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  • Darrell Issa's Political Sideshow..   12 years 38 weeks ago

    jim mcdonagh: Agreed!

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 20th, 2012   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Whether Romney is a sociopath or not is hard to say; but there is something dysfunctional about him, at minimum he's a bully. Consider how his sons related stories such as how Mitt loved to do pranks like push someone's face into butter; or how during a family race he couldn't stand the thought of coming in last so he ran to near exhaustion to cross the finish line ahead of a daughter-in-law --- who had just given birth 6-8 weeks earlier. And it speaks volumes about the family that his sons thought nothing of relating such stories on national TV as if those were normal and endearing anecdotes that painted their Dad in a humanist light.

  • Darrell Issa's Political Sideshow..   12 years 38 weeks ago

    A US border guard died because of those guns. Somebody should check into how it happened shouldn't they?

  • Darrell Issa's Political Sideshow..   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Yeah, don't hold your breath waiting for that apology, Darryl Is(s)a crybaby --- literally. The question is where are the right-wing nutjobs who don't trust Arabs, why aren't they saying ignore Issa, you can't trust him?

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 20th, 2012   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Now they are lynching chairs.

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/20/13989510-empty-chair-lynching...

    I live in Austin, which is considered a liberal town, but, yeah, Austin is in Texas. I hope that somehow there is a peaceful protest about this, but the guy is probably beyond hope.

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 20th, 2012   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Vertiginously ugly. Referring to vertigo. Finally got one.

  • Darrell Issa's Political Sideshow..   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Both Issa and Holder are contemptible in their actions. Holder is doing more harm to the fabric of democracy at the moment by his reluctance to prosecute Banksters and Torturers.

  • Isn't it Time to Impeach Ethically Challenged Scalia!   12 years 38 weeks ago

    The SCOTUS should be elected as is the congress and president. Allowing the POTUS to appoint these guys is a huge error and has been from day 1. So yes impeaching Scalia is a great idea.

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 20th, 2012   12 years 38 weeks ago

    I thought that good Mormons got to be Adam and Eve on their own planets, not gods.

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 20th, 2012   12 years 38 weeks ago

    The Republican Party's attempts to make up for their gaffes (freeloading 47%, legitimate rape, etc.) sound like a sitcom husband apologizing when he doesn't know what he did wrong.

    It's a comedic stereotype that women won't tell a man what he's done wrong ("If you don't know, then I'm not going to tell you.") and I believe the reason is to keep the man from thinking that he can just say "I'm sorry" and everything will be okay again. What he needs to do is to show understanding of the problem and demonstrate that he is less likely to repeat the error. But when, for example, Ann Romney says "We know that Mitt cares about women..." it does neither of those things.

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 20th, 2012   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Are we now in a slum-lord economy? We used to invent things and grow companies. Now, in our MBA, economy of finance, we treat the companies and the people that work in them like slum properties. We pay the least that we have to and have the lowest working conditions possible.

    This mindset is hollowing out our companies, our economy and our country. Workers are frustrated because they want to produce good products, but the "suits" and "bean counters" who know nothing about the products, but who control the purse strings cause poor products to be produced. What will happen when the last ounce of value has been squeezed out of our economy?

  • Daily Topics - Thursday September 20th, 2012   12 years 38 weeks ago

    So Romney's yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands, right? And that makes it foreign territory, right? And Presidents have reside in the United States for the 14 years prior to their inauguration. Is it possible that Romney has lived on that yacht long enough to be disqualified from the Presidency?

    I honestly don't think so, but it's good to explore just how close to the line Romney is. When you combine this with the facts that Romney's father was born in Mexico and John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone and earlier they wanted to amend the Constitution to let Arnold Schwarzenegger be President, it's also just plain funny. Why can't the Republicans find a clear-cut native to run?

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Objectivist Physicians would tell you to "heal thyself, fatso." Would Romney go to an objectivist for medical treatment, or to one of those who would support him while he was weak?

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    funny that was one of the ones i was tweaking in my test!

  • Darrell Issa's Political Sideshow..   12 years 38 weeks ago

    I'm sorry if I don't hold my breath for that apology....

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Subsidizing ? you do know a third or more of the price at the pump is taxes bringing in billions of revenue for governments. I do agree there is way to many breaks for large corporations. But green energy projects are so overly subsidized without government no one would do them look at the Chevrolet Volt Feds give a $7,500 rebate and they still can't sell them

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    YES.

    My index finger has been dyed royal blue and will be clicking across the board for an all blue faction in the Executive and Legislative branches.

    Its time-out for the republicans so they can meditate over what it means to hold the 'united' in the palms of their hands, assess their christian values in light of exemplary virtuous living, and truly attempt to understand the nature of synergy which cannot be bought.

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    I am in the percentage who resides in the 47% Mitt has "Written off..."

    Let me tell you something about us - my partner and me. I worked VERY hard all alone, for 25 years, unti I was injured on the job, working for one of the most pretigius univertisities in Amerca. I was injured on-the-job, and for 7 long years I fought in a lawsuit against the university to get them to cover necessary surgery on my injured hand to restore it to working viability (after I was forced to quit, because I could no longer type 120 w.p.m). In the meanshile, I had to find lesser payng jobs due to my inability to type to standard requirements.

    I worked for another 7 years, carrying heavy boxes of paper, in high-heels (a requirement on the job) up two flight of stairs, three times a week, because I was then considered a "grunt" office assistant instead of a Professor's Administrative Assistant. The shoes and the 50# boxes further injured my aleady injured hand, and hurt my back, as well. (I weighed only 90 pounds) I ended up having to settle for $7,500.00 - 1/3 of the pay I would have earned per year - when I was injured at the university.

    In 1992 i formally "retired" - married by 8-year boyfriend - and never filed for Federal, long-term Disability benefits. My husband then paid for my needs from that point on, until 2011, when I was finally eligible for Medicare. He now pays for my supplemental Medicare coverage, AND, all the expensive $900+ co-pays, not covered by anyone or any government programs! He also covers my eye needs and my dental needs - NONE are covered by Medicare or my supplemental policy.

    I have not filed for Social Security, because if I live past 70, I won't need it until then, unless my husband dies -prior to another 4 years from now. I paid into State, Federal, local and purchases taxes all this time.

    I am one Mitt Romney considers "those of the 47% who are on the "dole." That's a terrible insult to me, and every woman or man who has worked hard to make a living.

    Had I been wiling to vote for a Republican, I would have changed my vote to Democrat, by now.

    For YEARS (after my first husband threatened to kil me and our son if I voted Democrat against Nixon) I didn't vote for 20 years. Then, when I heard Clinton Speak, I knew he was the right man for the job - regardless of his alleged infidelities) because he WAS the right man for the Presidency.

    The GOP who ran for Office since then were NOT the right people for the job, and Al Gore's election was definitely STOLEN from him for GWB. So, we endured 8 years of absolute financial rape (sorry, but that term is the only one that truly fits what was done to all American Taxpayers!) from the GOP, for 2 wars we didn't need to have. If GWB had been "smart" he could have used the Seals to take out Bin Laden long before 2011; but he didn't think that was important, after he went into Iraq to avenge the threat Sadam had made against his father. Bush "didn't think about Bin Laden much, anymore" after he allowed Laden to escape from Bora-Bora).

    I was disenchanted with the GOP long before GWB was elected. I am now inflamed that after all the years I worked, and all the money the IRS confiscated from me to collect for the indecretions of my first husband, a full 7 years after I'd divorced him and he'd re-married and had children by his next wife who was also thief ) - (I'd signed a Quit-Claim Deed for any and all interest in the busniess we'd begun together in 1978, when our divorce was finalized in 1980; yet the IRS held ME accountable, DESPITE my divorce papers that exhonorated me from any further debt from the marriage and business! The IRS garnished MY wages, anyway, for 3 years - until I finally found an ACLU attorney who managed to get the IRS to stop garnishing my meager wages for a debt I clearly didn't owe!).

    After all those dollars I paid into the system - taxes I did owe, and those for which I had no legal need to have to pay! - now Romney wants to call me a moocher who wants "free things" because I collect Medicare??! And since I have NO INCOME, I'm on the dole?!! Oh, well, excuse me! He's so out-of-touch with what REAL, hard-working Republicans & Democrats do to be honest, and then collect what we've paid into for years... Romney doesn't ever deserve to hold any kind of Office representing the people of the country. He's an elisist who cannot relate to anyone who's not as rich as he is!

    Romney is the TRUE PARASITE... And if he doesn't reveal his tax returns to the rest of American voters, he doesn't deserve a second thought in this Presidency, or any other run for Office. He's a rich moron, who lives in his bubble of other rich people. He's already written off working for the 47%, and sadly, what a lot of Republicans haven't come to grips with, yet, is that most of them are brothers and sisters in the 47% I currently fit.

    WAKE UP, Americans! Vote for the one person who DOES know what it's like to work hard and gain prosperity. And it's certainly NOT Mitt Romney; it's Barack Obama.

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    We believe that a whole bunch of the 47%ers are going to vote for Romney.

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Why do you say Obama and the DNC have ignored the Citizens United Issue?

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Did you see the replay of one the republican debates in which he said he paid no income tax? That is, because he make his money on capital gains.

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    I like Abraham Lincoln's income tax to pay for the war. 100% was paid by the top 1%.

    Solar, wind and electric cars have significantly lowered green house gases; just not nearly enough.

    If we would quit subsidizing petro and charge the true price of gasoline, which should be $15, alternative energy would take off so fast it would make you dizzy.

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Don't forget the charitalbe deduction. This is the deduction billionaires use when they give money to Karl Rove to defeat Obama.

    My favorite tax target is accelerated depreciation. I think that is the key loophole the rich use to pay no taxes. It is the loophole the McCourts (ex-owners of the LA Ddodgers) used to avoid paying any taxes on 58 million of income.

  • Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...   12 years 38 weeks ago

    Since Nixon is mentioned, and now 47% is destined to become a talking point, check out this political ad from 1972. Uncanny!

    http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1972/mcgovern-welfare

  • Will Romney's "47%" story have staying power?   12 years 38 weeks ago

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