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Romney's first 100 days in office

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Thursday, June 14, 2012 09:48
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Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:24 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I got a kick out of this ad:
Quote:

VOICEOVER: “What would a Romney Presidency be like?”

VIDEO TEXT: “Day 1”

VOICEOVER: “Day one, President Romney immediately approves the Keystone pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that Obama blocked.”

VOICEOVER: “President Romney introduces tax cuts and reforms that reward job creators, not punish them.”

VOICEOVER: “President Romney issues order to begin replacing Obamacare with commonsense health care reform.”

VOICEOVER: “That’s what a Romney Presidency will be like.”

MITT ROMNEY: “I’m Mitt Romney and I approve this message.”

Wow. Impressive. Then he'd go on from there:
Quote:

Having already aired advertisements describing what he'd do on "Day 1" in the White House, Mitt Romney explained on Wednesday what he'd do over another 99 days.

Romney laid out what he'd do in the first 100 days of a Romney administration. Earlier Wednesday, the campaign released a graphic on "How a Romney Presidency Would be Different."

"I will in my first 100 days take action to eliminate government programs, to send a lot of government programs back to states where I limit the rate of growth at inflation, and to cut back the number of federal employees through attrition," Romney said. "And by the way, to link the pay of government workers with the pay that exists in the private sector. And those things save about $500 billion a year by my fourth year in office, if I am lucky enough to be elected, and get us to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/13/romney-details-first-1
00-days-says-obamas-words-are-cheap/

Man, I am IMPRESSED! This man is a real dynamo! I'm sure Congress will bow down and pass all his legislation the day it's offered, and this country will be really on track to...uh, disaster?

He lied again, too:
Quote:

Romney repeated a new line of attack against the president – a slam that's being cited as taking the president's words out of context.

"The other day, when he was asked, 'Do you understand that particular small businesses [are] having a hard time because of Obamacare?' He said he didn't know – he hadn't heard that small businesses were affected by Obamacare, negatively," Romney told the CEOs, referring to the president.

It turns out, that's not exactly what the president said.

During a Tuesday interview with a local television from Iowa, the president was asked about the impact of the nation's health reform law on small businesses.

The interviewer told the president that an Iowa company said it had to close and move jobs to Wisconsin, as a "direct result of the health care reform that you initiated, that Congress passed."

"How do you react to that?" the reporter asked.

The president responded: "That would be kind of hard to explain. Because the only folks that have been impacted in terms of the health care bill are insurance companies who are required to make sure that they're providing preventive care, or they're not dropping your coverage when you get sick. And so, this particular company probably wouldn't have been impacted by that."Same

But then we're used to lies out of his mouth... Obviously "this particular company probably wouldn't have been impacted by that" means"I hadn't eard that small businesses were affected". Sure it does!



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Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:54 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


What he says he will NOT do is cut spending in that first hundred days. Or the first year.

Here’s what Romney said when Time magazine's Mark Halperin asked him why his plans for cuts are gradual, and why he wouldn’t hit the ground running with his budget shears:

"Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5 percent. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course."







"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero


"I've not watched the video either, or am incapable of intellectually dealing with the substance of this thread, so I'll instead act like a juvenile and claim victory..." - Rappy

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Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:50 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

With such an impressive list of Day 1 promises, I wondered if he was running for President or Emperor.

--Anthony



Note to Self:
Raptor - women who want to control their reproductive processes are sluts.
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Never forget what these men are.
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -Thomas Szasz

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Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:48 AM

HERO


We should vote for the voiceover guy!

H

Hero...must be right on all of this. ALL of the rest of us are wrong. Chrisisall, 2012

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