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Evening Reads: Monday, Monday…

Posted: August 13, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, double-speak, Fox News, Mitt Romney, SDB Evening News Reads | Tags: , |27 Comments »

Good Evening!

Today I made the argument about voting for Obama, it was in answer to my husband who is planning on voting Rmoney…I told him, how could he vote for Romney when he has a daughter? Doesn’t he realize what a Romney/Ryan presidency would be disastrous for young women like our daughter? His response was, oh they will never pass the kind of stuff you write about.  We all know differently. And it is frustrating as hell!

Doocy defends Ryan: ‘What’s the matter with being an ideologue?’ | The Raw Story

Fox News co-host Steve Doocy on Monday attempted spin Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s “ideologue” label as an advantage to Mitt Romney’s campaign.

During a series of interviews on Sunday, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod blasted Ryan’s plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system while skewing tax cuts to the wealthy, calling Wisconsin Republican a “right-wing ideologue” over and over and over again.

“They’re trying to define Ryan before Mitt Romney even gets a chance to introduce Paul Ryan,” Fox News host Eric Bolling noted on Monday.

“What’s a matter with being an ideologue?” Doocy wondered. “I mean, an ideologue means you stand for something. And these guys clearly stand for something.”

In fact, Merriam-Webster defines ideologue as “an impractical idealist” or “an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology.”

I remember that the German’s and the sympathetic press would refer to Hitler being a “fanatic” as a good thing. Y’all know how they twist the words around to mean something different to the idiots who watch and listen to their shows or read their opinions.

Ryan and Romney’s Really Awkward Moment | Mother Jones

You gotta see the face on Mitt, one would think he was doing a SNL skit.

Awkward. On 60 minutes, Ryan talks eliminating tax shelter loopholes as Romney tries not to look horrified. 

Mitt Romney and his newly anointed running mate Paul Ryan didn’t make much news in their first joint interview of the campaign on Sunday on 60 Minutes. But one exchange stood out: When asked about the fairness of his tax plan by CBS’s Bob Schieffer, Romney fought back against the suggestion that his policies would disproportionately favor the most wealthy. Here’s what Romney said:

Fairness dictates that the highest-income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do. And the committment that I’ve made is we will not have the top income earners in this country pay a smaller share of the tax burden. The highest-income people will continue to pay the largest share of the tax burden, and middle income payers under my plan get a break. Their taxes come down. So we’re not going to reduce taxes for high income people and we are going to reduce taxes for middle income people.

Ryan went on to explain that he and Romney would make the system more fair by shutting down tax loopholes that exclusively favor the rich. (In other words, the kind of tax loopholes Romney has taken advantage of.)

And one more for tonight’s reads: No one puts Mittens in the corner | Suburban Guerrilla

The Mittster rolls the dice, because businessmen rule! Once you make gobs of money, you have access to all the hidden knowledge of the universe and no one tells you what to do:

Mitt Romney appears to have picked Paul Ryan as his running mate over the objections of top political advisors, offering a glimpse at the leadership style of the Republican nominee in the most important decision of his campaign.
Romney’s aides have stressed publicly in the 24 hours since Romney electrified conservatives with his choice that the pick was the governor’s alone. They have been less forthcoming on the flip side: That much of his staff opposed the choice for the same reason that many pundits considered it unlikely — that Ryan’s appealingly wonky public image and a personality Romney finds copasetic will matter far less than two different budget plans whose details the campaign now effectively owns.

“Everybody was against [Ryan] to start with only Romney for,” said one top Republican, who is skeptical of the choice and griped that Romney’s top advisors have “been giving Mitt everything he wanted in this campaign.”

That’s it for this Monday’s Evening Reads…this is an open thread.

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27 Comments on “Evening Reads: Monday, Monday…”

  1. JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    August 13, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    Tonight is Deborah Kerr night on TCM and after watching the Sundowners, later tonight they have Black Narcissus. Hope everyone has a good evening.

  2. RalphB says:
    August 13, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    His response was, oh they will never pass the kind of stuff you write about.

    Jeez, that attitude is a killer. You might explain that they have already passed it out in the states and it will surely come to Congress if Vulture/Voucher are elected.

  3. ecocatwoman says:
    August 13, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    What is it, if you don’t mind my asking, that your husband supports about Rymney?

    Did ya’ll hear/see the story about for profit colleges, high student debt, lots of $$$ from the government, including GI Bill/veterans’ $$$? Here’s a NYT link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/politics/mitt-romney-offers-praise-for-a-donors-business.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Full Sail is located in ORLANDO. Ahh, we must keep Florida in the news, mustn’t we?

    • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
      August 13, 2012 at 6:23 pm

      He actually said to me, “A no vote is a vote for Obama.”

      • ecocatwoman says:
        August 13, 2012 at 6:31 pm

        So it’s more anti-Obama as opposed to pro-Rymney. I have to say that until the Repug debates I had decided to vote for everything on the ballot except prez. Personally, I don’t want to either be forced to become a born again or be burned at the stake, which is the direction I see the Repug Party moving. The potential is much worse than McCarthy ever accomplished, IMHO. Rymney = Saruman & Wormtongue (for any LOTR fans out there) Cheney, of course = Sauron (much, much worse than Darth Vader) Lynn Cheney = Shelob.

      • northwestrain says:
        August 13, 2012 at 6:42 pm

        I guess we’re getting an insight into why people vote against their own interest. Both Mitten and Vampire Ryan are full fledged in your face misogynists. How can fathers with daughters even consider voting for Neanderthals like that pair??

        Oh well — four years ago my inlaws loved loved 0bowma. For no real reason — except that he is black. I don’t care about the race or gender — I want a competent, empathic person with real experience.

        I’m voting Green. I’m voting Green. I will vote for a woman — damn it. I would never ever vote for Biden.

        • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
          August 13, 2012 at 8:00 pm

          How can fathers with daughters even consider voting for Neanderthals like that pair??

          I know. It is very upsetting. Georgia is going to go for Romney anyway…but it does piss me off.

  4. JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    August 13, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    This was something today, and it did not get the kind of attention that the other shootings did: 3 killed in shootings near Texas A&M University – CNN.com

    A Texas constable and two others were shot dead Monday in about a half an hour of gunfire near Texas A&M University, police said.

    Scott McCollum, assistant chief with the College Station police department, told reporters Monday afternoon that the three people killed were the constable, the man authorities say exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officers and an unidentified 65-year-old male civilian.

    The dead include Brian Bachmann, a constable in Brazos County, according to McCollum. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund noted he is the sixth law enforcement official killed so far this year in Texas.

    According to his Facebook campaign page, Bachmann was a 41-year-old from College Station who had been a Brazos County sheriff’s deputy since 1993. The county’s website indicated that his four-year term as constable — a position that involves, among other duties, serving court documents such as eviction notices and subpoenas to citizens — was set to expire on December 31, 2014.

    • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
      August 13, 2012 at 7:58 pm

      The assistant police chief didn’t offer details on the suspect who was shot by College Station police, beyond saying that he was in his mid-30s. As to the third victim, a post on the city of College Station’s official Twitter page identified him only as a “civilian bystander.”

      Four others suffered injuries in the roughly 30-minute ordeal after law enforcement officers arrived at a residence a few blocks from the Texas A&M campus.

      They included a law enforcement officer who was shot in the calf and two other officers — one of whom refused transport to an area hospital — who suffered “non-life threatening injuries,” McCollum said. A 55-year-old female civilian who had also been shot was undergoing surgery Monday afternoon at a hospital, according to the assistant police chief.

      He explained that police got a call shortly after 12:10 p.m. from “a citizen” indicating shots had been fired in the residential area just south of the university campus. He added that the constable had gone to the residence to deliver an “eviction notice.”

      • bostonboomer says:
        August 13, 2012 at 8:20 pm

        Maybe bankers should have to serve the eviction notices instead of police. The guy was probably desperate about being thrown out of his home. And of course in Texas, everyone can have guns.

    • JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
      August 13, 2012 at 8:03 pm

      And, according to Google, the top trending news article for this shooting is from Canada….Three dead in shooting near Texas A&M University | Top News | Reuters

  5. JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    August 13, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    Here is something frightening: Monster python caught in the Florida Everglades breaks egg record – Miami-Dade – MiamiHerald.com

    A massive female Burmese python pregnant with 87 eggs offers the latest evidence that the invasive constrictors have rebounded since a freeze two years ago

    Researchers examining a record-length Burmese python captured in Everglades National Park have uncovered an equally unsettling record hidden in its carcass.

    The 17-foot, 7-inch snake, the largest ever caught in the wild in Florida, also was laden with 87 eggs.

    The discovery, announced Monday by the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, is the latest confirmation that the giant exotic constrictors have rebounded since a brutal freeze two years ago that experts estimated may have killed off more than half of the population at the time.

    “This thing is monstrous — it’s about a foot wide,” said Kenneth Krysko, manager of the museum’s herpetology collection, in a release. “It means these snakes are surviving a long time in the wild, there’s nothing stopping them and the native wildlife are in trouble.”

    Park biologist Skip Snow said the findings underline the challenge of slowing the spread of a giant snake that feeds on native prey.

    “I think one of the important facts about this animal is its reproductive capability,’’ Snow said in the release. “This shows they’re a really reproductive animal, which aids in their invasiveness.”
    [...]

    “A 17.5-foot snake could eat anything it wants,” Krysko said. “By learning what this animal has been eating and its reproductive status, it will hopefully give us insight into how to potentially manage other wild Burmese pythons in the future.’

  6. bostonboomer says:
    August 13, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    Check this out: Rick Perry breaks with NRA, says states should be able to ban guns.

    http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/13/685441/rick-perry-breaks-with-the-nra-and-the-supreme-court-suggests-states-should-be-allowed-to-ban-guns/

    • RalphB says:
      August 13, 2012 at 9:39 pm

      Could be looking for contributions from the NRA to change his mind. You can’t be too cynical about Gov Goodhair.

  7. bostonboomer says:
    August 13, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    Thanks for the video from the 60 minutes interview. I couldn’t stand to watch it. Mitt had a very sick look on his face alright.

  8. peregrine says:
    August 13, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    Here’s the April 2010 Ryan-Glenn Beck interview where they talk about going after progressivism and about it being a cancer, which I read as another, yet veiled, anti-socialism spiel:

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/flashback-glenn-beck-interview-with-paul-ryan-from-2010/

  9. Beata says:
    August 13, 2012 at 8:37 pm

  10. RalphB says:
    August 13, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    atrios may have a good point here.

    The Suffering Of Other People

    My prediction is that the election narrative from our Villagers will coalesce around the question that voters care about most of all: which candidate (and party) will make the electorate suffer the most?

    America 2012. It’s just one big laboratory for the S&M fantasies of the Villagers.

  11. RalphB says:
    August 13, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Kung Fu Monkey: Thank you, Mitt Romney

    Paul Ryan’s family fortune was based on being paid by the government to build highways, he’s never had a job other than “Congressman”, none of his budget numbers add up — at all — and he’s trying to push a budget that would raise taxes on the middle class, hand giant tax breaks to the rich, gut the country’s infrastructure, and end Medicare — which no matter what shit they sling at you is the plan because strangely, his plan doesn’t apply to anybody over 55. Why not, if it’s so awesome? Because old folk know bullshit when they smell it, that’s why.

    And why is he pursuing these policies? Because, well, “job creators.”

    You know what? I type for a living, and my stupid little typing creates a couple hundred jobs. I’m an actual job creator, which was the last damn thing anybody (including my perpetually surprised father) expected when I started telling jokes in bars. And I don’t think that raising my tax rate by 3.4% (back the bad old Clinton Socialism Rate) so you, my fellow citizen, won’t lose your fucking house when your kid gets cancer, or maybe we get a functioning power grid or roads that wouldn’t be substandard in ZIMBABWE is “socialism”. It’s basic. Goddam. Decency.

    When the hell did we get talked out of that?

    John “Leverage” Rogers is the actual author of this quote from 2009.

    There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

  12. RalphB says:
    August 13, 2012 at 11:17 pm

    WTF is Fox News on this little travesty?

    Banana Republican: Mitt Romney is Stumping In Miami at Eatery Owned By Convicted Coke Smuggler

    Today, Mitt Romney is foregoing a Miami political campaign tradition by skipping over Versailles restaurant in Little Havana. Instead, Mittens will be hobnobbing with a convicted cocaine smuggler. The Republican presidential candidate is holding an afternoon rally at Palacio de los Jugos (7085 Coral Way), which is owned by Reinaldo Bermudez, who served three years in federal prison after pleading guilty in 1999 to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

    Bermudez, AKA “El Guajiro,” was a member of 12-person ring that was busted in 1997 for attempting to smuggle more than a ton of yeyo disguised as fish and soap into three South Florida ports. According to Bermudez’s indictment, some of his co-conspirators had nicknames straight out of a Hollywood movie like “Ali Baba,” “Skeletor,” “Buckwheat” and “Stump.”

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