I think from looking at him he is back drinking, but thats just speculation on my part.

April 18, 2012 4:23 PM



Romney Attacks Obama for golfing, "jetting around the world"

(CBS News) CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday suggested President Obama is not taking his job seriously enough and accused him of spending too much time golfing and traveling the world while the economy struggles to rebound.

"I must say I scratch my head at the capacity of the president to take four hours off on such a regular basis to go golfing," Romney said during an interview with conservative radio host Bill Cunningham, who asked Romney about Obama's more than 90 rounds of golf since becoming president. Romney added, "I would think you could kind of suck it up for four years, particularly when the American people are out of work."

Citing the rise in unemployment numbers and decline in both median incomes and housing values, Romney said the president should put down the clubs and "focus his energy on getting people back to work."

He also questioned the vacation choices of the first family, an apparent reference to Obama's annual trips to Hawaii, where he grew up, as well as a much-criticized vacation to Spain taken by Michelle Obama and their youngest daughter Sasha. Romney said if he were elected to office, he would take better advantage of Camp David, the presidential country retreat located in Maryland about an hour from Washington D.C.

He also questioned the vacation choices of the first family, an apparent reference to Obama's annual trips to Hawaii, where he grew up, as well as a much-criticized vacation to Spain taken by Michelle Obama and their youngest daughter Sasha.

Is it just me or are our government members just not bothering to hide their bald racism anymore? Bachmann is not the only member of Congress to use a "tar baby" reference when discussing Obama or his policies. Then they plead ignorance on the meaning.

Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.

Romney also promises budget increases for the Pentagon, above those sought by some GOP defense hawks, meaning that the rest of the government would have to shrink even more. Nonmilitary programs would incur still larger cuts than those called for in the tightfisted GOP budget that the House passed last month.

Can you imagine? He'd turn the US into a third-world country! All to keep the rest of the world mad at our military meddling.

Can you imagine? He'd turn the US into a third-world country! All to keep the rest of the world mad at our military meddling.

James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony. It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management's ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with fat profit-sharing checks. In the basement-wage economy of Georgetown, South Carolina, Sanderson and his coworkers were blue-collar aristocracy.

"We were doing very good," says Sanderson, president of Steelworkers Local 7898. "The plant was making money, and we had good profit-sharing checks, and everything was going well."

What he didn't know was that it was about to end. Hundreds of miles to the north, in Boston, a future presidential candidate was sizing up Georgetown's books.

Mitt Romney had been running Bain Capital since 1984, minting a reputation as a prince of private investment. A future prospectus by Deutsche Bank would reveal that by the time Romney left in 1999, Bain had averaged a shimmering 88 percent annual return. Romney would use that success to launch his political career.

How Did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich?
How Private Equity Firms "Work" (Thanks to FARKer "gameshowhost")

So Rmoney basically got rich picking our pockets.

A few weeks back, when Rick Santorum was arguing that he could power out delegate wins by organizing the little-noticed state conventions and caucuses, I agreed with him. And then Santorum quit. This left the state delegate pool hot and panting for Romneymentum, right?

Not quite yet. Over the weekend, Minnesota held congressional district conventions. Now, the state's February caucus -- one of the trio of non-binding contests Santorum won early that month -- went 45 percent for Santorum, 27 percent for Paul, and only 17 percent for Romney. The Associated Press and other groups went on to estimate that Santorum would win 17 of Minnesota's delegates, Paul would win 10, and Romney 6. Wrong. Ron Paul dominated the CD conventions. According to a tweet from RNC committeewoman Pat Anderson, Paul took 20 of the 24 delegates available in the CDs.

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That's 20 delegates more than the zero that Paul got from Minnesota in 2008. Keep watching this. The Paul movement spent five years prepping for a guerilla delegate campaign, and they're going to be the last Republicans who refuse to settle for Romney. This was the point of Paul's non-alignment pact with the frontrunner. With Santorum out and Gingrich staggering like an extra in Re-Animator, Paul's movement is free to take over the state contests.

Ron Paul Wins Minnesota Delegates by a Landslide
By David Weigel

"I know what it’s like to wake up early in the morning and get them off to school; I know what it’s like to be up in the middle of the night when they are sick; and I know what it’s like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have," she said, according to ABC News.

{Ann} Romney acknowledged that some women have to both work outside the home and raise their children, according to Politico.

“My hats off to the men in this room too that are raising kids — I love that, and I love the fact that there are also women out there that don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids,” Romney said. “Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”

...and I love the fact that there are also women out there that don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids

Romney Campaign Again Warns Of ‘Soviet’ Threat


Evan McMorris-Santoro April 26, 2012, 11:56 AM 1288

The Romney campaign has been accused of being stuck in the 1950s. But it also seems mired in the 1980s — it again invoked Cold War threats on Thursday, as it tried to attack the Obama administration on foreign policy.

Romney and his surrogates have revealed an ongoing Cold War fixation. Former Reagan Navy Secretary John Lehman and former Bush administration Ambassador Pierre Prosper, on Thursday derailed Romney messaging in a conference call with reporters by raising the specter of the “Soviet Union” and slamming Obama for not protecting Czechoslovakia — a country that was peacefully dissolved in 1993 and now exists as the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

<snipped part of Obama leading from behind, blah blah>

“We’re seeing the Soviets pushing into the Arctic with no response from us. In fact, the only response is to announce the early retirement of the last remaining icebreaker.”

She has never had the choice of either taking care of her sick kid or getting paid less becasue she is hourly, for one example.

What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people.
It’s almost as if the GOP can’t help itself.
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/27/the_gop ... eath_wish/