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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDurbin says Romney running from Bain 'like a scalded cat'
http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/15/12751637-durbin-says-romney-running-from-bain-like-a-scalded-cat?liteBy Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer
Democrats pressed their attack Sunday on Mitt Romneys record as head of the investment firm Bain Capital in the 1990s.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the Senate majority whip, asked on NBCs Meet the Press, Why is Mitt Romney running away from his company, Bain Capital, like a scalded cat? Because theres abundant evidence that under Bain Capital they were exporting American jobs to low-wage countries and he doesnt want to be associated with it.
Defending Romneys record at Bain Capital, Romney campaign advisor Ed Gillespie told NBCs David Gregory that outsourcing U.S. companies setting up foreign operations to replace operations in the United States was due partly to President Barack Obamas policies of imposing excessive regulations and maintaining a high corporate tax rate.
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Durbin says Romney running from Bain 'like a scalded cat' (Original Post)
NNN0LHI
Jul 2012
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KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)1. who thinks of such horrors?
Creepy: "scalded cat" ?!
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)3. No one scalded a puddy cat
It was a figure of speech.
Don
Jim__
(14,078 posts)2. So, according to Gillespie, they were outsourcing jobs from 1999-2002 due to Obama's policies.
Wow! Just like the Smoot-Hawley (sp) tariff passed in 1932 that caused the market crash in 1929.
BumRushDaShow
(129,163 posts)5. Obama was retroactively President from 1999 - 2002
Didn't you know that? Surely everyone knows when that happened!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)4. So Gillespie is saying Obama retroactively imposed "excessive regulations"
and maintained a high corporate tax rate on US companies is why companies outsourced jobs in 2002.
Clearly his universe is an alternate one.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)6. Running away like Seamus after a 12 hour trip