Lying Romney in Couplets

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Tuesday October 23, 2012 · 8:39 PM PDT

2012/10/23 · 20:39

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Let's do a little exercise. I am going to provide you with some couplets. They are things Mitt Romney said at different times about the same subject. And I want you to try to explain to me how they do not contradict each other. Ready? Here goes.

BooMan23

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Monday October 08, 2012 · 4:37 PM PDT

2012/10/08 · 16:37

[The author is a consultant for Democracy for America]

If my readers will indulge me for a moment, I want to talk briefly about something local. I live in Pennsylvania's Sixth District. My congressman is Rep. Jim Gerlach and, as I recently detailed here and here, he is useless. I interviewed his Democratic opponent, Dr. Manan Trivedi, back in May 2010, and he's an excellent person, a strong well-financed candidate, and a proud progressive who has been endorsed by Howard Dean and Democracy for America.

BooMan23

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Wednesday October 03, 2012 · 12:07 PM PDT

2012/10/03 · 12:07

[Originally posted at Booman Tribune]

Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district had about the most inauspicious beginning to his term that can possibly be imagined. He literally failed to show up for the swearing-in ceremony because he was at a fundraiser with National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas. Both of them then proceeded to cast votes and conduct other House business illegally and in violation of the Constitution. Congress actually had to nullify two of their votes. This, of course, brought great shame to the people of Bucks and Montgomery counties he was elected to represent.

BooMan23

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Thursday September 27, 2012 · 12:59 PM PDT

2012/09/27 · 12:59

You don't wait until you have been in a car accident to purchase car insurance; you don't wait until your house has been flooded to buy flood insurance, and you don't wait until your home is ablaze to buy fire insurance. That is not how insurance works. And it most certainly is not how health insurance should work. That's why we have Medicare. Medicare is a program designed primarily for people who are 65 years old or older, most of whom are either retired or working part-time. Their income has gone down at the precise time that their health risks are beginning to skyrocket. These people often don't have the extra money lying around that they need to pay for either insurance or for prescription drugs and other care. The insurance companies are not interested in insuring the health of the elderly, and if they do offer a plan, it's going to be astronomically expensive. It's easy to see why. Someone who needs dialysis at 70 may have paid their insurance company for fifty years by the time they need to make a claim. But someone who has only been a customer since they turned 65 will use up all the money they paid in after only a few treatments. It isn't profitable to insure old people at any reasonably affordable rate.

BooMan23

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Wednesday September 19, 2012 · 12:55 PM PDT

2012/09/19 · 12:55

During the Republican National Convention, I went to get a haircut because I was going to be appearing on an internet feed the next day and I was looking a little scraggly. When the middle-aged woman who was cutting my hair realized that I was a Democratic consultant, she began telling me stories. She was a registered Republican, she told me, because years ago her mother informed her that she needed to register as a Republican if she ever wanted anything from a politician. I laughed and said, "Yeah, that used to be true." She admitted that she had 'dated herself' by telling me that, and then proceeded to rip on the Republicans and their convention for the remainder of my haircut.

BooMan23

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Monday September 17, 2012 · 7:52 PM PDT

2012/09/17 · 19:52

There are so many ways I could approach Mitt Romney's recently revealed secret speech. People will snark it to death. We can have hours of fun with this thing. If we're feeling really mischievous, we can even torture it a little bit before we kill it, like a cat playing with a shrew. But I want to be serious for a moment. Will it matter?

BooMan23

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Monday September 10, 2012 · 8:20 PM PDT

2012/09/10 · 20:20

I knew that the Romney campaign reminded me of something. It's an episode of Seinfeld.

BooMan23

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Sunday August 19, 2012 · 5:58 AM PDT

2012/08/19 · 05:58

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The 716 billion dollar lie is the central line of defense. It's like the Republicans' Maginot Line. If the lie can be breached with the blitz of truth, the GOP's argument will fall faster than France before Guderian's tanks. Oh, wait. I'm casting us as the Nazis in this instance. That won't do.

But you get my point, right?

BooMan23

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Monday August 13, 2012 · 8:39 PM PDT

2012/08/13 · 20:39

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On April 15th, 2011, at 2:53 in the afternoon, the House of Representatives voted 235-193 for the Paul Ryan budget for fiscal year 2012. There was not a single Democrat willing to cross the aisle in support of the bill. And there were only five Republicans who failed to support Ryan's budget (including one who abstained). This article in The Hill reads like the authors were too lazy to look up the roll call. For example, this needs to be corrected:

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Monday August 06, 2012 · 9:24 PM PDT

2012/08/06 · 21:24

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The sins of Richard Cohen have been well-documented. I don't think I need to recount them all here. All that is important is that you realize that Cohen is one of the rare 'liberals' who applauded when Poppy Bush used the last Christmas Eve of his time in office to pardon anyone who got in trouble for Iran-Contra and might be able to implicate him in the crime. Cohen defended Scooter Libby to the hilt. And Cohen suggested that all our American torturers should get a mulligan. It seems that the one thing that Mr. Cohen really can't stand is the idea that someone important in Washington DC might do jail time. He really has created a tremendous record as an apologist for elite law-breaking.

BooMan23

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Friday August 03, 2012 · 9:08 PM PDT

2012/08/03 · 21:08

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My piece on poor Mitt Romney went viral, with over 4,000 shares of the orange version and 1,300 shares of the green. It spent most of the day atop the Daily Kos recommended diary list, and then Kos posted about it on the front-page. It obviously resonated with a lot of Democrats. And it's not hard to see why.

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Thursday August 02, 2012 · 8:22 PM PDT

2012/08/02 · 20:22

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What's it like for Mitt Romney to have to deal with someone like Harry Reid claiming that he heard from a Bain Capital investor that Romney didn't pay any income taxes for ten years in a row? Steve M. tries to explain what it's kinda like.

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Lying Romney in Couplets

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A Campaign About Nothing

Destroy the $716 Billion Lie

Pick of Ryan Leaves House GOP Defenseless

The Disgraceful Richard Cohen

It Struck a Chord

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