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Tag Archives: Mitt Romney
Where’s the Outrage?
This headline floated across my dash this morning, Romney’s London Fundraiser Doesn’t Sound Like A Success – Business Insider accompanied by the following blurb, Tickets to the event, which were originally priced at between $25,000 and $75,000, were being given away for just $1,000 a few hours before the event, UK right wing blogger Guido Fawkes tweets. Milo Yiannopoulos, a UK tech blogger, says he was offered a free ticket to the event three times. Why is it okay for Mittens to solicit funds from … Continue reading
Romney’s Flawed View of the How the World Works
In a short post found at Psychology Today, Arthur Dobrin talks about what Mitt Romney and every other Republican defender of unregulated capitalism seems to be missing. Romney describes what he did at Bain Capital as creative destruction. I won’t argue with that description. After living through the misery of a couple of leveraged buyouts at companies I’ve worked for in the past, I have a strong distaste for anyone in the private equity investment industry – the industry that made … Continue reading
Clueless
I came across the following commentary on one of my favorite Tumblr blogs this afternoon. First, Drew at Political Freakshow posted the following: Newt Gingrich has made headlines and raised eyebrows on the campaign trail for proposing to make poor children work as janitors in their school, saying it would help them understand the value of work and money. But apparently, even on child janitorial work, Gingrich is employing a double standard. As Karen Tumulty notes, in a 1995 Vanity Fair profile, Gingrich … Continue reading
Five Biggest Lies Republicans Tell About Taxes
It’s that time of year again; time to grab your ankles and cough one up for Uncle Sam between now and April 15th. In honor of all you folks out there getting ready to file your tax papers, and hopefully get a nice refund in the mail, here’s a short list of the five biggest whoppers tax hating, government cutting, tea bagging Republicans (and a handful of wayward Democrats) love to trot out whenever the subject of funding our society … Continue reading
Alan Grayson Gets It Right, Again!
I received the following email from Alan Grayson the day after Christmas. Grayson was my favorite member of the House of Representatives when he was serving a few years ago, and I hope he wins back his seat next year. We need a few hundred members like him on Capitol Hill. There are many on the right who take issue with Mitt Romney’s religion (he’s a Mormon, for those not paying attention) and Mr. Grayson rightly points out that a person’s … Continue reading
