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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (179838)1/21/2012 4:21:31 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 542635
 
The metaphor for BW is simple: large gaping holes throughout. First, we have the popular perpetual myth that the White House gets to do whatever it wants so it can do whatever is necessary. Obama won by a lot and had 59 Senate votes and still couldn't herd the cats there the direction he wanted much of the time. Does anyone think that Cantor is going to take marching orders from Romney if Romney isn't on board with little Ricky's personal agenda? Nope. Cantor will run him over since Romney lacks the balls to stand up to anybody he wants to please.

Second, the idea that large personal wealth makes Romney unaccountable to special interests is laughable. A manically de-regulation president will do what Bush and Cheney did, which is to invite the corporate lobbyists to come on in and write the new laws and regulations to their benefit. If Romney had any kind of record or philosophy of standing up to corporate America, it might hold water. But he IS rich, corporate America.

So what he thinks needs to be done will be a letter-perfect duplication of what the US Chamber of Commerce, the big oil companies and Wall Street want to see Washington do. Which is to cut all regulations that cost them anything (regardless of the external impacts) and steer huge amounts of corporate pork their way in the tax code.

Thinking anything else might happen requires large amounts of hallucinogenic drugs. How's that for a metaphor?
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