Mitt Romney Vows To Balance Budget With Reforms To 'Sesame Street'

Hardass Mitt Romney is now the actual GOP frontrunner, so it's finally time to get serious, take a real stand on some issues, go IN DEPTH instead of standing around waffling on the margins always looking no matter what he wears like a dork in a turtleneck clutching an asthma inhaler while waiting for the base to grow weary of his psychotic opponents. No more. Now it's time for "TUFF TALK MITTENS." First things first, educational children's teevee shows with puppets are way too free in America. A President Romney will no longer provide commercial-free programming like Sesame Street for children at a cost of a sixth of a penny per year or whatever to each taxpayer. THAT IS MONEY THAT COULD BE GOING TO WARS.

From TalkingPointsMemo:  

“I like PBS,” Romney told a town hall in Clinton, Iowa Wednesday. “We subsidize PBS. Look, I’m going to stop that. I’m going to say PBS is going to have to have advertisements.”

Funding for public broadcasting played a big part in the battle over the budget that nearly led to a government shut down after the Republicans took over Congress. Republicans aimed their rhetoric at NPR, but PBS funding would also have been cut (from basically nothing to nothing) under their plan to government funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Romney would also go after CPB funding, as well as funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, another favorite Republican target. He has promised to increase funding for the military.

Yeah, seriously, what is with all this free stuff kids are getting these days, like education? Shouldn't they have advertisements on chalkboards or desks or lunch trays or something, by now? Shit, we're probably giving him ideas. [ TPM ]