As for DWS, as a fact checker, I have to admit that Mitt Romney did not “leave an impression” of what his presidency would be like. That would fall under the rubric of gypsy fortune tellers, not politicians seeking office. Unless you have a crystal ball that would tell us exactly what conditions Mr. Romney would be facing on January 20, 2013, I suggest you take another line of attack — maybe talk about his dog or something.
Actually, the impression left by Mr. Romney is that he would be a damn sight better president than the man who currently holds that position. Is that what you meant, Debbie?
Then there’s that web video that touts Mr. Romney’s “plans to add tax burdens to the middle class, further enrich the wealthy with tax cuts and gut state-financed health care for seniors.”
It wasn’t necessary to have graduated from Fact Check U. (the “Harvard of the Northeast”…oh, wait) to check the facts on this one. Mitt Romney has no “plans” to raise taxes on the middle class. That’s an outright lie and I am going to write the Union of Concerned Fact Checkers about it. He is also calling for further tax rate reductions to help the middle class. Will they “enrich the wealthy”? The wealthy are already rich — I know because I’m a fact checker and already checked that fact out. And as for the “Mediscare” nonsense, even liberal fact checkers have checked on that and say that Ryan’s plan — which Romney has not endorsed completely — wouldn’t “gut state financed health care for seniors” who are currently covered under Medicare. Even those 55 and older could still be part of that bloated, wasteful, inefficient, and bloodsucking government program — if they chose. Considering the fact that President Obama and the Democrats have not offered a counter proposal to save Medicare, and have only proposed cutting $700 billion in Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals, a fact checker might legitimately ask, “Who is it that is ‘gutting’ Medicare?”
Now that I’ve gotten the fact check ball rolling on Obama, I hope to see the same number of fact checkers checking out what the Obama team has been saying about Mr. Romney and his speech.
I also hope to see a unicorn some day and watch pigs fly, but that’s another column.
– Irishman is back!
It sure seems like it, The. I liked this reminder especially:
“Yes, Mr. Axelrod, about those “practical solutions to the problems we face…” I hate to be the fact checker that points this out, but it would help if Mr. Obama offered some solutions of his own — practical or otherwise — and gave us even just a general idea of what he plans for his second term.”
When the harsh winds blow and nobody knows,
If the levees will fail or stand.
When the media lies swarm like bluebottle flies,
Ordered by a foul liar’s band.
When the people seek a leader who’s meek,
And prays to the God of our youth,
Let the fearful see OUR BEST NOMINEES:
MITT ROMNEY; PUAL RYAN AND TRUTH
My impression is that the convention worked, one MSM after another turning to the camera and saying, “Whoa, Romney’s not so bad, why didn’t anyone tell us?”
Maroons.
Still, that counts for something.
Do they care what the Obambus campaign and Debbie Whatshername say? Well, they’re still paid to repeat it, but *believe* it? I wonder.
Is Romney laying out a detailed plan for the future? Of course not, no candidate does that these days, so this criticism is vapid. SHOULD they? Well, I wish they would. Like, Obambus took office and said, “Whoa, I didn’t know things were this bad!” He knew, or should have known, or should not have been running for office – or all of the above.
I’m not sure how many of the MSM crowd decided Romney is OK. I watched last night on NBC (regular NBC, not MSNBC). The high point was when one of their ‘distinguished’ commentators described Romney walking to the podium as ‘much like the entrance of a pro wrestler’. Yes, NBC, we’re laughing at you, not with you.
“Business are frightened because they’re being demonized and the government is overruling contracts in the name of social fairness. Despite massive cash reserves, investors aren’t investing. Make them feel welcome. They ARE welcome. America needs companies.”
“Rich people got that way by being smart with their money and investments. Let them keep that money, because they’ve already proven they’re pretty good when it comes to using that money to grow business and jobs.”
“Corporate taxes only tax customers, not corporations. They only make our businesses less competitive abroad, while placing a flat hidden tax on products. Reduce corporate taxes.”
“Schools are hamstrung by poor teachers they cant fire, and lack the motivation to take action against such teachers they can. But this doesn’t hurt schools; it hurts kids. Don’t limit kids to their school. Make schools compete; make teachers strive to be excellent. You say teachers are already excellent? Good, they should have no trouble competing and their school will get more money – and more students will get that premium education they’re able to deliver over the other school.”
“Volatile gas prices weaken our foreign policy, and hurt poor and fixed-income Americans. We have massive reserves of natural gas, shale, petroleum, and other fossil-fuels that can supply America’s current consumption for more than a century. Sustainable power like Nuclear is good; invest in it. Sustainable power like Solar and Wind is not ready yet – its not worth it. The fastest way to make them viable? Research. The best way to get research on them? A robust economy. The best way to get a robust economy? Cheap and plentiful energy. Drill at home so we get jobs, create a stable gas price based of sufficient demand and proximity, and quit sending American money to fund terrorism in the Middle East.”
“Quit giving currency manipulators like China a free pass on trade. We are desperately reliant on them, but they as well on us. A trade deficit means we have a lot of cheap goods to lose, and they have a lot of money to lose. We can trade beneficially on a fair basis, not on a slanted one.”
“A balanced budget is the only sane way to go forward, and the only way to regain our top credit score, allowing us to have more control over interest rates.”
“Obamacare. It’s dumb; it’s un-American, it raises costs for small businesses, it kills jobs, it’ll raise healthcare prices, and it will pull rugs out from under current seniors by capping payments on procedures; more people will have ‘coverage’ but no doctor will treat them for what they can pay. Get rid of it. Replace it by addressing the three-party insurance system and the massive number of frivolous malpractice suits.”
Now, I’m no professional internet fact checker, but those sound like some pretty damn concrete, plausible, and proven ‘Big Ideas’ that will help the economy. These all supplement the overwhelming ‘Big Idea’ of “Government can’t help the economy – Government is economic overhead. All Government can do is get out of the way.”
Exactly, Null.
What the Dems don’t understand is that increased profits and sales of our production of good and services overseas in exchange for the importation of more money and assets is what, historically and actually, increases the “Wealth of Nations.” Adam Smith said so and that fact has not changed, as long as we are still using money to keep accounts. The idea is to increase the supply of money, grow the pie to split up, increase real wages, increase productive use of our precious lives (i.e., jobs) and we all get richer, and there is more wealth and money around to help those less well off. Duh! Sounds like a pretty concrete plan. In fact its the only plan. Increased profits means increased money, income and wealth for everyone. Bankrupting the government, and then all classes (but mostly the expanding poor) which has been the Left’s only idea since Babeuf, Bakunin, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin: to confiscate all the wealth by political power so it can be “fairly” divided up as those with political power (or “liberty” according to Bakunin) decide to divide it up. These leftists don’t get the fact that trying to divide things “fairly” by diktat reduces the size of the pie to be divided, and sends us all back to feudalism, with billions dying of starvation, disease, imprisonment, torture or worse. The only answer is to grow the pie as big as possible, by free choice of the producers, which is Romney’s plan, not to grab power to divide up the shrinking pie, which is the anti-progressive plan of Obama and the retro-fuedalists. Both plans are concrete, obvious, distinctly evident from the other, but only one “works” and is progressive. Namely Romney’s. (The anti-progressive is Obama who uses the Orwell formula to call himself the opposite of what he is).
I guess the Leftists are so stupid they can’t figure this out. Or maybe they just really have no interest in anything but holding onto their own power. Or maybe they really do hate people, and use leftism to promote their own demons and racism, and use psychological projection to blame their opponents for what they know lies exclusively within themselves. I just don’t know.
These leftists don’t get the fact that trying to divide things “fairly” by diktat reduces the size of the pie to be divided, and sends us all back to feudalism, with billions dying of starvation, disease, imprisonment, torture or worse.
I think they get it. I think they don’t care–they believe they’ll be the feudal lords, living in relative luxury and giving orders to the rest of us. I also think most of them are in for a very rude awakening.
Democratic Campaign Speech Strategy = Whatever We’re Going to Do + Blame Romney and/or Bush W.
Can’t wait to hear Sandra Flook and Tony Parker’s former wife tell me what’s wrong with America. Romney and Ryan have a 5 point plan, what did Obama have? I truly cannot remember. Oh yea, Hope and Change. How’s that working out?
“I think that what people were tuning in hoping to hear were practical solutions to the challenges that we face,” Axelrod told MSNBC.
Here are some practical solutions that were mentioned at the convention:
1. Get rid of Obama and his corrupt, incompetent administration.
2. Stop bashing success. Envy isn’t cool.
3. Quit piling so many absurd regulations on business.
4. Go after all available energy soources in America, not just the ones who
bundle money to your campaign.
5. Kill the jobs destroying ObamaCare.
I’m sure there were many others. Those are just a few that quickly came to mind.
And those were in Romney’s speech.
Let’s be brutally honest here, as I don’t think we can move America forward without an open, honest dialogue. To do that we must accept as absolutely certain several pure, truthful facts:
1. As a “Mormon”, Romney puts a little too much faith into this whole “God” thing. Does a spirit in the sky put food on the table of starving black children? Only virtuous government programs can. That and McDonalds’ dollar menu.
2. As a religious fanatic, Romney hates homosexuals and will do anything to impede human progression toward a more homogeneous human species that can find peace and oneness through open, multi-sexual relationships. I really think transgenders are way ahead of the curve on this point.
3. As a “Mormon” Romney is necessarily white. He is a white Mormon because he hates blacks and other peoples of color. Thus, he is a racist and will never work to bridge the divide between Whites and everybody else. This conclusion has been proven in the form of a mathematical equation:
Mormon = Y x Black = B/14 + 1.789% = Mormons hate Blacks.
4. Mother Earth is dying, yet the Republicans, led by Romney and Cheney, just want to expand industrialization, thus further destroying our True Mother (and our Mother-in-Law, The Sky).
I’m proud of our Dear Barack Obama. He has definitely met His more important campaign promises. I live near Cousin Ocean and can tell you that the rising of the sea levels have indeed halted. I look forward to four more years of Obama inspired progress and a dropping of sea levels!
Nice satire. I hope it was satire.
– evil hater and what you have written can never be taken back. It will have its way with you. Until then, Morna ought to block your IP address.
Um, dude? Satire. Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls…
Really? Please go back and read tne drivel you just posted! Maybe you will see how silly it sounds. It is so very sad, desperate and full of holes. Probably written by the sad and desperate Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who apparently had nothing better to do in these days leading up to the Dem convention than to crash the GOP convention. Hope she learned some things by being in rational company for a few hours. It is no secret that you far left liberals are scared – and you need to be! You have no idea of the groundswell that is building toward November 6th! I feel very sorry for you, because on November 7th you will wake up having to face the cold harsh reality that you are very alone and misguided. So terribly sad.
I wonder which thing MotherEarth finds to be more delightful, his postings or watching people fall into his little traps. I find both to be quite amusing.
…..”I’m proud of our Dear Barack Obama”….. whoa…… just substitute “our dear leader” for “our dear barack obama” and I believe we have heard from our friends in North Korea.
A s/ or sarc/ or sat/ would be helpful. This was too close to real. I actually started a reply, duh.
Romney’s message was clear to anyone who listened attentively. Though I am not a Romney fan, I appreciated both what he said and how he said it. He spoke as a honorable man and without denigrating President Obama but he frankly addressed his performance and policies.
I hope that President Obama will respond as a gentleman in a similar fashion – something many of his closest followers seem unable to do. The USA faces a huge hurdle which I believe will take more than four years to address. I am not convinced that President Obama, when I consider his past performance, will suddenly change and give the leadership needed to move Congress to take bold and decisive bi-partisan decisions.
A wise and thoughtful person does not have to be a Romney fan to recognize he comes offering the USA a new leader with experience and competence. He is someone who will work tirelessly to address the dire economic situation and promote massive job creation – something that has been done before. He will not be sidetracked by an obsession to get re-elected or be frequently seeking to escape depressing realities by going off to play golf.
#InsertChair – Obama Now Identified as “Empty Seat” through Eastwood Magic
What Romney needs is some very specific policies people can sink their teeth into.
Something like ‘hope’, and perhaps ‘change’. Now THAT’s a solid plan.
Herr Hussein Obama’s campaign strategy is inadequate to maintain him in a serious action such as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will put to him. He has corruption in the coop, hate on the hoof, taqiyya on the tongue and bats in the belfry — that’s his campaign strategy. He can probably maintain himself in the type of fighting Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will give him in Mexifornia and a few states on the North East front. After that it will make no difference how many thousands of dead he has voting for him early and often, and if Americans want America and the Presidency back, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will give it to them. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will make Obama howl.
@LovelyEarth
In reply to your brutally honest comments;
1. Christian dominated governments are much less likely to starve their people than communist governments. See the Ukraine famine, the Great Leap Forward, Pol Pot, and the DPRK at present.
2. Is it in anyone’s interest to promote promiscuity? More children from single parent households is not a desirable outcome.
3. As a White person I far prefer a president who attends a church that is less than sympathetic to Afro-Americans than a president who attends a church that is actively hostile to Whites.
4. The worst offenders for pollution are the poorer countries. Poor countries can not afford the expensive pollution controls. As far as global warming, I am far more worried about a new ice age.
As far as long term vs short term problems, if you have a patient who needs kidney stones removed and is also bleeding to death, first stop the bleeding.
I agree with this, except for the Drunken sailor reference. As a drunken sailor, I stop spending when I run out of my own money.
You should have also noted it is Your Own Money you are spending.
7. LovelyEarth
Hey girl. Dying? I am in the best of health thank you. “LovelyEarth”? What the heck is that? Some cheap impostor who claims to be part of the Earth family spouting complete nonsense I think. I’ve checked with RareEarth, EarthQuake and EarthWorm. Nobody has ever heard of you.
You seem like nothing on Earth.
Romney wants the public to punish Obama for failing to implement his recovery plan. Yet it was the Republicans that successfully blocked it and most of Obama’s other legislation and effectively replaced it with a laissez-faire Bush-style do-nothing program, now thoroughly proven by Bush and McConnell not to work.
Let’s hear what Debbie Wasserman-Shultz has to say. She’s a credible opinion expert on the relative advantages of Romney and Obama!
Oh man, sometimes I just crack myself up!
Let’s see – if the White House has no plan – then Romney has no plan! Projection, anyone?
Is anyone not already on Obama’s speed dial listening to him?
Mitt Romney caught on hidden camera – claims some Church Leadership is Pro-Choice Published on Jul 28, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vINVnWYk0U&feature=watch-vrec