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March 08, 2012 04:40 PM UTC

Thursday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

–Seneca

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  1. Via TPM

    Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney responded to criticism that his proposed tax plan would cause a three trillion dollar deficit in an interview on CNBC on Wednesday morning.



    “I think it’s kind of interesting for the groups that try and score it because frankly it can’t be scored,” Romney said of his tax plan. “Because those kinds of details are going to have to be worked out with Congress, and we have a wide wide array of options.”

    I’m so old I can remember when Republican FantasyLand Mathematics just meant that every positive number cancels out every negative number. But now we apparently have numbers that can’t even be added together for some spooky reason. Maybe it would rip the fabric of the time-space continuum to predict the future or something.

    But seriously, if you can’t score it, it’s not a plan.

    1. Republican system of faith-based cipherin’ — EconRomnics . . . everything will work better than promised, you just gotta believe hard enough.  

      (If those numbers don’t work, it’s obviously your fault, don’t blame me you taxation-addled heretic.)

    2. Trust me? I have no idea how or why myself but I know my tax plan is aces?

      Well the educated, informed estimates of pretty much all serious economists project varying degrees of much higher cost along with  his desired severe spending cuts on all programs that benefit  the 99%, hurting the majority even more than most are hurting now.  

      Fewer benefits and services. Higher cost?  Such a trade off makes no sense, you say? Shouldn’t the painful, shrink the government cuts save us money? You missed the only important part; even bigger savings to Romney’s tiny tribe of super rich at the top. What’s not to like?  

      Here it comes; Trickle down, any minute now, just wait, it’s going to be great, let me hold that football for you one more time, yadyadyada…. we know the drill. We’ve been hearing it from the GOP ever since Reagan successfully conned the country into going for his voodoo economics, with a big assist from divide and conquer race hatred and bigotry. Morning in America? Sunshine and lollipops?The more things change….?  

        1. wedge issues and appeals to racism, bigotry and nativism. Seems like it’s not working for them so well anymore. Maybe the  Charlie Brown middling voter is finally finally getting a clue: Lucy isn’t your buddy, Charlie. You’ve just been Lucy’s bitch.

    1. He sent the notice to the party officers and to the Rosenthal campaign a little while ago and gave permission for the information to be released publicly.

  2. Headline from our favorite local newspaper: Colorado investment bill quickly signed into law after unexplained delay

    Reporter Tim Hoover seemed to press House Speaker McNulty on the question of “Why?”.  

    House Republicans never explained why the measure was held up for nearly a month in their chamber other than saying “different bills move at different paces.”

    Asked again about the delay, House Speaker Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, lashed out Wednesday at Democrats.

    I still think yelling “Squirrel” in a crowded press briefing room should be outlawed.

    1. all your cartoon is missing is some references to simians, fried-chicken, and watermelon . . . disgusting, but not quite to the level of the usual Republican-disgusting.

      You should only be slightly proud, creep.  

          1. Then don’t get your panties in a twist when someone misunderstands what you are posting and assumes you are being a racist douchebag.  

              1. I have been hard at work in the lab the past few days, and have found this one simple cure for belly fat, plus I found a way to work at home and make over 6000 dollars a day.

                I don’t know how to hold a webinar for something like that without blowing everyones mind.  If I do, consider yourself one of the first 250 (double diamond/President’s club/circle of excellence).

                Meet you at the top !  (this ad sponsored by Guthy/Renker Enterprises)

      1. And, I don’t take penis stiffening drugs.

        by: davebarnes @ Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 12:07:27 PM

        hey admitting limpness is OK, no shame in ED but there is shame in bigotry & racism. BTW, didn’t you take umbrage when folks called out Tancredo on his racism — so maybe you just don’t see racism? Or maybe you’re right and just time & again ColPol folks just don’t get your sarcasm, your humor, and your contextual-less thinking.  Yeah surely we’re all wrong & you’re right.  


  3. A leading psychiatry journal has distanced itself from a controversial study that it published in 2009 which suggested a link between abortion and mental illness, including such severe forms as post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, and drug addiction.

    In an unusual commentary, one of the Journal of Psychiatric Research’s editors-in-chief and a co-author warned that the 2009 paper, which has been widely cited by legislators and advocates to argue that abortion raises a woman’s risk of mental illness and to push for laws requiring providers to tell women that, in fact “does not support assertions that abortions led to psychopathology.”

    http://www.reuters.com/article

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