Mitt Romney is, for reasons unknown to anyone rational, campaigning in the uncontested state of Indiana. Veteran campaign schedulers are scratching their heads. Nevertheless, he's there laying out
his prescription for the stalled economy:
"I can absolutely make the case that now is the time for something dramatic and it is not the time to grow government. It's the time to create the incentives and the opportunities for entrepreneurs and businesses big and small to hire more people and that's going to happen," Romney said an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
"You're going to see that happen in this country but not under this president."
Romney said repeatedly this past week that his economic policies would create 12 million jobs in his first term. Pushed to explain how, Romney said in the interview, "That's what happens in a normal process."
Now is the time for "something dramatic." Well, that's one kind of an economic plan, I suppose. A bit of drama. When pressed, Romney can't name anything he would do to grow the economy except for the one thing we've been hearing over and over again: cut taxes on the wealthy and on big corporations. We already know this doesn't work, but Mitt Romney doesn't care. He just wants to reduce his own taxes. The taxes he works so hard to avoid paying.
For the rest of us, however, he offers "something dramatic."
Believe in Bermuda.