Daily Archives: January 14, 2012


Bill Moyers: On Winner Take All Politics

I was disappointed that the first episode of Moyers & Company was not aired on my local PBS station according schedule, Fortunately, I found the show on the internet at Bill Moyers web site


The amazing thing is that there are middle and lower class Republicans strongly in favor of Mitt Romney as a President who will restore jobs to America.

I don’t know if this show will make anybody realize what is going on. What I find missing, other than an audience of the people who need to hear it most, is a description of the devious ways that money has been taken from the middle class by the wealthy.

I have been posting these explanations here in the hopes that the readers here will arm themselves with enough information to explain it all to the people who are least likely to read this blog.

Retirement Heist
Did Romney actually create jobs at Bain?
When Mitt Romney Came To Town — Full, complete version
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory – Update
The Suffering Began When Mitt Romney Came To Town
Mitt Romney: Job Creator?
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren on Grassroots Government
Is the Euro Crisis Over?
When Romney’s Reach Exceeds His Grasp
Updating October’s Long-Term Debt Projections
Austerity and the Modern Banker
The Euro Crisis in 7 Simple Charts: They’re telling you a real pack of lies
Ron Paul on Job Creation
The Big Lie: Wall Street has destroyed the wonder that was America.
Ron Paul’s Wacky But Influential Fed Policy
Elizabeth Warren And Hillary Clinton Trade Lessons
William Black: Why Nobody Went to Jail During the Credit Crisis
The Shock Doctrine


Romney, The Job Cremator

I just had to make this post.  The title comes from a comment about The Talking Points Memo article Dems Prepare To Hammer Romney With The REAL Bain Onslaught.

“[If] Romney wins the nomination, this early fuss might have inoculated him against the Scrooge gambit,” TIME columnist Joe Klein wrote.”The public may feel Bain is same old, same old by October.”

Don’t buy it, Democrats say. Even while they acknowledge that they planned to roll out the Bain angle later for a reason, they find it pretty hard to contain their grins overall.

“I would have preferred to wait, yes, to keep the bottle of whup-ass fresher,” one Obama campaign strategist told TPM. “At the same time — and this is important to note — having the Republicans eat their own actually makes the Bain story more potent than we ever could because it instantly validates it as a line of attack and falls on independent ears as a matter of legitimate debate, not as a partisan line of attack.”

And when the real Bain attack comes, it will be anything but old news to the voters it needs to reach. After all, it’s hardcore Republicans who are paying the closest attention to the GOP campaign and its Bain moment right now, and they’re not voting for President Obama anytime soon.

While I like the article, some of the comments are real gems.