johnst johnstont johnston, pulitzer prize-winning writer for reuters. david, it is not inconceivable to me that he would not know the yes-or-no answer to, is there ever a year you paid no taxes? the returns get presented to him and a couple things get pointed out. if they re really in a big hurry, they point out, here s where you sign and here s how much you owe. when it s zero, the accountants probably point to the zero. it is beyond belief, lawrence, that this man who has worked so hard, as you ve pointed out, to go from being rich to super rich, to replace the silver spoon with a thick platinum spoon, doesn t know if he paid less than 13.9%. maybe he doesn t know the exact personal, but he knows the answer to that question. it s just another example of his forgetting things. whether it s people or other important events, he s gone to the i don t recall defense.
did in israel is, you know what, this is another dog whistle back to the base, culture matters. there s a lot in this op-ed that he has in the national review that goes back to a lot of these same tropes that are trying to constantly stroke this base to say, you are superior. you are inherently superior because of something he s vaguely calling culture. there was one diplomatic expert who was highly impressed by the romney trip. let s listen to ambassador rush limbaugh. now the reporters are harassing romney, they re trying to create gaffes. they are trying they re working on behalf of barack obama. they are attempting to carry forth the miehm that romney s foreign trip is a disaster, that it s one gaffe after another. they are trying to do this in the mainstream media. and the fact of the matter is, romney is having a home run of a trip. exactly one rave review, ari. there it is. i love it, lawrence. i love it, and i love having the ambassador here, a little sampling of wh
he s not making some grand claim about it, other than that it s perfectly legitimate. but the trouble is, you end up with days and days of punditry. is it a tax break? you know, gleefully saying, look at mitt romney. most unsophisticated flip-flopper ever in political history. you say he did a 180 and i think it s now a 360. it was a 180 and then another 180. wait until next week, it will be a 720. i was struck first by the fact that rush limbaugh doesn t realize that horizontal stripes on a body like that are come on. that s a cheap shot. it s a real shot. but the other part of this is another failure of messaging on the obama and democrats part. this, as a tax, hits a small number of people. the big problem with it is, it s too small. that s the big concern. it s a big concern because you re not going to have enough of an insennive for people to get insurance. but it s being portrayed as a
it as a gaffe and understand there s wisdom in the comment. sununu sees wisdom in the idea of reducing the number of teachers in this country. even though the census numbers show an increase in school enrollment every year. by 2015, enrollment is projected to be nearly 10 million students higher than it was at the beginning of the last decade. of course, it wouldn t be a full-court press from the gop without words from the real leader of the republican party. nobody s opposed to cops or firefighters or teachers, but they aren t private sector jobs. they do not contribute to economic growth. i guess rush limbaugh doesn t think teachers, firefighters, or police officers ever spend any money. it s frustrating enough to have republican spokesmen push this bill of goods but it s even worse when the people responsible for public job losses try to do the same.
ago and yet the number of teachers that they have maintained has not changed. i think this is a real issue and people ought to stop jumping on it as a gaffe and understand there s wisdom in the comment. sununu sees wisdom in the idea of reducing the number of teachers in this country. even though the census numbers show an increase in school enrollment every year. by 2015, enrollment is projected to be nearly 10 million students higher than it was at the beginning of the last decade. of course, it wouldn t be a full-court press from the gop without words from the real leader of the republican party. nobody s opposed to cops or firefighters or teachers, but they aren t private sector jobs. they do not contribute to economic growth. i guess rush limbaugh doesn t think teachers, firefighters, or police officers ever spend any money. it s frustrating enough to have republican spokesmen push this