Romney: "I'm a big believer in getting money where the money is. And the money is in Washington."
Given that
former registered lobbyist Mitt Romney's entire campaign against President Obama is now predicated on
dishonestly cropping out the first sentence of this quote ...
Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
...
this is a pretty hilarious defense of his Winter Olympics spending largesse:
In Turnaround, Romney explained that the Salt Lake Olympics would cost more in large part because winter Olympics tend to cost more, by virtue of the fact that they mostly take place on mountains. "We had to construct access roads, widen highways and overpasses, and build a network of massive park-and-ride lots," he wrote. Besides, he explained, Atlanta had already upgraded its infrastructure prior to receiving the Olympic bid; Salt Lake City, on the other hand, was still in the process of improving its roads and transit.
Of course, as
Mother Jones' Tim Murphy
points out, even if Romney's argument was right, it doesn't explain why he sent millions of federal dollars to wealthy Utahns to do things like building roads through ski resorts.