Durbin says Romney running from Bain 'like a scalded cat'

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By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer

Democrats pressed their attack Sunday on Mitt Romney’s record as head of the investment firm Bain Capital in the 1990’s.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the Senate majority whip, asked on NBC’s Meet the Press, “Why is Mitt Romney running away from his company, Bain Capital, like a scalded cat? Because there’s abundant evidence that under Bain Capital they were exporting American jobs to low-wage countries and he doesn’t want to be associated with it.”

Defending Romney’s record at Bain Capital, Romney campaign advisor Ed Gillespie told NBC’s David Gregory that outsourcing – U.S. companies setting up foreign operations to replace operations in the United States – was due partly to President Barack Obama’s policies of imposing “excessive regulations” and maintaining a high corporate tax rate.

[KurtNYC]

1. who thinks of such horrors?

Creepy: "scalded cat" ?!

[NNN0LHI]

3. No one scalded a puddy cat

It was a figure of speech.

Don

[Jim__]

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]

5. Obama was retroactively President from 1999 - 2002

Didn't you know that? Surely everyone knows when that happened!

[lunatica]

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]

6. Running away like Seamus after a 12 hour trip