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smantle obamacare that s certain when the democrats controlled the house senate white house in 2008 2010 the republicans got all stick and no carrot speaker boehner has done a great job using that stick on the white house and senate to get things as done as he can get done but newt has to come out guns blazing and declare total animosity towards compromise with the democrats on obamacare and the epa newt s brilliant there s no doubt about it he s a professor and it shows romney s smart but he s not newt santorum is smart and so are bachmann and perry paul s a different kind of smart i can t believe i m saying this but newt s really making me think about taking him seriously he s got tremendous downside potential but he s got tremendous upside as well perry s got money but no mojo to stop romney in fact if perry and gingrich got together right now and formed a ticket romney would be dead in the water and cain couldn t compete tomorrow an interview profile of rick perry 17 oct 11 application for president mitt romney by docattheautopsy leave a comment categories conservatism and politics this is the first of profiles of the current candidates and their performance i m reviewing this as if each of the candidates submitted information to me and then did an on site interview and my reactions to their information they are considered to be applying as a republican candidate for office not a conservative candidate for office candidate name mitt romney cover letter bio from website comments he seems like a good family man and has been actively involved in industry strangely enough there s nothing in the post that says why mitt wants to be president education history bs in english brigham young university jd law degree harvard mba harvard comments very impressive especially the joint jd mba he has had high grades but do we want another lawyer as president work history management consultant venture capital investment ceo of bain capital ceo salt lake city winter olympic games governor of massachusetts ran for senate ran for president in 2008 comments certainly has a lot of leadership experience and understands business government experience governor of massachusetts ran for senate enacted romneycare ran as a pro choice governor in massachusetts claimed a pro life mantle when running for president in 2008 comments a moderate republican has claimed a more conservative mantle but his record disputes that has serious conflicts with the tea party thanks to his romneycare policy issues whole plan is listed here and focuses on economic policy his jobs plan is to restructure the tax code by broadening the tax base he never really defines this particular term but the tax base is going to be broad baby he also plans on moving toward a territorial tax plan to bring extranational taxes back to the the us he plans on eliminating red tape by repealing obama regulations he wants to ensure that regulations do not make a direct impact on the economy and will restrict any new regulations from making negative impacts on the economy how not sure he will also allow new permits for drilling and expand the territory allowed for such drilling what territories doesn t say his labor policy will be to put more conservative people on the nrlb to ensure unions act fairly he plans to work with congress on this translation if congress wants to do it i ll sign it comments it s long and in fact most of it isn t what romney is proposing but what obama has done wrong it s an interesting read because the proposals inside are vague and the language is carefully crafted to come off as saying something important every statement is capable of meaning something that can be deflected for example romney throws his support behind paul ryan s medicare reform as a good start and claims to want to do something similar but different what he wants to do that s different i don t know he doesn t explain and that s what romney is good at making sweeping declarative statements that have no substance same goes for his jobs policy energy policy labor policy everything is treated with a broad brush there is no red meat per se the interview romney s performance in the debates has been great he s been confident articulate and has good comebacks for any attacks however he s not giving any specifics on his plans his 59 point plan on jobs is an organizational mess and romney hasn t explained anything about it at the debates because it would take too long but it hasn t hurt his performances in the debates and he s still the frontrunner comments again light on specifics mitt looks great sounds great but is weak on giving an indication on what his plans are mitt excels at talking while not saying anything he s proud of romneycare but opposes obamacare even though people from romneycare lent the obama administration support on how to craft obamacare overall application mitt s a force to be reckoned with but he s short on conservative credentials serious conflicts with tea party values proven leader he ll be a good candidate but as for governance it s unsure just what he will push and if it will be a solid conservative presidency or something more middling his track record suggests he will lean more towards centrist policies he s talked a more conservative game in this run but his plan lacks specifics also there s nothing that suggests romney will cut government spending or streamline government by eliminating departments he ll suspend obamacare but what he ll do with it is unclear will he push for its dissolution will he amend it will he talk with paul ryan and get medicare straightened out who knows nothing in his debate performances has addressed specifics in these plans i d like to see more specifics but romney s been running for 10 months now and we haven t seen anything that the tea party can get behind 13 oct 11 have the debates doomed perry by docattheautopsy 1 comment categories uncategorized well it s official rick perry s a pretty awful debater maybe i think he s trying the texas nice approach and it s coming off like he s a buffoon either that or he s just not great at thinking on his feet but perry should take comfort in the conclusion that he s the only high firepower candidate with a proven track record and that says a lot his big advantage is that his competition is an eclectic mix of personalities none of whom smack tea party hero i think one reason people are giving up on perry is that he hasn t been the guy to land blows on mitt between the debate moderation and mitt s ability to talk for long periods without saying anything and perry using texas nice to hit romney with questions really hasn t had the desired impact from the audience his ads however are really cutting into romney s health care support which is smart it s romney s biggest weakness and debate viewers want that red meat mitt is the easiest to dismantle he s been having his cake and eating it too with the massachusetts health care plan mitt says he s quite proud of his plan and he d do it again if he was governor again but it looks as though the people in charge of the massachusetts health care law had helped the obama team and the democrats with obamacare given the outrage obamacare ignited in 2010 it s no surprise mitt s coy on the issue but several debates have come and gone and none of the moderators have really challenged him on the centerpiece of his governorship additionally his 59 point economic plan is complicated but it s nothing we haven t seen before in fact he hit perry on scaring senior citizens but he has plans to reform social security in his own plan knowing romney that s not unexpected cain is the biggest enigma but his weakness is his greatest strength his 9 9 9 plan has a huge flaw in its 9 national sales tax cain s also made several errors such as stating greenspan would be the best head of the fed in the debate last night however none of the errors have been monumental cain has a real shot and he s certainly behaved like a seasoned candidate ron paul has actually made a pretty good game of it this election but his isolationist foreign policy stances are enough to alienate most people newt gingrich is preforming well but he brings with him a large amount of baggage such as divorces infidelity and posing with nancy pelosi in an infamous pro agw spot it s unfortunate because newt s forgotten more about american government than all the knowledge the other candidates have of it rick santorum has never made much of splash he keeps talking about his experience but unfortunately he s not had much experience beyond the senate his policies have never gained much traction with people and he doesn t have much tea party cred why hasn t santorum taken pawlenty s lead and dropped out huntsman the orange rino there s still some people who believe that obama will drop biden and select huntsman to generate a bipartisan ticket that should tell you just how much republicans believe in huntsman but for someone with 1 of the vote he gets a lot of media attention which is strange because the other ex governor gary johnson polls the same but doesn t even get invited to debates bachmann michelle bachmann certainly has a lot of tea party credibility forming the tea party caucus in the house but she doesn t have much in the way of accomplishments also her attacks on perry on gardisil turned into an anti vaccine pogrom perry s entrance also sucked off a lot of her support and she s unlikely to get it back when you take all of these candidates in hand perry still looks good right now he needs to not collapse completely at the next debate and press the video campaign most importantly he needs a message he needs a plan that s more than texas his ad campaign has already launched some effective broadsides against romney but he needs to get romney rattled in a debate that s actually viewed by people sorry bloomberg and he really needs to ride the anti obamacare issue in essence perry has a good shot at winning this thing and as bachmann fades and more people get turned off by romney he ll have the opportunity to do well but he needs to successfully confront and battle cain to get some of his support back and an endorsement from palin would go a long ways in the primary update ed morrissey finds similar issues with the sales tax 11 oct 11 plumbing the votes for obama by docattheautopsy 2 comments categories uncategorized the obama campaign wants someone to spend some of their precious time to design a campaign graphic they are going to use and raise millions of dollars with oh and that lucky person will not be paid for their hard work but of course there s ample opportunity for parody here so here we go the autopsy s entry i call it plumbing the votes in case you can t read the bottom it says don t let the republicans stop us in mid flush feel free to share with friends just be sure to credit the autopsy when you do 30 sep 11 herman cain s 9 9 9 plan and why it s a bad idea by docattheautopsy 6 comments categories uncategorized much has been made lately of herman cain s 9 9 9 tax plan i like the simplicity of the plan 9 national sales tax a 9 personal income tax and a 9 capital gains tax however there are some serious problems with the plan as is and there are better tax models out there that are just as simple but do not involve a national sales tax nst cain s plan if i read his campaign website correctly is to eventually do away with all the little taxes and regulations and shift everything over to a nst in order to keep the government afloat he would need a nst that runs to about 22 27 unfortunately this kind of nst has a hidden consequence which could seriously affect all sectors of the economy generally when you purchase an final refined good you are paying for the raw materials that went into processing it so lets use a hypothetical example and compare current tax law with cain s 9 9 9 plan under current law as a manufacturer you go to purchase raw materials suppose your widget needs a stack of lumber that costs 1000 because of state sales tax that lumber costs on average 1070 that cost is built into the end price of the widget now you manufacture these widgets to make up for the expense of the widget and to ensure you re making money to pay for labor transportation inspection regulation etc and profit your final product costs 2000 and one of your customers will pay 2140 it your customer has to get the widgets to market and charges 3000 or 3210 with final state tax under the cain 9 plan now the stack of lumber comes with a 16 tax on it state s 7 plus 9 for federal which makes the lumber cost 1160 for raw materials 2320 for the manufacturer and 3480 notice a few things here a the profit margin for the manufacturer has decreased in order to make up for this his end product needs to be more expensive so let s call his end price to market is 2410 to make up just in revenue lost from paying the extra tax on raw materials notice this now a 20 5 increase in price with built in taxation not 16 as figured from the state the cain 9 b the end distributor for customers now also has to make up for that increase in price so let s put that new term at 3750 for recouping what was lost in tax before so the end price is now 25 higher if this distributor is pushing items out to stores for end sales we re looking at a 30 increase in prices from a 9 increase due to a nst it gets worse if cain intends to apply a nst for all federal revenue we re looking at a nst which hits around 20 at the absolute bottom of the scale which could double market prices for standard consumer goods of course if this replaces things like payroll tax you re looking at a reduction in costs to businesses there but it s not going to matter because the vat is multiplied through the system with each additional step you take if you re buying corn at 1 5 ears directly from farmer joe then a 20 increase is only going to make it 1 20 not something huge however imagine sugar from hawaii building in costs for transportation fuel manufacturing etc you re looking at sugar price exploding that would make cookies way too expensive also the nst has a disproportionate impact on the poor if your milk costs 3 00 a gallon and you now have to pay 4 00 a gallon that s a significant increase and you re going to see that for all of your staples unless incomes increase dramatically under cain s plan and there s no reason to think they will the dollar in the hands of the poor will become less powerful for basic goods so what s better a flat tax is a better alternative it has the advantages cain wants simplifying the tax code reducing the irs footprint and reducing tax collection burdens on the government and tax payer but it doesn t have a multiplier effect towards consumer goods the flat tax is higher you d need a 17 21 flat tax rate currently to get to about 3 trillion federal revenue from gdp and therefore scarier although cain s 9 9 9 plan comes out to 27 bear in mind this work...