No song dual tonight. Too tired from shoveling that "2 to 4 inches" of snow...yeah right. However, no acquiescence for "Perry-tale ending". That was just sad. I mean, really?

Romney stated the carrier was "airtight." Hmmmm...then how did the doggie diarrhea escape and run down the back of the vehicle?

Thanks, Rachel! Your opening story gave rise to a good song du jour. I hope you don't mind my often intrusions upon your sanity.

Everyone know what kind of person Romney is. Every one knows what harm he caused. All he can do is to say he was wrong, that he did it out of greed. Lawrence O'Donnell had a good question last nigh and I will paraphrase. If Romney would have made only a few millions less would those people would still be working. Or is there any thing that he would not do for profit? There is nothing clean about unjust capitalism. Capitalism is supposed to be good for everyone. When it is good for just a few then it is immoral.

It is funny how Romney's defenders are trying to make the case for "capitalism". This type of system is not supposed to create poverty or cause poverty. This type of system was design to give the opportunity to create wealth. What Romney did keep a lot of people from creating wealth by deliberately distributing wealth among a few. He transferred wealth from employees to share holders. That is not capitalism. A transferred of wealth by firing employees, wage reductions, high pricing of good and services is not capitalism, that is financial persecution of those in the lower strata. When are we as Americans going to learn about our own system so we can preach to others about its benefits?

I cannot believe how come the GOP base is so brainwashed that the truth does not reach their understanding. We at the bottom 80% grew up with capitalism, we like it. But what is practice today is not capitalism but it is an injustice and an immoral system.

I just watched the "When Mitt Romney Comes to Town" video. I don't really have a comment on the video, but it made me think about what real capitalism and free enterprise is, or at least should be.

Shouldn't "companies" be trying to provide a product or service that meets the demand of the public at large, and not just rich investors looking for large profits?

Let's simplify the process:

Path 1: Bain buys a company that looks to be in trouble and it turns around. They make a profit of 500%

Path 2: Bain buys a company that looks to be in trouble and at some point in the process they do not believe that it is going to succeed. They run up the debt, fire all of the employees, and sale of the assets. They make a profit of 300%.

The only incentive to take Path 1 is more profit, but do they really care if the company succeeds if they are going to get huge profits no matter what?

Now the question becomes, how do they really target companies and their true expectation of whether or not they will succeed?

I believe they do not care, and in some cases specifically chose companies that were destined to fail just for the assets. Why couldn't they invest a little money and process expertise into these companies to try and save them and the communities that were affected?

It all boils down to greed, and if the video got anything right, it's the fact that in corporate America today you can never have enough profit.

Just watching clips of Rachel's story, people were losing jobs in 1992 and times were hard for working class people way back then to. Very telling. Looks like a pattern!!

"Dogs Playing Poker," with the loser having to ride on top of Mitt Romney's car.

Oh, and my ad idea for Democrats.

Culture of 1-percenter corruption Republicans pulled a Bain Capital on the U.S. Postal Service in 2006, attacking the postal service union by attacking it's pension fund, with Bain Capitalist Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the Vulture Capitalist Bush administration specifically requiring that the U.S.P.S. pre-fund 75 years of employee health care costs, BUT pay for this within a mandated 10 year period of time.

This Bain Capital stunt by Republicans in 2006 has financially crippled the U.S.P.S., forcing lay-offs of workers (many military veterans) and forced the closing of thousands of post offices across America (mainly rural). Bain Capitalist Republicans in 2006 just HAD to destroy the U.S.P.S. union because in 2006 the U.S.P.S. (even with internet competition) had enjoyed one of it's biggest revenue years ever, following on the heels of the two previous years setting revenue records. And remember, the U.S.P.S. receives NO taxpayer funding, relying for revenue instead on stamp and mailing-material sales.

U.S.P.S., therefore, highly successful, cost efficient, with postal labor union workers competently and professionally delivering mail day-in and day-out, so of course, Bain Capitalist Republicans HAD to destroy it. To put it simply, Bain Capitalist Republicans, like Mitt Romney, are evil, not virtuous but vulturous.

And the Democratic ad idea? Any political ad showing Bain Capitalist Republicans "going postal" on the U.S.P.S., with right-wing Vulture Capitalists circling overhead.

The working class were losing jobs back in 1992 also. Very telling. Looks like a pattern.

NPR says the Romney "shoeshine" photo is actually an airport wand security screening.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/01/12/145126797/photo-of-romneys-shoe-shine-actually-shows-security-check

Dear Rachel and Bill, Kindly do your patriotic duty and mention Romney's treatment of his dog a few times a week until the Mittbot just gives up and goes away. You know you want to, and all pet-loving Americans will love you for it. Thanks!

Here's a link to the photo discussed incorrectly tonight on the show... it's a security check, not a shoe shine..and that's a passenger plane, not a private jet...and it's from 2008. http://www.wbur.org/npr/145126797/photo-of-romneys-shoe-shine-actually-shows-security-check

Poor Seamus! I would imagine that PETA and ASPCA and the American Humane Society will have something to say about the Romney's treatment of that beautiful animal. The Romney's are lucky that dog wasn't dead when they arrived at their destination! I guess when you get rich people out of their comfort zone and they actually have to take care of their kids and their dog themselves, well, that's when things get real and we can all witness their splendid lack of common sense. Well, have a good evening...I have to go let my dog out for his nightly Romney. After that, I'm going to watch "National Lampoon's Vacation".

You are all missing part of Romney's explanation with Wallace about the dog being on the roof of the car. He said the dog was in an airtight container. How was poor Seamus supposed to breathe for twelve hours if it was an airtight container? i used to take my Dalmatian with me everywhere with me in the car, he sat on the passenger's front seat and looked out the front windshield to see where we were and where we were going. He instinctively knew where every rest stop was and made me stop there for his "breaks". When it was too hot in the summer to leave him in the car, he understood when I explained it to him and he stayed home. How could anyone leave a dog in an airtight container for twelve hours? He should have been charged with animal cruelty, not only for locking the dog in a container for twelve hours but for not caring for the dog when it became physically sick.

Just had a moment of realization while watching your show:

There are those of us who suggest that single-minded pursuit of profit by the most privileged and powerful, with disregard for the cost to the nation's economy, or the lives of those of lower status,
is at the least irresponsible, and at the worst immoral. This clear understanding of the increasing disparity has given rise, at its most vocal, to the 99% movement. There is no question where Romney stands on this issue, what his record shows his attitudes to be.

But today I realized something important about those of us in the middle class, who do the working and building and fighting in uniform in this country (you know, those of us who know what a grocery-store scanner is!)

To people like Romney, we are just the dogs who are envious of the people who get to ride inside the car. If we raise enough of a stink, he might pull over and hose us off, but no matter how tired, cold, or sick we are...he will always make sure we're kept on the outside.

Big fan of your show. However, you and your guest incorrectly identified the troops urinating on the Afgans as Soldiers. They were Marines.

Sooo, I must not be the only one signing every petition he gets that are aimed at getting rid of this corporations are people ruling.

Romney also said in the clip that the carrier was air tight.-----Like a casket? I do not know one other human being that would do that to a dog. But, what the heck do I know, I am part of the 99%, so, I must just be envious!!!!

If it was air tight, how did the brown liquid get out?

only on The Rachel Maddow Show can we discuss defecation (Romney dog) and urination (marines) and have it be a political and intellectual issue.