Kerry Laughs At Romney’s Claim To Credit For Auto Bailout: ‘He Cannot Be Serious’

[ProSense]

Kerry Laughs At Romney’s Claim To Credit For Auto Bailout: ‘He Cannot Be Serious’

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) laughed at Mitt Romney’s claim to “a lot of credit” for the auto bailout.

“I just – he cannot be serious,” Kerry told TPM in the Capitol Tuesday.

Congressional Republicans, who have criticized President Obama for the auto rescue, were also surprised by their presumptive presidential nominee’s claim.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/kerry-laughs-at-romneys-claim-to-credit-for

Awkward! Republicans Who Opposed Auto Bailout Stumped By Romney Claiming Credit For It

Brian Beutler

As long as Mitt Romney publicly claims credit for the auto industry’s recovery, he’s going to put his fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill in an awkward position. Nearly all of them have attacked the Obama administration’s bailout in exceptionally harsh terms, despite the fact that the administration’s actions are widely understood to have saved the industry.

In the Capitol on Tuesday, two Senate Republicans struggled to respond.

“Romney said that he was responsible for the auto bailout?” asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in disbelief, unaware that Romney had told a local affiliate in Ohio he should be credited for having saved the industry. “I’d have to look at the context of his remarks. I know that if the auto companies had gone into bankruptcy like thousands of small businesses had to do across America, they could’ve emerged without the sweetheart deal for the unions like was orchestrated by the Obama administration.”

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/auto-bailout-romney-republicans-bankruptcy.php

Mitt Romney mum in Michigan on auto industry he takes credit for saving

by Jed Lewison

Mitt Romney yesterday in Ohio on how he deserved credit for saving the auto industry:

I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy, and finally when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So, I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back.

Mitt Romney today in Michigan on how he deserved credit for saving the auto industry:

No, that's not a typo. That blockquote was intentionally left blank—because in his 2,250 word speech delivered in Michigan, the home to America's big three auto companies, Mitt Romney didn't say a single word about how he deserves credit for saving the auto industry.
The reason is obvious: he doesn't deserve credit, and he knows it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/08/1089776/-Mitt-Romney-in-Michigan-makes-no-mention-of-auto-industry-he-takes-credit-for-saving

[Politicalboi]

1. Hey Kerry

Mittens got 3 Purple Hearts while serving in Vietnam while you go wind surfing around the world. Oh and he won that war for us too.

[ProSense]

2. It's coming!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Yeah, Mittens and I were in country on a long range LURPS patrol

when the little people drew down and caught us in a crossfire. I got hit and Mitt saved my ass, carrying me on his back for at least twelve kliks back to the firebase.

[gratuitous]

7. I thought Mitt was a LARPer, not a LURPer

Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!

[Oldtimeralso]

12. Before he was a Grunt

He was a pilot for the navy and cost the tax payer 6 or 7 airplane, but he did bomb Hanoi (or did he bomb in Hanoi.)

[spanone]

6. nobody won in vietnam.

[Scurrilous]

3. ROFL

[The Wielding Truth]

5. Romney said he wanted GM to die. Now he is claiming to be it's EMT. Evidence says,"No.Mittens"

Only those with no basic reasoning will go for this. Teabaggers only. Sorry that's not enough intelligent voters to claim leadership of our US.

[abolugi]

8. EVERYBODY

is laughing at Rmoney today. He is the hit of internets!!

[karynnj]

9. What is ironic is the Republicans are hitting Obama for taking credit for something he DID DO

- getting Osama. Yet, here is their candidate taking credit for something that in the BEST case he had nothing to do with. In reality, his public recommendation was very different from what was done.

Could Mitty's first name really be Walter instead of Willard?

[YvonneCa]

10. I think Senator Kerry's response is...

...classic. There are just no words sometimes for what Republicans do.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. They talking about this on Tweety right now

Basically they're saying Romney has to lie his ass off and say just about anything he can because he doesn't want to lose Ohio. Apart from this giant bald faced lie, he has nothing else.

[politicasista]

13. Kick

Nice job Senator. (Not taking swipes at him, just a complement). Peace.

[patrice]

14. It's like someone telling you to write a very specialized program and then

taking credit for not only the program you wrote, but also the hardware that ran it, the electricity that powered it, and everything else that ALL of those resources produced.

Should it be any surprise to anyone that Willard Romney does not respect what amounts to "intellectual property"? This is one of the reasons that at will employment is slavery. People who CAN'T steal from those who CAN, just like Willard's WHOLE career.

[tanyev]

15. Starting that quote with "Surely" would have been a gift to photo captioners everywhere.

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. I laugh too! Let's just hope the rest of the eletorate feels the same way.

[amandabeech]

17. Kerry has this habit of reminding me why I did get out the vote for him.

Go get 'em, Senator!

He's my first choice for Secretary of State in the second Obama Administration.

[emulatorloo]

19. He'd be a great one. n/t

[Aerows]

20. Mittwit

would be nothing if it wasn't for lies.

[tblue37]

21. A comment on that second article by one Candace Coleman Brown reads,

“Nothing would make me happier than if during the debates, President Obama were to turn toward Mitt Romney and say, ‘If my record is SO bad, then why are YOU running on it?’ "


Great comment--we should spread it around (crediting Ms. Brown each time, of course!).

[thesquanderer]

22. Romney was against the bailout before he was for it (n/t)