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Romney plays the taxpayers for fools. Voters, don’t play me for one.

Mittens has kind of pissed me off.

The more that is uncovered and talked about the secret video of Romney’s mega gaffe, the madder I get. It should make a lot of other folks angry as well and not just the “47 percent … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. ”

You know who Mittens is talking about don’t you? He’s talking about you, the working class dog, the tired, the poor, the elderly, the huddled masses. You name it.

I have heard this notion for a couple of years now from the right wing that one doesn’t pay income taxes if they pay payroll taxes. That is just a big, fat lie. In the true sense, the payroll taxes that you and your employer pay are based on a percentage of income. Am I right? Well even if my logic is faulty, just listen to what I am saying for once.

For many of the years I have worked I have paid income taxes. True, my payroll taxes were deducted when I have had steady work. But guess what happened when I have had to fill in that line on the 1040 form that says: “Business Income (or loss?” ) Most years I have had to write a figure down — though often it was a small number — noting: “Rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, trusts, etc. Attach Schedule E” For the past two years the “Pensions and annuities” blank on my form hasn’t stayed blank for long. Yes, I get a pension, a whopping, whole $1,400 a year. Don’t laugh, it keeps me in my weekly hamburger. It has been several years but I do have to pay income tax, actually pay income tax — in the Rush Limbaugh spirit — even though I have mostly paid payroll taxes most of my life. So am I in that list that doesn’t pay income tax, even when I actually have to pay income tax in addition to my payroll taxes? You see that isn’t in the sound bite Rush, or Hannity or even Romney gives.

It just irritates me to no end that the man who wants to be president of all the people, not just the rich Republican ones, raises money by going on a verbal jihad against anyone who receives any and all types of government benefits. As I’ve said before, I don’t recall ever seeing Romney’s ass in uniform serving his country. No offense to the VA, but if I could afford insurance and could afford to see doctors who did not work in one way or the other for the Department of Veterans Affairs (or go to real doctors for that matter, my primary care giver at the VA is a physician’s assistant,) I would not have to fight for treatment at the VA. Like right now, I misplaced a box of glucose test strips and the VA is insistent that I can’t have any more until December.

If Mittens thinks the 47 percent who have written him off are all slackers looking for a handout, then I think he should just take himself out of the race right now. He is totally delusional. Here is something else. If you receive government benefits — Social Security, a military or government pension or both, and/or health assistance from the government — Romney is talking about you. You might be the biggest Romney fan on your block or in your fair city. But Romney could care less about you. You are being duped by Mittens and the Republican propaganda machine.

I would say that if you blindly follow Mitt Romney that you get what you deserve. The problem is I don’t feel as if I should get what you deserve.

 

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Happy Birthday, Constitution. It may be your last if Richie Rich Romney is elected.

On this day we celebrate the joys of our nation’s most sacred secular document — the 225th birthday of the signing of the U.S. Constitution — we hear from the opposing candidate for President of the United States of America who disparages almost half of the nation’s population:

From a video of Mitt Romney speaking to his rich donors

Romney was born rich. He never served in the U.S. military. He never risked his life in service of others. His only service toward others was as a Mormon missionary in France. What tough, tough duty!

Yet he has the gall to say half of the population does not pay income tax. It is a lie. He says half of the nation’s people are freeloaders. That is because we aren’t rich like Mitt.

Happy Birthday, U.S. Constitution. Your words have endured years of war and peace, prosperity and poverty. It seems like only prosperity matters to Mittens though. Those words start with “We the people … ” To Willard, the people who matter only make half a million dollars per year.

 

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Romney, cable media making hay while the sun shines

Enough already!

The killings of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three aides is tragic and now seems to compound what madness Sept. 11 evokes. That is why it is sickening that some of those in cable news and Mitt Romney were lightning fast in making political hay out of the senseless violence. It is not surprising that Romney and his lackeys at Fox would condemn the president before knowing all the facts. They would run over their own grandmothers for political advantage. Most irritating is that they did it so quickly and it got so old by the morning news on cable that I wanted to throw something at the TV. (It isn’t my TV so I restrained myself, fortunately.)

Since I don’t watch Fox News I cannot say who the blond-haired twit was on one of its morning broadcasts who asked conservative-leaning political talking head Larry Sabato of University of Virginia: (Paraphrasing) Do you think this will have an effect on the presidential election? I have called on Sabato in a pinch back in the day, apparently I was not by myself. He told the Foxette, without being condescending as I would have been, that it was too early to tell. Of course, that was an understatement since the details at the time were still very preliminary. I suppose that is just Fox being Fox.

Funny I can recognize Dr. Sabato but I can’t recognize the blonde. I think it might have been Megan Kelley but I’m not sure. All the CNN blondies look the same to me.

Romney clearly jumped the gun, putting his first comments out last night which lashed out at the administration for a statement released from the U.S. embassy in Egypt. The message condemned a film supposedly offensive to Muslims which allegedly sparked protests in Egypt and Libya. This is all very questionable right now. What is not questionable is that it also broke what was a gentleman’s agreement that the campaigns would back off politics on 9/11.

If Romney quit while he was ahead — forget saying he was wrong because he is never wrong — it would have been okay. But he keeps getting himself deeper and deeper by affirming his earlier stupidity.

Notably absent from the criticism of the president were the rest of the Republican politburo. At least those who made criticisms made them barely perceptible. Wonder why that is? If I were to guess, Mittens is freaking out.

The cable folks didn’t come off any better in my eyes. So many just wildly speculating, trying to create a controversy where there is none. That is why I say it is just too much. Watching the evening news now on CBS, the latest is that it seems the offensive film may be perhaps the most incidental. It might have been Al-Quida even behind the fatal attack.

And Mitt? To paraphrase news people talking about the spirited speech of former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm at the Democratic National Committee, perhaps this is Mitt Romney’s “Howard Dean moment.”

 

 

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Labor Day’s gone: Let the games begin

The presidential elections are supposed to run in earnest after Labor Day or after the conventions, whichever comes first. They run nonstop 24/7/365/ad infinitum. Maybe the Birthers have it right, in one part of their lunacy, presidential candidates seem to run for office once they are out of the womb. Sorry, that’s just my hyperbole. But some people do seem like they are running for public office at least during high school.

Baby must practice gesturing during public speeches in order to make that hard road to the presidency.

Most polls have the two candidates for president neck and neck. It seems rather odd that, for all the media gush Congressman Ryan got during the Republican condition, the GOP candidates received very little bounce in the polls. It remains to be seen if Obama-ClintonBiden will. Wow, that would at least bring a little excitement to the Dem side of the race, not that I think it would be a good idea. And I mean Hillary although Bill as Obama’s No. 2 would blow some minds. Such a notion has been discussed many times before concerning other candidates including Al Gore. It may or may not be constitutional but would certainly be open to much litigation and if it wound up in the Supreme Court with today’s justices — speaking of Gore — one could only guess what might happen.

Thinking back at least to the 2004 election, I can remember discussing with colleagues while eating newsroom election night pizza or perhaps afterwards how skewed could the polls be these days with the proliferation of cell phones. A study in 2010 showed more than one-quarter of Americans use cell phones as their only telephone. That was up from about 13.5 percent three years before. Let’s just speculate for a moment that the given rate would grow at the same extent over the same time period, then nearly a third of Americans might choose cell not landline for their main phone. That is just speculating though and you know what they say about speculating. No, in fact I don’t know what “they” say about speculating and furthermore I have no idea who “they” are. Know what I mean, Vern?

Harry Truman could have been a rich man had eBay been around in his day.

 

I am just saying that I don’t know how the statisticians compensate for the cell phone factor. I am sure they have some formula they pop in there. People who work with stats all the time are wont to do that. You ought to try it some time. I am talking about working with numbers folks. You could easily lose your freaking mind in very short order. Trust me. I am not a statistician. Nor am I an economist. And I play neither on TV.

The question has to surface though. Just how accurate are “all or nothing” polls about presidential races these days? Most of the polls in 2008 were fairly close with the exception of a couple such as Gallup and Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby. Pollsters can call cell phones but there are various factors that make such a prospect challenging. For instance, the pollster has to consider that the respondents can be charged for air time.

The brains will figure it all out. After all, pollsters have such a sterling record on being right, especially when  it comes to presidential elections.

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Black president=black helicopters?– Paul Ryan. Faster than Al Gore. Slower than J. Edwards and Sarah Palin.

Yes, the Democratic National Convention is this week and I probably will watch some of the speeches. Specifically, I intend to listen to President Obama accept his nomination. What we expect is that he will lay out his socialist agenda since there aren’t any rich Democrats to object. He also will speak of how he plans to help out certain aircraft producers such as Sikorsky — it’s got a Ukrainian name of course and its founder was born in the Russian Empire, where else? — the producer of the Black Hawk.  While the Black Hawk has long been the modern military’s work horse helo it also has long been used in clandestine missions for agencies such as Customs and Border Protection and the DEA. The black choppers from a black president, of course, will pave the way for the great takeover of the United States by the United Nations. After a second term begins for our first Kenyan-Kansan president Obama will send for the different nations to start patrolling the streets to finally make that “New World Order” — most recently associated with former President George H.W. Bush — come true. This will be reminiscent of the days under President Sonofabush when airmen from 13 different NATO nations flew patrols above the United States after 9/11. Among those nations were those sneaky Canadians and our former foe from two world wars, the Jerrys, who were scouting out the best places for a Führerbunker during their AWACS flights over Lubbock County, Texas.

Ah yes, Obama, that Kenyan-Hawaiian-Indonesian-Hawaiian — Wherevermerican– is a clever one!

But let’s get back to reality a minute. Last week U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee for vice president, made news for his super-duper marathon time. He said it was “Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.” Not so fast Mr. Veep Nominee. “El mentiroso es capturado antes que el lisiado,” or something like the Spanish proverb,”The liar is sooner caught than the cripple.” Es decir, if Ryan ever finds himself cripple he’ll be in S**t City.

What is really sad about Ryan’s little white boast, bald-face lie is that he actually had a slower marathon time than former Democratic VP candidate John Edwards, but was also bested two seconds by SARAH PALIN! OMG!!!!