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On top of my other problems today, my traveling laptop seems to have given up the ghost, so I’m currently tapping this out on an ancient business center PC that will soon charge me a small fortune if I don’t log out. Nothing like a nostalgic trip back to the 1990s, eh?
In any event, here are some closing items for the day:
* David Corn unearths a video of Mitt speaking to donors and making it clear he will have no interest in the views or wishes of Obama supporters if he’s elected.
* Peter King can’t identify an Obama “apology,” but insists it must exist.
* Pew shows public disapproval of Romney comments on Middle East crisis by 26/48 margin.
* At College Guide, Daniel Luzer takes a look at what sequestration would likely do to higher ed programs.
* At Ten Miles Square, Seth Masket evaluates Romney gaffes and notes that campaign doesn’t apologize when “the base” like the gaffe.
And in non-political news:
* Harvey Weinstein may have already cornered Oscars.
I’ll be back with a new and improved game plan tomorrow!
Selah.
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c u n d gulag on September 17, 2012 6:20 PM:
Feel better, Ed
Drink some hot tea with lemon and a TON of rum.
You may not feel better, but maybe you won't know for awhile~! :-)
emjayay on September 17, 2012 6:40 PM:
Everyone - check out the video linked in the first post. It explains a lot. Romney isn't faking being an extreme far right bigot. He's faking not being an extreme far right bigot.
f. slip on September 17, 2012 6:50 PM:
Peter King is on board as the angry white guy...
He kept interrupting and cutting in while others
on the panel were making more sensible statements on Meet the Press. It was an obvious move like Fox News to
block/interfere/over-talk to break their continuity.
A regular Sean Hannity, that guy. I ended up changing the channel.
When Soldad O'Brien spoke of fact checks, he smacked out with "I don't care about the facts." I just saw that now.
Both television performances made me think he might need something for blood pressure. He is hardly credible.
"Criticism is never inhibited by ignorance"
~~Harold Macmillan
bmorejoe on September 17, 2012 6:58 PM:
Yikes. Public librarys (at least in Maryland) have lots of Internet computers that can be used for free, fyi. Also possible to have a backup machine for $500 or less. Just sayin... You have become my main political pundit to read, fwiw.
Ronald on September 17, 2012 6:59 PM:
Go see the David Corn thing: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser
OMG I am still shaking with mad.
This is a B.O.M.B.
He says 47% of Americans basically believe that they are entitled (ENTITLED??) to government provided 'health care, food, and housing'.
AND
that "[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Holy secret footage Batman!
Ronald on September 17, 2012 7:16 PM:
Romney donor video is pretty much blowing up right now. Its hitting TV media.
Go read the article. Worth your time.
pass the mother f'in popcorn...the crash and burn show has started. ;)
Equal Opportunity Cynic on September 17, 2012 7:19 PM:
First, hope you feel better, Ed.
Second, I'm glad Ronald brought up the MoJo piece. As I commented over there, I think Romney has been pretty transparent about his contempt for anyone but the upper crust so it's not all that shocking to me. OTOH, you're not supposed to say those things where they can be made public, so hopefully this leak will run his campaign even farther off-course.
And supposedly Corn says the next episode will be even better!
anonymous on September 17, 2012 8:31 PM:
I was thinking today how the right wing routinely attacked President Obama for his pastor's statements, and really focused on religion. It was endless.
Mitt Romney said something very controversial in a debate back in January, and you never hear a peep about it.
Sally Denton dared to write about it in Salon back in January--and asked this>>>>
"....Since his first campaign in 2008, Romney has attempted to keep debate about his religion out of the political discourse.
The issue is not whether there is a religious test for political office; the Constitution prohibits it. Instead, the question is whether, past all of the flip-flops on virtually every policy, he has an underlying religious conception of the presidency and the American government.
At the recent GOP presidential debate in Florida, Romney professed that the Declaration of Independence is a theological document, not specific to the rebellious 13 colonies, but establishing a covenant “between God and man.”
Ms. Denton notes "this would suggest that Mitt Romney views the American presidency as a theological office."
She also included this:
"In his 2008 book, Michael Moody said that he ran for governor of Nevada in 1982 because he felt he had been divinely directed to “expand our kingdom” and help Romney “lead the world into the Millennium.
Once a firm believer but now a church critic, Moody was indoctrinated with the White Horse Prophecy.
Like Romney, Moody is a seventh-generation Mormon, steeped in the same intellectual and theological milieu."
“We were taught that America is the Promised Land,” he said in an interview.”The Mormons are the Chosen People. And the time is now for a Mormon leader to usher in the second coming of Christ and install the political Kingdom of God in Washington, D.C.”
T2 on September 17, 2012 9:17 PM:
The Romney video.....all he is saying is what the GOP Platform spells out. He's not gonna get that 47% and he knows it.....and he doesn't want " The Help's" vote anyway.
If he is elected it will be with the 27% white racist vote plus the 21% Big Rich vote. No secret here.
Ronald on September 17, 2012 9:53 PM:
@T2-
The fact that Romney wasn't shilling for my vote isn't the issue.
Ronnie? He was a tool.
'W'? A bigger tool.
But with neither of them did I ever feel that they held me _in contempt_ because I wasn't 'one of them'. At least, to them, I was still an American and still counted.
Romney. Doesn't. Care.
_That_ is what matters here.
And it is in his own words, his own voice. There's no way to say this is 'dissembling', or 'taking things out of context'. This is what the man really believes. What he doesn't say to the American people. Why he didn't mention Afghanistan or our veterans (those damned freeloaders) in his 'coronation' speech.
He tosses the military. The disabled. The elderly who are on a fixed government income. People who can't afford medical insurance. All of those are tossed in the same pile of thoughtless freeloaders.
And the word he, Willard Mitt Romney, used to describe "those people"?
Entitled.
*shakes head*
mad_nVT on September 17, 2012 9:56 PM:
Must be time for an . . . . . . .
. . . Etch-a-Sketch Romney moment.
Another head shaker on September 17, 2012 10:27 PM:
He talks to the 1% about "people who pay no taxes..." - uh--isn't that you Mitt Romney?
Where are the tax returns, Mitt??
Inhumane, heartless---WAKE UP CALL, AMERICA.
Unbelievably brutal:
Mitt----------They want FOOD???????-----“
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, 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....."
Why is it that Mitt Romney want to be president?
Even Bloomburg online has said that his campaign is toast.
David Corn says there is more to come.
Kathryn on September 17, 2012 10:45 PM:
@Ronald....like your comment.
bluestatedon on September 17, 2012 11:04 PM:
The really wonderful thing is that the guy who hosted the now-infamous private donor party for Mittens had already achieved some fame as a host for a different kind of party:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/romney-secret-video-marc-leder-sex-parties
I wonder what the Christianist fundies will have to say about this, especially since Mittens has recently been strenuously cozying up to the wingnuts.
schtick on September 17, 2012 11:05 PM:
Why is another surprised about what was said on that tape? He's been saying that stuff in bits and bites right along. You know, 'you people', 'free stuff', and all that 47% that don't pay taxes crap. It's been out there for about a year now. It's just that he said it all together at one time on that tape.
Rick B on September 17, 2012 11:15 PM:
"[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." [Romney]
There it is. Government's responsibility is strictly for protecting and increasing the wealth of the very wealthy. To Hell with those whose labor creates whatever wealth exists in America, all that matters it that the already wealthy and powerful retain the power to lord it over the peons.
still shaking head on September 18, 2012 12:00 AM:
Wall Street lawyer Dennis Kelleher announces on Current TV's Viewpoint:
$12.8 trillion dollars is the cost of the Wall Street disaster in 2008: assessing the economic wreckage:
$12,800,000,000,000
Lost value to the economy....and we know the costs to society....kind of what old Mitt was so dismissive about
Mitt is part of that 1%
Joe Friday on September 18, 2012 12:11 AM:
In regards to Willard's impromptu press conference this evening to address the video, all I heard was non-denial denials.
Th on September 18, 2012 8:51 AM:
Not to be all "Debbie Downer" here but this may well mean a shifting of the big money from the Romney campaign to House and Senate races. I will be watching what happens to the big ad blitz planned for the swing states.