Oh, Romney

Mitt Romney is apparently trying to take "a lot of credit" for the revival of the auto industry:

"I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy," Romney said. "And finally, when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back."

I'll leave it to the 900,000 other blogs to point out the absurdity and as-per-Mittens-usual flip-floppiness of his trying to sell this garbage, but I would like to know exactly how he thinks he made a difference in anything having to do with saving the industry? There were who knows how many financial and auto industry experts in the room making the decisions that led to the recovery. Was Romney in on any of these discussions? Oh, wait - his big claim to fame (as opposed to, I guess, his little claim to fame) is an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times in 2008:

"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye," Romney wrote.

The fact that he was 100% wrong notwithstanding, does he really think that at some point the president looked at his advisers and said "have any op-ed pieces from anyone who hasn't worked in the auto industry or enacted federal fiscal policy come across the wires?...oooooooooh, grab it!"?  I mean, camon - this would be like me taking credit the first time this little shit gets his ass kicked in high school. Not happening.