From John
I’ve been interacting with a reporter from the Salt Lake Tribune over an article he is writing on a lawsuit from University of Utah against the Max-Planck Institute, MIT, UMass, the Whitehead Institute, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (see link at the bottom of the right sidebar). Because of this I began looking at the Salt Lake Tribune to see how they covered the news on Romney. It’s also interesting to see the novel stories that they cover having to do with Mormonism in Utah. It’s a pretty good rag.
Here are some of the recent articles they have covered that hints of an undercurrent of lack of respect for their Mormon brother.
Romney Insults the British Prime Minister…and all of England
Romney blesses a community with his presence and asks for wedding present money to be donated to his campaign
Jon Stewart takes on Romney’s Park City bash
Romney involved in Bain affairs after exit
And one interesting article posted a few days ago that now cannot be found at the Tribune. One wonders if there was pressure to take it down.
Romney is having a bad week.
The Romney Eur-derailment continues. After mouthing off in London on the perceived lack of preparedness of the British security arrangements for the Olympics, Romney has now broken 55 years of bipartisan agreement stipulating the international status of Jerusalem, per the original U.N. resolution recognizing Israel. Next was announcing his own foreign policy regarding an attack by Israel on Iran, contravening current official U.S. policy as the Obama administration works to resolve this problem through complex diplomatic strategy intended to accomplish our security objectives while avoiding yet another Mideast war. And on Afghanistan, Romney has clarified that he was against the 2014 withdrawal schedule before he was for it. Of course, when his generation was being shipped to places like Germany, Korea and Vietnam in the late 1960′s, Romney avoided service while doing the critical work of the Mormon church while residing in a chateau in Paris France for two years. But this was tough duty, according to Mitt, as the chateau had those French stand-up toilets. The front page of the WSJ summed it up today with a headline “Romney Talks Tough”.
Sound familiar?
So as Ann Romney’s million dollar horse wins best in class for the U.S. In horse-dancing (“dressage”), Mitt’s tax plan gets rated poorly.
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Institute, in a study co-authored by former Obama and Bush Council of Economic Advisors members, Romney’s announced tax plan, under the best assumptions possible, will lower taxes on the top wage earners in the country at the expense of the rest of us. While the Romney campaign advertised that they would pay for reductions in top tax rates by eliminating deductions, it turns out that even with maximum elimination of deductions for the wealthy, that class of taxpayers benefits more from the tax rate reductions than loss o deductions. The impact is the opposite for the rest of the population.
Why don’t the Republicans stop trying to kid everyone and just come out and say what they really support – stripping the middle class of wages, benefits,
pensions, job security, public education – all to benefit the wealthy few? I mean, feudalism had it’s advantages after all.