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Romney’s View is Not Historical

12 Aug

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has declared that “corporations are people”. Does this mean if he is elected president he will expect American teachers to teach their students the “true” history of the United States?

Students, who can forget Thomas Jefferson’s inspiring words in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all corporations are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

And class, let us always remember the Founding CEOs who established our Constitution with these moving words,  “We the Corporations of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

And never forget class, Abraham Lincoln’s stirring words at Gettysburg, “ … that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations, shall not perish from the earth.”

FDR declared class, before Congress while asking for a declaration of war against Japan, “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American corporations, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.”

Someone needs to shake Mittens by the shoulders until he wakes up. Corporations are not people; not one leader in our nation’s history would ever have conceived of such a notion; only today’s ultra rich and the uber-conservatives of the Tea Party would ever believe such a thing. When President Obama is re-elected, and has a chance to replace one of the moronic conservatives on the Supreme Court, the infamous “Citizens United” ruling will be overturned and the idiotic notion of corporations being people, and money being speech will become a footnote in future classroom’s textbooks.

 
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Posted by on August 12, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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The Gospel According to Mitt Romney

12 Aug

Following his stunning declaration in Iowa the other day that “corporations are people” it’s only logical to assume that Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopeful Mitt Romney must read from a different set of scriptures than the rest of us. No doubt the following would be highlighted as some of Mitten’s favorites:

“And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the corporations; (for he was above all the corporations); and when he opened it, all the corporations stood up:”

“And let that which belongs to this corporation be appointed unto this corporation”

“And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the corporations, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the corporations to Ai”

“And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this corporation, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked corporation”

“For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this corporation; neither hast thou delivered thy corporations at all.”

“And again I say unto you, sue for peace, not only to the corporations that have smitten you, but also to all corporations”

“Let the corporations praise thee, O God; let all the corporations praise thee.”

“And thus they were a zealous and beloved corporation, a highly favored corporation of the Lord.”

“Which in time past were not a corporation, but are now the corporation of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy”

“Happy is that corporation, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that corporation, whose God is the Lord.”

“And the Lord said unto her, two companies are in thy womb, and two manner of corporations shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one corporation shall be stronger than the other corporation; and the elder shall serve the younger.”

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my corporations go, that they may serve me.”

“And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy corporation shall be my corporations, and thy God my God:

“Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.”

 
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Posted by on August 12, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Corporations are people?

11 Aug

Today, while speaking to a reportedly sometimes rowdy crowd, Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, “… corporations are people.”

The Associated Press (AP) reported that when pressed by an attendee at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday as to why he was focusing on entitlement reforms as a means of deficit reduction over asking corporations to share part of the burden, Mittens shot back: “Corporations are people, my friend… of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People’s pockets. Human beings my friend.”

Corporations are people? Well of course they are to those who prostitute themselves to them Mittens. People like yourself and the five conservative justices on the Supreme Court who said so in the infamous “Citizens United” ruling.

I’m trying to remember though; I don’t recall any document starting out with “We the corporations of the United States …”

I don’t recall any corporations dying at Lexington and Concord, Brandywine, Saratoga, Yorktown, New Orleans, Palo Alto, Vera Cruz, Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, San Juan Hill, the Somme, Marne, Argonne Forest, Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Normandy, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Inchon, Vietnam, the World Trade Center, Pentagon, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Did you fall out of the moron tree and hit every branch on the way to the ground?

“This is what Mitt Romney is going to run on? Corporations are people? Really?” said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Brad Woodhouse. “There’s a great message for people struggling to get by and trying to make ends meet. Don’t complain — corporations are people too!”

Speaking at the Des Moines Register soapbox, Romney was also interrupted by a heckler who asked if he supported “scrapping the Social Security payroll cap so that rich people pay their fair share into the trust fund?”

Romney responded, “There was a time in this country where we didn’t celebrate attacking people based on their success. We didn’t go after people because they were successful.”

This is what conservatives want when they say, “We have to take our country back!”

Back to where, to the era of robber barons? Back to a time when you had the super wealthy and everyone else? Is that what Mittens wants? Well of course it is, he’s worth some $430 million what does he care? He’s never wanted for anything, and he dares to say corporations are people?

The presidential contender went on to underscore his bottom line. “If you don’t like my answer, you can vote for someone else,” he said.

Wow. If we don’t like your answer we can vote for someone else? Really, we still have that freedom? What are you five years old?

This is the guy we’re supposed to look up to as a serious presidential contender? Someone who declares corporations are people, and smarts off to people like he’s five? Mittens is a loser. He didn’t run for a second term in Massachusetts because he couldn’t have won it. He lost to John McCain. He flops whichever way he thinks will score the most votes at any given moment. I can vote for someone else Mittens? Thanks, that’s what I had planned to do. Maybe I’ll take a few of my corporation buddies over to the polls and do just that.

 
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Posted by on August 11, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Mitt thinks he’s spent a good part of his career in a real economy?

10 Aug

While campaigning in Iowa today – a state he was supposedly writing off – Mitt (Flopsy Mopsy) Romney took the opportunity – according to the Associated Press (AP) – to criticize President Obama for not doing more to help the struggling economy, targeting the president’s planned trip next week to meet with small business owners and workers in three states.

Of the President’s trip Flopsy said, “I sure as heck wouldn’t be on a bus tour if I were president.”

Followed up with, “Wouldn’t it be nice if people in Washington spent a good part of their career working in a real economy?”

One can only assume that Mopsy, whose estimated net worth is somewhere in the neighborhood of $430 million was trying to be folksy?

The son of a millionaire politician who went to a private prep school while growing up in the exclusively affluent Bloomfield Hills suburbs – which consistently ranks as one of the top five wealthiest cities in the United States – is trying to come across as someone who spent a good part of his career working in a real economy?

Flopsy made his millions – besides what he inherited – by buying companies, chopping them up, and selling off the dismembered parts to the highest bidder, literally putting thousands of people out of work over the years. What part of his “career” was ever spent in the “real economy”?

Later Flopsy told reporters, “For those people who think the economy is what really is essential in providing a brighter future for our families and preserving our values, then I think they are going to look to me as someone who can understand how the economy works and can get it back on track.”

No, Mopsy is the guy who will chop up the American economy and sell it off to the highest bidder, probably to some country in Asia, while pocketing “campaign contributions” from his wealthy buddies. His only dealing with the American economy has been eating his morning cereal out of bone china bowls on silver spoons.

“Mittens” is not the real deal; he’s the Herb Tarlek of the GOTP trying to sell a bill of goods to the American people. He’s a phony. He runs away from his health care plan; he runs away from his faith; and then he tries to portray himself as just another Joe. He’s the used car salesman trailing you through the car lot like the shark from Jaws.

 
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Posted by on August 10, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Latest 2012 Presidential Polls (8 Aug 11 Edition)

08 Aug

As we move into the first week of August, here are the most current 2012 presidential election poll numbers.

USA Today/Gallup polling conducted from 4 to 7 August 2011 –who would be the Republican/Tea Party (GOTP) nominee if it all ended today:

Romney 24, Perry 17, Paul 14, Bachmann 13, Gingrich 7, Cain 4, Pawlenty 3, Huntsman 2 and bringing up the rear it’s Santorum with 1 …

So, Romney (aka Flopsy Mopsy) has pulled ahead slightly, with Perry (Pres of the 2nd Republic of Texas) slipping a little, possibly because of his evangelical prayer fest, and Palin (aka the Ice Queen) gets absolutely no mention in our current numbers; Paul moves up, while Bachmann (aka Krazy) is slipping farther behind no doubt due to her hubby’s business of praying the gay away – and her poll numbers too; Gingrich moves ahead a little, as Cain (aka the Pizza Man, who has never met a Muslim he hasn’t disliked) skids farther down; Pawlenty remains stagnant, Huntsman rises a little and Santorum slithers to the bottom of the political gene pool.

In Iowa – according to Rasmussen – Bachmann’s shine is fading 22; Mitt 21; Paul 16; Perry 12; Pawlenty 11; Gingrich 5 and Cain 4 …

In New Hampshire – according to PPP (D): Flopsy 25, Bachmann 18, Palin 11, Paul 9, Perry and Cain 7, Pawlenty and Huntsman 6 and Gingrich 4…

So, how does the GOTP pack stack up against President Obama?

If the election was held today, according to FOX PAC:

President Obama 47/Romney 41

President Obama 49/Bachmann 38

President Obama 47/Perry 37

President Obama 47/Pawlenty 37

President Obama 48/Cain 35

President Obama /Gingrich

President Obama / Palin

President Obama /Paul

President Obama /Huntsman

If the GOTP nomination circus – and the general election – had both ended this week Flopsy would be the GOTP candidate, and he would still have lost to the President.

 
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Posted by on August 8, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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GOTP candiates pledge themselves to NOM?

05 Aug

USA Today is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential hopefuls Mitt (Flopsy Mopsy) Romney, Michele (Krazy) Bachmann and Lil’ Ricky Santorum have signed a narrowly written pledge against gay marriage, on the eve of a bus tour through Iowa highlighting values issues.

Now there’s a big surprise. All three trying to court the far-right uber-conservatives of the evangelical ilk; and Romney is never going to have their support no matter what pledges he signs. One has to wonder if he’d sign a pledge denouncing the Mormon Church if these people asked him to.

These presidential candidates “stand head and shoulders above the crowd as marriage champions, for their willingness to go beyond words to commit to concrete actions,” Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), said in a statement.

Because supporting your “faith based” organization is the right thing for a presidential candidate? No candidate running for political office – any political office – should be signing pledges, especially pledges from “faith based” religious organizations! There’s something called a separation of Church and State and its there for a reason; so Christian Jihadists groups like yours can’t install their version of Sharia law on the rest of us. What’s next a pledge deciding woman shouldn’t drive cars and should be covered in birkas?

In the NOM pledge, signers are committing to send a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman to the states for ratification; to defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which includes the traditional definition of marriage and bans states from recognizing gay marriage, in court; to appointing federal judges and an attorney general who are opposed to a constitutional right to same-sex marriage; to appointing a commission to investigate claims of harassment against those people who support marriage as being only between a man and a woman; and to supporting legislation that would give people living in the District of Columbia the right to vote on marriage.

First, the President, and Lord helps us if any of these evangelical puppets ever gets elected President, doesn’t send Constitutional Amendments anywhere, the Congress does, and good luck getting the current Congress to ever pass such an amendment.

Second, what is the Federal basis for DOMA deciding what a “marriage” is? If it’s based on scripture then whose scripture are you basing it on, and whose religion is determining what federal law is? Again, there’s something called the First Amendment, and eventually DOMA will be struck down – when some real Justices are appointed to the Supreme Court to replace the likes of Clarence Thomas.

Third, discrimination is wrong. That’s all, it’s wrong. And any candidate who is going to sign a pledge to uphold it is wrong.

The fact these three have signed this – or any – pledge places in question their ability to ever serve as President. Bachmann isn’t a surprise because she’s nuts; Santorum will sell his soul to anyone to be elected he’s so far back in the polls; but Romney should know better, now he’s flopping on his faith, is he a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) or an evangelical?

Finally, if any of these wing-nuts is elected, do they follow their oath as President, or do they follow their pledge to faith based organizations like NOM? You cannot serve two masters, and when you’re President you serve all the people, not just the far-right uber-conservative Christians.

 
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Posted by on August 5, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

Ralph Nader looking for Democrat to challenge President Obama?

05 Aug

Ralph Nader, the self-proclaimed consumer advocate and perennial “third-party” presidential candidate/nut-job, has reportedly announced that he would personally work to find a Democrat to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012. He is claiming that a primary challenge is a near certainty.

“What [President Obama] did this week is just going to energize that effort,” Nader promised in an interview with The Daily Caller. “I would guess that the chances of there being a challenge to Obama in the primary are almost 100 percent.”

The only question, he said, is the stature of that opponent and whether it will be either “an ex-senator or an ex-governor” or “an intellectual leader or an environmental leader.”

Or maybe it will be someone from the realm of Nader’s own imagination maybe?

According to the Associated Press (AP), the Public Citizen founder said he disapproved of how Obama handled recent debt ceiling negotiations, and claimed the deal’s failings prompted this week’s dramatic stock market drop.

“He made a deal that did not provide for a public works project to create jobs all over the country. All he did was he agreed to cut spending,” Nader said. “And that’s what the market is reacting to.”

President Obama “shouldn’t have even had that problem,” Nader said. “When he surrendered the continuation of tax cuts for the rich last December, the least he could have gotten was the debt ceiling increased. He didn’t even do that. So he set himself up for this hostage situation by the Republicans and it’s his own fault. And the country and the workers are paying the price.”

So, the Market is reacting to cuts? It really wanted increased spending and tax increases? OK, sure it did. Ralph needs to spend a little less time on the mushroom with the Caterpillar, and a little more time in the “real” world. Which Party does he think the Market is tied to? It isn’t the President’s.

The Market is reacting to the “hostage situation” the Tea Partistas put the country through and the razors edge escape from the same. While we no doubt need more spending in the form of an enhanced stimulus package to help the economy continue to expand, that was not the time, nor place, for such a fight.

Nader ran for president in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 as a left-wing alternative to the Democratic nominee, but has decided another campaign is “very unlikely.”

“I’ve done my rounds,” he said.

So, now the country will wait with baited breath to see what fringe liberal Ralph can dig up to run as his sacrificial lamb to the slaughter.

OK, enough of this nonsense! It’s time for Democrats to stop whining about how the President hasn’t done enough and grow up and come to the realization of just what he has accomplished. For his first two years in office there were more than 200 bills passed by the Democratic House which never saw the light of day because of a record number of filibusters by Republicans like Jim DeMint and Mitch McConnell in the Senate, and since this past January the House has been held hostage by the wild fringe Republican Tea Partistas.

We now have the beginnings of national health care in this country. Does it go far enough? No, but it can be expanded, and that will only happen with a Democrat in the White House and the House of Representatives flipped back to Democratic control and the Democratic seats in the Senate expanded. Then you can see the program expand as it needs to, so every American can stop worrying about how they’ll pay for health care.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is history, and civil rights have taken a giant step forward. Would this be possible with Romney/Bachmann in the White House? No, it wouldn’t.

Wake up progressives! The current crop of Tea Partista Republicans is dangerous. They will gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Veteran’s benefits, and will turn back the clock on federal regulation on any host of issues protecting Americans from the new generation of Robber Barons.

So stop your whining and get up and get energized; become involved and help keep things rolling, and help flip the House back to a Democratic majority, and help expand the Democratic majority in the Senate. The Republican Tea Partistas have overreached, and 2012 is the time to chop their political hand off clear up to the elbow.

 
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Posted by on August 5, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Tea Partistas are terrorists?

03 Aug

It appears from various new sources that Michele (Krazy) Bachmann is trying to cash in on remarks attributed to Vice President Joe Biden linking “tea party” conservatives with terrorists.

According to the completely unbiased and always reliable Politico, Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Doyle was actually the one who introduced the attack, saying at a meeting of House Democrats, a “small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.” Vice President Biden, trying to sell the group on the debt-ceiling compromise, reportedly responded: “They have acted like terrorists.”

The Vice President later denied saying that.

“I did not use the terrorism word,” he said in an interview for the “CBS Evening News.” “There were some people who said they felt like they were being held hostage by terrorists. I never said that they were terrorists or weren’t terrorists, I just let them vent.”

But the Vice President’s denial isn’t convincing Krazy (Bachmann), “Only in the bizarro world of Washington is fiscal responsibility sometimes defined as terrorism,” she wrote in an email. “This is yet another example of how the liberal establishment and Obama White House will say and do anything necessary to get their way.”

Bachmann (Krazy) has evidently taken the attack as a personal one, saying she’s the “top target for defeat by the Obama Democrats.”

Spit take … clean off the monitor and keyboard … say what?

“I have faced the liberal attack machine before but their words today took their egregiousness to a new level. I am offended by Vice President Biden’s irresponsible words and need your immediate support to defend myself and fellow Tea Party members right away,” she continued.

OK, whatever you say Krazy.

First, a terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon; and second, terrorism is the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.

Ms. Bachmann, you and your fellow Tea Partistas, threatened to ruin the economy of the United States by forcing a default if you didn’t get your way. You used the calculated threat of destroying the nation’s good faith and credit in attempt to attain your group’s goals that are political, religious and ideological in nature; if the improvised economical device (IED) has your finger prints all over it, I’d say you acted like terrorists.

 

 
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Posted by on August 3, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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GOTP candidates buy campaign merchandise from foreign markets?

03 Aug

While record numbers of Americans are out of work Republican Tea Partista (GOTP) presidential candidates are selling campaign merchandise made outside of the United States, according to ABC News.

ABC News reportedly investigated all eight Republican candidates as well as the president’s re-election campaign and discovered that campaign T-shirts for Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Herman Cain were all made outside the United States.

According to ABC News, at a Gingrich campaign stop one of its producers was given a T-shirt made in El Salvador. When Gingrich was shown the shirt and asked for an explanation, he deflected responsibility.

“I didn’t order it. I didn’t do it,” he said. “I have to ask the folks that ordered this.”

Later, a spokesman for Gingrich’s campaign told ABC News that the shirts were a rush order mistake and that it’s the campaign’s preference to buy American.

Yeah it’s the campaign’s preference, meaning it buys from the lowest bidder; like buying t-shirts probably made by child labor in some squalid sweat shop in El Salvador. No doubt it was Newter’s “love for America” which drove him to buy foreign made over American made; just like it was his “love for America” which drove him into having multiple extra-marital affairs.

Hermann (Pizza Man) Cain was also questioned by ABC News when it was discovered his campaign t-shirts were also made overseas, but the Pizza Man, like the Newt, claimed ignorance.

“No, I wasn’t aware it was made in Honduras,” Cain said. “I was just aware it was Fruit of the Loom … which is an American company.”

That’s right Pizza Man, an American company taking advantage of low wages, horrible working conditions and tax loop holes to move jobs that used to be here overseas. These are the so-called “job creators” you and your fellow Tea Partistas are supporting.

When confronted by ABC News on their campaign’s using foreign producers both Santorum and Paul used the opportunity to make political statements.

“It’s tragic that so many products in this country are made outside of this country,” said Santorum. “You probably can find a T-shirt occasionally made here in the United States … but it’s harder and harder to do.”

And no doubt Ricky is going to get right on finding companies right here the good old US of A to make his shirts in the future. Yeah, OK, and he also has a bridge he wants to sell …

“If this senator doesn’t know how to find shirts, pick up the phone and call me. I’ll sell you the shirts,” said Abdul Rashid, COO of Bayside, referring to Santorum’s comment.

“We are creating jobs, and that’s what America is about—creating jobs,” said Rashid. “There are less companies in the United States making goods made in America, but all you have to do is go online and search. … If you do your searching, you will find us.”

The company reportedly says if all the candidates bought Bayside, it could hire another 500 workers.

In the 1970s there were more than 2.4 million textile workers in the U.S. Today, there are fewer than 400,000; two million jobs have been shipped overseas due to the relaxing of regulations largely done during the Bush/Cheney years, and supported then and now by conservatives who rabidly defend the free market before a free America.

Typical of the current crop of GOTP candidates and politicians, these four talk out of both sides of their pie holes. They claim to love America, and to support the American worker while buying from foreign producers, and supporting companies which have moved out of the U.S. to take advantage of juicy tax breaks and loop holes – the very same ones the Tea Partistas are fighting to keep in place.

 
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Posted by on August 3, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Romney opposes debt ceiling deal?

01 Aug

According to the Associated Press (AP) Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidate Mitt Romney opposes the deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.

Wow, big shocker; that story’s as surprising as one I once read which said, “Jews to celebrate Hanukah”.

It appears the former progressive Massachusetts governor says the compromise, backed by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders in both parties, opens the door to higher taxes and defense cuts. Romney opposes anything other than the House Republican “cut, cap and balance” approach that required Congress to send a balanced budget amendment to the states.

Of course he does. The fact Flopsy Mopsy (Romney) supports the idea of a constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to operate under a balanced budget demonstrates his lack of macroeconomics. Let’s make something abundantly clear; while it’s charming for GOTP candidates to talk of each of us having to balance our check books each month, national governments do not function on the same economic principal – never have and never will. Our country – as have virtually all countries – has always operated with a debt; while it’s true there have been budget surpluses – as in what George W. Bush inherited and promptly spent into record deficit levels – we have always had some debt; in fact, we’re still paying on some of the nation’s original debt incurred in winning our independence.

Romney (Flopsy) would balance the budget on the shoulders of the elderly and the poor while protecting the wealthiest 2% of the population – of which he is a member; same old GOTP plan.

Guess what other GOTP candidate opposes the deal? Michele (Krazy) Bachmann, that’s who, and the fact Flopsy (Romney) is in agreement with Krazy (Bachmann) should be enough to send Mitt running into the woods screaming in terror.

 

 
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Posted by on August 1, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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