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Last week, Mitt Romney got into a tangle with a riled-up heckler, who was saying that corporations should be taxed more. Romney of course sings the Republican song that higher taxes are not the answer, and he hoped to educate the heckler that corporations are people, too, and therefore ought not to be taxed more. Liberals bashed Romney on his 'corporations are people too' line, but I'm sure it actually played well for his money base, who I am sure have no trouble seeing that a good corporation is certainly better than a poor Mexican.
This was bigger news at the time, becaused Rick Perry had yet to get into the race for the Republican nomination. Perry's entrance, incidentally, throws a nasty wrench into Romney's fixings. Romney is probably a better bet for the general election, as he is a Republican who doesn't come off as being crazy, at least if you can discount that Mormon thing, but the problem is that Perry promises to be a pretty baby for the primaries and the American Jesus crowds. It is this kind of internecine struggle in the Republican Party that gives Obama a chance to get his second term in spite of himself.
Considering how disappointing Obama has been for liberals, it is rather miraculous that he isn't being crippled himself with a Democratic challenger. Maybe this is where his move to make Hillary the Secretary of State really pays, because if she were left unhappy, it is more than fantasy to think that she would be running hot now, making for quite an election season indeed.
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At the fair, Romney — whose net worth is between $190 million and $250 million — once again went manly by flipping a pork chop on a grill and facing down hecklers worried about cuts in Social Security. When a man in the audience yelled that corporations should be taxed more, Romney replied, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
Give “The Stormin’ Mormon,” as Neil Cavuto approvingly called him on Fox News, credit: never has the traditional Republican doctrine been so succinctly explained.
Of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation. We the corporation. Corporations who need corporations are the luckiest corporations in the world. Power to the corporation!
Romney may not have realized that he was articulating the same fundamental concept of the American right that Justice Antonin Scalia propounded in the Citizens United case, when the Supreme Court opened the way to Super PACs and a flood of surreptitious new donations in politics. (A former official at Bain Capital, Romney’s old private equity firm, admitted recently that he was the one who anonymously gave $1 million to a pro-Mitt Super PAC.)
The association of individuals in a business corporation, Scalia wrote in his concurring opinion, “cannot be denied the right to speak on the simplistic ground that it is not ‘an individual American.’ ”
The back-door money infused by Karl Rove, the Chamber of Commerce, the Koch brothers and others elected a slew of radical Republicans. Thanks to that Congressional wrecking crew, America’s credit rating has been downgraded and its economy has been hurt.
At least Republicans are getting most of the blame for that, my friend.
-- Maureen Dowd for The New York Times
This was bigger news at the time, becaused Rick Perry had yet to get into the race for the Republican nomination. Perry's entrance, incidentally, throws a nasty wrench into Romney's fixings. Romney is probably a better bet for the general election, as he is a Republican who doesn't come off as being crazy, at least if you can discount that Mormon thing, but the problem is that Perry promises to be a pretty baby for the primaries and the American Jesus crowds. It is this kind of internecine struggle in the Republican Party that gives Obama a chance to get his second term in spite of himself.
Considering how disappointing Obama has been for liberals, it is rather miraculous that he isn't being crippled himself with a Democratic challenger. Maybe this is where his move to make Hillary the Secretary of State really pays, because if she were left unhappy, it is more than fantasy to think that she would be running hot now, making for quite an election season indeed.
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At the fair, Romney — whose net worth is between $190 million and $250 million — once again went manly by flipping a pork chop on a grill and facing down hecklers worried about cuts in Social Security. When a man in the audience yelled that corporations should be taxed more, Romney replied, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
Give “The Stormin’ Mormon,” as Neil Cavuto approvingly called him on Fox News, credit: never has the traditional Republican doctrine been so succinctly explained.
Of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation. We the corporation. Corporations who need corporations are the luckiest corporations in the world. Power to the corporation!
Romney may not have realized that he was articulating the same fundamental concept of the American right that Justice Antonin Scalia propounded in the Citizens United case, when the Supreme Court opened the way to Super PACs and a flood of surreptitious new donations in politics. (A former official at Bain Capital, Romney’s old private equity firm, admitted recently that he was the one who anonymously gave $1 million to a pro-Mitt Super PAC.)
The association of individuals in a business corporation, Scalia wrote in his concurring opinion, “cannot be denied the right to speak on the simplistic ground that it is not ‘an individual American.’ ”
The back-door money infused by Karl Rove, the Chamber of Commerce, the Koch brothers and others elected a slew of radical Republicans. Thanks to that Congressional wrecking crew, America’s credit rating has been downgraded and its economy has been hurt.
At least Republicans are getting most of the blame for that, my friend.
-- Maureen Dowd for The New York Times
