A day before the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney assailed President Obama over the sharp cuts in defense spending that will occur unless Congress reneges from its agreement to slash spending across the board if a more rational budget compromise wasn’t reached — and it wasn’t.
Rep. Paul Ryan, now Romney’s vice presidential partner, voted for the deal.
Today, however, Romney sees the prospect just an inch short of treason.
Color the rhetoric campaign red.
Never you fear, Congress will fund the defense industry. Boeing included.
What Congress shows no signs of doing is making the budget cuts and revenue increases it will take to put the nation back on the track toward deficit reduction.
(Yes, taxes must rise; yes, all spending — military, too — must be reduced. Isn’t that as plain as the nose on your face?)
Mention that to the next Washington type who asks for your vote in November.
— Emerson Lynn, jr.
