file this under “Things I don’t believe”. Is Dana Milbank actually turning into a journalist? Today’s column takes apart Willard’s lying and avoidance of stating his position.
There have been many mendacious moments in this presidential campaign, but it will be hard to top what Mitt Romney told the Veterans of Foreign Wars conference this week.
[Romney] ” …This is no time for the president’s radical cuts in our military.”
Romney is referring to the automatic spending cuts, or “sequestration,” required by the Budget Control Act of 2011. For those suffering memory loss of the sort afflicting Romney, that legislation came about when Republicans threatened to throw the country into default unless Democrats agreed to automatic budget cuts if a “supercommittee” couldn’t reach a bipartisan agreement (which it couldn’t, naturally).
If the defense cuts are Obama’s, they are also John Boehner’s, Eric Cantor’s, Mitch McConnell’s and Jon Kyl’s. The bill passed with the votes of a majority of House and Senate Republicans and the encouragement of — wait for it — Mitt Romney. A Romney spokeswoman at the time said he applauded Boehner’s negotiating prowess.
Romney may have been able to retire from Bain Capital retroactively, but he won’t find it so easy to hold his
applause retroactively. That’s because his party continues to choose tax cuts over defense spending.
If Willard has lost the Village, he’s fucked.
Reality occasionally impinges on the brains of Villagers such as Milbank. What we do know is that unlike GWB, Mitt hasn’t charmed the Beltway and seriously, do they really want the WH occupied by the Osmonds but without the music?
in the discussion of this on dKos (I crossposted it) the predictable images of the stopped clock and the blind pig were invoked. And that’s not unfair because the Villagers are so impervious to reality in their bubble.
I like “the Osmonds but without the music”. The Osmonds were at least professionals; if they weren’t nice people they successfully acted like it when on camera. Mitt can’t even do that. His really extraordinary lack of charm is making an impression.
The Osmonds were like the Jackson Five for the really boring, really white, non-fundie set. But they were performers and as such had the skill to please their audience.
If there were a standardized and normed test for social IQ, Mitt would fall at least one standard deviation below the mean. And Ann may not score much higher than that either.
Milbank finds an acorn.
he’s earned the cynicism, and I’ll hardly be surprised if he’s back to normal by Monday. It’s possibly more interesting that his editors let him run something criticizing Repubs without any “both sides are doing it” bs.
Someone else called Milbank a “weathervane”, which is how I see this. The tide of conventional wisdom is starting to turn. Did you read MoDo yesterday? Real, substantial criticism on issues, not like her at all.