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Romney: Peddling the Indefensible
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But his "plan" simply doesn't add up. He wants to lower taxes, raise spending on the military, protect Social Security and Medicare for a decade, and cut $6 trillion out of spending to balance the budget. He gets there only by projecting fantastical rates of growth and using magic asterisks to indicate cuts or loophole closings that he isn't prepared to reveal.
But violating arithmetic is a minor offense compared to Romney's savaging of common sense and trampling of basic values. Romney argues that he has a hard time appealing to the Republican "base" voters because he isn't prepared to "set my hair on fire" and say "outrageous things." But the plan he presents - sculpted to appeal to those very voters - is just as self-mutilating. Here in brief are the Romney assumptions.
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Romney says he has the "integrity" to "speak honestly to the American people." But he is peddling an agenda that can only be sold by obfuscation, misdirection and straight up lies.
Romney's opponents in the primaries did not challenge this cruel nonsense, for their plans are worse. But now that Romney is on a clear path to the nomination, it is time for the press corps to press Romney on how he proposes to defend the indefensible.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/romney-peddling-the-indef_b_1310251.html
But his "plan" simply doesn't add up. He wants to lower taxes, raise spending on the military, protect Social Security and Medicare for a decade, and cut $6 trillion out of spending to balance the budget. He gets there only by projecting fantastical rates of growth and using magic asterisks to indicate cuts or loophole closings that he isn't prepared to reveal.
But violating arithmetic is a minor offense compared to Romney's savaging of common sense and trampling of basic values. Romney argues that he has a hard time appealing to the Republican "base" voters because he isn't prepared to "set my hair on fire" and say "outrageous things." But the plan he presents - sculpted to appeal to those very voters - is just as self-mutilating. Here in brief are the Romney assumptions.
......(MUCH MORE)
Romney says he has the "integrity" to "speak honestly to the American people." But he is peddling an agenda that can only be sold by obfuscation, misdirection and straight up lies.
Romney's opponents in the primaries did not challenge this cruel nonsense, for their plans are worse. But now that Romney is on a clear path to the nomination, it is time for the press corps to press Romney on how he proposes to defend the indefensible.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/romney-peddling-the-indef_b_1310251.html