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From the Maddow Blog - Posted 2/5/2012
Chronicling Mitt's mendacity By Steve Benen - Fri Feb 3, 2012 2:07 PM EST Several weeks ago, I launched a Friday afternoon feature, highlighting the most offensive Mitt Romney falsehoods of the week. I was off last week, but let's get it started again. 1. Romney claimed President Obama "went before the United Nations" and "said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip." True or false? The claim isn't even close to being right. 2. Romney said Democrats "passed Dodd-Frank," which "has made it almost impossible for community banks." True or false? He's has said this before, and it's still completely untrue. 3. Romney continues to insist, "Our Navy is now smaller than any time since 1917." True or false? It's one of his favorite talking points, but it's wildly misleading. 4. Romney boasted, "I did not inherit what my wife and I have, nor did she. What I was able to build, I built the old-fashioned way, by earning it, by working hard." True or false? In reality, he inherited quite a bit from his wealthy, powerful parents. 5. Attacking Newt Gingrich, Romney said of House Republicans, "They also took a vote, and 88 percent of Republicans voted to reprimand the speaker, and he did resign in disgrace after that." True or false? That's not really what happened. 6. Romney said, "We have $15 trillion of debt. We're headed to a Greece- type collapse, and he adds another trillion [dollars] on top for Obamacare and for his stimulus plan that didn't create private-sector jobs." True or false? Our debt problem has no resemblance to Greece's; the Affordable Care Act reduces the debt; and the stimulus added millions of private-sector jobs. 7. Describing his state-based health-care law, Romney said, "At the time we crafted it, I was asked time and again, 'Is this something that you would have the federal government do?' I said absolutely not. I do not support a federal mandate." True or false? Reality shows the exact opposite is true. 8. Going after Obama, Romney said, "[W]e shouldn't forget that for two years, this President had a Congress that could do everything he wanted." True or false? Republicans love this, but it's plainly false. 9. Again commenting on Obama's record, Romney argued, "If you want to get the economy going, lower corporate tax rates. He's raised them." True or false? It's one of the more transparent lies Romney has told. 10. Asked about his investments in Freddie Mac, Romney told Fox News, "My investments, of course, are managed not by me. For the last 10 years they've been guided and managed by a trustee, they're in a blind trust. And the trustee invested in mutual funds and so forth and apparently one of the funds had Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac bonds." True or false? He's lying again. 11. Romney argued, "I didn't get involved in politics early in my life," adding he didn't "politically involved" until after he ran the 2002 Olympics. True or false? Romney ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994. He might remember spending $7 million of his own money on the race. 12. Asked to explain his 1992 vote in a Democratic primary, Romney said, "I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot." True or false? That's not only untrue, it's a story Romney has changed literally five times. 13. After winning the Florida primary, Romney argued, "On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats." True or false? Even for Romney, this is kind of dishonesty is just brazen. 14. After receiving Donald Trump's endorsement yesterday, Romney, commenting on President Obama and the economy, said, "He's frequently telling us that he did not cause the recession, and that's true. But he made it worse." True or false? Not only is the economy much stronger than it was, even Mitt Romney himself has repeatedly said the economy has improved since Obama took office. Jon Chait noted last week that Romney appears to be "an audacious liar," adding, "Even by the standards of politicians, Romney seems unusually prone to dishonesty." Given recent events, I'm hard pressed to disagree. |
From the Borowitz Report - Posted 2/5/2012
A Clarification from Mitt Romney . . . About Poor People LA JOLLA, CA (The Borowitz Report) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today released the Dear American People: Yesterday, comments I made about poor people made me look terrible. This always seems to happen when I say what I really believe. The fact is, I do care about poor people. That’s because I’m poor myself, when you compare me to Mark Zuckerberg. According to most projections, Facebook’s IPO should net Mr. Zuckerberg a personal fortune of $28 billion. I couldn’t make a pile of dough-re-mi like that even if I fired people twenty-four hours a day. Now, let’s take a look at Mitt Romney’s net worth: a measly $200 million. Now do you see why I consider myself poor? Compared to Mark Zuckerberg, Mitt Romney is practically a crack whore. Now, I’m not going to sit here and envy a rich person like Mark Zuckerberg. That’s exactly what President Obama wants poor people like me to do. Mark Zuckerberg made his money fair and square, by creating useful products like imaginary sheep and angry birds. Say what you will about Facebook, it has totally revolutionized the way we waste our lives. The fact is, if you’re poor in America, you should do what Mark Zuckerberg did: create a social network. I’ve just started my own, called TwoFaceBook. With TwoFaceBook, your profile doesn’t stay the same for more than two seconds. In closing, there’s one more reason I don’t worry about poor people. They have Groupons. Vote for me, Mitt Romney |
From Crooks and Liars - POSTED 2/5/2012 Ari Fleischer Helped Plan Anti-Planned Parenthood Strategy For Komen Foundation I knew that sooner or later, it would come out that some professional wingnut was behind the little love match between the Susan G. Komen Foundation and anti-Planned Parenthood VP Karen Handel. Surprise! It's Ari Fleischer:
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From Channel 13 News - WTHR - Posted 2/5/2012 Indiana Republican Secretary of State guilty on six of seven counts INDIANAPOLIS - A Hamilton County jury has found Secretary of State Charlie White guilty on six of seven counts in his voter fraud case. The jury returned the verdict early Saturday morning after getting the case on Friday. The jury began deliberating at 2:00 pm. They came back at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday after deliberating for nearly 13 hours. White spoke to Eyewitness News after the verdict, and was disappointed with the decision. "Disappointed for my family and the people who supported me," White said. "We will review all of our options. A lot of things we've objected to all this time and fight another day." Former Marion County prosecutor Carl Brizzi defended White and will try to have the felonies reduced. "We would ask for an evidentiary hearing so he is charged not as a felon because it is not worthy of that, but as a misdemeanor," Brizzi said after leaving the courtroom. Special prosecutor John Dowd wants the felony counts to stay in place. "Our position is the jury convicted him of six felonies," Dowd said, "and we believe he should be sentenced on the basis of six felonies." |
Posted 1/17/2012 Hoekstra and Santorum find WMD's The Daily KOS has as a standard feature - a series called Cheers and Jeers. The following appeared on Jan. 12. It not only shows what a harebrained fellow Santorum is; but, also demostates the Pete Hoekstra (candidate running against Debbie Stabenow) is a loony, scatterbrained right winger not fit for public office.
On January 12, 2005, it was reported that George W. Bush's justification for the Iraq war had hit a snag: The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. […] Four months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring. It was a big blow to Bush, who had become personally involved in the search: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere. Maybe under here???" Ha Ha Ha Ha!!! Naw, he was just goofin' around, see? When you're commanding a war in which thousands of soldiers and civilians are getting blown up, jokes can lighten the mood, y'know? (That's why Obama's re-election is in doubt---he takes our armed conflicts so darned seriously.) I bring this up not as a reminder of Bush's musky wartime leadership, but rather to point out that an authentic American hero now running for president refused to take "Zilch, zip, nada" for an answer. Sitting astride a beast from Hertz Rent-A-Camel, Rick Santorum set out to find the WMDs he knew were in Iraq. In June of 2006, parched, windburned and victorious, Santorum straggled up to a microphone and announced: "Congressman Hoekstra and I are here today to say that we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." Nothing equivocal or tentative about that. After everyone else had failed, Santorum and Hoekstra stepped up to the plate and found the WMDs! But leave it to the killjoys at the Pentagon Schmentagon to piss all over our freedom fries: Fox News’ Jim Angle contacted the Defense Department who quickly disavowed Santorum and Hoekstra’s claims. A Defense Department official told Angle flatly that the munitions hyped by Santorum and Hoekstra are “not the WMD’s for which this country went to war.” Yeah, right. And these "aren't the droids you're looking for." I hate to admit it, but it's not looking likely that Rick Santorum will become our 45th president. But perhaps that's for the best. It would give him the opportunity to go back to Iraq and continue combing the sands and marshes and canyons and prairies with a garden trowel to find the rest of the WMDs that all good neocons know are still there. Even if we never see or hear from him again, we'll feel confident knowing that Rick Santorum is out there. Way, way out there.
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following letter to the American people:
