Mitt Romney and the Quiet Room - By Charles P. Pierce

[kpete]

Mitt Romney and the Quiet Room
By Charles P. Pierce
at 4:09PM

Romney: "You know I think it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms.... But the president has made this part of his campaign rally. Everywhere he goes we hear him talking about millionaires and billionaires and executives and Wall Street. It's a very envy-oriented, attack-oriented approach."


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Quiet rooms?

You know what else is a quiet room? A courtroom is a quiet room, and far too many of the people who wrecked the economy have seen the inside of one, either criminal or civil, or both. You know what else is a quiet room?

A cell is a quiet room.

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the rest: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-today-show-interview-6638808?hootPostID=c01efc97fb580f8b35df5e2e94ac0bb0

[Stuart G]

1. Put some of the banksters in a nice 6x10 quiet room..k and r

[madamesilverspurs]

2. ummm...

"You know what else is a quiet room? A courtroom is a quiet room, and far too many of the people who wrecked the economy have seen the inside of one, either criminal or civil, or both."

Shouldn't there be a not in there someplace?

[ashling]

3. These lines are priceless

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Those words, and the entitled attitude with which they are so luxuriously chandeliered, should kill any campaign being conducted in 2012. The country is still staggering, blinking, out of the rubble of an economy that was shattered by an industry full to its gunwales with Willard Romneys. He is campaigning in South Carolina, where unemployment is pushing up at 10 percent. Do those people want to leave their fates up to a bunch of fancy haircuts in "quiet rooms" where they discuss how much more flesh they can pick off the carcass of what is laughingly called the "middle class" of this country?
Quiet rooms?

You mean like the one where these wonderful conversations took place among our lords of the universe, and aren't they so very cute as they sit there making their funnies and giggle like the Pep Club while the tectonic plates of the national economy crack under their feet?

The year began with adulation all around for Greenspan. In that January meeting, Roger Ferguson, then Fed vice chairman and now head of the TIAA-CREF financial services group, called Greenspan a “monetary policy Yoda.”
The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is. Morons, these people are.

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"Quiet rooms" should be enough. Willard Romney, stripper of companies, looter of pension, career gombeen man for the most unproductive "industry" in the history of man, thinks that a discussion of the nation's staggering gap in inequality, and of the steady decline of a functioning middle-class, should be conducted in private, and not in the streets, where those hippies and their drum circles might disturb the plush japery of their betters. This is because, for Willard Romney, the world is divided into two kinds of people: Willard Romney and The Help.



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[Louisiana1976]

4. K&R!