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This is the gift that keeps

jollyroger — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:58:05 +0000

In reply to @fivethirtyeight But those

This is the gift that keeps on giving...brings the guns square back around to the phantom tax returns. "Broadside as she bears, Mr Gridley..."

@fivethirtyeight But those

artappraiser — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:44:40 +0000

In reply to The Secret Romney Video

@fivethirtyeight But those other ten percent will live forever in our hearts. #polititainment
— Elly Blue (@ellyblue) September 17, 2012

@fivethirtyeight You're always bumming everyone out with your "numbers" and "facts" and "level headedness." Just stop.
— Drew Toal (@LordAndrewToal) September 17, 2012

Teach it, Willard! "He's not

jollyroger — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:25:46 +0000

In reply to The Secret Romney Video

Teach it, Willard! "He's not my President" we used to say about Bush. Romney turns it around "I'm not your President."

Thanks. I don't know, I keep

AmericanDreamer — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:03:34 +0000

In reply to Really well reasoned and

Thanks. I don't know, I keep wondering WHEN. When will the time come that such an avalanche of justifiable and deserved condemnation finally tumbles down upon these assholes that they will, to use a former president's words, be irreversibly and at warp speed destined for the ash heap of history where they so richly belong.

To Mitt I would say if I

AmericanDreamer — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:48:00 +0000

In reply to Great for Corn. Of course the

To Mitt I would say if I could:

Believe in America: Pay the taxes you know you are supposed to pay, to the US Treasury.

Once more we see the Rovian credo in its essential form: accuse or imply about your opponent what is actually true about yourself.

Corn also revealed whose home

Elusive Trope — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:56:13 +0000

In reply to Really well reasoned and

Corn also revealed whose home it took place, the name escapes me, but he is venture capitalist known for throwing lavish and wild parties, including one the NY Post reported had people performing sex acts. Just the kind of slant that gets the larger media interested and gives the story even more legs.

Really well reasoned and

Richard Day — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:41:52 +0000

In reply to In Mitt Romney's view, the 47

Really well reasoned and constructed.

Your take will not go away.

AND IT IS MONDAY FOR CHRISSAKES!

I love David Corn!

Rachel tells me that this video has been dancing around the net for months and yet after Corn publishes with some providence the RNC and the Mitt Campaign do not disavow its authenticity.

Amazing.

But the manner in which you describe the logic to be deemed from this video (and other parts are yet to come according to Huffpo) will be in the press for the next 50 days.

This aint goin away!

Oh and I might get into this later this week, but there is 'Saintorum' talking about how his followers must eschew 'smart folks'. hahahahahah

And the Lord saw all this and said:

IT IS GOOD!

Neither Romney not the GOP

NCD — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:39:20 +0000

In reply to In Mitt Romney's view, the 47

Neither Romney not the GOP care if the country 'thrives'. If we have learned nothing else over the last 20 years, that should be incandescently clear. They want the power to rule this country and everyone in it, and even beyond its borders, and to ensure that they and their rich supporters thrive.

Great for Corn. Of course the

NCD — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:33:57 +0000

In reply to hahaahahaha And Huffpo says

Great for Corn. Of course the GOP and Romney don't mention that those 20K a year WAGE earners pay a higher percentage of total income in Social Security tax and Medicare than Mitt does on his tens of millions with his tax dodging, and with the fact that there is no SS/Med tax on investment income. And the kids of the poor, fight, get wounded, or die in the 'pre-emptive' wars the GOP starts while Mitt's 5 sons 'serve the country' by trying to get him elected.

And those SS taxes wage earners pay, with a cutoff at 100K or so, go straight to the Pentagon and to fund the tax cuts for the rich, starting with Ronnie and continuing with GWB. Ronnie raised SS taxes to 'save SS' while at the same time cutting income taxes on high incomes. Now the GOP wants to disavow the SS Trust Fund, and end SS, rip up 'those IOU's in a drawer' because the only way you can pay them off is by raising income taxes on the rich back to what they were before Ronnie cut them.

They are trying to pull off the biggest bait and switch in history.

In Mitt Romney's view, the 47

AmericanDreamer — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:24:23 +0000

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In Mitt Romney's view, the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax should "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Wow. All I can say is if that is not an out-and-out disqualifier for someone who wants to be President of the United States, I'm not sure what is.

Evidently he thinks that 47 percent of his fellow citizens, people he aspires to lead some four months from now, want handouts from the federal government. How insulting and condescending can you get? I would venture to say that were Mitt Romney to trade places and live a single day in the shoes of the vast majority of that 47 percent, he would be crying Uncle.

The vast majority want not much more than an economy that affords enough decent living wage jobs that they might be able to get one, the better to be able to feed themselves and their families themselves, without the need for any assistance from the federal or any other level of government. Oh, and most would like to live in a country where they believe the people who are its most privileged and powerful members are at least trying to see to it that such opportunities might be widely available to the generations to come, instead of grabbing anything and everything they can for themselves, today and regardless of the consequences of the ways they do this for their fellow citizens.

One way of understanding why so many people don't earn enough to pay federal income taxes is that the most powerful actors in our society have permitted our economic system to become rigged, such that virtually the entire increase in income and wealth in our society over the past 30 years has gone to those no farther down than the top 10% of the distribution. The bottom 90% has stagnated over that period of time, even with many more two-income families. This is fact. And as the late Senator Moynihan said, people are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.

Yet Mr. Romney supports policies which would further exacerbate these destructive trends. That is a prescription for a dangerous decline in confidence in the legitimacy of any society, one that predictably will lead to increasing political instability and unrest. As we have seen in recent years.

The real question, by Mr. Romney's lights, would then appear to be: Why can't the bottom 90% simply take more responsibility and "care enough for their lives" to be that top 10%? This sort of thought process suggests a stupefying degree of obtuseness and obliviousness to some minimal comprehension of what it takes for a society such as ours to thrive.

The man is hopelessly out of touch with how ordinary Americans live and what has been going on in this country over the past 30 years or so. He could not hope to govern well.