Every few days he keeps on saying he’s going to reboot this campaign or they’re going to start explaining very specifically how this plan’s going to work, and then they don’t. They don’t say how you’d pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts that are skewed towards the wealthy without raising taxes on middle-class families. They don’t explain how you’d spend two trillion [dollars] more on military spending that our military hasn’t asked for without having you foot the bill. The math doesn’t add up.President Obama • Attacking Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, for announcing yet another campaign reboot, during his speech at rally in Hampton Roads, VA this morning. The President continued to slam the Republican presidential nominee over what he calls a lack of “economic patriotism,” a term that he debuted yesterday in a new political advertisement, and continued his push for higher taxes for millionaires. “My opponent thinks it’s fair that somebody who makes $20 million a year like him pays a lower rate than a cop or a teacher” said President Obama, adding, “I don’t think that’s fair.” source
Mitt Romney tries on a new outfit: Empathy for 100 percent of everyone. Somebody’s trying to flatter us!
We do provide care for people who don’t have insurance. If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care.Mitt Romney • Reversing course on one of the biggest reasons he has previously cited for for signing off on “Romneycare” while during his time as governor of Massachusetts. Romney has pointed to the fiscal responsibility of eliminating the “just go to the ER” mentality, on numerous occasions, when questioned about his choice to sign off on the now semi-controversial measure. He even told Glenn Beck that such a system was tantamount to socialism, though his opinions on that matter have clearly changed. Again. source
Turns out Mitt wasn’t lookin’ to appear darker — a poor application of MAC foundation and bad lighting is to blame instead.
“Univision News managing editor Fernando Vila noted on Twitter that there is ‘no evidence of foul play’ in the selection of Romney’s powder.”
Obama’s new ad hits on Romney’s “47 percent” gaffe, tax returns: This battleground-state ad, only running in Ohio, serves up the kind of criticism that a comment like Mitt’s makes obvious: “Doesn’t the President have to worry about everyone?” Romney’s tax returns also take a hit. (ht USA Today)
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I’ve got a very effective campaign. It’s doing a very good job. But not everything I say is elegant. And — and I want to make it very clear, I want to help 100% of the American people.Mitt Romney • Speaking to Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” regarding his campaign. Regarding whether his campaign needs a turnaround, he disagrees. “Well, it doesn’t need a turnaround,” he explained. “We’ve got a campaign which is tied with an incumbent president to [sic] the United States.” Romney says that he’s polling within the margin of error. While Obama is leading on the spread, according to RealClearPolitics, the two candidates are tied in two recent polls.
On alternative energy, Mitt Romney just endorsed Hitler’s method of liquifying coal. Not a joke.
“Liquified coal. Gosh, Hitler during the second World War…”
Things no politician should ever say: Oh, that Hitler, he had such great ideas!
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We checked into Mitt Romney’s assertion that 47% of Americans don’t pay taxes and are “dependent on government.”
While it’s true that about 46% of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes, only 18% don’t chip in something in the form of payroll taxes.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of who pays taxes, who doesn’t and why.
In which a light burns bright on the “47 percent” claims. (Side note: Nate Silver isn’t sure the controversy will actually hurt Romney in the polls. “The news media often jumps the gun in declaring events to be ‘game changers’ when they later prove to little effect on the numbers,” he writes.)
See? It’s official now. HuffPo called it. Wait … didn’t we talk about this yesterday?
Mother Jones has released another snippet from the secretly-recorded video of Mitt Romney’s remarks during a May 17 fundraiser. In the latest clip, Mitt Romney explains why he believes the pursuit of peace between Palestine and Israel is pointless, and his lack of belief in a two-state solution. Instead, Romney believes the United States should “hope for some degree of stability, but [recognize] that this is going to remain an unsolved problem.” The Republican presidential nominee’s problems just seem to have a way of compounding, don’t they? source
corysblog says: I really don’t see anything non-factual about this video. Everyone paying attention knows that the country’s vote is split pretty much half and half, but was Romney wrong for stating that fact? Isn’t it true that 47 percent of Americans people don’t pay income taxes and are more inclined vote for the President? If this video sinks Romney’s chance at the Presidency it will be because of the spin placed on it and not the actual content.
» Dave Weigel says: ”Romney is conflating the people who pay no net income tax with the people so dependent on government aid that they have to vote for Obama. But these aren’t the same people! Most of the ‘lucky duckies,’ to use the classic WSJ term, are old people who subsist on Social Security. Elderly voters broke big for Republicans in 2010. Scores of poor whites who benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit vote for Republicans.” — Ernie @ SFB
(Source: bloomberg.com)
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