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.