The Daily Star
Mitt Romney’s reality check leaves him shell-shocked
The same disregard for reality has been the hallmark not only of the
Republican campaign but of the entire Republican Party in recent times.
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report in October showing
that the national unemployment rate remained “essentially unchanged” at
7.9 percent, Republican operatives sought to discredit the highly
respected BLS. When polls showed that Romney was falling behind
President Barack Obama, they sought to discredit the polls. When the
non-partisan Congressional Research Service reported that a Republican
tax plan would do nothing to foster economic growth, Republican Senators
muscled the CRS into withdrawing its report.
These refusals to accept matters of plain fact reflect a still wider
pattern. Increasingly, the Republican Party, once a fairly normal
political party, has granted itself a license to live in an alternate
reality – a world in which George W. Bush did find the weapons of mass
destruction that he had thought were in Iraq; tax cuts eliminate budget
deficits; Obama is not only a Muslim but was born in Kenya and thus
should be disqualified from the presidency; and global warming is a hoax
concocted by a cabal of socialist scientists. (The Democrats, for their
part, have had one foot in the camp of unreality as well.)
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