Tuesday Afternoon Thread: Fewer Horses and Bayonets

Good Afternoon miranda/POU FAM♥ — – -***BIG HUG** —

LOL — —ALLA deez: – –> Epic fail, Face CRACKED, Mittfail, – — Romney Shambles

– – - -Annnd – - -THIS INFO – - -Obama’s ‘horses and bayonets’ debate comment tops Twitter chatter – –

—- -President Obama won the night when it comes to memorable one-liners during Monday night’s debate.

Twitter said the line prompted the debate’s highest number of tweets per minute, with 105,767 tweets at 9:45 p.m.

– – - MR. PRESIDENT’S – —GOT IT!! — – -Woo! Hoo! :>)

Good thread miranda. :>) —FIRED UP! —GOT-VOTE!! —

Great title, Miranda!

Even though my husband still has his bayonet from the Marine Corps he found this hilarious lol.

So Think Progress is calling the Romney voting machine connection a “conspiracy theory”, too? No wonder Dems stay losing.

‘Think Progress’ Smears BRAD BLOG Coverage of Voting Machine Concerns as ‘Conspiracy Theory’

Dem-advocacy blog refuses to correct inaccurate attack on us, Truthout, Forbes magazine, and even former Dem Sec. of State…
By Brad Friedman on 10/23/2012, 6:05am PT

On Monday morning, TP’s Aviva Shen posted an article headlined “Why Romney Isn’t Rigging Voting Machines”. Never mind the fact that neither Shen nor Think Progress have any idea whether Romney is or isn’t rigging voting machines — they present no evidence in the article either way — what is most outrageous are the factually inaccurate smears in the piece, in which The BRAD BLOG (with a link to this article responding to NBC’s Chuck Todd who made a similarly outrageous smear on Twitter over the weekend), as well as Truthout (with a link to this article reposted from FreePress.org by Ohio-based investigative journalists Gerry Bello, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman) and even Forbes magazine, for chrissakes, (with a link to this this Rick Ungar article) are all called out, smeared in fact, by Shen and Think Progress as “conspiracy theorists”.

The Truthout/Free Press article, as well as the Forbes piece, offer well-supported investigative journalism highlighting the ties between H.I.G. Capital and Hart Intercivic, the nation’s third largest voting machines company. H.I.G. Capital “acquired” Hart in a deal last year, according to the firm who brokered the deal. H.I.G., which is believed to stand for “Hart Intercivic Group”, is run by several very major Romney backers, former Bain employees, and is heavily financed by the investment group created by Mitt Romney’s son Tagg, with his father’s seed money and business associates. Moreover, as the journalists reported, several members of Hart Intercivic’s board (40% of the board, in fact) have made direct contributions to the Romney campaign.

[...]Before you read the emails between myself and TP’s Editor Legum, who stands by TP’s reporting, incredibly, please keep in mind that a) at some point during the day on Monday they quietly excised the reference to Ungar’s article at Forbes without explanation and b) later in the afternoon, after my email thread with Legum, Jennifer Brunner, the former Democratic Secretary of State of Ohio — whose landmark EVEREST study on e-voting in Ohio I cited in my Sunday article, and who I’ve interviewed on several occasions over the years (most recently in August here) — was interviewed about the very same concerns by MSNBC, who, she told: “I think you’d be right to call out Romney and his son for having a financial interest in this company. It doesn’t look good.”

MORE: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9653

October 23, 2012 12:28 PM

Pricing Moderate Mitt’s Medicaid Block Grant

By Ed Kilgore

I found it very odd in the debate last night that in talking about how he’d pay for a defense spending increase (along with his tax cut) Mitt Romney singled out his Medicaid block grant proposal, almost certainly the most shameful part of his domestic agenda, but one that not a lot of people understand. For a moment I hoped Obama would go into Medicaid in detail, but instead he chose to make another important point, the vast size of our current defense budget as compared to that of every other country on the face of the earth.

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The Kaiser report notes that the destruction of ObamaCare that Romney’s is proposing as the first act of his presidency would itself cut Medicaid enrollment by 17 million people. Add in the effects of the block grant, even if you accept Romney’s assumptions on the ability of states to reduce costs, and another 14 million are likely dropped from the Medicaid rolls (if costs stay roughly as they are now, it’s more like 20 million). And that’s in order to provide a small offset against spending increases beyond current Pentagon requests, and a tax cut for the wealthy that the wealthy don’t need (on top of continuing the Bush Era cuts forever).

more here
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_10/pricing_moderate_mitts_medicai040682.php

Conlappa, I was wrong about Josh and voting machines. It’s Tagg, like you said.

Wal-Mart Heir Donates To Obama PAC, Defying Rest Of Billionaire Family

Is there a billionaire political battle brewing in the Walton family?

Some might think so after the latest FEC filing for Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that supports President Obama’s re-election, showed that Sam Rawlings Walton, the grandson of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, donated $300,000 to the group last month. His generosity to the Democratic cause stands in sharp contrast to the political leanings of the rest of the Walton family, a group that includes six billionaires.

more here
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2012/10/23/wal-mart-heir-donates-to-obama-pac-defying-rest-of-billionaire-family/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Temporary Employees Sue Wal-Mart

A lawsuit filed Monday accuses Wal-Mart Stores and two staffing agencies of requiring temporary employees to show up early for work, stay late and work through lunch at the world’s largest retailer.

The proposed class action, filed in a Chicago federal court, claimed that Wal-Mart and the agencies violated minimum wage and overtime laws, potentially affecting several hundred temporary workers in the Chicago area.Wal-Mart declined to comment immediately, saying it first needed to review the lawsuit.[....]

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/business/wal-mart-is-sued-by-temporary-workers.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&ref=us&adxnnlx=1351022504-BjEI/ZXPNO/jBNwDxRznCw

just got back from canvassing my neighborhood. went into some apartment buildings and was able to reach some voters. not a bad afternoon.

miranda—-[Apologies iff a dup]- – –DRUMROLL- – - – -:>)

- – –Debate Ratings: 59.2 Million Tuned Into Foreign Policy Debate- – -

- —There was a significant drop in audience between the second and third presidential debates, according to numbers released by Nielsen Tuesday. Around 59.2 million people watched Monday night’s foreign policy-focused debate on TV, down from 65.6 million who tuned into the townhall debate at Hofstra University, which focused more on domestic issues.

More Americans watched Monday’s debate than watched the third presidential debate four years ago.
THERE IS MORE.

‘CAUSE- — -SOME PEOPLE KNEW!! – —HE Di-ent- – -KNOW!! LOL- — -

Annnd- — THEY WERE — -CORRECT!! LOL- – — – -HE — -A! – — -LOSER!! LOL

[Gotta "hit da road."- - -C U Soon] ♥

Afternoon thread is up!

Posted at 04:18 PM ET, 10/23/2012
Closing theme of Campaign 2012: Who can you really trust?

By Greg Sargent

A bunch of folks have argued that even if Mitt Romney lost last night, he did reassure voters by projecting a level-headedness that enabled him to pass the “commander in chief test.” I don’t know if that’s true — Romney seemed out of his depth in ways that might prove less than reassuring — but this misses something else about last night.

Specifically, the Obama team hopes Romney’s performance — his dissembling about the auto bailout in particular — provided them with new ammo to undermine voter confidence in Romney. That ammo, the Obama campaign hopes, will help them make their final case against Romney, i.e, that he is fundamentally untrustworthy and that Obama is the one who can be counted on to genuinely look out for you.

Obama, on the trail today in Dayton, Ohio, seized on Romney’s auto-bailout moment to broaden that case:

Last night, Governor Romney looked you right in the eye, looked me in the eye, and tried to pretend he never said “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”…But the people don’t forget. The people of Dayton don’t forget. The people of Ohio don’t forget.

If Mitt Romney had been President when the auto industry was on the verge of collapse, we might not have an American auto industry today. We’d be buying cars from China instead of selling cars to China. The auto industry supports one in eight Ohio jobs. It’s a source of pride to this state…I wasn’t about to let Detroit go bankrupt, or Toledo go bankrupt, or Lordstown go bankrupt. I bet on American workers. I bet on American manufacturing. I would do it again — because that bet has paid off for Ohio and for America in a big way.

So here’s the good news. If you’ve come down with a case of Romnesia, and can’t seem to remember the positions that you’ve taken, not just four years ago but four days ago; if you don’t remember the positions on your website; or the promises you’ve made during the six years you’ve been running for President, don’t worry: Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions. We can fix you up! There’s a cure!

Now, we joke about Governor Romney being all over the map. But it speaks to something important. It speaks of trust. There’s no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. Trust matters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/closing-theme-of-campaign-2012-who-can-you-really-trust/2012/10/23/10f0e49c-1d45-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html