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

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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