Forced To Dig Their Own Graves

Think Progress:   Workers at Sensata Technologies, a business based in Freeport, Illinois, have been protesting Mitt Romney’s campaign stops across the country all summer because the company, which is owned by Bain Capital, is laying off workers in order to hire employees in China. Bain took control of Sensata in 2006; last year, it took over the Freeport plant and announced that it would layoff 165 workers and close it. Some of the workers, according to Sensata employees, have been forced to train their Chinese replacements, adding insult to the injury that was their looming job loss.

Rmoney made millions by bankrupting American companies, destroying American jobs, illegally busting unions, and screwing American workers out of their pensions.  Hell, the Washington post reports he helped pioneer the mass outsourcing that's killing the (American) middle class.  He has a long history of working for trans-national CEO's and foreign factory owners and against the America.

We need a president that does right by the United States of America, not an outsourcer-in-chief. Willard should run for president of China.  He's done good work for them. But here at home he's been God-damn-national-disaster. 

Cowboys and Indians

TPM:  A progressive group called on Republican National Committee leader Pat Rogers to step down on Friday after emails showed him telling New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s staff that meeting with a group of American Indians “dishonored” Gen. George Armstrong Custer, the 19th century commander who killed scores of American Indians.

If this asshole doesn't like it he should go the fuck back to Europe. It's a good reminder though that Republicans are not only racist against black people, latinos, and and Muslims.  They pretty much go after everybody who's not white (and Christian... note to Jews, they hate you too).

Of Course They Did

Mitt Romney is standing by a joke about his birth certificate he made on Friday, despite complaints from President Obama’s campaign that the line was a nod to racially charged conspiracy theories regarding the president’s origins. 

The Republican nominee told CBS Friday, after the campaign appearance where he made the remark, he saw nothing wrong with the comment, in part because it drew cheers from the crowd. 

“Well we’re in Michigan and Ann I and I were both born in Detroit and of course a little humor always goes a long way” he said. “So it was great to be home, to be in a place where Ann and I had grown up, the crowd loved it and got a good laugh.”

Since he was talking to the Republican base that's not a surprise.  Racist jokes work well with that crowd.  

Chicken Shit

CBS Local:

QUESTION: Should abortions to be available to women who are raped?

RYAN: Well, look, I’m proud of my pro-life record. And I stand by my pro-life record in Congress. It’s something I’m proud of. But Mitt Romney is the top of the ticket and Mitt Romney will be president and he will set the policy of the Romney administration.

He's now giving this same answer when asked about any one of his exceptionally unpopular positions.  It's not one anybody should accept.  One of the prime functions of the vice president it to be the one who immediately becomes president if the president should become incapacitated or is otherwise removed from office.  So Ryan is going to have to say what he would if he do if he were president and he's going to have to answer for his record. It's as simple as that. 

Illegally Sqashing The Middle Class

Daily Kos:  Mitt Romney kicked off his profit-making years at Bain Capital with a little bit of union-busting. In 1984, Bain invested in Key Airlines, a struggling charter operation, with Romney investing in the airline personally and becoming one of its directors. The idea, of course, was to turn it around for a profit—but an effort by pilots to unionize might have complicated such a deal. So Key illegally squashed the effort

We often say Rmoney  made millions bankrupting American companies, destroying American jobs and screwing American workers out of their pensions. Perhaps we should add illegal union busting to that list.  Unions were what helped build the middle class.  Their decline correlates perfectly with the decline of the middle class.  And of course the decline of the middle class drives the decline of the consumer economy which drives the decline of the country.  None of which the Republican party gives a rip about.  As long as their transnational CEO billionaire backers continue to bankroll their grip on power they really could care less.   

Headlines

Headline:  GOP Senate Candidate Suggests The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Should Be Overturned

Soon we're sure to be followed by: GOP Senate Candidate Suggests the Civil Rights Act Be Overturned. The Voting Rights Act was built on the Civil Rights Act.  It stands to reason they oppose that too.  It is after all opposition to that law that the modern Republican party exploited to take over the south from Democrats and with the racist Confederate flag crowd, build their base.  To this day the political and philosophical power base of the Republican party is the confederate south.  If you're not sure, spend some time there, tell us if you don't see white people flying the confederate flag instead of the American flag on a mass scale.  You think the headline we predict next is outrageous?  Trying to overturn the act that ensured blacks had the right to vote then - while actively working to prevent blacks from voting now - is just as bad. 

You Make Less, Pay More

RIVERHEAD, New York — Mitt Romney’s campaign released the latest two years of tax returns for Paul Ryan, showing his running mate paid a 15.9 percent tax rate in 2010.

First of all, both of these people are only releasing one or two years worth of returns. In the case of Romney at least, those years likely represent the least offensive or illegal returns.  But even if they are representative, there is just something wrong with electing people who will make the rules to ensure they pay way less than half of what the rest of us pay.  Even more damaging to the country of course, is that they make the rules to ensure their political backers pay nothing.  All of which leaves the middle class to pick up the tab.