And, shockingly, for a politician, it is himself. Although not enough to edit himself before he speaks…as ever.
During his presidential campaign in 2007, Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised that a trust overseeing his financial portfolio would shed any investments that conflicted with GOP positions toward Iran, China, stem cell research and other issues. But Romney’s family trusts kept some of those stocks and repeatedly bought new investments in similar holdings as recently as 2010, when they were sold in advance of his latest White House campaign
Mitt may be willing to say he does not care about “the poors” because there’s little profit in it. However, there was money to be made off of other things the GOP hates irrationally (redundant, I know) and ol’ Mitt’s Millions took priority for as long as possible. But that’s not entirely the story, I’m sure if there was a good soylent green investment, Mitt would be willing to grind up poor people too — unopposed by Republicans as long as the prospective veal had emerged from the womb for a bit (and been deprived of udder exams).



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Restore Our Failure has 278 days to convince enough people to vote for W Romney. Yesterday wasn’t a good start.
Good morning all.
Good morning. It’s a great day to Race for the Cure.
Good morning, pups. It’s Kristof and Collins today. Mr. Kristof has a question: “Where Are the Romney Republicans?” He says the Republican Party used to be known for its moderate pragmatists. Then the party forced moderates like Mitt Romney to feign extremism just to compete. Nick, you can thank Newt for that. That’s where the nastiness began. Ms. Collins also has a question. In “Mitt Speaks. Oh, No!” she asks did you hear? Mitt Romney said he doesn’t care about poor people. Really, he did. Let’s break this down.
Here they are.
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got a variety of bagels with cream cheese today. I don’t know about where you are, but the weather here has been just NUTS. Monday and Tuesday mornings the temps were 33° and 35° and we were scraping frost off the car, and this morning it’s 59°. Lunacy. Have a great day.
Your link led me to some sign-up page…?
I don’t have permission to see the pic.
Sorry, default setting is private. My bad, think I fixed it. OK now?
Kristof’s out of touch with reality. He’s just noticing the wingnuttiness of the Rs? I spose he hasn’t noticed the wingnuttiness of the Ds yet. As for Mitt-I’ll-take-any-position-I-can-to-get-elected-even-if-it-costs-me-the-election.
I think I’ll forego sellout groups like Komen and doormat groups like PP.
Good morning all,
I think I’ll show the proper respect and use Willard’s proper name instead of this insulting use of a nickname, if he’s going to be the people’s president.
Mitt is the sort of person who snarls “Get a job” to people at the unemployment office.
I take that back, Mitt is the sort of person who denies an unemployment office exists and directs his driver to an anternate route so he doesn’t have to see it.
Obama is the one who would snarl “Get a Job”.
Boxturtle (Newt would wait until the office was crowded, then firebomb it)
They’re going to have to dump at least $20M in Ohio to get me to do that. But they have the money.
Boxturtle (Mitt = Obama, but Mitt han’t backstabbed me yet)
Are you sure he’s faking?
Boxturtle (Because I’m not)
Suit yourself. But even his own party calls him “Flipper”.
Boxturtle (I suppose we can’t refer to him as M’lord Batshit until he wins)
(Newt would wait until the office was crowded, then firebomb it)
*heh* I see you haven’t lost your touch, BoxTurtle…! ;-)
O says that he hopes things can change and that you can get a job. It’s campaign season ya know.
Except Komen has caved to right wing anti choice forces. They’ll never get another dime from me.
Edit: Oh crap. Just looked more closely at it. Nice but I probably need to wake up prior to commenting.
I musta missed something.
For some joy in your life, see page three of Ian Murphy’s “The 50 Most Loathsome Americans.”
Check out the POTUS at #6..
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No he didn’t. He said “concerned” as in worried. If you want to be taken seriously, lying is not the way to go. There is plenty to criticize without making things up.
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Oh, crap… Let’s not feed it today, okay?
You’re up late.
See my edit.
Working up top of Mauna Kea for Subaru Observatory tonite…!
Good for you. I’ve always wanted to visit that astronomy community up there.
That’s why I said I musta missed something.
Ecahn@16: Oddly, whenever Obama says things like that, I hear Timmeh’s voice saying “Eat your Peas”.
Boxturtle (I suppose I should be grateful they settled on peas rather than Brussels Sprouts)
Donald Trump is going to endorse someone today. Yawn.
You malign two of my many favorite vegetables.
Well I don’t have time to explain it. Gotta go to work. Out.
In case you missed this about Paula Deen.
*sheer JEALOUSY*
I wanted to be an astronomer when I was in High School. But they were willing to pay me for programming right then, so that dream fell by the wayside.
I’ve few regrets, but sometimes I get moody as a stare at a computer screen rather than a deep space wide field telescope.
Boxturtle (Back then, the debate was largely IF planets existed around other stars!)
It’s probably the largest assemblage of Astronomers in the world, there’s 7 different Observatories located up here and they’re planning on building the mother of them all up here too, a Thirty meter Telescope…! ;-)
I’ll say evil things about squash, too.
Boxturtle (Perhaps we agree that Broccoli is good?)
Morning Joke skewering hypocrite Schumer.
I could not bear her. Last year, after my fall down the steps, I watched a lot of foodnetwork. I got teeth rot from her program.
I’m not a big fan of squash, though I used to play it.
Broccoli, yum. Just finished off the edamame in my winter CSA. First time for those and they were tasty.
Good.
I could not be an astronomer. Gotta stay away at night, lay on your back and look at the stars. I go zzzzzz within 2 minutes.
I think the worst is the obnoxious guy on Travel Channel who tries to eat everything in sight.
Fucking slob.
I’ve missed that one, prolly forever. I’m going to get rid of my TV.
Awake, not away.
Echan@40: I suppose you could call it a dream job. :-)
Boxturtle (Well, somebody had to say it)
BTW, a lot of the food on the foodnetwork is unhealthy. They start everything in a frying pan with 3-4 tbsp of olive oil. Who needs oil in today’s frying pan. Just bc it’s olive doesn’t make it have fewer calories.
I have the same problem with art history lectures. The minute they dim the lights and project the first slide, I fall asleep. It’s a miracle I passed the intro course in college.
Mitts position on this is the same as his position on hiring illegal to do his lawn. I can do it unless im activly pursuing office
Wow – LUCKY!! I am jealous, too. When I was on the Big Island a couple of months ago, we just didn’t have time to drive up on the “big hills.” Keep us posted. Sounds great.
Thanks for that. I’m not much of a food show watcher, but I have seen snippets of Paula Dean’s show a couple time. I have a pt job in the weight loss field, working with people who are often *seriously* overweight. Paula Deen filled me with *disgust* for what she peddles.
In all seriousness, I think what shills like Paula Deen does is nothing more or less than your local drug pusher. There is a very serious worldwide epidemic of people being very overweight. I don’t care what anyone looks like; it’s the health issues that are involved (and they are numerous).
IMO, people like Paula Deen should go far far away and STFU. If she’s got diabetes, it’s no effen surpise. And now, like any good drug pusher, she’s branching out and pushing different drugs for BigPharma. Creep.
Yes, albeit everyone should eat a small amount of healthy oils, like olive oil, every day. That said, eating a lot of fried foods, even those fried in olive oil, is not good. Everything in moderation, but moderation is not discussed on those food shows.
I’ll get off my soapbox now… ;-)
Eat healthy, stay healthy.