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see it happen good luck representative giffords comments leave a comment tags arizona gabrilelle giffords political politics categories admirable women my own brand of liberalism on a serious note politics it isn t envy mr romney and it isn t a war on capitalism either 14 01 2012 mitt romney is the former governor of massachusetts but you wouldn t know that by looking at his campaign presentation rather than pointing out his experience in the actually process of governing mr romney has chosen to campaign on his career in the private sector as a conservative businessman and job creator as he often describes himself at campaign stops and in debates after winning the new hampshire primary he gave a victory speech that bypassed his primary opponents and blasted the president for engaging in the bitter politics of envy on wednesday morning nbc s today show host matt lauer asked specifically about that choice of phrase so if you dare to raise questions about mr romney s business decisions it s just because you re so jealous of him can you possibly get a more self absorbed sound byte it made me think of gordon gekko s greed is good speech from the movie wall street no mr romney everyone who whats to see proof of your claims of net job creation and wants to know whether your decisions regarding the leveraging of debt and the mass layoffs were the actions of a shrewd businessman or a corporate profiteer is not envious of you they are vetting you sir that is what happens in a campaign you make claims that you ve done fabulous things people say oh yeah prove it and then you either give them the proof they re asking for or they will go off and find it on their own also the more time it takes you to prove your claims the more you squirm and hedge and try to explain why no proof should be needed because you re such a nice guy or whatever your excuses are the more people will start to wonder if you re trying to hide something from them running for president is after all a candidate applying to the american public for the job of running the country asking for more in depth information on the business practices of the man running for office under the banner of the business guy is not anything i see as questionable to return to my job application analogy it can be likened to a potential employer asking for references at a job interview the more cagey an applicant about supplying the references the more the employer will no doubt wonder if there is something that this applicant might be misrepresenting does the scheduling conflict they listed as their reason for leaving company x really mean that it clashed with their grad school courses or could it be that this person s definition of lunch break more closely resembled the rest of the world s definition of afternoon off the prospective boss might think and questions like those floating around in potential employer s mind doesn t bode well for the bumbling applicant the best thing mr romney could do for himself right now is open up about his bane capitol days it s not like democrats won t be asking these questions in the general election if he makes it to the next round my other issue with mr romney and his supporters is that while they condemn those to there left for using what they deem to be the rhetoric of class warfare they are waging a pretty good battle on that front themselves by labeling those who would criticize predatory capitalism what most would consider unethical bad business practices as trying to destroy capitalism in general that argument make absolutely no sense at all and yet it is everywhere this becomes crystal clear if you use this logic outside the realm of election year economic policy for example if i say that i don t like a particular painting then using this thought process i am against painting as an art form and trying to engineer its demise if i don t like a particular book then i am obviously crusading against all of literature if i eat brussels sprouts and say yuck then i am really saying down with vegetables in every other context this line of pseudo reasoning is quickly and easily identifiable as a heap of bullfunky but apparently if you re talking about how big money people make big money when one of them want to be president such talk is apparently tantamount to heresy in this country and particularly in this country s republican party there is nothing wrong with examining our economic system to see if it is working effectively and doing a little routine maintenance when it s needed to keep the country moving you can have vibrant and competitive capitalism without allowing it to become predatory it s all in how the game is played and what the rules are many people have a problem with the practice of outsourcing for example and it has been stripping the country of jobs since the eighties yet there are tax incentives for companies that outsource and business organizations support this practice and lobby to keep it as an accepted way to do business in america but not really in america until the incentives to send jobs overseas are eliminated and perhaps there are even incentives set up to bring jobs back here we will continue to be bled of every job it is possible to outsource because that makes these companies the greatest profit that s not a criticism or a compliment it s math that brings me to another point corporations are not people the best analogy i can come up with is that corporations are like robots they have a few things in common with people they can be sued etc but they are basically computers running on a yes no system hello binary which analyzes whether or not a given circumstance is profitable if the answer is yes that options chosen that s it there are no emotions involved workers don t matter beyond their productivity to cost ratio you can t be angry about it not having feelings or empathy it s just a machine after all so if you want to change its behavior you have to alter the program it runs on we have a minimum wage so even though it would be more profitable to pay american workers a dollar an hour the robot of an american business let s call it robocorp won t do that because the program it runs on tell s it that it can t robocorps large and small run off of the same basic program the rules our economy runs on we have to engage in a national discussion about the economy to decide if changing laws is necessary and if so then what needs to be changed that is the discussion that is being derided as anti business by mitt romney and his surrogates in that video mr romney says that talk of the economy should take place in quiet rooms and that brings to mind images of the gilded age when the titans of industry would meet in private clubs and decide what the rules were among themselves and far away from the little people who worked for them those workers could vote well as long as they were male citizens over the age of 21 and in some places they kind of had to be white too but voters or not they couldn t be part of any serious economic dialogue because they didn t have enough power or money they didn t know the right people in the right context they didn t belong to the right clubs etc that s not how things are supposed to work now a century later i m not naive enough to think that power and money don t buy influence in this day and age but everyone should be able and is able to discuss economic policy just as they do foreign policy and social issues no quiet rooms required the rachel maddow show thursday night brought up another point last night and i thought it was worth a mention the video is long it wouldn t embed and there is a somewhat related story about a dog and his bodily functions sorry http www msnbc msn com id 32545640 visit msnbc com for breaking news world news and news about the economy as mentioned in the clip in 1992 times were tough and george h w bush had an image problem he was seen as an out of touch rich guy who just couldn t understand what kind of problems the country was facing and he lost the election at least in part because of that somebody needs to knock on the door of the quiet room mr romney likes to work on economic issues in and remind of that comments leave a comment tags 2012 2012 elections class warfare economics elections envy jealousy mitt romney political politics the politics of perception vilifying and demonizing for dummies categories elections mental wanderings mitt romney my own brand of liberalism on a serious note politics the noble nobody humor political style 12 01 2012 it s an election year and that means that there are a ton of people whom i can no longer discuss politics with at what is possibly the best time to discuss politics because they are now too infatuated with a particular candidate to debate sensibly everything is a shouting match or in all caps if the conversation is online because their chosen one is 100 right all of the time and if you disagree then you are not a true american end of story sigh i ve said before that political fandom is not my thing so this level of devotion to someone whom they build up to be more myth than human makes no sense to me these people always end up disappointed even if their candidate is elected because sooner or later something makes them realize that the one they believed to be flawless is merely human like the rest of us and has to compromise and is occasionally wrong just like the rest of us this political possession process has begun again and i needed a laugh so i ve found some campaign signs for fandoms which i do support rupaul not to be confused with ron paul very very different maybe one day i will be so taken by a candidate that i will fall into fandom myself but for now this is as close as i get comments leave a comment tags childishness in politics political political fandom politics categories great moments in modern politics elections funny just for fun laughing at those with power my own brand of liberalism politics the noble nobody the logic behind the vice president clinton meme 11 01 2012 happy new year now let s talk politics specifically that long forgotten subject democratic politics ok maybe forgotten is pushing it a bit too far but with the republican primary process well and truly underway and the incumbent democratic president running unchallenged there s not much for us on the left to do politically except remark on the dog and pony show of ultra conservatism that s bumbling its way around the country i suppose that it s that kind of party boredom that s mostly to blame for this kind of story but there might just be more to it the latest incarnation of the hillary for vp meme comes from a new york times opinion piece by bill keller published monday and another in the washington post by suzi parker from yesterday the points they makes are much the same as in most of the other renditions of this tune that s been playing off and on almost since this administration began but there has been a decidedly different reaction to the notion of secretary clinton and vice president biden switching places this time around it s no longer treated as some crazy idea being floated by clinton diehards highly unlikely or desperate obama fans also ridiculous that has no basis in reality let alone fact monday night this opinion piece was discussed all over the place on cable news in spite of it being the day before the new hampshire primary and discussed with some degree of seriousness albeit prefaced by numerous this will never happen type comments the truth is that no matter how unlikely the scenario you never know i mean did you think that the question of whether or no states can ban contraception would be a question in this year s presidential primary debates at this time four years ago ok so it s a thing but why and how would it work you ask well even though i m in no way involved in national politics or punditry not that i wouldn t like to be in case anyone in those fields is looking to hire i have just as good an imagination as the rest of them so if you would like let s take a stroll around speculationville we ll start with the why 2008 was the year of hope and change the nation was weary of war and increasingly unnerved by the steepening decline in our economy people were looking for something fresh and optimistic a feel good candidate and they found that in the calm persona of no drama obama there is however a downside to being seen as mr cool and that s running the risk of looking too on point and scripted obama needed a foil that brought a more approachable down to earth average joe quality to the ticket and they got just that in an ever likable if chronically gaffe prone senator from delaware by the name of joe biden the rest as they say is history in the past four years the mood of the country has shifted our idealistic search for something new has given way to old cries from the eighties and even earlier of fat cats and corporate greed versus a shrinking middle class and growing number of people on some form of government assistance leading some candidates to insinuate that these lower income people are lazy it s all remarkably similar to the reagan era arguments about welfare queens and the financial culture of hostile takeovers and gordon gekko types running the show on wall st at the same time we have seen the rise of the tea party culminating in the great butt kicking of 2010 which flipped the balance of power in the house of representatives and shifted the political dialogue of the entire country well to the right of anywhere i ve ever seen it the moderates republican and democrat alike were excised in favor of more partisan candidates and the resulting congress has been deadlocked ever since i ve lost count of how many times we ve almost but not quite shut down the government is it four times now six i don t remember so this year is shaping up to be a smackdown election worthy of a pay per view cage match and the respective political parties are looking for prize fighters the republicans are looking for a defender of tax cuts and a champion of smaller government and business interests the democrats are looking for fighter for workers and the middle class and a protector of programs that they see as vital what democrats have is a very mellow professorial president with an affable everyman as his vp the republicans are searching and re searching their candidate field in the vain hope that one of their potential nominees is the much longed for second coming of ronald reagan and democrats are kind of left to pine for their second coming of fdr the democratic presidential candidate is decided by default or should i say incumbency but there is still that unfulfilled desire for a fighter someone who will have no problem going a couple of rounds with the republicans on the hill conservative pundits or maybe both at once without flinching joe biden as likable as he is doesn t strike most people as a tough guy so regardless o...
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