Posted on 04/29/2012 9:33:29 AM PDT by JediJones
Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum warned that Mitt Romney might not present a "clear contrast" to President Obama in the general election. Judging by Monday's action on the campaign trail, Mr. Santorum had a point.
On a day when the White House urged Congress to increase student-loan subsidies, Mr. Romney had an opportunity to draw a sharp distinction between the expanding Obama entitlement state and a plan to revive the private economy.
But instead of laying out plans to create jobs and reduce government spending, the former Massachusetts governor arrived at the same policy conclusion as Barack Obama. "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. I also hope the president and Congress can pass the extension responsibly that offsets its cost in a way that doesn't harm the job prospects of young Americans."
House members who have been opposing the extension know it is anything but responsible. The Obama-Romney subsidy will keep rates as low as 3.4% for many student borrowers, not that far above the 3.1% rate that the Treasury pays to borrow for the long term. If interest rates spike, taxpayers could be losing on every single new loan, never mind the cost of defaults. And as for offsets, the White House and Senate Democrats favor a new tax on small businesses. If Mr. Romney can't provide a contrast to that idea, Republicans will know they're in for a very long campaign.
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Sometimes it’s like trying to talk to your dog, isn’t it?
OK `Bess,’ where were we? Oh yeah—Jung and the whole duality of man thing, right?
Woof!*
Did you say `roof’? It’s over your head? Ruth? Babe Ruth? Rough? Not fleshed-out? You disagree?
*”Stop busting my chops and get me a Beggin’ Strip.”
Sometimes it’s like trying to talk to your dog, isn’t it?
OK `Bess,’ where were we? Oh yeah—Jung and the whole duality of man thing, right?
Woof!*
Did you say `roof’? It’s over your head? Ruth? Babe Ruth? Rough? Not fleshed-out? You disagree?
*”Stop busting my chops and get me a Beggin’ Strip.”
Actually I can say that about people like yourself who would rather be enslaved by the original etched-in-his-soul islamo-marxist fascist obambam than to vote for a moderate mormon Republican, but then I remember that thankfully there are the vast majority of us — the forces of sanity and America-first-America-always — on the left (YES, I believe even on the left there are America-firsters who have turned anti-obambam) right,center, rhino, libertarian, moderate, tea party activist, who will go to the polls and will vote proudly to kick that islamo-marxist fascist out of our WH.
On the one issue that is driving this election, the economy, their is a difference.
To say otherwise is foolish.
Parisa is hangin’ on the Kool Aid. I can see that cherry ring up to his nose all the way from my porch.
Parisa picks Hitler and the hot showers and cold cuts because Hitler talks purtier than Stalin, and he’s
.........skeered.
REBELLION IS TOO DAMN HARD, AND IT’S SCARY.
I don't let the GOP-E decide what the election is "about." My principles don't change or shift in the wind. And I won't sell out issues like life and marriage because someone tells me the election isn't "about" those. It's always about those. And Romney is a big government socialist who never met a welfare or entitlement program he wanted to cut or reform. He also likes to invent new ones. There is no significant difference on that issue between him and Obama other than the GOP will avoid fighting Romney on those because they don't want to "embarrass" their candidate, as they did last week on the $6 billion student loan interest subsidy entitlement program issue that Romney ceded to Obama.
As I’ve been saying or awhile, in the unlikely event Mitt Romney is elected, his role is to consolidate the socialist gains of Barack Obama. Not hard to do with an R by his name, and a Congress full of Romney Republicans.
How? Because Romney's a bid'nessman?
Please.
He raised taxes, just like Obama. He killed jobs, just like Obama. He gave us socialised health care, just like Obama. He supports the jobs-killing environmentalist agenda, just like Obama.
These are all facts that are on the record, whether you personally choose to believe them or not. Most of them have been documented numerous times here on FR, much to the chagrin of the Rom-kneepadders on here. To try to pretend they don't matter is simply evasion and purposeful obtuseness.
I hate to say it, but it's starting to look that way, doesn't it? For all their bravado about being smarter, tougher, braver, and better than the lefties, the fact of the matter is that most conservatives - including those here on FR - are just spineless go-along-to-get-along wimps. Instead of helping to fight the system, they're strapping on their Rom-kneepads as we speak.
The era of an America populated by people with big dreams and the gumption to achieve them appears to be over.
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