“Because Mitt Romney knows just how to trim the fat."

[kpete]

The anti-jobs candidate
By Steve Benen

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“You see, Romney made a Mittload of cash using what’s known as a leveraged buyout. He’d buy a company with ‘money borrowed against their assets, groomed them to be sold off and in the interim collect huge management fees.’ Once Mitt had control of the company, he’d cut frivolous spending like jobs, workers, employees, and jobs. Just like America’s sweetheart, Gordon Gecko. <…>

“Because Mitt Romney knows just how to trim the fat. He rescued businesses like Dade Behring, Stage Stories, American Pad and Paper, and GS Industries, then his company sold them for a profit of $578 million after which all of those firms declared bankruptcy. Which sounds bad, but don’t worry, almost no one worked there anymore.

“Besides, a businessman can’t be weighed down with a bleeding heart, as one former Bain employee put it, ‘It was very clinical…. Like a doctor. When the patient is dead, you just move on to the next patient.’ See? Mitt Romney is like a doctor! (On screen: Dr. Kevorkian)”

MUCH MORE (PLUS LINKS:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_06/the_antijobs_candidate030212.php

[Broderick]

1. Mitt stands for nothing

He will drift with the driftwood.

[HopeHoops]

2. Except for his hair-care products - he stands for those.

[Broderick]

3. It looks like a wig to me

Maybe I am just jealous....

[HopeHoops]

4. I think he's got stupid hair - like Bill Maher said - '82 Montgomery Ward catalog.

I like my long hair and wouldn't want anything that looked even REMOTELY like what he calls hair.

[Skidmore]

5. Mitt Romney, Wonder Bread.

[Frank Cannon]

6. I know how Mitt Romney can lose 20 pounds of ugly fat.

Cut off his head.

[emulatorloo]

7. Benen is an excellent writer. This is Mitt's version of "successful businessman"

Firing workers and destroying businesses.

[lame54]

8. you forgot to credit Stephen Colbert