Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Romney attacks Obama for rising income inequality. And not in a quiet room, either.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/19/1358704/-Romney-attacks-Obama-for-rising-income-inequality-And-not-in-a-quiet-room-either?detail=email#

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a primary night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire April 24, 2012.  REUTERS/Dominick Reuter

"Under President Obama the rich have gotten richer, income inequality has gotten worse and there are more people in poverty in American than ever before."
Really, how did he say that with a straight face? Even by Mitt Romney's very generous standards for acceptable position changes, that is beyond acrobatic. That's alternate-universe stuff right there. This isn't the discovery of a new interest: Romney has always been a class warrior. It's just that now we're supposed to believe he's switched sides. Switched sides on the substantive issue and on how to address it, because, as Steve Benen reminds us, just three years ago, Romney's view was that it was beyond the pale for Obama to even talk publicly about economic inequality:
I think it’s fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms and discussions about tax policy and the like. But the president has made it part of his campaign rally. Everywhere he goes we hear him talking about millionaires and billionaires and executives and Wall Street. It’s a very envy-oriented, attack-oriented approach and I think it will fail.
And now we've got Mitt Romney standing on a damn aircraft carrier railing about how the rich have gotten richer and income inequality has gotten worse (or, as he thinks in his heart of hearts, better). That's some quiet room right there.
as to the economy his party was the one that sank it and did nothing to repair their broken economy look back at all the cities and families Bain and Romney ruined and he attacks the one trying to fix their mayhem to our economy, that is truly the audacity of republican arrogance.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-08-12/bain-s-creative-destruction-destroys-lives


i wonder does Romney have an extemporaneous speech writer we know he flups the long ones but that off the cuff ability unlike Pres. he just doesn't have it like that.  what is it with these guys and aircraft carriers i take umbrage i served on the USS Forrestal CVA-59 Jan. '66-Dec. '67 we had McCain that was enough but now it's become faux chic for them to use the military as a prop. so do they have any credible connection with military or war that associates them with aircraft carriers??

G W Bush questionable Nat'l Guard service

Romney non service