A few hours later, I did the same search, and saw nothing regarding Ampad on the first page. So I did a search on "Romney Ampad" for this time period, and it returned 6 matches (it now returns 8); none from any major news source (I wouldn't count the Phoenix; if memory serves, it used to be free and contained pages of ads for "masseuses"). On Thursday, a match on "Romney Ampad" with no time constraints returned 104K matches; it now returns about 96K.
Rachel has reported on the Ampad story recently, so maybe she assumed her viewers are already aware of the timeline. But I think bears repeating that Romney wants voters to believe that Bain Capital only conducted business that hurts America during both his leaves of absence.
All of this talk about Mitt Romney's lying and not a single reporter has brought up "Lying for the Lord." It's like they're afraid to touch it, but yet anyone who knows Mormonism's dark side knows about it. If you don't, Google it. It explains everything. Right now, Mitt is the Mormon Church. Anything bad that happens to him, happens to the Mormon Church.
ReplyDeleteI watched a portion of CBS evening news a couple hours ago, and I must say that I was stunned to see the network refuting the lies that Romney was spreading over the airwaves on yesterday when he embarked on his "I'm trying to save face" media tour. I hope more Americans realize that he is a liar, and that if he were POTUS, he would not have the character and integrity to admit when he had made a mistake and accept responsibility for it. This is the same man, who when he first went to work for Bain, had a secion in his contract that stated that if anything he was involved with went wrong, he'd not be blamed for any of it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Rachael owned his butt here. "Are there more of these jobs available?" lol
ReplyDeleteI loved the interview with Shannon O'Brian.
Like a warm knife through butter!
Up with Chris Hayes is going to interview someone who worked "alongside" Romney at Bain.. get your dvr's set, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin both come from Dominionist cult brainwashing camps. They are both programmed to believe they are more important than other people.
ReplyDeleteThis was an excellent session from Rachel!
ReplyDeleteAll his broken record statements over and over to all the news organizations were accompanied by BLINK-BLINK-BLINK("you can't hide your lyin' eyes")
So many reasons for Tricky Mitt to LIE in addition to all the "outsourcing", etc):
STERICYCLE(mentioned above in the comments-medical waste company). . .Can we say "a-b-o-r-t-e-d fetuses"? That might really take away voting support from the RRR (rabid religious right).If I read correctly(somewhere-sorry don't have the reference)that the profits for BAIN from that company were @ $40 Million. . .I believe during that 3 year time period.
Just also read the NEW August issue of "Vanity Fair"-'Where the Money Lives'(pg.86)-an article on Mitt's offshore accounts and his $102 MILLION IRA
Something financially creative must have been done w/ all the caps/restrictions on IRAS for ordinary folks that would make that kind of astronomical return!CRAZY!
But as I read from some comment-somewhere-unable to attribute the saying to the right person. . .
Mitt probably says ~ ~ I DID NOT have fiduciary relations with THAT company, Bain.
" ... Mitt Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie said Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union" the GOP candidate “retroactively” retired from Bain Capital after the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics began. ... "
ReplyDeleteNo body who has been drawing at LEAST $100,000.00 per year from 1999 to 2002 from Bain Capital “retroactively” retires from Bain Capital AFTER the 2002!!! Then why draw the salary of at LEAST $100,000.00 per year from 1999 to 2002 from Bain Capital if Romney retired from Bain “retroactively” !!!
" ... Gillespie continued, "He took a leave of absence and, in fact, Candy, he ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February of 1999 as a result." ... "
However SEC documents show Mitt Romney as sole owner of all shares of Bain Capital. Romney is also shown as CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Bain Capital in 2001 and 2002 then LEGALLY speaking Mitt Romney has been responsible to all that goes on under the banner of Bain Capital. Then to run for Governor of MA Romney sought residency of MA by lieu of his Bain positions. Now either Romney was at the Olympics OR he was at BAIN.
Only one can be true not BOTH at the same time simultaneously!!! Will the true Willard Mitt Romney stand up and accept ONE thing? Does Romney want to accept untrue SEC filings and be called a Felon or agree that he represented Bain from 1999 to 2002?
Two-Faced Willard
ReplyDelete"I was not responsible for what happened at Bain Capital" - Mitt Romney
"I was the Sole shareholder, Sole director, Chief executive officer and President of Bain" - Mitt Romney
"The Arizona immigration policy is a good model" – Mitt Romney
"I didn't really support the Arizona immigration policy" – Mitt Romney
“The Massachusetts healthcare plan should be a model for the nation” – Mitt Romney
“Healthcare reform should be left to the states” – Mitt Romney
"Let Detroit go bankrupt" -Mitt Romney
"I'll take a lot of credit for saving the auto industry" -Mitt Romney
“I believe Roe v Wade has gone too far.” – Mitt Romney
“Roe v Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.” – Mitt Romney
“I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.” – Mitt Romney
“I never really called myself pro-choice.” – Mitt Romney
“It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.” – Mitt Romney
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and represent our country there.” – Mitt Romney
“I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.” – Mitt Romney
“Ronald Reagan is… my hero.” – Mitt Romney
“I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.” – Mitt Romney
"There’s no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.” – Mitt Romney
“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.” – Mitt Romney
“I did not see it with my own eyes.” – Mitt Romney
“I would like to have campaign spending limits.” – Mitt Romney
“The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates without burdensome limitations.” – Mitt Romney
“I supported the assault weapon ban.” – Mitt Romney
"I don’t support any gun control legislation.” – Mitt Romney
Republicans betrayed their own conscience when they went against established Republican principles like the MANDATE over healthcare which was a Heritage foundation issue popularized by Gingrich.
ReplyDeleteObama did more than his share to UNITE but the Republicans were out to oppose for opposing sake and not following any policy or principles. In the famous words of Minority Senate Leader Mitch McConnell the Republicans were out to defeat the Obama agenda even if it went against established Republican policies set by past precedent.
Mitch McConnell was out to make sure that President Obama remains a one term President and see where it has brought the Congress and its public esteem.
Gingrich out of his own admission was out to defeat Obama from the day he was sworn in as President.
You can not justify the Republicans as the "loyal" opposition as is the case in most mature democracies. They have been out to get President Obama by hook or by crook. A leader can meet the opposition half way but can not fold completely to their whims and fantasies like that of the current Tea Party affiliates.
Republicans will loose in 2012 just like they did in 2008 but with a smaller margin because of the dark money of Billionaires due to Citizens United verdict of the right wing Supreme Court.
On Friday the 13th (7/13/2012) the very illusive Mitt Romney gave very defensive interviews to all FIVE networks on a single day at once!! Just a few days ago Mitt Romney said to FOX News that explaining means that you are WEAK. So his five interviews "explaining" his time at Bain were signs of his weakness!!
ReplyDeletePresidential Candidate Mr. Mitt Romney maybe feeling the heat on his role in BAIN Capital, his business experience which was supposed to be his sole criteria for creating jobs and his greatest qualification for running for the American Presidency in the current economy in 2012!
However SEC documents show Mitt Romney as sole owner of all shares of Bain Capital. Romney is shown as CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Bain Capital in 2001 and 2002 then LEGALLY speaking Mitt Romney has been responsible to all that goes on under the banner of Bain Capital.
Mitt Romney can not just share the good like job creation from 1999 to 2002 and leave the ugly like Bankruptcies and layoffs behind as if he had nothing to do about them from 1999 to 2002.
If he really wanted to disassociate himself from Bain Capital he could have resigned and sold all his shares in Bain Capital in February 1999 then it would have been a different matter but to share in the glory of Bain's job creation accept a salary of $100,000 or MORE (where are the Tax Returns?) for three years and only to refuse to take the responsibility of Bankruptcies and layoffs on his WATCH (1999-2002) is trying to have it both ways and then complaining of playing politics having been caught with his hand in the proverbial Cookie Jar that is the very essence of an ACTIVE LEGAL ROLE in Bain Capital till 2002!! Was Romney getting $100,000.00 or more to do NOTHING for BAIN Capital???
Mitt Romney will have to face the consequences of this leaving Bain "lie" that Mitt Romney has brought on upon himself. If we keep reminding the Romney campaign of the Bain exit lie and Romney's ill effects on workers robbing them of their hard earned salaries and life long benefits all the way to November then 7/13/2012 (FRIDAY the 13th) will go down as the turning point of the 2012 Presidential election!
Two-Faced Willard
ReplyDelete"I was not responsible for what happened at Bain Capital" - Mitt Romney
"I was the Sole shareholder, Sole director, Chief executive officer and President of Bain" - Mitt Romney
"The Arizona immigration policy is a good model" – Mitt Romney
"I didn't really support the Arizona immigration policy" – Mitt Romney
“The Massachusetts healthcare plan should be a model for the nation” – Mitt Romney
“Healthcare reform should be left to the states” – Mitt Romney
"Let Detroit go bankrupt" -Mitt Romney
"I'll take a lot of credit for saving the auto industry" -Mitt Romney
“I believe Roe v Wade has gone too far.” – Mitt Romney
“Roe v Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.” – Mitt Romney
“I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.” – Mitt Romney
“I never really called myself pro-choice.” – Mitt Romney
“It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.” – Mitt Romney
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and represent our country there.” – Mitt Romney
“I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.” – Mitt Romney
“Ronald Reagan is… my hero.” – Mitt Romney
“I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.” – Mitt Romney
"There’s no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.” – Mitt Romney
“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.” – Mitt Romney
“I did not see it with my own eyes.” – Mitt Romney
“I would like to have campaign spending limits.” – Mitt Romney
“The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates without burdensome limitations.” – Mitt Romney
“I supported the assault weapon ban.” – Mitt Romney
"I don’t support any gun control legislation.” – Mitt Romney
Republicans betrayed their own conscience when they went against established Republican principles like the MANDATE over healthcare which was a Heritage foundation issue popularized by Gingrich.
ReplyDeleteObama did more than his share to UNITE but the Republicans were out to oppose for opposing sake and not following any policy or principles. In the famous words of Minority Senate Leader Mitch McConnell the Republicans were out to defeat the Obama agenda even if it went against established Republican policies set by past precedent.
Mitch McConnell was out to make sure that President Obama remains a one term President and see where it has brought the Congress and its public esteem.
Gingrich out of his own admission was out to defeat Obama from the day he was sworn in as President.
You can not justify the Republicans as the "loyal" opposition as is the case in most mature democracies. They have been out to get President Obama by hook or by crook. A leader can meet the opposition half way but can not fold completely to their whims and fantasies like that of the current Tea Party affiliates.
Republicans will loose in 2012 just like they did in 2008 but with a smaller margin because of the dark money of Billionaires due to Citizens United verdict of the right wing Supreme Court.
On Friday the 13th (7/13/2012) the very illusive Mitt Romney gave very defensive interviews to all FIVE networks on a single day at once!! Just a few days ago Mitt Romney said to FOX News that explaining means that you are WEAK. So his five interviews "explaining" his time at Bain were signs of his weakness!!
ReplyDeletePresidential Candidate Mr. Mitt Romney maybe feeling the heat on his role in BAIN Capital, his business experience which was supposed to be his sole criteria for creating jobs and his greatest qualification for running for the American Presidency in the current economy in 2012!
However SEC documents show Mitt Romney as sole owner of all shares of Bain Capital. Romney is shown as CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Bain Capital in 2001 and 2002 then LEGALLY speaking Mitt Romney has been responsible to all that goes on under the banner of Bain Capital.
Mitt Romney can not just share the good like job creation from 1999 to 2002 and leave the ugly like Bankruptcies and layoffs behind as if he had nothing to do about them from 1999 to 2002.
If he really wanted to disassociate himself from Bain Capital he could have resigned and sold all his shares in Bain Capital in February 1999 then it would have been a different matter but to share in the glory of Bain's job creation accept a salary of $100,000 or MORE (where are the Tax Returns?) for three years and only to refuse to take the responsibility of Bankruptcies and layoffs on his WATCH (1999-2002) is trying to have it both ways and then complaining of playing politics having been caught with his hand in the proverbial Cookie Jar that is the very essence of an ACTIVE LEGAL ROLE in Bain Capital till 2002!! Was Romney getting $100,000.00 or more to do NOTHING for BAIN Capital???
Mitt Romney will have to face the consequences of this leaving Bain "lie" that Mitt Romney has brought on upon himself. If we keep reminding the Romney campaign of the Bain exit lie and Romney's ill effects on workers robbing them of their hard earned salaries and life long benefits all the way to November then 7/13/2012 (FRIDAY the 13th) will go down as the turning point of the 2012 Presidential election!
Ed Gillespie on CNN’s "State of the Union" Sunday 7/16/2012
ReplyDelete" ... Mitt Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie said Sunday on CNN’s "State of the Union" the GOP candidate “retroactively” retired from Bain Capital after the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics began. ... "
No body who has been drawing at LEAST $100,000.00 per year from 1999 to 2002 from Bain Capital “retroactively” retires from Bain Capital AFTER the 2002!!! Then why draw the salary of at LEAST $100,000.00 per year from 1999 to 2002 from Bain Capital if Romney retired from Bain “retroactively” !!!
" ... Gillespie continued, "He took a leave of absence and, in fact, Candy, he ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February of 1999 as a result." ... "
However SEC documents show Mitt Romney as sole owner of all shares of Bain Capital. Romney is also shown as CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Bain Capital in 2001 and 2002 then LEGALLY speaking Mitt Romney has been responsible to all that goes on under the banner of Bain Capital. Then to run for Governor of MA Romney sought residency of MA by lieu of his Bain positions. Now either Romney was at the Olympics OR he was at BAIN.
Only one can be true not BOTH at the same time simultaneously!!! Will the true Willard Mitt Romney stand up and accept ONE thing? Does Romney want to accept untrue SEC filings and be called a Felon or agree that he represented Bain from 1999 to 2002?
"Given the precedent set by past five Presidents of releasing multi-year tax returns why is Romney making an exception?"
ReplyDeleteBecause he has a lot to hide, apparently.
He's the only one that knows what's in there, and apparently he's made the judgement that he's better off having us suspect the worst, rather than us knowing whats in there, which apparently in his mind is worse than anything we're likely to imagine.
Possibilities include:
(1) He ended up with 120 million in his 401K by the trick of agreeing with Bain to grossly undervalue the market value of his stock, then a few years later have the stock get unvalued to the stratosphere.
(2) He participated in the tax avoidance amnesty program of a few years back, avoiding major tax penalties or prosecution.
(3) Any one or more of the other borderline legal but very bad smelling tax dodges-- "in-kind" trades, "no-risk" trades, no-risk write-offs, the list is almost endless.
And BTW he HASNT even released all of his 2010 return, he very conveniently left off the foreign investments and deposits form. Very convenient.
And his argument that it would be "bothersome" to collect the tax data is a crock too-- he supposedly collected 23 years of the stuff to show to McCain in 2008.
There are at least 12 reasons why Mitt Romney would not make a good president. Here's John F. Ince's list. What's yours?
ReplyDelete1 • He neither understands nor represents most Americans. The man lacks empathy for those who have not had all the benefits he has had in life. His presidency would be deeply polarizing. One can easily image his election as president would generate new waves of social unrest and violence. He clearly represents the 1% and the 99% will not tolerate policies that exacerbate the growing divisions between rich and poor.
2 • His job creation claims are inflated and unrealistic. Mitt Romney's professional career was based on a very specific task: buying and selling companies for profit. He wants people to think that this qualifies him to be a job creator. With the exception of his investment in Staples and a few other early venture capital deals, his jobs creation claims are mostly chimera. He takes credit for creating jobs, when he was only an investor in those companies, not an executive. In practice, he predominantly used his power as an investor to eliminate jobs and shift other jobs overseas, all in the interest of making profits.
3 • He does not have a sound fiscal plan. Extrapolating from the projections Romney has offered for increased defense spending and tax cuts, his policies would blow a hole in the Federal budget, further eroding investors faith in the government's ability to get its fiscal house in order.
4 • He has little respect for the natural environment, nor a commitment to protect and preserve it for future generations. He blindly subscribes to Republican views that climate change is not scientifically proven. He gives no indication of any desire to develop alternative sources of energy that can mitigate the man made sources of pollutants. Instead he supports the rollback of environmental regulations all but giving companies a green light to pollute the environment and waste vital natural resources.
ReplyDelete5 • He has lived a cloistered and privileged life and today has a very narrow view of the world. From the Cranbrook School to Brigham Young University, to Harvard Business School to Bain Capital, it's difficult to imagine anyone who has been less exposed to the lives and conditions under which most Americans live. The covenants of his Mormon faith are extremely rigid, restrictive and unrealistic. His devotion to his faith is admirable, but his inability to step beyond the confines of that religion suggest that he would have difficulty reconciling who he is with who others are in an increasingly diverse world.
6 • His worldview is rooted in intolerance. He has a very narrow view of the world. America today is a diverse nation with many different racial groups, faiths, all in need of respect. The bully incident at his prep school and his aggressive corporate behavior buying and selling companies at Bain Capital suggest someone who has little desire help those who are different, less fortunate and in weaker position than him.
7 • He does not fully understand the transformative power of technological change. Mitt has no professional technical training. Most of the companies he invested in at Bain were low tech. His expertise is finance: specifically buying and selling companies. All this suggests someone who will pay lip service to the tech sector, but won't fully grasp the potential for transforming the economy and culture through advancing technology.
ReplyDelete8 • His is temperamentally unfit for the presidency. He is peevish, controlling and less than transparent. He has a rigid worldview that revolves around what is best for himself and a small circle of those who support him.
9 • He lacks direct foreign policy experience. His four years as Governor of Massachusetts do not give him sufficient knowledge or expertise to effectively deal with an increasingly complex world. On the job learners nearly always make blunders, sometimes blunders so large that they create huge problems for the U. S..
10 • He lacks integrity and honesty. His fudging of issues is a sign that he feels he can head fake his way though difficult debates. His statement that he does not remember the prep school bully incident is implausible. His evasiveness over release of tax forms and embellishment of his accomplishments are all red flags. His decisions as an executive at Bain Capital were not rooted in ethical behavior. The man is simply not forthright enough to earn the trust of the American people.
ReplyDelete11 • He has no commitment to women or equal rights. There is little in his public statements or record to suggest he feels any responsibility for advancing the interests of women and minorities.
12 • He lacks sufficient charisma and personality to be a strong leader. The country needs someone to lead forcefully and inspire citizens to tackle problems that threaten the diminishment of American stature on the world stage. Romney's robotic and reptilian personality fails to connect, leaving people feeling that Romney is in the game only for himself, rather than in it for the good of all.
Note: The author of this article is a former classmate of Mitt Romney at Harvard Business School and former reporter at Fortune Magazine. He is the author of Mitt Romney: King of Bain and the Man Who Wants To Be President.
Here are the top 10 comments about Bain from Romney’s Republican rivals:
ReplyDelete1. “The idea that you’ve got private equity companies that come in and take companies apart so they can make profits and have people lose their jobs, that’s not what the Republican Party’s about.” — Rick Perry [New York Times, 1/12/12]
2. “The Bain model is to go in at a very low price, borrow an immense amount of money, pay Bain an immense amount of money and leave. I’ll let you decide if that’s really good capitalism. I think that’s exploitation.” — Newt Gingrich [New York Times, 1/17/12]
3. “Instead of trying to work with them to try to find a way to keep the jobs and to get them back on their feet, it’s all about how much money can we make, how quick can we make it, and then get out of town and find the next carcass to feed upon” — Rick Perry [National Journal, 1/10/12]
4. “We find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.” — Newt Gingrich [Globe and Mail, 1/9/12]
5. “Now, I have no doubt Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips — whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company, Bain Capital, of all the jobs that they killed” — Rick Perry [New York Times, 1/9/12]
6) “He claims he created 100,000 jobs. The Washington Post, two days ago, reported in their fact check column that he gets three Pinocchios. Now, a Pinocchio is what you get from The Post if you’re not telling the truth.” — Newt Gingrich [1/13/12, NBC News]
7. “There is something inherently wrong when getting rich off failure and sticking it to someone else is how you do your business, and I happen to think that’s indefensible” — Rick Perry [National Journal, 1/10/12]
8. “If Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years, then I would be glad to then listen to him” — Newt Gingrich [Mediaite, 12/14/11]
9. “If you’re a victim of Bain Capital’s downsizing, it’s the ultimate insult for Mitt Romney to come to South Carolina and tell you he feels your pain, because he caused it.” — Rick Perry [New York Times, 1/8/12]
10. “They’re vultures that sitting out there on the tree limb waiting for the company to get sick and then they swoop in, they eat the carcass. They leave with that and they leave the skeleton” — Rick Perry [National Journal, 1/10/12]
Just last night, Newt Gingrich defended his attacks, saying “I think there are things you can legitimately look at in Bain Capital. I think there are things you can legitimately look at in anybody’s record, including Mitt Romney’s record.”
President Barack Obama is keeping up a drumbeat of skepticism over Mitt Romney's insistence — displayed in a blitz of TV interviews — that he stepped down from his private equity firm years earlier than federal records indicate.
ReplyDeleteObama planned another day of campaigning in Virginia on Saturday, a state he won in 2008 but before that last supported a Democratic presidential nominee in 1964. Advisers said he would remind voters of the discrepancies between Securities and Exchange Commission filings and Romney's recollection of his role at the Boston-based firm.
His re-election campaign released an ad that repeated its allegation that Romney's Bain Capital shipped American jobs to China and Mexico; that Romney has personal wealth in investments in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands; and that as governor of Massachusetts, he outsourced state jobs to India.
"Mitt Romney's not the solution. He's the problem," Obama's latest ad says as it plays video of Romney awkwardly singing "America the Beautiful."
The ad was set to run in the battleground states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The ad, targeting Romney's vast personal wealth, comes as Democrats — and some Republicans — call for Romney to release tax returns going back several years. Romney has said anew that he won't go beyond releasing his 2010 tax records and, before the election, his 2011 taxes.
"You can never satisfy the opposition research team of the Obama organization," Romney told CBS on Friday. In the same round of interviews in which he defended his account of his role at Bain, Romney said Obama owed him an apology for an aide's suggestion that the Security and Exchange Commission filings, if false, could bring a felony charge.
"This is simply beneath the dignity of the presidency of the United States," Romney told ABC.
It wasn't just Obama, though, pushing the presumptive Republican nominee to put the issue of his tax returns and wealth to rest.
"There is no whining in politics," chided John Weaver, a veteran Republican strategist. "Stop demanding an apology, release your tax returns."
For full AP article click here: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-07-14/bai...
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ROMNEY ON TRACK TO LOSE ELECTION
ReplyDeleteRomney’s financial manipulations have, in the last 48 hours, exploded from mysterious shouldering embers into a political bonfire that could consume his entire campaign.
Romney is calling President Obama a liar and Obama is continuing his call for Romney to release full information about his financial manipulations and more than one year of tax returns.
Articles in the Washington Post and Boston Globe have probed and continue to probe into Romney’s convoluted finances and his years as CEO and owner of Bain Capital. Romney has called for retraction of these widely quoted articles without success.
For a Rachel Maddow interview with the Boston Globe writer who probed Romney’s SEC reports click here: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-... .
For a broader discussion of Romney’s financial manipulations on Morning Joe click here: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/morning-joe/481735... .
Either Mitt Romney was "sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president" of Bain Capital from 1999-2002, when all sorts of ugly outsourcing and vulture fund activities were taking place, or he was just listed as "sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president" on the company's documents, which means he was simply a figurehead collecting cash generated by said ugly outsourcing and vulture fund activities.
There appears to be more than ample multiple evidence that Romney is not telling the truth about completely leaving Bain after 1999. If you want to read all the details:
1. Click here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/mitt... ;
2. Click here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/us-... ;
3.Click here: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/romne... ;
4. Click here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/b... .
And these articles on Romney/Bain only scratch the surface. After the Boston Globe article on Thursday the Internet lit up like a Christmas tree as everyone with access seemed to have something to report.
More MoJo coverage of Mitt Romney (http://www.motherjones.com/category/tags/romn... ):
ReplyDelete►The Mystery of Romney's Exit From Bain:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/m... ;
►Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/r... ;
►Romney Tax Tips: 10 Ways to Stiff the IRS:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/04/t... ;
►Mitt Romney's Long History of Misremembering His Past:http://www.motherjones.co m/politics/2012/06/mitt-romney -history-problem;
►Get-Rich-Quick Profiteers Love Mitt Romney, and He Loves Them Back:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/04/m... ;
►How Romney Fibs—and Gets Away With It:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/04/r... .
Of course the Obama campaign wasted no time getting out TV ads on the subject. One of the most recent has Romney singing “God Bless America” while the graphics pound him for his financial manipulations. Click here:http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14... . Voters in the swing states are getting their first glimpse behind the mask of Romney’s polished campaign performance.
This all brings back Richard Nixon’s famous statement,“I am not a crook.”
The problem for Romney is that it is impossible for him to win an election campaign based on whether or not he is a potential criminal who has lied on legally required reports. Every day the media probes deeper into the Romney financial paper trail and reveals more and more conflicts between Romney’s personally signed reports and his recorded campaign statements is a day closer to his political defeat. If the present political bonfire doesn’t die down soon the GOP may decide at its late August convention to throw Romney under the bus.
It wasn't just Obama, though, pushing the presumptive Republican nominee to put the issue of his tax returns and wealth to rest.
"There is no whining in politics," chided John Weaver, a veteran Republican strategist. "Stop demanding an apology, release your tax returns."
For full AP article click here: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-07-14/bai...
Contact:
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Maine People’s Voting Coalition
E-mail eschlick@roadrunner.com
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