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Townhall
The Multitudinous Mitt
by Steve Chapman
Oct 07, 2012
In
Wednesday's debate, Mitt Romney
said he will "stop the subsidy" to public broadcasting. That's good
to know, because Mitt Romney's campaign website says he will merely
"reduce subsidies for ... the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
Kill
Big Bird or just pluck some of
his feathers? Or neither, in keeping with what often happens to
promises made
by politicians? As Ted Kennedy once said of Romney's abortion policy,
"I
am pro-choice. My opponent is multiple choice."
Barack
Obama had a tough time in
the debate because he was told he would be debating Mitt Romney, a
self-described "severely conservative" Republican who rails against
regulation, promises huge tax cuts and has no use for Washington's
meddling in
private businesses like health insurance. But Mitt Romney had to cancel.
Instead
the president found himself
facing a last-minute replacement named Mitt Romney, a bipartisan-minded
compromiser who says, "You can't have a free market without
regulation," vows not to accept any tax cut that would increase the
deficit and wants to tell insurance companies whom to insure.
Obama
wrote a book called "The
Audacity of Hope." But until Wednesday, he never knew the meaning of
audacity. Romney left Obama looking like a nearsighted farmer chasing a
greased
pig in a dark barn.
Reciting
his five-point economic
plan, the GOP nominee said, "Number four, get us to a balanced
budget." He grieved over chronic deficits: "I think it's, frankly,
not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we
take
in."
But
there's that other Romney. His
website page on spending omits any promise or plan to eliminate the
deficit.
Elsewhere, he has said he would balance the budget in eight to 10 years
-- by
which time it will be someone else's problem.
The
bipartisan Committee for a
Responsible Federal Budget estimates that Romney's budget plan would
increase
the federal debt from 73 percent of gross domestic product to 86
percent over
the next decade -- even more than Obama's. If reviving the economy
requires a
balanced budget, we can assume that under Romney it would remain
stalled…
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