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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.