The Day Mitt Romney Went from Endorsing Reagan to Endorsing Occupy Wall Street in Only a Few Hours

Mitt Romney launched a new economic plan on Wednesday. Some of us were happy to see one because his last plan was only slightly better than Obama, so it was good to seem “go bold.” Of course we also would have preferred he did this because he believed in it and not just because he’s not doing well in the polls, but baby steps.

His new plan is impressive. Jim Pethokoukis (read his full write up here) says that Romney went “the full Reagan.” Sounds great, but this is Romney so you always have your doubts as to how serious he is, or how seriously he’ll fight for the plan.

A few hours later…

“But for high income folks, we are going to cut back on that, so we make sure the top 1% keeps paying the current share they’re paying or more.”

Ok, so Mitt? Real talk. Why are we supposed to believe you’re serious aboot your conservative economic reform plan, when you’re already back to use the rhetoric of President Obama and the Democrat endorsed Occupy Wall Street?

Paul Ryan on the ‘Buffett Rule’: “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere!”

No wait, that’s the JIMMY Buffett rule. And we’re not talking aboot the rule where you wash your hands and don’t double dip in the salsa. This Buffett rule is named after Warren Buffett who chooses to pay less in taxes than his secretary, whines about how unfair it is, and now President Obama wants to raise taxes on millionaires (or 250k-a-year-aires, I haven’t seen the details) because MIC CHECK we are the 99%.

Paul Ryan doesn’t think the President has the grapefruits…

“What we have learned from the president time and again is he is going to put some kind of a poll-tested line in the State of the Union address and have no follow up whatsoever. All Obama is really giving Americans is “a future of debt, doubt and decline. We have learned already that the president, who’s had three years to try and propose real solutions to fix our fiscal crisis, is ducking it. He hasn’t put a plan on the table yet. He formed commissions and super committees, so he sort of outsourced the leadership only to decry their results. So, we are not getting the leadership we need from the White House at a time when we need it the most.”

Here’s my issue with the “Buffett Rule,” and it has nothing to do with the recent revelations that his secretary bought a second home and probably makes between 200-500k a year (something that if she had been an unlicensed plumber who was playing football with her son when Barack Obama came walking down he block, the media would have investigated). It’s the gross hypocrisy coming Warren Buffett, which is even a bit much by left wing standards.

If he’s really that upset that his secretary pays less in money, he’s more than happy to not exploit the loopholes that allow him to pay less in taxes. He can not hire his lawyers and accountants to find those loopholes to exploit. He can send and in kind gift to the treasury because he thinks he wasn’t taxed enough. Or, he can just pay his secretary more money and/or offer to pay her taxes for her.

I mean, he has so much and she has so much less. That’s FAIR!

The other thing we can get serious aboot closing the loopholes and other corporate welfare that allow him to pay less, which if the left would stop demogauging Paul Ryan they would he’s a big advocate of doing, as are any of the rest of us who are serious aboot actual tax reform.

The Rise of the Paul Ryan Republicans (and the Disappointment of 2012)

“Ok, the jokes over. When do we get to see our real candidates?” – every other conservative tweet on Twitter

I don’t mean to make today look like Paul Ryan day. It just so happened there were a bunch of stories aboot him. You had his response to Newt Gingrich. He was a runner-up for Time’s “Person of the Year.” He also announced a bi-partisan Medicare reform bill will Democrat Senator Ron Wyden. I don’t think there’s been this much attention paid to him since the last round of “Ryan for President” rumours.

It made me think about the people who actually decided to run for President, and the prevailing attitude that if nominated any of these people, that the “tea party” have failed. No one has failed. I think everyone just has to remember that most of our “heroes” have only been there for under two years.