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House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said at her news conference today that Republicans are attacking Attorney General Eric Holder not because he is failing to produce sufficient documents in the “Fast and Furious” gun case but because he is enforcing laws against voter suppression.

“I’m telling you, this is connected,” Pelosi said. “It is no accident. It is a decision and it is as clear as can be. It’s not only to monopolize his time, it’s to undermine his name. To undermine his name, undermine his name, as he goes forward to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

In case you haven’t followed Fast and Furious, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, is leading that investigation, which found that U.S. agents allowed guns into the hands of Mexican drug lords for the purpose of better tracking them. The House plans a vote next week to hold Holder in contempt of Congress after President Obama claimed executive privilege on the documents.

Pelosi’s office issued the following elaboration, referring to Bush administration firings of seven U.S. attorneys in 2006:

“The Miers-Bolton/US Attorneys matter involved White House staff and their efforts to subvert justice by firing conservative, Republican US Attorneys for not pursuing bogus voting fraud cases. This is directly related to current Republican efforts to impede AG Holder from pursuing efforts to prohibit Republican efforts to subvert voting rights. This shows an ongoing effort by Republicans to deprive people of the right to vote dating back at least to 2007.

“–On March 14, 2007, Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett explained that one reason for the firing of the U.S. Attorneys in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania was ‘lax voter-fraud investigations.’

“–On April 13, 2007, DOJ turned over more documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee that were subsequently revealed to include the name of the U.S. Attorney for eastern Wisconsin who had brought at least a dozen cases against Republican contributors or individuals with party ties and who declined to pursue allegations of Democratic voter fraud.”


Think about this for a sec: If Holder gives the Republican-led House the information they are asking for, some agents could be found out and possibly killed. Oh wait a minute, that didn't stop THEM from outing Valarie Plame, an undercover American agent just for spite. Well luckily she didn't get killed, but some did die because of their leaks. The Republicans are disgusting.

HYPOCRITE...THY NAME IS LYING B@STARD TOO!!!




Even though he wants younger generations to transition away from Social Security, the Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate says he receives checks.

“I do,” Paul acknowledged in an MSNBC interview on Wednesday. When The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein asked if Paul shouldn’t set an example by declining the government benefit, Paul said no.


Paul, 76, has argued that Social Security and Medicare are technically unconstitutional. A major part of Paul’s deficit-reduction plan has involved allowing younger Americans to opt out of Social Security.


He is a 100% absolute, hypocritical, a-hole, shriveled up, racist LIAR!!!

How can you deny Social Security for others but it's okay for you to get them for yourself?

How can someone with MILLIONS of dollars be PROUD to take Social Security benefits?

WHY ISN'T THIS GUY IN JAIL?

WaPo: Romney's Bain Capital owned overseas outsourcing specialists that helped companies export jobs


GOPocrisy, thy name is Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has been talking a lot on the campaign trail about stemming the tide of jobs moving overseas to places like China. As it turns out, his company Bain Capital, the one he says gives him the job creating experience that he needs to be the President of the United States, owned companies that were specialists in outsourcing jobs overseas and helped other companies to do so more efficiently and profitably.

Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.

During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that were pioneers in the practice of shipping work from the United States to overseas call centers and factories making computer components, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Jobless states: The top 10: Unemployment rose in 18 states in May, as well as nationally. Fewer jobs were created than in any other month of the past year. Here’s a look at the top 10 states with the highest unemployment rates.

While economists debate whether the massive outsourcing of American jobs over the last generation was inevitable, Romney in recent months has lamented the toll it’s taken on the U.S. economy. He has repeatedly pledged he would protect American employment by getting tough on China. (HYPOCRITICAL LIAR)

“They’ve been able to put American businesses out of business and kill American jobs,” he told workers at a Toledo fence factory in February. “If I’m president of the United States, that’s going to end.”

Speaking at a metalworking factory in Cincinnati last week, Romney cited his experience as a businessman, saying he knows what it would take to bring employers back to the United States. “For me it’s all about good jobs for the American people and a bright and prosperous future,” he said.

This level of hypocrisy is almost breathtaking. What Mitt Romney knows how to do is to squeeze every last drop of profit out of a company, even if it means destroying the company and throwing Americans out of their jobs. While we've been saying this all along, we now have the proof.

As our country slowing gets back on its feet after eight years of economic decimation by the Bush administration, what we need is investment in American jobs and diversification of our industrial base. Investments in things like clean energy have the double impact of getting us off foreign-sourced fossil fuels that pollute our environment and ramping up a new industrial sector that is homegrown.

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UPDATE: The Obama campaign issued this statement:


Tonight's story in the Washington Post exposed Mitt Romney's breathtaking hypocrisy. He has campaigned all over this country, vowing that he would be an advocate for American jobs. But tonight we learned that he made a fortune advising companies on how to outsource jobs to China and India. Maybe that explains why, despite his campaign rhetoric, Romney continues to support tax policies that would reward companies who send American jobs overseas.




This man deserves a medal for all the outsourcing he has done. American jobs my a$$. If Romney wants to impress anyone I say have hime bring all those jobs BACK to the America he claims to care about. LIAR!!!

How Romney’s Firm Raked In MILLIONS While Companies It Owned Went Bust

'Companies’ Ills Did Not Harm Romney’s Firm


Cambridge Industries, an automotive plastics supplier whose losses had been building for three consecutive years, finally filed for bankruptcy in May 2000 under a mountain of debt that had ballooned to more than $300 million.

Yet Bain Capital, the private equity firm that controlled the Michigan-based company, continued to religiously collect its $950,000-a-year “advisory fee” in quarterly installments, even to the very end, according to court documents.

In all, Bain garnered more than $10 million in fees from Cambridge over five years, including a $2.25 million payment just for buying the company, according to bankruptcy records and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Meanwhile, Bain’s investors saw their $16 million investment in Cambridge wiped out.

That Bain was able to reap revenue from Cambridge, even as it foundered, was hardly unusual.

The private equity firm, co-founded and run by Mitt Romney, held a majority stake in more than 40 United States-based companies from its inception in 1984 to early 1999, when Mr. Romney left Bain to lead the Salt Lake City Olympics. Of those companies, at least seven eventually filed for bankruptcy while Bain remained involved, or shortly afterward, according to a review by The New York Times. In some instances, hundreds of employees lost their jobs. In most of those cases, however, records and interviews suggest that Bain and its executives still found a way to make money.

Mr. Romney’s experience at Bain is at the heart of his case for the presidency. He has repeatedly promoted his years working in the “real economy,” arguing that his success turning around troubled companies and helping to start new ones, producing jobs in the process, has prepared him to revive the country’s economy. He has fended off attacks about job losses at companies Bain owned, saying, “Sometimes investments don’t work and you’re not successful.” But an examination of what happened when companies Bain controlled wound up in bankruptcy highlights just how different Bain and other private equity firms are from typical denizens of the real economy, from mom-and-pop stores to bootstrapping entrepreneurial ventures.

Bain structured deals so that it was difficult for the firm and its executives to ever really lose, even if practically everyone else involved with the company that Bain owned did, including its employees, creditors and even, at times, investors in Bain’s funds.

Bain officials vigorously disputed any notion that the firm had profited when its investors lost, arguing that a full accounting of their costs across their business would show otherwise. They also pointed out that Bain employees put their own money at risk in all of the firm’s deals.

“Bain Capital does not make money on investments when our investors lose money,” the company said in a statement. “Any suggestion to the contrary is based on a misleading analysis that examines the income of a business without taking account of expenses.”

To a large extent, however, this is simply the way private equity works, offering its practitioners myriad ways to extract income and limit their risk. Mr. Romney’s candidacy has helped cast a spotlight on an often-opaque industry.

In four of the seven Bain-owned companies that went bankrupt, Bain investors also profited, amassing more than $400 million in gains before the companies ran aground, The Times found. All four, however, later became mired in debt incurred, at least in part, to repay Bain investors or to carry out a Bain-led acquisition strategy.

Perhaps most revealing are the few occasions, like with Cambridge Industries, when Bain’s investors lost. Lucrative fees helped insulate Bain and its executives, records and interviews showed.

Piling On Debt

Having spun off from a management consulting firm, Bain has always been known for its data-driven, analytical approach. Under Mr. Romney, the firm scored some remarkable successes, enabling its investors — wealthy individuals and institutions like pension funds — to collect stellar returns.

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Romney at his finest. This is why he needs elevators for his caddys. Gone on Republicans and vote for this guy and watch him do the same to the entire country.

For those following the 2012 presidental race closely, Mitt Romney's penchant for falsehoods is hard to miss.

30 Lies from Mitt Romney in one week

1. In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Romney claimed it's fiscally responsible to eliminate the entirety of the Affordable Care Act: "It saves $100 billion a year to get rid of it."

That's the opposite of the truth. According to the CBO and other nonpartisan budget estimates, killing the law would make the deficit go up, not down, and would cost, not save, the country hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming years.

2. In the same interview, Romney said, "I think a lot of people forgetting is there is only one president in history that's cut Medicare by $500 billion and that is President Obama."

Romney says this a lot. He's not telling the truth.

3. Romney also said, "I see people holding up signs, 'Don't touch my Medicare.' It's like, hey, I'm not touching your Medicare."

Romney endorsed Paul Ryan's House Republican Budget plan, which ends the Medicare program and replaces it with a private voucher scheme.

4. In the same interview, Romney said President Obama has "never had the experience of working in the private sector."

Actually, that's not true. Obama worked at a private-sector law firm before entering public service.

5. Romney also told Hannity Obama went on "an apology tour" in his first year.

As Romney surely knows by now, he's lying.

6. Romney, trying to talk about foreign policy, said Syria is Iran's "route to the sea."

Iran doesn't share a border with Syria, and Iran already borders two bodies of water.

7. At a campaign event in Stratham, New Hampshire, Romney claimed, "Bill Clinton and so many other mainstream Democrats are revolting against the backward direction President Obama is taking his party and our country."

In reality, Bill Clinton supports the president's re-election and recently said a Romney presidency would be "CALMAITOUS for our country and the world."

8. At an event in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, shared an anecdote about a local optometrist who was forced to fill out a "33-page" change-of-address form -- several times -- at the post office.

There is NO such change-of-address form in existence.

9. At the same event, Romney said Obama is "taking away" scholarships and charter schools for "kids in Washington, D.C."

This has become a line in Romney's stump speech, but it isn't in any way.

10. Romney also claimed, "This president has put together almost as much public debt as all the prior presidents combined."

That's a lie.

11. Romney went on to say, "It's immoral in my view for my generation to pass on to these kids the burden of our generation. I think it's wrong. It's got to stop. And if I'm president of the United States I will get us on track to have a balanced budget."

That's plainly false. Romney says his plan "can't be scored," but independent budget analysts have found his agenda would make the deficit bigger, not smaller, and add trillions to the national debt.

12. At a campaign stop in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, Romney said the president's "trillion- dollar stimulus" failed to "create jobs."

That's the complete opposite of the truth.

13. At the same event, Romney said about Obama, "He was told that one small business was having a hard time dealing with Obamacare. He said he hadn't heard that."

That's not what happened. In fact, the small business wasn't having a hard time dealing with Obamacare, and was hurt by policies Romney wants to pursue.

14. Romney went on say, "I was in Las Vegas and met a woman who was worried. She has a business renting furniture to casinos and to conventioners that come to Las Vegas. And when the president said, don't bother coming to Las Vegas for your company meetings a few years ago, her business dove."

Obama actually said, in reference to Wall Street recklessness, "You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back. You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime. There's got to be some accountability and some responsibility." To blame the failure of some random business in Nevada on this is ridiculous.

15. Romney added, "If we stay on the road we're on, we're going to become like Europe.... I don't believe Europe works in Europe. I don't want it here."

The irony is, Europe is trying to grow through austerity, just as Romney intends to do here. He's lying in a self-refuting sort of way.

16. In his "Face the Nation" interview, Romney said of Obama's new immigration policy, "If he really wanted to make a solution that dealt with these kids or with the illegal immigration in America, then this is something he would have taken up in his first three and a half years, not in his last few months."


That's remarkably misleading. Obama has pushed for the 'DREAM ACT' for years, and would have signed it into law in 2010 had it not been *****BLOCKED by a Republican filibuster.********

17. In the same interview, Romney said about health care, "I will continue to describe the plan that I would provide, which is, number one, to make sure that people don't have to worry about losing their insurance if they have a preexisting condition, and change jobs."

This is the kind of answer that's clearly intended to deceive. Under Romney's approach, millions of people with pre-existing conditions would be denied coverage -- and occasionally his campaign even ADMITS it.

18. Also on health care, Romney said the president "jammed through a bill" and "didn't really try and work for a Republican vote."

This is laughably untrue. Obama worked for months to find someone -- anyone -- in the Republican Party who would work with him in good faith, including delaying progress while the "Gang of Six" engaged in pointless talks.

19. Romney also said, "I'm not looking for a tax cut for the very wealthiest."

Either Romney hasn't read his own tax plan, or he's lying.

20. Appearing via video at the "Faith and Freedom Coalition" annual event, Romney applauded the far-right group's leader: "Ralph Reed has been a real champion in fighting for the fundamental values that have made America the nation that it is."

You've got to be kidding me.

21. In the same speech, Romney said, "When you put in place a bill like Obamacare, you attack the freedom of people to make a choice about their own insurance and what kind of coverage they want to have."

That's not true. Under the Affordable Care Act, consumers would choose from competing plans as part of a health care exchange. Romney knows this -- it was part of HID OWN PLAN.

22. Romney went on to say, "[M]edian income in this nation has dropped by 10 percent over the last four years."

That only makes sense if we count Obama's first year in office, which relies on a standard Romney believes is fundamentally unfair.

23. He also argued, "Government at all levels is about 37 percent of the economy today -- 37 percent. And if Obamacare were allowed to stand, government would control about half of the economy of America."

That's demonstrably ridiculous.

24. At the same event, Romney said that Obama "insists" that "Israel return to the '67 borders -- indefensible borders."

He's lying.

25. At a campaign event in Brunswick, Ohio, Romney claimed that Obama said "if you let him borrow all that money, he'd keep unemployment below 8 percent."

As Romney surely knows by now, that's simply NOT true.

26. At the same event, Romney said under Obamacare, we'll get "a healthcare system run by the government."

There is NO universe in which this is true.

27. At a campaign event in Janesville, Wisconsin, Romney argued, "[T]he path we're on, spending $1 trillion more every year than we take in, is leading us to Greece."

That's painfully untrue.

28. At a campaign event in Holland, Michigan, Romney claimed that, as a result of the Dodd-Frank reforms, "small banks and community banks are finding it harder and harder to make loans to small businesses."

According to community banks, this is false. These banks have actually gotten stronger after Dodd-Frank, and the president of Independent Community Bankers Of America recently said, "I am sick of Wall Street using community banks as their shills to scare community bankers into stampeding Congress into undoing provisions of law that finally attempt to deal with too big to fail and Wall Street overreach."

29. In a speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials yesterday, Romney argued that President Obama "has not completed a single new trade agreement with Latin America."

Romney does realize that Panama IS part of Latin America, right???

30. Romney went on to argue, "Unfortunately, despite his promises, President Obama has failed to address immigration reform."

Actually, Obama has addressed it quite a bit, taking executive action where the law allows, and pushing Congress to pursue comprehensive reform based on a bipartisan plan he presented last year. Remember Romney???


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This is a witch hunt plain and simple, and this gasbag Issa just got caught up in his own LIE!!!


The Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Sunday said that there was no proof that President Barack Obama's White House had any involvement in Fast and Furious, a botched gun "walking" program that intended to trace weapon sales to Mexico.

Last week, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) charged that by asserting executive privilege over certain documents, the White House essentially admitted it had been involved in a cover-up.

"The decision to invoke executive privilege is an admission that White House officials were involved in decisions that misled the Congress and have covered up the truth," Boehner told reporters.

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday asked Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa (R-CA) if he had any evidence to support Boehner's claim.

"No, we don't," Issa admitted. "And what we are seeking are documents that we know to exist, February 4 to December [2011] that are in fact about [Border Patrol agent] Brian Terry’s murder -- who knew, and why people were lying about it."

"No evidence at this point that the White House is involved in a cover up?" Wallace pressed.

"And I hope that they don't get involved," Issa replied.


Here's a very important question for Issa:

Since this program was created and put into operation under the Bush Administration and subsequently terminated under President Obama shouldn't the committee be investigating Bush administration officials?

Mitt Romney IS A Job Creator As Long As You Don't Count Jobs IN America!

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Go on, check it out.......

A new report from an international economic organization makes a strong case that many of the Obama Administration's policies that Republican Party leaders decry as radical and socialist are in fact uncontroversial, fact-based ideas embraced by experts from 34 developed countries.

The latest U.S. economic survey from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warns that too much immediate deficit cutting in the United States would stall the recovery, and recommends raising the capital gains tax rate and reducing tax breaks to the rich in order to address the country's dramatic income inequality. The report also calls for increased funding to improve educational outcomes and address long-term unemployment.

"It's based on what works and what doesn't work," said Richard Boucher, a former Bush administration spokesman who now serves as deputy secretary-general of the Paris-based OECD.

"It's the best advice and best analysis from experts from 34 countries," Boucher said. The conclusion represents a consensus view based on "what we've learned studying economies all over the world."

U.S. ambassador to the OECD Karen Kornbluh, with whom Boucher unveiled the report at the National Press Club on Tuesday, said the survey process was the result of apolitical "hard-nosed analysis" that was unconnected from domestic U.S. politics.

And yet, she noted, "the report comments favorably on key policies that President Obama has already proposed, or that the administration is already pursuing."

The overall theme of the report was that the U.S. economic recovery may be gaining momentum, but the country's long-term standing in the world is endangered by income inequality and insufficient education and training.

President Obama presented these issues on education and training in his SOTU address, but...the GOP has blocked all legislation to improve our country's standing.

To view the report:


www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/20/50647837.pdf


Anyone who sides with Republicans and wants social programs cut before the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire should not consider themself Christian...............or fair.
Asking the poor, sick and elderly to pay for further tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires is a sin of biblical proportion.