Brayton: Romney 2008 = Obama 2011

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Funny how past positions always come back to haunt politicians who base their arguments on political convenience rather than reason and principle — which means pretty much every politician, of course. Just as Obama’s past statements about executive power reveal his current mendacity, so too do Mitt Romney’s past statements about economic stimulus do the same.

Andrew Sullivan links to a post by Romney at the National Review Online during the 2008 campaign, when the economy wasn’t even as bad as it is now, declaring, “The downward spiral is deepening and accelerating: Congress and the president must act now.” And what he suggested sounds a lot like what Obama did with the first stimulus package and continues to suggest now:

full: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/10/04/romney-2008-obama-2011/