Remember Dan Senor, the man who was dead wrong about, well, everything when he was the Bush-Cheney head PR honcho in Iraq? Senor was so incredibly wrong and at such tragic cost that off course Mit Romney had to snatch him up for that foreign policy expertise! But the guy who’s been making economic forecasts and was involved in crafting the disastrous Mittastrophe plan now being panned makes Senor look like fucking Nostradamus. There’s more, oh so much more. His name is Kevin Hassert. And if you were a stock broker like me in the late 90s, that name would be synonymous with failure so massive it’s a punchline.
But you don’t have to take my word for it! Hassert has a well documented record of making economic, umm, predictions. He even has a review page up where readers can comment on his past predictions. Let’s see what some of them have to say:
I used the pages of this book to line the base of our two-month-old Rottweiler puppy’s cage. I was struck by the moisture and odor-absorbing power of its pages. These super-absorbent sheets really took to canine urine and feces.
They used to remind me of that Joe Piscopo SNL salesman character (you remember, the frenzied salesman, “WE MUST BE INSANE!!! OUR PRICES ARE SO LOW WE’LL GO OUT OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY!!!!”).
These authors should be permanently placed on your list of “people who have very clearly proven that they have absolutely, positively no idea what they’re talking about.”
It goes on and on like that. Brutal, harsh, critique of Hassert and his coauthor who were so deliriously spectacularly wrong they’re now famous for it. How wrong? Hassert coauthored a book titled “Dow 36,000!” published in late 2000.
I’m not making this up. Hassert, a demonstrated flim-flam artist and hack, is the guy running Mitt Romney’s economic fucking brain trust. This is the idiot who will be in charge of our collective and individual fiscal fate if Romney wins. And it’s not a fluke; Romney chose him.
What the hell is going on here? I understand the fringe right will do anything if they think it makes everyone else mad. But Romney is not an idiot — at least up to now I haven’t thought of him as such — so why in the world would he use that guy knowing what everyone knows about him? I’m honestly at a loss to explain it. It makes no sense whatsoever unless Romney really is a lot fucking dumber than we’ve been giving him credit for.
Hassert, who I’ve met once or twice, is an extremely charming man. Romney likes to be charmed.
“…unless Romney really is a lot fucking dumber than we’ve been giving him credit for.”
By George! I think you’ve got it! What took so long?
Romney is a typical CEO type, surrounding himself with yes-men and suckups; and totally isolated from reality.
Now that Mitt is back from his world traveling “vacation”, perhaps it is time for a clue finding trip.
According to Wikipedia:
Apparently the republicans have been picking him to advise campaigns for years.
I won’t pretend to know more about this than I do but if this assessment is half-way to being entirely accurate
explains so much.
I am seriously thinking that Mitt is using his “Magic Underwear” to make these decisions now. He might as well be using his ass to make his decisions, he’s certainly pulled enough facts from there.
Maybe Mitt’s using a seer stone?
Shit files are shown around. Favors are repaid. Friends are looked after. That’s politics.
As long as he sings the songs preferred by the lairds he will always be favoured at court.
Hassert couldn’t be more wrong if he tried.
The Dow peaked in early 2000 and dropped for several years after. It closed just recently at ca. 13,000. Not much to show for 12 years.
Bush killed my 401(k) plan. Along with tens of millions of others. If you net out contributions, in 12 years it has roughly followed the Dow, i.e. gone nowhere.
The old saying.
Dems: We can’t govern.
GOP/Tea Party We want the worst for you.
There is a lot of truth in that. Mittens and the GOP/Tea Party really do want the worst for the average American.
Thanks to the neocons, two of my friends ended up dead in Iraq for nothing.
Thanks to Bush’s catastrophic economics, millions of 401(k) plans were slaughtered in the Great Recession.