Day: July 16, 2012

This cockamamie Democratic backbone thing seems to be spreading.

There is absolutely no way President Obama or Democrats will permit the Bush-era tax cuts on high incomes to be extended, a party leader declared in a speech Monday. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the No. 4 Democrat and senior budget member, unequivocally promised her party will shoot down GOP efforts to prevent tax rates on incomes above $250,000 to rise by 3.6 percent to Clinton-era levels, even if it means letting rates go up on middle incomes. “If Republicans won’t work with us on a balanced approach, we are not going to get a deal,” Murray said in Washington, D.C. at the Brookings Institution. “Because I feel very strongly that we simply cannot allow middle class families and the most vulnerable Americans to bear this burden alone.”

Trying to prove that he was a Massachusetts resident and eligible to run for Governor, Romney testified that he worked at Bain after he now claims to have retired retroactively. If it sounds confusing it is because when you try to cover two lies with three new lies and a felonious report to the SEC, it gets confusing. If it sounds confusing it is because when you try to cover two lies with three new lies and a felonious report to the SEC, it gets confusing.

In a spasm of arrogance, deception and elitism this weekend, presumptive Republican nominee Willard Mittens Romney III declared indignantly that he will only release two years of his tax returns, for 2010 and 2011, and that is all the American people need or deserve. And to justify this, the Romney campaign lied to the American people that John Kerry also only release 2 years of tax returns, even though every one on the planet with a brain knows he released 20 years of tax returns. It seems to me that Romney has decided that releasing his tax turns back to 2000, which would satisfy any reasonable person's demand for transparency as it would coincide with his own father's 12 year rule as well as be exactly what the Obamas have produced, is simply a non-starter. Being the cold calculating businessman that he is, he has obviously run a cost benefit analysis, the result of which has shown him that no matter the political price he pays for not releasing, it would be much better than the political price he would suffer if he did release it. Indeed, as others have speculated, it is likely that Romney's returns during the last 12 years show extremely high levels of income, more offshore accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, investments in things and companies that will hurt him on the right (i.e. abortion providers, etc), and probably proof that he paid a very low single digit or zero digit tax rate. But this whole incident has me wondering two things: 1) has Romney accurately conducted that cost benefit analysis, and 2) what was Romney thinking over the past 12 years?

You have to read between the lines of course.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va - In a surprising move, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) declined a long-planned move into the vice chairmanship of the National Governors Association this weekend.

Gordon holds slight edge in numbers and since he appears (based on his signs) to be running as the second coming of Barack Obama, I'll add back the points I deducted for the theft of the Obama logo. Clark sign's are a bit perfunctory in both design and placement. If you have someone putting up signs, impress on those people that the signs should be upright and facing oncoming traffic.