In the latest Rewrite, Paul Ryan continues to rewrite Paul Ryan on the many things that Paul Ryan cannot say now that he's Mitt Romney's running mate.
Two years ago, Paul Ryan said the Cayman Islands are "the place you hide your money." Bingo! But probably not the best to mention that fact again politically-speaking, now that he's linked up with the guy who has secret offshore accounts on the Cayman Islands. That would be awkward.
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell ran through the list of off-topic items Ryan can't mention anymore, ranging from his affection for Ayn Rand books to criticism from conservative pundits.
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Ryan's remark applied to corporations and limited partnerships that were headquartered in the Cayman Islands in the infamous P.O. Box operations, not to individual investors legimate, reportable, and fully taxable investment funds, which is where the Romney's blind trusts have a small portion of their 2.5% only of their considerable wealth that is diversified to investments in high yielding funds operating in Luxembourg, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands. There is certainly nothing "secret" about these investments, Little Lying Larry O'Donnell. And in fact anyone with $2, 500 for the initial minimum investment can access diversity and higher income for a small portion also of their overall investment by purchase of shares in any one of several popular large mutual funds operated by giant mutual fund investment firm Fidelity Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts, who advertise regularly on MSNBC-NBC..
When is MSNBC and the Last Word going to stop foolishly beating this dead horse of the Romney's taxes (legally paid at the same tax rate as Democrat Party supporter multi-billionaire Warren Buffett by the way, that nice old man from the heartland state of Nebraska who is the very successful investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway whose personal fortune far, far, exceeds the Romney's)? When is the Last Word and MSNBC going to stop this campaign of distraction from the real issues of importance in this election ahead of us, the bad economy, worse unemployment situation and labor force participation and new business start-up rates under the four years of this current administration in Washington, DC, and the run away deficit spending that led us to having a national debt that exceeds our national annual nominal gross domestic product, and our second in two years downgrade of our Nation's credit rating?? Or a Last Word post topic that discusses the increasingly weakened state of our economic, diplomatic, and military posture in this troubled world under this failed administration? In otherwords, when are you going to get serious, O'Donnell?
Item: Warren Buffett isn't running for president...
Item: Mitt Romney still hasn't released his tax returns, and Grandpa knows it.
Item: Grandpa Fuzz keeps insisting MSNBC and Lawrence O'Donnell represent minotiry views yet also claims there's a grand media conspiracy to deny Romney the presidency... I guess that's how he justifies his continued participation here even though he's been exposed as a deeply troubled sort in serious need of treatment.
Item: I've come to decide Fuzzy represents a cadre of beliefs called "Tea Party Apologetics" with its own rules. First rule is, "In step, right wing Republicans can do no wrong."
That does help him avoid the confusion of thinking about truly difficult subjects...
There is nothing "grand" about the bent of the liberal media that never vetted this President in his campaign in 2008, and now are so busy trying to cover up for his failures that Obama gve himself an non-passing mark (Incomplete Grade).
Anything Obama winds up flubbing, like the economy, the national debt debacle, and now the abdication of leadership in the world (his inane policy he calls "leading from behind") for this once grand nation and best hope for mankind, is never addressed by this media, as they concentrate their efforts to distract the populace with every little blemish they can find to blow out of all proportion in his challanger, Mitt Romney, Cab Driver. That is crystal clear!
Grandpa, your view from your hiney hole is never crystal clear, and it's dishonest for you to suggest it is.
I do congratulate you though, for your wisdom in selecting the perfect defensive location for your turd tossing...
As usual, Cab Driver, stalking with nothing but insults. What a burden to have such a lame brain. But that is what years of the boozing life will do for you, obviously!
Keith: Romney and Ryan's tax returns are an issue:
1, When somone is given amnesty they pay all the taxes the IRS says is owed plus penalties and interest, so he may have paid all his taxes, but when? Did he get Amnesty at any time?
2. During Romney’s tenure as a Marriott director, the company repeatedly utilized complex tax-avoidance maneuvers, prompting at least two tangles with the Internal Revenue Service, records show. In 1994, while he headed the audit
committee, Marriott used a tax shelter known to attorneys by its nickname: “Son
of BOSS.” Marriott had to pay huge penalties and I wonder have similar methods been used on Romney’s tax returns? Was Romney ever issued amnesty?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-22/romney-as-auditing-chairman-saw-marriott-son-of-boss-tax-shelter-defy-irs.html
3. Need to see Romney’s tax return to see how according to Romney’s disclosure documents, the candidate has between $20.7 million and $101.6 million parked tax-free in his IRA -- a significant proportion of his total wealth, as noted by Mark Maremont in the Wall Street Journal. It’s a whopping sum by most standards; according to the nonprofit Employee Benefit Research Institute, the average IRA held $67,438 in 2010. There are limits to the amount of money individuals can contribute to their IRAs. Before Romney was elected Massachusetts governor, federal law capped annual pre-tax IRA contributions at $2,000 and annual 401(k) retirement contributions at $30,000 with a company match as the Journal notes. There were two articles on this: Huffington Post and Rueters.
4. Would his tax return show the following: Paul Ryan’s financial
disclosure forms for Congress that were made public, showed he and his wife own
stake in 4 family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to energy
companies that benefit from the tax subsidies in Ryan’s Budget plan. “Ryan’s father-in-law, Daniel Little, who runs the companies, told Newsweek and The Daily Beast that the family companies are currently leasing the land for mining and drilling to energy giants such as Chesapeake Energy, Devon, and XTO Energy, a recently acquired subsidiary of ExxonMobil”
When asked about the blatant conflict of interest, Ryan’s spokesperson offered up the newly-popular “wife” defense: Ryan’s office says the congressman wasn’t
thinking about himself or the oil companies that lease his land when he drafted
the budget blueprint that extended the energy tax breaks. “These are properties that Congressman Ryan married into,” spokesman Kevin Seifert said. “It’s not something he has a lot of control over.” http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/06/17/247570/paul-ryan-family-beneft-subsidies-for-big-oil-in-his-budget/
5. Did Paul Ryan benefit from news Congress received about the financial crisis in 2008 and would it show on his tax returns. Is there any truth to this story: “September 18, 2008 the day Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson broke the news to congressional leaders that they would have to approve a bailout to avert a complete meltdown of the financial system.
Checking through Ryan’s financial disclosure reports, the Richmonder
discovered that Ryan had sold the stocks of several major banks that day, while
purchasing – surprise! – stock in Paulson’s old firm Goldman Sachs. The story
quickly circulated through the media. The Romney campaign rapidly issued denials, based on three separate — and clearly false — claims: 1) the trades were not individual stock trades, but trades made as part of an index that trades big blocs of stocks according to preset formulas; 2) the meeting took place in the evening, after markets were closed, so the meeting could not have played a role in Ryan’s trading decisions; and 3) the stocks traded within a trust over which Ryan had no direct authority.” http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/lynn-parramore-revealed-romney-campaigns-attempts-to-deny-paul-ryans-insider-trading-dont-add-up.html
As to the IRA, why not just ask the Romney how he managed to accumulate $100K plus, My suspicion is that he had a very significantly large 401K at Bain Capital at the time of his retirement, and a traditional or Roth IRA account, and at retirement from Bain rolled his 401K over to to his IRA. Sometimes the simple answer is staring you in the face when you are lost in the machinations of political intrique and conspiracy theories, Lorr.
The rest of your bull putty comment is nothing but your ramnpant speculation, and paranoid fools like you aren't owed anything except for maybe a Haldol prescription, but epecially not an open book look at personal financial records of a man and his wife for over a 12 year period which is what that liar and now bigot Harry Reid, that little crooked real estate lawyer man from the environs around sinful and mob influenced Las Vegas has been angling for.
I'm curious to know the source of your inside information on what taxes and rates Romneys paid and when they paid it. Are you simply swallowing whatever the man says?
If that is your basis, I have to point out a couple of things.
1. When Romney's term as governor was up, he had state employees at state expense destroy all the records of his administration. Interesting, no?
2. He refuses to lay out in detail his plan for MY taxes should he become president. His answer is that the details have not been fully worked out, but that I should just trust him.
I understand that you are a Romney supporter, and your reasons are your own and, I suspect, not ones that you would be comfortable saying aloud. But to somebody NOT inside his camp it just seems to me that Mitt's first instinct is always secrecy. Secretive about his taxes. Secretive about MY taxes. Secretive about what he did as a public servant.
Again, I realize you are a supporter, which means that you are getting your news almost exclusively from the Fox network. This means, too, that you are not learning of the continual lies this man tells. He completely made up an administration official indicted for corruption (never happened), calls slowing the growth of medicare and saving 700 billion dollars over 10 years "destroying" medicare. I could go on and on. But my bottom line is this: He is secretive and a proven liar. I simply cannot understand how a thoughtful person as yourself can find that attractive in a potential leader. Mitt Romney is Richard Nixon on steroids.
LLCs such as Bain Capital and their Cayman Island investments?
Taken from the rather exhaustive study by Gawker of the Romney's Blind Trust 2010 IRS Tax Return and the preliminary 2011 Tax return (before the final report), and the Romney's investment holdings and income sources as reported in 2011 and 2012 per law, PrismMirrorLense.
Yet Bain did have interests in the Caymans when Romney was in charge.
Of course, you realize that the tell all blog Gawker is also corporately headquartered in the Cayman Islands, don't you Adam? So it seems they would be a very knowledgeable source. And by holdings in the Cayman Islands, were you referring to pacing idle investment monies in perfectly legal, reportable to the SEC and IRS, and fully taxable high yielding cash equivalent and international higher paying short term notes in funds run out of financial firms there? Those are the same investments that a portion of the Romney's Blind Trusts 2.5% only of their millions are invested in today.
So what is your incredibly lame point, Adam?
Paul Ryan's first career choice was not politics. He really wanted to be in the business of re-possessing poor childrens' bicycles and eyeglasses.
What imagination from a liberal. Now we know why this country is so broke. The children of Obama. WOW
392...You lack wit, so you blather.
There is only one commentor on this post topic that is without substance, and that is you reveal! Go back to your video games, and leave the adults to their business.
K.L...You have the wit and intellect of a tree frog.
Keep chirping, fool! No one is amused with your juvenile attempt at humor.
Lawrence, tremendously enjoyed your rewrite on what Paul Ryan cannot say anymore. Rachel had hilariously pointed out Romney's comment that he did not understand why airplane windows could not be rolled down.
Following that your excellent rewrite pointing up Ryan's incredible statement that he did not realize his heroine, who inspired him to go into politics, was an atheist philosopher.
I have nothing against atheist philosophers, but either Ryan did not read much of Rand before making her his hero, or his nose is g r o w i n g.
Imagine that some people are actually voting for these two to run the country.
I believe it was Romney, not Ryan, that made the statement, and he didn't say anything about rolling down airplane windows. His complain that under emergency conditions either once at low altitudes on an emergancy landing procedure or once landed why the airplane cabin couldn't be so equipped to be ventilated, fool. And that is because his wife just went through a harrowing incident of having her chartered campaign plane effected by smoke filled cabin due to an electrical fire. If you haven't noticed, MSNBC was the only network that took the derogatory slant approach to this incident and Romney's statement...and put the spin to it!
What - 2 to 3 hours a day - 1000 words an hour - day after day since March. You could have written and had approved for publication several worthwhile articles.
Yup, but it wouldn't give me the satisfaction of exposing the lame brain leftwingnuts' arguments and comments for what they are here on a daily basis, Adam; but thank you for your careful attention to detail, and my output statistics.LOL!
Adam, he illustrates my point very well about imagining that some people are actually voting Romney/Ryan. I can't help but notice he never seems content to just give his opinion, he must argue with and frequently call names most everyone who has a different view. My take is, he is one unhappy camper, has always been, and will continue to be regardless of the outcome of the election.
Most everything he posts is his opinion only, without source material, and that is the nicest thing I can say about him.