What Now Brown Cow!

When Hillary Clinton said she was done serving her country so honorably as Secretary of State,the republicans saw that as opportunity.   They had recently lost the MA Senate held by Scott Brown to a true progressive in Elizabeth Warren.   The rumors that John Kerry was being considered as her successor, allowed them to pounce into action! 

The plan that Reince and the rest of his team came up with was, allow John Kerry to be confirmed as Secretary of State and then have Scott Brown win the special election to fill his seat and gain an important seat for the next 5 years in the Senate! 

We all know what they say about the best laid plans......

First off President Obama wanted to nominated the very distinguished Ambassador Susan Rice for the position.   This would have kept the Senate seat in Kerry's  hands so that was unacceptable.  The republicans like they always do, ratcheted the rhetoric up to an 11, and personally attacked Susan Rice as often and as loudly as they could.   John McCain and Lindsey Graham led the outright racist and sexist attacks, forcing Ambassador Rice to eventually withdraw her name from consideration. 

That obstacle out of the way, they were then faced with a new one that they did not know how to overcome: Scott Brown does not want to run again! 

“Over these past few weeks I have given serious thought about the possibility of running again, as events have created another vacancy requiring another special election. I have received a lot of encouragement from friends and supporters to become a candidate, and my competitive instincts were leading in the same direction,” Brown wrote.

“Even so, I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time. And I know it’s not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me,” he added.

“That is why I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate in the upcoming special election,” his statement ends.

The primary is April 30 and the special election June 25.

Let me interpret for you - it  is very taxing for a moderate republican to try and keep the "tea party" base happy.   So thanks but no thanks, someone else can have that headache!  

Now for the punchline. 

The republican are so flummoxed that Brown does not want to run, they are at a loss to find someone else.  

Things are so bad under Reince's reign that they are considering asking people in the Romney Family to run.   

Massachusetts Republicans are desperately scrambling to find a strong Senate candidate to replace Scott Brown, with some even trying to persuade Mitt Romney’s wife or son to jump into the race to avert another electoral disaster.
The former GOP senator’s decision to stay out of the June 25 special election surprised and angered some Republican leaders, who said it will make it much harder to beat a Democratic opponent without Brown on the ballot.
“I’ve had several people call me and ask about Ann Romney,” Ron Kaufman, a longtime friend and aide to the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 presidential candidate nominee, told the Herald.

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Other GOP leaders also raised the prospect of Mitt’s eldest son, Tagg, launching a surprise Senate campaign. Tagg Romney was a close campaign adviser and surrogate for his father and is a successful businessman living in Belmont.

As a progressive, I am ecstatic that the republicans have decided to keep Reince in charge!  

Disaster Averted!

Just think we could be ready to have Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan sworn in soon and our country would be in great peril.   Luckily they took a well deserved beating on election day and we will never have to worry about either of them in power ever again!

As a perfect case in point why Mitt/Gilligan were the absolute worst people to ever run a country, especially to run a country trying to recover from a recession.    I offer up exhibit #1!

When Mitt was at Bain "Vulture" Capitol, he made a trip to China where he fell in love with the way they do business!

 When I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there. It employed about 20,000 people. And they were almost all young women between the ages of about 18 and 22 or 23. They were saving for potentially becoming married.
And they work in these huge factories, they made various uh, small appliances. And uh, as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pittance they earned, living in dormitories with uh, with little bathrooms at the end of maybe 10, 10 room, rooms. And the rooms they have 12 girls per room.
Three bunk beds on top of each other. You've seen, you've seen them? (Oh...yeah, yeah!) And, and, and around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire and guard towers. And, and, we said gosh! I can't believe that you, you know, keep these girls in! They said, no, no, no. This is to keep other people from coming in.

This is the republican way that 56 million Americans voted for....but as we know, reality gets in the way of republican talking points!  

The factory that Romney fell in lust with, was probably trying to keep family members of the forced workers from trying to save their children.  Reality Bites Again!

Oregon resident Julie Keith was shocked when she opened her $29.99 Kmart Halloween graveyard decoration kit to find a letter, folded into eights, hidden between two Styrofoam tombstones.
Coming all the way from unit 8, department 2 of the Masanjia Labor Camp in Shenyang, China, the letter written mostly in English read,

"Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever."

The letter went on to describe 15 hour work days, no days off, and pay at 10 yuan per month ($1.61 US Dollar) if any. It also described the 1-3 year average forced labor terms without trial, and the large amount of Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor, a banned spiritual group.

Read the letter here!

I wonder if there are any republicans in office who would offer up their young daughters to work for 15 hour days/7 days a week for $1.61 A MONTH.....what is Tagg's job anyway?  Maybe Tagg could run over there for a month and job shadow!   Is that really a vision that they see in America.  Do 46 million people want this to be our way of life?  It is kind of hard to cut the salary of someone making $1.61/Month.

At least they are not unionized because unions are out of date....

This is also the kind of working conditions that our own Senator Ron Johnson called "creative destruction" for his love of shipping jobs to China.

Brilliant minds on the right......

Tagg, You're (Full of) It!

One of Mitt Romney's sons, Tagg, opened up his mouth again and said his dad didn't really want to be president:

Mitt Romney didn't want to be president, anyway.

That's what Tagg Romney, Mitt's oldest son, told the Boston Globe for its big post-mortem on his father's failed presidential bid published on Sunday.
“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life," Tagg Romney told the paper. "He had no desire to ... run. If he could have found someone else to take his place ... he would have been ecstatic to step aside.

"He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them," Tagg continued. "He has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention.”

What a load of crappy crap crap. Then again, we already knew Tagg was a natural born liar.

There is no way that Mitt has spent seven years of his life and countless tens of millions of dollars - not to mention the hundreds of millions of other people's money - for something he did not want.

Sounds like ol' Tagg has been having sour grapes for his Christmas dinner.

Tagg

Tagg Romney,  told a radio station after the debate that he wanted to take a swing at President Obama.

Transcript:
RADIO HOST: I’m gonna ask something I know a lot of people want to know, or at least I do. What it is like for you to hear the President of the United States call your dad a liar. How do you react to that?

TAGG ROMNEY: Uh, you know, uh, well, jump out of your seat, and you want to rush down there to the debate stage and take a swing at him. But you know you can’t do that, because um, well first because there’s a lot of Secret Service between you and him…”

I guess when you raise your children to be perpetual liars, and their major accomplishment in life is to work to get daddy elected, what kind of person do you think you are going to raise?

Solidarity Fish Fry Alert!

For those of you who are planning in partaking in the Second Helping of Solidarity Fish Fry on Friday night, there are some things to be aware of.

I have learned this evening that on the other side of Serb Hall, in the Presidents Room, there will be an all day Republican fundraising event. There is also a possibility that a wild Romney might appear.

There is no telling if it will be Wild Man Romney or his son, Tagg "Slugger" Romney.

Because of the other event, please be aware that parking might be at a premium and that there will be hostiles on the premises. Remain calm and keep eating.

Also, as it was during the first week, there will be only one union waitress, Patricia,  working in the dining hall, so please remain extra patient. If management holds true to form, they will be trying to sabotage her by cutting her tables back or even sending her home.

If the wait is too long or if they do close down the union waitresses, and you decide to go elsewhere, take the time to let someone from management know that you are leaving and why. They will better understand that we mean business when they see their customers leaving because of their behaviors.

Finally, I am sorry to say that Peggy Krusick is expected to be there to try to drum up her support to sabotage Daniel Riemer's election. If she would approach you, politely remind her the Republicans are on the other side of the building.