Alan Grayson Nov. 5, 2012
Make Republican Voter Suppression Backfire

Mitt Romney Similar Ethics To Wise Guys & Sopranos &Cher & Kathy Griffin Don't Let Romney Turn Back Time On Women's Rights & Romney On Abortion & The Apocalypse

Mitt Romney & Tony Soprano Have similar Ethics Concerning Business-via Huffington Post , Nov. 5,2012.

Published on Nov 2, 2012 by SchlepLabs

Cher and Kathy Griffin on Mitt's efforts to turn back time on women in the latest video from the Actually... series. When lies go unchecked, we all lose. Actually.org spreads the truth, because the truth matters—even in politics. Our team calls 'em like they see 'em, and we hope you'll support the truth by sharing Actually.org videos before Election Day. Actually... is a partnership between American Bridge and JCER. Schlep Labs is a project of JCER. Actually... was produced by Amy Rubin at Barnacle Studios http://blog.barnacle.is

Mitt’s religious rant goes viral

Romney's blustering defense of his faith shows the candidate's temper VIDEO By Zachary Bell /a>

In 2007, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sat down with Jan Mikelson, the conservative radio host of WHO-Iowa. After Mikelson challenged Romney on abortion, Gov. Romney used the off-air interlude to vehemently defend himself and his religion. Released on Wednesday, the video has tallied over 1.5 million views. Throughout the campaign Romney has refused to discuss his religion in depth. No doubt that was a conscious decision but it carried the risk, in

the digital age, that something he had said in the past would define it for him.

Mitt Romneys Crazy Apocalyptic Beliefs

Published on Nov 5, 2012 by Thunderf00t Mitt Romneys has some pretty crazy beliefs about the end of the world. My mommy always told me to keep religious nutters away from nuclear weapons, and that his was a policy you should start at home!

Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Dodged $102 Million In Taxes By Using Dutch Tax Loophole, Newspaper Writes by Eline Gordts at Huffington Post Nov. 5, 2012

Bain Capital avoided about €80 million (or $102 million) in taxes by using a financial loophole in the Netherlands, according to a HuffPost translation of an article in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant Monday.

De Volkskrant and the website Follow the Money claim that by routing its 2004 investments in the Irish pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott through the Netherlands, Bain was able to dodge dividends and capital gains taxes. Financial adviser Jos Peters estimates that the loophole allowed Bain to save about $102 million.

In 2009, 4 years after investing in Warner Chilcott, Bain moved the company's seat from Bermuda to the Netherlands to evade possible stricter tax laws on the island, De Volkskrant explains.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide summarized what happened next:

Then two years ago, Bain registered its interest in Warner Chilcott with the private Dutch company Alter Domus, which provides administrative services for multinational corporations and investment funds. If a Dutch company owns more than five percent of the shares in another company, then that other company is exempt from paying taxes on all capital gains.

Through exemptions like that and a host of other complicated tax treaties, the Netherlands offers huge tax breaks to companies like Bain, which is reported to have evaded 80 million euros in dividend taxes by running through the Netherlands.

"We are world champion in participants exemptions," Dutch financial adviser Jos Peters told De Volkskrant.

Follow The Money explained that Mitt Romney had left Bain in 1999 to run the Olympics in Salt Lake City, but his retirement package allowed him to participate in Bain deals and thus share in the profits. (It's also not clear that he did, in fact, leave in 1999.)

Jesse Frederik, who wrote the article in De Volkskrant, clarified in a comment to the The Political Wire:

Just to be clear: Romney didn't avoid $80 million in Irish dividend withholding taxes, but a Bain fund he invests in. The Bain fund also avoided an unknown amount (probably tens of millions) of Irish capital gains tax. Romney received $2,1 million in dividends from the fund in 2010/2011 and $5,5 million in capital gains.

Violent Pro-Life Movement And Florida Voting Disaster & Romney's Lack of Ethics & Vote Rigging & GOP Alternate Universe

rigging

First here is a little video we put together hope it is OK and if not instructive is at least entertaining

War On Women : Abortion & Pro-Life Advocates




Published on Nov 4, 2012 by Gord's Poetry Factory & Gord's Cafe.net
Pro-Life Advocates and Activists Violent Rhetoric Leads To Condoning Acts Of Domestic Terrorism IN America For Educational Purposes

GOP In Florida Denying Citizens Their Right To Vote


Rachel Maddow GOP Using Dirty Tricks To Win in Florida






November 3, 2012 by The Rachel Maddow Show
Florida Suffers Under Manmade Voting Disaster (via CommonDreams.org)

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'Alternate Reality' Zone: Republicans Predict Landslide, Fudge Facts, LIE, Unskew Polls  

Mitt Romney still thinks its an oddity for women to have to work let alone choose to work. In his privileged world women don't work unless they have to or they might choose to be active in various charity organizations .

Melissa Harris Perry: "Privileges Of Patriarchy" Still Seductive To Some Women MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry: "I'm convinced there's a group of women for whom the so-called privileges of patriarchy are still quite seductive.

The idea of what you need is sort of a strong man who will just sort of give you cover. 'Don't worry, honey, I know you don't want to work.' Right? Rather than a sense of, again, that full citizen equality, which is in part about the ability not to just make health choices for yourself, but economic choices for yourself."

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Lawrence O'Donnell : The Last Word  The most lied about Obama statements is that "you didn't build that". President Obama's comments about the role of government and other citizens. A business needs the overall infrastructure inorder to survive and thrive . Such infrastructure Romney/Ryan and the GOP call spending on infrastructure on rads, bridges, dyke, sea-walls, breakwaters and so forth.

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Republican attempts to use various means to skewer the voting or tabulating of ballots in Mitt Romney's favor.

To the GOP a win is a win no matter how the win was achieved . So whether its sports or elections its not how you play the game but whether or not you win or lose. I believe this has been true for a large segment of the American and Canadian population as well to encourage people to win at any costs or by any or all means necessary and that this applies not just to elections or sports but also all human endeavors . It is the winner takes all and f... the losers mentality which is at the base of American and Canadian society.  

  So Mitt Romney's way of doing business deals in which he shuts down companies and makes a profit for himself by doing so and by firing large numbers of employees and shipping jobs overseas is to some of us an unethical way to earn one's living as opposed to working to save a failing company or to replace it with a company that will do better and which can rehire those who have lost their jobs.

   In the business world of Mitt Romney and the Wall Street thugs communities and workers are of little interests beyond using them to make outrageous and immoral ,unethical , unjust profits while showing no concern for those being fired or for those who keep their jobs but no longer being paid a fair wage.

   GOP vote count strategery: Rules is rules by digby at Hullabaloo, Nov. 5, 2012

 

I certainly hope that the polling results in Ohio are correct and that President Obama has a nice cushion because if he doesn't, and it comes down to that state, this is going to be a problem: With just a few dozen hours left before polls open on Election Day, here is a candidate for the most important election-law story of the weekend -- a story likely to cross over into the general political debate Sunday through Monday.  

This early copy from the Associated Press offered a hint: COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Voter advocates are criticizing an order by Ohio's elections chief dealing with the casting of provisional ballots.  

Advocates are saying on Saturday that the order by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted late Friday wrongly puts the burden of recording the form of ID used on a provisional ballot on voters, not pollworkers  

.... Here's what happened.  

On Thursday, voting-rights advocates filed an "emergency motion" with a federal trial judge seeking his reassurance that provisional ballots in Ohio will be judged by the standard he endorsed (and Ohio reportedly agreed to) in a recent consent decree. That standard, the plaintiffs say, is "that a provisional-ballot form that has incomplete or improperly completed information regarding the type of identification proffered by a voter should be counted pursuant" to Ohio law, which, they say, makes the poll worker responsible for taking down the information. ... Ohio has not yet responded to it with a filing in court -- the state's deadline is Monday.  

But it was a full day after this motion was filed that the secretary of state, at 6 p.m. on the Friday before the election, issued his contrary directive, the text of which you can read in this timely piece by Judd Legum. The issuance of the directive in turn prompted lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case to go back to U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley with an even more urgent request, filed late Friday evening:

This new Directive makes an affirmative change to the previous provisional ballot counting standard, beyond what was required to comply with this Court's and the Sixth Circuit's recent orders. Instead, contrary to this Court's October 26, 2012 decision, the Secretary's representations to this Court on October 24, 2012, and the Constitution, the Secretary is now ordering that county boards of election must reject provisional ballots when the identification information contained in Step 2 of the ballot affirmation form 12-B is incomplete.  

The contours of the legal dispute aren't narrowing, as some legal disputes do at this stage of an election contest, but instead are growing. They are growing because the secretary of state has just doubled down on his position about incomplete provisional ballots. If he was wrong on Thursday, you could say, he was even more wrong on Friday. And that will likely mean a Monday ruling* from Judge Marbley which will then be appealed into Tuesday (and beyond) to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Folks, the legal fight for Ohio's votes is already here and here to stay. If you're a worrywart like me, you'll click over and read all the gory details.

Here's the thing. The Republicans have already signaled their strategy:

THEODORE OLSON, 2000 BUSH CAMPAIGN LAWYER:  

I'm clearing my calendar just in case I need to be ready for the next five weeks.

JOHNS: He says if elections officials want to avoid litigation, they shouldn't change direction in the middle of the game.

OLSON: If you follow the rules that were in place on Election Day with respect to counting the ballots, then the presumptive outcome will be respected when the Electoral College votes are counted.

Let's hope Obama's lead is too big for any of these shennanigans to be worthwhile.

Glenn Greenwald on voters 'disenchanted' with Obama

Mr. Burns Endorses Romney | The Simpsons | Animation on FOX

A solid endorsement for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan from The Simpsons greedy evil entrepeneur Mr. Burns.

   As we see in the video below from Salon.com /New Left Media a large portion of Romney supporters seem to have litt idea about what Romney's actual plans and policies are. They appear to be supporting Romney because he is a Republican and to vote against President Obama. Things they say have changed but give few if any examples of how things have changed for the worse. No doubt they want Obama out but why they may not be too sure because his supposedly move to the left with Obamacare or because too many of those who support Obama just want more handouts and more free stuff ie the 47% who are "moochers" or "takers" rather than "makers".

“I believe in God and God is going to make sure Mr. Romney wins” Video interviews with Romney supporters, Alex Halperin at Salon .com,Nov.4, 2012

Documentary outfit New Left Media interviewed folks at a Mitt Romney rally in Ohio:
Alex Halperin is news editor at Salon. You can follow him on Twitter @alexhalperin.

   Even this late in the game there are many Republicans who are deluded into believing that Romney's election is all but secured that there is no way someone in their view who is as dangerous and as anti-American as Obama could win another election.

Some even well heeled conservative pundits and leaders who should know better but their partisanship brains are overwrought and so unflinchingly are predicting a landslide victory for Romney even though this flies in the face of all of the polling numbers.

There is one way they might be proven right is if as others have suggested that the GOP is able to rigg the voting and ballot tallying using their GOP friendly counters and interfering operatives.

Five delusional right-wingers who have Mitt in a landslide : Most national polls have the two candidates in a dead heat, but try telling that to these would-be prophets By Joshua Holland at Alternet.org via Salon.com ,Nov. 3, 2012

Republicans have decided that all the available evidence must be wrong and that Mitt Romney is headed for a certain victory next Tuesday. Many expect a landslide win that will rival Reagan’s ten-point victory over Jimmy Carter in 1980. It’s hard to recall another example of an entire political party deluding itself to such a degree that it has lost any connection to objective reality

...Many conservatives simply refuse to accept this state of affairs. There are two reasons. The party hacks – including those in the Romney campaign – worry about turning out their base. People like to vote for winners, and if they believe their candidate is likely to go down in defeat, they may decide to stay home and do some laundry next Tuesday. They fear that if their candidate looks like he will be beat it can create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Projecting an image of a strong candidate with good momentum keeps their voters engaged and enthusiastic.

For the rank-and-file, there’s something else going on. Research suggests that political conservatives tend to have a greater need to avoid cognitive dissonance than liberals. The right has spent 4 years painting Obama as not only a failure and an incompetent, but a dangerous radical; a crypto-Muslim with dictatorial tendencies who may not even be an American citizen. The idea that such a horrible monster could be re-elected causes painful cognitive dissonance, which they’re trying to manage by grasping at any straw they see.


This can lead to some truly comical efforts to twist reality into something that conforms with their world-view. Here are 5 examples, from the top of the Republican ticket to the bottom of the right-wing fever swamps.

GOP Election The Fix is In & Romney vs. Sandy -Global Warming As A Punch Line & Romney's Sandy Photo-Op & "Heckuva Job Brownie ": Obama Responded Too Fast"

Mitt Romney may win this election through the use of GOP operatives involvement in corporations with the contract for counting ballots and their rigged computer systems .
The GOP has also been involved with training thousands of poll watchers to misinform and do what they can to stop pro-Obama voters from casting their ballots .
So the Fix as it were as in 2000 Bush election may already be in and the GOP preparing for taking action wherever the count is in dispute or close.

Romney vs. Sandy - YouTube: 'via Blog this'

Published on Oct 31, 2012 by ForecastTheFacts If this video makes you mad, take action at: http://climatesilence.org/romneyjoke Much of the nation is still reeling from Hurricane Sandy. Our thoughts are with those who have been impacted. When Mitt Romney made climate change a punchline at the Republican National Convention, he mocked a real threat to the lives of Americans. We've turned this video into a television ad that is running in Ohio and Virginia right now! If you want to donate to expand the ad buy go to https://loudsauce.com/campaigns/416-share-romney-s-climate-joke-with-victims-...

 It should be noted that the GOP and Mitt Romney are more concerned about banning Gay Marriage and banning abortion than with taking on the economic injustices and inequality and lack of opportunity and helping out the working poor, the homeless, the unemployed and the middle class ' shrinking income while the top 1% get wealthier every year. As for disaster relief Romney sees Disaster relief as an opportunity for private enterprise to make a shit load of money as they did after Katrina and in the man made disaster in Iraq etc. So a word of warning if Romney wins citizens should be ready with cash or credit cards to pay for any aid they need in a natural disaster.

 Romney's Opportunistic Storm Photo Op - Cenk Uygur At The Young Turks Using fake supplies for photo-op to show how earnest & caring Romney is -

Published on Oct 31, 2012 by TheYoungTurks "The last-minute decision by Romney high command Monday to suspend politics while Sandy raged sent aides in Ohio scrambling to convert a scheduled victory rally into an apolitical "storm relief event" — a process that tested the campaign's agility and left a few threads of partisanship inadvertently hanging.

"Heckuva Job" Brownie: Obama Responded TOO FAST to Hurricane Sandy Published on Oct 31, 2012 by MidweekPolitics --Michael Brown of FEMA's "heckuva job" fame says that President Obama reacted TOO QUICKLY to Hurricane Sandy.

David Pakman points out possible election fixing by the Romney/GOP campaign putting out misinformation and vote rigging in Florida and other state using computer system run by Republicans and their supporters. This is another reason why UN or other NGOs should be onsite monitoring US elections. Elections in America are controlled by partisan officials in this case by the Republican Party.

Romney Campaign Training Poll Watchers to Intimidate w/ Wrong Information Published on Oct 31, 2012 by MidweekPolitics --The Mitt Romney campaign is training poll watchers to mislead voters in Wisconsin.

And more on Think Progress story about GOP trying to fix the election by various means such as training thousands of Poll Watchers to misinform voters about needing photo-Ids etc.

 Investigation Into Romney Poll Watchers

Published on Nov 2, 2012 by Tomthunkit -Rev. Sharpton A new ThinkProgress investigation has found that in Iowa, Romney poll watchers are being trained to watch for voters who show up without a photo ID, even though no voter ID law exists in the state.

  America has been awash in election rigging going back to President Nixon and the Republican party's so called "Rat Finks" (see book Rule and Ruin by Geoffrey Kabaservice pub. 2012) If the election fraud continues the USA may be facing another fiasco as it did in the election of 2000 in which Bush should have lost but due to pressure by the GOP and its wealthy and powerful supporters were able to engage in a campaign to stop recount in Florida -the assault as such was led by the "Brook Brothers angry "mob.(see Maddow video below on GOP organized well financed faux grass roots/ astroturf protests)

 But to anyone watching politics and elections in the USA there seem to be partisan knowledgeable pundits and party operatives who believe that using dirty tricks in an election is just part of business as usual even in misinforming voters or rigging the ballot box and or computers and having no oversight of those tallying the votes. The USA in this sense looks like some banana republic where all is fair in love and war and elections.

Florida Early Voting Totals Changing, Raise Huge Questions Published on Oct 31, 2012 by MidweekPolitics --Florida early vote totals have been drastically changed, already raising many questions about the upcoming election.

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Rachel Maddow : GOP how to fix an election outcome 101

Rachel Maddow: 2000 Docker / Brooks Brothers Rebellion: Fake Protests By Far Right Uploaded by VampiressOnDaProwlq on Aug 17, 2009 Brooks Brothers 2000 Election Docker Rebellion Fake "Protests" are exactly Like Anti-Healthcare Far Right Nazi LIBERTARIANS. Fake Protests by Far Right LIBERTARIAN Media + Corporate Lobbyists To Pretend To Be Grassroots - by "FreedomWorks" + ""APF" or "Americans For Patients First" + AforP" or "Americans For Prosperity" + "CPR" multi-millionaires + billionaires!

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Joseph Stiglitz A Romney Win Would Create More Economic Injustice and Romney Privatizing Disaster Relief

“The United States armed forces are highly diverse,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “To have a veterans’ memorial that only honors soldiers of one religion is not only a violation of the First Amendment, but also an insult to the memory of non-Christians who served their country.”

Above quote From Press Release: Decorated Afghanistan War Veteran Sues NC Town Over Sectarian Memorial Americans United For The Separation of Church and State.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of Steven Hewett, a decorated veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Americans United asked the city to remove the Christian flag as well as a Christian statue at the memorial.

...Hewett, who won the Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star during his service with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, first complained about King’s overt promotion of Christianity in July 2010. A non-Christian, he asked for the removal of the Christian flag from the city-sponsored memorial out of respect for the many non-Christian veterans who have served their country.

VoteVets.org is a group which I heartily support and so should all those who want less wars rather than more wars and to insist governments treat vets with dignity to give them the best of healthcare and opportunities in employment and education and that they receive decent pensions which reflect what they have done for their nation.

Parades and Memorials and Patriotic speeches are not enough- a nation must show its appreciation for what veterans have done this is as true in the USA as well as here in Canada. Our vets too have been at the receiving end of a mean-spirited Neoconservative government.

 It is a tragedy whenever a soldier of any nation is wounded, maimed or killed in a war but it is shameful for the nation any nation that is to send soldiers into unnecessary wars such as the Iraq war and the coming Iran war.


And ad from VoteVets.org for veteran Bob Kerry who is no Chicken Hawk like Mitt Romney or Bushites like Karl Rove and his gang who are fighting for Mitt Romney and for more war while increasing economic injustice and inequality.

As VoteVets.org puts the case:

VoteVets.org final push prior to election day :Take a Look At Our New Ads, Nov. 02,2012

We’re doing another ad blitz of over 1 million dollars to end 2012, including $300,000 behind a hard-hitting ad in Nebraska that makes it clear – Bob Kerrey’s fought for America, while his opponent Deb Fischer has fought to take land from her neighbors.

and: In addition to this ad in Nebraska, we’re also going up in Ohio with $200,000 behind a new ad that highlights the pro-Veteran record of Senator Sherrod Brown. In the ad, an Ohio Air Force Veteran says, “Senator Brown, as a Veteran of one fight, I salute you in your fight to protect Ohio’s Veterans.”

Virginia Ad by VotesVets.org ...

"...highlights the extreme anti-Veteran record of Senate candidate George Allen."

and:

Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that President Obama may not have done as much as he could have replacing him with Mitt Romney would make everything worse not just on social issues but on economics as well.
Stiglitz proposes raising taxes for the rich and closing unjustified loop holes in the system of taxation while cutting back on military spending .


Joseph Stiglitz: “Romney’s plan is based on magic” Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz -- an Obama critic -- says Romney's cuts would be disastrous By Andrew Leonard at Salon.com,Nov. 2,2012

...the fact is that Romney has many of the same economic advisers that Bush did. Those economic advisers essentially doubled the debt in eight years. And that was in a period of relatively high growth. Why would we think that wouldn’t happen again? I don’t see any reason for that. Particularly when the global environment is more adverse.

... If Romney wins, we will become a more divided society, a more unfair society. And that in turn will bring greater inequality, and will also undermine our growth.

... the main reason...to vote for him (Obama) is that if he loses there could be a major step backward in every aspect. Not the least important of which is the importance of the Supreme Court, which would affect inequality of political power, as with the Citizens United case. The Court will also rule on basic human rights, gender rights, discrimination, things I think progressives should care a lot about.

But in terms of the economy, while I’ve been critical, there still has been progress in an awful lot of areas. Less progress than there should have been, less progress than was promised, but progress all the same.

...But the kind of compromise that I would like would begin with significant tax increases as a result of the elimination of corporate welfare buried in the tax code, special treatment of capital gains, the Cayman Islands tax avoidance setup, a whole set of things of that kind.

On the expenditure side, I’d like to see the biggest chunk come out of the military, I think we’re spending too much on weapons that don’t work against enemies that don’t exist. We need to spend our money more smartly — that’s where I would see the biggest chunk of expenditure cuts.

"Romney Wants to Privatize Disaster Relief"

from RealNews Network Nov. 01, 2012

Bill Black: Part 1. Financial and Fraud Report: Romney plan for smaller federal government and privatization is a way to make private profit from crisis

Whedon On Romney & Romney's Road To Zombie Apocalypse & Romney's Style

Romney Style: How to Destroy Your Campaign's Credibility in Five Easy Steps
Published on Nov 1, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom

Whedon On Romney & Romney's Road To Zombie Apocalypse