Romney Blasts Tax Cut Deal
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 14th, 2010 5:40 am by HL
Romney Blasts Tax Cut Deal
Mitt Romney comes out hard against the bipartisan tax deal in a USA Today op-ed noting that of death and taxes “only death retains the status of certainty: The future for taxes has been left up in the air. And uncertainty is not a friend of investment, growth and job creation.”
Despite Democratic grumbling, he says President Obama “has reason to celebrate. The deal delivers short-term economic stimulus, and it does so at the very time he wants it most, before the 2012 elections. But the long term health of our great engine of prosperity will remain very much in doubt. To the twin inevitabilities of death and taxes, we may now have to add persistent high unemployment.”
Daily Caller: “Romney’s move has the potential to spur broader opposition to the deal among Republican lawmakers than has previously been seen, and is clearly intended by the former Massachusetts governor as a play for support from Tea Party and grassroots conservatives.”
A Diplomat Until the Very End
From the Washington Post‘s obituary of Richard Holbrooke: “As Mr. Holbrooke was sedated for surgery, family members said, his final words were to his Pakistani surgeon: ‘You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.'”
