Romney: Elect Me Or House GOP Will Wreck Economy

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

In what his campaign billed as his “closing argument,” Mitt Romney warned Americans that a second term for President Obama would have apocalyptic consequences for the economy in part because his own party would force a debt ceiling disaster.

“Unless we change course, we may well be looking at another recession,” Romney told a crowd in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Romney said that Obama “promised to be a post-partisan president, but he became the most partisan” and that his bitter relations with the House GOP could threaten the economy. As his chief example, he pointed to a crisis created entirely by his own party’s choice — Republican lawmakers’ ongoing threat to reject a debt ceiling increase. Economists warn that a failure to pass such a measure would have immediate and catastrophic consequences for the recovery.

“You know that if the President is re-elected, he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress,” Romney said. “He has ignored them, attacked them, blamed them. The debt ceiling will come up again, and shutdown and default will be threatened, chilling the economy.”

Despite the apocalyptic warnings on the economy, most of the Republican nominee’s speech focused on a more modest argument that as president he would work with both sides to build a stronger economy. He said that, like Obama, “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.”

Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/romney-new-recession-warning.php?ref=fpa

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Sounds like cheney threatening to re-elect bush/cheney or people will die.

What a-holes!

We need to pen up these societal criminals before it's too late.

[Katashi_itto]

63. They need to be introduced to a lampost and lots of rope.

Benito Mussolini discovered it's applications.

[C_U_L8R]

2. That's a very good reason...

to dump the do-nothing obstructionist GOP congress.
Never thought I'd say this but... thanks Mitt !

[woodsprite]

50. I just posted that same sentiment to my FB wall! n/t

[thc420]

3. They have...

...been doing this for the last two years, and we are still adding jobs despite their best efforts to wreck the economy. Why do CONs hate America?

[questionseverything]

109. yes the pres has done a great job considering

the reps in the house that want America to fail

[Tippy]

4. Romney's desparation showing?

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. So Mitt is running against Dems AND Repubs.

WTG Mitt!!!

[formercia]

59. Sounds like a threat to me

Since Mitt is the GOP Candidate, he is saying that he would use the House GOP to destroy the Economy, unless he's elected.

[Auntie Bush]

104. Beat me to it! It is definitely a THREAT!

They did it before and they will do it again. Why don't people realize this and vote out all those ReThug Representatives? Another 4 years of grid lock might make people come to their senses.

[newspeak]

111. they already destroyed the us economy and labor

mitt is really saying "vote for me and i'll finish you off, while me and my unamerican friends get richer at your expense."

[viguy007]

6. Which is why people should send to Congress people Obama can work with

[cui bono]

107. +1

The Dem party should have run on this and I'm not sure they did. I wasn't able to pay attention too much to the house/senate races due to long hours at work, but I didn't hear anything about them talking about obstructionism.

[truthisfreedom]

7. His record includes bankrupting or shuttering 22% of the companies associated with Bain.

Meanwhile, he claimed to the President's face that 50% of the stimulus-funded alternative energy companies failed, when it was only 8%, and that was due mostly to China dumping goods on the US. rMoney is a fake, a fraud, and a danger to this country.

[wordpix]

97. +1000 and don't forget his record at the Swiss bank accts, Caymans, Bermuda....

[ThomThom]

105. republicans are a danger to this country and need to be exposed

holding our country hostage to a minority demand should not be possible

[Dubster]

8. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

[SoapBox]

9. Another BOO! message...

negative, scary, creepy, lies, death and destruction...the same old, same old out of Dirty Mittens and the Pukes.

[99th_Monkey]

72. I love Reid's response: FUCK YOU & THE OBSTRUCTIONIST GOP ELEPHANT YOU RODE IN ON!!

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/02/reid_says_senate_democrats_will_not_work_with_romney.html

[judesedit]

10. More reason to vote for Obama. He has accomplished so much with so little cooperation from GOP it's

actually uncanny. Thank you, Obama, for caring for Americans. I pray that righteous wind is still at your back and God will protect this country from Rob-me and another 4 years of a do-nothing Congress. Go O!

[newspeak]

112. yeah, i love how the repugs hold up job bills in congress

and then use their corporate money to make lying advertisements about how worried they are about jobs.

[fifthoffive]

11. Or Mr. Romney,

The Republicans could learn to shake hands instead of slapping them away when someone reaches across the aisle to them.

[onehandle]

12. He means continue to wreck it. nt

[progressivebydesign]

13. Wow. Could be the biggest asshole that ever ran for President. So much for inspiration.

He took that lame ass Des Moines Register endorsement as his new campaign theme.

[AsahinaKimi]

17. This!

Threatening America is a great way to be handed defeat.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

94. I know!

Helluva "closing statement" by a candidate, isn't it?

[smirkymonkey]

73. I think we can safely say that he IS the biggest asshole who ever ran for President.

I so f***ing hate that guy. I can't wait until Tuesday. Until we never have to hear or look at him and Ann and Eddie EVER again.

[wordpix]

88. It's a toss up between R$ & BushCheney for worst asshole

I f-ing hate all 3 with a passion.

[cyclezealot]

14. Since Mitt is bad at Math..

Should the wrecking crew take over Jan. 20... How will the Gobbers work out his impossible budget. Likely the bulk of their breed will go back to the old Dick Cheney line. And ransoming the government will only happen should the wrecking crew only control the House..
Deficits don't matter.

[reflection]

15. So what we have here

is a lie sandwich on fear bread, with extra racist mustard. Thanks Mitt. Now kindly fuck off.

[jimlup]

16. I can't help but utter a stream of curse words wehn reading this...

Those Republican motherfuckers in congress give motherfuckers a bad name. God damn them all to hell!


There I feel a little better. Sorry...

[noel711]

18. Nothing like Blackmail to inspire voters...

he is desperate.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

19. A tape of this needs to be overlaid with the name of the dem running for congress

In every district where we have a faint chance of winning and run two or three times by the DCCC.

That's a compelling reason to send the teaholes home.

[winstars]

23. + 1,000,000

[spooky3]

54. Right--the solution is for voters to throw out the R obstructionists

in Congress--not to elect a Presidential enabler.

More illogic from a candidate who can't afford for voters to think clearly.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

20. Of all the cynical....

Why do baggers and repugs hate America and Americans? The PRESIDENT, PResident OBAMA doesn't have to do a damn thing... the repugs will be running to him to cut a deal on the sequester that they foisted on him. IF he does nothing our debt drops 3-4 trillion dollars on Jan 1.

[kimbutgar]

21. Did he just diss members of his own party? OUCH!!!!!

This is why Rmoney is not qualified nor hasthe gravitas to be President. Dissing his own party basically throwing them off the bus. WOW!!!

[Cha]

22. ELECT A DEM HOUSE WITH PBO SO WE CAN ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT

CLIMATE CHANGE AND JOBS!!

[AnnieK401]

24. This guy is nuts.

We need to keep him as far away from the WH as possible.

[olddad56]

25. I agree that the house would be willing to work with Robme, but not in our favor...

They would seek to continue the Bush administrations assault on the middle class.

[copperearth]

26. BLACKMAIL?

This ungodly fool is blackmailing the electorate and that is simply unexceptable! He has no shame. From everything I can see he is a payhological liar and I can not wait to see him utterly defeated.
P.S. He is also a criminal and what he says borders on treason.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

75. Yup, Romney's Blackmailing the electorate just like CEOs blackmail employees for their votes. nt

[wordpix]

95. your typo is funny: R$ is a "payhological liar"---he pays himself through his tax avoidance schemes

that is for sure

[mac56]

27. Curious choice in the final days of the campaign:

to suddenly run AGAINST your own party.

Seriously, it's like watching the Hindenberg crash into the Titanic, day after day.

[uwbadgerdem]

30. Hindenberg into the Titanic...I love it!

Such a perfect mental picture... someone with more skills than me should photoshop that.

[mac56]

57. Can't take credit for that one

Another DU'er came up with it.

[uwbadgerdem]

28. Every time he opens his mouth, he further disqualifies himself.

By the way, the recent Marquette University poll has PBO with like an 8 point lead. This is a poll that, if anything, usually leans a little to the R side.

Interesting that Rimney picked Wisconsin to deliver his lame-ass closing "argument."

[Javaman]

29. disaster politics. nt

[Deep13]

31. sounds ike a good reason not to have a R. House. nt

[Andy823]

44. Yep.

We don't need a lying president who would privatize the whole damned country, we need to vote out all he damned republicans who have been causing the problems! I hope his threats cause him to lose even more votes come Tuesday!

[Deep13]

56. Yeah, and House seats. nt

[spooky3]

55. I hope everyone on MSNBC picks up this theme.

All the media should but we know they won't.

Amazing-- Rs aren't ashamed to show themselves as traitors.

[yonder]

32. Romney: “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.”

Myth Zelig Romney has got that right. Changing his positions, agenda, tune, story, what he said yesterday or the day before, former statements, lies, plans and much more. He's got a record of achieving change alright...everything he says is a record of change. what a boob.

[marble falls]

33. Desperation does have a certain stink about it, doesn't it.

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[strange7]

34. Solution

Don't elect any Republicans, problem solved.

[liberal N proud]

35. A bully resorting to extortion

[tularetom]

36. Elect Obama - GOP congress will wreck economy

Elect Romney - He will cooperate with GOP congress to wreck economy.

Sounds like the solution is - don't elect a GOP congress unless you want the economy wrecked.

[Evasporque]

37. Nope...GOP will get voted out if they don't work with the President...GOP has not compromised.

People aren't going to wait around with no jobs and those fuckwads Repukes blocking everything.

[cemaphonic]

38. Every day, he becomes more and more like Mony Burns.

Kent Brockman: Now, Mr. Burns, you said you wanted an opening tirade.
Mr. Burns: Yes, thank you, Kent. Fifteen minutes from now, I will wreak a terrible vengeance on this city. No one will be spared. NO ONE.
Kent Brockman: [chuckles] A chilling portrait of things to come.

[argiel1234]

39. fuck willard

lying snake oil sack of fucking shit.

[santamargarita]

40. They would do that anyway.

Everything they touch turns to shit.

[NICO9000]

41. "Vote for me OR ELSE!" is hardly a winning strategery

A lying sack of crap to the bitter end!

Tuesday cannot come fast enough for me. Time to retire this prick to the dustbin of history where he belongs.

[jaxind]

42. Will work with both sides

Oh, yes, Romney you will work with both sides??? Let's ask the Massachusetts legislature how well you did with them!

[DallasNE]

43. So Romney Is Claiming To Be A Firewall With The GOP House

Never mind that Obama and Boehner struck up a grand bargin only to have Boehner unable to bring along the Tea Party element of the GOP House. If Boehner can't herd these cats, what makes Romney think he can? Besides, Romney's own plan would dampen aggregate demand and toss the country back into recession. What a weak and unachievable closing argument Romney it attempting to make. How can anybody believe a word Romney says?

[SCVDem]

45. Time to play the Mitch McConnell recording

Let's refresh everyones memory how these bastards sabotaged America because they are racist, partison douchebags!

One term president my ass!

[wordpix]

96. yes, one last great ad with Mitch - R$ giving their "best" performances

[abelenkpe]

46. Fuck Romney and republicans

We need to win big! Please vote for the president and all democrats on your local ballot.

[Caeser67]

47. This Dummy Doesn't Realize

That he just told everyone who/what the real problem in D.C. is, THE HOUSE REPUPPETCANS!

[YOHABLO]

48. “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.” HA! WE KNOW THE CHANGE YOU ...

WILL BRING .. THAT'S WHY YOU WON'T WIN.

[marias23]

49. Whata Patriot

Vote for me or die!

[HockeyMom]

51. Bully

BUT it works both ways. If YOU are elected, Dems can do the same thing to YOU that was done to them.

What goes around, comes around.

[ThomThom]

106. true ....what would happen to the economy if consumers stop spending

consumer spending has been slowly moving upward and helping to fuel the economy
if the people withhold their spending for none essential items like the corporations have done the depression the republican'ts have been threatening will surely happen
I can live without the new camera I have been considering.

[mwooldri]

52. Romney does have a record of change and achieving it.

The wrong kind of change. Jobs to China, anyone? Is that the Big Change we want?

Thought not.

[California Expat]

53. Threats

Sounds like the bully never left...

[Hutzpa]

58. Well, his best buddy is Donald Trump

another jerk ass that thinks the world revolves around him, no surprises there then. By their friends we shall know them.

If this is not a motivation for down ticket dems, I don't know what else will be.

[treestar]

60. No they were the ones that threatened shutdowns

and failing to raise the debt ceiling. And agreements did come about, for which the President took a lot of flack from the left - caving and all that sort of accusation, as I recall.

[AtomicKitten]

61. There's a word for that --- EXTORTION.

[Turbineguy]

62. I expect the GOP to take revenge on America for re-electing this President.

We're going to really miss the Soviets, Tojo and Hitler.

Wingnuts will be shooting people with Obama stickers on their cars. They are itching for a new civil war.

[Botany]

64. Keep talking Mitt .... help elect more D congresscritters

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[sakabatou]

65. It already has/tried already, dipshit

[elbloggoZY27]

66. Big Time Ugliness

The silly people who care less about this Country or Citizens just want the current President out of the White House and turn it into the poor house.

The reason that Congress is bankrupted on everything is that they are obsessed by their own self importance on the Right and their single goal of obstructionism. Mr. Romney is totally distorting the real facts of a do nothing Congress.

Bill's proposed by the President fall on deaf ears. The facts are that a vast majority of United States Citizens knows this.

[Courtesy Flush]

67. Republicans are the biggest sore losers in history.

After enduring a four-year temper tantrum, we're being threatened by four more of the same.

[littlemissmartypants]

68. Right... if you can't win on

merit, lies, trickery, try threats...

[LovingA2andMI]

69. Seriously? Elect Romney or?

This man loves his threads, doesn't he? Too bad they won't work on November 6th. Disappear Mittens!

[fascisthunter]

70. ha, ha, ha... you sociopathic, sick freak

times up.

We are all children of stardust, yes... but you were supposed to part of a blackhole.

[spiderpig]

71. Oh shut up and crawl back into the hole you came out of.

I so hope you get a major ass-whooping on Tuesday that will make you afraid to leave you car elevator.

You are stupid, a liar, an embarrassment and all-around tool

Good riddance.

[msu2ba]

76. Reminds me of National Lampoon

[stuffmatters]

86. Exactly

Every Dem running for Congress should feature this Romney clip and the National Lampoon poster in their final ads Sun & Mon. Show the Republican Party from their Presidential candidate to their Congressional space wasters as the extortionist they are.
It's just incredible that these obstructionist blackmailers whose narcissistic tantrums brought the country the debt ceiling crisis,
the relentless assaults on everything from women's rights to national security (FEMA,EPA) to even destroying the post office
have not been generically campaigned against as who they all are.

There are no exceptions. All Republican candidates see Romney's threat as their agenda of last resort to double down upon in the House if they llose the Senate and Presidency. Romney's threat is very real and breathtaking blunt. Neither he nor any in his party are even ashamed of thinking and talking like this...that's probably the most frightening thing here.

This is the unabashed closing argument of every Republican candidate ...if you don't do exactly what we want, we're going to destroy this country. There is no negotiating with blackmailers. The Republicans need to be voted out of Washington, they are not for America, they are only for themselves and the billionaires who own them.

[cstanleytech]

77. So why shouldnt we get a working congress by electing more dems into office instead?

[blkmusclmachine]

78. GOP: Economic Terrorists.

Or, according to the Corp. Media: "about tied/dead even."

[maddogesq]

83. Or, economic Mafia.

"I got an offer you can't refuse."

[ywcachieve]

79. A 65 year old thug.

Not president material.

[libodem]

80. Sedition

If you ask me.

[Flatpicker]

81. Seems like plenty of reason to vote out every Rethug who is up for re-election.

[DonCoquixote]

82. This is why

even the GOP will have enough of the Tea Party...

You know Mitt, if you had truly become a moderate, you might have taken this one from Obama, just as McCain could have, but sooner or later, the Tea party will be poison.

[sellitman]

84. Mitt is trying to Blackmail America

Holy fuck!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

85. What is Romney's record

= 0

[lastlib]

87. Sounds more like a case for throwing out the House GOP...

...and keeping Obama. That would be a more constructive course.

[wordpix]

89. "I have a record of achieving change" like shutting down US companies & sending jobs to China, #1

example I cannot stand this man, what a complete asswipe

[0rganism]

90. "Do what I say or my friends will burn down your house."

We wouldn't tolerate this kind of behavior from a street thug, but apparently from republicans it's acceptable.

[DallasNE]

91. "I Have A Record Of Achieving It"

We have only one source for confirming that it would be while Romney was Governor of Massachuttes.

This report says Romney issued 844 vetoes in his 4 years as Governor and that over 700 of those were overriden. With numbers like this it would suggest that what success that happened during Romney's tenure as Governor happened in spite of him.

And what does it say for reaching across the aisle when he issued 844 vetoes only to see over 700 of them overriden. Oh well, another Romney lie. Yawn.

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/07/how_often_were_mitt_romneys_ma.html

[Zoeisright]

92. So now he's Don Romney, huh?

I thought he looked a little like Mafia.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

93. “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.”

So does Obama, dumb***!!!! And unlike Romney's "record", President Obama's record is REAL!

[penndragon69]

98. Because repubLIEcons are nothing but ECONOMIC TERRORISTS.

They will just continue the unfinished work of Alquaida.

[Wednesdays]

99. "Do as we say, and nobody gets hurt."

What, have they become the mob now?

[inamatteroftime]

100. Cynicism from a sinister soul, further proof his style would be ruling rather than governing. nt

[ladjf]

101. Romney has finally played the "elephant in the room black mail card". He and the Republicans

are attempting to extort the United States is the style of a mafia protection scam. "Vote for me or we will wreck the economy." I don't think this is legal.

[lonestarnot]

102. The old wannabe threatener in chief, unitary executive ownership bullshit. FUCK YOU MITTWITT!

[DinahMoeHum]

103. Hey, Romney! F.U.D.S.

(F**k you, DipS**t)

[rbrnmw]

108. In the words of your party's infamous Sith Lord Darth Cheney

Go Fuck Yourself

[-LOKI -BAD FOR YA]

110. robme,the more he talks the better obama does,has offended everyone,even meatloaf n\t