Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts

January 17, 2012

Bain, Romney Attacks - Anticapitalist Claptrap

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by CarterFliptMe

In a podcast from Friday, January 13, 2012, Mark Belling of News Talk 1130 WISN called BS on Newt Gingrich and others for anti-capitalist attacks on Mitt Romney and his work at Bain Capital.  Belling cites the brilliant article in The Wall Street Journal, How Private Equity Works by Jonathan Macey, in which Macey calls the general assertions that Bain Capital was 'looting' companies and engaging in 'vulture capitalism' as ".. anticapitalist claptrap."


Newt Gingrich's political action committee is sponsoring a film called "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" that accuses Mr. Romney and his former company, Bain Capital, of taking over companies, looting them, and then tossing their workers out on the street. Jon Huntsman's attacks on his rival include the description of private equity as a business that "breaks down businesses [and] destroys jobs, as opposed to creating jobs and opportunity, leveraging up, spinning off, [and] enriching shareholders."
This is anticapitalist claptrap. Private-equity firms make significant investments in companies, mainly U.S. companies. Most of their investments are in companies that underperform industry peers. Frequently these firms are on the brink of failure.
Because private-equity firms are, by definition, equity investors, they make money only if they improve the performance of their companies. Private equity is last in line to be paid in case of insolvency. Private-equity firms don't make a profit unless their companies can meet their obligations to workers and other creditors.
The companies in which private-equity investors are able to turn a profit generally grow, rather than shrink. This is because the preferred "exit strategy" by which private-equity firms profit is to take the private companies in which they invest and enable them to go public and sell shares that will help the company grow even stronger. As for turnaround success stories, Continental Airlines, Orbitz and Snapple have all benefitted at some time from private-equity investment.
Here's the podcast.

December 28, 2011

Obama is a Sitting Duck

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by CarterFliptMe

I understand conservatives' angst in nominating a candidate in the GOP Primaries, but I remain optimistic that whoever is nominated will thrash Obama soundly.  It may even be more one-sided than Reagan vs Carter was in 1980.  In a CBS poll from December 9th, 2011, a staggering 75% of Americans say that under Obama the country is going in the wrong direction. This is a crucial element, obviously, because it speaks directly to whether Americans would be willing to give Obama another 4 years (of going in the wrong direction).

A Gallup poll from December 22, 2011 shows that 87% of Americans think that it is "a bad time to find a quality job".  Not only is this a horrendous statistic, but it has been hovering around 90% for about the last two years.  At the start of Obama's term, in 2008, that percentage was around 60%.  At this time in Bush's second term, the number was about 48%.  This speaks directly to the old campaigner's question, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

The increase in the negative outlook on quality jobs occured at about the same time that ObamaCare was signed into law.  The passing of ObamaCare has stifled job creation, worsening Americans' bleak outlook on the job market.  The administration's refusal to push for fast-tracking to the Supreme Court the various constitutionality questions surrounding the individual mandate in the law has exacerbated the uncertainty, and thus, the negativity.

Keep in mind, all of these numbers are before the GOP has even begun running ads highlighting various failures, problems, and scandals the country and the administration faces. (See: Occupy Wall Street, Solyndra, and Fast and Furious)

So keep smiling Republicans, Obama, with his Alinsky tactics and horrible economic policies, has rendered himself a sitting duck.


October 20, 2011

The Cloward - Piven Strategy Now! Seriously!

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by CarterFliptMe
We're watching oppressive Progressives try to divide the country along economic, racial, political, and even religious lines.  We're watching them put up roadblocks to economic recovery in every sector of the United States: Housing, Energy, Finance, Banking, Health Care, Foreign Trade, and Small Business.  Now that Obama has put a wet blanket on all these areas, he's implementing policy which time and again, has been the exact opposite of what leaders & advisors in these fields would recommend for solid, stable recovery from the recession of 2008.
Every President in recent history has had a recession to deal with.   They are cyclical, and every president has dealt with their respective recessions with reasonable measures that generally allowed recovery and return to growth within two years.  They implemented policy which:
  1. Reduced government hindrances, (taxation, regulation, etc. especially capital gains taxation).
  2. Simply allowed corrections to be settled in the free market system, on it's own, to allow for stable market correction, and a 'smoothing out' of market bubbles or crashes.


This administration has succeeded in putting a wet blanket on growth, investment, speculation, and entrepreneurial risk-taking.  Now that they've done this, they are going about the task of trying to blame the lack of recovery and growth on their political opposition.  They're now bluntly and insultingly casting blame for their failed policies on GOP, the Tea Party movement, corporate greed, Wall Street corruption, income inequality, and even racism.  It's as though they had a nice car, beat the hell out of it, deflated all the tires, and now claim it's the neighbor's fault the car is shot.
All this wouldn't be so alarming if it was just a matter of defeating them in 2012.  But they're now beginning a drumbeat that: Congress is in dangerous gridlock; that job recovery is being stopped by GOP;  and using fear-mongering tactics, as usual (even claiming that rapes and murders are going to increase because of Congress' faux gridlock!).
Faux gridlock?  Yes, Congress is in gridlock, because the Democrat controlled Senate has made sure their 'Jobs Bill', which is merely more government handouts to union leadership, community 'outreach' programs, and political payoffs, cannot pass the House of Representatives. Their 'jobs plan' is basically a smaller version of Obama's utterly failed first stimulus plan!  Of course GOP will not agree to waste more taxpayer dollars that we'd have to borrow anyway!  Our debt is destabilizing our currency, and threatens the Dollar's status as the global currency.
It's glaringly obvious that Progressives are trying to divide Americans instead of pulling them together.  Think of the public union fiasco in Wisconsin, where sitting Democrats actually fled the state in order to stop the legislative process!  That in itself was an act of rebellion!
They'd like to marginalize conservatives who struggle to implement fiscal responsibility and smaller, more cost-effective government.  Even now they declare conservative ideology to be terroristic, obstructionist, racist, and dangerous.
If their claims alone don't alarm you, as a citizen, then please, go back to watching cartoons!  We don't need you!  
They'd like to forever silence political opposition, and rule under some sort of totalitarian system in which Progressive Oppression could run unfettered. Personally, I'm sick of these ban-happy social conrol freaks who want to butt into every single aspect of our lives.  They'd like to even control what kind of food we eat, and how much of it we should consume!!  With ObamaCare they'd even have the power to withhold care to political opponents, or any other segment of society!  They'd have the power to wield health care funds as though it were a spiked club!  No Thank You!
We must speak out against these retarded evil bastards, loudly and firmly!  We must ridicule and humiliate anyone who espouses Progressive ideology, and call it for what it is: stupid, ineffective, economically unsustainable, counter-intuitive, and oppressive.  We've humored these reptiles long enough, and now they have, bit by bit, one issue at a time, managed to bring the entire country to the edge of economic and social collapse.  Now, it seems, they threaten civil war.
We The People are not letting this happen.  We are turning the tide!  The Tea Party movement is gaining momentum, especially now!  Even some on the Left are questioning progressives' motives and methods, as they see that destruction of Constitutional government in a Capitalistic Free Market system is the Progressives' final goal.
Through faith and trust in God, we'll defeat this elitist, hate-based ideology once and for all!!!
Please tell your friends, your family, even the clerk at Kwik Mart!!   Don't argue; don't try to convince anyone.  Just warn them!  Progressive rebels in all levels of government are trying to topple our American system as we know it.  Say it firmly and with conviction.  Let God do the arguing within people's minds!  Men, Fathers, and Grandfathers!  Be strong pillars of faith, encouragement, hope, love, and light!  Only light can overcome darkness, and darkness cannot extinguish light!  Let the light shine!  Frightened people, if given a choice, when in times of chaos, strife, fear, and suffering, always turn to the light in the end.
Be that light!

September 21, 2011

Impressive ad by the Rick Perry campaign - President Zero.

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Obama said, "I love folks who say, well, this is Obama's economy.  That's fine, give it to me!"  And Perry does just that in this ad.  Very well done.

September 4, 2011

Palin swoops into Iowa and attacks Crony Capitalism

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via Big Government

I've been one of the people who think Sarah Palin has been brilliant so far in her 'campaign', or whatever you want to call it.  She has been carefully measuring the topics of her speeches, controlling her agenda, all while hovering over the scurrying Lame Stream Media, laughing her head off.
In this latest speech from Iowa, she takes on corporate welfare, or Crony Capitalism.  THIS is where the Left and the Right converge on the issues.  This is the type of issue the Tea Party movement is addressing, and it scares the heck out of establishment GOP and especially the Democrat Party.
Crony capitalism is something every American despises, and Obama has been kind enough to bring the issue to the fore with his appointment of Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric Company, to his administration.  Everyone remembers Immelt's admission that GE paid almost no corporate income tax in 2010.  It will be difficult for anyone to attack any GOP candidate, on this position.
It looks to me like Sarah Palin is circling her prey (Obama), scanning the geography, choosing her tools and weapons, and is preparing to swoop in and strike.
I can't wait to see the fur fly!!

 ... read full article at Big Government 

August 3, 2011

Absurdly Unscientific GOP Primary Poll Results

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Here are the results of the two GOP Primary polls I've run so far. The first one ran for about one month, in May. In that one, the voter could vote for only one candidate. I stopped the poll before the 100 votes maximum because Rick Perry and Thad McCotter had either announced or expressed interest in the nomination.

The second one ran from June - July, and in this one the voter could vote for two candidates. I ran that one to it's completion. Please remember, this poll is just for fun, which is why Sarah Palin is listed, even though she has not announced her candidacy.

Anyway here it is, and keep in mind, some of the candidates have not been included in the polls since May.

Things I noticed: Allen West has made a big push, Cain made a big push following the CNN GOP Debate, but since then he has slid a little.  Bachmann continues to stay strong directly behind Palin.  In the second poll, Bachmann and West were tied for the lead until the very end, when Palin got a few votes to finish out the poll.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, Mitt Romney doesn't appear to be very popular among the #TCOT crowd.  Thanks to all who voted!

Free Minds - Absurdly Unscientific GOP Primary Poll Results, Aug 1, 2011

July 31, 2011

Republicans who balked at voting for Speaker Boehner's debt ceiling bill.

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No votes:

July 29, 2011
The no votes: 22 GOPers who balked Boehner Speaker Boehner passed his debt ceiling bill through the House of Representatives Friday night with the support of 218 Republicans.
Here are the 22 no votes:
  1. Justin Amash (Mich.)
  2. Michele Bachmann (Minn.)
  3. Chip Cravaack (Minn.)
  4. Jason Chaffetz (Utah)
  5. Scott Desjarlais (Tenn.)
  6. Tom Graves (Ga.)
  7. Tim Huelskamp (Kans.)
  8. Steve King (Iowa)
  9. Tim Johnson (Ill.)
  10. Tom McClintock (Calif.)
  11. Mick Mulvaney (S.C.)
  12. Ron Paul (Texas)
  13. Connie Mack (Fla.)
  14. Jim Jordan (Ohio)
  15. Tim Scott (S.C.)
  16. Paul Broun (Ga.)
  17. Tom Latham (Iowa)
  18. Jeff Duncan (S.C.)
  19. Trey Gowdy (S.C.)
  20. Steve Southerland (Fla.)
  21. Joe Walsh (Ill.)
  22. Joe Wilson (S.C.)

July 28, 2011

Get Your Own Patatas!

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Conan with a slick new ad for the GOP that actually has a nice ring to it.
Pedro dice, No! Get Your Own Patatas!

July 18, 2011

Rick Perry Sounding Like He's Going to Run

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Rick Perry says that, "Every day I feel more and more comfortable that this is what he I've been called to do, this is what America needs."