The president’s numerous attempts to change the subject away from the economy are shamelessly transparent — perhaps this is what he meant when he promised us the most transparent administration in history.
He wants our eyes on Romney’s tax returns, he wants them on his lying campaign ads, he wants us to believe the lie that Romney outsourced jobs over seas, that he is responsible for the death of a steel workers wife.
If changing the subject doesn’t take our eyes of the economy, then he will just change history. That is exactly what obama is trying to do when he accuses Republicans of wanting to “go back to the same failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place.” And in purporting to explain to Americans what “got us into this mess in the first place,” the president is peddling a revisionist narrative that’s bound to resonate with economic illiterates everywhere.
Mitt Romney has put forward a jobs agenda that focuses on pro-growth tax reform, reducing red tape for job creators, curtailing government’s dominance of the economy, eliminating barriers to domestic energy jobs, repealing Obamacare, reining in labor union excesses, and fighting unfair trade practices. Romney also proposes to deal with our debt crisis by cutting spending and reforming entitlement programs. The president would be hard-pressed to explain logically how any of these policies “got us into this mess in the first place.” read more