"[Romney's] case for becoming president relies, instead, on his claim that, having been a successful businessman, he knows how to create jobs.
This, in turn, means that however much the Romney campaign may wish otherwise, the nature of that business career is fair game. How did Mr. Romney make all that money? Was it in ways suggesting that what was good for Bain Capital, the private equity firm that made him rich, would also be good for America?
And the answer is no."
Just as in 2008, the economy and domestic concerns are front and center in our quadrennial popularity contest. Leaving the president and his bland centrism, muddled language, and fighting with his hands tied aside, romney might be the most conspicuous example of predation and callous cruelty to ever carry a major party banner.
I sit here listening to tone-deaf Gene Sperling of the president's economic council or some crap repeat republican language and already admitting defeat in the election. "Tax Relief, we need to give tax relief to middle-class and small business... we need to have the conversation on extending relief for the richest Americans." Sick, sick, sick. Taxes are not a crushing burden or a disease that fat cats need relief from. The president's speech was alright, but barely adequate for the tax fight we should have had two years ago much less today. So it is blah from our side as usual, "please don't hit me more... I deserved it before" and every other rationalization for being the battered-spouse side of the corporate power party.
As Kornacki at Salon showed, if the Democrats cannot beat this meathead romney then the republic really is lost. We have finally crossed that last line and become a dead man walking. Also in Salon, the print warm-up to fighting for the middle class limp-wristed style and everything you ever wanted to know about the pampered, spoiled elite that back romney and keep the pain coming. I would be remiss if I didn't quote from this to show the arrogant assholes who embody privilege:
"Romney donors complain about lack of VIP entrance: Mitt Romney held a series of high-dollar fundraisers on the Hamptons this weekend, producing scenes of elitism that seem hard to believe are real. “Is there a V.I.P. entrance. We are V.I.P.,” a woman in a black Range Rover, one of 30 luxury cars waiting to pull into a multi-million-dollar mansion, complained to a Romney aide, according to the New York Times.
At the next event, another woman in a luxury SUV protested to the Los Angeles Times, “I don’t think the common person is getting it.” “The baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work,” she explained."
Makes me sick. Not that they have so much and we have so little, but that they shit on everyone else and pay propagandists to make us love it. Alright, they do not deserve such wealth, no one does. Especially when they cannibalized so much of America to steal it, the way romney and bain capital did. And despite polls, focus groups, protests and the rest screaming to cut these assholes down to size, our dear leaders will wave a hand and second that woman, "you just don't know how this works."
Finally Krugman contrasts romney with his father, showing that today's louts really are the scummy "burn down the other guy's house to collect the insurance money because you just don't give a shit" that Matt Taibbi has been desperately trying to convey since the great crash gangsters that have taken over the country. Romney sold himself as the best champion for business because he was so successful at eating everyone else's seedcorn, but now has to shroud his ill-gotten gains in mystery. And mafia-style pilfering has come out of the basement to be the official standard for how business is done, all the other companies have to get on board and burn the poor to keep warm or be eaten themselves by the financial vultures.
I sit here listening to tone-deaf Gene Sperling of the president's economic council or some crap repeat republican language and already admitting defeat in the election. "Tax Relief, we need to give tax relief to middle-class and small business... we need to have the conversation on extending relief for the richest Americans." Sick, sick, sick. Taxes are not a crushing burden or a disease that fat cats need relief from. The president's speech was alright, but barely adequate for the tax fight we should have had two years ago much less today. So it is blah from our side as usual, "please don't hit me more... I deserved it before" and every other rationalization for being the battered-spouse side of the corporate power party.
As Kornacki at Salon showed, if the Democrats cannot beat this meathead romney then the republic really is lost. We have finally crossed that last line and become a dead man walking. Also in Salon, the print warm-up to fighting for the middle class limp-wristed style and everything you ever wanted to know about the pampered, spoiled elite that back romney and keep the pain coming. I would be remiss if I didn't quote from this to show the arrogant assholes who embody privilege:
"Romney donors complain about lack of VIP entrance: Mitt Romney held a series of high-dollar fundraisers on the Hamptons this weekend, producing scenes of elitism that seem hard to believe are real. “Is there a V.I.P. entrance. We are V.I.P.,” a woman in a black Range Rover, one of 30 luxury cars waiting to pull into a multi-million-dollar mansion, complained to a Romney aide, according to the New York Times.
At the next event, another woman in a luxury SUV protested to the Los Angeles Times, “I don’t think the common person is getting it.” “The baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work,” she explained."
Makes me sick. Not that they have so much and we have so little, but that they shit on everyone else and pay propagandists to make us love it. Alright, they do not deserve such wealth, no one does. Especially when they cannibalized so much of America to steal it, the way romney and bain capital did. And despite polls, focus groups, protests and the rest screaming to cut these assholes down to size, our dear leaders will wave a hand and second that woman, "you just don't know how this works."
Finally Krugman contrasts romney with his father, showing that today's louts really are the scummy "burn down the other guy's house to collect the insurance money because you just don't give a shit" that Matt Taibbi has been desperately trying to convey since the great crash gangsters that have taken over the country. Romney sold himself as the best champion for business because he was so successful at eating everyone else's seedcorn, but now has to shroud his ill-gotten gains in mystery. And mafia-style pilfering has come out of the basement to be the official standard for how business is done, all the other companies have to get on board and burn the poor to keep warm or be eaten themselves by the financial vultures.
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