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Dr. Jill Stein: Time to end the politics of fear and replace it with the politics of courage

Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkola discussing real issues with Amy Goodman (who was... more

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Newest Romney Ad: Obama has Declared War on Religion

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Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up? (Featuring Eminem)

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Anonymous Hacks IRS Database — Publishes Romney Tax Returns

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Another clear indication Todd Long is favored to challenge and defeat Alan Grayson in November.

FRONTRUNNER TODD LONG CONTINUES TO SURGE WITH
FOURTH AND FIFTH CONSECUTIVE WINS
Another clear indication Long is favored to challenge and defeat Alan Grayson in November.

KISSIMMEE/ST. CLOUD, Florida – With the two largest Straw Polls conducted to date – Todd Long chalks up his fourth and fifth – and most impressive victories yet, topping his closest Primary Challenger by 15 points at the Osceola Chamber Hob Nob Straw Poll and 39 points at the Politics at the Barn in St. Cloud – all within 10 days.

In a head to head preview match up against the Democrat candidate Alan Grayson for the November general election – Long was the only candidate to also out number Grayson, even with splitting the Republican vote four Ways.

“I continue to be heartened,” Todd says, “by the fantastic enthusiasm our Campaign is generating. I am deeply honored and humbled to be receiving such fantastic support across all three counties that make up this newly created Ninth Congressional District – and to have also beaten Alan Grayson in three different Straw Polls now, even with splitting the vote with my three worthy opponents, is particularly gratifying.”

“I am looking forward to bringing my Conservative principles to Washington in order to bring sanity back to Congress and return to the vision of our Founding Fathers of the smallest, most effective government possible, with minimal taxation and regulation which will lead to maximum freedom and innovation for business to flourish and our Country to prosper.” Long concluded.

With the August 14th Primary now just three very short weeks away, Long said he will continue to travel throughout the tri-county area to build trust and relationships directly with the Citizens and urge them to get to the polls to support him in order to have the strongest candidate possible move on to November to face, and defeat, Alan Grayson.
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Todd Long is a conservative small business owner and talk show host from Winter Park running for the Republican nomination in Florida’s 9th Congressional District. He is the published author of The Conservative Comeback, a book that gives clear and substantive solutions to America’s biggest challenges based on America’s founding principles.FRONTRUNNER TODD LONG CONTINUES TO SURGE WITH FOURTH AND FIFTH CONSECUTIVE WINS... more

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Video: 2004 Mitt Romney Says It’s ‘Poppycock’ To Blame President For Job Market

Progressive SuperPAC American Bridge has dug up some video of Republican presidential candidate and then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, defending President George W. Bush‘s economic record in 2004, that’s spookily resonant to this year’s election. In the clip, Romney not only amusingly uses the word “poppycock” (one of the all-time underrated old man curse words and a delicious snack), he also urges voters not to blame the President for unforeseen catastrophes, and to ask “Do I stay with the president, who is rebuilding the economy, who is creating jobs, or do you want to stop mid-stream and find someone new?’”

In the video, Romney draws several eerie parallels to the current election. While President Obama took office in the middle of what some call an “economic 9/11,” Romney talked about a “perfect storm” that included the actual 9/11: (transcription by American Bridge)

“The people of America recognize that the slowdown in jobs that occurred during the early years of the Bush administration were the result of a perfect storm. And an effort by one candidate to somehow say ‘Oh, this recession and the slowdown in jobs was the result of somehow this president magically being elected…’ people in America just dismiss that as being poppycock. And they recognize it as that.”

Later in the clip, Romney blames the internet bubble, whereas President Obama had to contend with a Jupiter-sized real estate bubble:

“They [the American people] also recognize that there was a cyclical recession that rebounded from the extravagance of the period that existed prior to that time where we had irrational exuberance, according to Alan Greenspan, and we had a downturn. They also recognize that the internet bubble burst. These things came together creating a perfect storm that meant a huge job loss.”

Finally, Romney sums things up with a question that could easily be the title of an Obama campaign strategy memo:

“Every indication is that the economic policies adopted and pursued by this president are creating jobs at a very high pace. And so the people of America have to ask ‘Do I stay with the president, who is rebuilding the economy, who is creating jobs, or do you want to stop mid-stream and find someone new?”

The point here is to use Romney’s 2004 words to undercut whatever he plans on saying when tomorrow’s jobs report is released (honestly, though, we could gain a million jobs and Republicans would complain about all the wear and tear on the roads), but the Obama campaign might want to seriously consider that mid-stream argument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQs0IzLTQu4&feature=player_embeddedProgressive SuperPAC American Bridge has dug up some video of Republican presidential... more

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Mitt Romney Arrives In Israel. Back In London, Queen Elizabeth Offers A Fond Farewell To The "Kvetching Nudnik"

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$21tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite

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US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s

WASHINGTON — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels... more

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Mitt To Skip Dick Cheney's Romney Campaign Fundraiser, Will Send His Adopted Fourth Cousin Instead

Who among us can blame him?

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Ron Paul Supporters: Watch out for Charlie Cheater at the Nebraska State Convention

Ron Paul Supporters: Watch out for Charlie Cheater at the Nebraska State Convention... more

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Sarasota Florida GOP Taps Donald Trump As "2012 Statesman Of The Year" After Syria's Bashar Al-Assad Declines

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ObamaCare's Achilles Heel? Or just wishful thinking?

Pat Caddel describes the next big weapon for the Right to pulverize Obama. I am often... more

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Buried Treasure: REVEALED - Romney's stash at Cayman Islands

A person who worked for Mitt Romney at the consulting firm Bain and Co. in 1977 remembers him with mixed feelings. “Mitt was … a really wonderful boss,” the former employee says. “He was nice, he was fair, he was logical, he said what he wanted … he was really encouraging.” But Bain and Co., the person recalls, pushed employees to find out secret revenue and sales data on its clients’ competitors. Romney, the person says, suggested “falsifying” who they were to get such information, by pretending to be a graduate student working on a project at Harvard. (The person, in fact, was a Harvard student, at Bain for the summer, but not working on any such projects.)

“Mitt said to me something like ‘We won’t ask you to lie. I am not going to tell you to do this, but [it is] a really good way to get the information.’ … I would not have had anything in my analysis if I had not pretended.

“It was a strange atmosphere. It did leave a bad taste in your mouth,” the former employee recalls.

This unsettling account suggests the young Romney—at that point only two years out of Harvard Business School—was willing to push into gray areas when it came to business.

More than three decades later, as he tried to nail down the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Romney’s gray areas were again an issue when he repeatedly resisted calls to release more details of his net worth, his tax returns, and the large investments and assets held by him and his wife, Ann. Finally the other Republican candidates forced him to do so, but only highly selective disclosures were forthcoming.

Even so, these provided a lavish smorgasbord for Romney’s critics. Particularly jarring were the Romneys’ many offshore accounts. As Newt Gingrich put it during the primary season, “I don’t know of any American president who has had a Swiss bank account.” But Romney has, as well as other interests in such tax havens as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

To give but one example, there is a Bermuda-based entity called Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd., which has been described in securities filings as “a Bermuda corporation wholly owned by W. Mitt Romney.” It could be that Sankaty is an old vehicle with little importance, but Romney appears to have treated it rather carefully. He set it up in 1997, then transferred it to his wife’s newly created blind trust on January 1, 2003, the day before he was inaugurated as Massachusetts’s governor.

The director and president of this entity is R. Bradford Malt, the trustee of the blind trust and Romney’s personal lawyer. Romney failed to list this entity on several financial disclosures, even though such a closely held entity would not qualify as an “excepted investment fund” that would not need to be on his disclosure forms. He finally included it on his 2010 tax return. Even after examining that return, we have no idea what is in this company, but it could be valuable, meaning that it is possible Romney’s wealth is even greater than previous estimates. While the Romneys’ spokespeople insist that the couple has paid all the taxes required by law, investments in tax havens such as Bermuda raise many questions, because they are in “jurisdictions where there is virtually no tax and virtually no compliance,” as one Miami-based offshore lawyer put it.

That’s not the only money Romney has in tax havens. Because of his retirement deal with Bain Capital, his finances are still deeply entangled with the private-equity firm that he founded and spun off from Bain and Co. in 1984. Though he left the firm in 1999, Romney has continued to receive large payments from it—in early June he revealed more than $2 million in new Bain income. The firm today has at least 138 funds organized in the Cayman Islands, and Romney himself has personal interests in at least 12, worth as much as $30 million, hidden behind controversial confidentiality disclaimers. Again, the Romney campaign insists he saves no tax by using them, but there is no way to check this.

Bain Capital is the heart of Romney’s fortune: it was the financial engine that created it. The mantra of his campaign is that he was a businessman who created tens of thousands of jobs, and Bain certainly did bring useful operational skills to many companies it bought. But his critics point to several cases where Bain bought companies, loaded them with debt, and paid itself extravagant fees, thereby bankrupting the companies and destroying tens of thousands of jobs.

Come August, Romney, with an estimated net worth as high as $250 million (he won’t reveal the exact amount), will be one of the richest people ever to be nominated for president. Given his reticence to discuss his wealth, it’s only natural to wonder how he got it, how he invests it, and if he pays all his taxes on it.

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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/investigating-mitt-romney-offshore-accountsA person who worked for Mitt Romney at the consulting firm Bain and Co. in 1977... more

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The Mormon Candidate Part 5/6 BBC Documentary This World

John Sweeney investigates the beliefs of Mitt Romney, the man most likely to take on... more

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Lawyers for Ron Paul: Our Legal Position is Well Founded. Romney Camp Has Organized Criminal Acts

Attorney Richard Gilbert explains that American popular support for Presidential... more

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Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare - Conservative Reaction Absurd

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Supreme Court upholds Obama health care law

The Supreme Court upheld the health care law today in a splintered, complex opinion... more

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These are the Only Candidates We Can Field?

The Obama faithful are enthusiastically lining up behind their man even as many... more

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Ron Paul: I take Social Security checks but will eliminate it for others

By David Edwards Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:17 EDT Republican presidential... more

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