And no matter how hard you try, you can’t outsource an entire country. Well, maybe if you tie it to the roof of an enormous ship, but that wouldn’t be very cost effective.
Martin O’Malley, the Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, during a press conference call put on by Team Obama (via Buzzfeed):
“The only health care mandate they embrace are trans-vaginal probes for women.”
The GOP is really good at whining about Big Government, but they’re extra ultra super duper really good at hypocrisy, because they are the ones with the mandates, the ones who are making law after intrusive law that come between women and their doctors.
They’re the ones who are demanding that women undergo forced trans-vaginal ultrasounds.
They’re the ones who are shutting down abortion clinics as fast as they can.
They’re the ones who are trying to make women’s birth control, Planned Parenthood, contraception, women’s reproductive rights a thing of the past.
They’re the ones who are trying to ban all legal abortions. Watch:
Watch and listen to an Iowa cafe owner’s account of what it was like to have Team Romney visit. Let’s just say she was not impressed with their, as she called it, arrogance. And after all the aggravation, she never even got to meet Willard.
According to the news anchor in the video, “he left a pretty big mess.” The campaign broke several items and “forgot their manners.” Imagine how he’d treat America (and the rest of the world) were he to become president.
Then again, after how he and Bain Capital threw away livelihoods, “ripped off and wadded up” people like they were cafe table cloths, and fired, aka “broke,” employees, this incident comes as no surprise. Romney’s a cold, uncaring automaton who gets what he wants regardless of how others feel or are (mis)treated.
She described many of their demeanors as “arrogant”.
“Stuff got broke. My table cloths they just got ripped off, wadded up and thrown in the back room… My dad’s picture, an emblem my dad gave me, it got broke. Those aren’t things you can replace.”
“[Romney] responded, ‘Well, I’m sorry your table cloths got ripped off, wadded up and thrown in the back room’ and I took it as a mocking. We’re the ones he’s wanting to get the votes from. You’d think we would have been treated better. With how he treated me, is that how he’s going to treat others? You know, if he gets in office is he going to be that way to us little people?”
This is what it will be like if Willard Romney lies his way into a win.
Yes, that’s right, teams of special agents and assistant attorney generals will be fanning out statewide. Seven– count ‘em, seven!– of those groups will be in Milwaukee… which leans– wait for it–Democratic.
Well, come on, why wouldn’t he take precautions? Because, you know, there’s all that rampant voter fraud out there.
(David Shuster recaps WalkerGate on the Young Turks. Via Crooks & Liars)
Scotty Walker has been in denial about the legal hot water he’s in, saying that he’s not a target of any investigation, and that we’ll all find out what a stellar guy he really is when he’s cleared. Capper, over at Cognitive Dissidence, thinks otherwise (Please follow the link, because his post is chock full o’ great information):
But that’s not quite true. In fact, it’s a pretty galling lie.
There is a code that US Attorneys follow that requires them to provide a letter to a person stating that they are not the target of their investigation. And word is, like they’re supposed to, Walker’s attorneys have been asking for such a letter for weeks. And if Walker had such a letter, he would be free to produce it and remove any doubt about his innocence once and for all.
But Walker has produced no such letter, basically because none exists. [...]
By the way, there is also another code that forbids them from filing charges within sixty days of an election, so that there is no appearance of trying to influence said election. I also learned that in these types of situations, it is common practice for the state, in this case DA John Chisholm, to defer to the DOJ, which is why he also hasn’t filed charges against Walker yet. [...]
From what I understand, the charges will be more along the lines of mail and wire fraud and the such.
I also learned that, despite what my friend, H. Nelson Goodson at the Hispanic News Network, insists upon, at the stage their in, any indictments won’t be for weeks or even months, if they choose to try him at all on the federal level.
And then Capper goes on to say that there’s also a “Walkergate West” which he explains fully in his post.
He adds that “there is a very strong likelihood that Walker will be indicted on a federal and/or state level before the year’s out,” and “whether it’s by recall or by indictment, the odds are pretty good that Walker won’t complete a full term.”
The problem with that is that Governor Rebecca “Minivan” Kleefisch would then be in charge.
And so we have the bottom line: Wisconsinites, please vote for Tom Barrett, because if Walker wins, so does Kleefisch, and that would be catastrophic.
“Scathing” doesn’t begin to describe this personal essay about Walker by Dr. Glen Barry. He describes his time at Marquette University with Scotty and his sadly familiar ways. Here are but a few excerpts from a must-read post at Wisconsin Citzens Media Co-op:
The year was 1988 – current Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is running for Marquette University student body President. [...] I had the misfortune of being a college classmate of Scott Walker. [...]
To put it politely, Walker was not the sharpest tool in the shed, actually amongst the least sharp. With a C average (if that) and never graduating, I am not surprised to see him making up his own math on jobs when the real numbers don’t suit him. This reflects the utter disdain with which he holds truth, knowledge, education, and anything else that clashes with his absolutist worldview of religious and corporate based rule. As a classmate, he displayed a shocking lack of curiosity, original thought, or interest in topics other than his political ascendency.
Walker’s debut in Marquette student politics as a freshman began by stirring up the campus with a McCarthyite investigation into misspending by the Homecoming committee… Walker lost on all counts, but not before destroying a few people’s reputations, and amassing personal power. Sound familiar? Thus began an over 25 year record of bullying to get what he wants, of being insincere and narcissistic, and political grandstanding at the expense of others¸ all for personal self-aggrandizement, and without an ounce of either personal or political virtue. [...]
In an unprecedented move, the newspaper retracted itself and declared Walker “unfit for office”. Scott Walker lost in a land slide and was deeply humiliated by his poor conduct. … His campaign was one of the dirtiest in school history. [...]
Walker seeks to consolidate his power with every move he makes. Everything comes down to a cruel calculus of whether it benefits him personally and politically, with no concern regarding the line of victims behind him, or concern with such “socialist” virtues as human rights, economic justice, equity, and sustaining ecology.
Next time, Dr. Barry, don’t hold back so much. Speak your mind.
When Scott Brown went to Washington, Massachusetts families barely knew him. Now, it’s clear there’s a millionaire under that $675 barn jacket, with as much as $100,000 in big oil and big bank stocks and real estate estimate estimated at more than $1.6 million.The April 2012 issue of Washington Life, even puts Brown on the “A List” of the Washington, DC social scene.
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