Mitt Romney Says We Must Only Speak of Income Inequality in ‘Quiet Rooms’

[jefferson_dem]

Mitt Romney Says We Must Only Speak of Income Inequality in ‘Quiet Rooms’
By Dan Amira

The supercut of "things Mitt Romney does that make him seem like an out-of-touch, cold-hearted Wall Street fat cat," which Democrats are surely compiling, seems to be growing by leaps and bounds this week. This morning, just two days after saying he likes being able to fire people — it's not so bad in context, but Mitt Romney doesn't believe in context — Romney was asked by Matt Lauer whether questioning the practices of Wall Street and the "distribution of wealth and power" in America today is legitimate:

Here's how Romney handled it:

To sum up, for the video impaired: Romney thinks gripes about income inequality reflect nothing but envy, and that such topics should only be discussed in "quiet rooms." What Romney is saying is, maybe we can debate income inequality and the abuses of Wall Street, if you insist on it, but it's nothing to get upset about.

This is not a gaffe, really, just a particularly stark reflection of Romney's true beliefs as he's repeatedly expressed them. Still, it's a ballsy way to handle issues of income–power inequality, particularly when he's already being portrayed as an unfeeling, opulently wealthy corporate monster by Democrats and Republicans alike. And Romney might soon find that the 77 percent of Americans (including 80 percent of independents) who believe there is "too much power in the hands of a few rich people and large corporations" and the 61 percent (including 61 percent of independents) who say that "the economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy" don't find his ideology very relatable.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/romney-quiet-rooms.html

[MichiganVote]

1. The wealthy are so completely out of touch with reality in the US.

[oldhippydude]

2. how friggen tone deaf

just when i was getting used to calling him "slick Willard".. he shows how unslick he is, he cant lie well..

[Quantess]

3. Wow. I wonder if an advisor

advised him to "just be yourself".

He definitely makes himself clear. I doubt he will flip-flop on that one.

[Dawson Leery]

4. In the end, Mittens may very well be a weaker opponent than Santorum.

Mitt Romney is unique from all the other Rethugs in that he is tone deaf and makes no secret of his disdain for working people.
The others use coded language. Mittens says it outright.

[Blue Owl]

5. Mitt ®Money's Cone of Silence

n/t

[spanone]

6. this is the karl rove method

not only don't deny what they accuse you of....blame them of not doing it as well

that they are envious of your abilities.

rove is a mitt man

[KansDem]

7. It's has nothing to do with envy, Mittens

It has everything to do with how the rich got rich: the scams, the swindles, the lying, ...

It has everything to do with how the rich threw workers out of their jobs, then out of their homes ...

It has everything to do with how the rich broke this country, first by demanding "trickle down" then special tax cuts. All so they can reinvest in the country, which they didn't do.

It has everything to do with how the rich ignored their responsibility and shipped our jobs overseas so they could hoard even more wealth, then got Congress to lower their taxes, or simply make it so they didn't have to pay taxes at all.

It has everything to do with how the rich took their newfound swag and hid it in off shore tax havens.

It has everything to do with how the GOP with Dems' help made the US Congress a wholly-owned subsidiary of the rich, and how they even bought Supreme Court justices to make their corporations into "people."

No, Mittens, it's not "envy": it's fucking seething anger! And it's not going away!

[onethatcares]

8. what they say in the quiet rooms is this

"how do we fuck the little people out of what they got left? Anyone have any ideas we can use?"

[JBoy]

9. Like in mahogany-panelled drawing rooms at Country Clubs.

[tanyev]

10. And all requests must start with, "Please, sir, I want some more."