From, “Romney’s Budget Fairy Tale,” by Jonathan Chait,
5/16/12, New York
(nymag.com):
The story told by Romney is one in which all of these things
are either untrue or could not possibly be true.
Romney elides some
inconvenient facts — for instance, by asserting “Then there was Obamacare. Even
now nobody knows what it will actually cost,” which is literally true in the
sense that precise cost estimates are always impossible, but sounds to his
audience like a claim that the program will swell the deficit in vast,
unknowable ways. But most of Romney’s speech doesn't even refer to the facts
stated above. It's simply orthogonal
to facts. It’s a story, one in which Obama increased the deficit because he
loves big government and Europe and hates the
private sector.
Elide: omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking; join
together; merge
Orthogonal: statistical independent; of or involving right
angles; at right angles
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