Here's a good segment from last night's Romney debate win. Begin watching at 5:30.
From the transcript:
21:31:54: ROMNEY: You've been president four years. You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. We still have trillion-dollar deficits. The CBO says we'll have a trillion-dollar deficit each of the next four years. If you're re-elected, we'll get to a trillion-dollar debt.Gosh, it sounds like Romney actually understands how the economy works. That was job growth 101. Hope Obama was listening -- he might have learned something. (Just kidding! We all know he already knows everything worth knowing.)
I mean, you have said before you'd cut the deficit in half. And this -- I love this idea of $4 trillion in cuts. You found $4 trillion of ways to reduce or to get closer to a balanced budget, except we still show trillion-dollar deficits every year. That doesn't get the job done.
Let me come back and say, why is it that I don't want to raise taxes? Why don't I want to raise taxes on people? And actually, you said it back in 2010. You said, "Look, I'm going to extend the tax policies that we have now; I'm not going to raise taxes on anyone, because when the economy is growing slow like this, when we're in recession, you shouldn't raise taxes on anyone."
Well, the economy is still growing slow. As a matter of fact, it's growing much more slowly now than when you made that statement. And so if you believe the same thing, you just don't want to raise taxes on people. And the reality is it's not just wealthy people -- you mentioned Donald Trump. It's not just Donald Trump you're taxing. It's all those businesses that employ one-quarter of the workers in America; these small businesses that are taxed as individuals.
You raise taxes and you kill jobs. That's why the National Federation of Independent Businesses said your plan will kill 700,000 jobs. I don't want to kill jobs in this environment.
How kind of Jim Lehrer to provide some coaching for the president (at 7:20 and again at 8:10).
Corporate jets! (9:00)
Ten year old textbooks? The horror! (10:10)
Oh dear. Tingles' leg has gone completely numb:
"What was Romney doing? He was winning!"
Yup. Romney: 1; President Eye-candy: 0.
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Romney Won.
ReplyDeleteRomney actually LEARNED something at Harvard. Romney has actually run businesses and organizations.
Romney/Ryan 2012.
That debate showed the difference between somebody who went to Harvard by his own drive, determination and intellect, and somebody who went there based on quotas, shady recommendations, and studied radical black theology.
ReplyDeleteWow, I liked Romney before but now I am a huge fan. He completely wiped the floor with President "Eye Candy"!
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Still unreal, shock.
ReplyDeleteIs a 10 year old textbook necessarily a bad textbook? A new book doesn't make those Chicago teachers any more effective. It must take every ounce of discipline Romney has not to interrupt and correct the record. I wish I could have seen O's face when R said he just picks losers.
ReplyDeleteRomney seemed composed and knowledgeable. My cousin, an Obama supporter, said he was rude and condescending.
Thank you. I was hoping I wasn't the only one who saw that ridiculous contention.
DeleteIn high school (mid-1990s), my high school geometry book referred to current President Nixon. However, geometry had not changed in the 20+ years since that book was published, and Sr. Linda certainly didn't need a new book to instill the principles of geometry in us. So, new textbooks are sometimes needed when old ones wear out, but 10-year old textbooks are not the end of the world.
ReplyDeleteMichael October 4, 2012 3:07 PM
Delete"10-year old textbooks are not the end of the world."
Ah, but 10-year old textbooks have no mention of "President Obama".
And that is completely unacceptable.
I watched the debate last night, and just now I watched the MSNBC clip. This may have already happened, but how can Chris Matthews make any claim at all to be an objective journalist? He sounded like a football fan on a call-in show after his team got beat by a D-3 school. He was not offering a thoughtful analysis of the debate; he was ranting about why his guy didn't go for the kill.
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ReplyDeleteI've come to the considered conclusion that when Chris Matthews one day shuffles off this mortal coil, his mouth is so big they'll have to bury it in a separate coffin.
It made me smile when Obama said some kids are using ten-year-old textbooks. When I was a child I did much of my studying on my own initiative, outside school using second-hand books, from thrift stores and flea markets, from before my mother's day AFAIK. Many science and art history books from the early-mid-20th Century are superior to modern textbooks.
ReplyDeleteMy kids found that remark laughable. The government doesn't know anything about real education. And the continuous "updating" of textbooks is an enormous scam.
ReplyDeleteRomney won. Shove it in the face of any and all of libs.
ReplyDeleteRomney won. And Romney will win the Presidency of the United States of America.