The Obama-Romney Education Plan

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 4/24/2012 | James Freeman

[JediJones]

Also keep in mind this has nothing to do with rates on current loans. This policy deals with the rates that will be given on NEW loans only.

More government subsidies and redistribution of wealth that may or may not get any source of funding or add to the debt. The latest in what's sure to be a long, ongoing series from Mitt Romney and his "No Hope for Change" campaign.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“I think the old standby definitions of who votes for which party have been blown away in this campaign. I think people recognize that I’m not a partisan Republican—that I’m someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.”
-Mitt Romney (2002)

Video of the quote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMcjJEXt9To

Obama continued: “I am somebody who is no doubt progressive. I believe in a tax code that we need to make more fair. I believe in universal health care. I believe in making college affordable. I believe in paying our teachers more money. I believe in early childhood education. I believe in a whole lot of things that make me progressive.”
-Barack Obama
http://www.progressive.org/mag/nichols0109.html

[JediJones]

There was a nice moment on the FOX News WSJ editorial board show yesterday where one of their staff profusely thanked Newt Gingrich for being in the race, helping to keep the race interesting and helping to improve the eventual nominee.

[pepsionice]

One gets the impression that Newt was never serious about the race, but had the objective of fixing up three or four of the early races to benefit Romney (taking votes away from others).

[cripplecreek]

"Given the bleak job prospects that young Americans coming out of college face today," said Mr. Romney, "I encourage Congress to temporarily extend the current low rate on subsidized undergraduate Stafford loans.

They can't get jobs when they get out of college so lets give them loans they can't pay off.

Mitt Romney, all the brains and half the charm of Joe Biden.

[JediJones]

The only one who could get that impression is a fool or someone totally detached from reality.

[Clintonfatigued]

This has to do with college. But homeschooled students will be better-prepared and more able to shake down scholarships.

Another reason...oh, well, you know already.

[EGPWS]

They can't get jobs when they get out of college so lets give them loans they can't pay off.

If this is what the GOP stands for then to he!! with them!

You are right, Romney is the perfect fill-in for Biden.

[Mozilla]

Glenn Beck was right. The progressive ideology is the cancer in both parties. IT is why there is no difference between the republicans and democrats.

[parisa]

Good for Romney! I think it’s rather clever of him. Use the left’s tactics against them! Keep your agenda vague, muddy the waters for the rats, make your enemies confused and disoriented until after the elections! The rats have all the tools at their disposal — msm —to pin their enemies down and brand them to their liking. The best thing to do to shield yourself is to camouflage, dissimulate, and disorient the enemy! I kinda like his strategy!

[JediJones]

So is there anything he shouldn't agree with Obama on as part of his "strategy?" Note, this isn't a strategy. Romney has consistently throughout his political career and campaigns supported either expanding the welfare and entitlement states or keeping the status quo.

[cripplecreek]

Note, this isn't a strategy.

Agreed, the man is a weasel and a moron. He isn't bright enough to use any kind of political jujitsu against the left, he genuinely wants them to like him.

[Jack Hydrazine]

That’s why I’m writing in Sarah Palin for POTUS this November.

[cripplecreek]

Shake shake shake. Mitt Morphs into obama on college loans.

[GeronL]

Obama and Romney agree on a lot more than they disagree on

[Yashcheritsiy]

Vote for Barack ORomney! Because voting for a socialist is better than wasting your vote on a true conservative!

/do I need it?

[GeronL]

He didn’t muddy the water for the rats, he did it to the conservatives

[Yashcheritsiy]

The best thing to do to shield yourself is to camouflage, dissimulate, and disorient the enemy!

I have to admit, Romney's got me fooled into thinking he's a socialist scumbag...

[dirtboy]

House members who have been opposing the extension know it is anything but responsible.

Well, if Mitt gets elected, he can bypass Tea Party House and Senate members and push his big-government liberalism with a coalition of RINOs and Dems.

Because, after all, with Beltway Dems and Pubbies, being in power is not about determining the size of government but who gets the lions share of the political booty. But those Tea Party rubes, well, they're SERIOUS about shrinking government and therefore the size of the swag. So the RINOs would rather lose to the Dems than win with the Tea Party.

[dirtboy]

Good for Romney! I think it’s rather clever of him. Use the left’s tactics against them!

So we should defeat the left's socialism by co-opting it as our own.

Bush tried that with compassionate conservatism. All we got was rampant spending and a smoking hulk left of the GOP by the time Bush left office.

You don't defeat socialism by co-opting it, you defeat it by standing up to it.