A Political Cover Song for Our Times: ‘Keep on Lying, Mitt Romney’
An adaptation of “Keep on Rockin’ Me, Baby,” by Rocky Mountain Mike for the Stephanie Miller Show that you will hear playing in your head every time you hear Mitt Romney speak.
Month: August 2012
Not Raising the Debt Ceiling Raised the Debt
$1.3 billion
What last year’s Republican-led debt ceiling “crisis” cost American taxpayers, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The figure includes extra borrowing costs as well as overtime hours for federal employees working to avoid default.
Does a Nasty Campaign Make a Nasty President?
Is there a direct connection between the way you run for the presidency (or re-election) and the way you govern from the White House? Do the American people automatically lose when a president is elected after a campaign so dishonest that it would embarrass Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall? …. Since I began covering presidential politics more than three decades ago, the worst campaign in terms of both morality and truthfulness was the one waged by George H.W. Bush in 1988 against a hapless Michael Dukakis…. But once elected, President Bush displayed little resemblance to Candidate Bush, who had put his integrity in a blind trust administered by Atwater and Ailes.
— Walter Shapiro, writing for Yahoo! News.
Campaign Spending Tops Half-Billion Dollars
$512 million
The grand total spent on the presidential campaign to date — about the amount spent on advertising in the entire 2008 general election, according to an NBC News/Smart Media Group Delta analysis.
Ryan Addition Didn’t Help Romney Ticket in Wisconsin
49% to 45%
President Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney in Wisconsin — despite the addition of native son Paul Ryan to the GOP ticket, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research survey conducted in the state.
Reid Unimpressed By Romney’s 13% Claim
We’ll believe it when we see it. Until Mitt Romney releases his tax returns, Americans will continue to wonder what he’s hiding.
— Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson, quoted by Politico, saying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is not impressed by Romney’s claim he’s paid at least 13% in taxes for the last 10 years.
The Anagram Gang
Together, they would create a happy little band,
Spreading enlightened self-interest across the land.
These progressive contrarians,
These objective libertarians:
Paul Ryan, Rand Paul and Ayn Rand.
Ryan Caught Lying: ‘I Never Asked for Stimulus’ – But Documents Prove He Earmarked At Least $25 Mil
On Tuesday, the Boston Globe and Associated Press reported on documents showing that GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan had secured more than $20 million in stimulus funds for a local energy efficiency organization.
According to the reports, the documents showed that Ryan also brought in $5.4 million for local bus services. His requests came at the same time he was publicly calling the stimulus a “wasteful spending spree.”
However, in an interview with a local Ohio television news station, Ryan claimed he never secured funding through the program, saying “I never asked for stimulus.”
The Associated Press wrote a follow-up story to Ryan’s comments:
Mitt Doesn’t Know the Difference Between a Tax and a Deduction
Mitt Romney seems unclear on the concept of personal income tax.
“I did go back and look at my taxes and over the past ten years I never paid less than 13%. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something like that. I paid taxes every single year,” Romney said…”Harry Reid’s charge is totally false. I am sure waiting for Harry to put up who it was that told him what he says they told him – I don’t believe it for a minute by the way – but every year I paid at least 13% and if you add in addition the amount that goes to charity, why, the number gets well above 20%.”
If Mitt considers what he gives to the Mormon Church to be a tax, then he must consider all the money he doesn’t get to spend as taxes
First of all, I checked my 2011 return and my actual tax rate was 17.7%. That’s how much the IRS expected me to pony up over the course of the year, with my various deductions, except I didn’t take enough out of my earnings as I went along and had to stroke a check to send in with my return for the remainder.
And I was happy to do it, if only to save those job creators like Mitt Romney from paying even more on their personal incomes, since it’s their personal incomes and not their businesses that they use to create jobs. At least, that’s what I’m told by every Republican ever.
But what really catches my ear in what Willard said today is the part about how, when you add in what he gave to the Mormon Church, why, the number gets well above 20 percent.
