I forgot to mention this before, when I was reviewing the Romney jobs plan. I had a big problem with this paragraph:
One of the greatest problems with the federal bureaucracy is that each incoming presidential administration leaves in place much of what its predecessor constructed. The result is layer upon layer of often unnecessary or inconsistent regulation. Mitt Romney will not allow that practice to continue. On his first day in office, Romney will order all federal agencies to initiate repeal of any regulations issued by the Obama administration that unduly burden the economy or job creation.
While it’s common for an incoming president to undo parts of what the previous administration did, this seems like a dangerous promise to me. You can’t just delete four or eight years of the prior administration every time the presidency changes hands. The government isn’t a speedboat, it’s a cruise ship. You don’t make sharp turns, you guide it in a desired direction. Calling a do-over every four, eight, twelve, or hell, even sixteen years would result in a bipolar government, and the stresses on the law could get messy.
Romney, here, is promising to bring things back to 2008 and do it “right,” this time, but it’s not 2008. It’s 2011, and this kind of regressive thinking is a risky gambit. Birthers thought that if they could prove President Obama was born in Kenya, they’d be able to undo all of his work because it was done by an illegal president. They were wrong. If Romney starts down this path of treating every idea Obama ever had as toxic for the American people, he could be in danger of scaring off independent voters with his excessive partisanship. And regardless of votes, this promise sets a dangerous precedent.
Ha! Ha! You mean you actually believe that this is what Mittens thinks will be good for AMERICA rather than for his poor, put-upon fellow millionaires? Stop, you’re killin’ me.
If crippling the federal government is one’s goal, why would it matter if enacting such a policy tends to erode the authority of the federal government? It’s only the people who wish to see the federal government survive in some meaningful form that need to worry about the consequences.
Just look at all the new jobs the gulf oil spill created.
Following this ‘policy’ would turn the American govt into the Italian govt.
Eh, no thanks.
He better repeal Obamacare before it goes live, because after having their first sweet taste of health insurance, even trailerpark teabaggers will fight tooth and nail to keep it.
the senate’s 60 vote bullshit means you can say you’ll do this all you want but it won’t fucking work. it takes decades to turn the ship around. we’re at about 150 to the right currently.
All his work?
So he’s been doing something these 3 years?
But wait…then why is Bush to blame.
Oh, because 3 years isn’t enough to “undo the damage that Bush did”.
Why do I ask…you’ve all got implants.
“If Romney starts down this path of treating every idea Obama ever had as toxic for the American people, he could be in danger of scaring off independent voters with his excessive partisanship.”
HAHAHAAHAHA.
Obama’s had some nice ideas I guess. Funny thing is that most of them are batshit Republican ideas but the Repubs are just good at outbatshitting the oh-so-reasonable Batshitter-in-chief. Oh, and he definitely seems determined to kill “entitlement programs.” You know, those Ponzi schemes we all pay into. If SS is a Ponzi scheme then ALL insurance and many other investments should be eliminated by that logic–logic which Obama endorses when it comes to SS.
Paul, I wouldn’t take any of this stuff too seriously. No one believes any of it, least of all Romney.
I’ll say to The Stranger what I’d strongly recommend to all media:
Rather than knee-jerk reaction to all the insane, inflammatory bullshit these hateful people are continually spouting (WHO took the cork out of the dike keeping right-wing insanity from spewing in every direction in this country???) … how about taking the space and the time to propose SANE, REASONED, ACHIEVABLE steps that prove how batshit crazy they are RATHER than get in a dither over all their provocative bullshit – designed to get you to do EXACTLY what you’re doing?
Do you really want to help Romney get his bigoted, quarter-baked, throwback Neanderthal ideas discussed? Then: WHY bring them up at all?
Lefties: they are jerking you around, and your indignation is icing on their happy cake.
I understand the irresistible urge to follow Republican as they crisscross Iowa saying stupid things.
Meanwhile, the election is over a year away–fourteen fucking months. It’s 5 months until the first caucus.
The standard slam against political coverage in the U.S. is that it focuses too much on the horse race. Even, as it seems, with almost half a year to go before the race begins.
Y’all can do better, Stranger.