Shake that Etch-A-Sketch! Shake it, Willard! In an interview with Cleveland TV station WEWS, pathological liar and presumptive Rethuglican nominee Willard "Etch-A-Sketch" Romney again claimed he helped save the auto industry. "I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry has come back," Romney asserted. Here's a brief summary to remind anyone suffering from memory loss where Etch-A-Sketch really stood on the auto industry recovery:
"Since penning a 2008 op-ed calling for letting Detroit go bankrupt, Romney has desperately tried to spin the eventual auto rescue as his idea, ignoring that he doubled down on his original op-ed by writing in February, 'The president tells us that without his intervention things in Detroit would be worse. I believe that without his intervention things there would be better.'
"Romney’s plan for a bankruptcy devoid of government financing has been blasted by auto industry insiders and reporters as 'truly reckless, detached from reality, and dishonest.' 'Romney’s take just doesn’t square with the facts as I lived them,' said Yahoo! Autos reporter Justin Hyde. The Economist wrote that Romney 'conveniently ignores' history with his position on the rescue.
"Even Republicans who have endorsed Romney disagree with his take on the auto rescue. 'There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government,' said Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI). But Romney keeps trying to spin the rescue as a success for himself, rather than a case in which he got the policy exactly wrong."
We look forward to Willard rightfully taking credit for other successes, such as D-Day, the moon landing, the polio vaccine and, of course, killing Osama bin Laden (then we won't be able to say "Bin Laden's Dead, and General Motors is Alive -- Obama-Biden 2012!").
