“Blood Money: Mitt Romney’s Medicare Scandal”

A new video is our from Winning Our Future SuperPAC in support of Newt Gingrich: “Blood Money: Mitt Romney’s Medicare Scandal”

A company which Mitt Ronmey personally ran, Damon Corporation was involved in MASSIVE Medicare Fraud during the 1990s during Romney’s tenure.

From the website:

Debating in Tampa, Florida in late-January, while falsely characterizing Newt Gingrich’s income from his government consulting work, Mitt Romney denied that Bain did “any work with the government like Medicaid and Medicare”. Now we learn that Bain, under Romney’s “supervision”, purchased and ran the Damon Corporation, who pled guilty to Federal conspiracy charges as a result of tens of millions of dollars in systemic Medicare fraud committed under Romney’s and Bain’s control. Damon was fined over $119-million which was, at the time, the largest criminal healthcare fine in Massachusetts history and Mr. Romney’s participation was characterized in 1996 by Corporate Crime Reporter thusly: “As manager and board member of Damon Corp, Mitt Romney sits at the center of one of the top 15 corporate crimes of the 1990’s.” Watch the substantiated mini-documentary, BLOOD MONEY: MITT ROMNEY’S MEDICARE SCANDAL, to learn the truth about Mitt Romney.

The website also provides a link to the documents which back up the claims made in the movie.

Rick Santorum Defends SOPA: “Your free speech rights can be incredibly harmful to someone else.”

This reminds me of everything I don’t like about Santorum.

For me the money quote comes at 3:23:

“Your free speech rights can be incredibly harmful to someone else.”

That sends chills up my spine.

See and judge for yourself whether you want him as your nominee.

UPDATE: RICK PERRY DROPPING OUT TODAY

THURSDAY: 8:30 AM

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/breaking-perry-to-drop-out-thursday/

While I liked Rik Perry I applaud his decision to drop out and allow the race to focus on the conservative alternatives to Romney that have a real chance at the nomination.

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There is now increasing pressure on Rick Perry to drop out of the race before the South Carolina primary on Saturday in order to avoid splitting the conservative vote.

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Last night, Sarah Palin said if she was voting in South Carolina, she would vote for Newt in order to prolong the race.

Today, Laura Ingraham is urging him to drop out to avoid splitting the conservative vote, since he has no chance at winning South Carolina.

A South Carolina State Senator, Larry Grooms has defected from the Perry camp and is now backing Santorum as of this morning.

@AdamBeam is reporting that Rick Perry has cancelled his appearance today at Bob Jones University, which 3 days before a primary is akin to a sighting of the Grim Reaper in South Carolina presidential politics.

And in other news, Perry is now polling third the Presidential primary in…..TEXAS, behind Romney and Gingrich.

I don’t say this often, but I agree with Laura Ingraham. It’s time for Perry to go, and avoid being this cycle’s Fred Thompson.

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The Winner of the Iowa Caucus is…Rick Perry!

You can’t turn on the TV right now without hearing about the roller coaster that is the Iowa Caucus. Their is nearly constant blathering about the polls, and who is rising and falling and who will end up on top.

“Winning” the caucus is defined as getting the highest percentage of votes.  This totally misses the point of the real role of the Iowa Caucus.

The point of the caucus is to winnow the field.  Traditionally there are three tickets out of Iowa. This year they will belong to Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Perry.

Rick Santorum may very well win the caucus or come very close, but it will be a hollow victory. He has no organization in any other state and no money to set one up. He will be lucky to have enough plane fare to get to New Hampshire and he certainly will not be able to get ads up in South Carolina or Florida. He is done.

I have been a fan of Newt, but Iowa has been a buzz-saw for his campaign. He is off message due to Romney’s negative ads, and has no no money to get ads up in response and no ability to raise more. His campaign is effectively over.

Michele Bachmann is also done. She may get fewer votes in the caucus than she did in the straw poll. What organization she has is disintegrating around her. She staked everything on Iowa. She needs to return to the House and lead the Tea Party Caucus and start solidifying support for a Bachmann Speakership in the next Congress.

That leaves Rick Perry as the conservative alternative to Romney. He will make it out of Iowa in the top four, with the necessary resources to continue his campaign to New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond.

Perry has a better organization in South Carolina than he does in Iowa, and he should be easily able to defeat Romney there thanks to Perry’s brand of social conservatism and tea party values.

Ron Paul will also be a help to Perry as it will focus conservatives on the need to rally behind a candidate in order to stop not only Romney, but Paul as well.

Iowa has done it’s job, it has picked the conservative candidate and I believe the next President of the United States: Rick Perry.

Game on.

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Bachmann for Speaker

With the latest betrayal by John Boehner of the grassroots tea party conservatives that put him in the Speaker’s chair, it is time for him to go.

The GOP had no GOTV push in 2010.  All that money had been blown by Michael Steele. The reason that the GOP has a majority in the house and John Boehner is Speaker of the House is because the tea party did the job that the GOP was unable to do. We got conservatives elected to Congress.

When it came time to choose a speaker Michele Bachmann threw her name in the ring, to no avail. Imagine a House under a  Speaker Bachmann. Do you think the summer debt deal debacle would have happened? Would this payroll tax “compromise” have occurred? At the very least we would have a Speaker that could articulate the conservative point of view and would not shrink from a fight. She is twice the man Boehner is.

Michele Bachmann is going nowhere as a Presidential candidate. The office she should run for is Speaker of the House. She should suspend her Presidential candidacy, return to D.C. and mount a campaign for Speaker.

She should do it today.