marriott corporation. he was the head of the audit committee on the board when her marriott engaged in the tax avoidance scheme. son of boss. the cayman islands is an island sort of catty-corner from cuba and jamaica, an island where there are lots and lots of post office boxes that attend to people who do not live in the cayman islands. because pretending your money lives in the cayman islands is a famous scheme for avoiding paying taxes on that money in, say, the united states. the one year of tax returns we do have for presidential candidate mitt romney shows him having a swiss bank account. here in the good old usa we have an i.r.a. they were set up as a savings and investment vehicle for
are lying about your own record. do you believe the game-change account of the 2008 presidential campaign? this kind of thing happening with john mccain s vice presidential nominee, with sarah palin, was the cause of crisis in that campaign. do you remember how that played out in the game change movie? remember this scene? why haven t you released a statement saying todd was never a member of the alaska independence party? because that would be untrue. he was a member. he checked the wrong box. he registered by accident and rectified the error immediately. he was a member for seven years. i m sorry, governor, but there is only a few weeks left in this campaign. you have got to stop saying things to the press that are blatantly untrue. that is not the kind of campaign that we are running here. you have to stop saying things to the press that are blatantly untrue. there s only a few weeks left in the campaign. late tonight, after being confronted with the reams of evidence th
bipartisan way, right? including by paul ryan. so in 2001, there s a great debate, there s a great hearing between paul ryan and an economist named kevin who s currently affiliated with the romney campaign. they re out there and sort of talking about the bush tax cuts. the bush tax cuts, remember, were originally there to pay down a big surplus. we had all this money, needed to do something with it, we ll give it to you in a tax cut. the economy began to break down, we were going into a recession. suddenly we didn t have a clear it went from we need to pay down the surplus to hey, this would be a great way to stimulate the economy, too. we need it in order to be recession proof. kevin and paul ryan have this exchange in this debate about, you know, the problem was before they just didn t do their stimulus fast enough. you needed to do it deeper. there are some differences between doing a permanent tax cut and doing a temporary tax cut which are relevant and worth talking about, aga
acknowledging the truth. it says, after having these letters called to my attention, i checked into them and they were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving social security or veterans affairs are handled. this is why i didn t recall the letters earlier. but they should have been handled differently, and i take responsibility for that. regardless, it s clear that the obama stimulus did nothing to stimulate the economy and now the president is asking to do it all over again. it did nothing to stimulate the economy, even though i wrote letters saying please give me this money, it will help stimulate the economy. and then i signed my name at the bottom of those letters. if i did request all that stimulus money, which i did, by the way, i did it by mistake, my staff did it. i signed it, yeah, but it was my staff. paul ryan is not sarah palin. at least he s not sarah palin yet. we ll see how it goes at the convention. but this is a problem for the romne
would hurt the economy. but then privately, they were asking to please get some of that money because of how good it would be for the economy. you clearly don t believe your own public arguments when you re making private arguments alongside them like that. you re just making a totally craven political case that has nothing to do with what you know to be true. this happened to dozens of republicans across the country. this was congresswoman jean schmidt of ohio saying in public, i did not believe that it would create the jobs that were promised. i take little pleasure in being correct. but here s jean schmidt in private writing to the labor department asking for that stimulus money. that, will not only save jobs but create multiple jobs within southern ohio. well, which is it? here s republican congressman phil gingrey of georgia getting all publisher s clearinghouse with a giant check for stimulus money that he not only voted against but he publicly criticized as a boondoggle, an