POLITICO.COM : "Republican Rep. Tom Cole urged colleagues in a private session Tuesday to vote to extend the Bush tax rates for all but the highest earners before the end of the year — and to battle over the rest later"

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"The Oklahoma Republican said in an interview with POLITICO that he believes such a vote would not violate Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge and that he’s not alone within Republican circles".

My Comment : Isn't it shameful and ridiculous that Congress Republicans sign a pledge to a Lobbyist being paid by Rich Interests instead of always working for the common good of America ?? - The pledge should be to all the Nation and not to a particular interest  !

This is the Government by Organized Money that Presient Franklin Roosevelt decried as being worse than Government by Organized Mob.

POLITICO.COM
Tom Cole: Join with President Obama on quick deal
Cole says Republicans would improve their position by joining hands with the president.

By JONATHAN ALLEN
November 27, 2012

Tom Cole: Join with President Obama on quick deal
 
Some excerpts :

Republican Rep. Tom Cole urged colleagues in a private session Tuesday to vote to extend the Bush tax rates for all but the highest earners before the end of the year — and to battle over the rest later.

At a meeting of the House GOP whip team earlier in the day, he made the case that Republicans would strengthen their position by joining hands with President Barack Obama now to give most taxpayers what he calls “an early Christmas present” of ensuring their taxes don’t go up on Jan. 1.

Cole’s position is striking because he’s hardly a “squish” — Norquist’s term for a weak-kneed lawmaker — when it comes to Republican orthodoxy. Cole served as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee and in other official posts within the party.

He might also provide cover for other Republicans looking to make an agreement to avoid a sharp fall off the so-called fiscal cliff.

“I think we ought to take the 98 percent deal right now,” he said of freezing income tax rates for all but the top 2 percent of earners. “It doesn’t mean I agree with raising the top 2. I don’t.”

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VIDEO, Fox News : Super Conservative "Bill Kristol Says 'It Won't Kill The Country If We Raise Taxes On Millionaires'." - Bill says that Mitt Romney was a mistake because of a recent crisis in Wall Street - On Fox News Sunday, conservative Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol .

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Mr Conservative Intellectual Bill Kristol Admits : Raising Millionaires' Taxes 'Won't Kill The Country ...

.. Don't scream and yell over what one person says. You know what? It won't kill the country if Republicans raise taxes a little bit on millionaires. It really ....

 Published on Nov 12, 2012 by ScienceandTecTroll

HOT NEWS: Bill Kristol Says 'It Won't Kill The Country If We Raise Taxes On Millionaires'

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VIDEO : "Joe Scarborough Bashes 'Immoral' GOP Tax Defense, John Heilemann : National Affairs Editor NY Magazine, they discuss "More Chips for Tax Returns" by Steven Rattner - The absurdity of saying that the rich are going to become lazy

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The absurdity of saying that the rich are going to become lazy if the tax rates return to the previous values during the Clinton Administration. - They discuss an article by Steven Rattner "More Chips for Tax Returns".

Published on Nov 26, 2012 by Hansel Hansely 

Joe Scarborough Bashes 'Immoral' GOP Tax Defense



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There is no Hell with the Devil Satan frying you in cheap oil... There are no eternal fires like those that Mike Huckabee and that pastor, the son of Billy Graham paint for us. Graham has no telephone to God and so he can not know that America is going to be destroyed for committing the grave sin of reelecting Brutal Godless Obama

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But I tell you the true nature of Hell, with some digression on Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Disneyland, Neverland and Peter Pan.

God creator of quasi-stellars, pulsars, super magnetic fast pulse stars, and black holes one trillion times more powerfult than our sun doesn't give a damn about these pastors.

And this is the True Nature of Hell :

Hell is when you realize and know what other people think of you. .... Imagine the pain and suffering of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan when they found that they were not accepted as Super Geniuses and Demi-Gods ...

Hell is when you realize, like Mitt Romney that :

"Disneyland is the last refuge of the failed vulture presidential candidate".

This is like the Famous Phrase of Samuel Johnson : "Patriotism is the last refuge of the Scoundrel"....

If Mitt Romney pumps gas to his car, unattended by Valets and servants, or if he waits in line to enter the flying cups or tires in Disneyland, with the purpose of showing his "commonality" to run again for President then he suffers from the syndrome of Peter Pan in Neverland.

And there are many things in Romney and vice-President Ryan to remind us of Neverland, the land that never was and where those dreams without fruition go to waste.

Fruition is defined by the "Free Dictionary" as

 Realization of something desired or worked for; accomplishment: labor finally coming to fruition.

2. Enjoyment derived from use or possession.

3. The condition of bearing fruit.

They are NOT in possession of the White House and the Seal of the President. ....  And they are beginning to know what other Republicans think of them. These GOPers are sending them to Neverland with Peter Pan and the lost Children.

How to calm the Pain and Suffering of Hell :

I think that Mitt Romney can laugh at himself. Please Mitt adopt a coat of arms with a Vulture hovering over the White House.

You can also order a coffin adorned with Vultures instead of Angels playing Trumpets. And the White House flying over clouds illuminated by a Sun.

And order your Political Tombstone with the inscription : "I flew with the changing winds"....

Paul Ryan can order his monument and mausoleum in the Republican Cemetery topped with a statue of Ayn Rand weeping and sobbing for the failure of the dreams of her disorganized life of an artistic poseur.

Vicente Duque

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VIDEO : T J Walker : "Mitt Romney's latest Theory: It's the Media's Fault!" - Mitt Romney slammed the Republican primary debates, and the media, in the same call to donors in which he made his infamous "gifts" comments

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Mitt Romney is extremely pathetic !

It's the Republican Idiots ! ... Stupid !  ---A party of fools chose an idiot as candidate. !


 Published on Nov 18, 2012 by tjwalker



Mitt Romney's latest Theory: It's the Media's Fault!




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VIDEO WSJ : "Karl Rove: Self-Deportation Talk Lost Latino Vote" - Republican strategist and Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Contributor Karl Rove on how the GOP must get rid of rhetoric that is perceived as disrespectful by the Latino community

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Karl Rove : Get rid of the Anti-Latino Rhetoric - The language of the Republican Primaries on Immigration was not welcome in the General Election -  The GOP has to respect the Latino Community.

 Published on Nov 20, 2012 by WSJDigitalNetwork

Karl Rove: Self-Deportation Talk Lost Latino Vote



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Imagine the fight against Susan Rice in the U. S. Senate : McCain and a bunch of old white guys standing in the way of the ascension of a young, talented, guilty-of-nothing ­African-American woman in order to score cheap political points in a fight that, eventually, they would be all but certain to lose

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From New York Magazine - Some Excerpts :

Imagine how that will help resuscitate the Republican brand. Imagine.

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With 55 Democratic votes in the Senate now, the administration is all but assured of having a majority to confirm Rice if Obama puts her name forward.

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The only way to halt her nomination would be by waging a filibuster, and even that effort might not prove fruitful—since if Democrats were to remain united, only five GOP defectors would be necessary to shut it down, and in the current environment of Republican soul-searching, finding those five votes might not be all that hard.!

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New York Magazine
State of War
The Republicans have thrown down the gauntlet over the possibility that Susan Rice will replace Hillary Clinton. But the winner is already clear.


By John Heilemann
November 22, 2012


State of War


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VIDEO : "Chris Matthews forgot Obama was black tonight" - Chris Matthews, great friend and defender of the President - He sees greatness in President Obama ( me too ! ) - We wish that he resists the arrogance and stupidity of Republicans on Fiscal Cliff

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There is no third term for Obama, so it is time for some boldness, audacity, firmness, decission against arrogant Republican narcissists and fools in the U.S. Congress. - This may be a second presidential term of Greatness and the President may consolidate Great Achievements of his first term.

Republicans lost the recent November election but are acting as arrogant victors. - Time to baffle their ridiculous pretensions and show their stupidity !


The President is Brave and we will see that !!

 Published on Nov 21, 2012 by Mehmet Zati KARAHAN

Chris Matthews forgot Obama was black tonight




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Wall Street Journal : Obama won Florida and Ohio propelled by New Minority Voters. - White GOP turnout Myth but problem with Minorities - Obama's excellent operation to turn out new voters - Here are the numbers !

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What went wrong for Republicans : GOP unattractive to these new voters and failure to get people to the polls.

Wall Street Journal
The GOP Turnout Myth
To win future elections, Republicans will need more than better get-out-the-vote software.

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
November 22, 2012


The GOP Turnout Myth


Some excerpts :

In Florida, 238,000 more Hispanics voted than in 2008, and Mr. Obama got 60% of Hispanic voters. His total margin of victory in Florida was 78,000 votes, so that demographic alone won it for him. Or consider Ohio, where Mr. Romney won independents by 10 points. The lead mattered little, though, given that black turnout increased by 178,000 votes, and the president won 96% of the black vote. Mr. Obama's margin of victory there was 103,000.

This is the demographic argument that is getting so much attention, and properly so. The Republican Party can hope that a future Democratic candidate won't equal Mr. Obama's magnetism for minority voters. But the GOP would do far better by fighting aggressively for a piece of the minority electorate.

And that, for the record, was the GOP's real 2012 turnout disaster. Elections are about the candidate and the message, yes, but also about the ground game. Republicans right now are fretting about Mr. Romney's failures and the party's immigration platform—that's fair enough. But equally important has been the party's mind-boggling failure to institute a competitive Hispanic ground game.

The GOP doesn't campaign in those communities, doesn't register voters there, doesn't knock on doors. So while pre-election polling showed that Hispanics were worried about Obama policies, in the end the only campaign that these voters heard from—by email, at their door, on the phone—was the president's.

Often missed in talk of the GOP's "demographics problem" is that it would take relatively modest minority-voter shifts toward Republicans to return the party to a dominating force. The GOP might see that as the enormous opportunity it is, rather than a problem. The key to winning turnout is having more people to turn out in the first place.

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The New Republic : Thanks for the Greatest Turkey of the Year : Mitt Romney : Not just for being a clumsy candidate in a year when a more agile one might have knocked off Barack Obama, but for the broader benefit he served the Democratic Party as a powerful clarifying force

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The New Republic
Why Democrats Should Give Thanks For Mitt Romney
By Alec MacGillis
November 21, 2012


Why Democrats Should Give Thanks For Mitt Romney


Some excerpts :

But that didn't happen. Why? Because the Republicans nominated Willard Mitt Romney. In an era of resentment toward unaccountable financial elites, they put forward the ultimate financial elite, a man who sliced and diced companies, sheltered his income offshore, and, above all, was eye-poppingly incapable of discussing his wealth and the economic anxieties of those less fortunate in ways that might put voters at ease.

The muddle that had clouded the political debate since Obama's inauguration parted. On Election Day, when exit pollsters asked voters whom they thought the candidates favored, a plurality, 44 percent, thought Obama favored the middle class, while 53 percent thought Romney favored the rich. Meanwhile, one in five voters thought that a candidate's "caring about people like me" was the most important quality, and 81 percent of them voted for Obama. 

The benefits for Democrats carry forward post-election: as we head toward the so-called fiscal cliff, there is little doubt who's for raising taxes on the wealthiest—a proposition supported by some 60 percent of voters—and who is not.

So Democrats, as you raise your glass on Thursday evening, say or think a thanks for Mitt Romney, who, like the Wampanoag Indians bringing their five deer to the feast, brought a great gift to America: clarity.

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