He said poor mothers need to learn "the dignity" of paid employment. Ezra Klein has found the most interesting rejoinder to the right wing flap about stay at home motherhood yet. Romney actually didn't recognize the value of staying at home for poor mothers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/mitt-romney-flashback-stay-at-home-moms-need-to-learn-dignity-of-work/2012/04/15/gIQAhmbZJT_blog.html
It is only his wife Ann who is expected to stay at home and not work because her job is so important.
None of this should surprise. He doesn't want America rewritten in his image, but a secure oligarcy.
I think we can also infer he wants tax money for Mormon missionaries through a national voluntary service program.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7gX8VYIXo
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Romney intimate Fred Malek involved with animal cruelty and anti-semitism
The Romney campaign ought to be careful of making too much of the remarks of Hilary Rosen or other Democrats, because some of Romney's true intimates have skeletons of their own.
Fred Malek, a long time Republican operative, is planning a fundraiser in honor of Ann Romney's birthday.
Malek is an old-time management consultant (Romney's original industry) who also serves on the board of directors of Marriott (Mitt's old board). Malek served Nixon as a Jew-finder in government when Nixon wanted to eliminate Jews from his administration; then Malek served Reagan in the OMB when Reagan tripled our national debt; then Malek served as convention and campaign chair for George H.W. Bush.
http://www.fredmalekblog.com/about/
Mitt Romney has received quite a bit of support from Israeli groups who think that the republican party is better for Israel than Obama. It would be bad for him to let the general Mormon antisemitism of his background leak to damage that reputation. The Mormons do not have the strident violent antisemitism of the KKK and some Southern Baptists. However, their view of Israel is highly negative and uninfluenced by millenial prophecies. If Israel wakes to this fact, his standing among them will fall.
Malek has more skeletons than this however. In 1959, the year he graduated from West Point, he was arrested for barbecuing a dog in a public park in Peoria, Illinois. Charges were dropped when his buddies said it was just their idea (and Malek said he was too drunk to stop them), but one must always have suspicion about a well-connected man whose friends cover for him.
http://www.politicker.com/2012/04/12/romney-dog-cookout/
Given Romney's problem with animal cruelty towards his own dog Seamus, he can ill afford to have an intimate friend publicly accused of particularly barbarous animal cruelty.
Hilary Rosen may be a millstone for Obama's neck, but surely Fred Malek is a true intimate of Romney and a man no president should be inviting to the White House for a chat.
Fred Malek, a long time Republican operative, is planning a fundraiser in honor of Ann Romney's birthday.
Malek is an old-time management consultant (Romney's original industry) who also serves on the board of directors of Marriott (Mitt's old board). Malek served Nixon as a Jew-finder in government when Nixon wanted to eliminate Jews from his administration; then Malek served Reagan in the OMB when Reagan tripled our national debt; then Malek served as convention and campaign chair for George H.W. Bush.
http://www.fredmalekblog.com/about/
Mitt Romney has received quite a bit of support from Israeli groups who think that the republican party is better for Israel than Obama. It would be bad for him to let the general Mormon antisemitism of his background leak to damage that reputation. The Mormons do not have the strident violent antisemitism of the KKK and some Southern Baptists. However, their view of Israel is highly negative and uninfluenced by millenial prophecies. If Israel wakes to this fact, his standing among them will fall.
Malek has more skeletons than this however. In 1959, the year he graduated from West Point, he was arrested for barbecuing a dog in a public park in Peoria, Illinois. Charges were dropped when his buddies said it was just their idea (and Malek said he was too drunk to stop them), but one must always have suspicion about a well-connected man whose friends cover for him.
http://www.politicker.com/2012/04/12/romney-dog-cookout/
Given Romney's problem with animal cruelty towards his own dog Seamus, he can ill afford to have an intimate friend publicly accused of particularly barbarous animal cruelty.
Hilary Rosen may be a millstone for Obama's neck, but surely Fred Malek is a true intimate of Romney and a man no president should be inviting to the White House for a chat.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Manufactured Gotcha: Mormon loving Hilary Rosen transformed into 'Obama Spokesperson'
Today the airwaves were all agog about the first general election "gotcha" moment. Hilary Rosen "victimized" poor Ann Romney by saying she "never worked a day in her life." Ann tartly responded that she raised five kids (or managed the help in raising five kids, which she probably thinks is even harder), and Hilary Rosen was portrayed as a "Democratic strategist" and Obama intimate and "frequent White House visitor" and then "Obama spokesperson" and "Obama's lesbian adviser" according to some conservative blogs.
Rosen is an infrequent contributor to CNN and the Huffington Post. Her resume indicates she is an operative hired by democrats but usually for specific issues. She was not representing either the Democratic Party or Obama campaign on AC360 when she made her remarks. She was previously presented as "CNN Political Contributor" but this time as "Democratic strategist" even though she actually agrees with Mitt Romney in the clip. They also showed her opposite a Republican commentator above a line saying "Romney, Obama camps" implying she is a member of the Obama camp. The p.r. firm that employs her has worked for both the DNC and Obama campaign, and she has visited the White House, but she was for Hillary Clinton against Obama in 2008. When the issue was Rick Warren's privileged treatment by Obama in 2008, she was angry with Obama and they called her "CNN Political Contributor," not "Democratic Strategist." It appears as though CNN is setting this up to run in a Romney ad. This should have been more a "gotcha" moment on the lines of Rush Limbaugh speaking out for Romney, but the right is falling all over themselves to try to tie Rosen to Obama.
Faux pas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vrE7DG1OWc
Rick Warren era:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-tn7roEbg0
Hilary Rosen
Background
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen
Some of us have long memories, and we remember Hilary Rosen. When her then partner Elizabeth Birch was head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Hilary Rosen was a donor and fast friend of right wing Republican Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch. In 2000, for example, she gave $1,000 to his presidential exploratory committee. How can someone who supported Orrin Hatch for president be tarred as an intimate of Obama? Only in the corporate controlled, right-wing media could such a thing be possible.
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/hillary-rosen.asp?cycle=00
She has become more Democratic since then, giving $6,900 to Hillary Clinton in 2008 against $500 to Obama. Rosen infuriated the Democratic base by her anti-piracy career and her lobbying for British petroleum.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/who-is-hilary-rosen/2012/04/12/gIQA2zFHDT_blog.html
She also had Greta Van Susteren (whose father was Senator Joe McCarthy's campaign manager and architect of many conservative smears of that era) at her fiftieth birthday party.
Rosen, in short, is a Washington insider of long standing. It is highly unlikely she tossed off this unfortunate phrasing without realizing what it could do.
Rosen is an infrequent contributor to CNN and the Huffington Post. Her resume indicates she is an operative hired by democrats but usually for specific issues. She was not representing either the Democratic Party or Obama campaign on AC360 when she made her remarks. She was previously presented as "CNN Political Contributor" but this time as "Democratic strategist" even though she actually agrees with Mitt Romney in the clip. They also showed her opposite a Republican commentator above a line saying "Romney, Obama camps" implying she is a member of the Obama camp. The p.r. firm that employs her has worked for both the DNC and Obama campaign, and she has visited the White House, but she was for Hillary Clinton against Obama in 2008. When the issue was Rick Warren's privileged treatment by Obama in 2008, she was angry with Obama and they called her "CNN Political Contributor," not "Democratic Strategist." It appears as though CNN is setting this up to run in a Romney ad. This should have been more a "gotcha" moment on the lines of Rush Limbaugh speaking out for Romney, but the right is falling all over themselves to try to tie Rosen to Obama.
Faux pas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vrE7DG1OWc
Rick Warren era:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-tn7roEbg0
Hilary Rosen
Background
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen
Some of us have long memories, and we remember Hilary Rosen. When her then partner Elizabeth Birch was head of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Hilary Rosen was a donor and fast friend of right wing Republican Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch. In 2000, for example, she gave $1,000 to his presidential exploratory committee. How can someone who supported Orrin Hatch for president be tarred as an intimate of Obama? Only in the corporate controlled, right-wing media could such a thing be possible.
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/hillary-rosen.asp?cycle=00
She has become more Democratic since then, giving $6,900 to Hillary Clinton in 2008 against $500 to Obama. Rosen infuriated the Democratic base by her anti-piracy career and her lobbying for British petroleum.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/who-is-hilary-rosen/2012/04/12/gIQA2zFHDT_blog.html
She also had Greta Van Susteren (whose father was Senator Joe McCarthy's campaign manager and architect of many conservative smears of that era) at her fiftieth birthday party.
Rosen, in short, is a Washington insider of long standing. It is highly unlikely she tossed off this unfortunate phrasing without realizing what it could do.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Santorum quits; can Romney win essentially unopposed?
The sock puppet dance is over. The Santorum campaign has been suspended and Gingrich goes on but with $4.5 million in debt, more or less proving that they were only funded by Romney supporters trying to prevent an alternative from emerging. Have they figured out a strategy to stop Mitt at the convention using Mitch Daniels or Chris Christie? Have they united behind Dr. Ron Paul? No. Gingrich says he will vote for Romney against Obama. He may try to use Santorum's dropout to regain credibility as the alternative, but it is unlikely to get very far. They were sock puppets and they were thrown off the stage by their financial backers.
The 1% have succeeded, with just 4.5 million votes to Romney's credit, installing an unpopular compulsive liar as the Republican party standard bearer, because he happens to be rich. There is a risk, though, to folding the sock puppetry right now. The first risk is not so much Newt Gingrich, but that Ron Paul will suddenly pick up a surprising bump in support. Secondly, Romney could well lose primaries to Santorum if his name is still on the ballot. Look for shenanigans, particularly in Texas, to get Santorum's name off the ballot to prevent that embarrassment.
However, it is not likely Romney will try too hard. Some embarrassment may amuse liberals, but it doesn't change the basic calculation, which is that the country's economy and election can be manipulated by the 1% in such a way as to make a universally detested man president. If they manage that, the United States as we know it, is dead. A man who can rationalize any violence against anyone will command the world's largest nuclear arsenal. There will be an orgy of privatizations and looting. Every last dime that can be pumped out of the people will be sent overseas to support dictators in foreign lands. The only growth profession in the land will be armed mercenaries sent overseas; and Wall Street confidence trickster. There will be a Wall Street collapse which will make the last one look like chicken feed. Pathetic as Santorum and Gingrich were, today is a dark day for the United States.
The 1% have succeeded, with just 4.5 million votes to Romney's credit, installing an unpopular compulsive liar as the Republican party standard bearer, because he happens to be rich. There is a risk, though, to folding the sock puppetry right now. The first risk is not so much Newt Gingrich, but that Ron Paul will suddenly pick up a surprising bump in support. Secondly, Romney could well lose primaries to Santorum if his name is still on the ballot. Look for shenanigans, particularly in Texas, to get Santorum's name off the ballot to prevent that embarrassment.
However, it is not likely Romney will try too hard. Some embarrassment may amuse liberals, but it doesn't change the basic calculation, which is that the country's economy and election can be manipulated by the 1% in such a way as to make a universally detested man president. If they manage that, the United States as we know it, is dead. A man who can rationalize any violence against anyone will command the world's largest nuclear arsenal. There will be an orgy of privatizations and looting. Every last dime that can be pumped out of the people will be sent overseas to support dictators in foreign lands. The only growth profession in the land will be armed mercenaries sent overseas; and Wall Street confidence trickster. There will be a Wall Street collapse which will make the last one look like chicken feed. Pathetic as Santorum and Gingrich were, today is a dark day for the United States.
AP falsely declares Superdelegates have decided for Romney
Yesterday all the media were abuzz that the GOP superdelegates were saying Romney has won and forget about the rest of the primaries. Indeed, Santorum and Gingrich more or less stopped campaigning. However, if you read farther in the Associated Press article with this theme, you find that only 35 of 114 superdelegates have endorsed Romney, barely 25% and lower than the 40% of primary votes Romney has been getting. The reality of superdelegate votes, then, contradicts the story that Romney has won.
http://newsone.com/2001453/gop-superdelegates-enough-mitt-romney-is-the-nominee/
How much has Romney won? His vote total is still well below 5 million with the majority of contests over, barely more than he got from all states in 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012
Hillary Clinton, in contrast, received close to 18 million votes in 2008. McCain, in 2008, received 9.8 million votes. Can Romney make 10 million? It is improbable.
Meanwhile, as always, all is not well in the Romney family. Not only did his cousin run against him, but five family members in Idaho have endorsed Ron Paul.
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/03/05/ron-paul-idaho-team-welcomes-romney-family-members-as-surrogate-caucus-speakers/
Things are better for Romney on the fundraising front, since two Marriotts have given $1.5 million (total) to the Romney effort.
http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/apr/05/family-ties-to-marriott-heirs-pay-off-for-romney/
When Mitt Romney was on the Marriott board of directors, it was the corporation practice to get kickbacks from vendors that went to the Marriotts while their customers had to eat higher costs from the vendors chosen by Marriott to serve them.
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10183455-more-scrutiny-for-romney-overseeing-marriott-during-years-of-kickback-charges
http://newsone.com/2001453/gop-superdelegates-enough-mitt-romney-is-the-nominee/
How much has Romney won? His vote total is still well below 5 million with the majority of contests over, barely more than he got from all states in 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012
Hillary Clinton, in contrast, received close to 18 million votes in 2008. McCain, in 2008, received 9.8 million votes. Can Romney make 10 million? It is improbable.
Meanwhile, as always, all is not well in the Romney family. Not only did his cousin run against him, but five family members in Idaho have endorsed Ron Paul.
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/03/05/ron-paul-idaho-team-welcomes-romney-family-members-as-surrogate-caucus-speakers/
Things are better for Romney on the fundraising front, since two Marriotts have given $1.5 million (total) to the Romney effort.
http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/apr/05/family-ties-to-marriott-heirs-pay-off-for-romney/
When Mitt Romney was on the Marriott board of directors, it was the corporation practice to get kickbacks from vendors that went to the Marriotts while their customers had to eat higher costs from the vendors chosen by Marriott to serve them.
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10183455-more-scrutiny-for-romney-overseeing-marriott-during-years-of-kickback-charges
Friday, April 6, 2012
Japan tries Romney style deregulation. The result? Fraud and disappearing pensions.
Japanese pensions are disappearing! The culprits? Privatizers who brought flawed Anglo-American conservative theory to bear on the pension system are responsible.
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Japan_pension_scandal_shakes_trust_in_cherished_system_999.html
Mitt Romney wishes for more fraud in the USA
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/mitt-romney-embraces-privatizing-medicare
Meanwhile, fear is beginning to strike in the hearts of the 1%, heretofore so smug in running someone like Mitt Romney, an unpopular candidate, through electoral manipulation. France's most important left politician is calling for 75% marginal taxes on the rich, and is leading in popularity. If the US ever had such a candidate, who would certainly not be Obama, he or she would also be leading.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/305874/20120228/francois-hollande-nicolas-sarkozy-tax-rate-france.htm
The Romneyites won't go down without a fight. God wills it, you see. Mormons are being brought into line by whispers about the White Horse Prophecy, the "One Mighty and Strong" who would intervene to save the U.S. Constitution in order to (eventually) bring about the Mormon theocracy. Romney has been celebrated (and ridiculed) as the One Mighty and Strong since his youth.
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt_and_the_white_horse_prophecy/
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Japan_pension_scandal_shakes_trust_in_cherished_system_999.html
Mitt Romney wishes for more fraud in the USA
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/mitt-romney-embraces-privatizing-medicare
Meanwhile, fear is beginning to strike in the hearts of the 1%, heretofore so smug in running someone like Mitt Romney, an unpopular candidate, through electoral manipulation. France's most important left politician is calling for 75% marginal taxes on the rich, and is leading in popularity. If the US ever had such a candidate, who would certainly not be Obama, he or she would also be leading.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/305874/20120228/francois-hollande-nicolas-sarkozy-tax-rate-france.htm
The Romneyites won't go down without a fight. God wills it, you see. Mormons are being brought into line by whispers about the White Horse Prophecy, the "One Mighty and Strong" who would intervene to save the U.S. Constitution in order to (eventually) bring about the Mormon theocracy. Romney has been celebrated (and ridiculed) as the One Mighty and Strong since his youth.
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt_and_the_white_horse_prophecy/
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Romney "win" in Wisconsin again tainted by fraud; wife suggests he's impotent
"Romney sweep," "He's won," "Game changer," "The straw that broke the camel's back"
Romney spent millions on television ads in Wisconsin. Santorum spent nothing. And Romney had to rely on electoral tricks and likely fraud to win that state.
http://www.jsonline.com/
The antics of rogue Waukesha County election clerk Kathy Nickolaus, a would be Katherine Harris, were again on full display: holding back results, requiring precinct workers to bring their tapes in person to the county election office for tabulation, and then delivering 60% to Romney, his highest margin in the entire state except for Ozaukee County where the wealthy suburbs are. No other counties besides these two gave Romney more than 60% and only 5 others in the SE corner of the state gave him 50%.
Nickolaus also abused the photo ID law, which is supposed to be on hold, to disenfranchise a voter. Apparently these particular voters were targeted before the election.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/voter-thwarted-in-waukesha-for-lack-of-id-2q4s4r3-146037615.html
Nickolaus was the same one who found extra votes to flip the Supreme Court election in 2011 (see link).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/david-prosser-wisconsin-supreme-court_n_846431.html
What else did she do in that election cycle? She prevented exit pollers from doing their work in Waukesha County, as reported on BradBlog
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8661
There was a smoking gun pointing to fraud in 2011: a poll tape dated before the election that was part of the recount.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2011/4209
Nothing was done except a lame fake "investigation" by Republicans.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/08/965008/-Waukesha-Wisconsin-Election-Probe-is-Toothless
Nickolaus was up to shenanigans in the August recall election, which prompted agonized calls to have Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder investigate. Apparently there were problems with a previous election she superintended. Holder did not pursue the investigation.
http://wisconsinwave.org/action/take-action-stop-cycle-election-fraud-waukesha-county
Of Romney's margin in Wisconsin as much as a third came from Waukesha County.
The real story is that Santorum almost won when unanswered anti-Santorum ads blanketed television for several weeks prior to the election. Romney underperformed even though the media treated him like he had already won, and it is a well known truism of elections that people like to vote for the winner. Despite being the near-certain winner, he can't get a majority of Republican votes in any state, possibly the most personally unpopular candidate to front for a major party since Richard M. Nixon.
Strains were seen elsewhere in the Romney camp, where his wife made a startling "unintentional" admission.
She said Mitt Romney's is not STIFF, which you can find if you UNZIP him, suggesting he is sexually impotent. It was treated as a joke, but the question is, did she know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERswRnXvMk4
Romney spent millions on television ads in Wisconsin. Santorum spent nothing. And Romney had to rely on electoral tricks and likely fraud to win that state.
http://www.jsonline.com/
The antics of rogue Waukesha County election clerk Kathy Nickolaus, a would be Katherine Harris, were again on full display: holding back results, requiring precinct workers to bring their tapes in person to the county election office for tabulation, and then delivering 60% to Romney, his highest margin in the entire state except for Ozaukee County where the wealthy suburbs are. No other counties besides these two gave Romney more than 60% and only 5 others in the SE corner of the state gave him 50%.
Nickolaus also abused the photo ID law, which is supposed to be on hold, to disenfranchise a voter. Apparently these particular voters were targeted before the election.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/voter-thwarted-in-waukesha-for-lack-of-id-2q4s4r3-146037615.html
Nickolaus was the same one who found extra votes to flip the Supreme Court election in 2011 (see link).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/david-prosser-wisconsin-supreme-court_n_846431.html
What else did she do in that election cycle? She prevented exit pollers from doing their work in Waukesha County, as reported on BradBlog
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8661
There was a smoking gun pointing to fraud in 2011: a poll tape dated before the election that was part of the recount.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2011/4209
Nothing was done except a lame fake "investigation" by Republicans.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/08/965008/-Waukesha-Wisconsin-Election-Probe-is-Toothless
Nickolaus was up to shenanigans in the August recall election, which prompted agonized calls to have Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder investigate. Apparently there were problems with a previous election she superintended. Holder did not pursue the investigation.
http://wisconsinwave.org/action/take-action-stop-cycle-election-fraud-waukesha-county
Of Romney's margin in Wisconsin as much as a third came from Waukesha County.
The real story is that Santorum almost won when unanswered anti-Santorum ads blanketed television for several weeks prior to the election. Romney underperformed even though the media treated him like he had already won, and it is a well known truism of elections that people like to vote for the winner. Despite being the near-certain winner, he can't get a majority of Republican votes in any state, possibly the most personally unpopular candidate to front for a major party since Richard M. Nixon.
Strains were seen elsewhere in the Romney camp, where his wife made a startling "unintentional" admission.
She said Mitt Romney's is not STIFF, which you can find if you UNZIP him, suggesting he is sexually impotent. It was treated as a joke, but the question is, did she know?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERswRnXvMk4
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