Crooks & Liars: Romney op-ed a "shrewd political move" to teabag Queen Teabagger Palin

[Amerigo Vespucci]

December 15, 2010 08:00 AM
President Romney Plays to the Tea Party

By karoli

Mitt Romney's editorial in USAToday is absurd on many levels, but it's a shrewd political move for a guy who wants to pull the Tea Party away from Sarah Palin's grip. Among the more ridiculous things he says:

In this, as in so many other arenas of government policy, unemployment insurance has many unintended effects. The indisputable fact is that unemployment benefits, despite a web of regulations, actually serve to discourage some individuals from taking jobs, especially when the benefits extend across years.

Let me translate: The unemployed are lazy, on-the-dole idiots who won't work as janitors at McDonald's. I refer him to Susie Madrak's elegant and passionate retort as evidence of how wrong he is.

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/president-romney-plays-tea-party

[jaybeat]

1. A kick and a rec for the wonderful Karoli! (nt)