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underthemountainbunker:

Romney’s ‘Underpants Gnome’ Defense On Auto Bailout - 

It appears as if Romney’s plan is to get applause at Republican debates for stressing the word “bankruptcy,” and then get indignant when Michigan reporters suggest this would have left the auto industry anything less than booming. All without ever mentioning tens of billions it took to get from one point to the other.

The whole game resembles an oft-quoted 1990s episode of South Park in which a group of gnomes gather people’s boxer shorts as part of a grand three-part business scheme: Step 1: Collect underpants; Step 2: ???; Step 3: Profit. Despite their best efforts, nobody can explain what Step 2 was supposed to be. So with Romney, we now have the following. Step 1: Bankruptcy. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Record profits.

(via destroythegop)