This morning on CNN, the governor of Illinois called GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney “pretty extreme” for not disclosing more years of his tax returns.
But Pat Quinn has been under fire himself for things he said at the Democratic National Convention this week.
“Mitt Romney and Congressman Ryan want to take away the promise that makes Medicare, Medicare. They want to give seniors a voucher that caps what Medicare will cover and then tell our seniors they are on their own for what’s left. That would cost their seniors thousand dollars every year. And if they don’t have the money, it could cost our seniors their lives,” Quinn said on the opening day of the gathering.
“There’s something else the Republicans left out of their convention: any explanation of why they call Mitt Romney ‘Governor Romney,’” Quinn also said. “We already knew this extremely conservative man takes some pretty liberal deductions. Evidently that includes writing off all four years he served as Governor of Massachusetts.”
The Republican National Committee said Quinn “is in no place to lecture anybody about extreme policies.”
“I think you’re pretty extreme if you don’t disclose your income tax returns. George Romney, who was the father of Mitt Romney, when he ran for president he disclosed years and years of tax returns,” Quinn responded on CNN.
Of Obama’s speech last night, the governor said, “I think he said last night our job is to bring the troops home from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and use the savings that we have to invest in job creation, manufacturing especially.”
Dear Gov. Quinn,
You are in charge of a state where the largest city is now considered more dangerous than Lebanon during its civil war. In the name of all that’s decent, please stick to your knitting and shut the hell up.
Yours truly,
Someone who tuned you out a long time ago.
Refresh my memory – How many recent Illinois governors are now in prison or under indictment?
Easier to count the ones who aren’t, isn’t it?
“I think you’re pretty extreme if you don’t disclose your income tax returns.” -Gov. Quinn
In that context:
“I think Gov. Quinn is pretty moderate for saying that.” -Morton Doodslag
Greetings:
And how many of Illinois’ governors have gone to the Big House on other than an inspection tour ???
And that Secretary of the Treasury, a Timothy Geithner I believe, who couldn’t quite figure out his own taxes much less than pay them but was found qualified to oversee the IRS.
And all those White House employees who owe back taxes ???
“Evidently that includes writing off all four years he served as Governor of Massachusetts.”
Is he talking about the four years in which Romney took no salary as Governor of Massachusetts? When you don’t have a salary, you don’t have to try writing that salary off. (I’m sure Romney still had a sizable income, the size of which is none of our business.)
– guv into how sealed court records in his state regarding Obama opponents get leaked to the media.
Yeah, how about that awesome jobs report this morning, Pat? 368K dropped out of the labor force. So let’s talk about Mitten’s tax returns instead. Or maybe talk about $4/gallon gasoline? Or the $5.4 trillion in new debt in the last four years?
I have the misfortune to live in this Governor’s state…but not for much longer.
It wasn’t that many years ago he was an out-of-work lawyer, who could barely pay his own bills. Since his name first came on the scene in IL, I do not remember him ever doing anything but government jobs or acting as ‘gadfly’ for ‘consumer interests”…another words another lifetime Dem career politician.(who is busy making his fortune in GOVERNMENT!)
Thanks to Blago getting to wear a prison jumpsuit and IL’s very leftist voters, along with a weak Republican candidate, this lumbering taxaholic was elected. And he immediately raised state income tax 50%!
Him criticizing Romney/Ryan is a big joke.
Pat Quinn is a complete idiot. he presides over a state that pretends there is no 1st. or 2nd amendments to the U.S. constitution and now has passed a law allowing hearsay evidence in the Drew Peterson murder trial (ex post facto be damned) because the idiot will county prosecutor could find no evidence. Quinn and the rest of the Illinois communists (Obama included) forgot to mention this little fact at the convention.