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You have to love the unity of this convention
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...-drama-at-rnc/
The parts the M$M didn't show you...
Ron Paulist "seat them now" versus the GOP Convention "USA"...
Talk about bad timing...bet the representative from Puerto Rico felt like
Meanwhile...An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said “This is how we feed animals” before being removed from the convention, a network official confirmed to TPM.....
You have to love the unity of this convention
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...-drama-at-rnc/
The RNC in 100 seconds..
Republican governors tout job gains -- to Obama team's delight
They could not resist. One by one, Republican governors of three presidential battleground states took the floor at the party’s national convention and touted recent job gains in their states – not Mitt Romney’s preferred message.
First up was Gov. John Kasich of Ohio: 122,000 jobs created since he took office last year, he boasted, and a state that has leaped from 48th to fourth in job creation.
INTERACTIVE MAP: Tally up the battleground states
Next came Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia: “Over the last two years, with Republicans and Democrats working together, our unemployment rate is down 20% to 5.9%," he said. “We've added 151,000 net new jobs.”
Finally, there was Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. “Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010,” he said. “Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%. But because of our reforms, Wisconsin has added thousands of new jobs, and our unemployment rate is down from when I first took office.”
Obama’s reelection team was delighted – particularly with Walker.
“Highlighting how unemployment is dropping, the economy is growing, and small businesses are adding jobs, his message tonight was vastly at odds with how Mitt Romney talks down the economy,” Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in an email to the media.
Her subject line: “We Couldn’t Have Said It Better Ourselves, Gov. Walker.”
But not all was lost for the Republican presidential nominee, whose joint appearances with all three governors in their states have showcased the clash between his political needs and theirs.
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
How the Republicans Built It
It was a day late, but the Republicans' parade of truth-twisting, distortions and plain falsehoods arrived on the podium of their national convention on Tuesday. Following in the footsteps of Mitt Romney's campaign, rarely have so many convention speeches been based on such shaky foundations.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, in the keynote speech, angrily demanded that the American people learn the hard truths about the two parties, but like most of those at the microphone, he failed to supply any. He said his state needed his austere discipline of slashed budgets, canceled public projects and broken public unions, but did not mention that New Jersey now has a higher unemployment rate than when he took over, and never had the revenue boom he promised from tax cuts.
"We believe in telling our seniors the truth about our overburdened en lements," he said, but his party has consistently refused to come clean about its real plans to undo Medicare and Medicaid. "Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on a path to growth," he said, but Mr. Romney has consistently refused to tell the truth about his tax plan, his budget plan, and his health care plan.
It was appropriate that "We built it," the needling slogan of the evening, was painted on the side of the convention hall. Speaker after speaker alluded to the phrase in an entire day based on the thinnest of reeds - a poorly phrased remark by the president, deliberately taken out of context. President Obama was making the obvious point that all businesses rely to some extent on the work and services of government. But Mr. Romney has twisted it to suggest that Mr. Obama believes all businesses are creatures of the government, and so the convention had to parrot the line.
"We need a president who will say to a small businesswoman: Congratulations, we applaud your success, you did make that happen, you did build that," said Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia. "Big government didn't build America; you built America!"
That was far from the only piece of nonsense on the menu, only the most frequently repeated one. Conventions are always full of cheap applause lines and over-the-top attacks, but it was startling to hear how many speakers in Tampa considered it acceptable to make points that had no basis in reality.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, for example, boasted of the booming economy in his state, never mentioning that he and Mr. Romney opposed the auto bailout that has played an outsized role in the state's recovery. (Apparently Mr. Obama's destructive economic policies do not apply everywhere.)
Andy Barr, a Congressional candidate in Kentucky, made the particularly egregious charge that the president was conducting "a war on coal," ruthlessly attacking an industry and thousands of struggling miners.
He was apparently referring to the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions and prevent power-plant pollution from drifting through the East Coast states. The country desperately needs to reduce its reliance on coal, which is far more polluting than natural gas, but that goal gets harder to achieve every time someone like Mr. Barr makes it out to be an attack on a way of life.
Considering how Mr. Romney has conducted his campaign so far, most recently his blatantly false advertising accusing Mr. Obama of gutting the work requirement on welfare, it is probably not surprising that the convention he leads would follow a similar path.
Voters looking for a few nuggets of truth would not have found them in Tampa on Tuesday.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=...&sub=Editorial
ALL LIES, ALL THE TIME
The putrid stench of Karl Rove's "reality" permeating the Repug choreography.
The Secret Weapon: All of Us
The Republican National Convention opened by smacking President Obama with the theme "We Built it."
To pound that message, Republicans turned to a Delaware businesswoman, Sher Valenzuela, who is also a candidate for lieutenant governor. Valenzuela and her husband built an upholstery business that now employs dozens of workers.
Valenzuela presumably was picked to speak so that she could thunder at Obama for disdaining capitalism.
Oops.
It turns out that Valenzuela relied not only on her entrepreneurial skills but also on - yes, government help. Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, do ented $2 million in loans from the Small Business Administration for Valenzuela's company, plus $15 million in government contracts (mostly noncompe ive ones).
In a presentation earlier this year, Valenzuela described government assistance as an entrepreneur's "biggest 'secret weapon.' "
Someone has set up a parody Web site, using the name of Valenzuela's company, First State Manufacturing, to mock the Republican message. The site, FirstStateManufacturing.com, declares, "Thank God government was there for me."
employment data for the 64 years from the beginning of Harry Truman's presidency to the end of George W. Bush's. ... an average of two million jobs were created per year when a Democrat was president, compared with one million annually when a Republican was president.
for Romney himself. He built his Bain empire partly because he was smart and hard-working, but also because of a great education and because of tax breaks for debt financing. Tax loopholes helped him build his fortune, and other loopholes gave him the low tax rates to retain it.
If the Republican convention wishes to highlight and explain Romney's success, it should have a moment of silence to honor our infernal tax code.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=...&sub=Columnist
GOP Platform Lies About Abstinence Education’s Effectiveness
enshrines a misguided approach to sex education that will actually lead to more unplanned pregnancies:
We renew our call for replacing “family planning” programs for teens with abstinence education which teaches abstinence until marriage as the responsible and respected standard of behavior. Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is 100 percent effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS when transmitted sexually. It is effective, science-based, and empowers teens to achieve optimal health outcomes and avoid risks of sexual activity. We oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for abortion and contraception.
Touting abstinence-only education programs as “effective” and “science-based” is simply not true. In fact, abstinence education curricula often lack very basic facts about contraception, pregnancy, sexual assault, and effective barriers against sexually transmitted diseases. Some abstinence-only courses, such as the health class in California that instructs students to prevent STDs with “plenty of rest,” teach blatant misinformation.
Abstinence-only education is based on the specious theory that teenagers shouldn’t be taught anything about sex because they shouldn’t be having sex. But promoting abstinence hasn’t worked in religious communities — a full 80 percent of evangelicals report having sex at least once before marriage — and won’t work in schools, either. The approach fails to take into account the fact that 70 percent of teenagers are sexually active by the time they turn 19, and sitting in a health class that pushes junk science won’t dissuade them otherwise. To achieve the goals the Republican Party puts forth, schools across the country need to implement comprehensive sex education that will have honest conversations with young adults about sexuality.
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2...effectiveness/
Repugs, ALL LIES, ALL THE TIME
Gay Marine Beaten To Bloody Pulp To Fire Up RNC Crowd
http://www.theonion.com/articles/gay...-rnc-cr,29352/
Boutons, did you watch any of the speeches last night? God bless
Republican governors tout job gains -- to Obama team's delight
They could not resist. One by one, Republican governors of three presidential battleground states took the floor at the party’s national convention and touted recent job gains in their states – not Mitt Romney’s preferred message.
First up was Gov. John Kasich of Ohio: 122,000 jobs created since he took office last year, he boasted, and a state that has leaped from 48th to fourth in job creation.
INTERACTIVE MAP: Tally up the battleground states
Next came Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia: “Over the last two years, with Republicans and Democrats working together, our unemployment rate is down 20% to 5.9%," he said. “We've added 151,000 net new jobs.”
Finally, there was Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. “Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010,” he said. “Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%. But because of our reforms, Wisconsin has added thousands of new jobs, and our unemployment rate is down from when I first took office.”
Obama’s reelection team was delighted – particularly with Walker.
“Highlighting how unemployment is dropping, the economy is growing, and small businesses are adding jobs, his message tonight was vastly at odds with how Mitt Romney talks down the economy,” Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in an email to the media.
Her subject line: “We Couldn’t Have Said It Better Ourselves, Gov. Walker.”
But not all was lost for the Republican presidential nominee, whose joint appearances with all three governors in their states have showcased the clash between his political needs and theirs.
http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=...%3D0%26DPL%3D3
Talk about trying to spin it! The point is that across the board, states with republican leadership are doing better than states with democratic leadership.
"In states with Republican governors, the average unemployment rate is a full point lower than in states with Democratic governors. It makes a difference. Republican governors lead seven of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates. And 12 of the 15 states that have been ranked 'best for business' have Republican governors."
Ironically (not really), the Obama administration fought reforms in those states (most notably Wisconsin and New Jersey) that resulted in the gains experienced in Republican-led States.
Talk about trying to spin it! The point is that across the board, states with republican leadership are doing better than states with democratic leadership.
"In states with Republican governors, the average unemployment rate is a full point lower than in states with Democratic governors. It makes a difference. Republican governors lead seven of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates. And 12 of the 15 states that have been ranked 'best for business' have Republican governors."
So, I guess, Republican Governors could claim credit for the job gains for which Obama keeps taking credit.
The blatant strategy of the Repugs since 2009 has been to block economic stimulus, to deeepen and extend the Banksters' Great Depression, counting on high unemployment to defeat Obama.
The LAST THING the Repugs want now is increasing employment in ANY state, even in Repug states (but of course, the govs want credit for increasing employment in their states.
lol boutons
So their strategy is to block economic stimulus (except for when they don't).
I'm sure the employment increase was just an oversight. Any day now we'll have legislation in R states banning hiring.
I'd be interested to know how many of these GOP governors pulled a Paul Ryan and used stimulus funds to create/save jobs and then hypocritically railed against it.
Roughly, all of them.
Low Favorability Trails Romney Up to the Convention Dais
http://news.yahoo.com/low-favorabili...-politics.html
And since dumbed down Americans think electing a President is a personality/beauty/beer-partner (so easy, fun, superficial!) contest rather than policies/platform contest (too hard and serious! NOT fun!), Gecko is pretty much ed.
If there's only a tiny Gecko bounce, in the next 10 days, then Gecko is as dead as Nate Silver says he is.
Looks like wooden, empty NoWhereMan Gecko is outshone by both Queen Ann of "You People Can't Know Our Tax Returns" fame, and sociopath and fiscal fraud Ryan.
Most likely all of them. Except, according to boutons, they are against economic stimulus, so I guess by extension of that "logic", none of them.
And right on cue, a change of topic from boutons.
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They SAY they were, are against economic stimulus,
"Govt is the problem"
"Govt CAN'T create jobs and wealth"
yadda yadda yadda
BUT
many of them have taken the $Bs and claimed full credit when HUSSEIN's stimulus landed in their cons uency. FRAUDS, all of them
So boutons, which one of your two alter-egos is the liar?
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