- Now that he's endorsed Romney, Newt Gingrich is no longer "mad" that Bain destroyed thousands of jobs in it's never ending quest for profits. Unfortunately for both Romney and Gingrich, I have a memory slightly longer than a goldfish's so I remember when Gingrich paid for an entire documentary about how evil Bain Capitol and Mitt Romney were. Awkward.
- Meanwhile, Senator Rob Portman, presumably in an attempt to curry favor for a Veep nod, took a different tack in defending Romney, "You know, that is capitalism. There are not different kinds of capitalism." Which while true, really sounds more like an argument for why the unrestrained free market is kind of a terrifying thing.
- Romney himself is defending against attack ads accusing him of being a vulture capitalist by saying that, "There are a few exceptions where an enterprise is doing well, and realizing dividends from its success, but then it encounters a reversal in circumstances, and it no longer does well...That tends to be rare." Just how rare is it? I imagine we'll find out as I expect the Obama campaign to make ads about each every one of them.
- Now while we'll have to wait a while to see that gaffe prove it's worth, Romney looks pretty stupid right now praising Meg Whitman on the same day that her plan to fire 30,000 employees at Hewlett Packard came out. In case you're not familiar with Meg Whitman, she's the CEO who outspent Jerry Brown 5 to 1 in the last California Gubernatorial campaign, only to lose by 13 points. Presumably this illustrates why business executives have the financial knowledge to do well in politics or something.
- Fortunately for the 30,000 people Whitman is firing Maine's Republican Governor Paul LePage has some advice for the unemployed. Unfortunately that advice is "get off the couch and get yourself a job."
- In other outsourcing news, the RNC is using a call center in the Philippines to attack Obama's record on the economy. Presumably because if they used a call center in the US, that would actually stimulate the economy and help Obama. And let's face it, when it comes to a choice between helping the economy and hurting Obama, we all know where the RNC stands.
- Speaking of hurting America, Congressman Bobby Schilling (R-IL) responded at a town hall to a question about whether Obama's campaign strategy was to "make America fail" by saying "a lot of people think this is being done on purpose." Hopefully Rep. Schilling is as good a campaigner as that answer implies, and we won't have to deal with him anymore after November.
- Fox News' Neil Cavuto responded to the French election of Socialist Presidential candidate Hollande by positing, "what if this is a worldwide push to raise taxes on all rich folks?" He presumably followed it up with a munchies fueled pondering of whether the color blue he sees is the same color blue you see.
- Tea Party darling Richard Mourdock, who just beat Senator Dick Lugar in the Indiana primary, compares his opposition to poor people not paying taxes to Lincoln's opposition to slavery, because that's not insane or insulting at all:
- Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh believes that requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions is "welfare." Which to be fair, is true. It's also the only humane option which is why welfare isn't actually a dirty word. Then again, this is the same Rush Limbaugh who thinks that the best way to fix the economy would be to "get rid of everything Obama's done and simply go back to America the way it was" under George W. Bush. You know, the guy who actually caused the recession we're still suffering from and averaged an anemic and record low 20,000 new jobs a month during his term.
- But if turning back the clock really sounds like the idea for you, ex-President George W. Bush has your back, recently announcing that he's going to write a book on how to create economic growth. It's alright to start laughing now.
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