Loud booing erupted after the Republican presidential candidate promised to repeal President Obama’s signature healthcare legislation. Romney was forced to pause by the rejection of his statement, and also faced loud booing when he insisted that the President is incapable of solving our economic problems. “If I am president, job one for me will be creating jobs. I have no hidden agenda,” said Romney, adding, “If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.” (Photo via Reuters) source
Thanks to President Obama, taxpayer money, mostly in the form of stimulus funds, ended up in the hands of companies overseas. Instead of creating jobs in America, the stimulus and other Obama policies created jobs or sent money to Finland, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, China, Denmark, South Korea, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy, Russia, Luxembourg, El Salvador, Great Britain, Spain, Japan, and France.
How did this happen? Consider the example of Fisker Automotive. The company received $500 million in loan guarantees from the U.S. government to produce electric cars. Then they took their money and decided to produce their $100,000 electric sports cars in Finland.
President Obama’s policies may be spurring job creation in Scandinavia. But here at home, twenty-three million Americans are struggling for work. Millions of middle class families can barely make ends meet.
The RNC’s new site, ”Obamanomics Outsourced,” labels each case of reported stimulus misdeed — but, despite significant amounts of research, the site does not link to primary sources, forcing readers to either take the claims at face value or spend large amounts of time researching the claims. Guess what people are likely to do.
In a classic 1991 episode of “The Simpsons,” a phrase was coined which is still relevant to this day. To “pull a Homer,” to succeed despite idiocy, is one of Homer Simpson’s greatest assets, evidence you can still win simply by being likable. Now-former Rep. Thaddeus McCotter is likable. He quotes Dylan! He plays guitar! He’s a good, self-deprecating, witty writer! He was a popular congressman! And even if you don’t like his politics, you can tell he’s a nice guy. But you can see “bad idea” from a mile away every time he steps into the public eye. When he ran for president, you wanted to cover your eyes. When he wrote that open letter, you wanted call him up and say, “take a step back, bro.” And when he quit Congress today, you just knew it was totally avoidable. So, with this in mind, we’d like to coin a term. To “pull a Thaddeus”: To do stupid, self-defeating things despite obviously being a smart human being. To shoot yourself in the foot despite having otherwise masterful aim. So, next time your future lawyer friend decides it’s a great idea to get a Stryper tattoo on his neck, you know what to say. “Don’t pull a Thaddeus, bro.” And he’ll know what you mean. (Thaddeus McCotter photo by Gage Skidmore)
The recent event’s totality of calumnies, indignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family. Thus, acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home amongst the ruins of their U.S. House office, for the sake of my loved ones I must ‘strike another match, go start anew’ by embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen.Dylan-quoting Rep. Thaddeus McCotter • In an open letter to his constituents, revealing that he’s resigning immediately, a month after he missed the deadline to run for own seat in November. Dude has had a rough year — the guitar-wielding conservative ran for the Republican nomination for president despite the fact that he had no national profile, dropped out shortly thereafter, then suffered the indignity of having to write an op-ed about failing to secure enough signatures to run for a sixth term. The final nail in the coffin? McCotter attempted to write a script for a TV show with such good-for-your-political-career topics as drinking, sex and flatulence. McCotter may struggle to find a new career path, especially in the wake of the news about the TV script; he’s promised that he won’t become a lobbyist, however.
Hahaha, these Republicans all tweeted the wrong ruling — MORE HERE.
If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat or a day. If you give a man a Twitter account, he’ll delete his tweets reporting incorrect information and think nobody noticed.
Congress hereby declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being.The Life at Conception Act, an amendment introduced by Sen. Rand Paul • Gumming up the works of an otherwise non-controversial bill about flood insurance. The amendment to the bill also “ensure[s] equal protection for right to life of each born and preborn human person.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated he would not allow a vote on the amendment, and asked other GOP senators — who, incidentally, are the major supporters of this bill, even without Paul’s amendment — to deal with their colleague “on their side of the aisle.” An incredible hail mary for pro-life policy. source (via • follow)
Most important Most useless news of the day: Former RNC chair and current MSNBC contributor Michael Steele shaved his ‘stache after three decades. And, like, nobody noticed. This is the saddest de-‘staching since Alex Trebek cut his nostril mane off. (photo via Yahoo News reporter Chris Moody)
Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, a self-made Florida millionaire, is only in his third term in Congress, but he already is in charge of fundraising for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, and he sits on the powerful House Ways and Means committee.
But all that could be jeopardized. Federal investigations underway could result in Buchanan serving his next term behind bars.
CNN has confirmed there are no fewer than four congressional and federal investigations into Buchanan’s business practices, his campaign finances and his alleged attempt to try to stop a witness from talking.
Now that witness is stepping forward in an exclusive interview with CNN. Buchanan’s former business partner says the congressman schemed to launder money from his car dealerships into his campaign coffers, and then tried to get others to cover it up.
“Mr. Buchanan is a very selfish person, and in my opinion people who go to Congress have got to do good for the people they represent.” Here’s a scandal that’s been a bit under the radar of late.
Republicans probably aren’t going to like this ad, wherein the son of two proud Republicans “comes out” as a Democrat (much to his parent’s horror). Nevertheless, it’s a significant enough departure from most political ads that we think it warrants mentioning. While it was put out by Ryan Combe, a Democrat running for Congress in Utah, it’s less an ad for Combe—who makes but a brief appearance at the end—and more an ad for the Democratic party in general. Utah is an extremely Republican state, and Combe’s thinking seems to be that there are plenty of potential Democratic voters who, were they more educated on the party’s platform, would happily help elect more Democrats. Will it work? Who knows, but it’s at least a new approach. source
According to Robert Costa, Team Romney is formally vetting Ryan, and the Wisconsin Republican has already submitted the requisite paperwork to the campaign for consideration as Romney’s running mate. Ryan, who seemed to give some light consideration to a run at the presidency this year before ultimately deciding to stay in the House, is a dream choice in the eyes of some Republicans. However, preliminary polling suggests that having him at the bottom of the ticket would actually hurt Mitt in November.
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“Well, we’ve had our brief moment of celebration, because the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare is, in fact, unconstitutional. It’s what many of us argued all along,” Mourdock begins. “But don’t sit back and think the fight is over because it isn’t. Barack Obama and Congressman Joe Donnelly are already putting Obamacare 2.0 together and they’re going to try and pass it once again. We cannot let that happen.”
He continues: “The answer to America’s health care issues is not going to be big government to any reasonable solution. The answer is not going to come from having individuals lose their personal choice, lose their individual freedom. I’m Richard Mourdock and I’m running for the U.S. Senate to make sure that something like Obamacare does not happen again. If you’d like to help us wage that fight to make sure that Obamacare stays repealed, then please go to tour website, RichardMourdock.com, and contribute generously.”
This of course is awesome and hilarious because the Supreme Court has yet to rule on “Obamacare,” and are likely to do so next week. Well, at least we know what ol’ Rich is likely gonna say ahead of time.
Well, that’s boring: Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor and conservative icon who spent much of the early part of the 2012 campaign facing will-he-or-won’t-he speculation on a possible presidential run, isn’t on the table for a VP run or cabinet position, either, as he’s chosen to become the next president of Purdue University. Snoozer. (photo by Michael Conroy/AP)
The Brookings Institution, a progressive policy and research group, announced that Huntsman will join as a distinguished fellow. The former Governor of Utah, and ambassador for the Bush and Obama administrations, has since been writing a weekly column for The Hill. Huntsman, who bowed out of the 2012 Republican nomination process back in January, has also endorsed one-time rival Mitt Romney’s bid for the presidency. (Photo via abjam77) source
Conundrum of the day: BuzzFeed threw up a story about Mitt Romney called “Mitt Romney is Terrible for Traffic,” pointing out (at least on some sites) that Romney stories don’t get as many hits as Obama stories do — and proving it with a set of posts of their own. Perhaps that’s why his Tumblr page has gotten completely ignored?
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