Former Reagan Staffer Calls Bullsh*t On Romney Calling Himself A Businessman

[Playinghardball]

This can’t bode well for his “I’m a businessman! I can run a country!” stump speeches.


Found on MoveOn.org

[tk2kewl]

1. K&R

[grasswire]

2. excellent

here's a kick

[moondust]

3. Even worked with Junk Bond King Michael Milken

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Mitt and the junk bond king

Too bad they didn't appoint Stockman instead of Alan Simpson to that commission.

[bluethruandthru]

4. Agreed! n/t

[patrice]

5. K&R

[libodem]

6. Beautiful

Couldn't have ever said it better!

[Dustlawyer]

7. Kick it!

[reflection]

8. Oh man, I gotta kick that.

I think I need a smoke after reading that.

[yellowcanine]

9. Calling Romney a businessman is like calling a commodities speculator a farmer.

[elleng]

14. ZACLY, yellow!!!

[meow2u3]

16. Calling Romney a businessman is like calling the Mafia a corporation

[freshwest]

34. +1

[xxqqqzme]

18. Perfect!

[ieoeja]

29. I've been saying for a long time he was no businessman. You explain it far better. Thanks! nt

[DinahMoeHum]

44. Same thing here. Romney ain't no RW Marriott (the hotel entrepreneur)

(and fellow Mormon).

[Misskittycat]

10. O Campaign Should Do This in a TV Ad n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

11. From the purveyor of trickle down, now rejected by him. nt

[City Lights]

12. Amen!

[elleng]

13. Stockman's been saying TRUTH for a long time,

and usually in favor of DEMs!!!

[Poiuyt]

38. I've noticed that too

I was frankly shocked when I heard him talk about how much Reagan raised taxes.

[tjwash]

15. in other words...

[reformist2]

17. OUCH!

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

19. During the second debate, Mittiot was prancing...

...around like a dressage horse touting himself as a successful businessman. Obama was quick to correct him by stating that he's made good investments.

Very subtle dig. I caught it.

Stockman had an Epiphany during the Bush years and has moved toward the center.

[Skittles]

31. "good investments" on an unlevel playing field

that rich bastard has opportunities people who really WORK for a living will NEVER have

[Sheepshank]

20. ...and a clarification of what we and Obama have been saying all along..thanks n/t

[BVictor1]

21. Everyone seems to be calling Wi11ard out lately.

In an interview, it's reported that President Obama called Romney a bullshitter...

And now a Reaganite is doing the same thing, but on Willard's claim to fame, 'business'.

[Maineman]

22. Is there any chance the people who need to see this and similar are actually seeing it???

[SoapBox]

23. Agreed...I don't trust Money-Boo-Boo

with shit.

[northoftheborder]

24. K and R - gonna memorize this to quote

[William769]

25. Kick & recommended.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

26. K&R

[hifiguy]

27. Kay and Arrrrgh!

Stockman has been calling bullshit on modern Repuke economics for years now. He tells the truth and they don't like to hear it one little bit.

[DemoTex]

28. KnR

!

[Skittles]

30. needs to be repeated over and over

yes INDEED

[defacto7]

32. Well, there we have it folks!

And that's the end of that!

or... that's another end of that.

[mgardener]

33. Why would you...

Why would you vote for a man to become POTUS who does not like America enough to keep his money in the country?

Why will he not release his tax returns? Why?

[Initech]

35. He's not even that - he's just a common thief who made a legal way to take it all.

[txdemsftw]

36. My first K/R

[Cha]

37. Of course, he wasn't..just another romney big lie. Thanks for pointing

it out so eloquently, David Stockman

Thanks Phb

[Blue Owl]

39. I am enjoying the sights of Romney and Bullshit in the same sentence

n/t

[HooptieWagon]

40. Bain is the Wall St equivilent of a chop-shop.

An engineer designs a car. Trained fabricators and factory workers build a car. A mechanic diagnoses and repairs a malfunctioning car. A chop-shop dismantles perfectly fine operating cars, sells off the valuble parts, scraps the hulk for the scrap metal. It takes no skill. That is Romney.

[magical thyme]

48. and a real businessman and real investors bring those folks together

and provide the up front money it takes to do those things, plus get the car from the factory floor to the dealer's lot.

Chop-shop is an excellent analogy!

[LuckyLib]

41. K and R.

This needs to be out there. A very good description from an economist of who the real Rmoney is and who he claims to be.

[ChaoticTrilby]

42. K and R. Beautiful.

Always nice seeing someone call Romney out. Hopefully, if enough people do so, more repukes will be enlightened!
Well, in any case, I can dream.

[BainsBane]

43. Stockman has had some good op eds

One in the NYTimes, "Paul Ryan's Fairy-Tale Budget Plan," 8/13/12, and a more recent one on the Daily Beast that this quote comes from.

[patricia92243]

45. Wish this could be shown on every billboard, blog, etc in the nation. It says it all!!

[sendero]

46. The problem is..

... that 99% of Americans have no understanding whatsoever of the methods and activities of Private Equity.

And, since what they do is somewhat complicated and even abstract in a way, it is easy to spin it so that dummies don't know the difference.

It would be nice if we lived in a country where everyone took their responsibilities as an informed citizen seriously, but I don't see that on the horizon.

[ck4829]

47. K&R

[dynasaw]

49. We Have Forgotten that Usury Used to be Considered Despicable

Usury is the practice of making loans or exploiting situations with the goal of extracting excessive or abusive interest rates.The term may be used in a moral sense — condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes. Some of the earliest known condemnations of usury come from the Vedic texts of India. Similar condemnations are found in religious texts from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Interesting how Romney, icon of the Christian right and one of the highest mucky muck of the Mormon church, has gotten away from being identified with what historically ben regard as an egregious practice.