In today's editorial morning, the Last Word staff discussed Cory Booker, Obama's messaging on Bain and zombie Ronald Reagan — not even kidding. Here's a rundown of stories we're following now.
- NBC/WSJ poll: Obama's gay-marriage announcement a 'draw'
- Members of new GOP women's caucus voted against equality for women
- Sheriff Arpaio sends 'threats unit' investigator to Hawaii to escalate birther probe
- Cory Booker: 'I'm very upset that I'm being used by the GOP'
- Mitch Daniels would 'disconnect the phone' if Romney called with VP offer
- New poll shows majority of voters favor legalizing, regulating marijuana
- Vial of Ronald Reagan’s blood to be auctioned
- Jimmy Fallon explains how the presidential slow jam went down
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I have often wondered how corporate raiders alias "venture capitalists" justify what they do morally. The question is acutely critical when assessing the behavior of those who publicly profess Christianity. I am coming to believe that there is a rupture between their personal morality and their business ethics. I think these guys believe that in business and economics there is no ethics. In short anything goes and if some working stiff loses his job, his family, his home and his health care but hey, that's life. Well, it may be life but it is not the Gospel preached by Jesus, no way, no how, is that in any way compatible with the Beatitudes.
I think they take pride in the 78% rate of successfull turnarounds in previously failing companies in troubled industries? You know, the rate of success put up by Bain Capital in their takeovers and restructurings and workouts?
Nothing "ventured" nothing gained is the private equity investment's firms mottos, and that means that for those who invest in their activities like pension funds of states and municipalities, unions, and educational, medical institutions, and charitable endowment funds as well as banks from investment mega institutions to the smallest community bank in the local neighborhood plus the common ordinary IRA and 401K money managers.
Still wondering, Irish Fitz?
I think it's far past time to tax churches - whatever happened to seperation of church and state. Far too many churches are preaching politics from the pulpit. Now THAT would def help pay some bills in the US.
Perhaps it would be easier to just get the secular government out of the social charitable business of enriching everyone from the largest corporations to the loneliest individual and leave that job to the private institutions like the church, and other non-profit organizations thereby lowering the need for more and ever more taxes, Jenny? You know, rendering onto Ceaser what is Ceaser's, and onto God what is God's? That way there would be more efficiency, less waste, fraud, and corruption, and far less "bills to pay".
Martin hit the bullseye Tuesday night when he suggested that Rmoney is applying for the wrong job. He should be applying for something along the lines of "King of the Moneygrubbers."
A litttle stringent "moneygrubbing" in our spending like a drunken sailor federal government is preferred to the continued "moneywasting and fraud and crony capatilism" of Obama the King of executive malfeasance in my book! And i believe pompous fools like Martin Bashir and his ilk will come to see the U.S. voters take that attitude in 2012, as the revolt of 2010 continues to take its toll on the Democrat Party at the polls.
Here is the damage done to the Obama Campaign's focus on Bain Capital in negative attack ads and disparaging of Romney's values as a businessman this week.
First up was Mayor Cory Booker with his remarks castigating the Obama campaign's tactics and upholding the record of success of Bain Capital; then came Former Democrat Congressman and Senate Candidate and DNC leader Harold Ford, then Obama's Car Czar Steve Rattner; then former Democrat Governor Ed Randell; then Obama supporter Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; then yesterday we had Massachusetts Democrat Governor Patrick Duval chime in on the subject: all Obama supporters that stated that Bain Capital had a successful record of takeovers, restructuring, and workouts for failing companies from troubled industries, and that private equithy investment firms and Romney's achievements in founding and leading Bain over 25 years should not be so simplistivally attacked. Of course, Booker got the most press, as he stated he found the Obama campaign's negative ads "sickening" on the prestigious Sunday talk show Meet the Press.
The foolish attempts to discedit Bain Capital and private equity investment firms and thereby Romney is a non-starter, as even Obama's supporters have gone south on that little piece of garbage. I believe this amateur Obama is going down not in spite of that, but because of it, and if they try to persist in that vein, it just shows their desperation, as Obama really can't run on a record of success on the economy in his 3&1/2 years of bungling through with his runaway liberal policies, and free spending, borrowing, and attempts to tax the long suffering American businessmen and women during his antibusiness administration to support his socialist agenda!
First of all I must say that the level of commercials to actual news leans towards the profit rather than information. Second I haven't read all of the threads. I just wanted to add something. Why isn't anyone saying out loud that if you vote "republican" that you aren't actually voting for a republican. Why can't you guys actually point out that conservatives aren't all linked to any of the republican ideals. You have a huge group of people that are about to vote republican that have no idea what they are actually voting for. Bain and their poster child have nothing to do with job growth. It is a huge lie. Romney is paid to do what the wealthy want him to do just like Bush. So is Obama, but he's not as paid off as the monarchy of the rest of our Washington "representatives". He's proved this. Both are owned by wall street but one has a moral compass and that's Obama. I actually heard that the Democratic Senate Leader was talking about getting rid of filer busters as the senate was about to lose their control after six years of the republicans using them to get rid of the democrats and re-take the senate. Wow, what a loser, what a party of paid off losers. Really? Who would give up any chance to do back to those that destroyed your party like that? Someone who is paid to do so, that's who. A paid party of losers. Time for all of us to hit the reset button...
One last thing, this country is not going to back to the past and "re-vitalize" industry jobs. Those are owned by third world countries and they are never coming back. This country needs to look to innovate and create an industry that can demand the pay scale we are used too. Private or Minimum wage is not the way to re-create the American dream. We have got to get our @!$%# together, yes I know how hard that is when we have drown up in a semi privileged make believe world. But we have got to stand up and be innovators and create an industry that cannot be reproduced by cheap Chinese slave workers. The "job creators" sold our jobs to less than perfect countries with no "regulations nor standards" Maybe we should go green, it's not hurting anyone but the paid off government and FOX new's idealistic haters of innovation and Americanism. I mean maybe we can do better and drop all of this propaganda and say "lets build an industry". Just like our country has always done. We gotta do something because to think our industry jobs are coming home for anything more than minimum wage and benefits is just fantasy. Vote for a president with an concept for creating jobs not one who strips companies for the rich. Vote for someone who has a job creation record not a wealth creation record for investors. If Obama isn't that to you then just stay home. My parent are afraid of what will happen to their hard worked benefits when they to lose their "pensions" er I mean social security to the 1%
Hate to break this to you, as you seem to be a little fragile by your overall "doom and gloom" tone, but it was the Clinton Administration that provided "most favorable nation trade status" to China's strange blend of communist-capitalism.
Too, while Obama puts out his one liners and sound bites about "investing" in education, while he was Governor of Massachusetts Romney led the way in innovations in restructuring the compensarion of the most important people in the education sector, our K-12 teachers (not the administrators and unions that the Obama Administration is kow towing to). Romney brought in one of the nation's first merit pay structures to his state, and also knowing the need to boost the abilities of students in the critical math and sciences in order to prepare them for work and life in the 21st Century, he instituted bonus pay for exceptionally qualified teachers in those subjects to the state's K-12 educational system
Now what was the loudmouthed Philadelphia Mayor saying yesterday about Romney's lack of a record in Education?