Romney: GOP ‘Let People Down’ on Budget

[highplainsdem]

Source: Wall Street Journal

CINCINNATI—Mitt Romney said Saturday that his party had fallen short on its fiscal promises even as he campaigned alongside a top Republican congressional leader.

“We’re going to finally have to do something that Republicans have spoken about for a long time and for a while we didn’t do it. When we had the lead, we let people down,” Mr. Romney told a crowd in this important swing state. “We need to make sure” they are not let down again. “I will cut the deficit and get us on track to a balanced budget.”

While Mr. Romney regularly promises to whip the budget into shape, he rarely says that his fellow Republicans have fallen short.

In a call for unity, the Republican presidential candidate said he would work to bring both sides of the aisle together if he wins the presidency.

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Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/01/romney-the-gop-let-people-down-on-budget/

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Yeah, right. As if the tax cuts and increased defense spending he's advocating aren't what added so much to the deficit in the first place.

[Monk06]

1. Has Anne picked out the new Whitehouse curtains yet? Idiots

[jmowreader]

12. She needs to pick ones with LOTS of extra fabric

Ann Romney seems like an upholstery fabric-wearing kinda lady, just like the last GOP first lady who lived there.

[wordpix]

19. She's planning on putting horses and cows on the WH lawn to add to the BS and HS coming from Mitt

[elleng]

2. Think rmoney's gonna kick Boner + cantor ass???

'When House Speak John Boehner (R., Ohio) introduced Mr. Romney, he served up some fiery criticism for his Democratic counterparts in Congress.

“We have focused on the economy and jobs every single day,” said Mr. Boehner. “And, you know, while we’ve done all this good work in the House and done what the people have asked us to do, Harry Reid has blocked everything we’ve sent over there,” he said, referring to the Democratic Senate majority leader.

Amid a partisan standoff in Washington over taxation and budget-cutting, Congress has become a highly unpopular institution. Just 12% of registered voters said they approved of the job Congress was doing in an August Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Some 82% said they disapproved.'

[Iliyah]

3. Lying sack of s**t

not true, and he needs to be called out on it!

[DallasNE]

4. Still Another Shake On The Etch-A-Sketch

Romney's pick for VP was a leader that submarined the grand bargain last year that would have cut spending and the deficit so his words ring hollow while his actions speak loudly.

[bluemarkers]

5. RINO

How dare he criticize the gop?

[DearAbby]

6. Romney is a confirmed liar

why should we believe promises he has made? He has been all over the place on every issue...one who does not intend to keep his word, can do that. Why should we trust a liar to keep his word?

[Faygo Kid]

7. He'll do it on the backs of the poor and middle class

Slash or end every program for those in need, eliminate tax deductions that benefit the middle class, and destroy Social Security and Medicare (just for fun, even if they don't contribute to the deficit).

Oh well, at least my tax dollars can then be used again for immoral neocon wars. Just great.

[Moosepoop]

9. He won't do it at all.

If elected, he'd do all those things you listed, but it wouldn't cut the deficit or balance the budget. It would only make them worse.

[Faygo Kid]

11. I should have said he'll try it.

He doesn't care about the deficit any more than Dick Cheney, except to pander to the teabaggers.

[L0oniX]

8. Hey you rotten stinking SOB how about you put money into infrastructure and ...

put the US people back to work ....ya fuckin fuck nut! Stuff that budget deficit up your silk lined ass!

[freshwest]

14. Applauding your enthusiasm. ;)

[wordpix]

18. applause & add: how about you put money into the Treasury with your own tax payments, Mitt?

[BREMPRO]

10. 8 days after obama took the helm Rmoney was on record as being disappointed in his leadership

this is so infuriating!! the repugs have had this strategy from the beginning.. to DENY obama a second term by tying up the wheels of government to make him look ineffective.. to stop him from creating jobs and it's amazing he's got anything done at all, much less saving us from a depression, doubling the DOw and creating 4 million private sector jobs.. SOOO RMONey is NOW trying to say that whEN HE Is president, the Republicans will cooperate.. that's his pitch!!! that's their strategy.. a republican as president or obstruction... he and all the puke leadership are tools.

[jmowreader]

13. Romney's budget plan is supposed to get us to a balanced budget in 27 years

Note to the GOP: the words "tax cut" and "balanced budget" should never come from the lips of the same person.

[oldsarge54]

15. Really?

You mean that the targetted big ticket items like schools, NPR, PP and going to be taken care of by hands reaching across the aisle. I know mormons don't smoke, but what the heck is in his paper bag.

[wordpix]

16. "let people down"? Is that what Mitwit calls going to war under false pretenses, killing thousands

& increasing the deficit for that reason alone?

Yeah, just a little "letdown."

[sofa king]

17. ... and a flying car, and a pink unicorn, and fusion power!

[BootinUp]

20. He thinks the average American voter is a total idiot

and he intends to prove it.