IT CAME FROM THE GOP!!!
"People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world” – Bob Merrill
Are the luckiest people in the world” – Bob Merrill
“…
there are 47 percent… 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, to housing, to you-name-it … My job
is not to worry
about those people. I’ll never
convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their
lives.”- Mitt Romney
“You
couldn't really have a heart
And hurt me
Like you hurt me
And be so untrue”- Hal David
And hurt me
Like you hurt me
And be so untrue”- Hal David
As any regular
readers, semi-regular readers, mind readers, palm readers, Weekly Readers, or despondent
and deeply disappointed porn seekers would surely know, we here in the
luxurious penthouse office suites of “… and several butcher’s aprons,” in the
opulent “… and several butcher’s aprons” Towers, overlooking the pleasantly
pastoral “… and several butcher’s aprons” Plaza, have previously prosed with profound
frequency, and at extensive length, our boldly, biased beliefs on the strengths
and weaknesses of the two men in fractious,
contentious and prickly pursuit of the office of President of these United
States (links to a few can be found at the end of this post for reference,
curiosity, and for the unapologetic and unabashed ego satisfaction of the
writer.) As with any self-important, yet
more accurately, patently unimportant purveyor of political opinion, it is now
my turn to annoyingly force (and never let it be said that this forum ever
passes up an opportunity to annoy) my unwanted and, soon to be justifiably,
unheeded, endorsement for the 2012 Presidential election. But, by this point, as any American with even
but a single of their five senses fully-functional is acutely aware of all the
particulars, minutia and mishegoss (hmm,
Word 2010 doesn’t recognize Yiddish) of the candidates and this seemingly century-long
campaign, this will not be a detailed diatribe of their distinctly divergent views,
policies or records, as in standard and intelligent endorsements, but rather, a
dis-endorsement in the form of a frightening forecast of a future in which Willard
reigns victorious.
“He wants to
savage Medicaid and repeal Obamacare, costing 34 million people healthcare
coverage. He would slash spending on education, child nutrition, veteran’s
programs and more. He promises to repeal the reforms made to limit Wall
Street’s excesses.”– Chicago Sun-Times
Mitt’s
Motivation
A common
recurring complaint among the progressive punditry is that the Ex-Governor appears
to lack any clear or spoken impetus or rational reasoning behind his coveting of
Commander in Chief credentials. True, he’s been trained since toddler-hood for
the task and his past presents a path pointed particularly toward this pursuit.
And certainly, the Confident-One feels entitled and deserving of the honor,
much like Sarah Palin and the Miss Wasilla crown. But when candidly queried on the “why” of his
quest, he’s as vague, non-committal and insincere as Eddie Murphy’s account of
his shemale shenanigans, and, frankly, as Mitt’s responses are to pretty much
any and all questions. But, if you, my exceptional reader, were running for the
highest office in the land (no, not Ryan Seacrest’s job) would you fess up to the
fact that you were doing so in order that
you, the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson
and others of that Plutocratic financial ruling class would have fewer tax
burdens and fewer financial rules and regulations placed upon you, thereby freeing
yourselves to accumulate even further obscene sums of wealth, sans any moral or
legal encumbrances, largely through the labors, at the expense, and on the backs
of the middle class and the poor? Gone
will be the inheritance tax, and the unwieldy and unfair 13% capital gains tax
that so devastates Mitt’s $250,000,000 worth.
The most well-off among us will receive $86 billion dollars more in
income tax savings above and beyond the Bush cuts already in place, while
middle class levies will rise to the sour tune of an additional $2000 each a
year. Well, you wouldn’t be trailing
that message on a banner behind your biplane above the beach at Coney Island, now
would you?
“Mitt Romney
offers dangerous ideas, when he offers any.” – The New York Times
A Mindless
Man of Many Minds
Willard Mitt Romney hasn’t had a principle
since Miss Haversham repressively ruled
the roost in boarding school (I know the spelling is different, sometimes you
have to cheat), or a core since Jeeves last peeled and seeded him a Granny
Smith. Perchance, are you part of “the well-to do, up and
down Park Avenue, on that famous thoroughfare, with their noses in the
air? High hats and Arrowed collars, white spats and lots of dollars, spending
every dime, for a wonderful time?” Do you speak, Howell-esque, teeth and
jaw tightly clenched? Do family members
sport the name Muffy, Toper, Bitsy, Biff and Chip? Are you a captain of
industry, a corporate raider, a vulture capitalist, or an actual vulture? Are the poverty stricken your personal source
of Soylent Green? Tell Mitt Romney what to do, he’s waiting. Mitt will do
anything, or say anything to anyone at any time, and then when required, deny
it all, facial smirk smugly in place. He’s
been pro-choice and pro-life, “severely” conservative and progressive, he’s
been to the “left of Ted Kennedy” on gay rights and supports a Constitutional
amendment banning gay marriage, he’s believed climate change to be real and
man-made but also junk science and a liberal conspiracy, he’s created universal
healthcare in Massachusetts and vows to repeal Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act. Mitt’s had more faces than
Joan Rivers, more dramatic changes than a bipolar transsexual and more
positions than a double-jointed nymphomaniac. As Mitt used to sing in his days
with The Spice Girls, “So tell me what you want, what you really really
want.” This is a man resolutely without convictions but for those he hopes not
to receive as a result of his dubious, overseas tax-dodges.
The Best of the Worst
This election season the Republican Party gravely insulted our country, its
people and its history by presenting as their presidential candidates a clown’s
car full of misfits, miscreants and misogynists so aberrant that they would
have put to shame any self-respecting freak show; and included among their ranks
were some whose very sanity could have justifiably been doubted and questioned.
Out of this distressing muck arose Willard Mitt Romney, disputably the only
edible fruit out if this poisons horn of plenty – leaving us with a conciliation
prize neither praiseworthy, nor statesman-like in stature. Question an intended
Obama voter on the reasons for their support and they are likely to rattle off
such things as Obama-care, Bin Laden, the creation of 5.2 million jobs, the
slow but steady decrease in unemployment, ending the Iraq War, saving the auto
industry, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Wall
Street Reform, Student Loan Reform, Veteran Support (and as Yul Brynner was
want to say) etc., etc. Ask a Romney-ite
about their presidential preference and oft-times you’re likely to hear a
half-hearted, “he’s not Obama,” “Obama’s a Muslim,” Obama’s a Communist,’’ “Obama’s
a Kenyan.” I’ll leave any further interpretation of the sum total of those frequently
articulated GOP/Fox/Palin/Tea Party flagrant fabrications to you. The point being, very few
express ecstatic encouragement for the Romney/Ryan ticket but more often a fear
of a second Obama term, one in which he will kill your Grandmother, confiscate
your firearms and institute a Marxist dictatorship grounded in Sharia Law.
Willard’s
World and Welcome To It
Our
decision for this November 6th couldn’t be less complicated if it
were contemplations from the mind of Michele Bachmann. If you want our military to remain in
Afghanistan and you desire fresh boots on the ground in Iran and Syria; if you
are unconcerned with equal rights, pay and opportunity for both the LGBT community
and women, or the specific rights of women to make their own health choices
without big government interference; if you want the working class to pay higher taxes so
the rich can contribute less; if 34
million people losing health coverage is none of your never-mind; if the elimination
of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid seems like sound governmental policy;
if you believe a Gubernatorial history
of 47th in the nation is impressive job creation; if, very relevantly, you dismiss climate
change and want increasingly severe and deadly weather occurrences all,
eventually and inevitably, leading to an
uninhabitable planet for future generations; if you want a President with a
looser grip on reality than Little Edie Bouvier Beale and a stronger penchant for
an easier tossed-off, brazen falsehood than an Evangelical Congressman caught
in a men’s room stall by airport security, then by all means, on that second Tuesday in
November, pull that lever, punch that chad, crayon in that empty box and cast a negative ballot
for a campaign whose entire foundation has been one of lies – tall tales about
Welfare, Medicare, Death Panels, increasing unemployment and a worsening economy,
past positions, record and statements; or vote with positive intentions for facts,
reality, truth and a good, thoughtful, compassionate, intelligent man with an
already estimable record. But, then
again, why not wait until Wednesday when the crowds will have thinned out.
Now, as always,
we proudly present the previously alluded to melodies,with English songbird,
Cilla Black and Brooklyn belter, Barbra Streisand. Then, if you’re still
sticking around, you’ll find the aforementioned links to the related earlier Romney
and Obama posts.
so ironic. ad popup for Romney on your Cilla Black song!
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