Romney used federal bailout for Olympics, but opposed government loans to save auto industry [View all]

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By Steve Frank - Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:43 PM EST

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Mitt Romney is headed to Utah tomorrow to celebrate (translation: congratulate himself on) the tenth anniversary of the Winter Olympics that he claims he saved from scandal and financial failure.

But the Democratic National Committee will have none of it. It's out today with a new video attacking Romney's hypocrisy about the whole Olympics matter.

Here's the deal: Romney tells us that his leadership of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City is one of three basic reasons he's best qualified to be president (the other two being his record as governor of Massachusetts and running Bain Capital).

While Romney certainly deserves credit for turning the 2002 Winter Olympics around, and we give it to him here, he did it with $1.3 billion in TAXPAYER funding!

Yes, Mr. anti-government, anti-bailout, anti-earmarks reached into our pockets, got a whole pile of money, and then took full credit for turning the 2002 Winter Olympics around.