Mitt Romney Channels John Edwards and Al Gore

View from the beach

LA JOLLA — GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney, scheduled to attend a series of fundraisers this weekend in San Diego, is also working on plans to nearly quadruple the size of his $12 million oceanfront manse in La Jolla.



Romney has filed an application with the city to bulldoze his 3,009-square-foot, single-story home at 311 Dunemere Dr. and replace it with a two-story, 11,062-square-foot structure.

Joining John Edwards and Al Gore in the "I don't think my current house is big enough" category, Mitt Romney plans a little ill timed remodeling. No, that's not exactly right. Remodeling is when you change or add to a place. Bulldozing it and replacing it with a structure four times larger is more than "remodeling".



Mr. Romney is free to do whatever he wants to with his money. I don't have a problem with that. At a time when people are losing the modest homes they have, building a mega mansion on the beach doesn't exactly scream, "I feel your pain".



It's just one more way in which Romney looks like Obama Lite. It cannot be good for his campaign.



Update : For those who do not remember the 2008 campaign, here's an ad Obama ran against John McCain.







Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.





H/T Memeorandum

Obama is C-in-C of Dems Class Warfare Against Productive Members of Society

“The debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners, for oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of gasoline has gone up so high.”

-Barack Hussein Obama II

Continuing with our theme of Democrat hypocrisy and class warfare, we have the words of Barack Obama, trying to incite hatred of the wealthy, all the while using the violent rhetoric of "a gun against the head", language which, incidentally, he assures us we ought not to be used. (Part of Obama's patented "civility", don'tcha know?)

Other than riffing on corporate jet owners, which is also hypocritical, since the "tax break" given to corporate jet owners was a part of the stimulus package that NO Republican voted for and Obama personally signed, Obama takes aim at the "oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of gasoline has gone up so high".

Don't you think it's just the tiniest bit hypocritical for him not to mention the biggest recipient of cash from every dollar paid at the pump is government? That government receives a larger percentage of every dollar paid at the pump in taxes than is every realized as "corporate profit"?

And that those taxes ratchet up every time the price of petroleum and gasoline goes up?

That's like a thief pulling a semi trailer up to your house to rob it, pointing at your neighbor who's stealing your newspaper. Rather than deplete the strategic petroleum reserves of the United States, which are there in case of a real emergency and not just falling presidential poll numbers, why doesn't the millionaire who flies the largest US corporate jet from fund raiser to fund raiser consider lowering federal taxes on gasoline, oh, let's say to the amount of tax collected per gallon in 2008 when he was elected to office? (A time which more and more of us are thinking of as "the good old days".)

Obama and his party are spendaholics, so don't expect them to cut the common man relief any time soon from the regressive taxes at the pump which hit the poor hardest.

That might require leadership.



Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.

Alan Grayson's Classless Class Envy

First: When he says "Extend the President Obama tax cuts", he's lying. Obama is only presiding over tax increases. The argument is over how many people's taxes he raises. Not raising your taxes from what they are now is not a "cut".

Second, The "Bush tax cuts" were for the lower and middle class, too, not just the wealthy.

Last, couldn't he find any $600 sneakers for the wealthy to buy? Trips to Spain or India? How much to rent the entire Taj Mahal Hotel?

Thank you, soon to be ex-Rep. Alan Grayson for the view from your colon.

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