Someone needs a spell checker:
Even worse, this is a slide from the presentation to campaign donation bundlers.
Who wants to get a Rmoney for Amercia T-Shirt? On the back, it will say something like, “Endorsed by Zombie Regan.”
Category: Presidential Campaign
Troof
Writer Jamie Malanowski gets to the heart of the matter when he says that if Obama loses, his refusal to prosecute the criminals at the big banks will be a major cause of this:
This much is clear: if President Obama loses this election, the failure to hold financial titans legally, financially and morally responsible for this financial meltdown will be the factor that will have cost him re-election.
I would argue that this was is also much of the reason for the 2010 debacle.
Malanowski talks about bravery, and how Obama has the courage to take down bin Laden, but not the courage to face the banksters.
I don’t think that this is a a matter of courage, but a matter of tribalism.
I am not making a Kenyan Muslim reference here, but rather an Ivy League reference.
I think that Barack Obama (Columbia and then Harvard Law) is simply unwilling to confront the old boy network which he joined when he went to college.
Edwards Not Guilty on 1, Mistrial on 6
Considering the fact that the judge bent over backwards for John Edwards, this is a win for Edwards.
Considering the fact that the judge was clearly in the prosecution’s pocket, allowing testimony that had nothing to do with the underlying crime for the squick factor, and forbidding the presentation of an FEC ruling which said that the expenditures were legal, the prosecution has to be thinking that this case is a loser.
Rmoney 2012!
You gotta love this.
The Romney campaign came up with an iPhone app, and they misspelled America.
D’oh.
H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
DINOs, F%$# ‘Em
Gee, a bunch of the Democrats In Name Only are objecting to the Obama campaign’s ads criticizing Romney’s tenure as head of Bain Capital.
You know, if you took their dicks out of your mouth, and realized that campaign donations from rich looters are not the be all and end all, you would realize that this is a political winner:
Some influential Democrats on and off Capitol Hill are refusing to give President Obama political cover for his attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital.
Despite pushback from more than a half-dozen Democrats, the Obama campaign on Tuesday defended how it has scrutinized Romney’s business background.
The business model of private equity firms is to make money by either flipping, or leveraging firms, to extract value.
They are the financial equivalent of automotive chop shops.
Ka-Ching!
Barack Obama’s campaign raised over a million dollars after he announced that he supported gay marriage.
Another Election Night
And while the primaries really didn’t matter, as Romney is pretty much it now, but there were other significant results, with Lugar getting destroyed in the India primary, Tom Barret earning a rematch against Scott Walker after the Democratic primary for the Wisconsin Recall, and the citizens of North Carolina voting to enshrine hatred and bigotry into their constitution.
I was amused by Obama’s performance against a federal inmate in the West Virginia primary:
With all his rivals except Rep. Ron Paul now out of the race, Mitt Romney easily won the Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia primaries, giving him an estimated 911 of the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. But plenty of GOP voters still saw fit to register their preference for a different candidate: Romney got 65 percent of the vote in Indiana, 66 percent in North Carolina, and 69 percent in West Virginia. By comparison, the 2008 nominee, John McCain, got 70 percent or more in every primary once his last major rival, Mike Huckabee, quit the race. But the protest-vote story of the night was on the other side of the aisle. In West Virginia, Obama was pulling just 62 percent of the vote while Keith Russell Judd, an inmate at a federal prison in Texas who somehow got his name on the primary ballot, was drawing 38 percent.
I’m not sure what it means, though I’m sure that Obama’s political operatives will be dropping a hundred grand or so on polling to figure it all out.
What a Surprise
If you diss organized labor by holding a convention in an anti-union right to work state, they are not inclined to pony up sponsorship money:
Democrats are struggling to raise money for the party’s national convention this summer in Charlotte, N.C., in part because they’ve barred corporations and lobbyists from contributing.Democrats are struggling to raise money for the party’s national convention this summer in Charlotte, N.C., in part because they have barred corporations and lobbyists from contributing. Peter Nicholas has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters.Now, one set of donors the party was banking on—organized labor—says it won’t help pay for the event or will scale back contributions, partly because it is upset that the convention will be in a state considered unfriendly to unions.Labor unions chipped in $8.6 million of the $60.5 million the party spent in 2008 in Denver. This year, a number of construction unions, as well as the labor organization Unite Here, plan to give nothing, officials say.The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers gave $1 million in 2008, but it isn’t planning to contribute this year. It cites North Carolina’s “right to work law” that is opposed by unions, as well as labor’s need to spend money on grass-roots campaign work. “Registration drives, get-out-the-vote drives and leafleting—that’s where we can make our best contribution,” said spokesman Jim Spellane.“We are making no contribution this year,” said Tom Snyder, a top official at Unite Here, which contributed $100,000 to the 2008 convention. “That’s all I’m going to say about that,” he said.With about four months to go before the Sept. 3 opening of the Charlotte convention—which has been scaled back from the one in Denver four years ago—Democrats are about $20 million short of their fundraising goal of $36.7 million, according to two prominent Democrats who have been briefed by convention planners.
You know, if you sell your base down the river, this is what happens.
Anyone regretting the Obama administration decision to actively slow walk the Employee Free Choice Act over the past 3 years?
Probably not.
Well, It Looks Like Wimp is the Meme that Mitt Will Have to Fight
Case in point, is the exit of Richard Grenell from the Romney campaign:
It was the biggest moment yet for Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team: a conference call last Thursday, dialed into by dozens of news outlets from around the globe, to dissect and denounce President Obama’s record on national security.
But Richard Grenell, the political strategist who helped organize the call and was specifically hired to oversee such communications, was conspicuously absent, or so everyone thought.
It turned out he was at home in Los Angeles, listening in, but stone silent and seething. A few minutes earlier, a senior Romney aide had delivered an unexpected directive, according to several people involved in the call.
“Ric,” said Alex Wong, a policy aide, “the campaign has requested that you not speak on this call.” Mr. Wong added, “It’s best to lay low for now.”
For Mr. Grenell, the message was clear: he had become radioactive.
It was the climax of an unexpectedly messy and public dispute over the role and reputation of Mr. Grenell, a foreign policy expert who is gay and known for his support of same-sex marriage, his testy relationship with the news media and his acerbic Twitter postings on everything from Rachel Maddow’s femininity to how Callista Gingrich “snaps on” her hair.
They hire this guy as a national security expert, he organizes a conference call on the subject, but because the Talibaptist knuckle draggers hate “te ghey”, the Romney campaign folds like overcooked broccoli.
Somehow, I don’t expect him to go for a Sistah Soljah moment.
Deep Thought
Works for me.
Because they are Whiny Babies
Brad Delong wonders why Wall Street dislikes Barack Obama so much:
A worker bee at a mainline investment bank told me last fall:
Back in 2008 Wall Street was split 40-60 Obama-McCain. Now it is split 10-90 Obama-Romney.
Why? It is not as though Wall Street has done badly under Obama. Stock prices are up and interest rates are down, so leveraged financial institutions long assets–as Wall Street inevitably is–have done very, very well indeed. The standard bargain that the Democrats offer Wall Street has held. It is:
We will try to tax you (and, given the power of your lobbying operation in Congress, probably fail to do so), but we will give you competent economic management in striking contrast to that offered by the ideologically-blinded wingnuts who are the Republicans.
That has been the bargain that the Democrats have offered Wall Street from the days of Hoover to Bush II, and when Wall Street has had a sense of its own long-run interests, it has taken the Democrats up on it. And it has been happy.
But not this time.Why not? What is going on? What is there about 50% real increases in equity values over less than 3 1/2 years that is not to like?
For the past 30+ years, these guys have been surrounded by people who treat them like they were Pashas, both in their social circles on Wall Street as well both sides of the partisan divide in Washington, DC, so when Barack Obama calls them “Wall Street Fat Cats”, their heads explode.
This is despite the fact he, and his sidekick Timmy Geithner, bail them out, and quash prosecutions.
One wonders just how insecure these guys are about their value to society.
Hmm…come to think of it, this answer was a bit more involved than I intended.
Here’s a hint: You are all worthless parasites.
Meanwhile in the American Elections
It looks like Obama’s big donors from 2008 are sitting on their wallets:
President Obama’s re-election campaign is straining to raise the huge sums it is counting on to run against Mitt Romney, with sharp dropoffs in donations from nearly every major industry forcing it to rely more than ever on small contributions and a relative handful of major donors.
From Wall Street to Hollywood, from doctors and lawyers, the traditional big sources of campaign cash are not delivering for the Obama campaign as they did four years ago. The falloff has left his fund-raising totals running behind where they were at the same point in 2008 — though well ahead of Mr. Romney’s — and has induced growing concern among aides and supporters as they confront the prospect that Republicans and their “super PAC” allies will hold a substantial advantage this fall.
With big checks no longer flowing as quickly into his campaign, Mr. Obama is leaning harder on his grass-roots supporters, whose small contributions make up well over half of the money he raised through the end of March, according to reports filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission. And Mr. Obama is asking far more of those large donors still giving, exploiting his joint fund-raising arrangement with the Democratic National Committee to collect five-figure checks from individuals who have already given the maximum $5,000 contribution to his re-election campaign.
“They clearly are feeling the pressure,” said one major Obama fund-raiser, who asked for anonymity to characterize his conversations with campaign officials. “They’re behind where they expected to be. You have to factor in $500 million-plus in Republican super PAC money.”
This is what happens when your message shifts from “Hope and Change” (whatever the F$#@ that means) to “The Guys on the Other Side are Terrifying,” which, while true, (an improvement on the 2008 message in that one respect) is not something that drives people to open up their check books or canvass door to door.
The Silly Season is Upon Us
The Cookie Monster? Seriously?
The general election campaign is on, and really, really stupid
The Democratic Party of Pennsylvania has decided to make an issue of Mitt’s characterizing cookies from a beloved Pittsburgh bakery as 7-11 cookies.
Seriously?
Seriously?
Mitt is a guy who has signed onto of the right wing’s war on women, and you break out the f%$#ing cookie monster?
Gawd, their heads are so far up their asses that they resemble a Klein Bottle.
My Conclusion is that Obama is Homophobic
I don’t mean that he is personally homophobic, there is no evidence that I know of about that, but that he is is politically homophobic, and so is unwilling to do anything for gay rights unless absolutely forced to.
Writing an executive order mandating that federal contractors don’t discriminate is literally the least that he could do, but for Mr. Hopey Changey, it’s a bridge too far:
A surprising new rift opened between the White House and the gay rights movement after White House officials revealed Wednesday that President Obama would not sign an executive order sought by activists to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Community advocates learned of the news during a closed-door meeting with two top Obama aides, Valerie Jarrett and Cecilia Munoz, who told the group that the White House would instead lead a multi-pronged effort to urge companies, federal agencies and others to oppose discrimination.
The Center for American Progress, which is Obama’s bitch among the think tanks called this “Disappointing”, and the HRC, another member of the Obama knee pad set was similarly pissed off.
It appears that Obama does not remember the, “Don’t ask, Don’t Give,” efforts, but my guess is that he will:
And, just to confirm that it’s not going to go away, we got this via press release;
Within hours of the White House announcement, the “We Can’t Wait!” campaign received a $100,000 cash infusion from liberal donor Jonathan Lewis, the son of major Democratic philanthropist Peter Lewis.
Quotes from Jonathan Lewis:
“This isn’t a broken promise President Obama can blame on Congress. He has not been able to provide a single valid reason for why he is now refusing to sign the executive order protecting LGBT workers. It has become increasingly clear that this decision is based on cowardice rather than principled leadership.”
“Over the past several years the LGBT advocacy groups have jumped through hoops for this administration, conducting extensive research and polling — more than has been done for any similar executive order — and now the only impediment is President Obama.”
“This is nothing short of craven election-year politics, a game Obama told us he would not play.”
Jonathan Lewis and his father, Peter, are major contributors to progressive causes. And, by major, I mean they give millions.
Another reason to give to specific candidates, particularly in the primary, as opposed to OFA, the DNC, the DCCC, or the DSCC.
But hey, a wing of the Talibaptists at the Focus on the Family liked that he dissed the LBGT community.
Below, you can see Jay Carney saying that “more study is needed”. I guess that the unspoken assumption here is that gays are just too icky to have equal rights unless we can make bigots feel better about themselves.
Seriously, Andrew Breitbart was better on gay inclusion that Barack Obama is:
Seriously, how about not being a coward on this issue. Not being a coward gets you votes.
Could They Both Lose?
Well, it looks like the Republican primary is well and truly over, and we are into the general election silly season, case in point, he Ann Romney – Hillary Rosen contretemps:
Now, it’s Republicans pretending there’s a big national fight over a subject that most women basically agree on – the decision to work or stay home. Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen unintentionally set off this fake firestorm when she commented on CNN Wednesday night that Ann Romney – whom Mitt Romney has been referring to as his top adviser on women’s issues – has “never worked a day in her life.” Here’s the full quote:
“What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country, saying, ‘Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that’s what I’m hearing.’ Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing, in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and why do we worry about their future.”
The Romney campaign pounced, with Ann Romney putting out her first-ever tweet: “I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.”
So, we have Mitt Romney saying that his wife, who’s never had to worry about providing the necessities to her kids, would be his source for insight into women who have to work in this country, versus Hillary Rosen, who used to be chief counsel for the RIAA, where she viciously opposed fair use, and has spent her life selling her skills to the various corporate faces evil as a lobbyist.
To quote Henry Kissinger, “It’s a pity they can’t both lose.”
Please, just make it stop.
Buh Bye Frothy Mixture
Rick Santorum has suspended his campaign, so it’s Mitt who’s going to be the nominee.
My guess is that he decided that he achieved his goal, which was “The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex,” off the top of the Google list.
It’s Tuesday, So There Are Primaries
And Romney sweeps the primaries, Maryland, DC, and Wisconsin.
The fat lady is singing. About the only interesting thing is that Santorum was not on the ballot in DC, and none of the votes went to either Gingrich or Paul. (Romney 70.2%, Paul 12%, Gingrich, 10.8%)
Such are the vicissitudes of the Maryland electoral that I didn’t even bother to vote.
Only congressmen and a senators were up for elections, and Ben Cardin is Senator for as long as he wants to be, and Jon Cardin is my rep for life.
There was a bit of drama in the 6th district, where the Republican octogenarian Roscoe Bartlett was challenged by 7 opponents in the primary, but won with a plurality, and on the Democratic side, there was what was supposed to a close race between John Delaney and State Senator Rob Garagiola wasn’t close:
A wealthy Potomac businessman whose very candidacy challenged state Democratic leaders won a congressional primary in Western Maryland on Tuesday, setting up a battle for the seat in November that will help decide control of the House of Representatives.
John Delaney, a banker and first-time candidate, managed to topple state Sen. Rob Garagiola in the race, even though leading Democratics in Annapolis such as Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller had the legislator in mind when they redrew the 6th Congressional District last year to make it more competitive.
Garagiola was endorsed by Governor O’Malley, and Delaney was endorsed by Bill Clinton, and Delaney spent a lot more money, but given the dynamics of of western Maryland, my guess is that the voters in the region, at least in the old 6th, resented the idea of having their district redrawn for the benefit of one guy.
I Know Who I am Writing in for President
Seen on facebook.
Romney Crushes Santorum
It appears that Santorum won the Talibaptist vote, but that’s not enough in Illinois, where Romney crushed him.
I expect this to continue for a while because:
- The press hates Romney now almost as much as they hated Gore in 2000.
- The states with high numbers of insane religious zealots, otherwise known as the Republican base, will continue to vote for the “Not the Mormon.”
But Romney got almost half the (admittedly anemic) votes cast, and Santorum did not manage to field a full slate of delegates, and it’s Illinois, which like Ohio, needs to be in play for any Republican to win, so I think that it’s game over, though I the clown show to continue.
So, There Were Primaries Tonight
Pass the Popcorn
It looks like Santorum won in both Alabama and Mississippi, so the freak show continues, for a while, at least.
That being said, I would say that upon examination of the Mississippi and Alabama Republican primary electorate, a large plurality believe that Obama is a secret Muslim, I would have to say that it should be a positive thing that Romney could not win with those folks.
Seriously, it’s like these states are an open air asylum.