Five Things to Know About Rob Portman

The Democratic National Committee has put together a website called "Five Things You Should Know About Rob Portman." It highlights his time as President Bush's Budget Director (which was obviously a failure), plus other facts that make him a very unbecoming candidate for Senate.

Rob Portman in His Own Words

Here is just a sampling of the strange things Republican senatorial candidate Rob Portman has said. (courtesy of the DSCC)

On Ohio's economy...

“The economy here has been relatively strong since the Bush tax cuts.”

[Cincinnati Enquirer, 1/28/08]

On Privatizing Social Security...

“[It] can be a perfectly guaranteed and safe system.”

[Fox News, 6/18/01]

On the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis...

"I have a hard time imagining that that would have a real world impact on our economy."

[Portman Press Briefing, 7/11/07]

On When He Supported "Cap-and-Trade"...

"Private sector incentives, such as permitting companies to trade discharge outputs, can both reduce pollution and costs."

[Roll Call, 7/6/10]

Ohio Republicans Crack Birther Jokes When Introducing Senate Candidate Rob Portman

Once again proving Republicans are children, ignorant and simply unfit to govern our country, two Ohio Republicans this past weekend made birther jokes questioning President Obama's citizenship status at a local fundraising dinner starring Senate candidate and former Bush administration official Rob Portman.

Here is the first joke from former state Rep. Jim Buchy:

"Lincoln was a skinny lawyer. Obama is a skinny lawyer. Lincoln was a Republican. Obama is a skinny lawyer. Lincoln was highly respected. Obama is a skinny lawyer. Lincoln was born in the United States. Obama is a skinny lawyer."

Joke number two from State Rep. James Zehringer:

"Rob Portman is an American lawyer. That's the first sentence [on his Wikipedia page]. That's something our president can't say,"

The point here is that this is all Republicans have to offer. Un-American, grade-school jokes that aren't funny. The jokes themselves aren't even that offensive. What is offensive is that nearly half of Americans want to put these people back in power.