Wednesday Night Video – Mitt Likes Dick

On the Rachel Maddow Show tonight, Maddow highlighted the overlap between Mitt Romney’s policies and policy advisers with the Bush/Cheney administration. She introduced the segment with a list of economic facts that should be repeated frequently. Loudly. During the George W. Bush years…
…the unemployment rate went from just over 4% to just under 8%
…the budget surplus went from $236 billion to -$1.4 trillion
… poverty went up
…the uninsured rose

Conservative economics has been tried. It doesn’t work. The reason why the recovery has lagged is because many elements of the conservative economic plan has been retained, including massive deficit spending fueled by military spending and tax cuts for the elite. Mitt Romney’s planned fundraiser on Thursday with Dick Cheney is emblematic of Romney’s desire to repeat this recent past.

Maddow also gets extra points for her pointed takedown of the Washington Post transcribing Mitt Romney spin, rather than engaging in, you know, journalism. Your liberal media, not at work…