As Click & Clack will tell you, it’s the stingy man who ends up paying most, and apparently it’s as true of governing as car repairs! And apparently also, Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, was quite the Scrooge when it came to building levees and other flood control for his state! Here is a nice find from our friends at Slog:
In the spring of 2004, Peabody, Mass., got drenched with rain, which flooded the downtown area. After the storm, then-Gov. Mitt Romney asked President George W. Bush to declare Essex, Middlesex and Suffolk Counties federal disaster areas, according to the Boston Globe.
That fall, the state legislature proposed spending $5.7 million on a flood prevention project to protect against future floods. Those funds would be matched by $22 million in federal money.
Romney vetoed it.
Haha, you guys are never gonna guess what happened just two years later, in 1996 2006. Go ahead, try. You’ll never … oh. Yeah, that was it.
From Esquire, digging up an old opinion piece from the (conservative) Lowell Sun:
We find it inconceivable that Gov. Mitt Romney claims the state can do nothing to help those residents still struggling to rebuild homes and businesses after the May flood. Massachusetts is sitting on millions in unspent emergency funds from Hurricane Katrina and more than $1 billion in cash reserves, yet Romney has failed to even respond to the Lowell delegation’s requests to discuss additional aid for victims. The governor’s spokesman — since Romney can’t be bothered to comment now that the photo opportunities have dried up even though some residents’ basements haven’t — said the state will not consider spending its own money for flood victims until it’s clear how much cash the federal government will give.
My, it almost seems as if Miffed Romney thought those who lost their homes and businesses should stop being “victims” and mooching off the government and take some personal responsibility for their lives!
So to recap: there was a bunch of flooding, and the Democratic lege with which Romney was so “bipartisan” approved a bill meant to prevent future flooding. Romney vetoed it (as he had more than 800 other Democratic measures, 700 of which were then overridden). Then, two years later, a bunch of places flooded. And then, despite sitting on a billion in Katrina money and other cash reserves, Gov. Romney declined to provide aid to the affected citizens until he could see how much the feds would give. Then in the GOP primary debates he said the feds should send FEMA responsibilities back to the states. Then five people tried to ask him about it this morning and he ran away.
“Mr. Manager” Mitt Romney does not seem to be very good at this whole Mr. Managing thing.
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Is Lowell a mostly (D) neighborhood?
Oh, I should be so ashamed of myself for daring to politicize such a tragic disaster. I'm one of those awful, nasty liberals.
Lowell has a huge immigrant population, and has for the last… 200 years or so. It really is one of the great immigrant cities in the entire country: Greek, Cambodian, Irish, French Canadian, Hispanic, German and pretty much any other ethnicity you can think of.
There was a time when Lowell's textile mills had more looms than the entire Southern US. It's also the home of Paul and Niki Tsongas, Massachusetts Democratic royalty.
Oh, look, it IS a mostly (B) neighbourhood. Well, (B) and honorary (B).
Our principal engineer is a UMass Lowell grad. And she's a shanty Irish DRat. Also, too.
Lowell is Jack Kerouac's home town, and you know what a fellow-traveling brohemian he was.
Erototoxins!!
Kerouac was also a Nixon supporter, which is not something I could have possibly made up ever.
Or a (B) (Brown/Black) neighbourhood?
What the hell is wrong with this damn country that this assclown has even the slightest chance of winning the election?
White people.
With supremacy issues.
I feel tarred with that brush.
eta: or do I mean "tard"?
How come YOU get to use the t-word?
'Cause I'm "special".
With a little help from some gusanos que odian a los morenos.
y los negros. Ah, shit, y everyfuckingbody.
The South, mostly.
According to Gallup, Mitt is up 22 points in the South. Yes, 22 fucking points.
Really, is that all? 22%? I'd have figured he'd be up by triple digits down there, being white and all.
122%, according to Fox News.
And he's down by at least than much in Massachusetts. The voters who know him the best like him the least.
As long as it's the white guy who is robbing me, I don't give a shit.
- Every southern dumb fuck.
99% ignorance. It's our greatest fault.
Just keep cutting the ed funds, that way we can make sure it's all about them.
A media who has a $2B+ stake in making sure the Presidential election is close.
Hey ratings are ratings, and the ad revenues are through the roof! cha-CHING!
Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Okla… I think you get my point.
Pretty much, yeah. I know what they call Brazil nuts in those states.
You just wait … 8 or 12 years from now Texas is going to swing the other way. Oh, the wailing and gnashing of teeth we will have to look forward to then!
It is my motherland and the tides, they are a turnin! I have seen more "Forward" signs this year than I ever did 4 years ago. Not in my little Richie Rich suburb, but the DFW metroplex as a whole is slowly turning! I'll bet Hillary carries Texas for her reelection!
I'm hearing good things from TX tweeps. The Castros are having a huge impact on their city, and Austin is, as always, reliably blue, but I do believe that many Texans are getting pretty fucking fed up with their Republican overlords, and the Hispanic vote is *almost* at the tipping point, so it might be sooner than 8 years.
Texas will be the crown jewel of crown jewels when we flip it. We get Texas and it's game over for the GOP; lights out.
See: Blah in WHITE House.
The fucking media keeping it "close". For ratings and profit.
I'm curious about that myself.
Hello? Isolated incident libtards!
Also Solyndra, Free Markets and Tenth Amendment.
You forgot Libya.
And Chinese Jeeps!
and Poland!
I always forget Poland.
And days spent playing golf.
It is not Libya. It is Benghazi. Or Libia.
I'm pretty sure it's spelled "labia."
Are you sure it isn't Labia?
WHY DIDN'T BARACK OBAMA DO MORE IN LABIA
57 States!
Home repair costs are gonna be inflated !
Mali! Death panels! Bowing!
APOLOGY TOUR!!1!
TELLARPROMPTARS
And Benghazi, Evil Muslin Kenyan Usurper and FREEEEEEEEEEEEDUMS!
Hip-hop barbecue!
Don't forget that shuck an' jive!
(God, I need a shower just for typing that…)
You forgot OBAMACARE!
Secret Muslin decoder ring!
BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!
and sayin' bullsh***er, and hiding his auntie from the deporter dudes!
Beergate.
Black-cents! Chicago-style politics! Rose Garden vegetables!
He took "In God We Trust" off the penneez!
Teh gays, academia, and Jeeeeewwwwws!
And vegetable gardenz on the White House lawn!
Watermelon.
I'm sure if we looked hard enough, we could find Sarah Palin making a kool-aid reference…
40 oz.
Shuck and jive!
Marine Corpse!
tires correctly inflated
ENERGY SAVING LIGHT BULBS, MORANS!!
(GAH!)
Bowing to foreign leaders!
Romney's solution – stock up on potted meat products and other non perishables and everything will be fine.
And learn to swim, ya lazy bastids.
or parcour, ya fukkas.
haha, you watched Joss' s video
Buy stock in Armour vienna sausage.
You say "potted meat," Romney says "confit."
Just borrow another house from your parents.
Does Mitt's spare yacht have an elevator too, also?
One for the cars, sure.
how else are Ann's horses going to get to their stateroom?
Only votes can stop Mitt's flood of bullshit.
This. Blessing be upon you.
Why do l feel like my vote is like that poor kid's thumb, stuck in the dike.
Look around you. Are you near a dike?
Well, there's this one gal down the hall who always wears sensible shoes…
Oxfords libel!
I was hoping someone would take the bait. Well done, Baldar.
I knew this comment would go there faster than an Izuzu Outback driving past a Chick Fila.
What a great guy, always trying to save a buck here or there, looking out for the taxpayers.
I'm just kidding, he's still a dick.
Listen, this fucker, Romney, claims to have shut down his campaign in the affected states. No ads, no fundraisers,nothing. His running dogs are out there ATTACKING the President for not doing the same, or so they claim.
Meanwhile, what is Mitt doing? He's running "flood events" where attendees are FORCED TO WATCH HIS ADS. Please god if you want to provide proof of your existence, cut off all power to his offices EVERYWHERE. JUST his offices. Leave the rest alone. I will start going to church/mosque/temple/synagogue within 24 hours of your performing said mirafuckingcle.
"going to church/mosque/temple/synagogue" – if you're going to all of those, when will you find time to comment on Wonkette?
O, ye of little faith!
That government which governs least, governs least.
I don't remember Katrina making a side trip to Cape Cod while on it's way to New Orleans. How did Massachusetts get disaster money out of that?
Probably for taking in and resettling refugees. I think quite a few states got money for that as well. Whatever money they didn't use for that purpose they were probably free to hold onto.
Ah, that makes sense–I was wondering how the hell Katrina money made it so far from New Orleans.
Well, you wouldn't want to spend it where it might be used to rebuild, now would you?
Especially if it's just the blah neighborhoods…
Well, just look how far Mittens money has made it from the United States!
Yep.
http://www.fema.gov/news-release/president-approv…
Did kinda hit the N.E. eventually, dunno what the effects were. http://i.space.com/images/i/1189/iFF/050829_katri…
like foster parents.
It's a coastal state, so it probably got "flood mitigation" funds or some shit.
That, or Bush felt guilty after letting New Orleans drown and decided to be all Oprah with the states. "You get a billion! You get a billion! EVERYBODY gets a billion!"
Deficits don't matter!
Unless you're a Blahocrat.
"Government is here to help people, especially in disasters."
That's a local politicians first mistake with ambitious power mongers like Mitt Romney. He wants to broker financial deals, not manage disasters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/mitt-rom…
Editrix, you wrote "1996" instead of "2006." But it's ok: even your typos are hot.
you can't spell 1996 without a 6 and a 9, nudge nudge wink wink.
She just got a little tongue-tied IYKWIMAITYD.
I saw that too and figured she was going with the "Mittens will take us backward" theme. Which is too true…
But is Mitt in mourning for the three or so waterfront homes in Greenwich that burned to ground last night?
A box of Tic-Tacs could handle a flood better than Romney.
Mitt Romney’s Guide To Flood Management
The water goes in, the water goes out. Who can explain it?
Bill O'Reilly?
Bill Nye, the Science Guy?
My eight year old?
Wait, this time it's actually Hitler, right?
Brilliant.
NOOOOOO!!! That's MY LINE!!!
Goddammit, I'm ALWAYS late to the fucking party.
Michael Brown, aka Mr "heck of a job?"
Who is, for some unknowable reason, not still hiding in shame as he ought but out making mouthnoises about how awful the Obama administration's reaction to a hurricane is. And Benghazi, 'cuz he's a foreign policy geenyus too.
Irony died weeping.
I would personally like to invite Heckuva BlowJob Brownie to find a pencil, sharpen it, and — now this is important — stick it in his eye and just twist it around, really hard. (Thanks to Stephen Colbert for that awesome line.)
Con votos, I assume.
I'd sooner consult my dog for disaster relief advice. Sure, she'd just run waist-deep into the water, snap at it, and retreat, but the adorable spectacle would at least distract us from the suckage.
He's actually trying to insinuate that President O is OVER-reacting. Srsly. NY shut down the transportation too early. The President is taking refuge in the hurricane running away from Benghazi.
I want to kick his useless butt SO fucking bad.
Over-reacting, when the New York subway won't be back to work for a still unknown number of days, meaning that most of the city will remain shut down as no one can get to work? What the fuck?
And this from the man who defined underreacting to a natural disaster. How much gall does this motherfucker have?
FEMA: Flooding? Eat My Assachusett.
You might want to change that 1996 date in the story to 2006;
Heckuvajob Brownie sez: "What hurricane? BENGHAZI!"
Um, Mikey? There are several hundred thousand New Orleanians and Mississippi coastal residents who are still waiting to kick you square in the ballsack. So perhaps you should just shut the fucking fuck up, you motherfucking fuck.
"I'm BadKitty and I approve this message."
I'm NOT, and even *I* approve it.
Hell, lemme just get in the front of that line.
Hell, I'm in California and I'm over here eying my sledgehammer collection…
How the hell do you respond to a disaster too quickly? It sounds like this man wants people to die.
Obama is Nero – fiddling around "responding" while Benghazi burns.
Oh, I see- the 'g' is silent in this sentence…
took me a second…
*golf clap*
Just certain ones, wink wink.
"This is like the inverse of Benghazi.”
WTF? If inverse means totally not at all like Benghazi in pretty much every way, kind of like apples and…bean sprouts, then yes.
Words are hard.
I hadn't realized Rafalca is an arabian. It's all about who ya know, innitt?
I thought she was German.
That kinda made me want to see bad things happen to that guy.
I knew there was a God!!!1!1! (not really – but this ALMOST changed my mind)
Saw the witless wonder on the news at his "relief" event. The guy was almost smirking. How is it that anyone with half a brain in their head is still voting for this guy?
"How is it that anyone with half a brain in their head is still voting for this guy?"
Anyone with more than half a brain is not voting for him. Unfortunately, many of our fellow countrymen fall short of even 50% in the grey matter department.
I love repeating the Adlai Stevenson story…a woman at a speech gushed to him "Governor, you have the vote of every thinking person."
And he responded, "I'm afraid it's not enough, Madam; we need a majority."
"Think of how stupid the average person is… Now think that half the population is dumber than that" — George Carlin
He's white. Seriously, that's it.
Not a day goes by when I wish we would just come out and say that. If we just dropped the codewords, a little candle would light in that inky black bladder thing that humans could reasonably describe as my heart.
Aww! That's SO cute! Your heart's BLAH! I knew there was good in you, CommieLib.
It's like George Carlin said: Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are even stupider than that.
Just move to a different home, like Romney did.
Honestly, the 47% are so stupid.
Seriously, dude. When you have that many homes, at least one of them is bound to be outside of a disaster area…
Well, until the Zombie Apocalypse gets underway.
Joss Whedon sez You want Zombie Apocalypse? Vote MITT ROMNEY.
And you'd think they'd share some of that water with the parched interior states, but oh no! That would be the socialism.
We could build a network of pipelines to move water from states with too much to states without enough. But I guess that wouldn't create jobs.
Just borrow $ 300,000 from your parents for a new house. Jeeze.
I'm sure you could just borrow that $20,000 from your parents…
EDIT: God-DAMN, this is what I get for not reading ahead…
I really want to tie this asshatted f**ktard to the nearest set of publicly-subsidized railroad tracks and watch the 5:20 express splatter his memory chips all over the roadbed… with votes.
Good save there at the end.
A tip of the ol' non-Drudge fedora to fellow grumpy Wonketeer Callyson for the 411 on how to avoid violating Editrix's TOS. Not that I would mind being violated by Editrix, mind you…
No- better to strand him in his car's elevator on the lowest part of his flooding garage.
I think you've just given away the plot for the next Stephen King novel.
I don't know, rising waters kind of suit the Romneys:
http://www.deseretnews.com/images/top/main/15116/…
Eww. That made me think of Naked Egg. Double Ewwww.
Goodbye, lunch! Sorry you couldn't stay longer! Goodbye!
Are they all wearing their temple garments?
Templekinis?
Please help me un-see that~
I know. My retinas!!
Mitt Romney: teaching the world what it really means to be a Masshole.
"They call you people Massholes?!? Let me show you what a real Masshole can do!"
Mitt Romney was only trying to save that money for a rainy day. A rainy day when car elevators might be threatened.
In fairness, Lowell is full of poors. And hurricanes are people too, my friend.
That's why they have names. Duh.
since Romney can’t be bothered to comment now that the photo opportunities have dried up even though some residents’ basements haven’t
Well played, Lowell-Sun writer from the 1990s! Oh, Becca I think also too, "two years later" would be 2006… Still, nice gem to dig up and share. And there's a lot about the mid-1990s I still miss, too.
Water floods in, water floods out, who can explain it? Certainly not the Mittster.
Mittens Romney, naked self interest. And yet it works for him! Good thing weed & hard liquor works for me.
Please to not use the words "Mittens" and "naked" in the same sentence because retinas!
To cleanse the palate then; Ann Romney – anal bleaching
Mitt views this as a simple matter: Did God build a levee around Israel after THE Flood? No. And things have worked out just fine there for 6000 years.
Then five people tried to ask him about it this morning and he ran away.
If I didn't live on earth, I'd want a Romney presidency just to see how badly he'd fuck everything up.
Also King County finally got around to verifying the signature on my ballot (looks like Roseanne is getting at least one vote). Took awhile because voter turnout in KC is approaching 90% which means come Nov. 7th us Warshingtonians will be able to smoke a bone at our gay weddings.
Hail, fellow Warshingtonian. If Romney wins, what say we build a wall and secede? And then gay marry and smoke up to our hearts' content?
As long as we don't get stuck with Spokane and the Dry Shitties. But we need Yakima because hops, for beer.
I'm guessing Tuesday nite there will be many celebrations with gay abandon here in the Swish Alps. Likely Broadway will be seeing slow downs from moar than just road construction.
Until Bammerz sets the DEA dogs loose on our asses. Or they just get on us themselves and he looks the other way. Same diff.
That's why I voted for Roseanne. Hell, she'll probably make lighting up mandatory.
I just love that he talks about working in a bipartisan manner when he was governor, a bipartisan manner which included a shitload of veto overrides. Not so real bipartisan now are we assclown.
A bipartisan manner that produced 8 HUNDRED vetores and, fortunately, more than 700 overrides. Because, asshat vetoes!
I'm sure the Lowell Sun is joining the Boston Herald in supporting a guy they once hated so much, because he's white.
I remember this Katrina you mention. There were so many people in Massachusetts standing on the roofs of their houses because of the flood waters after the levees broke. And the devastation at Gillette Stadium was heartbreaking.
You are getting the Gillette Stadium hurricane devastation mixed up with the loss-to-the-Jets-in-the-Divisional-Playoffs-back-in-January-2011 devastation.
Those poor souls in the North End. It was underwater for days.
I'm sorry, but the intricacies of Mitt's history of prevarication are boring and are certain to be lost on undecided voters. The really important fact that voters need to consider when considering Mitt is that Mitt has vowed to rid the internet of the wholesome benefits of free erotica, and replace it with dresssage how-to videos.
So…you are saying we have time to learn to appreciate Horse Porn? I feel a little…ahem…inadequate watching normal porn…horse porn would be just devastating to my id/ego….
Is he gonna post pics of Ann dressed in that leather outfit with the goofy dick shoes?
Gee, it's almost as if doucheheads who believe the government shouldn't do its' most basic fucking job do horribly when in charge of government.
What supernal intelligence could conceivably have foreseen such an unforeseeable thing?
"Sorry, this rescue is for paying subscribers only."
Like that family in Tennessee whose house burned down because they forgot to pay the $75 fire district fee and the administrator told the fire fighters not to go to the fire. Wheee! Capitalism in action.
THIS.
Mitts filosophie can be summed up as: "If I can't benefit then why the fuck should I care?"
Bingo – with the small caveat "If it will make for a good photo op, I will definitely appear to care for as long as the cameras are on."
You vote him in. He fucks you and it doesn't feel good. Then you consider voting him in some more. I've written it a thousand times on these here wonkette walls. Po' white trash be gettin' all they deserve. Maybe some day they'll learn. "What's the matter with Kansas", etc & etc……
Mr. Manager knows there's always money in the banana stand.
I love you for this.
Massachusetts is sitting on millions in unspent emergency funds from Hurricane Katrina
Excuse me? How the hell did emergency funds for Katrina end up in Massachusetts, when they were needed in New Orleans?
Time for my apparently trademarked phrase…FFS…
Maybe the funds were vacationing in the Caymans and got mixed up with Mitt's luggage.
Katrina emergency funds, eh? You can see why they went unspent.
I love Charlie Pierce:
Remember all the Repubs who made fun of Gore for losing his home state in 2000? You don't hear too much from them about Mittens and Mass. Very curious.
Oh great it looks like we've hive-minded again.
If you are currently eating lasagna, too, then I am officially creeped out.
No, just soup.
Yes. Also this:
"At the same time, [Romney] was using the federal government as alibi, scapegoat and ATM machine."
I think I'm in love.
Does anyone else just not like this guy? I just really, really do not like this guy. He makes me seethe-y.
Sometimes when I listen to him, I get this really overwhelming urge to punch him in the middle of his face.
With votes.
I call dibs on Paul Ryan.
I really want to hit Paul Ryan, hard.
I'm not usually a combative person, but I think my heart would sing a happy tune if I could feel my dainty girlish fist break his nose — and hear it, too; I want to hear the bone cracking.
Oddly, the last person I felt that way about was Tom Green, the "comedian".
I can't stand this fucking guy.
And this is surprising news to..?
"the (conservative) Lowell Sun"
I've learned from my visits to the ancestral homeland that someone who is considered a staunch conservative in Massachusetts would be considered, at worst, a Blue Dog Democrat down here in Texas.
And you act surprised. This is from the guy who started a business predicated on looting people's pensions funded by South America's finest death squad sponsors. He's the perfect presidential candidate.
Jesus, the only real "skill" Mitt seems to have is to wait until something (a company, a state, a campaign) gets to some high level of fuckeduppedness, swoop in and declare himself the smart guy with a solution, then do jack shit, then get paid, then claim you did everything right 10 years in the future when people note you didn't do jack shit.
Remember how, in 2000, many people kept blasting that Al Gore must be the worst candidate ever for losing Tennessee, despite the fact that it's a right-wing state no Democrat can now win at the Presidential level? After the election it became a special favorite for Nader apologists to distract from how they were responsible for Bush's election. It's so strange that no one is saying the the same thing about Mittens getting crushed in Massachusetts, almost as if there is some kind of double standard in the media.
It probably had something to do with Clinton/Gore winning Tennessee in both 1992 and 1996.
Get out of my head!
That's because Mittens' REAL home state is Michigan, where he's…oh never mind. Hey, he's kicking ass in Utah.
Well, at least those flood victims had healthcare.
This guy would make one incredibly lousy Comforter-in-Chief.
Yet his mom-jeans seem so Comfortable-in-Chief!
I really do not like this man,
I do not like him, Sam-I-Am!
I do not like him in a boat,
I will not like him with a vote!
I do not like him here or there,
I do not like him anywhere!
I do not think Mitt's worth a damn,
I do not like him, Sam-I-Am!
I do not like his fancy hair,
I do not like his underwear.
I would not answer if he calls,
I'd like to kick him in the ass.
You know those things that protect you from floods?
You didn't build that.
And you will never have the money to do it by yourself.
This is why Pawlenty would have been a good match or Mitt as VP, instead of that workout guy. Pawlenty would run away when asked a hard question by just one guy. He's pretty fast too !
How much floodwater does it take to drown a weasel?
How badly will Mitt fuck things up? OK, you asked for it…
1) He's going to start another arms race with the Russians.
2) He's going to start a war with the Iranians.
3) He's going to keep the war in Afghanistan going (see 1).
4) He's going to cut taxes for the other members of his socioeconomic class because…
5) He's going to eliminate every government assistance program based on the need to pay for 1-4, above.
He's George W. Bush's incompetence and arrogance with Richard Nixon's paranoia and Ronald Reagan's attention span and memory.
Dude, don't sugarcoat it for us or anything.
Don't forget the day one trade war with China.
So, you're saying it'll be like the 70s all over again without the Brady Bunch Variety Show?
You forgot:
6) appoint at least one Supreme worse than Scalia;
7) approve every government takeover of women's bodies that come to his desk; and
8) tear apart the only healthcare program that saves any money in the next 20 years….
There will be no healthcare other than waiting in ER's.
He's going to repeal minimum wage laws, so we don't need to import anything from Chaina.
He's going to start a war with Great Britain.
That's OK – we will greet them as liberators.
"For the love of god, SAVE US FROM THIS SHIT-TARD!!!"
(I for one welcome our new benevolent Chinese overlords.)
HAHAHA … OMFG, you're right.
You left out overturning Roe v. Wade.
Mitt the twit sucks at the federal tit. Says poorz can just suck it. Details after the break.
"As Click & Clack will tell you"
They won't tell you that any more, not after Romney defunds NPR.
They're retiring, so that's a moot point. And I'm not sure federal funding is such a good thing for NPR anymore. They bend over backwards so far these days to appease the Right and appear fair that it sounds almost like Fox sometimes.
I think they got "re-staffed" a lot during the Bush years. We just need to wrench it back to sanity during Bamz second term. And forbid Koch funding.
"I think they got "re-staffed" a lot during the Bush years."
If only there were some way to check that:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits
There is proof right there: the Corporate Spokesperson is Hugh Lyon Sack. He was trained at Kock headquarters.
You mean you don't want to hear the Republican Response™ to everything all the time, always, nestled between Steve Inskeep's hollow guffaws and concerned "hmms?"
What kind of liberal are you?
Does anyone else think it's possible that, all bogus ideology aside, the reason Mitt didn't want to spend that money was that it was just such a big, beautiful pile of dough. Maybe he was thinking "man, look at that sweet pile of cash, all fresh and uncommitted, stacked in neat bundles. Hey guys, I have an idea! Let's not spend it. Let's just let it sit there so we can come back and look at it once in a while. Whadda ya think?"
He probably had trouble being the first one to get into a fresh jar of peanut butter as a kid too. Or maybe he'd run around the house with a newly opened tub of margarine letting everyone see the cute little pig tail, only to later weep when his mother ruined the delectable swirl of oleo for no better reason than to "cook" with it. He probably hated her for that and now we're all about to pay the price.
Bamz on the TV right now at Red Cross looking like a mensch.
Told the states – feds are gonna help.
Told the feds – STFU and help.
Told all of us – people are people too.
Bamz like a boss!
He also said "as fast as possible, as hard as possible and for the duration."
This is where this goes.
While singing Al Green…
Mmmm, mmm, sexy lady … wut?
It's just the Gangnam style … latest thing … kinda cool. So wut if I'm an Oldz?
Fast, hard and long is the name of his next album.
"Massachusetts is sitting on millions in unspent emergency funds from Hurricane Katrina "
Pourquoi?
Massachusetts had/has emergency funds related to Katrina?
He also said "as fast as possible, as hard as possible and for the duration."
ETA: Replied to wrong one! Derp.
Apparently a lot of states received funds for taking victims. But the fact the state of Massachusetts was sitting on millions from it is disgusting. That money could've been used for housing and care of the displaced victims who did go to Mass, or for flood prevention to avoid such a disaster in the future, as the money was intended. But no, Mitt the Dick said 'fuck off!'.
And then Mitt said "Mine! No! Mine! Mineminemineminemine!"
But they aren't supposed to be hoarding it, like Gollum and the ring.
This is why you don't elect people who say that government can't help people. It's too easy a promise to keep.
What a piece of Mitt.
Offaly true.
Mitt Romney, enough with the freakin' HACAP food drives and photo-ops with local gomers in Ohio or Iowa or Bama or wherever you are today. The coast needs cops, firefighters, first responders, Coast Guard, National Guard–all GOVERNMENT jobs. Jobs that you wanna cut. That's whats needed.
Nobody nowhere is asking for can of creamed fuckin' corn!!!
This is one heckuva October surprise!
In honor of the late great Walt Kelly, I want to make current the appellation of "Mass of Juices" for The Bay State.
I don't think one should expect a whole lot of leadership from a guy incapable of following even the advice of the Red Cross.
What people need is more bayonettes and guillotines.
Then five people tried to ask him about it this morning and he ran away.
“Mr. Manager” Mitt Romney does not seem to be very good at this whole Mr. Managing thing.
So Romeny believes in cutting and running?
And he would probably take Pennsylvania's ban on the sale of alcohol (!!!???WTF??!!!) nationwide!!! If that doesn't send a shiver down your spine, nothing will!!!!
I don't get it, guys. How does this happen? How does…well, THAT…receive the presidential nomination of ANY political party?
HIs "competition" was Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
hey you guys, Mittens save the Olympics, floods should be a snap
Didn't he do that with that ebil Guvment monies?
Come on now, that's mean. Facts like that are just going to interfere with righties autoerotic activities.
No more rising oceans jokes? And what does he mean by "helping you and your family? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkYBGVVpSc
Can someone please explain to me WTF the Iowa dispatch was thinking endorsing this lying bag of rancid douche by saying he can be bipartisan? He touts that as an ahievement and he's going to get blown out of the water in that state.
They were mad because Obama missed a meeting with their editorial board, apparently. So, they gave some other bullshit reason for supporting Mitt so as not to look petty, but the reasons they gave were bullshit and see-through.
Thanks. I had heard something about an encounter with their editorial board, but was not clear on the details. But when i read the "endorsement" of Romney I was flabbergasted by how utterly ridiculous it was.
"Bipartisan" my flaming ass. In Mass., the fucker vetoed just about every single piece of legislation put on his desk, and the Dems in the legislature overrode him every time. We're talking hundreds of bills and hundreds of vetos. As a governor he was utterly useless, and whatever was accomplished during his term was accomplished in spite of his veto.
Flooding is great for photo-ops. Watched him lift a case of dog food laying out in the open for no good reason.
He probably intended to hand it to some 47%-er, to feed to his family. Mitt's GOP handlers cut the taping short before that could happen.
OT but not: to the best of my knowledge, Mittens has not returned to his "home" state since it was attacked by a hurricane. Has anyone heard otherwise? Anyone from Belmont here?
Or is it just a matter that, after you collect enough houses, you stop noticing if you lose one here & there?
"The worst thing about Romney is we never know what the worst thing is."
(Totally stolen from Esquire.com commenter Barry Friedman.)
Honestly, this is the most brilliant description of Romney I've seen. There is no bottom to his duplicity.
Penny wise and pound fooolish, and with other people's money, no less. That's what I want in a president.
Do you have disaster insurance? If not, there's the disaster emergency room called Heaven. To get there just stay where you are and die!
I'm sorry, I am having trouble following this discussion. Obama is black! There ya go.
YTIWSWYDT. (hugs the Gem)
You sure are, and I mean that in the very best way.
"How much gall does this motherfucker have? "
All of it, Katie.
Seriously, ALL of it.
Fuck his useless ass upside of his head.
And not with votes.
blushes…hugs shyly back.
Thanks. Hugs are definitely needed today.
Surgeon says whatever's keeping me off my feet is not a knee problem, but a nerve problem. Dr. on Friday, MRIs next. Sleepless nights, bad movies, too much Twitter.
Just make sure that if they want to inject your nerve the meds come from a socialist, regulated lab and not a free-market, capitalist, uninspected cesspit. Hope you have been tweeting about Gov Shmitts past disaster mgt efforts. Love to you and your nerve problem.
Oh hell, you just need more narcotics.
"bad movies"
It's near enough to Hallowe'en that I'd like to suggest de-stressing with scary/funny/campy movies: Young Frankenstein, Toxic Avenger, most of the MST3K genre, etc.
Hope that helps.
Thanks, sweetie. (Hugs you)
Yes, I'm well aware of Mitty's (and ShittyScotty's) role in the contaminated meds. Yeesh. Reading the report on the contamination was enough to give me nightmares. And yes, I'm doing my best to make Mitt's life miserable on Twitter. It's great being able to be RLY mean to the deserving. Twitter seems to appreciate my efforts, too!
I react badly to pretty much everything except morphine, dilaudid, and percocet, and all three are a very bad idea for various reasons. Last time I had to get off the percocet, it actually took some effort. I don't like that.
Hi MittBorg – sorry to hear about your pain. To ease it I'll gladly convert unused m, d or p to cash. If that would ease your pain.
Nah, it's OK, I just keep drinking till I pass out. :)
It's just one of the unavoidable side-effects of age, I think. Thanks for the kind thoughts.
I'll help you carry them.
How about we make a deal MittBorg, and we each take a hammer and take turns smashing his gonads?
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