Where Was Mitt on Inauguration Day? Drinking Milk? Evading Taxes?

source: snl via gifsfln
Mitt may be drowning his sorrows with glasses of milk, probably non-fat.
~ Robert F. on Talking Points Memo

Romney is at home eating chocolate goodies while his wife rides her dressage horse. Tagg is crying, eating fruit roll ups.
~ tytheeman20 on YouTube

Who's Mitt Romney?
~ TopQuark on New York Mag

An assistant will give him binders full of inauguration pics.
~ PaulG85 on Mediaite

Instead, Mitt and Ann dressed in ermine robes and played White House all afternoon.
~ MitchMcTurtle on Mediaite

I hear he is in La Jolla riding up and down on the car elevator...
~ patsysocal on Mediaite

Mitt not attending his own inauguration? Karl and Dick must be crestfallen.
~ PopeOfTheAmericas on Mediaite

He thought it was tomorrow.
~ Jersey Jeff on NY Daily News

First State Bank in Norton, Kan. houses a second-floor gallery full of those, like Romney, who have tried, but failed to become president.
"I've tried to make it a party and a little inauguration," Lee Ann Shearer, the gallery’s director, told the Salina Journal. "After a welcome, I will have a little talk about the rejected candidate."
Romney’s portrait will join those of 59 other presidential losers, including John Kerry, Bob Dole, Al Gore, and John McCain.
The 10 a.m. “Inaugural Event and Reception,” will also include coffee and cookies.
~ NY Daily News

Mitt Romney kept his mind off the Inauguration by spending the day amending his 2011 tax return to get the rest of his writeoffs.#inaug2013

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 21, 2013

Somewhere, right now, a ceiling fan slowly turns above as Mitt Romney staggers around a room in his underpants, hopped up on Diet Coke.

— Damon Lindelof (@DamonLindelof) January 21, 2013

Please don't feel the least bit sorry for Mitt Romney today.He has his $250 million and binders full of women to occupy his time.

— Abraham Lincoln (@Mr_Lincoln) January 21, 2013

"I would have chosen a different Tabernacle Choir" -- Mitt Romney #inaug2013

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 21, 2013

MSNBC Discussion During Inagural Coverage

Rachel Maddow: Mitt Romney did not attend today, and that's not unprecedented - Michael Dukakis did not attend when he was defeated by George H.W. Bush. But Mr. Romney didn't attend and put out word through people close to him that he wasn't even planning to watch today, that he was going to be home in La Jolla, and wasn't even planning on participating in that degree. Do you think that's significant or just a personality point?

Lawrence O'Donnell: I think going to the extent of saying 'and I'm not going to watch' - we don't actually have to know that. (laughter) I don't think anyone's asking what you're doing. (more laughter) You know, I think the question is 'Are you here or are you not here?' ... It's an understandable choice to not come here. I get that, especially if you're not a man of Washington government. You know, this is a former governor, and so he didn't really have a presence in Washington. So I get that.
But I don't get why you'd have to take that extra step and say 'I'm not gonna watch.' I, by the way - I have no problem with him not watching. I can understand that from a human level, losing an election like that - I get it. But this is not the moment in which someone who participated in the greatest drama in our national politics ... should have announced that about himself.

Rachel Maddow: (laughs) Making himself the story.

Sour Grapes ~ Tagg Romney Says Mitt Didn't REALLY Want to be President

He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run. If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention.
~ Mitt Romney's son, Tagg, on the Boston Globe



That White House is probably sour anyway.
~ comment by Vicomtepicabia on NY Mag

Well if he's that indecisive and easily coerced he probably would have been a crappy prez anyway.
~ comment by Flawsmosis on NY Mag

Do the Romneys have no shame? The billions of dollars they spent running for an office they never wanted to run for could have fed half the world!
~ comment by SayItAintSo on NY Mag

Yeah, he didn't want it...he just ran for the office for 8 years.
~ comment by Soma on NY Mag

His other son, Hideandseek, concurred.
~ comment by AdmiralAngy on NY Mag

Is that why he went after his GOP opponents so relentlessly?
Liars.
~ comment by Tiffany NE Patriots on The Hill

Oh boo hoo whine whine excuse excuse BS BS
GOP = Clowns
~ comment by Francis on The Hill

Wow, the BS meter just shattered.
~ comment by NNem93 on Huffington Post

Malarkey.
~ comment by Iam HerMom on Huffington Post

The job did not meet his salary requirements.
~ comment by Peppers Dad on Huffington Post

More proof that our electoral system is just a hobby for rich dilettantes.
~ comment by dogman44 on Huffington Post

He wanted to add President of the Free World to his resume.....so bad you could smell it!!
~ comment by Narfertiti on Huffington Post

He so didn't want the job ~ he only wrote an acceptance speech...
~ comment by byronic on Huffington Post

Your Father bothered us for ten years running for Prez, spent countless billions in the process, made major fools out of every member of his family, exposed corporate greed like never before, told the world how the rich really feel about the poor and the middle class, and all along, he really didn't want to be President?
You are equal, in your absurdity, to any heights your dad achieved in the area of the absurd.
Sounds to me like SOUR GRAPES.
~ comment by Mateo Smith on Huffington Post

Chuck Todd Jumps the Shark Over Voting Machine Link to Romney Family

The voting machine conspiracies belong in same category as the Trump birther garbage.
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 21, 2012

@scottg305 don't conflate voting machine conspiracy with voter access. Two different stories
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 21, 2012

From TruthOut

Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an investment firm called H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. in turn holds a majority share and three out of five board members in Hart Intercivic, a company that owns the notoriously faulty electronic voting machines that will count the ballots in swing state Ohio November 7. Hart machines will also be used elsewhere in the United States.

In other words, a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and his brother, wife and son, have a straight-line financial interest in the voting machines that could decide this fall's election. These machines cannot be monitored by the public. But they will help decide who "owns" the White House.

. . . As reported by Lee Fang of The Nation, Solamere was founded by Tagg Romney and Spencer Zwick, Papa Romney's campaign finance chair. Ann Romney and Mitt's brother G. Scott Romney are also invested. Mitt himself threw in $10 million "seed money" to get the fund going, and spoke personally to its first full investors conference. Solamere's public web presence has been reduced to a front page only, so a complete list of it's partners can not be found. But reportage by the New York Times, Boston Globe, Esquire and the Nation have slowly given us a partial picture of which funds are being funded by Solamere. Some $232 million has been raised so far, according to SEC filings and industry publications.

The Brad Blog

The Austin-based Hart company, according to VerifiedVoting.org's database, supplies electronic voting machines and paper ballot tabulators that will be used to tally votes in the Presidential Election this year in all or parts of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

I offered my point of view about those concerns earlier this month, explaining that it was not just the private ownership of Hart's machines by Romney backers which voters should be concerned about, but the private ownership of the similar systems in all fifty states that will once again be used to tabulate the results of this year's Presidential Election with little --- and very often zero --- possibility of oversight by the public or even by election officials.

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Chuck!Your network EMPLOYS Trump, gives platform! RT @chucktodd voting machine conspiracies belong in same category as Trump birther garbage
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 21, 2012

The Romney voting machines connection should be a bigger story. Just the idea of it undermines people's confidence in the election. @msnbc
— Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) October 21, 2012

Democrats have valid reasons to have distrusted the outcome of the 2000 election, based on a partisan Supreme Court.
— Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) October 21, 2012

Add to that the Sproulgate voter registration scandal, misdirection mailers giving Hispanic voters the wrong date, "True the Vote" tactics..
— Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) October 21, 2012

#DavidGregory Notice this clown along with,other clown #ChuckTodd won't touch the political maps They keep playing with polls WonderWhy #p2

— Reda StCyr (@StCyrlyMe2) October 21, 2012

@hardball_chris #ChuckTodd been drinking the #Romney Kool Aid.. Undercover RWinger!

— rvd4017 (@rdv4017) October 19, 2012

You've turned into a complete #DavidGregory toady #ChuckTodd and a right wing kabuki doll.

— Uncle Jimmy (@jimmywhiz) October 19, 2012

#ChuckTodd What the fuck are you thinking? Comparing voting machine ownership by candidate's son is "conspiracy theory"? IT IS TRUTH! #MSNBC

— K Kelly (@GrainOfSands) October 21, 2012

The problem with @chucktodd theory. . We know Birtherism is hate without facts . We also know Tagg Romney owns voting machines with facts

— redbird45 (@redbird45) October 21, 2012

RT @argylestyle: Imagine the news (@chucktodd leading the pack) if Obama had a grown son who owned voting machines in Ohio. Just imagine.

— Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) October 21, 2012

@gottalaff Am old enuf to hav watched Ed Murrow "Harvest of Shame" Thanksgiving 1960. He wud hav examined voting machine "conspiracies."

— Dave Kelley (@old_scribe) October 21, 2012

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. . . I've heard a lot of false equivalencies from the Villagers, but this one might just take the cake. There are very real concerns about technology proven to be easily hacked without any trail, reports in every election about machines recording votes which are proportionately different from votes cast, and more. In 2008, Tennessee officials went to jail for jacking around with voting and election integrity.
. . . On the other hand, the birther conspiracy theories have been widely investigated, debunked over and over again, and now are the province of people living their lives in a constant state of denial in order to soothe their racist feathers over the fact that a black guy is in the White House.
Simply put, Chuck, there is NO equivalence. None. Zero. . . .
~ Karoli on Crooks and Liars

Heres a simple litmus test for knowing if the Romney's owning a voting machine company stinks like a 4 day old mackeral;
If the names were reversed and it was the Obamas with a straight line financial connection and conflict of interest to the 3rd largest voting machine comany, machines that will play a large role in the 2012 elections, would the Reich wingers be screaming to the heavens about conflict of interest and conspiracies? You damn well know they would be.
This nation has been subjected to 4 YEARS of these wingnuts and their birther nonsense, and the MSM in complicit in spreading the insanity. Funny how the MSM refuses to do any actual investigative journalism into real issues such as this one, and concentrating on birther nonsense.
~ comment by Cthulu on Bradblog

Tagg Romney Wants to Punch Obama For Calling Mitt a Liar

From MoveOn.org

Transcript:
RADIO HOST: I’m gonna ask something I know a lot of people want to know, or at least I do. What it is like for you to hear the President of the United States call your dad a liar. How do you react to that?

TAGG ROMNEY: Uh, you know, uh, well, jump out of your seat, and you want to rush down there to the debate stage and take a swing at him. But you know you can’t do that, because um, well first because there’s a lot of Secret Service between you and him…”

#TaggRomney you should take a swing at your dad for naming you Tagg. #throwingpunches

— Anne C. Savage (@Anne_Savage) October 18, 2012

@taggromney if you are looking for a fight, why not go down to the #Sensata plant, you will find a fight there. #ctl #wiunion

— Larry (@expedience2) October 18, 2012

#TaggRomney: "I wanted to put that colored fella in his place!" #P2

— Mitch Ames (@MitchAmesTX) October 18, 2012

No one has the heart to tell #TaggRomney that he is a clone, grown to provide #Mittens with spare parts.

— Progressive Texas (@ProgressiveTex) October 18, 2012

#TaggRomney shows you what contempt the entire family has for POTUS.

— BinderHusseinObama (@zpg410) October 18, 2012

Guess what it means when you want to slug someone cause you don't like what they are saying? Ur spoiled & emotionally immature. #TaggRomney

— Laur L. (@Laureli_Lemons) October 18, 2012

What kind of father raises a son who says he wants to assault the President?Where did #TaggRomney learn these lessons, and from whom?

— Jeff Berard (@jaberard) October 18, 2012

If #TaggRomney 's response to opposition is to resort to violence, imagine how his father will respond to perceived threats on world stage

— Munchmom (@Munchmom) October 18, 2012

It appears 2 parent households also create violent children. Who knew Mitt could be SO wrong so often? #TaggRomney #Pathetisad

— Chris W. (@ThatOtherChris) October 18, 2012

Grow Up#TaggRomney - It won't help Daddy Mitt to punch out Obama#jail#secretservice#truthhuff.to/Tw5oV8

— Jeanne Kimsey (@SnarkAmendment) October 18, 2012

@cstbtweet "Boy Named Sue" Syndrome #taggromney

— kopper (@kopper) October 18, 2012

“@emptywheel: So why is Tagg so violent? I thought only the children of single mothers were violent like that.” #TaggRomney #irony

— Diana (@dduchessny) October 18, 2012

Settle down. What #TaggRomney really meant when he said "punch" was the 3-holed kind.

— AmericanWhoaMan (@AmericanWhoaMan) October 18, 2012

The #TaggRomney apple does not fall far from the creepy #MittRomney tree. front.moveon.org/whoa-tagg-romn…

— Erika Wolfe (@ErikaWolfeel) October 18, 2012

It actually just makes one thing come to mind. You can be rich and still be classless. #TrailerTrash #TaggRomney

— A (@ANonnieMouseFem) October 18, 2012

Ted Nugent's Motor Mouth Madness

I'll tell you this right now: If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. Any questions? ...(if you don't) get everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil, America-hating administration, I don't even know what you're made out of....If the coyote's in your living room, pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him.
~ Ted Nugent in April 2012, speaking to the NRA, quoted on Yahoo News

Obama, he’s a piece of sh-t, and I told him to suck on my machine gun … Hey Hillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless b—t … Any questions? Freeeeeeeeeeeedom!!!!!”
~ Ted Nugent on stage in 2007, quoted in EW's List of Ted Nugent's Most Outlandish Quotes

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We are aware of the incident and we are conducting appropriate follow-up.
~ Secret Service Head, Brian Leary, also quoted by Yahoo News

From Candidate Mitt Romney's Son on Twitter

The Romney campaign told NBC News that, contrary to Nugent’s claims, they ‘never solicited his endorsement,’ although clearly, they were pleased about it at the time.
~ MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, quoting the Romney campaign Here

'Sic Semper Tyrannis' (Thus be to tyrants)
~ John Wilkes Booth, while leaping into Abraham Lincoln's balcony to shoot him

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Even the President so far, he can't walk in my house without being invited, like he's my daddy, just to say whoa. Not yet! . . . But people are dead now. And it's so hot. Without it even being August yet. Anyways, I seen him fall. I was evermore the one.
~ Nameless Assassin in the Eudora Welty story Where is the Voice Coming From based on the 1963 killing of Medgar Evers, civil-rights activist and NAACP secretary, in Mississippi. In 1994, KKK member Byron De La Beckwith was charged for a third time and found guilty of the assassination, which was later the subject of the movie Ghosts of Mississippi.

To do SOMETHING BOLD AND DRAMATIC , FORCEFUL & DYNAMIC, A STATEMENT of my manhood for the world to see.
~ Arthur Bremer, would-be "Assasinator" of Richard Nixon and George Wallace, whom he shot and paralyzed in 1972, quoted on PBS: The American Experience

Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.
~ John W. Hinckley, Jr, who made a failed 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan