Romney Slams GOP Leaders - Including His Own VP Nominee - for 2011 Budget Deal

[longnecker]

Romney Slams GOP Leaders - Including His Own VP Nominee - for 2011 Budget Deal

By Jake Tapper | ABC OTUS News – 4 hrs ago

• Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as chair of the House Budget Committee, was part of the team that signed off on the budget deal with the White House, mandating immediate spending cuts, creating a "Super-committee" tasked to finding $1.5 trillion in further deficit rediction, and raising a self-imposedsword of Damocles - $1.2 trillion in cuts to the Pentagon and domestic spending that few in Congress wanted - if the Super-committee failed.

Writing at the National Review Online at the time, Ryan said the bill was a "reasonable, responsible effort to cut government spending, avoid a default, and help create a better environment for job creation."
But today Mitt Romney said Ryan, the man he picked as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket, and other House GOP leaders made a "big mistake" in agreeing to that deal, which was part of the summer 2011 negotiations over raising the debt ceiling.
Romney said the $1.2 in mandated cuts was "an extraordinary miscalculation in the wrong direction."
"Republican leaders agreed to that deal to the extend the debt ceiling," NBC's David Gregory reminded Romney.
"And that's a big mistake," Romney said. "I thought it was a mistake on the part of the White House to propose it. I think it was a mistake for Republicans to go along with it.
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[Chiefbuck]

Longnecker, Hardly a slam, more of an opinion. On another topic, Foxnews.com today reports that Biden dared the GOP to fact check his speech. The GOP complied and did Obama's speech as well. Interesting list of facts for liberals to claim to be false. Sadly most will remain blissfully unaware and others will simply distort and deny.

[Beau Stockard]

Chiefbuck,

Longnecker, Hardly a slam, more of an opinion. On another topic

You like to change the subject when your favorite candidate says something controversial.

But today Mitt Romney said Ryan, the man he picked as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket, and other House GOP leaders made a "big mistake" in agreeing to that deal, which was part of the summer 2011 negotiations over raising the debt ceiling.
Romney said the $1.2 in mandated cuts was "an extraordinary miscalculation in the wrong direction."

Is this really what Mitt Romney believes? If yes, than Mitt Romney had completely changed his mind from what he believed when he governed the state of Massachusetts. I think that Romney might only be playing fast and loose politics in pandering to his new Tea Party base of voters who still don't fully trust him. In the interview, Mitt Romney said that he doesn't believe in bi-partisanship as the time-tested rule of moderate government. Even if the country fails, Mitt Romney will oppose all efforts by elected legislators to meet halfway and reach bargained solutions to our pending problems. This is the clearest example of the extremism in Mitt Romney's views on moderate democratic government. So, if you really like the increasing frustrations over a do-nothing Congress , stalemate and obstructionism just for the heck of it, then vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.

[max1]

lol

Jobs report...

[Chiefbuck]

Beau, Obama provided a great example of bipartisanship during the Obamacare passage. Try to think of the congress since mid term 2012 election as a responsible body putting the brakes on what was happening since Jan 2007 when congress had been controlled by Pelosi & Reid. Our national debt would have probably reached $20 trillion by now instead of the paltry $16 trillion. I guess it's the GOP's fault that the senate has not passed a budget in three years. Reelecting Obama is a guarantee of no progress and increasing debt. You might want to also think about Iran. But then you probably favor cuts in military and intel spending. I don't want to even think about what other changes you favor.

[Grin]

/ me points to thread title.

[Beau Stockard]

Chiefbuck,

Beau, Obama provided a great example of bipartisanship during the Obamacare passage.

Well ,of course, he did. I thought everyone knew that by now. The Affordable Healthcare Act was remarkable and history-breaking news because a Democrat President Barack Obama accepted as his baseline framework for a comprehensive reform of our US healthcare system a very conservative Heritage Foundation study plan. (You can't get anymore bi-partisan than that, Chiefbuck) The same one that Governor Mitt Romney chose for his Romneycare in Massachusetts except Romneycare funds abortions whereas Obamacare does not. Obamacare also believes that healthcare providers , doctors , and insurance companies should pay the larger share of costs for the cost-cutting reforms rather than seniors on fixed incomes and the poor who barely have enough leftover money after paying the rent and securing basic necessities. Thanks to the conservative John Roberts Supreme Court upholding the Constitutionality of Obamacare , thirty million more Americans will be able to enjoy the benefits of healthcare coverage , no one will be denied healthcare insurance because of pre-existing conditions ever again, children until the age of 26 will be allowed to be covered under their parents healthcare plans , and one of the most important requirements was the medical loss ratio that guaranteed that healthcare insurers must provide 80% of the coverage that they promised or pay their policy holders rebates.

[EpicWin]

It's all Obama's fault.

[Beau Stockard]

Chiefbuck,

you probably favor cuts in military and intel spending. I don't want to even think about what other changes you favor.

You don't need to guess,buddy. I have made it very clear in previous posts elsewhere on here that it would be fiscally irresponsible to not consider reasonable military spending cuts as part of the overall federal budget deficit reduction package. I also believe that President Obama knows that he can not use the 'peace dividend' from ending the George W Bush 2 1/2 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and world terrorist networks beause there isn't one. The President has to redefine America's limited role in a complex interdependent world order. We need to reduce our global military committments where-ever they are unnecessary to protect US vital interests and shut down hundreds of American military bases across the globe that are costly relics of faulty Cold War ideological thinking.