MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Ann Romney: 'You (little) People' can Just Shut-Up
By NCD on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 1:01pm |Ann Romney on how magnanimous the Mittster is, McCain got to see 20 years, but Ann says 'you people' already have all you need to know about the Romney's tax returns:
“He’s a very generous person,” she told ABC’s Robin Roberts of Mitt Romney. “We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things? No. He is so good about it. Then, when he was governor of Massachusetts, didn’t take a salary in the four years.”
“We’ve given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life,” she said.
video at TPM. Few would understand what Mitt called the "hundreds or thousands of pages" which comprise his tax returns for the years he refuses to release, so maybe Ann is right. Who would know you could deduct $77,000 for a dancing horse, as they did on their 2010 return?? It garnered only a $50 buck tax credit, but it preserved a precious tax loss deduction for future returns. Perfectly legal.........and 'all you need to know'....
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I watched the clip. They haven't even released one 'full' year of tax returns yet.
I did think it was insulting and demeaning to the American public and might hurt her favorability a little bit.
However if the goal was to lull their base after so many republicans called on them to release their tax returns... it probalby helped.
by synchronicity on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 5:44pm
Wow it is time to buckle up already and Labor Day still ain't just around the corner. I get that Obama is a hypocrite, I get that he was full of baloney back in 2008 and he's not the dude who is going to change the way things are done in Washington. I get it, and then some. But this notion that it's shocking, just shocking that the Democrats are playing politics is beyond my comprehension. This is the way it's done--the Democrats have found a vulnerability and they're pounding on it. And they're doing it and ducking the dismal economic conditions of our brothers and sisters when the rules are that the buck stops with the president and he deserves to be slammed on things that are his fault and on things that aren't his fault.
But so what? Romney should release his taxes because it's a political quagmire for him. And he should focus on the economy and whether he should or not, he will focus on all of the other stuff that will be oh so friggin' unfair.
And if some progressives want to elect him and his crew because Obama is a douchebag, then so be it.
So who are the good guys around here? Am I missing something?
by Bruce Levine on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 11:25pm
Romney should release his tax returns because its the right thing to do. The people have the right to know. Poll seem to suggest its not a political quagmire for him which just blows me away. We'll see if that holds true.
Whether the dems are hypocrites to push this issue given their own members tax failings, whether its all political games, whether they are lying about what might be in the tax returns wrong as that may be doesn't change the basic reason. The people have the right to know.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 07/19/2012 - 11:59pm
Whether it's the right thing to do or not, it's an unwritten rule: all presidential nominees release their tax returns. Years of them. Did Romney enter the Republican race thinking, "If I'm nominated, I'll refuse to discuss my taxes?" If so, he's an idiot -- and demonstrably unfit to run the country. End of story.
by acanuck on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 3:22am
That sums it up pretty well.
by Elusive Trope on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 12:39pm
Ocean-Kat,
Nice to see you again. I totally agree with you that the people have the right to know.
But I also believe that this isn't about whether Romney is a good guy in person or more or less honest than Obama. I believe they are both politicians, and I believe that the demand for Romney to release his taxes on the one hand and the shock that he is being asked to release his taxes on the other is just politics and nothing more.
And I don't believe that the two political parties that are driving this campaign give a hoot about what the rights of the people are in the midst of a presidential campaign.
This is politics, pure and simple, and nothing more. And if Romney doesn't release his taxes, he's an idiot, pure and simple. And as much as I've been pushing for the re-election of President Obama (and while you were gone I almost started a riot around these parts for questioning how progressives could possibly do otherwise), I don't believe for a second that the demand for Romney to release his taxes is motivated by anything other than politics. It's all about defining Romney before the Republicans begin to outspend the Democrats 2 to 1 once Romney is formally nominated.
by Bruce Levine on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 7:19am
It may be politics, but Krugman thinks Romney's reaction on the issue is very enlightening:
Fitzgerald again, about the very rich: “They think, deep down, that they are better than we are.”
O.K., let’s take a deep breath. The truth is that many, and probably most, of the very rich don’t fit Fitzgerald’s description. There are plenty of very rich Americans who have a sense of perspective, who take pride in their achievements without believing that their success entitles them to live by different rules.
But Mitt Romney, it seems, isn’t one of those people. And that discovery may be an even bigger issue than whatever is hidden in those tax returns he won’t release.
by NCD on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 11:01am
I totally agree with you NCD, and I certainly don't mean to defend Romney the person. I think there is quite a bit of stuff in Romney's tax returns that he doesn't want the voters to see. And I also believe that sending out Ann to defend their family is just that much nonsense.
by Bruce Levine on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 11:07am
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: $4,781,000
2. Brigham Young University: $525,000
3. The United Way: $177,000
4. Right to Play: $111,500
5. The George W. Bush Library: $100,000
6. Operation Kids: $85,000
7. Center For Treatment of Pediatric MS: $75,000
8. Harvard Business School: $70,000
9. City Year: $65,000
10. Deseret International: $50,000
Weber State University: $50,000
by Peter Schwartz on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 9:45am
Obamas election strategy?
How do you keep the ignorant electorate in suspense?
Neither capitalist candidate, has a solution.
They're winging it, until the next crisis comes along and it distracts a stupid electorate.
An electorate that doesn't know, what side of the class war they should be on.
BTW..... With this new famine crisis on the horizon, will the capitalists, screw the American public to make a buck?
Have we stopped exporting American grain, or are we compelled by law to cut our own throats, so a capitalist doesn't suffer?
by Resistance on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 2:55pm