ROMNEY’S CRISIS NARRATIVE
“I FIX THINGS THAT ARE BROKEN"
While people may not want a Mormon President in their home
week after week reminding them of Howard Hughes’ dependence upon Mormons for
the running of his Las Vegas empire, or of their history of bigamy, Mitt Romney
is the “go to guy” when there is a crisis.
“Mitt was the fixer-upper for the Salt Lake City Olympics,”
said Horace Merkle of the Former Mormons for Responsible Religion, a non-profit
assembly of disenchanted former Mormons.
“Mitt came to the rescue of Bain Consulting when it was in
deep doo-doo,” said Merkle. “Then there
was his rescue of Massachusetts as its governor. Some say it wasn’t that great, but who knows
for sure? Of course as part of Mitt’s success we cannot overlook the fact that it
was Bain Capital that came to the rescue of Senator William Frist’s company HCA
hospitals after its merger with Colombia Health Care and their plummet into bankruptcy and
reorganization. Frist’s buddy, Richard
Scott, CEO of Colombia-HCA at a time when Frist was in office in Washington as
Tennessee’s senator, would receive the largest Medicare and health care fraud
fine in U.S. history at $1.7 billion.
Thanks to Bain and the Colombia-HCA lawyers and their political
connections, not only did attorney and CEO Richard Scott, also a close friend
of Richard Rainwater... Rainwater... George W. Bush’s partner in the Texas Ranger baseball
franchise stay out of jail, but Rick Scott did not suffer from the fiasco. Instead, he
retired with a nice severance package.
Retiring from Colombia/HCA with a $400 million nest egg he used his fortune to help fund his election as Florida’s Governor,”
said Merkle noting that Floridians “must be incredibly corrupt or brain dead."
Merkle said this while pointing to a photo of a Scott predecessor in the Florida's governor's mansion before Scott's move from Texas to Tallahassee....Jeb Bush.... the brother of Texas Governor and President George W. Bush.
Merkle said this while pointing to a photo of a Scott predecessor in the Florida's governor's mansion before Scott's move from Texas to Tallahassee....Jeb Bush.... the brother of Texas Governor and President George W. Bush.
Since the S&L scandal of the 80’s and 90’s, the Enron,
Worldcom, HealthSouth and other debacles, the burst of the housing bubble, and
bank bailout, Mitt Romney has excelled in things like keeping Governor Richard
Scott and Senator William Frist out of the "Walmart of Healthcare-turned-sleeze-bucket-limelight."
Ken Lay of Enron, was not so lucky and may have wished, were he alive,
that Bain Capital had been there to fix his problems, too, according to Merkle.
“The return to the pre-Obama years of the Reagan and Bush ‘unleashing
of Wall Street” promised by the election of Mitt Romney," said Merkle, “will be the return of the 80’s and 90’s without a
doubt. Mitt is a fixer….for some…..and he’s
going to fix things real, real good.”
"Essentially the power elites of the U.S. and Wall Street regrettably, reluctantly, but understandably, handed Obama the ball in 2008 after the game had already been thrown in the fourth quarter. Obama wanted the ball, which was a good thing since the elephant that the Republicans were backing was Senator John McCain. McCain was NOT a fixer. He was a crasher. Crashed 5 airplanes while in the Navy, a remarkable feat only accomplished by the son of an Admiral. Anyone less is long gone! Plus McCain really fixed things when he chose Palin as his running mate. Nope. McCain is a crasher. So following General Colin Powell's assessment "if we break it, it ours," the Republicans handed Obama a broken foreign policy agenda, a broken energy policy, a broken industrial base, a broken import-export policy, a broken Iraq that our mismanagement morphed into a civil war with all the corruption inherent in America's other managed conflicts, a broken Federal Reserve whose chairman admitted his philosophy of economics was 'flawed', a broken Fannie Mae that had originally helped Americans avoid the pilfering of their home equity nest eggs, and a broken promise to 'protect and defend' the Constitution of the U.S. with the erosion of citizen rights in lieu of the promise of an illusive security and protection from terrorism. It's all B.S. folks," said Merkle, "and now it's all Obama's fault, simply because he didn't push fast enough and hard enough, squandering his chances just as GWB squandered the enormous reservoir of goodwill that the world had for the U.S.A after 911, when he invaded Iraq under a flimsy rouse. If Bush had been a legitimate leader, which only a total Florida recount could have provided, he would have invaded Saudi Arabia when 15 of the 19 Arab hi-jackers were Saudi's and when Osama Bin Laden's family was the empire-builders for the Saudi Royal Family. Instead Bush ushered some of the Bin Laden's out of the U.S. from a Houston airport within hours of 911. Yep, it's all B.S. folks. It's all B.S.," Merkle continued pointing out that Obama, while a smooth organizing operator in many ways, his wife, Michele, had worked in the historic Springfield, Illinois law firm that defended wife of the Republican standard bearer, Abe Lincoln, Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln.
"Given Obama's do-little policies relative to the War in Afghanistan and the closing of GITMO as Clint Eastwood pointed out, is Obama a handpicked shill for the power elites?" asked Merkle noting that Obama's black chief legal officer, Eric Holder, under fire for the disappearance of guns along the U.S.-Mexican border could not have provided a better senario for stoking the fear of a fifth-column invasion requiring a 'make my day' response."
So Obama said according to Merkle, "'I want that ball. Give it to me!' Well, he got it and since the game was rigged in the fourth quarter of the Bush administration with the referees like Alan Greenspan, Congress and the former President adjusting and readjusting the game clock on a game that really never ends and where the tailgating party for the rich goes on forever, Obama now finds himself in a pinch. Don't worry Obama. Don't worry, America. Mitt will fix it all up," said Merkle noting that Romney and his friends have a Darwinian taste for this type of politics just as do elephants. "If the best feelings we have for Obama was the day that we voted for him, an infinitely worse day will be when Mitt Romney, yea the guy who straps his dog to the top of the car and who brow beats a gay student, beats Obama and returns the nation to the raping and pillaging of the 80's and 90's under the guise of 'I'll fix it'".
"Clint Eastwood fixes problems by putting a bullet through its heart or head," said Merkle. "I knew a man who knew Eastwood since he was Roddy Yates on Rawhide and he says that Eastwood hates horses. Well, the world that America must enter and enter quickly is infinitely more complex than the cattle trail of Rawhide or the "make my day" of Dirty Harry. Put Romney's group back in the saddle and you'll all....the 99%.... have some really raw hides," he noted as he pointed out that the open range of America's frontier gave way to barbed-wire fences leading to the JP Morgan and EH Harriman controlled rail heads. From there it was on to the Kansas City and Chicago stock yards not unlike Himmler's rail lines to Germany's factories.
"Clint Eastwood, addressing the Republican Convention said that 'We own this country," Merkle noted. "Never has the iron fist of the power elites been as exposed in prime-time than in 'Dirty Harry' Eastwood's remark. As fellow Italian actor and director of The Good Shepherd, Robert DeNiro, can tell you, Clint left out the punch line: 'We own this country and the rest of you are visitors,'" said Merkle who knows that the same elements that hated the Irish, Italians, Jews, Gypsies, dark-skinned, slant-eyed and aboriginals, stick together in a type of Brahmin-elite no more tightly glued to their collective triggers than in New England.... Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington.
"Clint was the iconic bad cop....Dirty Harry who tells you....'We own this country.' Romney entered the room like the good cop to tell you that he, like you, is a lowly immigrant. A rich immigrant thanks to what even Texas Governor Rick Perry identified as 'vulture capitalism', but an immigrant who will never forget who 'owns this country' and to whom he really owes allegiance," said Merkle.
"'Dirty Harry' said as his closing appeal....Go ahead and say it, 'go ahead and make my day'.....a reference that would make the gun and munitions makers whose ancillary incomes from stocking....over-stockpiling the arsenal of freedom...as happy as Charleton Heston holding a black powder musket in his cold dead hand or as the Generals who know so well who really holds the nuclear codes in their back pockets. 'Dirty Harry doesn't like lawyers, particularly plaintiff's lawyers, because they represent rule of law, negotiation and compromise," said Merkle. "You know, the stuff that a democratic republic depends on for its resilience, strenght and power....only secondarily on the sword. Make my day, Mr. Romney and Mr. Eastwood. Get elected president and turn the nation around like you promise and do it on the back of something other than bombing the crap out of lesser nations and drone fly-bys or gobbling fossil fuels. And if you don't? You may not be able to pull the same ploy next time by running a Hispanic leader up the flagpole after the revisited 'Rape of America'.
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| Convention of Republican Elephants? |
"Essentially the power elites of the U.S. and Wall Street regrettably, reluctantly, but understandably, handed Obama the ball in 2008 after the game had already been thrown in the fourth quarter. Obama wanted the ball, which was a good thing since the elephant that the Republicans were backing was Senator John McCain. McCain was NOT a fixer. He was a crasher. Crashed 5 airplanes while in the Navy, a remarkable feat only accomplished by the son of an Admiral. Anyone less is long gone! Plus McCain really fixed things when he chose Palin as his running mate. Nope. McCain is a crasher. So following General Colin Powell's assessment "if we break it, it ours," the Republicans handed Obama a broken foreign policy agenda, a broken energy policy, a broken industrial base, a broken import-export policy, a broken Iraq that our mismanagement morphed into a civil war with all the corruption inherent in America's other managed conflicts, a broken Federal Reserve whose chairman admitted his philosophy of economics was 'flawed', a broken Fannie Mae that had originally helped Americans avoid the pilfering of their home equity nest eggs, and a broken promise to 'protect and defend' the Constitution of the U.S. with the erosion of citizen rights in lieu of the promise of an illusive security and protection from terrorism. It's all B.S. folks," said Merkle, "and now it's all Obama's fault, simply because he didn't push fast enough and hard enough, squandering his chances just as GWB squandered the enormous reservoir of goodwill that the world had for the U.S.A after 911, when he invaded Iraq under a flimsy rouse. If Bush had been a legitimate leader, which only a total Florida recount could have provided, he would have invaded Saudi Arabia when 15 of the 19 Arab hi-jackers were Saudi's and when Osama Bin Laden's family was the empire-builders for the Saudi Royal Family. Instead Bush ushered some of the Bin Laden's out of the U.S. from a Houston airport within hours of 911. Yep, it's all B.S. folks. It's all B.S.," Merkle continued pointing out that Obama, while a smooth organizing operator in many ways, his wife, Michele, had worked in the historic Springfield, Illinois law firm that defended wife of the Republican standard bearer, Abe Lincoln, Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln.
"Given Obama's do-little policies relative to the War in Afghanistan and the closing of GITMO as Clint Eastwood pointed out, is Obama a handpicked shill for the power elites?" asked Merkle noting that Obama's black chief legal officer, Eric Holder, under fire for the disappearance of guns along the U.S.-Mexican border could not have provided a better senario for stoking the fear of a fifth-column invasion requiring a 'make my day' response."
So Obama said according to Merkle, "'I want that ball. Give it to me!' Well, he got it and since the game was rigged in the fourth quarter of the Bush administration with the referees like Alan Greenspan, Congress and the former President adjusting and readjusting the game clock on a game that really never ends and where the tailgating party for the rich goes on forever, Obama now finds himself in a pinch. Don't worry Obama. Don't worry, America. Mitt will fix it all up," said Merkle noting that Romney and his friends have a Darwinian taste for this type of politics just as do elephants. "If the best feelings we have for Obama was the day that we voted for him, an infinitely worse day will be when Mitt Romney, yea the guy who straps his dog to the top of the car and who brow beats a gay student, beats Obama and returns the nation to the raping and pillaging of the 80's and 90's under the guise of 'I'll fix it'".
"Clint Eastwood fixes problems by putting a bullet through its heart or head," said Merkle. "I knew a man who knew Eastwood since he was Roddy Yates on Rawhide and he says that Eastwood hates horses. Well, the world that America must enter and enter quickly is infinitely more complex than the cattle trail of Rawhide or the "make my day" of Dirty Harry. Put Romney's group back in the saddle and you'll all....the 99%.... have some really raw hides," he noted as he pointed out that the open range of America's frontier gave way to barbed-wire fences leading to the JP Morgan and EH Harriman controlled rail heads. From there it was on to the Kansas City and Chicago stock yards not unlike Himmler's rail lines to Germany's factories.
"Clint Eastwood, addressing the Republican Convention said that 'We own this country," Merkle noted. "Never has the iron fist of the power elites been as exposed in prime-time than in 'Dirty Harry' Eastwood's remark. As fellow Italian actor and director of The Good Shepherd, Robert DeNiro, can tell you, Clint left out the punch line: 'We own this country and the rest of you are visitors,'" said Merkle who knows that the same elements that hated the Irish, Italians, Jews, Gypsies, dark-skinned, slant-eyed and aboriginals, stick together in a type of Brahmin-elite no more tightly glued to their collective triggers than in New England.... Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington.
"Clint was the iconic bad cop....Dirty Harry who tells you....'We own this country.' Romney entered the room like the good cop to tell you that he, like you, is a lowly immigrant. A rich immigrant thanks to what even Texas Governor Rick Perry identified as 'vulture capitalism', but an immigrant who will never forget who 'owns this country' and to whom he really owes allegiance," said Merkle.
"'Dirty Harry' said as his closing appeal....Go ahead and say it, 'go ahead and make my day'.....a reference that would make the gun and munitions makers whose ancillary incomes from stocking....over-stockpiling the arsenal of freedom...as happy as Charleton Heston holding a black powder musket in his cold dead hand or as the Generals who know so well who really holds the nuclear codes in their back pockets. 'Dirty Harry doesn't like lawyers, particularly plaintiff's lawyers, because they represent rule of law, negotiation and compromise," said Merkle. "You know, the stuff that a democratic republic depends on for its resilience, strenght and power....only secondarily on the sword. Make my day, Mr. Romney and Mr. Eastwood. Get elected president and turn the nation around like you promise and do it on the back of something other than bombing the crap out of lesser nations and drone fly-bys or gobbling fossil fuels. And if you don't? You may not be able to pull the same ploy next time by running a Hispanic leader up the flagpole after the revisited 'Rape of America'.
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