Alanta Journal - "On auto bailout, Romney performs rarely seen flip-flop-flip"

[TomCADem]

After condemning the President's efforts to save the auto industry in 2009 as "really tragic," Romney is now claiming that he was calling all the shots. Amazing!

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/05/25/on-auto-bailout-romney-performs-rarely-seen-flip-flop-flip/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog

Before we abandon the auto bailout as a topic, I’d like to focus a little more tightly on the interplay it has inspired between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, because there’s something about it that seems strangely familiar. With the bailout now acknowledged as a rather remarkable success, Romney’s staff is trying to claim credit by pointing to an op-ed piece written by the former Massachusetts governor back in November 2008.

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3.) Conservative Republicans erupt in fury at Obama plan, condemning it as a government takeover of industry and accusing Obama of being a socialist Marxist Kenyan secularist Muslim, or something like that.

4.) Romney joins the withering condemnation of the Obama plan, ignoring the fact that it’s quite similar to his own. He says it’s “a very sad circumstance for this country … really tragic in a lot of ways.”

5.) The plan works, inspiring Romney to try to reclaim authorship of a plan that he earlier attacked as “really tragic” and “very sad.”

[Angry Dragon]

1. He even might beat out mccain for the ultimate flipper

he should get a job at McDonald's as a burger flipper

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Romney was against the auto bailout before he was for it.