Obama mentions his wife in his victory speech: “…The woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago”
Romney mentions his wife in his concession speech: “… The woman I chose to marry”
It’s amazing how someone’s views on equality can come out in one simple sentence
Romney spent $8.9M of government money on transition
The GOP is a scam. It’s not about politics, the party is about transferring taxpayer money to rich people while the nation burns.Swampland (Time Magazine)One of the less scintillating milestones of the 2012 election was marked by the GeneralServices Administration, when Mitt Romney became the first candidate to take advantage of the Presidential Transition Act of 2010.… SNIP …
The GSA says final costs are still being tabulated, but the initial estimated cost for Romney’s pre-transition phase is around $8.9 million.
The design, construction and space planning for the Romney team’s office space, which took up multiple floors in the Mary E. Switzer building a couple miles from the White House, cost about $2.5 million. The furniture bill came in around $740,000, and basics like office supplies cost about $30,000. The biggest chunk by far came from communications and related hardware. Items such as IT services, computer equipment and cell phones cost $5.6 million. The GSA noted that some of the resources would be recycled; Dell Latitude Laptops bought for Romney’s 500-strong transition team, for example, will be used by other parts of the federal government. Rent charges were waived by the GSA, as they traditionally are for transition teams during the President-Elect phase.
A 500 strong transition team? 500 strong? Doing what, exactly? Designing new stationary? Planning for how to fumigate the residential parts of the White House so that there would be no Obama cooties left behind?
Your tax dollars at work, helping Willard M. Romney score yet another scam.
The title of this made me gigglesnort. Just… that mental imagery, man.
(Source: livealifethatscompletelyfree)
the election in two tweets
Did anyone notice…
So going to Mitt’s campaign website right now is pretty hilarious.
Why it went down like it did …
Last night was Romney’s last big chance. He’s got the press and the pollsters pulling for him to make it a closer race, because it is to their personal, professional, and financial advantage. He has finally assembled the captive audience of right-wing authoritarians he needs to win over. All he needed to do was to finally, permanently, establish himself as a conservative authority, someone the conservatives can trust.
He needed President Obama to help him, by doing what every Democrat, including myself, wanted him to do: call Mitt a liar.
So Mitt Romney went out and did what he’s best at. He lied his ass off. He changed a central plank of his platform at the debate in an attempt to draw out President Obama, to encourage the President to raise his voice and express outrage at such malicious dishonesty.
But President Obama wouldn’t bite.
Instead, the President stuck to his own policy, his own platform, and pointed out only the most basic and agreed-upon flaws in whatever Romney’s so-called plan is today (or rather, last night, because I’m sure he’s walking back half of what he said right now). He tried not to show flashes of anger or disgust, as Al Gore so tragically did in 2000.
It was probably disappointing to all of us here to see the President steer away from direct confrontation, but it probably also sealed the election for him.
(Source: democraticunderground.com)
Top Romney Adviser Outted Trans Woman to End Her Political...
Top Romney Adviser Outted Trans Woman to End Her Political Career.
Do y’all remember Eric Fehrnstrom? Well it turns out that Mr. Etch-a-Sketch isn’t just all bark and no bite when it comes to hating queer people.
Apparently Fehrnstrom was full of “glee” after finding the birth certificate of Althea Garrison shortly after she was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, effiectivally ending her political career.
Now I could go into how ridiculous it is that being trans is regarded as such a bad thing that it could basically ruin this woman’s career (it’s something happens all the time to trans people, not just those of us in politics btdubs), but that isn’t the point here. The point here is how low this bigoted asshole would stoop to do this. The fact that he is one of Romney’s “most trusted” advisers would be enough for me to never even consider voting for him, even if I agreed with him on literally anything. You add this on top of Romney’s protest of an anti-discrimination aid for Massachusetts public schools because it contained the word “trans”, and you have one gigantic transphobic mess.
But, yeah, it’s completely wise to let this bigot run the country.
I’m a little afraid that if he gets elected, he and his ilk are just going to… slowly… keep finding more rights that they can take away from trans people. Like, you know, me. And some of my friends. :| To the point where we’ll pretty much be forced to live on the streets and die out.
casual “don’t vote for mitt romney” reminder. casual “vote for barack obama not just because he has OK policies but because he is running against mitt romney” reminder. casual “i don’t like to let my friendships get political, but you need to take this seriously and vote if you’re over 18 and a US citizen or you are implicitly allowing this behavior to fly over your head and i don’t want to be a part of your life” reminder.
https://gottaregister.com/ - register to vote!
http://longdistancevoter.org/ - if you can’t reach the polling station!This is fucking despicable
