"As long as Mitt Romney publicly claims credit for the auto industry’s recovery, he’s going to put his fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill in an awkward position. Nearly all of them have attacked the Obama administration’s bailout in exceptionally harsh terms, despite the fact that the administration’s actions are widely understood to have saved the industry.
In the Capitol on Tuesday, two Senate Republicans struggled to respond.
“Romney said that he was responsible for the auto bailout?” asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in disbelief, unaware that Romney had told a local affiliate in Ohio he should be credited for having saved the industry. “I’d have to look at the context of his remarks. I know that if the auto companies had gone into bankruptcy like thousands of small businesses had to do across America, they could’ve emerged without the sweetheart deal for the unions like was orchestrated by the Obama administration.”
Scrape away the inconvenient history, and there’s a way for McCain and Romney to claim they’re on the same page here. Romney’s fond of noting that he wanted the car companies to undergo a managed bankruptcy in 2009, and since that’s a component of what the government ultimately did, all credit should go to him.
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