Romney is the Stelarc of Politics
If the Romney/Ryan campaign is an experiment in post-truth politics, it is also an avant guard performance art piece which explores the negative space created when absolutist claims of positive outcomes are made that are completely devoid of any details.
In this act Romney/Ryan will not disclose what tax loop holes will create their budget surpluses. Also this weekend, they blew audiences away with, “Tax cuts for the wealthy will not reduce the tax burden of the wealthy. Trust us.”
In separate interviews Sunday, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan refused to identify which tax loopholes they would close in order to pay for their large tax cuts.
On NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Romney dodged multiple questions about which deductions or credits he’d target, saying only that he’ll get rid of “some of the loopholes and deductions at the high end” while seeking to “lower the burden on middle income people.”
Pressed for one specific example, Romney replied, “Well, the specifics are these which is those principles I described are the heart of my policy.”
On ABC’s “This Week,” Ryan also fended off multiple questions about whether the Romney-Ryan tax plan should be taken seriously given its lack of details on which loopholes they would close.
“Mitt Romney and I, based on our experience, think the best way to do this is to show the framework, show the outlines of these plans, and then to work with Congress to do this. That’s how you get things done,” he said.
Pressed for one specific example, Romney replied, “Well, the specifics are these which is those principles I described are the heart of my policy.”
Hmmm … well, that’s articulate. If you’re a baseball fan, you’d swear it was Casey Stengel talking.
As for Mr. Ryan — classic hypocrisy for him to assert that a president offering an outline and then working with Congress is “how you get things done.”
“Well, the specifics are these which is those principles I described are the heart of my policy.”
If you threw in a nod to satan, it would sound like the lyrics to a Tenacious D song.
Ryan: “I didn’t vote for the defense cuts that I voted for.”
It was a bad weekend for Team Red.
Can you imagine Romney in the sit room talking to the generals during some sort of crisis situation? How would they ever make any sense out of what he says?