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 Wednesday, April 16, 2008
From the Hotline:
Romney had a great showing on Hannity and Colmes last night. The transcript is here. Video of the first segment is here and video from the second segment is here. My favorite part was this exchange where Romney parried (followed by a strong riposte) with Colmes:
COLMES: The word "elite" gets tossed around a lot. Republicans and deregulated industries who have helped create monopolies. They fought against labor unions. They've campaigned against a government net for the poor. They've tried to do privatize Social Security and you call the Democrats elites. Is it possible that some of the issues I've just mentioned might show some elitists among the Republican side of the ledger? ROMNEY: You know, I know every policy that conservatives espouse and fight for and Republicans are overwhelmingly conservative, those policies are designed to help the American people from the very poorest to the middle class. We don't think about how do we take away from some and give to others, we say how do we lift everyone in this great nation. And every policy you've described — for instance, Senator McCain today said he wants to lower the corporate tax rate. Why is that? Because lowering the corporate tax rate will bring more jobs here, will build more businesses here. He's not worried about, you know, chief executive pay. That's not what's the concern he's going have. It's instead how do you build more jobs and keep companies from going offshore? So his policies, conservative policies, Republican policies, are designed to help people from the very poorest and particularly those in the middle class who feel the real squeeze right now. COLMES: Are you satisfied that people corporation of oil companies, for example, pay enough taxes? You know, Robert Reich used to refer to that as aid to defending corporations. Are you satisfied that — there are no loopholes that corporations jump through to avoid paying taxes that would help the economy if they paid them? ROMNEY: I'm sure there are loopholes that the corporate accountants find. When I was governor of Massachusetts I went after these loopholes that were not intended to be put there by the legislature, and we took them out, and you want to make sure the people are following the rules, and not getting special breaks. But I don't want to tax corporations that provide jobs and build new factories and are doing research and development, I don't want to tax them out of existence, I want them to grow and thrive, particularly small businesses. Don't forget, these tax rates are applied to the very smallest businesses. The pizza shops and the new software engineer firm. That's the place we want to see growth in our economy. We don't want those jobs to go elsewhere. In case you haven't checked into http://www.mittromney.com/ lately, skip on over to check out the slimmed down website. For quite sometime the site has simply features a photo of Mitt and Ann along with a thank you message. Now, the site is back up with a short biographical section about Mitt and Ann, as well as the texts from major speeches and many photos. The Issues section also has many positions outlined. Nice to have some of that reference material back since I was looking for one of his speeches sometime back. Your core of support is strong Mitt!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
About inconsistencies, this seems a bit inconsistent with this. Here is Dan Senor squirreling about his story.
Just when you thought the Romney is flip-flopping silliness had finally ended, we get treated with yet another claim from the AP's Glen Johnson. Here is the entire article:
Romney Reverses on McCain's Economic Credentials Mitt Romney said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain's Washington experience counts in drawing up economic policy. That's not what Romney said during the heat of the Republican presidential race. ___ Here's Romney from Tuesday's appearance on CNN: "I can tell you that for a person who's spent over 25 years in Washington, D.C., working on economic policies from the days of (Ronald) Reagan and throughout the current time, Senator McCain is very well aware of the spending programs in Washington, which ones need to be cut back, which ones need to be grown. He understands also how to relieve the pressure on the American taxpayer," Romney said hours before McCain, a four-term Arizona senator, delivered an economic address in Pittsburgh. ___ Here's Romney on Jan. 25 in Florida: "Now he's engaging in 'Washington talk,'" Romney said of McCain and his self-professed "straight-talk" mantra. "`Washington talk' says that somehow, because you've been in Washington, and you've been on a committee, that you somehow know about how the jobs of this country have been created." Romney, who bowed out of the race in February, has been mentioned as a possible running mate for McCain. In a phone call to The Associated Press, Romney said his latest comments in part acknowledged the verdict of the voters. "There's no question any one of the three would have benefited from a lifetime of service in the private sector that I enjoyed. That's why I thought I was the strongest candidate. The voters chose differently," Romney said of the three remaining candidates, McCain and Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. My Thoughts: I may be an idiot but I think there is a difference in talking about cutting government programs and relieving taxpayers versus how jobs are created. For the attorneys out there, if Romney had been a witness in my trial and had said the first quote, the second quote would not be admissible as hearsay because the exception in CA for past inconsistent statements would not apply. According to the schedule, Mitt is slated to be on Hannity and Colmes tonight at 9:00 pm eastern time.
Thanks to reader Diane for the heads up! ...and a miss. What a waste of a countdown.
Labels: mike huckabee Mitt Romney was on Morning Joe today talking about McCain's economic plans. If anyone sees the video in embed-able format, send us the link. UPDATE: A faithful reader sends the video Labels: economy Monday, April 14, 2008
“…they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Is it me, or does this seem like a Freudian slip? This is revealing to me about Obama, not because of his antipathy towards some of the things that are generally valued or, at least, constitutionally protected. No, it seems to me that this is more self-descriptive than almost anything else we hear from Obama. It seems that Obama’s hides a bitterness that has turned him towards a hateful religion, a dislike of people that aren’t like him (like, uh, the white people he regularly disparaged in his books), and anti-trade sentiment (unless its his love for trade that makes him want to rescind free-trade agreements). Shelby Steele talks about the mask that Obama wears. I think in one candid and Freudian moment, Obama’s mask was pulled away and we saw something of Obama’s deeper psychology and his view of the world. UPDATE: I wrote the above post before I saw this from Victor Davis Hanson. I would use the "great minds think alike" cliche, but I wouldn't dare put myself in his class. The problem with the Obama Marin County speech, inter alia, is that it invites comparison to himself—as all condescension does, being the nursemaid to hypocrisy. So if religion is a crutch for the embittered of Middle America, what is the creepy Rev. Wright for Obama? So the frustrated protectionists of Middle America are “anti-trade”, what then does that mean for the Harvard-educated NAFTA-trashing Obama? If Middle America can distinguish illegal from legal immigration, why can’t Obama in remarks to sophisticated Marin county elites? If jobs “have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them” why then is the Pennsylvania unemployment rate around 5%? And does small-town America cling to “antipathy to people who aren’t like them” any more than does Rev. Wright, Rev. Meeks, Rev. Lee, or all the others that gravitate to Obama, but who are spared the condescending “they” write-off? Labels: Obama Sunday, April 13, 2008
 Wednesday, Oct. 05, 1983 THE NATION
CIVIL RIGHTS The Central Point Selma is a city of 29,500 people—14,400 whites, 15,100 Negroes. Its voting rolls are 99% white, 1% Negro. More than a city, Selma is a state of mind. "Selma," says a guidebook on Alabama, "is like an old-fashioned gentlewoman, proud and patrician, but never unfriendly." But the symbol of Selma is Sheriff James Clark, 43, a bullyboy segregationist who leads a club-swinging, mounted posse of deputy volunteers, many of them Ku Klux Klansmen. It was in Selma, four years ago, that the Federal Government filed its first voting-rights suit, but court processes are slow, and Selma Negroes remain unregistered. Selma seemed a natural target to Martin Luther King. He rounded up hundreds of Negroes at a time, led them on marches to the county courthouse to register to vote. Always, Clark awaited them, either turning them away or arresting them for contempt of court, truancy, juvenile delinquency and parading without a permit. In seven weeks, Clark jailed no fewer than 2,000 men, women and children, including King, who dramatized the situation by refusing to make bond for four days. Still the Negroes came, singing "We shall overcome." In reply, Sheriff Clark pinned a button on his shirt reading "Never!" The city's mood grew ever uglier. King called for a march from Selma to the state capitol at Montgomery, 50 miles away. King planned to lead the march himself, but at the last minute was persuaded by aides to stay at his Atlanta headquarters for his safety's sake. Ignoring an order from Governor Wallace forbidding the march, 650 Negroes and a few whites filed through the back streets of Selma, and headed for the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which crosses the Alabama River. On U.S. Highway 80, 400 yards beyond the bridge, was a phalanx of 60 state cops. Suddenly the clubs started swinging. From the sidelines, white townspeople raised their voices in cheers and whoops. Joined by possemen and deputies, the patrolmen waded into the screaming mob. Now came the sound of canisters being fired. A Negro screamed: "Tear gas!" Within seconds the highway was swirling with white and yellow clouds of smoke, raging with the cries of men. Choking, bleeding, the Negroes fled in all directions while the whites pursued them. The mounted men uncoiled bull whips and lashed out viciously as the horses' hoofs trampled the fallen. " O.K., nigger!" snarled a posseman, flailing away at a running Negro woman. "You wanted to march—now march!" "Please! No!" begged a Negro as a cop flailed away with his club. "My God, we're being killed!" cried another. The Negroes staggered across the bridge and made for the church, chased by the sheriffs deputies and the horsemen. All told, 78 Negroes required hospital treatment for injuries. Rarely has public opinion reacted so spontaneously and with such fury. In Detroit, Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh and Michigan's Governor George Romney led a protest parade of 10,000 people. President Johnson publicly declared that he "deplored the brutality." And in Atlanta, Martin Luther King announced that as a "matter of conscience and in an attempt to arouse the deepest concern of the nation," he was "compelled" to lead another march from Selma to Montgomery.
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