Campaigning in Maryland this week, Mr. Romney said, "I keep hearing the President say that he's responsible for keeping America from going into a Great Depression. No, no, no. That was President George W. Bush".
what eye thynk: What? I'm having trouble with the chronology here. For months we've been hearing Romney blame the recession on President Obama. So the economy that Romney has been telling us Obama broke was fixed by George W. before Obama broke it? Just trying to follow the logic in that makes my brain bleed.
Earlier this week, when asked how Mr. Romney's campaign might change were he to win the nomination, Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom compared the two campaigns this way: "Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again".
Looking at Mr. Romney's comments in Maryland, it appears that he is already mastering the art of history by Etch A Sketch.
Our country's arrival at the brink of economic collapse happened on George W's watch and was caused by his administration's policies of deregulation and tax cutting while paying for a war started under false pretenses. No amount of shake-erase-rewrite action can change those facts.
The Republican ego has become so engorged that there is no longer room for the truth. They would have us believe that if only they had been left in charge unemployment would be zero, gasoline would be $2.50 a gallon and the entire Middle East would be embracing Western style democracy.
And now Mr. Romney wants us to believe that George W. didn't really ravage our economy, he saved it. This is revisionist history at the hands of an Etch A Sketch master.
All I can say about Romney's sense of history is that I wish he'd been my History teacher. The man has no grasp of what is right or wrong. Only his bottom line.
ReplyDeleteMaybe while at Bain Capital he had his hand on the pulse on what was needed in private equity, or investment ventures, but as the 'etch-a-sketch' candidate he cannot be trusted.
Ever consider that maybe, just maybe, that's what he's trying to do now? Venture investment here, at home, by devaluing this country as a whole, so he can buy it wholesale and sell it to some one, or some country, with TONS of money.
That's no whackier than Romney's strategic misinformation.