When I was traveling overseas I was pleasantly surprised by the Bloomberg
News International Channel, that seemed far less blindly pro-business than CNBC
or any of the other Business channels. It appeared to be focused on reporting
news, rather than manufacturing it. Mayor Bloomberg sounds like a complete
tool, but his television channel and his news service may be worth paying
attention to. Polls are only as good as their design and their questions.
Bloomberg seems to have come up with quite different results from Rasmussen (a
GOP front) and the more mainstream (or so I thought) pollsters like Gallup. One
thing that one can say about Bloomberg is that he is so wealthy that he couldn't
be bought, whereas the others? Not so clear that they could not be swayed by
some generous backhanders. Think it couldn't happen in this great country?
Umm, think again. Karl Rove's secret PAC has been raising gazillions, and that
is just the public part of the process. Anyone who thinks that there isn't any
black money floating around this election year should sit down and think about
it for a moment. It has been estimated that Mitt Romney will be asked to pay up
to five million dollars a year more in taxes if he isn't able to (a) win the
election, and (b) stop the Bush tax cuts from expiring as they are scheduled to
do. Oh, and that huge deficit that means that we should short-change retirees
and demolish Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, Education, Road building,
Medical research, Student Loans, Firemen, Policemen and Teachers? That would
not exist, were it not for the "Bush Tax Cuts". In a recent speech Bush said he
wished those tax cuts had a different name, since he did not enjoy hearing about
how negative their impact had been. Tsk, tsk, poor little Georgie!
I continue to be strongly of the opinion that the American people have
every right to create massive boycotts of Billionaires who donate to Super PACs.
I think the entire Super PAC model and the "Citizens United" decision by the
Supreme Court was a travesty and a disgusting perversion of the principles our
country stands for. The Supreme Court needs some retirements and replacements
of the ideological stiffs who have brought us such poor decisions. Given who
got them in office, it would also be fair to describe it as the "Bush Court",
though that might give George an additional bit of pain and tentative connection
to reality.
What I find fascinating in the Bloomberg poll is that the majority of
Americans appear quite able to see what a sheltered and entitled tool Mitt
Romney is. I find that quite encouraging. I was interested to read that Romney
recently got a $77,000 tax write-off for losses associated with his part
ownership of a "dancing horse". I don't wish to appear to be a hayseed, but a
dancing horse? Seriously? Presumably one that enters into "dancing horse
competitions"? Wow. The Late Night comedians must be sending Romney thank you
notes.
Arthur
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