It’s a running joke in my house that when you do or say something incredibly moronic you almost instantly hear: “Oh, you’re so pretty.” With that in your head, I beg you to turn your attention to the following from the Washington Post’s Mary Ann Akers, who is quite pretty, except, in that good kinda pretty kinda way and not … whatever, read on:
Romney’s ‘Read My Lips’ Legacy?
Only the wonkiest wonks of Washington would catch a technical foul such as this one: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a new TV ad in which he vows to cap non-defense discretionary spending if elected president and declares, “If Congress sends me a budget that exceeds that cap I will veto that budget!”
“I can’t wait to get my hands on Washington!” Romney roars.
Well, he may want to get his hands on a budget lesson first. Because the thing is, in Washington, presidents don’t veto budgets. Budget resolutions are simply blueprints that, by law, are not sent to the White House for the president’s signature.
And budget experts don’t take this stuff lightly.
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