"I am a private-equity fund manager.
I am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism, single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the obstacles put in my way by employees, government and the media.
I am a job creator and I am entitled.
I am entitled to complain about the economy even when my stock price, my portfolio and my profits are at record levels."
"I think my biggest concern obviously would just be for his mental well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness, in his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy. ... So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it."Wow. Just. Wow.
“It’s kind of ironic that the dead people they accused ACORN of registering are now being done by the RPOF [Republican Party of Florida].”Ironic isn't the half of it.
"Asked about the government’s responsibility to the 50 million Americans without health insurance, Mr. Romney said they already have access to health care: in emergency rooms. That, of course, is the most expensive and least effective way of providing care, as someone who once advocated universal care has reason to know. But it also reeks of contempt for those left behind by the current insurance system, suggesting that they must suffer with illness until the point where they need an ambulance.
Mr. Romney is free to pursue this shallow, cavalier campaign for six more weeks, but he shouldn’t be surprised if voters increasingly choose not to pay attention."
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous." (our emphasis)And this lump is polling in the low 40's (or is that his I.Q.?)?
"Well, we do provide care for people who don't have insurance. If someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care."Wha? So now Willard thinks that Americans who have health insurance should pay for those that don't, via covering emergency room costs for the uninsured?
"Look, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility, particularly if they are people who have sufficient means to pay their own way."As seems to be their pattern, we expect Willard's crack team to be out today with a "clarification" of either his 2010 remarks or his remarks on 60 Minutes. It doesn't really matter which, because they'll change in a few days again.
“First and foremost, I would like to offer a heartfelt apology to all the whores, junkies, bums, and grime-covered derelicts out there who make up nearly half our nation,” a visibly contrite and solemn Romney said outside a campaign stop at a local high school. “Let me assure you that I in no way meant to offend any of the putrid-smelling, barefoot masses out there. My campaign is not about dividing this nation, but about bringing all sides together—the rich, elegant members of the upper class, as well as the 47 percent who are covered in flies and eat directly from back-alley dumpsters.”
"In 2008, youth voter turnout was higher that it had been since Vietnam, and overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. This time around, the GOP isn't counting solely on disillusionment to keep the student vote down.If any collection of goons and thugs masquerading as a political party ever deserved a shellacking at the polls, this New Confederate/ Republican party deserves the Mother of All Shellackings.
"In the last two years, Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed dozens of bills that erect new barriers to voting, all targeting Democratic-leaning groups, many specifically aimed at students. The GOP's stated rationale is to fight voter fraud. But voter fraud -- and especially in-person fraud which many of these measures address -- is essentially nonexistent."
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"At this stage in the campaign, Barack Obama is in a strong position compared with past victorious presidential candidates. With an eight-point lead over Mitt Romney among likely voters, Obama holds a bigger September lead than the last three candidates who went on to win in November, including Obama four years ago."With the vast majority of voters having already made up their minds, the "undecideds" are slowly shrinking and the greater numbers seem to be breaking for the President. It's not even October, so anything can happen, but we'd rather be in the President's shoes.
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"No, grim-faced Sads. You are well past McCain-Palin ticket territory; you have entered Reagan/Mondale territory, and despite all appearances, you are not Reagan. Saaad trombone! (Quoting the New York Times:)
'Aides did little to hide their annoyance: on Tuesday night, a Romney aide cursed loudly as he tried to corral reporters into an impromptu news conference in Costa Mesa, Calif.
'Mr. Romney himself seemed pensive on the early-morning flight Tuesday from California to Utah, sitting alone with a white legal pad and a pen as he picked at a vegetarian breakfast burrito. An aide said that he had eaten dinner alone in his hotel room the night before as the video controversy began to unfold.'
There has never been more tragedy in one place than when Mitt Romney dined on a vegetarian burrito alone."
"When I won in 2008, 47 percent of the American people voted for John McCain, they didn't for vote for me. And what I said on election night was 'Even though you didn't vote for me, I hear your voices, and I'm going to work as hard as I can to be your president.' And one of the things that I've learned as president, is you represent the entire country. And when I meet Republicans as we're traveling around the country, they are hard-working, family people who care about this country, and my expectation is that if you want to be president, you've got to work for everybody—not just for some."A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken after The Smirker's cravenly political statement on our Libyan consulate tragedy, but before the 47%-are-freeloaders comments, has the President opening up a 5 point lead. Seeing The Smirker's campaign imploding, vulnerable Rethugs like Sen. Scott "Centerfold" Brown and Connecticut Rethug Senate candidate Linda "Ready to Rumble" McMahon are running for the tall grass, a situation that will only continue into the fall.
"You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem. We kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it. We don't go to war to try and resolve it imminently."Oy vey, Bibi Netanyahu won't like that, nor will Bibi's Likudnik following in the U.S.
"....the video exposes an authentic Romney as a far more sinister character than I had imagined. Here is the sneering plutocrat, fully in thrall to a series of pernicious myths that are at the heart of the mania that has seized his party. He believes that market incomes in the United States are a perfect reflection of merit. Far from seeing his own privileged upbringing as the private-school educated son of an auto executive-turned-governor as an obvious refutation of that belief, Romney cites his own life, preposterously, as a confirmation of it."
"There is going to be poor-baiting, and gay-baiting, and ladyparts-baiting, and probably baiting of things I haven't thought of yet. The polite part of the campaign is going to be Romney's effort to convince You that he was really talking about Them when he was calling people moochers and sneak thieves. He wasn't talking about Your Medicare or Your Social Security. Naw, he was talking about Their greed for what You have. That's going to be the polite part of the rest of the campaign, reinforced in the lower registers by a few million in ads to make sure You remember who They are."
"A moral, muscular foreign policy; a disdain for weakness and diplomacy; a duty to invade and bomb Israel’s neighbors; a divine right to pre-emption — it’s all ominously familiar.Indeed. The more is known about the foreign policy "advisors" behind The Smirker, the more the public will see that it's 2001 all over again for them.
You can draw a direct line from the hyperpower manifesto of the Project for the New American Century, which the neocons, abetted by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, used to prod an insecure and uninformed president into invading Iraq — a wildly misguided attempt to intimidate Arabs through the shock of overwhelming force. How’s that going for us?"
"...now Romney has really ensured that everyone in the news media, the GOP propaganda organs aside, is going to view him with distaste and alarm — as well they should. Romney could still win, but he has just made it even harder for anyone to consider him suitable for the job."Hopefully that will be the case, but we remain pessimistic about the media's willingness to put objectivity over false equivalence.
"Scientific know-how, the engine of American prosperity, is especially critical amid intense budgetary pressures. Federal investments in R&D have fueled half of the nation’s economic growth since World War II."It's fitting, then, that Cooper and Leshner are proposing, in mocking reference to Proxmire, a "Golden Goose Award" for scientists whose seemingly small or even silly experiments in the eyes of politicians have led to great advancements for the world. It's about time.
"I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts and prayers. They exemplified America's commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe, and stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives."The attack in Libya, and a similar but nonfatal attack in Cairo, were set off by a viral video that insulted the Islamic faith, promoted by wing nut Florida "preacher" Terry Jones (he of "burn the Koran" fame) on the internet. Libyan and Egyptian extremists used the occasion of the 9/11 anniversary to provoke the violence.
"In a Sept. 10 excerpt from her blog, Jennifer Rubin repeated Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's talking point that asked voters to ask themselves if they are better off now than they were four years ago.And you can take that to the bank, Ms. Rubin!
"Very well: Four years ago, I had about $300 in my bank account. Today, pretty much the same.
"This year, however, I'm fairly sure the bank will be open tomorrow."
"Louie Ludwig, New Orleans"
“If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would understand why people are so offended at his efforts to take sole credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden.”This from a "man" who should be doing time in a Federal penitentiary, and can't travel to certain countries ("Viva Espana!") for fear of prosecution. And "intelligence briefings?" Does the Dick remember the "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." intelligence briefing 36 days before 9/11, after which President Dumbya proclaimed to the intelligence briefer, "All right, you've covered your ass now"?? Perhaps the Dick was dozing off. (See also the NY Times article linked to in the update to the "Life from the Ruins" posting below if you want the full picture of Cheney's and Bush's incompetence.)
"Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who’ve worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names. But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.Is it too much to ask this sack of shite to crawl back under the rock from whence he came?
"We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country. And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.
"Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 that we have never forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores.
"And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people."
“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.One would hope there's a "special punishment" in store for Boob and his party this November. (You may recall that Boob and his Rethuglican buddies were the ones who wanted to bring invasive transvaginal ultrasound examinations to Virginia women.) BTW, what Rethuglican War on Women?
“In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”
