ROMNEY’S TRUE MASSACHUSETTS RECORD
Contrary to Romney’s fabrications, “Romney’s record as a bi-partisan governor is not what he suggests”: 1) “unlike his three GOP gubernatorial predecessors, Romney “bypassed rank-and-file Democrats and dealt mostly with the party’s leaders during his four-year term; 2) Democrats complained that Romney ignored, insulted or opposed them with intermittent charm offensives”; 3) Romney “vetoed scores of legislative initiatives and excised budget line items a remarkable 844 times”, and 4) Romney neither mastered the art of reaching across the aisle nor achieved success as governor”. (related links below)
While running for Governor of Massachusetts, Romney promised
“more jobs, decreased debt and smaller government" – sound familiar? The truth
is by the time Romney left office, Massachusetts “ranked 47th out of 50 states in job creation; taxes and fees increased more than $750 million per year,
and long-term debt increased more
than $2.6 billion”.
Romney governed so poorly in
Massachusetts that Massachusetts' 2012 presidential polls consistently rank Romney "14-16" points below Obama!
GOP’S DIABOLICAL PLAN TO “BREAK OBAMA” THE NIGHT OF THE INAUGURATION
Contrary to Romney’s Obama
can’t get along fantasy, the President invited Tea Partied Republican Blockers to discuss how they could work
together from his first week in
office! You know what the Blockers’ first response was - “No!”
You see, the night of
President Obama’s inauguration House Representatives Paul Ryan (Wis), Eric Cantor (Va), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Pete
Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.), Dan Lungren
(Calif.), and U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.)
Bob Corker (Tenn.) and non-lawmakers Newt
Gingrich and Frank Luntz held a secret meeting where they decided to 1)
“challenge them (Obama/Democrats) on every
single bill and challenge them on every single campaign” ; 2) hold
the House Republicans to a unanimous No against Obama’s economic stimulus plans”, 3) “jab Obama relentlessly in 2011”, and 4) “begin attacking vulnerable Democrats on the airwaves”. (Robert Draper Book: GOP’s Anti-Obama
Campaign Started Night of Inauguration article below)
That’s the point from which Senator Jim DeMint’s declaration to “break Obama” and Senator Mitch McConnell’s declaration - “My main goal is to make Obama a one term President” originated and was, subsequently, enforced to the letter!
WAIT A MINUTE BUSTER! (REVISITED)
On April 18, 2012, the spin detectives entered a post entitled Wait a Minute Buster! Here’s the meat of the post:
Tea Partied and ‘Grovered”
Republican Congressional Senators love
to filibuster any proposal the President
puts forth to help the middle class, the poor, women, children, college
students, the elderly, and the
economy. Recently, they filibustered the
Buffet Bill put forth by the President and Democrat congressional members. All the Buffet Bill does is “ensure that
millionaires and billionaires pay at least the same tax rate paid by
middle-class families. Was the
Republican filibuster of the Buffet Bill a surprise – No! Was the filibuster another sign of
Republican Senators’ refusal to put in a full day’s work for a full day’s pay –
most definitely!
The filibuster is a
historical method used to delay a vote or block debate in the Senate. According to the U.S. Senate website, “the
word filibuster – derived from a Dutch word meaning “pirate” – was first used
more than 150 years ago to describe “efforts to hold the Senate floor in order
to prevent action on a bill.” In the good old days Senators, actually had to work to filibuster. A senator or a series of senators could “speak for as long
as they wished and on any topic they chose, unless a super majority group of
60% of senators brought debate to a close by invoking cloture”. For example, “filibustering, for many years,
was the primary tactic by which southern senators were able to block civil
rights and anti-lynching legislation from coming to the floor. Senator Strom
Thurmond from South Carolina set the still-standing record for the longest
filibuster when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to stop a vote on the 1957
Civil Rights Act. In 1964, southern
senators filibustered the much stronger Civil Rights Act of 1964 for fifty-seven
days”! (www.sourcewatch.org ) Now a days, all a Republican senator has to
do is “indicate” that he/she wants to filibuster without going through the
motions of talking about anything!
In their relentless plan to “break Obama” from the night of his inauguration, the
Tea Partied Republican congressional majority
has conducted one of the greatest number of filibusters
in congressional history! According
to a May 21, 2012 article at cnn.com entitled Gridlock in Congress! Blame the
GOP “Congress is reaching a point
where it will no longer be able to function at all!
So if or when Romney spouts his scripted 'Anything you can do I can do better' talking point at the next debate, on the campaign trail or in ads…
…remember “What Romney, Ryan and the GOP Congress don’t want you know!"
Sources:
Romney’s record as governor was
not as bi-partisan as he claims
Romney’s CEO Style Rankled Mass.
Lawmakers
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/02/romney-ceo-style-rankled-mass-lawmakers/
Broken Promises: Romney’s Massachusetts Record
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlnaYOv0DZY
POLLS - Massachusetts: Romney vs. Obama
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/ma/massachusetts_romney_vs_obama-1804.html
The history of the filibuster, in one graph
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-history-of-the-filibuster-in-one-graph/2012/05/15/gIQAVHf0RU_blog.html
Broken Promises: Romney’s Massachusetts Record
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlnaYOv0DZY
POLLS - Massachusetts: Romney vs. Obama
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/ma/massachusetts_romney_vs_obama-1804.html
The history of the filibuster, in one graph
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-history-of-the-filibuster-in-one-graph/2012/05/15/gIQAVHf0RU_blog.html
Gridlock in Congress? Blame the
GOP
14 reasons why this is the worst
Congress ever
Worst Congress Ever
Robert Draper Book: GOP’s
Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night of Inauguration
9 Revelations from Robert Drapers
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