Mitt Romney: "Obama/Nero is fiddling’ - misses chance to solve fiscal crisis

◼ Breaking four months of silence, Mitt Romney on Sunday blasted President Obama for playing politics with sequestration and, in the process, missing a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to put the nation on solid economic footing. - Ben Wolfgang/Washington Times

“This is an opportunity,” Mr. Romney said. “I look at the sequester and also the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as almost a once-in-a-generation opportunity for America to solve its fiscal problems … it’s being squandered by politics. The hardest thing about losing [the 2012 presidential election] is watching this critical moment, this golden moment, slip away with politics.”

He added that “Nero is fiddling” while a key chance for a bipartisan deal slips away, and he criticized the president for “campaigning” rather than truly leading.

Mr. Romney’s wife, Ann, said that if her husband were in the Oval Office, “we would not be facing sequestration.”