ought to be<\/a>\u00a0Detroit\u2019s emergency manager.<\/p>\nThat wisdom, dispensed by pundits Charles Lane of The Washington Post and David Weigel of Slate show why the D.C. Beltway deserves its reputation as a bubble divorced from the rest of America. This half-baked\u00a0half-wittery seemed to emerge from the Romney is a Michiganian School of Analysis \u2013 that is, since Romney is from Michigan, then he will win Michigan (wrong). Similarly, just because Romney hails from Metro Detroit doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s the best EM for the City of Detroit.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis hometown of Detroit, right now, has just been put into state receivership or it\u2019s about to be,\u201d said Lane mindlessly. \u201cI wonder if there is no role for him in the restructuring of Detroit. He\u2019d be the perfect person to do it. He has got the expertise, he\u2019s a hometown guy, and he is a kind of a political free agent at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRomney\u2019s ties to the city are tighter than most city emergency managers, roving technocrats who do a few years at a time in troubled metro governments,\u201d added Weigel.<\/p>\n
What nonsense.<\/p>\n
To begin with, Romney\u2019s native Bloomfield Hills is a long way from Detroit, though it may not look that way from the beltway. And anyone following the EM tale knows that Governor Snyder has been careful to build bridges to Detroit leadership. His appointment as EM of Detroit Public Schools, for example, was Roy Roberts \u2013 a high-ranking black executive with GM. His Detroit EM is likely to be a similarly nuanced choice. Why would Snyder roil Detroit\u2019s Democratic political waters with an unpopular Republican who tried to unseat Barack Obama?<\/p>\n
But with the big microphones of the MSM\u2019s Washington-centric coverage, such drivel \u00a0quickly becomes American political currency. So naturally, Snyder had to respond to these beltway emissions first thing Monday morning. No, Snyder predictably told the Paul W. Smith radio show, Romney is not a candidate for EM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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