Finally, A Democratic Catch Phrase With Teeth — ‘Romney Hood’
Most Americans are not only open to the idea of income equality, they like the idea a lot. As a people, we think that those who are successful should be well rewarded financially, and these rewards should grow over time.
You made a million last year and two million this year? Fine. You made $10 million last year and $100 million this year. Super. Your income jumped from $840 million last year to $1.2 billion this year? Go, man, go.
There’s a caveat to such approval, however. While the one percent or the one-tenth of one percent wax greatly, other Americans also want to get their own taste, their own trickle. They want to go from $40,000 to $60,000, from $65,000 to $85,000.
And of course that hasn’t been happening in recent years. All the very modest economic growth in this country during this period, ALL of it, has gravitated to the top and the very top. In the middle, and at the bottom, things have gotten worse, or at best, there’s been a struggle just to stay in place.
We’re not getting our taste, our trickle, while at the top they’re skimming all the cream. And the skimmers at the top seem more and more to be getting theirs not in ways distinct from us, but at our expense.
Which brings us to the Mitt Romney campaign for President. Will his proposed economic nostrums (to the extent he has even deigned to explain them) bring about more economic growth? Even if you think they will, look closer and you’ll see where all this extra growth would go. And it’s not to the middle and the bottom of the economic scale.
Hence, the newly coined Obama campaign phrase “Romney Hood,” which manages to encapsulate this in a single phrase. The idea that a Romney presidency will only benefit the rich at the expense of all others.
Could Democratic political phrase mongers have finally outdone their Republican counterparts, after trailing so badly for so many years? I believe they have.
A poll from Rasmussen I came across the other day found a new high among Americans who now don’t want the Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’) to be repealed — 45 percent. Not a majority, of course, but movement in a direction favorable to Democrats.
If this presidential race comes down to Obamacare versus Romney Hood, I’m thinking we might have a two-term Presdient in office next year.
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Romney Hood
Dirty Liar.
Time to grow up and start acting like adults, make some hard decisions like adults need to make sometimes and stop acting like brats in the park calling others names.
And the voters are stupid enough to think these people will really make a difference if elected.
I think the biggest reason so many people initially disliked Obamacare was because they simply didn’t understand it. Once they learned more about it they began to realize it was an improvement over the current system. Too bad there wasn’t enough courage and vision to shoot for single payer, but courage and vision only seem to be words in the US govt of the 21st century.
It does have a ring to it. And some truth as well. Of course its not like the Democrats in Congress of the Oval Office have had the wherewithal to reverse the things done under Bush, so unless they develop some stones I also don’t see a whole lot of difference. I guess they can keep the GOP from making it worse. But we need more. We need the ghost of FDR to light a fire under them.
From the Tax Policy Center March 2012:
[The budget proposal House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released last week is, essentially, an effort to have low- and middle-class households bear the entire burden of closing the fiscal gap and bear the costs of financing an additional tax cut for high income households.
The Tax Policy Center (which I co-direct) analyzed the revenue policies as proposed by Rep. Ryan. We simulated the effects of repealing the AMT and reducing ordinary income tax rates to 10 and 25 percent. These proposals would cost about $3.2 trillion over ten years, on top of the $0.3 trillion lost from repealing taxes enacted to pay for Affordable Care Act, the $1.1 trillion lost from his desired reduction in the corporate tax rate, and the $5.4 trillion lost from first extending the Bush-Obama tax cuts (which he also supports). By 2022, the tax policies he has specified would lower federal revenues to just 15.8 percent of GDP. Talk about digging yourself a hole.]
Sounds like Romney Hood (robbing the poor to give to the rich) to me. Anyone who is making less than $250,000 and votes for Romney is either uninformed or a masochist.
Ohioan — Or they could just really really hate black people and gay people.
“Anyone who is making less than $250,000 and votes for Romney is either uninformed or a masochist.”
Seriously.
How can that be when so many of the ‘well informed’ right leaning commenters here appear not only to be planning for Romney but they are doing their best to convince others to do the same.
Why would all these well informed people vote against their own best interests?
There must be a mistake… John Stuart Mill didn’t say that all conservatives were stupid.
SteveK — I think it comes down to social issues, as well as the famous Steinbeck quote:
“The poor [in America] see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
If Romney is elected and Congress enacts the Ryan Budget, there will be no going back– as the rich and powerful will be able to forever control our political system– not that they don’t now but at least the rest of us currently have a fighting chance.
Use Romney Hood with some harsh predictions
of life in the US after this has passed, and it will most certainly be effective. The Dems won’t even have to distort the picture
A snappy catch phrase is just what the Democrats need.
Remember Fractured Fairy Tales? Well, as I remember Robin Hood, he took from the rich and gave to the poor. So isn’t it Obama Hood.
(Excuse me if I am being redundant.)
You’re not being redundant, you’re being silly and trying to segue from the point of this thread to something safer for the Romney POV.
10 points for transparency dduck… That one was easy to see through.
“If Romney is elected and Congress enacts the Ryan Budget, there will be no going back”
There will be going back. Just not after the conservative policies of deregulation and taxation that shift money even further from the poor to the rich complete the inevitable cycle with another Depression. I believe alcoholics have the term “Rock Bottom”. It is the point where an addict can no longer believe even the lies they tell themselves about how they have things under control, because their decisions have lead to so much pain and misery the blinders have finally come off.
Conservative fiscal policy is like that. They keep saying if only we lower taxes and deregulate the market will fix itself, basing this analysis off of some really misinterpreted version of Adam Smith’s free market. Have those conservative policies been shown to be really awful? Yes. Have they been awful enough for the really sick to actually take the blinders off? Apparently not. We as a nation frankly would rather hit rock bottom again via the EXACT SAME PATH WE HIT IT BEFORE, than pick up a history book and crunch some numbers. Its going to be in interesting ride.
SK, I’m silly? Please accept my apologies for those delusional enough to play this “silly”
name calling game.
Please keep your remarks civil or else become a politician.
You’re right dduck and I’m sorry.
I was at a loss searching for the right word to describe someone who tried to change the subject of a serious thread discussing Romney’s proposed economic plan by referring to fractured fairy tales.
I got lazy and chose one that seemed to fit without concern for your feelings… Again, I apologize, I was wrong.
To make amends, here’s a Fractured Fairy Tale about a spoiled little rich kid titled “Prince Darling”
I’m very happy to accept sincere apologies, and I am sorry i snapped at you.
So, all O and R need is a fairy godmother. I would waste one of my wishes on that.
I LOVED Fractured Fairy Tales. And they fit right into the current la comedie grande.
The scary thing to consider is just how good Republicans are at making reason defying spins, and all too often, creating downright lies! One of the reasons the health care bill is just now beginning to gain in popularity is that, the fiscal illusion spun by Republicans really has begun to hit bottom–at least in the sense that the GOP is less and less successful in distorting reality. Many voters have actually begun to see glimers of truthful political facts.
The real reason the ACA ever got a bad reputation in the first place is because, Republicans TOLD US to fear and dislike it. Up until recently very few American’s had ever been exposed to truthful information, and people like Rove, Palin, Beck and Gingrich continued to spoon feed POSSIBLE YARNS–possible only because a shred of truth here and there quickly convinced even more Americans that their distrust of Government, was based on truth.Unfortunately they remained unaware that,the real threat is actually the incredibly bogus and pseudo journalism that spews forth from FOX cable new each day.
Since believing these falsehoods might coax voters to turn over more and more of the Government to conservative politicians and special interest groups, as they did in 2010, we can only hope that Lincoln’s words still ring true: “you can fool some of the people, all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, BUT,YOU CAN’T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME.”
I am a person who does not like to even consider the possibility that political conspiracies (code word–policies)are responsible for unfairly tilting our political playing field, but, after reading about the GOP’s think tanks and policy groups, including AlEC, as well as gargantuan Super-packs funding of their candidates, I have come to believe that this dangerous agenda for cementing the GOP’s economic control, has indeed, been going on for decades and oversees the partnering of big business and Republicans, in a very detrimental–even sinister–way.
Even reputable journalists are so shocked by what they hear that they have decide (in some cases) that the principles of unbiased reporting are not really permitting truthful reporting. i.e. if they write about The Holocaust during WW2, should they be expected to give equal time to the ideas of Neo-Nazis or white supremacy groups who claim that the systematic torture and slaughter of 6 million Jews never really happened? But a new concept of UNFAIR Balance affirms that some issues are too well established to warrant equal time–especially not for the big lies that contradict them.
I, along with many others, including John McCain (who openly denounces the “Citizens Supreme Court ruling)can no longer believe that there is nothing wrong with our Democracy–But rather, we want to admit that there is something extremely rotten happening in DC!
In my opinion, Democracy rises and falls according to the availability of accurate and open news reporting. The survival of our Democracy depends on the free exercise of the first Amendment, and the presses freedom to report real facts, not the convenient and often outrageous lies like those FOX cable news!
petew, with all due respect, see JG’s post: “Welcome Kiddies………………….
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/07/obamas-sleaziest-ad-yet-romney-kinda-sorta-killed-a-mans-wife-by-closing-down-his-steel-plant/
You said: “how good Republicans are at making reason defying spins, and all too often, creating downright lies!”
It would appear that Dems have slid down from Mt. Olympus.
Well, what do expect when facing the Rep lies, I hear Dems saying. I agree.
So, all O and R need is a fairy godmother.
Andy Sullivan as Romney Hood’s adviser…
And Mayor Bloomberg as O-baloney’s adviser.
The first record of Obaloney I can find is
April 13, 2009 on a right wing website about “Balack Obaloney” “ending the embargo on Communist Cuba”. It surely hasn’t taken the Romney campaign 3.3 years to catch up, has it? Surely not.