Romney to give a major spending spending policy speech at Americans for Prosperity, the Koch policy mill that tries less hard to pretend it is not a rightwing freakshow.
Also: lower taxes. Because deficit.
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Romney to give a major spending spending policy speech at Americans for Prosperity, the Koch policy mill that tries less hard to pretend it is not a rightwing freakshow.
Also: lower taxes. Because deficit.
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Brachiator
Presumably, he won’t come across as a rambling drunk, the way that Perry did recently.
But maybe, like Cain, he will finish the speech with a song.
jonas
Don’t forget that unemployment would be 4% if it weren’t for all the overregulation and uncertainty about higher taxes under Obama that have business owners crying themselves to sleep every night.
lonesomerobot
your first sentence needs a spending cut. bet you put the extra one in there just to give conservatives something to do.
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
I can’t help but wonder, what song would Mitt Romney choose to sing? A Mormon hymn? One of the Nat King Cole hits that Donny Osmond used to cover when he was the 1970s’ Justin Bieber?
JPL
Tax breaks create jobs
Spending cuts create jobs
Deregulation makes Mitts magic undies tight.
Maybe I can get a gig on Fox News…
dmsilev
He’s against it now, sure. But what about next week? Where was he last month?
(nb: answers are independent of the specific value of ‘it’)
lonesomerobot
@Amir Khalid: how much for that doggie on the luggage rack?
Jewish Steel
@Amir Khalid: He connects with other LDS by traveling with his own Tabernacle Choir. Now who’s the racist!?
Yevgraf
@jonas:
Fixted it for you.
Warren Terra
I like the way the Wingers use “Prosperity” as a code word. The group that illegally funded The Hermancain’s campaign for its first couple of months was called “Prosperity USA”.
trollhattan
Except for Pentagon spending, which is awesome, because it is awesome. “America, f*#k yeah!”
Also, too, let’s be certain about ending economic uncertainty so everybody in Galt’s Gulch can come out for a beer run.
Certified Mutant Enemy
I bet he’s against it
Unless it’s military spending. Romney wants to increase military spending because, deficits will no longer matter when a Republican is President…
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid:
I’m thinking “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road”, myself. Except in Mitt’s case, it’s a live but distressed dog on the roof of his station wagon.
The stinking to high heaven part is the same, though…
trollhattan
This seems interesting.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/01/316040/romney-solamere-ponzi/
Is a Ponzi scheme actually private sector economic stimulus?
Mark K
If your title had been “Dog Pees on Tree”, I would have found that just as interesting.
Not to single you out but my God, I’m sick of hearing about Republican POTUS candidates. Even on MSNBC, its all they ever talk about. WHO CARES. We need to direct our attention to things like OWS or fighting the anti-labor laws or even marijuana legalization. There is nothing any of us can do about who the Republican loser is gonna be….which is Romney btw. He has no chance to win (I live in Macon, Ga. right now and they would rather vote for anybody but a Mormon) but the etablishment thinks he’ll pull in some Senate victories.
We need to fight state by state. Who cares what this loser says/does.
AA+ Bonds
Kochs, Kochs, Kochs.
The shady “non-profit” that illegally funneled money to Cain’s campaign and then conveniently disappeared without collecting on the debts? Prosperity USA, another Koch front.
This organization took in less than $70,000 and spent less than $60,000 – until a mysterious donor threw $150,000 their way, incredibly conveniently for Cain’s campaign.
Honestly, if the Republicans didn’t appear so intent on hamstringing each other, I might even entertain the idea of Rove-Koch coordination to push Cain (as someone who’ll never win the nomination) and hurt Perry (or whoever they thought the real unelectable challenge to Romney was at the time).
I suppose it’s still possible if unlikely that Rove baited the Kochs into such a scheme and then turned around and put the whammy on Cain when he started to beat Romney in the polls.
But most likely, there’s nothing here but serendipity favoring Obama.
Yutsano
OT: Must get to SAM sometime soon!
:: pokes the Seattle crowd ::
Regnad Kcin
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: He’s more an Irving Berlin kind of guy.
MikeJ
@Yutsano: Say when. I haven’t been since the Picasso show.
cleek
@Amir Khalid:
Who Let The Dogs Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4
Zifnab
Today, sure. Tomorrow? Who knows.
Jewish Steel
@Yutsano: I saw the Picasso show there last year. It was dynamite.
Carnacki
It really doesn’t matter what Romney says there. His views will change to appeal to the next group he speaks to anyway.
Suffern ACE
He’s definitely 100% forgainst ethanol subsidies when he’s in Iowa.
Chris T.
I like to call them “Americans for Billionaires’ Prosperity”…
amk
‘herb’ cain is the only candidate whose Positive Intensity Score has increased in comparison to Gallup’s initial measurement earlier this year. In fact, each of the eight candidates Gallup tracks began with scores in the double digits, but now only three remain in that range.
Great to see fucking perry ‘leading from behind’.
What assholes all.
Turgidson
BGinCHI
Romney already knows why he’s against what he’ll propose today. He’s already walking back the walk before he walks it. He’s got the 114 on the 411 before he even dials.
He’s the magic man.
kd bart
Here’s Romney’s speech/song number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v3etuIw-aM
Calouste
@Warren Terra:
Just like “Freedom”.
What did Orwell say again?
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Prosperity is Poverty
?
Served
I know it would require someone to be an actual journalist, but how has no one ever directly asked a Republican how many jobs Tax Break A will create? Why don’t the Republicans get a “pledge” from the overlords that says “We will create xxx jobs for this tax break?” I mean, even if it’s a lie (it would be) they can always go back to the well of “IT WASN’T ENOUGH”
Betsy
The common “Prosperity” thread in both orgs is the tobacco lobby.
As detailed last week by Stolberg in the NYT, Cain was the head of the restaurant ass’n lobby. It was a front group for Big Tobacco (which has a hard time lobbying on its own behalf, for obvious reasons) and most of the policy goals the restaurant ass’n pushed were in fact aimed at public anti-smoking legislation.
Americans for Prosperity is a creation of Dick Armey, longtime tobacco lobbyist par excellence. AFP specializes in astroturfing ops that use older, white, rural people as “grassroots” stooges for its corporate lobbying efforts.
Someone really needs to sniff all this out and write a nice article drawing the links between all these orgs.
ABL
this made me snicker.