Pomeranian dog shit vs.Poodle dog shit. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote:
> Voters Have Two Candidates, No Choice > > Posted on Mar 22, 2012 > > AP / Steven Senne > Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at the University > of Chicago. > > By Robert Scheer > > With Mitt Romney’s super-PAC limo now on cruise control to victory at > the GOP convention, voters are left with only two reasons to vote > against Barack Obama: Either they are desperate to return a white man > to the White House or they feel strongly that it is time to break the > glass ceiling denying Mormons the presidency. > > Out of a sense of tolerance I could cotton to the latter—heck, why > should the bizarre beliefs of Romney’s church be a deal breaker? I’m > hoping for a strong Jewish contender someday and wouldn’t like her > burdened with defending Old Testament claptrap. > > The problem in this mind-numbing Republican primary season is that the > campaign has exposed Romney as not just another white male Mormon like > some of the fairly reasonable senators who have represented Utah. Or > like Romney’s own father, George, at one time the governor of > Michigan. No, this Romney is now widely regarded as the vulture > capitalist he is, a politician who is a say-and-do-anything > opportunist with no moral limits on his outsized ambitions. > > Nothing is sacred to the former Massachusetts governor, not even his > own signature health plan that he sold to that state’s voters as the > standard for rational government decision-making as regards the deep > problems faced by our economy. The weaknesses of what Romney and the > GOP deride as Obamacare have been all too obvious in the plan Romney > touted in Massachusetts—a mandate to sign up without the cost > restraints that a single-payer government program would offer. Now, > with a new national plan from Rep. Paul Ryan emerging from the U.S. > House, Romney and the Republican Party generally seek to compound that > error by undermining Medicare and Medicaid, two programs that offer at > least a modicum of cost control. Instead, the candidate and his > fellow Republicans would turn consumers over completely to the tender > mercies of for-profit insurers. > > The justification for gutting what little remains of enlightened > government programs to aid the vulnerable is, of course, the dreaded > federal deficit. (Lest we forget, seniors were foremost among the > vulnerable until the arrival of the programs now under attack.) What > is so outrageously hypocritical about the proposals from both Romney > and Ryan is that they do not touch, and indeed would further open, the > spending spigot that caused all of the red ink following President > Bill Clinton’s budget-balancing act. > > > Advertisement > > Both Romney and Ryan want to increase President George W. Bush’s tax > breaks for the wealthy, which seriously cut revenues while treating as > sacrosanct the Cold War levels in military spending that Bush put in > place in a wildly irrational response to the 9/11 attacks. This week > Ryan announced that defense spending is off-limits, and Romney has > campaigned for an increase in what represents more than 40 percent of > the non-mandated federal budget. > > I can’t wait for the moment in a presidential debate when Romney talks > about the need for even more advanced U.S. weaponry to counter the > emerging military threat from Communist China and Obama ever so coolly > points out that Bain Capital, the company that Romney co-founded, has > been supplying those Red tyrants with surveillance equipment to better > monitor their citizenry. > > With Ron Paul’s fortunes as a presidential candidate declining, there > is no pressure on GOP leaders to link a withdrawal from the imperial > adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan with a reduced federal handout to > the military-industrial complex. Nor will the Republican leadership > confront the party’s responsibility for the nation’s economic > collapse, the subsequent loss in tax revenues, and the Fed and > Treasury policies that bailed out the Wall Street charlatans who > invented this meltdown. > > Instead of reigning in Wall Street greed, the GOP is demanding a > reversal of even the tepid efforts of the Obama administration to hold > the financial industry accountable to honest business practices. And, > at a time when the largest multinational companies have shifted jobs > and profits abroad, the GOP stands for rewarding that betrayal of > American workers by eliminating all taxes on overseas corporate > profits. > > The pity in all this is that a legitimate critique of the Obama > record—present to some degree in the Paul dissection of the > president’s war policy and his continuation of the Bush Wall Street > bailout strategy—will not be heard in the general election debate. > Instead, on the one hand, we will have Obama offering clever-sounding > arguments for establishment policies that fail to deal with high > unemployment, a brutal level of housing foreclosures and sharpening > income inequality. And on the other hand there will be a Republican > Party so steeped in the ethos of greed, racism and war-mongering that > it would leave even Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, were they alive, > with no choice but to vote for Obama as the lesser evil. > > More: > > http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/voters_have_two_candidates_no_choice_20120322/ > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy > > > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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