I caught up with Eliot Spitzer while he was waiting for his guest to arrive and asked him how he’s faring over at Current TV. “Nobody’s watching, but I’m having a great time,” he told me. “I don’t mean to be facetious, but I am really enjoying myself. It’s like having a cocktail party with friends every night.” Pausing for a moment he added, “Somebody needs to buy the network.” And perhaps they will, he mused, if for no other reason than to snap up Current’s distribution system.
Willard M. Romney lost the presidential election, so what’s a coal company owner who supported him to do? Why, default to Blame Obama mode, that’s what.
Does anyone remember President Obama doing anything to depress the coal industry? I remember him touting “clean coal” (there is no such thing) in his stump speeches. If that doesn’t restrict coal production, nothing will.
Unfortunately, that so-called War on Coal doesn’t exist:
As for Romney:
But the truth doesn’t matter much to Obama critics.
EAST CARBON, Carbon County — A Utah coal company owned by a vocal critic of President Barack Obama has laid off 102 miners.
The layoffs at the West Ridge Mine are effective immediately, according to UtahAmerican Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp. They were announced in a short statement made public Thursday, two days after Obama won re-election.
The layoffs are necessary because of the president’s “war on coal,” the statement said. The slogan is one used frequently during the election by Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray, who was an ardent supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Maybe the owner is like Mitt and likes to fire people.
If a company had done the same thing had Romney won, the GOP would be screaming at the top of their pollution-damaged lungs.
The video courtesy of the Chicago Sun-Times and taken by the super PAC CREDO, the group behind takedownwalsh.com. Tea partyer Rep. Joe Walsh is running against Tammy Duckworth.
Now he’s telling business owners to “energize” their employees by informing them that their jobs will be in jeopardy if President Obama wins re-election or if Democrats win the majority in Congress:
“If you run, own, or manage a company, tell your employees! What was the CEO this week that said, if Obama is reelected, I may have to let all of you go next year? If Obama’s reelected, if the Democrats take Congress, I may not be able to cover your health insurance next year. If there’s ever a year where people who run, manage, and own their companies are going to energize their employees, it better be this year. We’re up against it.”
Randy Johnson, a former employee of American Pad and Paper, is here in Tampa. The Republican Party is preparing to nominate for President the man who destroyed his livelihood, the company he worked for, and his community. Randy is ready to speak out.
“I saw firsthand how Romney and his economics worked, how they hurt families, workers, and the communities we live in,” says Johnson. “When you live that and you see that, you will never forget it.” [...]
“We asked Romney for help and his involvement,” says Johnson, “but he has never helped. He has never done anything for the average worker.”
American Pad and Paper eventually went bankrupt, but Romney and his partners made $100 million.
Another chapter from the “Profits and Kings” Book of Romney.
Mitt Romney’s reinvention convention is starting with the theme “We Built It.” Mitt Romney will try to sell himself to the American people as a “Mr. Fix It” who knows how to turn a business around. Of course, once you examine his record, it’s clear Mitt Romney knows less about turning businesses around and more about running them into the ground.
Mitt Romney made millions of dollars bankrupting companies, shuttering factories, offshoring jobs and putting profits before people. The theme of the Republican National Convention paints a rosy picture, but the theme of Mitt Romney’s time as a corporate raider is less flattering. Mitt Romney didn’t build that — he destroyed it.
“Mitt Romney: You Didn’t Build That — You Destroyed It”
Hey kids, check out this neat-o infomercial for Romney economics!
Romney Economics is a business model of outsourcing, bankruptcy, and investments in companies at the expense of American workers.
Looking to make a profit with minimal risk? Tired of all those pesky employee benefits and pensions? Don’t mind seeing jobs shipped overseas? Then Romney Economics is the business model for you!
“I don’t think Mitt Romney understands what he’s done to people’s lives by closing the plant.”
“When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my healthcare, and my family lost their healthcare. And a short time after that my wife became ill.And she passed away in 22 days.”
“I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone, and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.”
Via Mediaite, whose politics we don’t always agree with, but they give good video.
From a strategic standpoint, this ad is risky, but clever. Priorities’ biggest handicap is that they’re being badly outraised by Republican SuperPACs, but a controversial ad like this will surely get tons of free airtime on cable news programs, and drive discussions about political ads, but also about Romney’s record at Bain.
… [N]o matter who is responsible for this guy losing his health insurance, only one of these candidates has a health care plan that would have helped.
The downside, of course, is that this provides the Romney campaign with an opportunity to distract the media from the ad’s message with debates about whether it crossed the line. That’s a narrative that the media loves, because it’s easier than figuring out whether or not it’s true.
Romney would gut safeguards that protect consumers from reckless Wall Street traders. And he’d end Medicare, throwing countless seniors into poverty to pay for more tax loopholes for Big Oil (which not-so-coincidentally happens to be where the Kochs got their money).
No wonder the Koch brothers are bankrolling Romney’s bid.
Exactly why they’re forking over the big bucks. Which reminds me, Willard Romney is attending a fundraiser at the estate of David Koch in the Hamptons this very day, at this very time. So the DNC shot back with this, pre-emptively:
For more details about this weekend’s fundraisers, go to Livewire.
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