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Great News for Michigan voters!!

Rick Snyder's "Emergency Manager" DICTATOR LAW - Was overturned by the High Court in Michigan and that the State's Emergency Manager MUST be placed on the Nov 6th ballot for ALL in Michigan to vote on it.

This is a GREAT DAY for Michigan.

Snyder and HIS chosen goons can no longer overturn DEMOCRACY in MICHIGAN


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He pays less. . . YOU PAY MORE!
It should say "He pays nothing (and paid nothing for 10 years), you pay everything (including your life) to ensure he lives in luxury". (YouTube clip below)

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"Stretch" - Obama for America TV Ad
You work hard, stretch every penny, but chances are you pay a higher tax rate than him: Mitt Romney made $20 million dollars in 2010, but paid only 14% in taxes—probably less than you.

Now he has a plan that will give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2000 dollars a year. Mitt Romney's middle class tax increase: he pays less, you pay more.
"Stretch" - Obama for America TV Ad


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GOP and Romnynomics

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Brutal NYT Editorial on Romney's So-Called Mormon "Values"

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Embracing Sheldon Adelson
By THOMAS B. EDSALL

There are two things that set Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign apart: his caution and his secretiveness.

The presumptive Republican nominee refuses to release his pre-2010 tax returns, will not identify his major fundraisers and bundlers and wiped all computer records of staff emails clean at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2006.

Romney’s rationale is that material like this could be used by the Obama campaign to discredit him. In an interview published a few weeks ago, Romney told National Review:

    In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the failure of the president to reignite our economy. And I’m simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.

So what was this ever-so-guarded, moralistic (“I want to clean up the moral pollution on TV and the Internet”) politician doing at a $50,000-a-couple fundraiser in Jerusalem with Sheldon G. Adelson — proprietor of one of the largest, if not the largest, gambling and casino operations in the world — seated in the honored position at his side?

Adelson and his company are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice on allegations of foreign bribery. In addition, the United States Attorney’s office in Los Angeles is investigating whether Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corporation failed to alert authorities to millions of dollars transferred to casinos in violation of money-laundering laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on August 4.

In its 2011 Annual Report, the Sands Corp., of which Adelson is chairman and C.E.O., disclosed that

    On Feb. 9, 2011, L.V.S.C. received a subpoena from the S.E.C. requesting that we produce documents relating to our compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. We have also been advised by the Department of Justice that it is conducting a similar investigation. Any violation of the F.C.P.A. could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition.

Adelson and other officials of the Sands Corp. have denied they have done anything wrong.

There is a succinct answer to the question of why Romney would take the risk of closely associating himself with the immensely controversial Adelson: 10 million dollars — the amount Adelson and his wife have contributed to the super Pac supporting Romney, Restore Our Future.

The Adelsons are the largest donors to the Romney PAC. They have providing just over 12 percent of the $82.2 million Restore Our Future has raised so far. Romney’s personal wealth is an estimated $250 million, but the former governor is determined not to self-finance his quest for the presidency.

Adelson’s cash is more than enough to persuade Romney to swallow his pride and embrace the man who, earlier in the campaign, spent millions on a different candidate. It was Adelson who financed Newt Gingrich’s populist attack ads, which portrayed Romney, the former C.E.O. of Bain Capital, as a “predatory capitalist.” The Adelson-financed attacks were instrumental in bringing about Romney’s defeat in the South Carolina primary in January and they laid the groundwork for the attacks Obama is subjecting Romney to now.

The source of Adelson’s huge campaign contributions would appear to create a conflict with Romney’s Mormon convictions. The official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints states: “The Church opposes gambling in any form, including government-sponsored lotteries.”

What Mormons Believe, an unofficial web site explicating the positions of the Church declares:

    The Mormon Church has always opposed gambling in every form, including government-sponsored lotteries. Mormon prophets and leaders have counseled the members over time, to avoid gambling of any type. Doing so, leads one away from righteousness and into the hands of Satan. The Mormon belief is that it is an addictive behavior and leads only to destructive habits and practices. It undermines the value of work and motivates one to think that they can get something for nothing. In time, the gambler will deny themselves, as well as their family the basic needs of life. They will oft times steal from others to finance their addiction, which in turn leads to stealing, robbery, etc.

Adelson is number eight on the Forbes 400, a list of the 400 richest people in America, with a fortune of $21.5 billion amassed largely through an international collection of gambling venues.

Romney has been fortunate that the reporting on the inquiries into Adelson’s finances by the S.E.C. and the Justice Department has been limited in scope. Most coverage of Adelson’s contributions has not included any reference to either of these investigations.

Much of the most interesting reporting on the investigations has been done by ProPublica, working jointly with “Frontline” and the Investigative Reporting Program of the University of California at Berkeley.

The majority of the allegations against Adelson emerged in connection with an ongoing wrongful dismissal lawsuit against Sands filed in 2010 by Steven Jacobs, former C.E.O. of Sands China. Emails and other documents posted by ProPublica on July 16 raised questions about the role of Leonel Alves, a legislator and lawyer in Macau who was hired as an outside counsel to Las Vegas Sands.

These emails revealed concerns among Adelson’s legal advisers that a large payment for legal services to Alves would set off warning bells in the sections of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department that watch out for violations of  the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The anti-bribery provisions of the F.C.P.A., according to the Department of Justice, “make it unlawful for a U.S. person, and certain foreign issuers of securities, to make a corrupt payment to a foreign official for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person.” Alves is a member of the local Macau legislature, serves on a 10-member council that advises Macau’s chief executive, and is a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which advises the government of China.

In a Sept. 30, 2009 email, Alves wrote to Jacobs that at the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China “someone high ranking in Beijing approached me before the official dinner and invited me 2 handle issues related to the Venetian’s projects in Macau.” Alves wrote Jacobs, “There is an amount to be agreed by Mr. Adelson to settle the 2 issues. The amount to be paid to resolve the serviced apartments issue will be paid to a mutually accepted escrow agent and delivered to the gentleman upon official approval in the Official Gazette authorizing the sale of the serviced apartment.”

On Dec. 10, 2009, in another email to Jacobs, Alves wrote that he was returning to Beijing the next day and “will have chance to talk with my friends there.” Alves warned, however, that “what they request is extremely expensive (US300 m, which includes closing the Taiwanese case).”

It is not clear from the email what was done about the request for $300 million.

In a separate matter, Jacobs, in a March 11, 2010 email to Al Gonzalez, who was then general counsel at Las Vegas Sands, said that he had told Alves that a bill for services at three times the normal rate could not be paid in full because “we were worried that there could be F.C.P.A. issues related to this.” Roughly three weeks later, Jacobs wrote, “I was instructed by SGA [Adelson’s initials] and MAL [Michael A. Leven, president of Las Vegas Sands] to pay and close out the matter,” ProPublica, Frontline and Berkeley investigators disclosed.

The next day, March 12, 2010, Gonzalez wrote back to Jacobs: “You know from various conversations we’ve had and emails we’ve exchanged that I did not believe it appropriate to pay LA [Leonel Alves] three times his normal rates,” before adding, “I wish you would have advised me so I could have intervened.”

A month later, in April of 2010, Gonzalez resigned as general counsel to Sands. On July 23, Sands fired Jacobs as C.E.O. of Sands China, and soon the battleground shifted to the courts.

Ron Reese, Sands vice president for public relations, declined to comment, but pointed me to stories of past denials of wrongdoing by company officials, including Adelson. On March 28, Adelson declared in a speech in Macau that the Jacobs suit “is pure threatening, blackmailing and extortion. That is what it is all about.” Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Gaming, Lodging, Restaurant & Leisure Management Access Forum, Adelson said:

    When the smoke clears, I am 1,000 percent positive that there won’t be any fire below it. What they will find is a foundation of lies and fabrications that were designed for the sole purpose of trying to make a settlement for a lot more money than what he [Jacobs] felt he was entitled to.

The Adelson-Jacobs feud turned up hotly-disputed allegations even more out of sync with Romney’s religious and moral convictions after Jacobs filed a request for documents charging that Adelson had initiated a “prostitution strategy” to draw customers to the Macau facilities. The Jacobs filing read:

    As background, shortly after my arrival to Macau in May 2009, I launched “Operation Clean Sweep,” designed to rid the casino floor of loan sharks and prostitution. This project was met with concern as L.V.S.C. Senior Executives informed me that the prior prostitution strategy has been personally approved by Adelson.

Adelson denied the allegation, telling Forbes: “Would I jeopardize being the 7th richest man in the US and the 14th or 15th richest person in the world to push prostitution? For what? I’m already the most profitable company in consumer services ever. What do I have to win?”

By July 20, the situation got even messier. Adelson sued Jacobs in Florida for defamation for making statements that “impugn Mr. Adelson’s integrity and harm his reputation.” In addition, Adelson threatened to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for issuing press releases linking Adelson’s contributions to “Chinese prostitution money.”

On August 2, the D.C.C.C. backtracked, publicly declaring “In press statements issued on June 29 and July 2, 2012, the D.C.C.C. made unsubstantiated allegations that attacked Sheldon Adelson, a supporter of the opposing party.” The D.C.C.C. said, “This was wrong. The statements were untrue and unfair, and we retract them.”

On the legal front, Nevada District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez will hold a hearing on August 30 to determine whether Las Vegas Sands Corp withheld key documents in Jacobs’ wrongful termination case.

It would be interesting to know what Romney has to say about Adelson’s gambling business and his difficulties with the S.E.C., the Justice Department and the D.C.C.C., but Romney’s campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

The toughest charges leveled against Romney as a politician have been distinctly personal: that he lacks authenticity; that he is “a phony”; that “there are two Mitt Romneys”; that he is duplicitous; that he is a hypocrite and a flip-flopper, even on the most serious issues.

Romney is currently polling ahead of Obama on a number of key questions. Voters prefer Romney’s approach to the deficit (51-41), jobs (50-44) and taxes (49-45). But when it comes to questions of character, Obama crushes Romney: on likability (60-30); on understanding the problems faced in voters’ daily lives (50-39); and on honesty and trustworthiness, two issues that go to the heart of Romney’s problems, Obama holds an 8 point advantage (47-39).

Perhaps the least effective tools with which to address this liability are the caution and secretiveness that have become Romney’s trademarks. At a minimum, Romney could tell us how he reconciles the values he says he stands for with the basis on which Adelson’s fortune is built.

Thomas B. Edsall, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of the book “The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics,” which was published earlier this year.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/embracing-sheldon-adelson/

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Romney's Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-15/romney-s-bain-yielded-private-gains-socialized-losses.html

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Tweets of the Day:
1st) When a campaign starts up with the welfare line of attack you know they're scraping bottom...
-- @CharlesMBlow via web

2nd) So, Mitt thinks Russia is our greatest strategic threat and now he's talking about welfare reform? I think his software may need an update.
-- @JoshuaHol via TweetDeck
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Romney was pro-abortion
Romney was for gay rights
Romney implimented gay marriage in Massachusets
Romney didn't initially support the Bush tax cuts
Romney raised taxes id Masschusets
Romney believes in man-made Global Warming
Romney supported cap-and-tax
Romney passed a socialized medicine scheme in Mass.
Romney believes Semi-Auto weapons have a "sole purpose of hunting down and killing people"
Romney Signed the Mass. Semi-Auto Ban
Romney supports the federal Feinstein Gun Ban
Romney's tax plan will raise taxes on 95% of Americans


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r0mney the blatant liar
What was once just "flip-flopping" has now become full on, in public, repeated without shame or any concern that anyone will care, lying about President Obama. I'm not talking about the standard fair bending of the truth that we have come to expect from nearly ANY political campaign. I'm talking about make-sh*t-up, completely fabricated and provably so LYING.

Romney has been picking around the edges of the LIAR scab for a very long time but this past week showed us in no uncertain terms that Mitt Romney is making up lies about President Obama and repeating them over and over again in front of cameras. It's now time for every major media outlet to acknowledge what is clearly obvious to thinking people:

Mitt Romney is a blatant liar and he is running for president of the United States.

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Couldn't post the bumper sticker put it's great. 

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Romney/Ryan and the paid posters

What I feel every time I see and hear Romney? Nauseated is normally my first response.

Romney will NOT be President of The United States Of America. President Obama will continue to be our President and leader.

Romney and all his cronies are evil corrupt people who is totally intent on bringing the middle class to our knees.

Romney believes he is entitled. Well, the Presidency Of The United States is NOT for sale, Romney!
(Worked for Snyder though)

What many of the Republicans in office want most of all is to end all social programs as we know it and take away women's rights.

They are intent on making certain that many of us die by taking away all that we now have in medical benefits.

They will spare nothing! They said it themselves! He also said he will overturn Obamacare!

He has no intention of helping the middle class. He is a wolf is sheep's clothing and he thinks his money will buy the Presidency of the United States Of America.

I want to personally say here; Romney, you cannot walk in President Obama's shoes.

You are a gluttonous fraud! You are a thief! You have no conscience. You have so many steaks yet you and your cronies want to take all the middle class and poor could have on their plates.

Romney, you are an ABOMINATION UNTO SOCIETY!

You will NEVER, EVER GET MY VOTE! You will NEVER GET THE VOTES OF MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!

YOU WILL NEVER GET THE VOTE OF THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WHOSE EARS I HAVE.

You are absolutely rotten to the core.

The Paid Koch posters will choke on their own vomit!


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1.Ryan embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand.
2.Ryan wants to raises taxes on the middle class, cuts them for millionaires.
3.Ryan wants to end Medicare, replace it with a voucher system.
4.Ryan thinks Social Security is a "ponzi scheme."
5.Ryan's budget would result in 4.1 million lost jobs in 2 years.
6.Ryan wants to eliminate Pell Grants for more more than 1 million students.
7.Ryan supports $40 billion in subsides for big oil.
8.Ryan has ownership stakes in companies that benefit from oil subsidies.
9.Ryan claimed Romneycare has led to "rationing and benefit cuts."
10.Ryan believes that Romneycare is "not that dissimilar to Obamacare."
11.Ryan accused generals of lying about their support for Obama's military budget.
12.Ryan co-sponsored a "personhood" amendment, an extreme anti-abortion measure.
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Paul Ryan the hatchet man
Over 12 yrs in Congress and all he passed was 2 lousy BiLLS!

1. July 2000 Bill to change the name of the Post Office in his district. (yea that was really important)
2. Dec 2008 Bill on how arrows are hit with an excise tax. (of personal interest since he's a bow-hunter)
hmmmm highly suspicious huh!

What besides waste tax payers money did this guy do all the rest of the time??
Oh gee yea he was working on all this...


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Paul Ryan Was A Social Security Baby (Entitlement Hater )
After his Dad died Paul Ryan collected social security benefits until the age of 18 years old.
He took his social security benefits and saved them for his college education.
Representative Paul Ryan is one example of the millions of people whose lives have depended on our social contract with the American people.
Without this benefit, his mother would have had to make even tougher decisions and Representative Paul Ryan may not have been able to pay for his college education.
This social contract lifted him and his entire family out of a tough situation.

Paul Ryan benefited from Social Security and with out it he probably wouldn't be where he is today,
in Congress trying to stop you from benefitting the way he did .
How's that for irony ?


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The Florida papers are destroying Paul Ryan. So much so that a distraught and panicked Village believes "Mitt Romney is in big, big trouble" for selecting the man who wants to pull the plug on Grandma.

The very first available headlines from the all important swing state of Florida are devastating.








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MITT ROMNEY'S TOP CONTRIBUTORS (WALL STREET BANKS)
MITT ROMNEY (R)
Top Contributors
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2012 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

Because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees (and their families). The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors - like EMILY's List and Club for Growth - make for particularly big bundlers.

Goldman Sachs $636,080
JPMorgan Chase & Co $502,874
Morgan Stanley $476,300
Bank of America $465,850
Credit Suisse Group $421,310
Citigroup Inc $345,265
Barclays $322,400
Kirkland & Ellis $295,042
Wells Fargo $276,700
Deloitte LLP $250,510
PricewaterhouseCoopers $246,700
UBS AG $240,000
HIG Capital $219,495
Blackstone Group $213,800
Bain Capital $164,000
Elliott Management $162,825
General Electric $150,000
Marriott International $137,827
Bain & Co $137,300
Ernst & Young $134,425

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RYAN BUSTED CAUGHT LYING TO THE PRESS
Paul Ryan: 'I Never Asked For Stimulus' Money, Contradicts AP Report

WASHINGTON-- In a television interview with WCPO Cincinnati, Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) directly contradicted an Associated Press report that said he had sought stimulus funds for his congressional district, while at the same time publicly decrying the bill as a "wasteful spending spree."

"No, I never asked for stimulus," Ryan said when questioned on reports that he had sought funds.

Ryan's statement directly counters the evidence of four letters obtained by the AP which the congressman wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, praising energy programs supported by the stimulus and requesting funds for initiatives in his district.

Ryan's private praise for Department of Energy programs and his written requests for stimulus funds contradict not only his public criticism of the 2009 stimulus bill, but also many of the budget priorities he has laid out, including cuts to investments in green technologies.

Raising further questions about the vice presidential candidate's claim today that he never sought stimulus money, Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck referred AP to previous explanations by the congressman's office that by requesting funds Ryan was simply "providing a legitimate constituent service."

"If Congressman Ryan is asked to help a Wisconsin entity applying for existing federal grant funds, he does not believe flawed policy should get in the way of doing his job," Ryan's office said when first asked about the funding requests by the Wall Street Journal in 2010.
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