Thank you for the job, Mitt Romney

Hey, hey, over there!
It's Job Creator Extraordinaire.
Willard! Outsourced jobs buy fancy hair!

In the video below Willard Romney is thanked by the workers who owe their employment to Mitt's Bain adventures. Of course, every one of the grateful folks are sending those thanks from a variety of countries ... none of which is the United States.

Hey Mitt! The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!

Hey Willard, The British Are Coming ... after YOU

As Romney flees the United States seeking shelter amidst London's Olympic frenzy and high tea with banking elites, bad news follows him across the proverbial pond.

Despite attempts to shroud his fundraiser's location in classic Romney secrecy by listing it as "a Central London location," the cabal of banksters apparently couldn't hide from a vigilant Parliament still filtering through the poo Mitt's patron saint Rupert Murdoch shat all over their country.

Said one British MP of a motion introduced to Parliament seeking to halt Romney's overseas adventure in money-grubbing,

“Barclays executives have had their eyes off the ball for too long now. They must now stop fundraising for US Republican candidates and start rebuilding public confidence in the banking system here in the UK which they have done so much harm to.

“Parliament must send a strong message to these banking elites that it is no longer business as usual. Politicians are expressing the outrage felt by the ordinary people we represent.”

Our two countries seem allied in at least one aspect of our economic travails: a healthy distaste for the Romney Pain from Bain.

A little Stephen Colbert historical re-enactment might help Willard know what to expect  ...

"Those people" and their free stuff

"But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy -- more free stuff.

But don't forget nothing is really free. it has to paid for by people in the private sector creating goods and services, and if people want jobs more than they want free stuff from government, then they are going to have to get government to be smaller."

REAL reason Romney MUST say he left Bain Feb '99

Like all presidential candidates, Romney has to submit a financial disclosure statement to the Office of Government Ethics. He filed his most recent one last month, and the disclosure contains a very clearly stated footnote:

Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake [Olympics] Organizing Committee. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way.

Why? According to a February 11, 1999, AP article by Kirsten Moulton:

Romney will have to sever ties with any companies that do business with the games. Bain Capital has ownership stakes in many companies and Romney serves on various corporate boards.

Mitt's severely troubling tax dodge

Severely Conservative Gov. Willard Romney had no problem releasing his state and local tax documents when his residency was challenged. Yet when asked for federal returns -- or documents that pointed to the inner working of his investment practices -- the bobbing and weaving began.

As far back as 2002, in what was called his "first serious crisis" in his bid for governor of Massachusetts, he dodged federally-linked tax questions. One might think that in sworn testimony before the State Ballot Law Commission he would be forthright, considering his ambition of the time. Perusing the list of requested documents, however, tells a chillingly different story.

Meet the Bainers

Now, I'm no particular fan of RedState nor of it's self-important leader Erick Son of Erick but I've got to admit, that every once in a while his brain spits out a cogent thought and his most recent one is a keeper.

Over on his virtual asylum, Erick contends that citizens shouting "Show us your papers" to financially-closeted Willard constitute a new, radical left-wing cabal of crazies unwilling to accept established, conventionally accepted truths.

"The Bainers will not take any answer that does not show Romney to be a liar or felon in the same way Birthers will take no answer other than one that shows Barack Obama is not an American citizen."

So, meet the Bainers.

There is one teeny problem with Erick's attempt to blur the edges of reality: President Obama showed us his papers. Romney has not.

Bet this guy feels like Nostradamus, too!

Willard plays the refs, bats 0-2

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In fact, it was just this morning. I remember it like it was today.

Yeah, you know ... when the Boston Globe ran a devastating article entitled, "Mitt Romney stayed at Bain 3 years longer than he stated."

Now, having whiffed on the first pitch thrown across the plate by the Washington Post, the gallant Romney team stepped up to the plate for a second at bat with a second pitcher.

"We are drafting a formal [correction] request, they will have today,” wrote Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul.

Swing batter, batter, swing!

Willard's sweet dreams of a Capitol Bain

A speculative view of a consultant-heavy Romney Oval Office.

We've all heard the stories about Bain Capital and its uncanny ability to wring huge profit from an otherwise health company while simultaneously sending it and its workers down that treacherous road to massive debt and bankruptcy -- even if it was left standing in the end. These proved to be just one part of the Bain broadside against the American worker.

Over in another corner of world of high finance sits Bain Capital's mother ship Bain and Company, that multinational conglomerate where Mitt Romney cut his teeth as a high-dollar consultant. This other Boston-based firm wasn't the vulture Bain Capital had become, rather, it was a ready partner actually interested in bolstering the bottom line of corporations it advised.

Early on, the parent company collected its fees in the form of "success fees," equity stakes in client companies, thus it developed more symbiotic relationships with the boards it served. However, that early culture, classified as "unconventional" was in full swing when Mitt Romney came on board.

Anyone hunting the genesis of Romney's inability to speak openly of weighty matters need look no further than the tony Bain and Company headquarters, at the time located in historic Lexington.