Bobo Shills for Mittens

[Please don’t forget the FUNDRAISER. I’m really in a hole right now. All help appreciated.]





Today the very serious David Brooks tells us that Mitt Romney is the Serious Candidate because he intends to get serious about entitlement reform, i.e., tossing the old folks out to fend for themselves. Even more alarming, Bobo calls Mittens’s entitlement reform proposal bold, which is rightie speak for “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

It appears the GOP establishment finally has resigned itself to going all out for Mittens to be the nominee. Jennifer Rubin also called Romney “bold” for his very serious proposals that he culled from what all the other Republicans are proposing and stuffed into voter-friendlier packaging.

For example, he basically has adopted the Paul Ryan Medicare voucher plan, but he boldly fudged his bets by promising that people could stay on the old program if they want. Oh, and he left out nagging details about how the size of the vouchers will be determined. . Yes, bold.

But Bobo is seriously shilling. A nun on her first visit to the Sistine Chapel would be challenged to match Bobo for awed reverence.

The word “serious,” when coming from a Republican, is never good. “Serious” in foreign policy is a willingness to nuke any nation that doesn’t invite us to its birthday parties, for example. “Serious” domestic policy means allowing Exxon to design our energy programs. Beware.

As an antidote, I give you Charles Pierce:

On Friday, Mitt Romney, the Republican frontrunner and a man who could be mugged for his wallet through the mail, and a man of such iron will that he wrote a book called No Apologies in which he changed positions on several issues between the hardcover and paperback editions, went before the Koch Brothers hobby-horse Americans for Prosperity banquet and bravely promised to do everything he could not to do anything he bravely promised to do when he was running in any of the several other political campaigns that have kept him from ever being “a professional politician.” Specifically, he signed on to Paul Ryan’s toss-Grampa-to-the-jackals voucher approach to Medicare. Ryan was thrilled to death. Not his death, of course, but the death of a lot of old people who’ll be thrown onto the market of the single most disgusting industry in America that doesn’t involve deepwater drilling.

“Younger Americans today, when they turn 65, should have a choice between traditional Medicare and other private health care plans that provide at least the same level of benefits. Competition will lower costs and increase the quality of health care,”

Yes, because, in all aspects of our economy, but especially in the health-insurance game, corporate power slavers for the thrill of real competition, because American corporations want a free market where they might have to lower costs and increase the quality of their product, despite the fact that Wall Street will scream bloody fking murder when they do. That’s why we have 300 domestic airlines in the United States now as a result of deregulation.

Thank you, Mitt Romney, GOP frontrunner.