Displaying 1,681 To 1,710 Of 16,275 Comments I see the problem now for Mitt and Trump, the birth certificate didn’t say “Amercia” and they are easily confused. 😆 » Posted By bito On May 29, 2012 @ 9:46 pm Wolf finally comes out of hibernation for a few minutes to interview a complete jerk: VIDEO: Wolf Blitzer and birther Donald Trump talk birth certificates and Wolf’s “small ratings” H/T GottaLaff » Posted By bito On May 29, 2012 @ 9:05 pm Mitt’s digital team strikes again! 😆 Must be that non-union help he hires; he should have had a union teacher proof-read it! 😉 [img]https://p.twimg.com/AuG25ebCQAAH2wR.jpg[/img] H/T @Matt Ortega via twitter » Posted By bito On May 29, 2012 @ 6:55 pm Re this video: I saw a Mitt leaning voter turn to an anti-Mitt voter after hearing about this. She was OK with his shutting down businesses “that’s bidness”, but when she heard about robbing their pensions, health care and leaving the tab to taxpayers, she was outraged. The inside the beltway people claim that the whole Bain thing isn’t working, but I saw 2 people become anti-Romney after hearing about what he did to pensions and the pensioners. Not working? I think it is. » Posted By bito On May 29, 2012 @ 6:21 pm Perhaps he is “pure Zen”, KT, he WOULD steal the beggars bowl from the blind man. 😉 » Posted By bito On May 28, 2012 @ 8:13 pm C’Lady, I had the same feeling, “fifty years?” Then I started do the figuring on my fingers, and sure enough! 🙂 Not sure about the civil war boys, I remember working for a guy in Florida that still didn’t believe in Decoration/Memorial Day, he called it ‘that Yankee holiday, like he fought in the war and it was only a few years ago. » Posted By bito On May 28, 2012 @ 7:47 pm Really k’es, it’s like saying “well we know this doesn’t work, so let’s do it some more and worse.” WTF? How much do condoms or birth control pills cost compared to raising a child? An unplanned child? Seems a teen having a child pretty much puts a crimp in their education and their future. It is all so stupid and frustrating, to have policies that don’t the work or improve society, but to have them just because of some RW ideology. » Posted By bito On May 28, 2012 @ 7:30 pm That just might work for them, they can point to the Palins as role models. 🙂 » Posted By bito On May 28, 2012 @ 6:59 pm What a wonderful example of core beliefs and his outrage over personal attacks on him. He may have 250 million dollars but this man is cheap. As the joke goes, “Well, I think we both know what you are, we’re just quibbling about price.” Romney Explains Why He Accepts Birther Trump: “I Need To Get 50.1% Or More” Mitt Romney won’t distance himself from the birther Donald Trump because he needs all the help he can get to win. Asked on his charter plane whether Trump’s questioning of President Barack Obama’s birthplace gave him pause, Romney simply said he was grateful for all his supporters. “You know, I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in,” Romney said. “But I need to get 50.1% or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.” What Mitt, KLANers, White Separatists and supremacists OK with you too? How about the religious right, gay bashers, misogynists, anti-immigration people, OK? Plan on pandering to them? Any fringe will do? is that your core belief? And who says you won’t say anything to get elected and you are an Etch-a-Sketch flip-flopper? » Posted By bito On May 28, 2012 @ 6:46 pm President Obama Commemorates the Vietnam War May 28, 2012 President Obama speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. » Posted By bito On May 28, 2012 @ 6:09 pm And now a word from the Irish: 🙂 Republican Party too ‘wacko’ to still be considered mainstream AMERICA: Two prominent political scientists say the Grand Old Party has become more loyal to party than to country and is to blame for dysfunction in the US political system THE REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Mitt Romney embraces the idea that climate change is a hoax. His immigration policy is so extreme it’s been endorsed by Russell Pearce and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the architects of Arizona’s law. Allen West, a Republican representative from Florida, accused up to to 81 Democratic congressmen of being members of the Communist party. No one called him on it. At a Republican primary debate last year, the audience cheered for the idea that an unemployed man who loses his medical insurance should be allowed to die. These examples are cited by two prominent political scientists, Thomas Mann of the liberal Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, as evidence the Grand Old Party is no longer mainstream. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0526/1224316731906.html#.T8Luhzhuopa.twitter » Posted By bito On May 27, 2012 @ 8:36 pm VIDEO: “Think the Bain Capital business has nothing to do with you? Do you pay taxes?” Mitt Romney left us to pick up the tab. Bain and You » Posted By bito On May 27, 2012 @ 7:07 pm Jeff Gauvin @JeffersonObama BREAKING: Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ‘Cold Case Posse’ are now looking for Romney’s sinking poll numbers>/blockquote> » Posted By bito On May 27, 2012 @ 6:04 pm Poll: Obama leads by double digits in swing-state Iowa President Obama has opened up a 10 percent lead over Mitt Romney in Iowa, according to a survey from Public Policy Polling released on Tuesday. Obama leads Romney 51 percent to 41. In PPP’s only other Iowa poll, conducted in October, Romney led Obama 46 to 42. The PPP poll indicates that although Romney has claimed the mantle of presumptive Republican nominee, the primary season left him badly bruised. Romney has an abysmal favorability rating in Iowa, with 34 percent saying they view him positively, compared to 56 who have an unfavorable view of him. Romney’s favorability rating is even worse among independents in Iowa, with only 28 percent saying they view him favorably, compared to 59 unfavorably. Is Romney in a free fall and the MSM suffering flop sweats mixed with the fevers? Mitt now leads in 3 out of 21 polls and they all are trending down. Jeff Gauvin @JeffersonObama Romney is in collapse in #OHIO, #Nevada, #PA, #MI, #NM, #IA Romney is sinking fast in Gallup & Rasmussen polls. Leads in 3 out of 21 #POLLS ~~~~ Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert but @politico and @buzzfeed say POTUS stumbling! RT JeffersonObama: Romney is in collapse in #OHIO, #Nevada, #PA, #MI, #NM, #IA And why is it that none of the cable news outlets have shown/discussed the Moody electoral college map? Moody’s Projects That Obama Will Romp Over Romney In November [img]http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4fbce1fcecad04877e000000-625-/barack-obama-mitt-romney-electoral-map.png[/img] Remember the MSM sold the people on the Iraq war, can they sell Romney as a job creating bidness whiz and president? You bet they can! » Posted By bito On May 27, 2012 @ 5:02 pm My pleasure, k’es. Here’s another one to make your head shake. New Mexico Governor Forces Health Official To Resign Because She Didn’t Promote Abstinence-Only New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is strictly in favor of teaching abstinence-only in sex education courses, even though abstinence-only programs have failed miserably to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases around the country. Of course, that’s because teenagers have sex. […] During the interview, Bouquin told KOAT that if teens are going to have sex, they should “use condoms,” because “condoms are very very important in controlling sexually transmitted diseases.” Sounds like a smart piece of advice to me. But not to the Republican regime in the state. One hour after the interview, Health Department Secretary Catherine Torres emailed Bouquin asking her to come in for a meeting. At that meeting, Bouquin says that Torres told her that she was, “being dismissed because you haven’t met the expectations of the governor.” She knows it doesn’t work, but she HAS to stick to the R playbook if she ever wants to get chosen as Mitt’s running mate or get reelected as gov. Did I mention that the state’s teen pregnancy rate is the highest in the nation. » Posted By bito On May 27, 2012 @ 3:54 pm When You Can’t Win – Cheat: Election Fraud From Coast To Coast Look for election fraud and voter suppression to be an overriding theme in this year’s Presidential election, even if it’s underreported in the mainstream media. Nearly six months before the election, we are already seeing local and statewide efforts to purge the voter rolls of Democratic voters. In an effort to clear the voter rolls of “non-citizens,” Florida’s Governor, Rick Scott is targeting Hispanic, Democratic and independent-minded voters by sending them notices informing that without proof of citizenship, they will not be eligible to vote. According to the Tampa Bay Times, out of the more than 2,600 people that have been sent the notices….. […] Republicans often speak of voter fraud, a nearly non-existent phenomenon that is being used as an excuse to purge voters off the rolls. Why don’t Republicans want people voting? It’s simple. Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation and one of the fathers of the current right-wing, famously said, “I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/27/when-you-cant-win-cheat-election-fraud-from-coast-to-coast/ » Posted By bito On May 27, 2012 @ 3:34 pm One that I noticed: Halperin: Would you like to be more specific about what the unemployment rate would be like at the end of your first year? Romney: I can’t possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we’d put in place, we’d get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower. It depends in part upon the rate of growth of the globe, as well as what we’re seeing here in the United States, but we’d get the rate down quite substantially, and frankly, the key is we’re going to show such job growth that there will be competition for employees again. Read more: http://thepage.time.com/2012/05/23/the-complete-romney-interview-transcript/#ixzz1w6qUhYLU Well, duh, og course if the rest of worlds economies were booming the economy in the US would be too. Does Mitt also blame the worlds economy on The President? The Eurozone chose the path of austerity, what was PBO supposed to do/what would Mitt do? RE: the unemployment rate down to 6% in 2014 ? Is this the same 6% the CBO and others have predicted if the Obama course is followed, Mitt? Bold move and nice non-catch Mark! » Posted By bito On May 27, 2012 @ 3:02 pm Mark Halperin’s Man Crush on Mitt Romney By now, everyone knows Mark Halperin of Time scored an interview with Mitt Romney. Reading the transcript, though, it was difficult to say whether it was a sit-down interview or a kiss-up. Not that I expect a whole heck of a lot from today’s “journalists” – but if these ‘journalists’ are unwilling to challenge people running for the highest office in the land about obvious lies and falsehoods, why in the world are they there? I admit I haven’t read the whole transcript but the parts I have I was yelling at Halprin to stop him and question what Willard had just said, isn’t that what journalists are supposed to do? Does he remind Mr. Romney it was Mr. Romney that opposed public money for the American auto industry, and demanded that US auto manufacturers go bankrupt? Does he tell Mr. Romney of the data that the President’s much-maligned American Recovery Act has, under objective analysis, saved or created more than 3 million jobs? Of course not. He lets that go unchallenged. But that’s only the beginning. Here’s another – perhaps easier – lie that Mitt Romney gets away with: Romney: The median income in America is down 10% in just the last four years. According to Census Bureau data – of which most recent data is available for 2010 – this is patently false. From 2009 to 2010, the real median income (adjusted for inflation), declined by 1.3%. From 2007 to 2008 – i.e. the beginning of the Republican recession – median income declined by 4.1% in just one year. Where does Mitt Romney get his 10% number over 4 years? He pulls part of it from his behind, and the rest of it by attributing to President Obama the results of economic policies put in place by President Bush – almost the same exact policies Romney is now advocating. Just how long would it have taken Mark Halperin to direct a staffer to get these numbers so that he could verify Mr. Romney’s claim? Apparently, days. Because he still hasn’t taken responsibility to correct the record. Seems Mr. Halprin was more interested in getting another interview more than he was in doing a good one. http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2012/05/mark-halperins-man-crush-on-mitt-romney.html Transcript of the interview: http://thepage.time.com/2012/05/23/the-complete-romney-interview-transcript/ Video of interview: http://thepage.time.com/2012/05/23/romney-talks-2/ » Posted By bito On May 26, 2012 @ 6:05 pm Weekly Address: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes this Memorial Day President Obama pays tribute to our men and women in uniform who have died in service to our country. » Posted By bito On May 26, 2012 @ 4:14 pm k’es and C’Lady, Rachel had a good segment on this topic last night: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy » Posted By bito On May 26, 2012 @ 2:00 pm C’Lady, I was having problems with my laptop and had to shut down and run some scans. Seems I got a couple of virus/open port attacks. There was no problem with the 50’s show, I was trying to gently move us back to the news of the week. » Posted By bito On May 26, 2012 @ 1:28 pm It is quite the moving speech, isn’t it k’es? While I have heard him relate the story before, there was something special about him telling it before the survivors of those who lost someone due to war. Not your average Memorial Day speech. » Posted By bito On May 26, 2012 @ 1:21 pm That was very much the point that John Sides was attempting to make in his article, I only quoted an excerpt, along with some other points(and some of mine.) Having participated in polls during the 50’s-60’s where they actually came to your house, I do think they were “more” reliable. They are now used to “make” news and their methodology is now very questionable as is using one poll to another comparatively which the MSM seems to want to do. Something else corporate media has screwed up. There was an article I spied on your point, “Can you poll moral questions?” probably pretty hard to do, like you said, pro-choice/prolife mean different things to different people and how they interpret/”feel” about them. » Posted By bito On May 25, 2012 @ 11:27 pm For those that may have missed it, k’es our busy bee and I don’t know if Kalima has seen it , this was tear jerker of a speech by Joe Biden to the troops. I’ll take Joe anytime, endearing gaffes and all anytime over the robot Mitt. Joe Biden’s Moving Speech To Familes Of Fallen Military Vice President Biden gave an emotional speech to families of fallen soldiers in Arlington, VA, relating his own losses to those who’ve lost loved ones. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy » Posted By bito On May 25, 2012 @ 9:49 pm That may be all true KT, but using Gallup’s methodology how can we draw that conclusion on a national basis? and that was what the Monkey Cage was asking. And that is their job–polling not guessing or assuming. Question: are they still doing it, are others and not telling anyone about it anymore? Is it any wonder that people just ignore polls any more, they don’t know who to trust. » Posted By bito On May 25, 2012 @ 4:58 pm West Wing Week: 5/25/12 or “We Are Not Meant to Walk This Road Alone.” Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President announced a major new initiative on food security, hosted the G8 and NATO summits, gave the commencement addresses in Joplin, Missouri and at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and traveled to Iowa to urge Congress to act on the “To Do List,” invest in clean energy, and extend the Production Tax Credit that has bipartisan support. That’s May 18th to May 24th or “We Are Not Meant to Walk This Road Alone.” » Posted By bito On May 25, 2012 @ 2:53 pm Numbers, questions and about that margin of error: The Gallup Pro-Choice Number In short, this “pro-life” vs. “pro-choice” question obscures the true nature of American attitudes toward abortion. Support for the right to abortion depends strongly on the circumstances of the pregnancy. They cannot be summarized with the labels “pro-choice” and “pro-life.” Moreover, and most importantly, more nuanced measures show little of the fluctuation that Gallup’s pro-choice vs. pro-life measure shows. Indeed Gallup’s new poll confirms this finding: However, it is notable that while Americans’ labeling of their position has changed, their fundamental views on the issue have not. Now which part of the poll do you think gets reported? The part that shows support fell or the fact that support remains at 70+ %? The part on the +- is best stated by a commenter. obelmann May 23, 2012 at 5:40 pm http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/05/23/the-gallup-pro-choice-number/#comment-27777 Gallup claims a +/- 4% total sampling error on the survey. When Gallup concisely stated that “41% of Americans who now identify themselves as “pro-choice” is down from 47% last July” — the actual Gallup numbers were an inconclusive, overlapping range (at best): 37% – 45% ‘pro-choice’ this year 43% – 51% ‘pro-choice’ last year So it’s possible that 45% (for example) is the true population measure of ‘pro-choice’… and indeed has not changed at all since last year, according to Gallup’s own results. Of course, there are many other likely sources of error in any survey… increasing the margin of error VERY significantly. Gallup claims a “random sample” as the core basis of this telephone poll. It was not a random/probability sample, but a convenience sample, as executed; factual generalization to the American population indicated by Gallup– is not possible with the Gallup methodology employed. Best to ignore Gallup and their products entirely. Great to see on of my pet peeves covered so simply on the Monkey Cage. EDIT: In all fairness to Gallup, though parts of their worked may be flawed/very flawed (you can’t change the question!) It is up to the copy editor to write the headline that can color the study? http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/05/23/the-gallup-pro-choice-number/ » Posted By bito On May 25, 2012 @ 1:49 pm I wonder if the whole RW needs a blood draw to check their RBC and platelet counts? Damn blood suckers! Yes, you are entitled to your benefits and yes, you paid into unemployment insurance, but we’re going to make you jump through hoops to get what you’re owed. Sorta sounds like an insurance company! » Posted By bito On May 25, 2012 @ 1:32 pm Exactly funk, it would be completely irresponsible of you to keep/hire more workers than needed if it endangered the companies livelihood and it’s profits. My goals are nearly opposite of what a corporations are. That is what makes Citizens United not just wrong but illogical. » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 9:34 pm They are not people for that fact alone. That is why I like the simplicity of the article. How can we be equal as people when our goals are so opposite? » Posted By bito On May 24, 2012 @ 8:48 pmComments Posted By bito
He is without shame and all about power and greed. I should have posted this in “is mitt a sociopath?” post, it’s a damn good example.
Like trickle on economic policies, we know it has never worked, so let’s try it some more. (I guess that has worked–for the top 2%)
and why didn’t Halprin catch this?
One more followup on this question, (oh, wait, you didn’t do any followup) why didn’t you ask Mitt why 6% is good enough for him but he expects 4% from Obama, which has rarely been attained by any president?
NBC, awhile ago, changed the question on one of their “trending” polls, and tried to pawn it off as valid. They admitted and tried to justify it, but that just breaks the basic rules of statistical polling.
Certainly Gallup’s subjective choice of position labels and question wording are a major bias source, as discussed above.
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