August 20, 2012

Eric Cantor/Wayne Powell Debate Sept 28

If it's not covered on C-span or the web. please, please, Virginia residents please promise to live blog for us. Please.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/aug/20/cantor-to-debate-powell-sept-28-ar-2143465/

RICHMOND, Va. --
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-7th, will debate Democratic challenger Wayne Powell on Friday, Sept. 28.
Cantor declined to debate Democratic challenger Rick Waugh in 2010. The debate it will be held at a business in the 7th District, according to the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring the event.
The candidates will "address issues important to the business community with a direct focus on jobs and the path to economic recovery," said a news release issued by the Virginia Chamber.

August 20, 2012

what kind of boat is this?

(I live in Minnesota, land of 16 ft fishing boats and a gazillion lakes, never seen anything like this. Ann looks a bit grumpy, still thinking about tax interviews maybe)

Tagg Romney?@tromney
Gotta love this shot of Mom and Dad on Lake Winni at sunset tonight.




https://twitter.com/tromney

August 17, 2012

Romneys temper

We need to get more of these on photos and video! Sooner or later, he's going to lose it again and we will be watching


http://theweek.com/article/index/227698/mitt-romneys-1981-arrest-and-4-other-times-he-lost-his-cool

1. Facing a "disorderly conduct" arrest. (imagine a red faced, irate, handcuffed Romney in a bathing suit, THAT photo would be priceless! But just the fact that a grown Mitt was handcuffed is weird enough)

2. Tangling with a traffic cop at the Olympics (witness says he chewed out the guy "who the FUCK are you and what the FUCK are you doing at the Olympics&quot

5. In 2007 radio show, during commercial break. This time on video.

August 16, 2012

"No more taxes will be released"

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August 16, 2012

Ann's body language

at the exact moment the interviewer mentions the off shore accounts in Ann's name she suddenly squirms and crosses her legs. Lying liars.




Ann Romney Not So Sympathetic When Talking About Taxes
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/ann-romney-deployed-put-sympathetic-face-tax-returns/55804/

August 16, 2012

ann romney is one tax return interview away from a wire hanger moment

lol found on Twitter

August 15, 2012

Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky

Interviewed for next month's Vogue. Described by Huma Abedin as the "smartest person I've ever met", working on her doctorate at Oxford, considering politics someday. WOW.




http://todayonthetrail.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/08/15/13294061-chelsea-clinton-reveals-politics-kids-are-a-possibility

August 14, 2012

Ryan's brother former Bain employee

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/14/paul-ryans-major-private-equity-connection/

Paul Ryan's major private equity connection

Vice presidential candidate's brother involved with private equity, Bain.

FORTUNE -- Rep. Paul Ryan only has been Mitt Romney's running mate for a few days, but he has a much longer connection to another private equity executive: Tobin Ryan, Paul's older brother and a partner with Seidler Equity Partners.

Seidler is located just outside of Los Angeles, but Tobin Ryan works out of his home state of Wisconsin. He joined the firm in October 2010, following a three-year stint with local private equity firm King Equity.

Before that, he served as chief operating officer for Tomah Products, a maker of industrial ammonia that is now owned by Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD). It was during Ryan's time at Tomah that he first got to know the folks at Seidler, when the firm helped sponsor a management buyout from another outside shareholder. Tomah's CEO at the time, Steve King, is a major player in Wisconsin's Republican Party, last year serving as one of three transition team members for newly-elected RNC chair Reince Priebus.
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August 14, 2012

49% of Seniors “living on a food budget of about $5 a day"

The wealthiest nation in the world has half of its seniors living on $5 a day for food; that’s an out and out scandal. That’s completely unacceptable but more than that – it’s the result of an economic system that doesn’t allow people to save for decades. You have people who lost a fortune by reckless banks investing in risky credit derivatives and financial schemes … and in a blink – people lost their life savings. It is untenable.

We’re not talking about some minority of people who were simply irresponsible … we’re talking about HALF of America’s seniors. And the ONLY reason that number isn’t higher is because of Social Security; without Social Security … more families would become caretakers of their parents and for those without families … they would end up dying in some homeless shelter somewhere. And – no … that’s not hyperbolic; that’s reality.

The NY Times writes HERE:

Seventy-five percent of Americans nearing retirement age in 2010 had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts. The specter of downward mobility in retirement is a looming reality for both middle- and higher-income workers. Almost half of middle-class workers, 49 percent, will be poor or near poor in retirement, living on a food budget of about $5 a day.

Read more: http://www.classwarfareexists.com/49-of-seniors-living-on-a-food-budget-of-about-5-a-day/#ixzz23WY1j2tm

August 13, 2012

America’s clear choice: Franklin Roosevelt or Ayn Rand

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/08/13/americas-clear-choice-franklin-roosevelt-or-ayn-rand/?
Simon Schama
August 13, 2012

This much you have to give Mitt Romney: by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate he has made it impossible to avoid turning the presidential election into a genuine and long overdue debate on the nature, extent and responsibilities of American government. By doing that, whatever the outcome, he will have rendered a service to the American people, who deserve to be drawn into in an all-out contest of principles rather than the usual beauty-pageant cum pratfall-watch that consume most autumn campaigns.

Because Mr Ryan (unlike the top of the ticket), is in the habit of actually attaching numbers to his budget proposals, there is a faint possibility that the debate between Americans who want to retain the institutions of the New Deal and the 1960s (such as Medicare), and those who believe that under Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson the country took a fatal step towards collectivism, will actually have to consider evidence rather than collapse into the usual exchange of uninformed abuse that gets confused with argument.

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