Voters Aren't Analysts

Think Progress: Today on ABC’s This Week, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) noted that Romney’s tax plan would exacerbate income inequality while causing the deficit to explode. Former Gov. John Engler (R-MI) responded by dismissing the numbers, saying that “voters aren’t analysts”:

GRANHOLM: Every analysts who’s looked at, for example, Mitt Romney’s tax plan, says it exacerbates income disparities. Even the deficit, between $2 trillion and $6 trillion he adds to the deficit.

ENGLER: Voters aren’t analysts. Voters are emotional, and it’s about leadership. And they know what they’ve got. If they like that, they can vote to keep it.

What he should have added is "and this is why the Republican party can constantly lie to the American people and get away with public policy that is a national disaster."

Obviously Dishonest People

MESA, Arizona — Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) refused to give President Obama any credit Wednesday for recent economic and business improvements in the country, arguing instead that “anyone who’s paying attention knows that this president has done irreparable harm to the economy.”

We've tackled this kind scumbaggery before. But it bears repeating what low charachter, dishonest, human beings would blame a guy for a horrific economy inherited from them, and then not give him any credit when his policies made it better. If there was any doubt that Republicans can't be trusted ever, about anything, this should take care of that.

God Made Craig James Gay

Think Progress: Texas Republican senate candidates Craig James, a former NFL player, and Ted Cruz went after former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert (R) for marching in a gay pride parade during a debate yesterday in an effort to portray Leppert as “pro-gay” and out of touch with conservative values. Both men pledged to stay away from gay festivities if elected and James went so far as to suggest that being gay is a choice that will be punished by God.

If Craig James feels that he can make the choice to become sexually aroused enough to have intercourse with another man, he needs to take a hard look at his own sexual orientation. If he doesn't think he can make that choice it would be illogical to assume somebody else could. Therefore, he's most likely gay.

Crying Wolf

Raw Story: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday played the ultimate fear card and promised that someone would definitely use nuclear weapons if President Barack Obama is re-elected. During a CNN-sponsored debate in Mesa, Arizona, the candidate explained that reducing the price of gas was less important than preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Right. Don't pay any attention to the crony GOP dirty energy industry manipulating oil and gas and taking ever more of your paycheck because, and stop me if you've heard this before, if Obama, or Kerry, or any Democrat gets elected we'll definitely see that mushroom cloud.

What's definite is this: Republicans let 9/11 happen on their watch and then they deliberately burned the spy network keeping track of nukes, wasted trillions of dollars worth of self defense resource in Iraq, and turned Al Queda from a few hundred folks running around the mountains of Afghanistan into a global brand, and now they're telling us yet again that in fact they're the ones who will keep us safe? Let him say that garbage to Obama in a debate. Obama to Willard, I got two words for you: Bin Ladin.

The Republicans already lied us into one devastating and counter productive war and occupation. The people that did it should be in prison for life and anybody gunning to do it again should be kept as far away from government as possible.

History Says Otherwise

TUCSON, Arizona – A Republican congressional candidate in southern Arizona declared this morning that her Democratic Latino opponent’s “allegiance is not to America.”

Actually when you consider the horrible results of Republican party public policy you have no choice but to conclude the opposite is true. They do great work for transnational CEO and Chinese factory owners though.

Of Traders And Traitors

McClatchy:

Historically, financial speculators accounted for about 30 percent of oil trading in commodity markets, while producers and end users made up about 70 percent. Today it’s almost the reverse.
A McClatchy review of the latest Commitment of Traders report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates oil trading, shows that producers and merchants made up just 36 percent of all contracts traded in the week ending Feb. 14 while speculators who will never take delivery of the oil made up 64 percent.

Republicans are trying to blame Obama for high gas prices. History calls them liars. When Bill Clinton left office oil was $18.00/barrel. Then Bush/Cheney let Enron come to the Whitehouse and write the rules that would deregulate the energy industry. By the midpoint of the Bush/Cheney administration oil was at $150.00/barrel. Deregulation is a cornerstone of Republican party public policy.  This is yet another example of how destructive and bad for the country it really is

Cheat

Think Progress: 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has already run into some trouble on the topic of tax havens. The company that he ran — Bain Capital — not only abused tax havens while he was at the helm, but Romney also saw his lucrative Bain retirement package boosted by the company’s use of offshore tax sheltering. Romney also had a Swiss bank account until 2010, which his money manager only closed because such an account would look bad politically. Adding another twist to the tale today, Bloomberg News reported that, while Romney was the head of its audit committee in the 90s, the hotel chain Marriott abused tax shelters, prompting multiple run-ins with the IRS.

Put this along with the fact R(mo)ney got filthy rich by bankrupting American companies, screwing American workers out of their pensions and destroying American jobs and the fact he supports the fiscal and regulatory policy that has encouraged outsourcing, devastated the middle class, and ultimately crashed our economy, and you come up with a picture of a guy who would be better suited running for the presidency of one of our enemies. China would actually be a logical choice. The factory owners there would no doubt be big supporters. In fact, they probably already are.

Guns In Elementary School

SEATTLE: An 8-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday after she was shot in the abdomen at her elementary school near Seattle, and one of her classmates was detained, authorities said Wednesday.

The injured third-grader was airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where she underwent surgery Wednesday afternoon so doctors could assess her injuries, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said.

Police said a third-grade boy was being questioned and a firearm was found in a classroom.

Obviously the problem here is that this little girl wasn't armed and able to defend herself. Guns don't kill people, third graders with easy access to guns (thanks to Republican public policy) kill people.

(-R) Is For Racist

GOP Pollster Frank Lunz on Monday: “I actually have a ‘Run, Barack, Run’ bumper sticker, but I put it on the front of my car.”

And the conservative crowd laughed. And then they all put on their white hoods and burned a couple of crosses. The Southern Strategy lives on.

Kidding Ourselves

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R): “Let’s not kid ourselves: this is the worst recovery ever from a serious recession, and history says the deeper the down, the sharper the up,” Daniels said on CNN’s State of the Union. “It should have been a very vigorous one. Hasn’t been.”

Translation: Even though we screwed it up so bad, the other side hasn't been able to fix it fast enough, so you should vote for us. Which is of course, ridiculous. In an honest world Republicans would hold no power. The results of their public policy, their performance, is worlds worse than what the Democratic party delivers. By every measure this is the case. This is history's verdict.

Demented

Think Progress: This week, a Virginia state House committee overwhelmingly approved a bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound before they can have an abortion. Because the majority of abortions happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, many women would have to undergo an invasive procedure “in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced,” as Dahlia Lithwick explained last week.

CNN contributor and Andrew Breitbart blogger Dana Loesch, however, sees no problem with a law that effectively legalizes state-sponsored rape, saying the procedure is no different than penetration that occurred during consensual intercourse that “resulted in the pregnancy,” as Little Green Footballs reported:

LOESCH: That’s the big thing that progressives are trying to say, that it’s rape and so on and so forth. [...] There were individuals saying, “Oh what about the Virginia rape? The rapes that, the forced rapes of women who are pregnant?” What? Wait a minute, they had no problem having similar to a trans-vaginal procedure when they engaged in the act that resulted in their pregnancy.

Which of course is the same thing as saying that women shouldn't have a problem getting raped if they've had sex. Conservatives have serious issues. We shouldn't be subjected to the public policy that results.

Evidence

24/7 Wallstreet: The States with the Strongest and Weakens Unions

This is more proof progressive public policy is historically superior. Not only did progressives create the worker rights and protections that created the great American middle class, but to this day the states where workers are allowed to organize do better economically than those that don't.

Check this list of the top 20 welfare states. The top 10 are all red state Republican. And none of them show up on this list of states with the strongest unions. And of course, pretty much every one of them shows up on the list of weakest unions. Seems workers in states with the strongest unions have money to spend. So business do better. Simple really. That's how our economy works. Or in the case of Republican rule, doesn't

Guns Kill People

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida pastor's daughter who was accidentally shot in the head in a church died Saturday at a hospital.

The Republican jihad to allow guns in churches claims another victim.

Small Tent, Huge Closet

Raw Story: Paul Babeu, an emerging Republican figure and strong border defense sheriff, resigned from his position Saturday afternoon as Arizona co-chairman of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign for allegations of threatening deportation on a former lover.

And that lover was, wait for it, yes, another man. Yet another Republican gets dragged out of the closet. It happens so often these days their hateful hypocrisy is barely news any more. But this one is a step beyond. The GOP is both anti-immigrant and anti-gay and this guy was uh, doing both. And he was a Romney co-chair. You can't make this stuff up... Really.

Big Brass Bearings

TPM: As the economy gains momentum and GM reports record profits, Mitt Romney is assuring Michiganders that -- dangerous as they may be to his candidacy -- he's plenty happy about both developments. "Thank heavens the entrepreneurial and independent spirit of the US is winning out," Romney said at an event in Farmington Hills, despite the "burdens" he said were placed on it by the Obama administration.

Seems Richy Rich is having trouble lying to the people of Michigan. This is likely because there are 100,000 auto workers in the state that are working today because thankfully, Romney was not in charge. And millions more that are either in the same family or otherwise know one of those auto workers.

These companies were one foot into liquidation and Romney was against the save at the time. So at this point he's got two choices, admit he made a horrifically bad call, or double down. He's choosing the latter. Which of course will be the gift that keeps on giving.

As for that last part, Obama fixed a huge problem that was caused before his administration and by Romney's Republican party. To attack Obama in this context is a bold but futile effort. If Romney wants to be commander in chief he needs to learn to pick his battles a little better. This one is a lost cause.

Uh Oh...

Last month, three of the four current Republican presidential contenders responded to a survey from the group Morality in Media’s War on Illegal Pornography campaign. They all agreed to get aggressive with violators of federal obscenity laws if elected president. Mitt Romney specifically said he would be for “strict enforcement of our nation’s obscenity laws.

Ok first, talk about a way to lose an election. Americans love their porn, conservatives more than most.

Second, Republicans that talk about this kind of "morality" always seems to get busted molesting kids, having gay sex in public bathrooms, or buying meth and soliciting male hookers. They're usually just trying preach it out of themselves or trying to cover for their own perversion. When Romney gets caught wearing woman's cloths or visiting prostitues in diapers we won't be at all surprised.

Republicans talk all the time about freedom, but when it comes down to it they want to lord over everything from your reproductive system, to what you smoke, who you marry, what you watch, and what get off on in the privacy of your own home.

National Interest

Romney on his 2009 call to let the American auto industry go bankrupt: "My view at the time — and I set it out plainly in an op-ed in the New York Times — was that “the American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing. Instead of a bailout, I favored “managed bankruptcy” as the way forward."

It's vital so let it go bankrupt? What a crook... er crock. He favored letting them go bankrupt. Period. We all know what that means and this is exactly what one would expect from somebody who got filthy rich by bankrupting American companies, screwing American workers out of their pensions and destroying American jobs.

We're quite sure his Bain Capital was standing at the ready to make millions off the many bankruptcy's that would have occurred had the car makers, all their suppliers, and the all businesses that depend on them been allowed to go belly up. Fortunately we have a president that is out for the best interest of the country instead of his investors. By doubling down on his stunningly wrong 2009 call, Romney demonstrates that even as president he would be a corporate raider vulture capitalist, the country be damned.

Pro-Rapist Rights

Fox Pundit: Woman In The Military Should ‘Expect’ To Be Raped

We're not sure about that. But if they are, and they get pregnant, they should expect the GOP to force them to have the rapist baby. This is not hyperbole. It's a plank in the Republican party platform.

#LogicFail

Think Progress: Richard Mourdock, the insurgent Republican Senate candidate in Indiana who is locking in a primay contest against Sen. Richard Lugar (R), took a similar tack this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, telling ThinkProgress that while Obama’s policies were responsible for making the economy worse early in his term, the recent improvement has occurred in spite of Obama’s policies:

KEYES: If the economy does continue to improve over the next few months, is that something you’d be willing to give President Obama credit for, or not?

MOURDOCK: The American economy is incredibly resilient because Americans are incredibly resilient. It won’t be because of President Obama when we see recovery, it will be in spite of President Obama. He wants to add more and more layers of government, more and more government sector unions. Those are killing our economy. And while it’s possible we might see some recovery, it would be doing a whole lot more if we were rolling back the size of government.

Putting aside the obvious silliness of blaming Obama when the economy wasn't doing so well (even though he inherited our worst economic crisis since the great depression) and then not crediting him when it's turning around, and the fact we were doing much better economically when the government was much bigger and there were far more unionized workers, if it's all just about the American people what the hell was wrong with them when the economy melted down at the end of the W/Cheney administration? Were they just being lazy? Just needed to pick it up a notch? Maybe it's Republican presidents that turn them into unproductive idiots? Because it's the same American people now that things are getting better.

Look, even if this latest bit of ridiculousness from the GOP were true, since the American people always seem to produce a nice economy when there are Democratic presidents, it's better for the country to have one.

Propagandized

TPM talking to a CPAC attendee: I asked her if she feels like the general election has been looking tougher recently. She sighed loudly.

“Every day is different. Some days it feels like we’re strong, but my biggest concern is voter fraud. Some days I feel like it doesn’t matter who we put up.”

Out of tens of billions of voted cast over the last 10 years they have come up with about 300 cases of individual voter fraud. And it seems to us that every time we hear of one, it's a Republican getting convicted. Far more common we're sorry to say are the constant Republican efforts to rob all manner of poor, elderly, and minority Americans of the right to vote. It is however a testament to the Republican dis-information machine that they could make non-existent liberal voter fraud this woman's biggest concern.

Joe The Dumber

"My name is Joe Wurzelbacher. I'm going to speak the truth. And I don't have to remember what I said five years ago or three years from now because it'll always be the same thing -- because it's the truth." - Joe "the plumber" yesterday at CPAC.

He's not speaking the truth. If he were speaking the truth he would say: Before Reagan we had a missive middle class, the greatest production capacity in the world and a national debt under one trillion dollars. After 12 years of what is now standard Republican party policy they had tripled the national debt and Bill Clinton got elected on the slogan "it's the economy, stupid".

Bill Clinton came in and raised taxes on the rich, cut taxes on the poor and the middle class, increased government investment in basic R&D, tech, public education and infrastructure spending. By the end of his term we had created 23 million new jobs, took the Dow from 3300 to 10,700, eliminated the federal budget deficit and had the price of oil at $18 a barrel.

Then W/Cheney took over, cut taxes on the rich, raised taxes on the poor and the middle class, deregulated the financial sector and the energy sector, started tongue kissing the Saudis, jacked oil up to $140 a barrel, slashed public education, stopped investing in infrastructure and lied us into Iraq. Predictably, it ended up a God-damn-national disaster. They tripled the national debt (again), left us losing nearly 800,000 jobs a month, the Dow at 7000 and the entire banking sector on the verge of collapse.

Now, although Obama and Democrats have not been able to overcome Republican filibustering of pretty much everything, they have passed enough historically proven public policy to turn things around. No argument can be made for going back to the Republican party policies that have so clearly devastated America. Only our enemies and those looking out for the transnational CEO class and Chinese factory owners would disagree, but they're clearly not acting in the best interest of the country.

Party Like It's 1899

Raw Story: A Republican State Representative in New Hampshire has found a way to create a new front in the war on workers, proposing a bill that would repeal the state’s law requiring that workers get a 30-minute lunch break after five hours of labor.

Hungry workers are less productive. That's the considered response. But what first comes to mind is that Republicans are total assholes.

Bring It On

HANNITY: I know the president will say, 'Well, we got bin Laden.' Putting that aside...

LUNTZ: And the public gives him credit for that.

HANNITY: They do. The public does give him credit for that. But it wouldn't have happened if he had his way, and I think that can be proved as well on tape.

All one needs to do to know what a giant scumbag Hannity is, is to listen to Robert Gates (he would be the one pictured in the foreground on the right watching the Bin Ladin raid realtime). As Hannity says, let's go to the (transcript of the) tape:

"I worked for a lot of these guys. And this is one of the most courageous calls – decisions — that I think I’ve ever seen a president make.” - Robert Gates on Obama deciding to take out Bin Ladin.

Gates has served under eight presidents, 7 of them Republican, and including Hannity's hero, George W Bush. So it's pretty clear Hannity is of low character. Still, the GOP base loves him. This episode says far more about the both of them then it does about Obama.

The Crazy Party

Think Progress: A new poll from YouGov’s Adam Berinsky shows that the number of people who believe President Obama was born in the United States has dipped to levels below even the weeks leading up to President Obama’s release of his birth certificate last April. The movement appears attributable to Republicans, 37 percent of whom now say that President Obama was not born in the US. That’s 12 points higher than when Republicans were polled just before President Obama released the certificate.

Ok so after Obama releases his birth certificate and others come up with the birth announcements in two Hawaii newspapers, the amount of Republicans that believe Obama was born in Africa (because you know, he's black) actually goes up by 12%. Evidence gets little respect in the GOP. Which is why they keep voting for disastrous public policy and why it's very dangerous to have Republicans in government.

But when it comes to the GOP base, it goes beyond that. 1 in 4 Republicans believe Obama just may be the anti-Christ. They're crazy. Don't vote crazy.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

Mitt Romney on Saturday: "This week, he's (Obama) been trying to take a bow for 8.3% unemployment. Not so fast, Mr. President. We welcome any good news on the jobs front, but it is thanks to the innovation of the American people in the private sector, and and not to you, Mr. President."

Ok so if Obama can't fully turn around the meltdown Romney's Republican party left us in at the end of Bush/Cheney, it's Obama's fault. But if things are improving it's due to the private sector. Does ANYBODY trust this guy? What a scumbag. Of course, what should we expect from somebody who got filthy rich by bankrupting American companies, screwing American workers out of their pensions and destroying American jobs.

We also note that if they're talking about it at all (and Fox News is not), Republicans will only mention the 8.3% unemployment and not the fact that in JAN there were over a quarter of a million new private sector jobs created. We haven't seen those kinds of number since the great times we enjoyed in the second half of the Clinton administration. Just more proof Democratic public policy is far superior to the failed policies of the GOP.

Doing Damage

"There's no other industry where you could get paid so much for doing so little." - ex-trader for Lehman Brothers on the financial industry.

We don't agree these financial types do very little. They used to do very little back when banks made loans and kept peoples money safe. They used to do very little when our economy was strong, our manufacturing base solid and our middle class robust. But then deregulation, that cornerstone of GOP public policy kicked in, and the industry proceeded to loot and hollow out our economy. Now they do quite a bit and most all of it for themselves.

Spill Baby Spill

Think Progress: Coal, oil, and gas companies have contributed at least $1.2 million to Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a ThinkProgress Green analysis reveals.

If you want your oceans filled with oil, your air filled with soot, and your kids getting cancer, vote for Romney. Because a vote for Romney is a vote for big oil, dirty coal and less environmental protections. A vote for Romney is a vote against government investment is clean, renewable energy and a vote for more taxpayer subsidies for the dirty energy industry. It's that simple.

And This Guy's A Lawyer?

TPM: Virginia Governor and Mitt Romney surrogate Bob McDonnell (R) on Sunday floated what may turn into a Republican talking point if the economy continues to improve: It wasn't President Obama who made it happen, it was the GOP governors. "Look, I'm glad the economy is starting to recover, but I think it's because of what Republican governors are doing in their states, not because of the president."

Let's go ahead and crush this ridiculous lie right now - basically the same Republican governors were going with the same Republican party policy then, before the economy went into meltdown, as they are now. And they've been going with the same failed policy that on the federal level crashed the economy in the first place. Therefore they can't be the difference. The economy is getting better despite their efforts, not because of them. That's what the evidence shows.

And then of course we have the fact which pretty much everybody, Democrat or Republican knows to be true, the Republicans don't want the economy to get better before the election. They wouldn't do anything to try and make it so.

Super Projection

Raw Story: Super Bowl ad for U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra (R) uses an Asian woman speaking in broken English to accuse his rival, Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow, of helping the Chinese economy.

“Thank you Michigan Senator Debbie Spenditnow,” the woman says in the 30-second ad as she rides her bike through a rice paddy field.

“Debbie spends so much American money, you borrow more and more, from us. You’re economy get very weak, ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you Debbie Spenditnow.”

Putting aside the ad is racist, the Republicans are more than desperate to push the results of their failed public policy onto others. But the fact is GOP regulatory, trade and tax policy encourages outsourcing. Which is why as soon as Reagan slashed tax rates on the rich and the trans-national corporation, allowed upper management to be paid in stock options, and deregulated everything, jobs started going to China. And if the historical result is not proof enough of which party is all about trans-national CEO's and Chinese factory owners, the fact that every time the Democrats try and correct the problem the Republicans block it should remove any doubt.

God Willing

Huffington Post: Sharron Angle's stunning 2010 U.S. Senate race defeat is in the rear-view mirror. With only nine months between now and election day in November, the Tea Party favorite from Nevada is not ruling out another run for office.

She should. She's popular among conservatives. And God knows we love her.

Convictions

TPM: The long saga of Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White (R) isn't over yet -- but it now it includes a conviction on 6 felony charges. White, the top elections official in his state, was indicted last March on charges that he lied about where he lived to remain on the voter rolls in the Fishers, IN district where he served on the city council along with other related charges. On Friday, he was convicted on 6 out of 7 felony charges and was immediately replaced by a new interim director.

Looks like the GOP has finally found their voter fraud. As usual it's their own that's guilty of what they're accusing others of doing. But it's still no excuse to reason rob millions of poor, minority and elderly Americans of their right to vote. People who do that are enemies of democracy and very dangerous to have around.

Problem Solved?

Romney on the poor: "They're taken care of"

Perhaps this was just a freudian slip revealing the secret Republican plan to finally just kill the poor. Lord knows it seems that's what they want to do.

This Despite That

According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy created 243,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent. The numbers far surpassed analysts’ expectations of about 140,000 jobs.

Just think how good it would have been if the GOP hadn't been deliberately killing jobs.

Impossible

During an interview last night with Nevada reporter Jon Ralston, Mitt Romney attempted to walk back his statement that he is “not concerned with the very poor.” “It was a mistake. I misspoke,” Romney said.

Except that he's spent the last two days defending and explaining the remark. You can't "misspeak" constantly for two days. Anyway, Mitt Romney has a lot of money. He should spend some of it and buy himself a soul.

Enemies Of The (democratic) State

Think Progress: Two Tea Party candidates in Alabama challenging Rep. Jo Bonner (R) in a GOP primary vowed yesterday to impeach President Obama, if elected.

This comes on the heels of Mr. GOP, Grover Norquist saying they would do exactly that. These people can't stand democracy. They'll use it to grab power but then all bets are off. Just ask Bill Clinton.

Stupid, Racist, Republican

Huffington Post: Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes.

The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.

Study after study shows that the more educated people get the more they back progressive public policy. So it stands to reason people who are just plain stupid would be more likely to be racist Republicans.

Progressive public policy has been proven to advance society and benefit the vast majority of people living in it. Smart people are able to recognize that, employ analytical skills, connect good policy to good results, and bad policy to bad results. Stupid people just believe the lies they get from the Fox News led right-wing disinformation machine.

One Of The Bad Guys

Chris Mathews on Mitt Romney: “And by the way, when you spend your money — when you’re sheltering it overseas, when you’re hiding your money from the tax collector so that you can have an even fatter life, you know, you don’t really identify with the person out there that’s trying to scrabble along and make it in our society, who is a true patriot, left, right or center. Why are you hiding your money overseas if you are a patriot? It seems like you are part of the problem — in fact, you are one of the bad guys.”

We have nothing to add to that, except that every once in a while Tweety is not a tool.

No Doubt

Headline: Wife: Mitt Can Turn The Economy Around

And he will. And the end of the last round of GOP rule we were in absolute economic meltdown. Obama turned it around. Mitt will bring the exact same public policy that put us in meltdown in the first place. So his wife is indeed correct, Mitt will turn it around. He will turn around the recovery and put us back in meltdown. To expect anything else is Einstein's definition of insanity.