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    In Honor of Sunday being “Mother’s Day,” here’s to all you mothers out there doing the one thing the GOP seems to respect you for doing.

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    (Source: facebook.com)

    Finally, Romney reaches out to the Tea Party

    The Mitt Romney Lie Detector Test

    Remember, kids, respect for religions is only for Rick Santorum’s version of it..

    Holier Than Thou.  Electable-ier than… well, he’s really just flat out un-electable. 

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — White House candidate Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama’s Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney’s Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, “ground zero” in the 2012 nomination fight.

    Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator known for his social conservative policies, said that Obama’s agenda is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”

    Got that kids?  It’s some phony ideal.  A phony theology.  Not based on the bible.  

    Let’s not even get into the whole “Church and State” thing, because Rick wants to be to America what the Ayotollah is in Iran.  

    But are you listening other, saner, different Christians?  You can only be Christian if you’re Rick Santorum’s idea of a Christian.  And the rest of you should start making plans for your general admission seats in Hell.

    That’s you, Lutherans.  Protestants.  Jews.  Mormons.  

    In fact, that’s about 77% of America that aren’t “Catholic.”  

    And as for you silly women with your silly body parts and your silly desire for contraception that’s not closing your slutty knees together using an aspirin, like they did back in the day you can pick out your hell chair as well.

    So who could Santorum be speaking to that wouldn’t feel isolated? Catholic Men - a full 11.5% of the population.  Narrow bandwidth, sweater-vest.

    This man will NEVER be president.  

    This man will probably end up running a Chic-Fil-A and running it very poorly.  

    The longer this moron stays in the race - the more the GOP talks about things like lady parts - the better it is for Obama.  So I’l all for it.  Keep bloodying each other.  Love it.

    Still, today?   Santorum.  you can piss right off, you self-righteous strip of turd.  

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    11:29 update

    Well, give a turd a chance and he’s still going to be a turd.  Here comes the spin.

    A more congenial Rick Santorum doubled down on several controversial, and religiously laden, remarks in an interview Sunday morning on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” where he defended his recent claims that prenatal testing results in abortions, that federally provided education was “anachronistic,” and that President Obama’s policies are not “based on the Bible.”

    “I’ve repeatedly said I don’t question the president’s faith,” Santorum told host Bob Schieffer, denying what some have said was a signal that Santorum had challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s Christianity. “I’ve repeatedly said that I believe the president’s Christian — he says he’s Christian. But I am talking about his worldview, the way he addresses problems in this country, and they’re different than most people view it in America.”

    In a speech to Tea Party conservatives on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, Santorum had dismissed Obama’s politics as being based in “some phony theology.”

    An incredulous Bob Schieffer began his interview with Santorum Sunday by asking, “What in the world were you thinking?”

    “I was talking about the radical environmentalists,” Santorum said, suggesting that they believe man should protect the earth, rather than “steward its resources.” “I think that is a phony ideal. I don’t believe that’s what we’re here to do … We’re not here to serve the earth. That is not the objective, man is the objective.”

    Oh, shut the hell up you ridiculous throwback.  No you weren’t.  You were at a party with a bunch of similar minds and you pandered to the lowest common denominator.  Then you got called on it and you’re backpedalling.

    “I was talking about radical environmentalists.”  Really?  Where in the above comments should we have figured that out?  Because you’re telling us now?  What a weird little liar you are.

    Earlier in the day on Saturday, Santorum had also said that health insurance plans shouldn’t be required to cover prenatal testing, because that testing results in more abortions, as well as contending that government-run public education was “anachronistic.”

    Sure!  And if a woman dies because of a complication, that’s okay, right?  Again, remember this when you vote, women:  To Rick Santorum, you are nothing but a tunnel to make more male babies.  Now get back in the kitchen.

    Ass.

    Remember this: Mitt, to Michigan, Four Years ago: “Please Die.”

    With polls showing Romney losing in Michigan, you’re going to see a lot of advertising in that state, very soon, most of it negative, toward his opponents.

    Michigan is important to Mitt, because lets face it… winning CPAC’s “Mayor of Crazytown” and squeaking out a win in Maine’s non-binding whatever that was carries ZERO weight on a global scale.

    Michigan matters to Mitt. This year.

    So it’s important to remember how little Michigan meant to Mitt in 2008, how little he cares for the middle-class and how he would let us all “Go Bankrupt” so he could tear us apart and sell us off, like we were a company he sic’d Bain on in days of yore.

    Remember this, Michigan.

    Mitt hated you enough to wish for your death.

    He threw a punch at you in 2008 with all his might, hoping to knock you out.

    You didn’t just survive, you thrived.

    Now, four years later, you get to punch him back. Punch away.

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    November 19, 2008

    Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

    By MITT ROMNEY

    IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.

    Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course — the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

    I love cars, American cars. I was born in Detroit, the son of an auto chief executive. In 1954, my dad, George Romney, was tapped to run American Motors when its president suddenly died. The company itself was on life support — banks were threatening to deal it a death blow. The stock collapsed. I watched Dad work to turn the company around — and years later at business school, they were still talking about it. From the lessons of that turnaround, and from my own experiences, I have several prescriptions for Detroit’s automakers.

    First, their huge disadvantage in costs relative to foreign brands must be eliminated. That means new labor agreements to align pay and benefits to match those of workers at competitors like BMW, Honda, Nissan and Toyota. Furthermore, retiree benefits must be reduced so that the total burden per auto for domestic makers is not higher than that of foreign producers.

    That extra burden is estimated to be more than $2,000 per car. Think what that means: Ford, for example, needs to cut $2,000 worth of features and quality out of its Taurus to compete with Toyota’s Avalon. Of course the Avalon feels like a better product — it has $2,000 more put into it. Considering this disadvantage, Detroit has done a remarkable job of designing and engineering its cars. But if this cost penalty persists, any bailout will only delay the inevitable.

    Second, management as is must go. New faces should be recruited from unrelated industries — from companies widely respected for excellence in marketing, innovation, creativity and labor relations.

    The new management must work with labor leaders to see that the enmity between labor and management comes to an end. This division is a holdover from the early years of the last century, when unions brought workers job security and better wages and benefits. But as Walter Reuther, the former head of the United Automobile Workers, said to my father, “Getting more and more pay for less and less work is a dead-end street.”

    You don’t have to look far for industries with unions that went down that road. Companies in the 21st century cannot perpetuate the destructive labor relations of the 20th. This will mean a new direction for the U.A.W., profit sharing or stock grants to all employees and a change in Big Three management culture.

    The need for collaboration will mean accepting sanity in salaries and perks. At American Motors, my dad cut his pay and that of his executive team, he bought stock in the company, and he went out to factories to talk to workers directly. Get rid of the planes, the executive dining rooms — all the symbols that breed resentment among the hundreds of thousands who will also be sacrificing to keep the companies afloat.

    Investments must be made for the future. No more focus on quarterly earnings or the kind of short-term stock appreciation that means quick riches for executives with options. Manage with an eye on cash flow, balance sheets and long-term appreciation. Invest in truly competitive products and innovative technologies — especially fuel-saving designs — that may not arrive for years. Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.

    Just as important to the future of American carmakers is the sales force. When sales are down, you don’t want to lose the only people who can get them to grow. So don’t fire the best dealers, and don’t crush them with new financial or performance demands they can’t meet.

    It is not wrong to ask for government help, but the automakers should come up with a win-win proposition. I believe the federal government should invest substantially more in basic research — on new energy sources, fuel-economy technology, materials science and the like — that will ultimately benefit the automotive industry, along with many others. I believe Washington should raise energy research spending to $20 billion a year, from the $4 billion that is spent today. The research could be done at universities, at research labs and even through public-private collaboration. The federal government should also rectify the imbedded tax penalties that favor foreign carmakers.

    But don’t ask Washington to give shareholders and bondholders a free pass — they bet on management and they lost.

    The American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing. A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs. The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.

    In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check.

    Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, was a candidate for this year’s Republican presidential nomination.

    Wrath of the white conservatives: Herman Cain gets “Roved.”

    I don’t have much to add to the discussion except forwarding both of these things, but it’s pretty interesting stuff none-the-less. 

    Super props to David Feldman for connecting dots.

    Huckabee

    WASHINGTON — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said he could “almost guarantee” that therecent Politico story about sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain came from information leaked by another GOP campaign.

    The Politico report revealed that while Cain was head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, “at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group.”

    When asked on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Monday morning if it was likely the scoop was provided by another Republican campaign, Huckabee agreed with the suspicion and questioned the legitimacy of the Politico report, saying, “Quite frankly, knowing some of the reporters involved — they’re not that good.”

    Huckabee recalled similar tactics involved in his own 2008 presidential campaign and accused other campaigns of hiring investigators to dig through his trash and show up at his children’s elementary schools posing as federal inspectors.

    “It’s insane — one of the fundamental things a candidate will spend money on is [opposition] research,” Huckabee told Ingraham.

    The Cain campaign has since accused Politico of “dredging up thinly sourced allegations” and called some of the claims “unsubstantiated personal attacks.”

    Former Bush adviser Karl Rove told Fox News that Cain needs to either say “yes or no” to the allegations.

    My friend David Feldman dissects it as follows:

    David Feldman
    Politico broke the Herman Cain sexual harassment story. Which means the story was leaked from within the GOP. It did not come from the DNC. Here’s why: Politico is owned by Robert Allbritton. Allbritton has extensive ties to the CIA and was Pinochet’s banker as well as the Saudi’s. Allbritton’s bank was pretty much shut down, and he had to pay multi million dollar fines in 2004 for money laundering. Politico, like Fox News, has the veneer of objectivity but it is in fact an arm of the right wing propaganda machine. Cain’s sexual harassment story came from within the wing of the GOP that wants Romney.
    So… While still supporting Obama, guess who I’m cheering for now?
    Rick Perry: Even the irony is bigger in Texas.

    Really?

    I’d say “We hadn’t noticed” but then I saw the polls.  Apparently we have!

    You were a candle that nobody really wanted, that burned out much faster than we every could have dreamed.

    Goodbye, Rick Perry. We hardly knew ye.

    But what we knew of ye, we the ye apparently didn’t like.

    Whether it’s your past insinuations that Texas could secede from the union, or the fact that - as many have pointed out - we tried “Loose Canon Texas Governor” before and we all saw how that worked out…

    Maybe your anti-vaccination rants or catering to insane parts of the Tea Party?

    All we can tell is every time you opened your mouth and talked, a few more people got that ”ew, I threw up a little” taste in their mouth.    Check it:

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    So, I guess:  Thanks.  Thanks for popping your head out of the gopher hole for 12 seconds and giving us a few laughs.

    And by all means, keep swinging.  You’re fun to watch, like when one of those guys in “Jackass” gets his junk kicked by an angry mule.  But…  in so far as actually seeing your name on the ballot?  Sorry dude.  Time to find another dream.

    Might I suggest cartoon acting?


    SuperCongress=SuperCowards

     

    We elect people every two or four years to make the big decisions, and they’re such wusses they need to farm it out to a smaller group of people so no one gets the blame.

    And consequently, more power is in the hands of less people that you and I have elected. 

    So… while you may not have a problem with their decisions - what they cut and how - the basic concept of “cover your ass” government bothers me, a lot. 

    How do I hold my person accountable when he or she has passed off untenable decisions to some schmuck from Kansas I can’t fight against? (Insert “elitist from New York” if you are on the right)

    I find it pathetic.  And spineless.

    9.1% unemployment, and everybody involved in this should join them.