(Cartoons courtesy of Bartcop)
I don’t think they’re putting capitalism on trial or the free market on trial or even private equity on trial. Private equity can build companies, and it may make appropriate investments. The critique against Romney, really, is the way, under his leadership, Bain Capital operated, in the fact that so many companies went bankrupt under his tenure. I think 22 percent of the investments went bankrupt. They put a lot of people out of work, shipped a lot of jobs overseas, took a lot of federal money and then - and then saw those companies go belly-up…. I think that Romney hasn’t handled it very well by suggesting that a review of how he personally operated at Bain Capital or how Bain Capital operated under his leadership, you know, is an attack on the whole free enterprise system. I don’t think it is.
In Mitt Romney’s America, the vultures are always circling, and “job creation” means driving a company into bankruptcy and creating work for M&A attorneys.
I think the socialist attacks you’re getting against Mitt Romney by opponents will come back to hurt them.
Meanwhile, in Bizarro World, Republicans are busy eating their young….
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus one percent — and those people who have been most successful will be in the one percent — you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country which is entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God.
Our hero, discovering that vulture capitalism is a tough sell, is busily trying out his new marketing strategy….
We’ve understood for a long time that the Obama people would come after free enterprise.
Sometimes it can be difficult to escape the reality of what you’ve been and what you are….
In the end, Republicans will reluctantly coalesce around a candidate whom most despise…because, really; Newt Gingrich? Seriously??
President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. In the last few days, we have seen some desperate Republicans join forces with him. This is such a mistake for our Party and for our nation. This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We must offer an alternative vision. I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. In these difficult times, we cannot abandon the core values that define us as unique — We are One Nation, Under God.
You do have to admit, though, that watching Republicans frequently and intentionally violate…nay, trash…Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment (Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican) is astonishingly entertaining….
[T]his is not just another political debate. This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Because what’s at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement.
Now, in the midst of this debate, there are some who seem to be suffering from a kind of collective amnesia. After all that’s happened, after the worst economic crisis, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, they want to return to the same practices that got us into this mess. In fact, they want to go back to the same policies that stacked the deck against middle-class Americans for way too many years. And their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.
I am here to say they are wrong. I’m here in Kansas to reaffirm my deep conviction that we’re greater together than we are on our own. I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules. These aren’t Democratic values or Republican values. These aren’t 1 percent values or 99 percent values. They’re American values. And we have to reclaim them.
After demanding a true, fire-breathing, kill-‘em-and-grill-‘em Conservative, Republicans will hold their noses and do what they were destined to do all along- pick a candidate with no vision, morals, or integrity. This is evidently what it means to be a Republican these days.
