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Mitt Romney has very serious ideas for fixing the economy. How do we know? By the typeface.

Romney’s released a 59-page plan in one of those very, very serious typefaces – Garamond, or Cambria, or Times New Roman – Well, to be honest, I’m not sure which. But trust me. It’s a serious typeface. And get this:

There are graphs.

The graphs and layout and typography in this “jobs plan” remind us that Romney’s crowning career achievement was running the massive consulting company Bain. He’s clearly taken the chief maxim of the consulting profession to heart: If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullsh*t.

That’s exactly what this “plan” is. It’s a slickly packaged re-presentation of the same agenda that’s killed millions of American jobs and will kill millions more if enacted again.

But it is pretty. All typesetters show you their proposed layout using the same dummy Latin language, which begins “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna …”Those typesetters did a great job with this booklet. But the ideas?

Here are five reasons Romney’s “new ideas” are the same job-killing conservative poison we’ve swallowed and regurgitated before: (http://www.nationofchange.org/five-reasons-romneys-plan-same-old-job-killing-madness-1315494528)

Poster’s Note: So you’re going to let this guy make you reschedule on the opening night of the football season at that? Of course we know the corporations and wealthy really run it, but other than that who is really running the country? Sometimes I wonder….

President Barack Obama will deliver an address to Congress outlining his new jobs agenda on Sept. 8 instead of the original date the White House requested on Wednesday.

White House Adviser Dan Pfeiffer announced Wednesday morning that the president requested to speak to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7, which would have conflicted with a Republican presidential debate planned at the same time. House Speaker John Boehner rejected the request and suggested the president deliver his speech a day later. A Boehner spokesman said Boehner’s office had never been consulted about the president’s plans.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced the change, but challenged Boehner’s claim that Republicans did not know about the original date. (more…)

CNN’s Candy Crowley sat down with the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka and the National Small Business Association President Todd McCracken to discuss jobs and the economy. Trumka reminded the viewers just who put the economy into the ditch in the first place, that everyone knew the stimulus bill was too small but it was all that could get passed due to the Republican obstruction in the Senate and that there are 400 bills sitting on the doorstep of the Senate that also have not been passed because of Republican obstruction. Most have not even been allowed to come up for a vote. As Trumka notes much of what’s in those bills would be helping our economy now.

Republicans seem determined to take this country into a ditch if it means them winning the mid-term elections. They’d be less likely to be rewarded for it if we had a few more like Trumka on the television not allowing our media to give them a pass for their behavior and having Republicans come on the air day after day and claim that the stimulus failed completely and we just need more tax cuts to revive the economy without being challenged.