breezespeaks | The Awful Truth

Posted on July 17, 2012

Has anyone noticed that the price of a barrel of crude oil has stayed below $90.00 for some time now, yet the price of gasoline has risen about $.25 per gallon in the past two weeks. When a barrel was over $100.00 we watched the price of gas rise daily, sometimes twice in the same day, yet when oil goes down it takes weeks for consumers to see a drop in price. And still, both Democrats and Republicans are loath to take away Big Oil’s tax breaks, which are often, mistakenly, referred to as subsidies (or so I’ve been told.) Just more tax breaks for the rich, which consumers pay for every time they fill up their cars, and more politics as usual.

Also of political note, the Republicans have been crying foul over President Obama’s recent campaign tactics, which include raking Romney over the coals for not releasing his tax returns, and his business practices while running Bain Capital. Aren’t these the same people who Swift Boated three-time Purple Heart winner John Kerry back in 2004, and in 2000 intimated that Presidential hopeful, and fellow Republican, John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child with a woman in South Carolina? This is like the Marquis de Sade complaining about a hangnail.

Speaking of Karl Rove, I caught him earlier today on FOX commenting on dirty politics. I have to give FOX credit for once, as they went straight to the source. Rove has a PhD in Political Skullduggery and has slandered more people than the National Enquirer. Ol’ Karl would not come right out and say that the President was playing dirty pool, just that he was playing with fire, and that it could come back to haunt him. But I disagree, because I really think people don’t much care for Willard “Mitt” Romney, and I’ll tell you why.

First, Willard looks like the fat cat CEO of a company that is just dying to lay you off; and he might have, during his days at Bain. If you were casting the part of a heartless, brainless scion of a wealthy family, you could do worse than Willard. His off the cuff offer of a $10,000.00 bet with Rick Perry at the Iowa debate shows just how out of touch, and filthy rich, he actually is. And he pays less in taxes, percentage wise, than you or I (that is, if you don’t own stocks.) I don’t hold a person’s wealth against them, I just think income should be taxed as income, no matter how it is derived. Why should capital gains be taxed at a lesser rate than regular income? Riddle me that, Batman.

And finally, Mitt shares the same first name with a very famous movie rat. (Why does the word typecast come quickly to mind.) It’s no wonder he goes by Mitt.

Most folks simply can’t identify with Willard. With nary a hair out-of-place, his status in the top 1% of the 1%, and his almost smug air of superiority, he will never be mistaken for a blue-collar worker. He is above it all, as was often his expression during the Republican debates. He almost appears robotic.

President Obama, on the other hand, was seen smooching on the kiss cam at the Brazil-USA basketball game the other day, a very human thing to do. I just hope it was with the First Lady, and not Vice President Joe Biden.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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