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Romney in 2008: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

Four years after he said the bailout guaranteed the end of Detroit, Romney takes credit. A man of such character and foresight!

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt – NYTimes.com

By MITT ROMNEY
Published: November 18, 2008

IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt – NYTimes.com

Mitt Romney: ‘I’ll Take A Lot Of Credit’ For Auto Industry Recovery

Despite his 2008 call to "let Detroit go bankrupt," presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that he would "take a lot of credit" for his impact on the U.S. automobile industry’s comeback.

Mitt Romney: ‘I’ll Take A Lot Of Credit’ For Auto Industry Recovery

Romney the push-over

I almost never read Jonah Goldberg, who makes Calcified Cal Thomas seem reasonable. However, I made it through this whole column without puking

Romney Feeds the Crocs – Jonah Goldberg – Townhall Conservative Columnists – Page 1

"If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin?" So asked Bryan Fischer, a radio host with the American Family Association, after claiming credit for Richard Grenell’s scalp. …

If you want a politician to adopt your position, you shouldn’t then mock him for adopting your position. That’s not smart politics or lobbying; it’s public bullying as theater: "Ha ha! I made you do it!"

Romney Feeds the Crocs – Jonah Goldberg – Townhall Conservative Columnists – Page 1

Calcified Cal Thomas accuses Obama of using fear to divide the nation. #asshat

I almost threw up before I stopped reading his tripe. Tricky Dick and Spiro Scumdog Agnew used FUD and lies as has every Republican president since.

If I agree with Wiener does that make me a dick?

I think Michael Wiener is an insensitive boor, surely sexist, possibly racist (who isn’t). His bumper sticker: Guns don’t kill people, husbands who come home early kill people. Why didn’t his mindset die in the Sixties? Still, I agree with him: let the people decide. I hope the voters in his district kick his ass to the curb. If they don’t, well, that will say a lot about those voters. But electing the fool in the first place did that.

Wiener rejects calls for his resignation | NMPolitics.net

“There’s an election in 37 days and if the people at that time want to pick somebody else to represent them on the county commission, that’s certainly the way a democracy works that we all belong to,” KOB-TV quoted him as saying. “And I’m going to let the voters in my district speak rather than a few elected officials.”

Wiener rejects calls for his resignation | NMPolitics.net

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.-WaPo. Amen to that.

Hat tip to dangerousmeta.

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. – The Washington Post By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, Published: April 27

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges. …

The GOP’s evolution has become too much for some longtime Republicans. Former senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraskacalled his party “irresponsible” in an interview with the Financial Times in August, at the height of the debt-ceiling battle. “I think the Republican Party is captive to political movements that are very ideological, that are very narrow,” he said. “I’ve never seen so much intolerance as I see today in American politics.”

And Mike Lofgren, a veteran Republican congressional staffer, wrote an anguished diatribe last year about why he was ending his career on the Hill after nearly three decades. “The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe,” he wrote on the Truthout Web site. …

[I]t is up to voters to decide. If they can punish ideological extremism at the polls and look skeptically upon candidates who profess to reject all dialogue and bargaining with opponents, then an insurgent outlier party will have some impetus to return to the center. Otherwise, our politics will get worse before it gets better.

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. – The Washington Post

Romney’s principled, radical view for America – The Washington Post

Romney’s principled, radical view for America – The Washington Post by EJ Dionne Jr.

Just like that, all would be well — as if we never needed the trust-busting of the Progressive Era, the social legislation of the New Deal, the health programs of the Great Society and the coordinated action of the world’s governments in 2008 and 2009 to keep the Great Recession from becoming something far worse.

This is Romney’s true radicalism.

Romney’s principled, radical view for America – The Washington Post

We know the GOP lives to fight Roosevelt’s legacy. Who knew it was Teddy.

The party of robber barons.