Mitt Romney: Hurricane Sandy ‘Didn’t Come At The Right Time’

Via: Huffington Post

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Hurricane Sandy — a major storm that pummeled the East Coast in October 2012, just before Election Day — “didn’t come at the right time.”

“I can tell you the hurricane didn’t come at the right time,” Romney told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Friday.

Sandy caused 159 deaths and between $50 and $100 billion in damage.

After the storm hit, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) and President Barack Obama formed an infamous bipartisan bond, with the two working on recovery efforts and touring the storm’s wreckage together in the days just before the election.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/mitt-romney-hurricane-sandy_n_3404889.html

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“Quote of the Day”

Via: Yahoo News

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life,” Tagg Romney (photo: FAR right) told the paper.

“He had no desire to … run. If he could have found someone else to take his place … he would have been ecstatic to step aside.”

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Read more, HERE:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mitt-romney-no-desire-president-tagg-says-191236665–election.html

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comment:

“If he could have found someone else to take his place …”

Hey, what about Michele ‘bat-shit insane’ Bachmann? Or, Herman ‘hold the sausage’ Cain? Or, ‘Frothy’ Santorum?

Well, I believe the GOP wingnuts who supported them during the campaign, thought they were eminently qualified.

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Willard Romney (MI-UT-MA-CA-Cayman Islands) ‘GOP Moron of the YEAR’

Via: NYT

A week after losing the election to President Obama, Mitt Romney blamed his overwhelming electoral loss on what he said were big “gifts” that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies, including young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.

In a conference call on Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mr. Romney said that the president had followed the “old playbook” of wooing specific interest groups  — “especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people,” Mr. Romney explained — with targeted gifts and initiatives.

“In each case they were very generous in what they gave to those groups,” Mr. Romney said.

Read more, HERE:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/romney-blames-loss-on-obamas-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters/

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So let’s see if I have this right:

‘The ‘GOP Big Tent’ now welcomes African Americans, Hispanics. and young people’; lasted what, eight days?

Stick a Fork in ‘em, they’re done!

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“Quote of the Day”

Petraeus affair

“This is painful, and they’ll have to work together through this as a family.”

Calista Gingrich (see photo)

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“Quote of the Day”

personal thought:

Romney was no more, no less, a shit-head than:

Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, Bachmann, Paul, Herman ‘hold the  sausage. baby’. >>>

So what’s your point, Grover?

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“Let’s NOT Make a Deal” – Krugman

Via: NYT

To say the obvious: Democrats won an amazing victory. Not only did they hold the White House despite a still-troubled economy, in a year when their Senate majority was supposed to be doomed, they actually added seats.

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But one goal eluded the victors. Even though preliminary estimates suggest that Democrats received somewhat more votes than Republicans in Congressional elections, the G.O.P. retains solid control of the House thanks to extreme gerrymandering by courts and Republican-controlled state governments. And Representative John Boehner, the speaker of the House, wasted no time in declaring that his party remains as intransigent as ever, utterly opposed to any rise in tax rates even as it whines about the size of the deficit.      

So President Obama has to make a decision, almost immediately, about how to deal with continuing Republican obstruction.

How far should he go in accommodating the G.O.P.’s demands?

My answer is, not far at all.

Mr. Obama should hang tough, declaring himself willing, if necessary, to hold his ground even at the cost of letting his opponents inflict damage on a still-shaky economy. And this is definitely no time to negotiate a “grand bargain” on the budget that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

In saying this, I don’t mean to minimize the very real economic dangers posed by the so-called fiscal cliff (see photo) that is looming at the end of this year if the two parties can’t reach a deal. Both the Bush-era tax cuts and the Obama administration’s payroll tax cut are set to expire, even as automatic spending cuts in defense and elsewhere kick in thanks to the deal struck after the 2011 confrontation over the debt ceiling.

And the looming combination of tax increases and spending cuts looks easily large enough to push America back into recession.

Nobody wants to see that happen. Yet it may happen all the same, and Mr. Obama has to be willing to let it happen if necessary.

Read more, HERE:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/opinion/krugman-lets-not-make-a-deal.html?_r=1&

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personal thought:

I know it won’t happen, but it still would be nice to see Paul Krugman as the new Treasury Secretary.

Common sense, AND back-bone, would be welcomed.

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Romney Concedes!

Via: Depebable Renegade

http://www.dependablerenegade.com/dependable_renegade/2012/11/romney-concedes.html

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Nov 1 – The Simple Case for saying Obama is the FAVORITE

Via: Nate Silver – NYT

If you are following some of the same people that I do on Twitter, you may have noticed some pushback about our contention that Barack Obama is a favorite (and certainly not a lock) to be re-elected. I haven’t come across too many analyses suggesting that Mitt Romney is the favorite. (There are exceptions.) But there are plenty of people who say that the race is a “tossup.”

What I find confounding about this is that the argument we’re making is exceedingly simple. Here it is:

Obama’s ahead in Ohio.

A somewhat-more-complicated version:

Obama is leading in the polls of Ohio and other states that would suffice for him to win 270 electoral votes, and by a margin that has historically translated into victory a fairly high percentage of the time.

Read more, HERE:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nov-1-the-simple-case-for-saying-obama-is-the-favorite/

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And the bottom-line numbers:

Electoral Votes:

Obama = 305.3

Romney = 232.7

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Chance of Winning:

Obama = 83.7%

Romney = 16.3%

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Popular Vote (NOT that it matters)

Obama = 50.6%

Romney = 48.4%

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photo:

‘Inauguration Day II’ – January 20, 2013

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A vote for Jesus, is a vote for Obama – I luv it!

Via: politicsus usa

‘Evangelicals Refuse to Support Romney, Urge Voters to Write In Jesus’

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Internet evangelist Bill Keller is urging the faithful to promise to vote for Jesus for president in this election.

So far, his website, VotingforJesus.com, says it has more than 1.6 million pledges to write in the name of Jesus on their ballots instead of any other presidential candidate.

If even HALF of those who signed the pledge vote accordingly, this could signal real trouble for Mitt Romney in close races by reducing the pool of voters who usually opt for the GOP.

But Keller, in an email interview, argues otherwise. “A large percentage of the people signed up are part of the 9 million self-identified evangelicals who never voted at all in 2008,” he maintains. “While they will write in the name of Jesus for president, they will also vote for men and women who share their faith values down ticket. It is flawed logic that if you don’t vote for Romney, you are costing him votes or helping Obama. The only way to vote for either man is to vote for them.”  (Good Gawd Almighty – Keller is a complete and total, MORON, but I luv it!)

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Read more, HERE:

http://www.politicususa.com/vote-jesus-garners-1-6-million-pledges.html

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1st 45 months – Bush LOST 1,168,000 jobs – Obama CREATED 759,000 jobs

Via: Think Progress

Read the rest of the article, HERE:

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/11/02/1130361/obama-bush-private-sector-jobs/?mobile=nc

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“I always give a one word answer: ARITHMATIC” - President Clinton

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