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In what his campaign billed as his “closing argument,” Mitt Romney warned Americans that a second term for President Obama would have apocalyptic consequences for the economy in part because his own party would force a debt ceiling disaster.

“Unless we change course, we may well be looking at another recession,” Romney told a crowd in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Romney said that Obama “promised to be a post-partisan president, but he became the most partisan” and that his bitter relations with the House GOP could threaten the economy. As his chief example, he pointed to a crisis created entirely by his own party’s choice — Republican lawmakers’ ongoing threat to reject a debt ceiling increase. Economists warn that a failure to pass such a measure would have immediate and catastrophic consequences for the recovery.

“You know that if the President is re-elected, he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress,” Romney said. “He has ignored them, attacked them, blamed them. The debt ceiling will come up again, and shutdown and default will be threatened, chilling the economy.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/romney-new-recession-warning.php?ref=fpa

My head hurts after reading this. So if you don't get your way and win your response is to fuck it all for everyone else? Talk about spoiled children!
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2012, 05:00:20 pm »
What reality do they live in where they think they can get away with this?

Ironbite-are they just that bat shit blind to the power of the internet?

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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 05:12:42 pm »
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He said that, like Obama, “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.”

This, coming from a guy that left MA with a 39% approval rating.
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2012, 05:14:21 pm »
I thought they already wrecked the economy??

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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2012, 05:14:28 pm »
...what?  Wow, yeah, threatening another recession/depression is a GREAT way to get yourself elected.  Dumbass.

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He said that, like Obama, “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.”

This, coming from a guy that left MA with a 33% approval rating.

As someone from MA, trust me, almost nobody I know likes him.
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2012, 05:26:38 pm »
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"You know that if the President is re-elected, he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress,” Romney said. “He has ignored them, attacked them, blamed them."

He's bitching about the Obama blaming congress . . . in the same article he's threatening that the GOP congress will hurt the economy?
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2012, 05:27:34 pm »
Yes...see my previous post in this thread.

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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2012, 08:23:44 pm »
Rmoney is getting desperate, he must have look at 538.
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2012, 09:18:36 pm »
Let us wreck the country or we will wreck the country.

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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2012, 09:55:57 pm »
Remember the episode of "The Simpsons" were Homer gets elected to run the Springfield waste disposal department deposing the professional administrator. He then immediately ran the department into the ground by making unfunded promises. Well Romney is Homer.
If Romney wins he will featherbed the rich and screw the poor. He will crash the economy just like Dubya did. The republicans are not interested in running a sound economy. They just want tax cuts no matter how much it hurts anyone who isn't rich. So if you are not a millionaire do not under any circumstances vote for any republican on Tuesday.

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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2012, 04:14:27 am »
...what?  Wow, yeah, threatening another recession/depression is a GREAT way to get yourself elected.  Dumbass.

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He said that, like Obama, “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.”

This, coming from a guy that left MA with a 33% approval rating.

As someone from MA, trust me, almost nobody I know likes him.

I'm hearing that a lot not.  It might have something to do with his doing everything he's accusing Obama of doing (cutting Medicaid, putting police officers and teachers out of work, raising taxes but calling them 'not taxes,' etc.).

I can't wait to see how he does in MA.  If he loses his own state, especially overwhelmingly, it means he was full of **** from the beginning.
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2012, 04:59:54 am »
So he's basically going for mutually-assured destruction?
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2012, 04:45:24 pm »
...what?  Wow, yeah, threatening another recession/depression is a GREAT way to get yourself elected.  Dumbass.

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He said that, like Obama, “I promise change, but I have a record of achieving it.”

This, coming from a guy that left MA with a 33% approval rating.

As someone from MA, trust me, almost nobody I know likes him.

I'm hearing that a lot not.  It might have something to do with his doing everything he's accusing Obama of doing (cutting Medicaid, putting police officers and teachers out of work, raising taxes but calling them 'not taxes,' etc.).

I can't wait to see how he does in MA.  If he loses his own state, especially overwhelmingly, it means he was full of **** from the beginning.

He is definitely going to lose Massachusetts overwhelmingly.  Obama will get nearly 60 percent of the vote there.  Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states in the country.  If conditions existed that allowed any Republican to win that state in a Presidential Election they would probably wind up with 400+ electoral votes nationwide.
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2012, 05:20:12 pm »
Can we charge them with treason?
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Re: (Not an onion article) Romney: Elect me or House GOP will wreck economy
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2012, 06:34:43 pm »
Protip: If things are ever at the point where a discussion of your political agenda starts with the warning "not an Onion article", then something has gone horribly wrong.