Romney says he's "not concerned about the very poor"

 

He's going to keep giving these lines all year, isn't he.

He's really got some "Joe Biden if he were really really rich" in him.

Seemingly due to the Republican campaign against Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the cure foundation has decided to stop funding breast cancer screenings through that organization. This will, of course, likely further curtail those variety of screenings, particularly in groups that are poor/not otherwise served by our health care for the wealthy system.

 

 

More insight on their motivations:

 

One thing the AP piece misses, however, is that pressure to end the Planned Parenthood funding may have also come from within Komen itself. Karen Handel was named senior vice president at Komen in April 2011, and is now "leading the organization's federal and state advocacy efforts." But before joining Komen, she was a candidate in the Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia, and was critical of Planned Parenthood. "ince I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood," she wrote in a blog post, and pledged to eliminate all state funds for breast and cervical cancer screening to the group if she were elected governor.

Romney says he's "not concerned about the very poor"

 

He's going to keep giving these lines all year, isn't he.

Get used to hearing that quote. It's going to be used a lot in the fall.

Get used to hearing that quote. It's going to be used a lot in the fall.

 

Well done to leave out the next line.

Well done to leave out the next line.

Politics are s***. The next line in the statement is extremely important, but cut off for the headline. YAYYYY.

Well done to leave out the next line.

Taken in context, it isn't as bad. But it does still highlight that Romney isn't terribly interested in the bottom 5%.

 

Well done to leave out the next line.

"I'm not concerned about the bottom 95%, I'm concerned about the middle" is a pretty s***ty thing to say anyway.

 

Yeah, you're the worst off. **** you.

 

"I'm not concerned about the bottom 95%, I'm concerned about the middle" is a pretty s***ty thing to say anyway.

 

Yeah, you're the worst off. **** you.

 

Well done to leave out the next line.

 

 

I’m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who, right now, are struggling, and I’ll continue to take that message across the nation.”

 

The bottom 5%, they're not the heart of America.

The bottom 5%, they're not the heart of America.

 

SPIN!@

SPIN!@

If he's not concerned about the top 5%, why do they get such a huge tax cut in his plan?

The headline is terribly misleading, but the quote is total bulls*** anyway. Whats Romney going to do for the middle 90% income levels? Nothing, but maybe shift the tax burden onto them as much as possible

The headline is terribly misleading, but the quote is total bulls*** anyway. Whats Romney going to do for the middle 90% income levels? Nothing, but maybe shift the tax burden onto them as much as possible

Actually if you read his plans, they'd get a small tax cut also. But as he'd cap federal spending at 20% of GDP while increasing defense spending, they'd get enormous cuts to Social Security and Health Care spending.

 

(Edit: This would also be terrible for that lower 5% that he says is doing fine with the safety net).

Well done to leave out the next line.

 

Well that's the point I was making, he keeps making these quotes that are really, really easy to snip and make him look terrible.

 

"corporations are people"

"wanna bet $10000"

"[$365k] wasn't very much"

"i like to fire people"

 

And, as the Romney campaign told us, there's nothing dishonest or unethical about using a politician's words verbatim but out-of-context.

And, as the Romney campaign told us, there's nothing dishonest or unethical about using a politician's words verbatim but out-of-context.

Very true. Mitt has reminded us that we don't even need to stop at punctuation points to take things out of context.

I love living in a progressive state.

 

State Senate approves gay marriage bill

 

The measure now heads for the House where it's expected to easily pass as early as next week. The governor supports the bill as well.

I love living in a progressive state.

Time for you to get divorced. And AIDS, according to one of my State Rep's.

why do you think he moved to Seattle?

Edited February 2, 201214 yr by StrangeSox

By the way, I'm totally making it a point to eat here. And they're getting a solid tip.

Can you recommend anything in Chattanooga?

Can you recommend anything in Chattanooga?

Chattanooga is like an endless Ogden Avenue, southern version. The main drag is like one giant strip of mini-malls.

 

More insight on their motivations:

Apparently Cutler spoke out against Indiana's new Right-to-work-a-man-to-death laws.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/foot...0186/index.html

Bloomberg has offered $250,000 in matching donations for Planned Parenthood.

 

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