by Blueberry T
Tuesday, July 10,
2012
KatieAnnieOakley knows a thing or two about what
happens when Bain Capital comes to town, takes over a company and sucks the
life out of it, leaving a devastated community.
In this post, she brings us an up-close-and-personal view of how Bain
affects people and communities. She
recreates the feelings of fear, loss, hopelessness and struggle that permeated
the communities that Bain affected. We
feel how people are manipulated and cast away, and how it affects the entire life of the community.
Katie uses several dialogs that are really effective in allowing us to
experience and feel these situations.
Somehow, she manages to maintain her indomitable spirit and sense of
humor – well done!
Wednesday, July 11,
2012
Leadfoot tackled episodes 7 and 8 of
Bristol Palin’s dysfunctional life. The episodes show how mean Bristol is to just about
everyone she comes in contact with. Willow is not far behind
in the meanness department, for example telling her boyfriend that she hopes he
gets trampled and “bites it,” while smiling broadly. The episodes largely revolve and devolve
around their constant nagging, sniping and bickering. This is someone’s idea of entertainment,
right? Thankfully, Leadfoot offers her
comments with her usual wit and insights; it’s really too bad that the Palin
kids don’t seem to have anyone who is so thoughtful and sensible guiding them. Leadfoot does a great job showing how Bristol creates a conflict, mishandles it, and then
rewrites history about it – classic Palin
MO. In this series, poor Tripp has been subjected
to emotional abuse about his father, forcing him to do things that he is scared
of, being encouraged to be rude, and interacting with his sometimes zombie-like
mother. We are beginning to see the
early signs of rebellion that will likely make him hell on wheels when he is
older. Bristol, honey, you may think
you’re so smart now, making all this money by exploiting your son, but you will
pay big time in the end. That’s a promise.
Here is Annes' brilliant spoof on Bristol's show -- better than the original, by far.
Here is Annes' brilliant spoof on Bristol's show -- better than the original, by far.
Patrick highlights the excellent new ad
from the Obama campaign, which has gone viral:
Mitt Romney’s off-key singing of America
the Beautiful, while his record of outsourcing and investing outside of America
flashes on the screen. The post also includes
Henry Blodget at Business Insider pointing out how ludicrous Romney’s claim,
that he wasn’t responsible for Bain’s actions during that period, is. His titles included chairman, president, CEO,
sole owner and managing partner – yet he really thinks that the American people
are gullible enough to believe that he had nothing to do with the decisions of
the company during that period?
Right. Republicans are coming out
of the woodwork, urging Romney to disclose his financial information. A video shows how he stumbled over a question
about this during the primary debates, and quickly tried to change the
subject. Interestingly, Steve Schmidt,
who actually SAW 23 years of Mitt’s tax returns, said he would NOT urge Romney
to “disadvantage himself with issues like his taxes.” Dum de dum dum. (Okay, I’m dating myself with music from Dragnet.)
The post includes much more, including great videos and photos.
Sunday, July 15,
2012
Patrick digs into key documents to see the
inconsistencies in what Mitt Romney has said about his tenure at Bain and his
prior statements and financial disclosure forms. In a nutshell: it does not look good for
Mittens; the contradictions are obvious for anyone to see. He may be the first CEO, sole owner and
managing partner in history that claims to have no responsibility for the
actions of his own companies – but guess what, Mitt: we the people are going to
hold you responsible, because we don’t buy your BS. You’ll also see some of the excellent investigative
work and reporting that David Corn of Mother Jones did on this issue. Giving the story even more “legs,” the Romney
campaign is now claiming that he “retired retroactively,” which led to a
brilliant and sometimes hilarious “#retroactively” trend on Twitter. This post is PACKED with much more sourced
information – nice to have so much in one place. H/T to KatieAnnieOakley for her investigative
work as well.
Two
thoughts from BBT: 1) the biggest
take-home message to me is that Romney’s business career is now a liability – he
tried to run on his business acumen but now he’s running from his
business record as fast as he can. 2) It
looks to me like Mitt was deliberately keeping all his options open
during that critical 1999-2002 period because he didn’t know which way he
wanted to go. He tried to play things both ways so that he
could #retroactively claim whatever worked to his advantage regarding his role
at Bain and his residence. He wasn’t
sure if he wanted to go back to Bain or run for Governor of Utah or Massachusetts , so he
hedged his bets, and it’s only now that his keep-options-open trickery is being
exposed. His MO is to try to play things
both ways and claim whichever side of an issue helps him at the moment; this
fudging of the Bain departure date shows the same mindset.
Some comments and
links:
CracklinCharlie (to
Leadfoot): Sorry
you had to watch that. At least your
daughter was spared.
Psalm023:
What I can't understand is what type of
individuals does Lifetime hire to allow this abusive spectacle - they must know
this family has questionnable mental issues, and they continue to promote
this.........unbelievable.
More_Cowbell:
Did Bristol
think that the producers liked her so much that they would edit out the bad
stuff? Or does Bristol ,
like Sarah, think that she can make things true just by saying them? Or does
she think that viewers are so stupid that they'll forget what they just saw? Or
is Bristol so
stupid that she just doesn't remember what she says, the second the words leave
her constantly flapping mouth? The options are practically endless with the
Palins.
GetaLife:
Sarah thought this show was going to be
brilliant, but all it does is show that all the Palin myths (outdoorsy, tough,
thick-skinned, athletic, smart, close family) are just that - myths.
FormerRepublican:
I have vivid memories of being pushed by
a narcissistic mother into doing things that terrified me when I was Tripp's
age (and younger). Not only are you feeling fear, but also deep distress over
how Mommy, who claims she loves me, is making me do this terrifying thing and
is unmoved by my increasingly panic-stricken sobs.
Alwaysthink found this: "Mitt started this campaign with no real
convictions. The way things are going, he may definitely have one before it's
over."
Balzafiar: The
Great Mittsby is denying he was at Bain during those years in question, but an
employee of Bain at that time has publicly stated that he answered to only one
person -- Mitt Romney.
Linda1961: Rmoney
is trying to claim that Democrats are attacking him because he's successful,
Patrick, but Rmoney doesn't have it quite right. Democrats are attacking him
because of HOW he became successful. He gamed the system in a way that most
can't, and some who can don't, to make millions. It may be legal, but isn't
ethical (hence, some who can, don't). Now it appears he may have done something
illegal - lied to the SEC. Rmoney is successful because he is unethical and
possibly a crook. He isn't handling this very well, but then he hasn't handled
other crises well either - he's weak, and unable to think on his feet. Rmoney
is not presidential material at all.
ProChoiceGrandma pointed out the Romney has
repeatedly claimed that he was in business for 25 years…let’s see,
1977+25=2002…
Maelewis gave a good synopsis of Bain-gate
and other discrepancies in Mitt’s story: The
short answer is that Bain dismantled companies and outsourced jobs during that
time. Since Romney has chosen to run on his record at Bain, he has to run on
the bad stuff as well as the good stuff. Now, he doesn't want to be blamed for
the bad stuff, notably after 1999. In a number of places, he claimed not to be
part of Bain after 1999, where legal documents contradict him. It's hard to
vote for a presidential candidate who is not truthful-- especially when there
is a paper trail.
Mitt has
misrepresented other information as well, claiming residence in his son's
Belmont , Massachusetts
unfinished basement when that was not his residence. When he ran for governor
of Massachusetts ,
there was a seven year residence requirement. However, Mitt was working in Salt
Lake City 1999-2002, claiming a tax exemption on his home as a legal resident
of Utah . When
confronted with the seven year Massachusetts
residence required, he claimed that Utah
had made clerical errors-- it was Ann's house, not his, and he paid the
out-of-state higher tax. Slick Willy has been too slick before. (Mitt also
applied for a Utah
State drivers license--
not a clerical error).
FormerRepublican also
had a good explanatory comment (as did others):
BlueRinse, yes, it was illegal. It also matters because
Bain ran a lot of good companies into the ground after his alleged
"retroactive" retirement and put thousands out of work. Bain and
Romney profited enormously from this. Romney knows that this is a terrible
thing to overcome politically, particularly while we are still trying to
recover from a recession caused by corporate greed and lack of financial
oversight. It also goes to his character because while the Republicans champion
the virtue of personal responsibility, Mitt refuses to accept responsibility
and is instead demanding an apology. Any minute now he'll be rolling Ann out in
a wheelchair in a sympathy bid and so she can insist that people stop picking
on him. It's the only defense he has left.
I'm reposting my
comment from the previous thread: In 1999, Mitt unwittingly
articulated the motive for his big Bain lie to the Salt Lake Tribune, as posted
by Alex Koppelman at The New Yorker on July 13, 2012 in Mitt Romney, Psychic. Mitt said in 1999: I'm not a powder puff…. By that I mean
that it's not that I would never consider laying off workers or losing down a
plant to save a company. Unfortunately in the business world I know, the world
of troubled companies, many businesses can get better with medicine. But many
others require painful, wrenching surgery. I have been involved with companies
that concluded they had to close a plant in order to survive. And that's an
awful, awful thing to have happen. And it's death for a politician to be
associated with that.
EbbtideMB: Ladies
and gentlemen, sit back and relax. Act Three of our drama will be starting
shortly--Mitt Romney, The Olympic Years. The third act will include intrigue,
massive government subsidies, shady land deals, back alley lobbying by Utah congress critters,
questionable sponsorship arrangements and so much more for your viewing
enjoyment as Mittens goes "off to run the Olympics." (it bugs me when
he says he went "off to run the Olympics"--not sure why, but it just
sounds so tally-ho-ish.)
BellPeppery found this LinkedIn profile forMitt Romney; hahahahahaha! (Edited to say they finally took down the profile talking about how Romney was a vulture/vampire capitalist while at Bain.)
Older_Wiser found more on Romney’s lies aboutthe Bain departure timeline.
BanditBasheert pointed out this on politicususa
on Romney’s dog-whistles to racists.
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel: “You’re so Bain.”
Mmboucher reminded us of this link to the
McCain campaign’s opposition research on Romney.
Scorpie found this article in the BostonPhoenix (from a few years back – perhaps even more relevant now):
HonestyinGov linked to Karoli atcrooksandliars and to
HuffPo on Mitt’s partner saying Romney was legally CEO of Bain until 2002 and also
reminded us of this important story about Mitt’s company’s Medicare fraud
(while he was in charge).
Mxm pointed out this in-depth articleon how Bain operated back in the day, and this
confirming that Mitt was involved in the Stericyle deal after 1999.
Bluerinse found some great
#retroactively tweets: here are two
@Johngcole I guess
retroactive retirement makes sense to people who baptize the dead.
#retroactively
How did Bristol
Palin become an abstinence expert? #Retroactively
Here’s one from enigmaplanner: Is
it too late for @mittromney to suspend his campaign and #retroactively go back
to Bain to outsource jobs and fire people? #likeheneverleft
BicPent found this one: https://twitter.com/HannieOkel...
JOB POSTING: Bain Capital seeks CEO to work #retroactively from 1999-2002. Attractive salary, plus "Caymanian" IRA, lots of "free stuff"”
JOB POSTING: Bain Capital seeks CEO to work #retroactively from 1999-2002. Attractive salary, plus "Caymanian" IRA, lots of "free stuff"”
PMom_GA pointed these
out: https://twitter.com/leclemot/s...
I must say this retroactive thing has me all excited! Let's #retroactively NOT
confirm Scalia, Thomas, and Alito!
https://twitter.com/leclemot/s...
Let's impeach Bush/Cheney #retroactively
And while
we’re at it with tweets, here is a brilliant tweet from LOLGOP:
@LOLGOP Melinda Gates pledges $560,000,000 for contraception. And that's just for the Palin family.
@LOLGOP Melinda Gates pledges $560,000,000 for contraception. And that's just for the Palin family.
O/T mental health break fromAndrew Sullivan, with h/t to Linda 1961
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