Toon: Romney fixes the hole in the safety net

Friday rant: The real Romney howler edition
By Tom Toles
I guess when you pack two outrageous statements into one paragraph, it might not be surprising for the media to latch onto the wrong one. Romney’s clunker about not caring about the very poor because they have all kinds of safety net to comfortably lounge around in was certainly bad enough, but in the predictable way. He was merely trying once again to play the Republican version of class warfare by implying that those other people down there at the bottom are soaking up resources that belong to you and he was going to take care of you now instead.

His “explanation” that he cared about them after all and if there were “holes” in the safety net he would “fix” them was more astounding than his original sentence, both in the way it completely contradicted it and how at variance it was to his actual policy proposals. Yeah he’ll fix them, all right.

But no, the REAL stunner was his blatant lie that he doesn’t care about the rich. Wowsa! Again, take a look at his actual policy proposals. MORE tax cuts for the rich, anyone? Hey, he said, the rich are doing just fine. Uh, no, they are doing just a huge quantum way giant lot better than “just fine”, they are running away with the ball, the game, the wealth, the power and the governing apparatus in its entirety. Do you think they are writing him that tidal wave of mammoth checks because he doesn’t care about them? I mean, we do a lot of weird pretending in the way we talk about and understand US politics, but are we really going to let that claim go unchallenged?
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