Monday Afternoon Thread: Mitt waxes poetic about the French vacations, teapublicans throw up

Good Afternoon miranda– —***BIG HUG*** :>)- -

TAG:- — WEE WEE MITT!- – -LOL- –

- —THIS! IS! IT!!- — HE- – -TRIPLE WEIRD!! LOL- – —

Have a good afternoon. :>)

miranda- – — HE HAD NO OTHER- -CHOICE—-

- ——What Other Choice Does He Have? - – -

- —–The New York Times notices that the president has been forced to resort to unilateral executive action to get things done because Congress is broken. The Times even noticed something else:

It’s funny how it’s almost a universal truth that you can get a bully to back down if only you will stand up to him. The pace of judicial confirmations has picked up substantially since the Republican landslide in 2010. The Republicans complain about everything, but they’re not doing anything substantial about the president’s new focus on using the executive branch to bypass Congress. Yes, they are sending an amicus brief to a case that challenges Obama’s recess appointments, but their heart isn’t in it.
THERE IS MORE.

——-Humph! Don’t KNOW where their ♥ is——BUT- -THEIR HEADS—–

R NOT VISIBLE—–from WHERE—they R STUCK!!—–Jus’ sayin’. ….

LMAO at Rubio looking like “This MF right here. Shut your ass up fool!”

A daughter grows from 0 to 12 — in 2 minutes and 45 seconds
11 hrs ago

​What parent hasn’t heard the adage, “Enjoy them, for they grow up so fast,” or, gazing upon their grown creation, whisper to themselves, “Oh, where has the time gone?” Frans Hofmeester filmed his daughter every week for 624 weeks to make this moving clip, which shows her life unfold from the day of her birth to the day she turns 12.

Mon Apr 23, 2012 at 01:02 PM PDT
Planned Parenthood believes it’s being targeted with another hidden camera sting operation

by Laura Clawson

It looks like, once again, Planned Parenthood is the target of a hidden-camera, actor-with-fake-questions sting operation. This time, instead of the good old pimps-n-hos routine, it’s sex-selective abortion:

According to Planned Parenthood spokesperson Chloe Cooney, clinics in at least 11 states have reported two dozen or more “hoax visits” over the past several weeks, in which a woman walks into a clinic, claims to be pregnant and asks a particular pattern of provocative questions about sex-selective abortions, such as how soon she can find out the gender of the fetus, by what means and whether she can schedule an abortion if she’s having a girl.

Subtle! The anti-choice crowd’s big new thing is that, in the words of National Right to Life president Carol Tobias, “the real war on women” is that “roughly half” of abortions “are performed on unborn girls.” Since roughly half of pregnancies are girls, that makes a general sort of statistical sense, though since the vast, overwhelming majority of abortions are performed long before sex can be determined, it’s absolutely beside the point when it comes to a war on women. But that claim is the new shiny toy of the right’s attempts to distract us from the very real war on women they’re waging, so coming up with a video suggesting that Planned Parenthood staff would advocate specifically aborting girls is just the sort of thing they’d think would be a major victory.

The best bet is that this sting attempt is the work of Live Action, this sort of thing being that group’s raison d’etre. However:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/23/1085769/-Planned-Parenthood-believes-it-s-being-targeted-with-another-hidden-camera-sting-operation

SPIN METER: Romney roadmap leaves voters guessing
By Steve Peoples
Associated Press / April 23, 2012

Mitt Romney’s roadmap for governing the country is so vague that it has even Republican allies questioning his intentions.

“You have to campaign to govern, not just to win,” Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said in recent days after endorsing Romney. “Go ahead and have the confidence in the voters to explain the fix we’re in and then tell them with some specificity what we can do to get out of it in a way that’s good for everybody. Romney doesn’t talk that way.”

It’s a sentiment other Republicans decline to express so publicly, and Daniels later downplayed his comment. But it’s one that accurately describes the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s general aversion to detail.

In between heaping criticism on President Barack Obama, Romney spent the primary season sketching a broad conservative vision for leading the country should he win the White House. Supporters cheer his general plans for lower taxes, smaller government, a stronger military and a reduced federal deficit. But he’s offered few detailed prescriptions on a range of the country’s most pressing concerns from Social Security to potential military action in Iran. And in some cases where Romney and his aides have been specific, the former Massachusetts governor offers little significant change from the Democratic president he says is killing the American dream.

The tactic is, of course, by design for a candidate eager to make the general election a referendum on Obama’s first term. The less voters know about Romney, the more they may focus on Obama. By avoiding difficult policy decisions, Romney gives his opponents less fuel for political attacks.

The Obama campaign has noticed. And as the president’s team works to tie Romney to the GOP’s more conservative wing, Democrats are aggressively criticizing what they call Romney’s “secrecy strategy.”

“Mitt Romney’s campaign has been based on one thing — deceptively attacking the president’s record. He’s been purposefully vague about what he’d do as president,” Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said. “If he wants to be taken seriously in this race, he needs to put money where his mouth is and provide some honest answers.”

The Romney campaign says it has been more forthcoming than Obama in some areas, particularly on budget fixes for entitlement programs. Indeed, Obama has not proposed comprehensive plans to address the financial problems facing either Social Security or Medicare.

Romney has not done much better, however.

He has introduced a Medicare plan that transforms the popular health care program for seniors into a voucher system, but declines to say how much seniors may have to pay out of pocket. On Social Security, he says generally that he would raise the retirement age “for future generations.”

The fuzzy positions are consistent with Romney’s pattern of embracing politically popular choices — tax cuts and smaller government, for example — while ignoring the realities he would face as president, such as how to pay for those tax cuts or regulate business to prevent another economic meltdown. His campaign refuses to say whether he will offer specifics in some cases even before the November election.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/04/23/spin_meter_romney_roadmap_leaves_voters_guessing/

Tyler Perry helps Obama top Romney in Georgia fundraising

WASHINGTON — A lucrative Atlanta trip headlined by a Tyler Perry-hosted fundraiser helped President Barack Obama out-raise Republican rival Mitt Romney in Georgia last month by a nearly six-to-one margin.

Obama raised more than $734,000 from Georgians in March, while Romney brought in $125,000, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of campaign finance disclosures. Nearly two-thirds of Obama’s Georgia haul came from the Obama Victory Fund, a joint campaign account with the Democratic National Committee that put on three March 16 fundraisers in the Atlanta area.

In previous months, Obama has outraised Romney in Georgia, but not by so large a margin.

more here
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/tyler-perry-helps-obama-1424603.html

I’m dedicating this song to Deion and Pilar:

But its PBO that the NY Times believes needs to be vetted.

Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records

(Reuters) – Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.

The move during the final weeks of Romney’s administration was legal but unusual for a departing governor, Massachusetts officials say.

The effort to purge the records was made a few months before Romney launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He is again competing for the party’s nomination, this time to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012.

more here
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/06/us-usa-campaign-romney-computers-idUSTRE7B500X20111206

miranda – - —BWAHAHA- Seeeeeee- — – -***shakin’ my head**** – - – –

MR. PRESIDENT is TAKIN’ his plans 4 dealin’ with LOWERING STUDENT LOANS – -2 da students —

IN STARK CONTRAST – –Heeeeeeer’s teh WILLARD —

– - -VIDEO- Mitt Romney to students worried about student loans: Go to a cheaper college. – -

— -Via Buzzfeed. Geez, could Willard sound any more awkward and breathless?

- – -“That’s real freedom, see? That’s liberty! That’s choice! ::pant, pant:: Not the kind of choice all those silly women keep yammering on about, of course. Or that students want, when it comes to their own education. But the kind of choice that the GOP mandates, see, because we know what’s best for everyone.

– — WHEW LAWD – - —Can he B any –STOOPIDER?? – –YEAH!! LOL.

miranda – – -Annnnd –THIS is “WHYCOME” – -Sanford is LIKE IT IS!! – —

– - — Sanford City Commission reject police chief Bill Lee’s resignation – - -

– - -The Sanford City Commission rejected Bill Lee’s offer to resign in his post as the city’s police chief, Monday. In a close 3-2 vote, several commissioners argued Lee did not deserve to lose his job, including Sanford’s own mayor Jeff Triplett. The special meeting occurred just hours after George Zimmerman was released from jail after posting bail. NBC Miami reports:

“I am just devastated by this. I wouldn’t want to see this happen to anybody in this room,” she said.
THERE IS MORE.

THEY WON’T LET GO of — CORRUPTION!!! – - –

Annnnd IMMA say it!: – - -THEY RACISTS!!! – –

miranda – —- –POU FAM VOTER SUPPRESSION/Anti-Voter WATCH -

— –MORE EVIDENCE — -The RE-THUGS LIE!! —-

– - -Amid Voter ID Debate, Virginia Reports No In-Person Voter Fraud In 2008 – –

— – — – As Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) prepares to decide the fate of a proposed voter ID bill in the Old Dominion state, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on voter fraud prosecutions stemming out of the 2008 election that “may signal a more significant voter fraud issue than some state lawmakers realized.”

THIS – - –>None of the cases, the newspaper said, “appeared to involve someone who misrepresented his or her identity at the polls to vote.”
THERE IS MORE.

I literally ROFLed at this tape. Marco Rubio was like “Shut up fool!” This is the only time I see Mitt Romney as having a personality when he’s talking about walk along the Champs d’ Elysee.

miranda – - – -HAH! THIS JUDGE – -UNSEALS some RECORDS!! – — -

– - -Judge unseals files in George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case- – –

– - – -The judge in the prosecution of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin has unsealed some of the records in the case.

– -Zimmerman’s arraignment has been scheduled for May 8th. Neither he nor his attorney, Mark O’Mara, is expected to attend, and O’Mara has already entered a written “not guilty” plea on Zimmerman’s behalf.
THESE IS MORE.

–GOOD ON DA JUDGE!! :>)- – -

– - – -BETCHA THEY will B REVEALIN’ RE- – of -his TEMPER –etc! – —

– – - -G’NIGHT POU FAM. :>) — MAY U HAVE BLESSED SWEET DREAMS. – -♥ – - -♥ :>) —-

— – - -UNTIL THE MORNING LIGHT ♥ :>) – - — – -