"Shut up 99% and do my nails!" Just a peek into the mindset of those that donate to Mitt Romney's campaign.

"Then what did that nasty old bitch say?"

Reporting on the long line of expensive cars that were arriving at a Mitt Romney fundraiser at an East Hampton estate the LA Times reporter reported this exchange:

A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. "I don't think the common person is getting it," she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. "Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them. 

"We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."

Well I guess that could not be more clear now could it?  If you are rich you should have the right to elect this country's leaders, and if you are not, well fuck off!

And the sad thing is that with the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling that is exactly who might be deciding who gets elected from now on.

Unless of course those of us who DON'T get invited to a fundraiser at Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman's East Hampton estate get out and vote that is.  Remember THEY have the money, but WE have the numbers.

This new pro-Obama ad is definitely going to be a "Bain" in Mitt Romeny's ass.

Here is some of the text from the ad courtesy of Politico:

 "Out of the blue one day, we were told to build a 30-foot stage. Gathered the guys, and we built that 30-foot stage, not knowing what it was for. Just days later, all three shifts were told to assemble in the warehouse. 

A group of people walked out on that stage, and told us that the plant is now closed, and all of you are fired. I looked both ways, I looked at the crowd, and we all just lost our jobs. We don’t have an income. 

Mitt Romney made over a hundred million dollars by shutting down our plant, and devastated our lives. 

"Turns out that when we built that stage, it was like building my own coffin. And it just made me sick."

Okay THAT is pretty powerful.  And it hits Romney right where he lives, in that as he keeps trying to convince Americans that HE is the only salvation for the country's economy, the evidence demonstrates that Romney was a corporate raider who essentially ran over the average worker in favor of making his clients, the top 1% it you will, even MORE wealthy.

That is not the kind of message that will win him to many votes from anybody who is not lighting their cigars with hundred dollar bills.

Stephen King writes something that will probably ONLY scare the crap out of rich people. Boo 1 percenters!

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

At a rally in Florida (to support collective bargaining and to express the socialist view that firing teachers with experience was sort of a bad idea), I pointed out that I was paying taxes of roughly 28 percent on my income. My question was, “How come I’m not paying 50?” The governor of New Jersey did not respond to this radical idea, possibly being too busy at the all-you-can-eat cheese buffet at Applebee’s in Jersey City, but plenty of other people of the Christie persuasion did. 

Cut a check and shut up, they said. 

If you want to pay more, pay more, they said. 

Tired of hearing about it, they said. 

Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it. I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. It’s true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (Jaws of Life tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. 

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, “OK, I’ll write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS.” That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry.

Let me first go on record as saying that Stephen King is my ALL time favorite writer.  In fact I used to have  a bookshelf in my home that contained nothing except King books.

However even if THAT were not true, I can tell you that after reading this articl he would certainly NOW be my favorite author of all time simply for having the guts to speak out against these assholes who bitch and moan about high taxes while lighting their cigars with $100 bills and having caviar face cream rubbed on their mistresses.

I urge you to read the entire article, but be prepared for some rather colorful language and some no holds barred truth. 

After all Mr. King has quite a lot of experience writing about the evil that lurks beneath the surface, and the scary things that go bump in the night, waiting for the opportunity to prey on the weak and defenseless, so this is right up his alley.

Progressive Democrats deliver 30,000 petitions of support for the 99% percent to Speaker Boehner's office, only to find that he will not allow access.

I cannot say I am at all surprised to see the John Boehner chooses to hide behind his female aides rather than to come out and face the people who he is supposed  to be representing. Lately it seems that the color that best represents the Republicans is not red, it's yellow.

You can add your voice to those supporting the 99% by signing the petition at this link.