DWS criticizes Romney for Swiss bank account while having a Swiss bank account

Despite being called out by some of the most liberal publications in the country for proven lies, like Mitt Romney being a pioneer in outsourcing American jobs, the Obama campaign continues their attempt to smear Romney with ridiculous attacks. This time it’s for having bank accounts in other countries and not releasing more of his tax returns.

Here’s the latest from Debbie Wasserman Shultz:

“I would really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year tax records because there’s been disturbing reports recently that he’s got a Bermuda corporation, that a secretive Bermuda corporation that no one knows anything about, investments in the Caymans, you know, investments in he’s got a Swiss bank account. Americans need to ask themselves, why does an American businessman need a Swiss business account and secretive investments like that? It’s just something, a thought that I’d like to leave folks with.”

“Since when is it bad to have a Swiss bank account – since when is it bad?” Glenn asked. “First of all, Debbie, Mitt Romney has released his tax returns for 2010, his estimated 2011 returns as well. He filed an extension. So he doesn’t have the actual returns yet. That’s two years’ worth of tax returns this time.”

Glenn went on to explain that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has refused all of the requests for transparency on her taxes. She never releases her tax returns, yet she continues to bash Mitt Romney for it, and the press doesn’t hold her responsible. He went on to point out that the reason she hasn’t released any of her taxes is because she doesn’t have to.

“There is no law that requires anybody to release their tax return but here we have the head of the DNC attacking and smearing Mitt Romney for something she herself absolutely refuses to do. To call these people hypocrites would be redundant and, quite honestly, it’s fatiguing,” Glenn said. “So why even bother? I mean, to say that they’re hypocrites and they’re lunatics, to say that people who believe in what they’re saying, you know, to really attack those people is really worthless. I mean, the people who believe that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has any credibility are probably fewer in number than those who believe we went to the moon.”

Glenn later pointed out another reason that it’s ridiculous to criticize him for having a Swiss bank account or any other type of foreign bank account, because regardless of where your money is kept you pay the same amount of taxes.

So, why would you have a Swiss bank account?

“I’ll tell you why you have a Swiss bank account. Because when all the other banks collapse, the Swiss won’t – that’s why. Swiss have always protected the money,” Glenn said.

Glenn also took a few minutes to explain how the left always exposes themselves when they go on these attacks.

“The things they’re saying about Mitt Romney say more about them than it does about him or you or me,” Glenn said.

“And the truth always comes out in the end,” Stu added. “In this particular case on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has invested in the Julius Baer Group through the Davis Financial Fund. The Julius Baer Group from their website is the leading Swiss private banking group focusing exclusively on the demands of sophisticated private clients, family offices, and external asset managers around the world.”

Yes, that’s right – Debbie Wasserman Shultz, who is attack Mitt Romney about his Swiss bank account, has a Swiss bank account.

“They will destroy themselves. See, they always point to their own cancer. Whenever somebody says, “That’s wrong, that’s that,” just follow the line of where they say something is bad and rotten, and I guarantee you that these people always point to their own cancer. It’s really amazing. It’s really truly amazing,” Glenn said. “Don’t worry. They will destroy themselves. All we have to do is remain true to who we are, celebrate who we are, lift each other up. Be creative, be active, live it every step of the way. And get to the voting booth. And it’s over.”

  • http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

    Day by day the absolute corruption of the leftists, progressives, marxists and other radicals of the administration, Congress, and the Democratic party are being revealed. They spin their lies and illusions of gossamer thread, trying to blame and fabricate anything against Romney on the national level, and against any opposition on the state and local levels.

    Let the truth come out; the main part I wonder now is, will the people of the land finally see and understand how culpable the mainstream media has become in these criminal actions? And if so, how severe will the collective wrath of America be upon them?

    This November is our last chance to turn everything around, to continue the restoration of the nation; we have to chose which it shall be – freedom or serfdom.

  • Anonymous

    She is such a heinous cunt. I vomit in my mouth every time I see her or hear her speak.

  • Anonymous

    Everytime I see or hear Wasserman Schultz, I have to look away and turn off the volume. She is absolutely repulsive. 

    It sickens me to simply look at her, and when I understand the absolutely rigid ideology that she espouses, I see no redeeming qualities. 

    I forced myself through her interview on Sundays FOX News, and listening to her berate Romney over and over again with the same ridiculous talking point demonstrates her for the rabid partisan robot that she truly is. 

  • Anonymous

    That’s demeaning her, but…not that much.

  • Anonymous

    I have to contend that Schultz is either A) So flat out stupid that she forgot about her own Swiss bank account prior to addressing Romney’s B) Was fully aware of what she was saying yet thought that Conservatives were too stupid to do the research about her bank account or C) (And I think I will be right about C) She cannot acknowledge and/or simply does not feel that she is by definition, a grade A prime hypocrite in every sense of the word.  What a repulsive political hack this woman is.

  • mdkrause

    I wish I had a Swiss Bankaccount and Investments in the Caribbean. I wish I had a mansion in the Swiss Alps and Caribbean.
    Kinda shows you’ve done well. And that is not good according to comrade Obama and his stick men. 
    Hey Obama do you hear something????  I think the fat lady is warming up her vocals.

  • Anonymous

     I understand exactly how you feel.  I wonder if they, Fox News, will call her on her lack of transparency?  I am at a loss for the reason Fox allows the hag to spew her patently false diatribe and never corner her for the truth.  As for transparency, how about when Odumbo shows his records – ie.. birth, school, passport, etc.., Romney will disclose more of his. Not that Romney is actually holding anything back.

  • Anonymous

    There is nothing against the law even if Romney had a Swiss account. This is an action of hatred and lies. The left align themselves with the great Deceiver, himself. They just can’t stop lying. It is so evil.

    Americans hold them to the truth once and for all. Call them out!

  • Anonymous

    Besides being completely wrong, the democrats are redefining words in an attempt to make Romney look bad.  Bain Capital companies outsourced many activities to save money.  They outsourced these to other US companies because the activities were not a core competency.  Of course the dems are trying to redefine outsourcing to mean offshoring.  These are two distinctly different practices and the lame stream media has fallen for the redefinition and now treat them as synonymous.

  • MT Hammer

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz , is a liar just like Obama, Holder,Harry Reid, Dick Durbin & Senator Schumer in New York. None of them has ever had a job in their lives, have always been on the Public Payrole their whole Lives. All of them are also Hippocrites , always ready to slam their opponents , no facts just fabrications of Stories like Bidon uses in every Speech he makes. He is a Christian when its covenient , If I was the Pope I would Excommunicate him on TV , call him the worst excuse for a Christain , why his wife puts up with him is beyond my comprehension.

  • sparducks

    It stuns me to see this kind of hypocrisy. As a young man I never would have believed it. Now that I am older I believe it and I am completely jaded. There is nothing you could say to this whore to get her to repent. These slimy snakes actually believe they are doing society a favor even if they have to lie. When confronted they just shrug their shoulders and say yeah but i’m not a right wing coservative bigot. They beleive their political ideology is their salvation. Indeed it is their god.

  • Anonymous

    VOTE RON PAUL  = BOTH OBAMA & ROMNEY STINK LIKE AN UNFLUSHED TOILET. 

  • Anonymous

    What about Gary Johnson?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sandy-Caruso/1587245855 Sandy Caruso

    Wasserman-Schultz with those BUGGED-OUT EYES looks like someone…perhaps even her husband has already tried to choke her. When she comes on TV my husband has to leave and go to the bathroom to upchuck his lunch. We can’t even watch her anymore.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sandy-Caruso/1587245855 Sandy Caruso

    Ron Paul’s train left the station about 3 months ago.Where have you been? A vote for Ron Paul is like voting for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Amazing! The advantage that the left has and the influence of pulling the wool over the publics eyes. While traveling through WV, on Rte 52, we drove through the poor neigborhood of Iager. A large new bank, has just been completed, that looks like something you would see in Washington, DC. The structure is beautiful, but the neighborhood is poor. After doing a search on the Web, I see that, there will be a new interstate connector, that is after the mountain top is mined for coal. The search also gave me the name of a Russian worth trillions, who bought WV, KY, and OH, coal and steel company’s. WV has always been a strong Democrate state, So which elected officals are responsable and what do they gain from this? Are they sleeping with the Russian’s. I would also like to know how Mingo County can raise every one’s property taxes over 200% and raise water bills 125%, when the Russian owned Coal Company, is suppose to build the roads. Which by the way the section, of new interstate, in Mingo county is sinking, into the mines and is an acident waiting to happen. If you pull up the cost of living for Mingo County, you will ask yourself, how do they expect people to pay for this, if you look at the average income per household?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Firth/100003132306107 Richard Firth

    Allen West was right when he called Wafflehead Schultz an evil, vile woman.   But I think he was holding back, and from her recent actions, she shows herself to be way worse than that. 

  • Anonymous

    Wasserman Schultz is another one who tries to speak for the left and ends up bumbling and stumbling.  It was very obvious the other night when I saw her on a news program and I thought that how she represents the left is such a joke. Does she ever look in a mirror?  This is getting scary.  Her nose is getting longer and longer and longer and her eyes can’t take the pressure.    

  • new2la

    Bert…there’s a D) She is just an idiot!

  • Anonymous

    Typical leftist nuts thrying to convince people to do as they say, not like they do. Obama is te eitome of these nuts.

  • Anonymous

    I never trust a woman with two last names.

  • Anonymous

    I agree completely.  That woman is the anti-Christ.  And I guess you must already know why she just happened to be named DNC chair: because she is Jewish, and with their Israeli-hating Marxist, Socialist, Obamunist sitting in White House, the Demwits had to do something desperate to pander to the Jewish vote.  As usual, all the Demwits can do is pander, create dependency on government, discourage self reliance, Balkanize the country, and engage in the horribly destructive practice of class warfare.  They are all nothing but a bunch of angry empty suits with absolutely nothing positive to offer the country except obnoxious, lying mouthpieces like Wasserman-Schultz.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FPPLBUFZMIJLGIIUMMRPGUQE6I Banh

    I’ve been stymied by something for a long time. I remembered Schultz from somewhere in the past and it was making me nuts.

    The other night, I sat up in bed at 3 in the morning. AHA!!! I know her! She was the bartender at that biker bar on route 17 in Paramus, New Jersey!!!  Whew, now I can sleep.

    On the Swiss bank account thing? I say we listen to Ron Paul, dissolve both the IRS and the tax slave code, and dig into the facts on how much the FED costs each one of us annually in depreciation on the dollars we’ve already made and ever WILL make. Ron Paul calls it the Inflation Tax. Using our Monopoly Money under the oversight of the Tax Police and Grand Counterfeiter (the Fed), we’ve been playing a game of Milton Bradley “Life” because we fall into poverty as citizens when we run out of this designer toilet paper we call CASH, and our illustrious government and financial cartel leaders have been just playing… well… Monopoly. Any one here wanna be the banker?

    Money… we need transparency, real measure of its worth, capital punishment with a Capital “C” for financial corruption, and a RULE BOOK we use EQUALLY with the issuers of our currency. All this election time distraction about hidden bank accounts and tax cheats is taking us far astray of the real issues. 1) What do we owe our corrupt government for its gross negligence of its duties on a global basis (ie, selling us out to a Communist dictatorship in China since the 80′s), 2) Who will define the value of our unit of trade? 3) Who has the coyones to hang those guilty of this financial con game? 4) Who has the coyones to expose the dissolve the oligarchy which perpetuates the enslavement of our “free” society in America and beyond?

    The cash in our system is the tip of the iceberg in the corruption we suffer in AmeriKa. Tax cheats? Hidden bank accounts? Let’s get down to the nitty gritty here folks.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FPPLBUFZMIJLGIIUMMRPGUQE6I Banh

     Uh, excuse me, but you dropped a piece of that puzzle you just described. You’re missing the part B of your Dictator puzzle. That would be the growing Fascism/Theocracy festering inside the Republican Party. You DID forget to include it, right? I hope you know it exists… because it does.

    Time for Washington to go to the car wash. Get that engine degreaser in there first, follow up with the hi-pressure wash, and finish up with the spot-free rinse. God knows we don’t want any more blemishes in the Beltway, Republican OR Democrat. Full crystal clear transparency is the goal… right Snow Leopard?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Elaine-Keenan/100000314608037 Elaine Keenan

    Banh, The blame game again huh. enjoy it cause in a few months Romney will be blaming everything on obama…….. I HOPE HE RUBS IT IN GOOD FOR HIM. President Romney will be better then your obama any day.

  • Anonymous

    Awww, Don’t get so defensive! We all know that the progressives need to go, regardless of what party they are from. Ask yourself this though, freedom of choice, or ”fair”, which best describes what America was, and should still be?

  • Anonymous

    1. Wasserman Shultz isn’t running for a president. 2. Technically Romney released just 1 year of complete records. 3. Having a Swiss account is a common red-flag for tax avoidance and is as un-American as it gets.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jw-Appling/100001282155183 J.w. Appling

      Allowing her to lie must be what fox considers “FAIR” and balanced.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jw-Appling/100001282155183 J.w. Appling

      Miss Piggy demeans herself everytime she opens her lie hole.

  • Anonymous

    1.  Really?  She’s not running? What would we do without your exceptional knowledge, DOTJ.  I don’t care if she’s not running for pres.  She’s the face of the DNC and she’s constantly nagging on Romney for the very same thing she’s guilty of!

    2.  Is that illegal?  Explain to us what’s so terribly wrong with that to the point it disqualifies Romney for President?

    3.  So, now just having a “red-flag” is evidence of breaking a federal law?  Except of course, if that person is a progressive like your dear, beloved Shultz.

  • Anonymous

    Gee I wish I had a Swiss Bank Account too, but were on a fixed income and DWS and Obama are going to make sure, especially if he gets re-elected that i’ll have to pay a tax on every stupid transaction I make in my bank account. 1% of every transaction, that’s every ATM transaction, that’s every automated deposit of my So.Sec. check, my husbands So.Sec. Check, my husbands pension check.  Every time I go to the bank to transfer funds from Savings to checking to pay my bills, the government is going to get 1% of my transaction, aint that sweet.
    Yes gecko Wasserman-Schultz has a Swiss Bank Acct.? Get real.  They lie, they cheat, and undermind the fabric of our Constitution, they have enslaved the black-Americans since the Civil War.  Lincoln freed them, and the Democrats-progressives have kept them slaves ever since by keeping them on welfare, food stamps, entitlements, the worst education ever with teachers that could care less, to the point that they have no sense of worth anymore.  When you take that away from them, they just vegetate, but then Margaret Sanger the Priestess of Planned Parenthood thought that they had no worth to begin with and came up with the most insidious plan of all “abortion”. Abort the babies and eleminate the race she thought.  How cunning and sly these liberal-progressives are.  Wake up America.

  • Anonymous

    The fact to remember in all of this is that Mitt Romney has had his money in a Blind Trust since 2003 and by law, has nothing to say about how it is invested. On the other hand, Debbie (Blabbermouth) Schultz, as Rush calls her, has no such limitation. She can invest her money anywhere she chooses and she apparantly chooses those secret, offshore tax dodges to evade those onerous Obama taxes that she knows are going to dramatically escalate on the first of the year. (Okay, I may have gone a little overboard, but I was trying to channel my inner Liberal) It kind of makes you feel all icky inside.

  • http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

    Okay, you see a growing “Fascism/Theocracy” festering in the republican party; so I ask of you to provide any articles, book or links you have availible for me to examine first hand.

    Understand, I know of the Progressives and the old DC guard of the Right are in need of a major firing this November and a full steam cleaning as well. This is in addition to those of the left.

  • Anonymous

    How many members in Congress, do you think, would raise their hands if asked for a show of

    hands for those who either invest their money out of the US or have bank a/c s out of the US?

    How many in this administration would do that with a show of hands?

  • Anonymous

    When asked to produce his passport, school records etc., Romney should say

    to B.O., ”I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.”   Do you think that might

    work, jaymarie?

  • Anonymous

    md,  there was a woman quoted on a Fox News show today (don’t think her name was

    mentioned.)  The subject was class warfare and how B.O. and company are playing it

    because they don’t want to talk about Obamacare (since many oppose it) or the state of

    the economy.  She said (and I paraphrase) that ”the Dems are using the word ”rich” as

    though it was some kind of a four letter word.  What is wrong with using something like

    ”prosperous”?”    Guess the word prosperous would be too revealing?    Something a

    person got through hard work, maybe?  Perish the thought that someone should ever

    be a success!   Gotta keep that class envy thing going to rile the folks!

  • Anonymous

    Good point, scotez.  Don’t expect the distinction will ever be brought up by the left.

  • Anonymous

     You people are no different than the ones who defend their Republicans no matter what they do. She’s the DNC and is criticizing the exact same behavior that she conducts herself. Tell me if it were someone in the RNC would you say that’s OK? You people are no different that the Bush supporters. And you’re the reason why our politicians Republican and Democrat can get away with pretty much anything. Now go ahead and call me a racist, isn’t that how you all operate?

  • landofaahs

    This “little debbie” is not so sweet.  She actually seems more like a hoho.  She is yet another lying democrat.  Take note “little debbie”, if people don’t like being called a liar, I suggest they quit lying.  It’s the only way I know how to stop it.  The democrats are the epitome of what Ronaldus Magnus said about “Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”, yep it is really the biggest lie.  

  • Anonymous

    Wow just like Tiny Tim’s wife, Miss Vickey, supporting Tulip. Go Go, put a tip in my G-strap. Speaking of thief’s, I do remember, many lunches at Shanks in Center City Philly, where politicians and Judge’s, sat at tables with known Mafia. Humm, now US senators.

  • http://www.facebook.com/EricStevensNow Eric Stevens

    I’m confused.  When Mitt Romney (a private citizen) puts some of his legally earned money into some offshore accounts, that’s bad.  But when Obama puts 2 Billion dollars of the peoples money into a Brazilian offshore oil rig… http://on.wsj.com/2EhyT2 …that’s perfectly OK?

  • Anonymous

    I agree with you 100%  She’s utterly repulsive and I cannot bear to watch or listen to her. I’ll never understand how anyone in Florida (or anywhere for that matter) can support her. It’s an enigma to me. Democrats should be ashamed of her; she’s such an obvious shameless, unscrupulous, ”smiling,” blatant liar!

  • Anonymous

    No matter, this is a big problem for Romney.  He, and the right, contend that if we let the wealthy keep their wealth through reduced taxes, etc., they will reinvest in America, and create jobs.  He is living proof that this is not true.  He has shipped his money overseas, and is doing nothing to create a single job.  

  • Anonymous

    I couldn’t agree more Mao he is utterly repulsive I meant she sorry, despicable liar constantly being caught in lies she’s a total hypocrite but more important I think most people find her to be worthless and irrelevant. I think she’s desperate for attention, meanwhile Mr Rommney donated his inheritance to charity and I only learned that via Sean hannity. I think the DNC is imploding due to lies. God bless America!!!

  • greywolfrs

    1. So, it’s perfectly OK for a member of Congress to do it, but not anyone running for president? 2. Who cares how many years he has released. 3. The IRS said he paid all of his taxes and has no problem with him, so why do the left and you have a problem with him? That’s just stupidity.

  • greywolfrs

    No, it is not. That is a lie. A vote for anyone is a vote for that person alone.

  • greywolfrs

    He’s good also.

  • greywolfrs

    This skank is a hypocrite of the highest order. She wants to see all this about Romney and never once questioned anything about Obamao…

  • http://twitter.com/ShannonMCoachma Shannon M. Coachman

    a grade A prime hypocrite in every sense of the word.  What a repulsive political hack this woman is. http://MayorMoney.blogspot.com

  • Anonymous

    Quote by Romney’s father, George Romney: “One year (of tax records) could be a fluke, perhaps done for show”. That’s exactly what Mitt did, he is using tax shelters, outsourcing, and hiding the evidence so IRS can’t definitively prove it.

  • Anonymous

    If it’s not illegal and doesn’t raise ANY red-flags, why are you bashing Wasserman Shultz? Double standard much?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, different rules apply to Mitt than to DWS, folks.  Like anyone in Congress, she is responsible to those who elected her, so her tax returns are of interest primarily to people in her district.  Mitt, on the other hand, wants to be President – a higher office, last time I checked – and so he – and we – should naturally expect him to be subjected to a higher standard of disclosure.  I think it’s both wise and fitting that we find out all we can about the man, including information about his wealth, taxes, career and everything else.  If we don’t want to know as much as possible about the men who would lead us, we don’t deserve good governance.        

  • Anonymous

    AGAIN – SHULTZ IS THE ONE BASHING ROMNEY FOR THE VERY SAME THING SHE”S GUILTY OF?

    Hypocrite much?

  • greywolfrs

    You are laughable. One year is a “fluke?” I doubt it. Regardless of that, until he is elected president, one year is more than he needed to put out. Besides, the skank saying this is the pot calling the kettle black. She has been in Washington for long enough to part of the problem. Let’s not let that fact get into the way though.

  • Anonymous

    I love it when she opens her mouth. She is the epitome of liberal hypocrisy and literally LIVES her belief that because she is on the “right side of the issues” (by the way, pun intended), it is abjectly impossible for anything that she says or does to be hypocritical. What cracks me up is how angry she is all the time, especially when all the stupid people out there actually call it hypocrisy! I hope she keeps talking and talking because she is the best thing that is happening in the Romney campaign. The more she flaps those seemingly “unflappable” (pun intended yet again) jaws of hers, the more spluttering rage she shows, the more screaming and hatred, the more ridiculous she becomes and the more people realize that perhaps liberals are as crazy and stupid and hypocritical as everything they say and do so unerringly demonstrates. In fact, I think we should acknowledge her political acumen and recognize her relevance in our lives by referring to her from now on as “Fifi”, the chihuahua. Yip, yipyipyipyipyipyip….Good Fifi!! Good Fifi!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/zach.enos Zach Enos

    the american people should be able to see the full tax returns of Mitt Romney, not just one or two years worth.  if he has nothing to hide show them.   Who cares about the head of the DNC’s returns, she is not running to lead our country, Romney is, if I can’t trust him to show his financial past and then why should I vote for him!!  

    The reason to have a Swiss Bank Account, was for the anonymity not the security!  Just look at how the people have been fleeing from the swiss bank account ever since the IRS won various rulings against UBS in 2009.  Do your due diligence people, especially you Mr. Beck!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Allan/707974764 Gary Allan

    Its just the usal liberal hypocracy, not its allabout liberal lies, sorry, this independant will NOT vote Democat.

  • Anonymous

    Beck is full of shit!  The baby jesus and the 99% don’t like what glen is doing.  Mit rob-me is the 1% and beck supports him.  That’s sad, isn’t it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/jon.venuto Jon Rosario Venuto

    Diarrhea hitting toilet water at high velocity sounds and smells better.

  • Anonymous

    No, I think that Fox just lets her spew so that we can understand for ourselves what she is.  It is like “give her enough rope and she will hang herself.”  I can’t for the  life of me understand how Reid, palooseeee, and Ms. Washbucket can sleep at night.

  • J. Morrison

    EVERY non democrat candidate should merely repeat over and over that they will release any document requested only if the opponent releases the same. Much like a prisoner exchange but without the uneven one officer for thirty foot soldiers. If they were to do that, democrats and the ‘media’ would have to do the proverbial ‘put up or shut up. oblama still hasn’t released his records requested. But neither has kerry, edwards,both clintons and countless other of the protected species. Remember it took McCain 1 1/2 days to produce a sealed notarized birth certificate. We’re still waiting for oblama’s. The falsified photo copy of a photo copy doesn’t count. Especially when he(at least three occasions), his wife and his family members all say he was born in Kenya. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001110266273 Mary Ellen Lucas

    Because she is poison to the American people that’s why. Wake up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001110266273 Mary Ellen Lucas

    Haha, he’s now shown them all and you were wrong poison mouth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001110266273 Mary Ellen Lucas

    Noooooo, because the Republicans don’t smear lies about the democrats and have the media avoid reporting things that will make the republicans look bad like the dems. do.