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Romney’s Flip Flops Turning Into Flop Flops
People can understand someone changing their mind about an issue. We all have after learning more about the facts. But changing your mind about almost every issue leads people to believe that you are disingenuous, a liar, a person that tells people what they want to hear depending on the audience. People on both sides of an issue have seen this in Mitt Romney.
Take, for instance, what Mitt Romney said, just this past January, about mothers on welfare as opposed to what his wife Ann Romney said about making a CHOICE to stay home with her FIVE children. Ann could make a choice because she was able to financially. She didn’t need to find a job to help her family’s finances and she wasn’t the only “bread winner” so she was able to be a stay at home mom. Not many women in the past 30 years could make that choice.
Here’s what Mitt Romney said about the Moms on Welfare:
Women who stay at home to raise their children should be given federal assistance for child care so that they can enter the job market and “have the dignity of work,” Mitt Romney said in January, undercutting the sense of extreme umbrage he showed when Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen quipped last week that Ann Romney had not “worked a day in her life.”
Watch:
“The dignity of working” seems to only apply to women on welfare or middle class women. If you are a privileged woman who does not need to work outside the home, what Romney said does not apply.
And here’s another video of Romney talking about Middle Class Families from 1994:
In this video he acknowledged that both men and women have to work. There isn’t a “choice” as Ann Romney made, for the woman to stay at home. (And I’d like to add here that what Ann Romney said about her choice insulted me as a woman who did not have that choice and worked two jobs to get by! I’m not the only woman who feels that way.)
Here’s a video that lists many of Romney’s Flip Flops through the years:
How can you trust a person that Flip Flops so many times? Where will he stand on issues if he becomes President? He is even flip flopping on his own father:
He was a liberal on HUD too! MT @AriBerman: Romney wants to eliminate government agency (HUD) once headed by his dad on.msnbc.com/IEr3tx
— Ryan J. Davis (@RyanNewYork) April 16, 2012
Here’s a segment from MSNBC’s Alex Wagner’s show “NOW” and her panel discussing Romney’s ‘Open Mic’ talk on doing away with several Federal Agencies, including the one his dad, George Romney headed:
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If Romney can disavow what his father has done then he will have no problem disassembling any of the good programs we have in place. Nor will he and a GOP Congress put new ones in place.
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Getting my thoughts together on writing a new topper. There’s so much to cover and my thoughts are all over the place. And the words aren’t coming to me right now.
@toniD: Open with a joke.
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talking about Melissa, her NewOrleans home is featured in today’s Times Picayune real estate insert, cute house, real cute, very new orleanish
http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2012/04/melissa_harris-perry_and_james.html
@toniD: . (I suspect you’ll prevail over the problem, as usual, but…)
The FSM created “Open Threads” for a reason.
@Jmach1P: That was delightful! Thanks much.
@Crank Bait: Generally good advice.
I’ve got a new topper in the hopper waiting on a photo or graphic from 60th.
@Cat Chew: CC! Good to see you here!
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C-SPAN is televising the WH Correspondents Dinner right now. Red Carpet arrivals and all.
They’re playing it live at 9:40 PM ET
Just saw Lohan arrive.
Watch it here:
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This is beyond belief. Taking credit for the auto industry coming back now?
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Pres. and Mrs Obama have just arrived at the dinner.
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Twitter is filled with play by play of the Dinner.
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Seems Krauthammer is in a wheel chair…
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Kimmel: Back in those days a tweet was something Barbara Walters gave her dog.
Kimmel was okay. Some of his lines were good, some delivered with no oomph. Some were blatant.
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It’s the women and Young Adults vote. Why would they want to vote for Romney?
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Kimmel was okay but Obama had a much better delivery than Jimmy. I think it was because he took pleasure in roasting some of his “enemies”.
Up w/ Chris Hayes @upwithchris
Finally! Getting to the meat of the problem.
We did miss an opportunity by sitting back at the beginning. We should have insisted, then, that the banks and financials and the people behind the crash be charged and sentenced and fined and taken over.
And we should have done something, tight away, about Citizens united and the Scotus need to have limits and no longer serve for life as Supreme Court Judges.
So much we missed doing. All we did was complain. We didn’t push. I was asking for protests from the start.
Such an important discussion and I’m here alone?
What’s happened to this group?
No discussion? Not even agreement?
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Is this what is needed to wake people up? And will it be too late at this point? What would they do to protesters under GOP power?
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@toniD:
morning toni
I’ve been watching UP for almost an hour, missed the 1st half hour.
I think there were plenty of protest events since about 2004,
but many of them had less than 1000 people marching, and
the rethuglican owned media would not cover it, and because of that, the public was unaware of the protest bandwagon they could be a part of.
I agree with what the UP people are saying about the economy.
The Republicants have been too successful in decieving
the public in believing that the national debt is the problem.
And cutting costs ( firing people ) will save the day, compleetly oblivious to the fact that a consumer economy can’t function if the majority of people do not have lots of spending money to buy american made products.
@Jmach1P:
I also remember Jerry Nadler was a guest on the original Majority Report a few times, all those years ago.
amazing good show this morning. chris deserves a pulitzer or something for what he’s doing because there is nobody else doing it and it is so sorely needed
getting to the meat and bones i loved it when chris said “they teach abstinence in school but they do not talk about the history of labor”
indeed, as sam would say
top notch panelists – no conservatives – the best of which imo were nadler and bill fletcher; the two women – don’t wanna sound sexist – but grated on me somewhat – randy for the teachers unions and marina as spokesperson for OWS – seemed to be at loggerheads with each other, a little too unbending, pushy and argumentative with each other. I must say they were not the best representative for their causes, which i both support and should certainly be allied this may 1st – i think this was chris point in getting them at the same table, but they didn’t seem to agree on much and displayed a slight hostility to the other point of view… was i imagining things? possibly – all i know is that when they spoke- when they had the word – my skin crawled – sorry, can’t explain it any other way
could be because of the commercial breaks they were feeling pressured (as usual on this show) to talk fast and cram in their arguments in jumbled talking points that at times didn’t even answer the question or topic chris was trying to press to give his show some direction and keep it coherent
@toniD: toni, i left my laptop at work and with the ipad it’s hard to blog; so i can’t comfortably do both (watch and blog) sorry
i have a desktop in the living room and can do some internet there during the commercial breaks, but the tv – where i watch MSNBC) is in the bedroom; the ipad is mobile but as i said can’t function well for internet activity….
besides, i started getting involved in housekeeping activities during one of the commercial breaks, vacuuming and moving furniture around (an early start of spring cleaning) i really need to have a garage sale and get rid of some of this clutter… so i started this morning whhile watching UP –
as for the other MIA bloggers, i don’t know if they have a similarly compelling excuse for their silence
At Ga port, river respirators to help fish breathe
SAVANNAH, Ga.
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its nice that the new panama canal will bring container ships to the eastern seaboard but those who are betting on bigger seaports and extraordinary efforts to save the fish are missing the big picture.
how about we stop importing cheap goods made by slaves from china, leave the river and fish alone and bring manufacturing jobs back to the united states. that would be a win for all.
So far the MHP show is good, no RWNJobs to deal with.
re the Obama campaign strategy.
I think the “hope and change” thing will not work this time.
Negative adds against “Mitt Raw Money” (as norm goldman would say) may turn off undecided voters.
However Obama must firmly and quickly respond to any negative and false adds from the other side.
Also anyone who says they want to “run the country like a business” must be called out as un-american with ideals of a fascists.
Businesses are not democratic, they are dictatorships that are run from the top down.
here is the link to listen to the show online this am at 9 pst
http://socialstreamingplayer.crystalmedianetworks.com/radio/kjfk
I woke up to a power outage and a dead phone…it just came back on…dang electricity is important!
Jmach1P April 29, 2012 10:36 am
…Also anyone who says they want to “run the country like a business”…
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The expression drives me nuts. Why it drives me nuts depends upon the intent of the meaning of “like a business” which varies from instance to instance.
Rarely is it intended to mean “Maximize profits, minimize risk.” When all of the euphemistic meanings are boiled away, the largest growth of capital with the smallest possible risk is all that remains.
The usual intended meaning of “like a business” in reference to governance is “managing expenses.” Hell, a guy collecting unemployment compensation manages his expenses. A guy living under a bridge manages his expenses. Even a caveman retrieved his spear so he wouldn’t have to make a replacement.
Governance is not like business. There are some duties that overlap but they overlap for different reasons. There is no “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” column on a business ledger.
@mhappenow:
thanks for the reminder,
I’ll be listening while making some pumpkin flavored muffins
in the kitchen.
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The “War On Women”, By Any Other Name….
Have at it.
Later
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