Romney 2012?

Speaking to voters in Ohio recently, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that President Barack Obama’s auto bailout has been such a failure that auto-maker Jeep is “thinking of moving all production to China.”

Although journalists, and even Chrysler itself, quickly pointed out that claim has absolutely no basis in reality, the campaign did not immediately offer any clarification or correction. On Sunday, it became clear why they didn’t bother.

Romney’s misleading claim about Jeep is now a television ad designed to push back against criticism of Romney’s prior stance, which he explained in a 2008 editorial titled “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” The carefully worded ad doesn’t repeat Romney’s objectively misleading claim that Jeep is moving to China, but it does leave viewers with that impression, and it accomplishes this by leaving out two very important pieces of context.

Here we have another member who rejoices in the insulting use of "teabagger" but who would profess to find such invective generalizations, otherwise, offensive.

During a CNN debate at the height of the GOP primary, Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether the agency should be shuttered so that states can individually take over responsibility for disaster response.

"Absolutely," he said. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?"

Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the east coast of the United States. It is being billed as the storm of the century—bigger than Irene a year ago. States and cities, assisted by the federal government, are preparing for the storm due to hit landfall Monday.

Schools are closed, the NY subways will be shut down on their 108th birthday, and residents are warned to evacuate low-lying areas from North Carolina to New York. This storm is expected to bring hundreds of millions of dollar in property damage, like Irene; and has the potential to become a killer.

President Obama cancelled campaign appearances to coordinate disaster relief.