Tom Toles for July 25, 2012

The details of his policy proposals are in a blind trust, along with his principles.-You people have already seen all the details you need to see.

So are you saying that having a Swiss account is not something to hide or be embarrassed by? And that neither Romney, Pelosi nor Reid ought not to be criticized for having them? Or are you saying both the pot and the kettle are black and should be equally embarrassed?

If he’s so civic minded that he wants to be President, and he’s a billionaire, why does he need a tax shelter? He should be paying his fair share to help the country. But we all know that helping anyone but his rich cronies is not in his plan….

Obama and his team are fools if they do not continue to hammer, hammer, hammer Romney on this stuff, and keep demanding to see his tax records. Obviously the Romney team has decided that whatever is in there, if released, would look worse than continuing to stonewall. Repetition makes it real, people!

Pointing at others who may or may not have the same problem does not answer the question. It sounds a bit like a child caught with hiis hand in the cookie jar whiing “Billy did it too!”

None of them are running for president. And I believe you just started name-calling, where *braindead08" did not do any at all.

Richard Nixon, 1972: I have a secret plan to end the Vietnam War, but I can’t tell you what it is until after the election. Mitt Romney, 2012: I have a secret plan to fix the economy, but I can’t tell you what it is until after the election.

“Wasserman Schultz’s money was in a 401(k) account, the Davis Financial Fund, which is based in Massachusetts. It was purchased April 15, 2010, and sold on April 23, 2010. So it wasn’t held for very long.. . . . we also wondered whether Wasserman Schultz and Romney are in the same league financially. They’re not.Wasserman Schultz’s net worth — all her assets minus all her liabilities — was somewhere between $235,000 and negative $290,000 in 2010, according to the most recent disclosure.In fact, Wasserman Schultz was one of the least wealthy members of Congress that year. The Center for Responsive Politics ranked her at No. 422 out of 440 House members.Romney’s wealth, on the other hand, is somewhere between $85 million and $264 million. The Romney campaign told the Washington Post that a more accurate range would be between $190 million and $250 million.”http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/jul/18/mary-matalin/debbie-wasserman-schultz-had-offshore-accounts-mit/

Amazing. Four years of listening to the right complain about not knowing enough about Obama (bullsh*t BTW) they are strangely quiet when it comes to romney. Of course they STILL bitch about Obama, so I guess the right is never happy.

Why is Romney so ashamed to discuss the phenomenal success that this great country gave him?

Got anthing to back up that claim you just made? Or are we all supposed to beleive it because YOU said so?

And I get so tired of the Big Lie that it’s us Dems who spew hatred Ehhh, wrong! The big haters are the conservative Repubs, not us…and unlike you joey, I can offer examples Even at the height of Dubya’s unpopularity, I never saw a sign, or bumpersticker attacking his supporters+…but I’ve seen stickers on +pickup trucks ( what else? ) saying, “You Look Really Stupid With That Obama Sticker On Your Car”, and “9 Out of 10 Idiots Support Obama.”

It’s the Tea-Party Republicans who are the real haters…and also hyprocrites and cowards.

And you respond by lying. No, we don’t.

“Obama about his ridiculous claim that government and not private industry creates jobs”He’s never said this, of course.

…but, if he gave details nobody would vote for him…

We know his policy on gun control:“Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”Mitt Romney, 2004, signing a bill to ban assault weapons.

“You people have all you need to know, so shut up now and vote for Mittens”

Hey, Mittens , how did you manage to put $20,000,000 in an IRA to which you are only allowed to put $20,000 a year in? Is that what you are hiding?

No, because Obamacare solved a serious problem the country has, and was a bipartisan solution (the idea was Republican, the votes were Democratic). Hiding taxes in the Caymans or Switzerland is a way of hurting the country for your own personal gain. But that’s not what the cartoon is about. The cartoon is about how Romney keeps saying that the Swiss bank account stuff is a distraction from serious policy proposals. And then he refuses to make any serious policy proposals, because his policies are insane and all he’s got are old Bush advisors.

What policy proposals? I have not heard of any. He is too busy distracting people from Bain capital and that he somehow “retired retroactively”. and that many corporations we all run into the ground, and attacking Obama. He also hasn’t turned in those tax documents, and has failed to mention anything about the extra wealthy Mormon churchAnything to occupy peoples minds. Oh and he endorses Michelle Bachman, who caused a small international incident. Whom other republicans have censured.

Is that Phil Gramm, who works for UBS, guarding the Swiss Bank? The same man that gave us Gramm-Leach-Bliley that repealed the Glass Steagall Act and deregulated the banking industry? The man that co-sponsored the Commodities Futures Act of 2000, later known as the Enron Loophole, that lead to credit default swaps being unregulated?

“Where did Clinton and Obama serve?”lol, lol. Obama, of course was 12 years old when the Vietnam War ended.But you are correct, Clinton did NOT serve, and did pull some shenanigans to avoid the draft.But I guess you were too young, or out of the country during the 90’s, HOWGOZIT, because we heard about Clinton’s draft-dodging almost every week for 8 years.Romney, same age as Clinton, got four deferments to avoid the draft, including two to ‘study’ in Paris as a missionary.It would only be fair if Rush Limbaugh criticized Romney for this as much as he criticized Clinton.

Except, of course, for the fact that Limbaugh himself got 2 deferments to avoid the Vietnam War.

To you? Of course not.

“Say another joke, jester.”

Mitt Romney is an honest man.

Big enough joke 4 ya, Howwww-dee?

Why should we listen, when you’ve already said the ame thing 10,000 times?

I josefw hasn’t responded to the demand that he back up that claim of his, but instead bailed off the thread.

Righties do a lot of that.

I wonder WHY.

Nicely done, lol!

‘Where did Clinton and Obama serve?’

Clinton dodged the draft by signing up for ROTC and then not going into ROTC. But he was not a supporter of the Viet Nam war, he was against it. -Willard was a fervent supporter of the Viet Nam war, but sat out five years with religious and student deferments.-When Obama was of draft age, there was no draft. Obama was against going into Iraq. When he was president, the troops were pulled from Iraq, which was severely criticized by Willard the ChickenHawk.-Willard’s sons also served the same amount of time in service to their country: zero.