Halperin: Why not in the first year, if you're elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you'd like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?
Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I'm not going to do that, of course.
Paul Ryan just had a stroke, because that's basically exactly what his planned budget does. It cuts hundreds of billions in government spending right off the bat. Mitt Romney is admitting that massive government spending cuts will put us in a recession. Republicans want to make massive government spending cuts. You see the problem here? Mittens just took a steaming dump in the Tea Party punchbowl, right?
Wrong. Working as intended.
Romney's playing centrist etch-a-sketch again. "Sure, we're going to have to make cuts folks, but under me they won't be so bad. The Republicans in Congress will listen to me and we'll do this in an orderly fashion. If the other guy is in the White House, well, who do you think will lose in the end? I'm the only guy who can control the Tea Party."
And there are millions of voters, some of the Democrats, who will vote for Mitt Romney for exactly that reason. There's a method to his seeming madness. And just like Orange Julius, he'll shrug and go "Oh well" when the Tea Party puts their budget on his desk and sign it.
Best part is when the economy plummets headfirst into the ground for the exact reasons Romney mentioned, it'll be Obama's fault, and we'll have to cut more spending. See how this works?
Of course as I keep saying you can prevent that in November.
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