So here's the latest: When asked in an interview on NBC about the Chicago teachers' strike, Romney said he wouldn't necessarily deny teachers the right to strike, but instead the focus should be on removing the teachers' union money from the political process.
“We simply can’t have a setup where the teachers unions can contribute tens of millions of dollars to the campaigns of politicians and then those politicians, when elected, stand across from them at the bargaining table, supposedly to represent the interests of the kids. . . . I think we’ve got to get the money out of the teachers unions going into campaigns. It’s the wrong way for us to go. We’ve got to separate that.”Romney has previously said he thought the Supreme Court's ruling on Citizens United was the correct decision. And to NBC he said he thought people should be able to give whatever they want to a campaign; he would do away with SuperPacs and just let all contributions go straight to campaigns.
The Citizens United decision allows both corporations and unions to give unlimited amounts of campaign money, as long as it is to an entity (SuperPacs) that does not coordinate its efforts with a specific politician's campaign. That's right: corporations and unions.
Yet Romney would like to deny teachers unions specifically. Why? Here's his tortured reasoning.
"They are directly negotiating over a contract with a mayor or a governor who is going to be approving that contract, that’s the distinction," Romney told NBC.Like that's terrible, but highlty paid lobbyists actually writing laws on regulation of the industry they represent, that's OK?
Spoken like a true plutocrat who wants all the marbles for himself and none for the other guy. That's just what we need as president. Someone who "doesn't worry about the 47%."
I think it's beginning to sink in to the American voters. Obama's lead in the polls continues to climb -- 8% nationally in one recent poll. And yesterday he was leading in all the swing states -- even North Carolina.
Ralph
Here's another inconsistency from today. It's enough to make your head spin.
ReplyDeleteTrying to counter the effect of his "47%" revelation, Romney said today that "nothing shows more empathy and caring about people" than the health care law passed while he was governor of Massachusetts.
Yes, the health care law he's been running away from all campaign.
He seems to want us to take any statement he makes only in the context in which he's saying it at the moment. Don't expect anything he says today to bear any relationship to what he has said in the past.
It's always Ground Hog Day in the Romney campaign.