By Michael Bryan
OK. So the Obama campaign runs an ad that crushes Romney on a Bain plant closure that caused a fellow to lose his healthcare, which cost his wife her life. Brutal, right?
So. Romney's campaign counters with a spokesperson, Andrea Saul, on Fox. She says this:
“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care. There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President Obama’s economy.”
Really? Your counter is that if only that poor bastard has been lucky enough to have lived in Massachusetts in order to benefit from Romneycare, his wife would have been fine. Except that Romney wants to repeal Obama's version of national Romneycare if he's elected.
It boogles the mind. It's as if these people live in a video game of a campaign which has no connection to real people or real consequences. Scoring the next point is the only goal. "Well, Romneycare would have saved that guy's wife, so there!" Cue pleased look on face of Romneybot as she mentally tots up another point for her team…
See the video of Romneybot Ms. Saul basically admitting that Obamacare saves lives after the click…
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Thought you might need to read this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-22/romney-as-auditing-chairman-saw-marriott-son-of-boss-tax-shelter-defy-irs.html
I couldn’t resist this “income tax” form…http://boingboing.net/2012/08/08/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-tax.html
I’m sorry…but who does this? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/08/photos_of_mitt_romney_standing_on_tables_chairs_and_a_cooler_.html
Wingnut heads exploding everywhere…calling for Andrea Saul to resign:)OMG….just gets better and better! By the way, have you seen the latest? It’s a doozy!
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/08/somehow-this-is-not-a-surprise/
In an effort to raise off-the-books money to fund conservative paramilitary groups in Central America, the Reagan Administration set up a money laundering system where weapons were sold to Iran, the cash bought drugs and the cash from the sale of the drugs was sufficiently laundered to give it to the Right-wing warriors south of the border—free of Reagan’s fingerprints. Much and more of these funds went to Nicaragua, but the dirty wars spread to other countries. One was El Salvador, where a brutal civil war flourished from 1979 to 1992.
A central feature of all the Central American conflicts during the Reagan/Pappy-Bush years was the Right-wing death squad. They killed anybody in their way from peasants to intellectuals to Bishops to Nuns. A lot has been written and documented about these conflicts. It is known who—in addition to Reagan’s off-the-books (and illegal) contributions—funded the death squads. In El Salvador much of that funding came from a few rich Salvadorian families with estates in Miami.
Funny thing.
It turns out that the folks funding El Salvadorian Death Squads contributed 40% of the capital that Mitt Romney needed to start Bain Capital.
Mitt found even MORE shit to step in…