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.