It was bound to happen sooner or later. We all have our limits.

So today the New York Times featured a Gail Collins column that mentioned Mitt Romney but made no mention of dogs or cars or roofs.

In fact, Collins hardly laid a glove on Romney in a piece that examined the wave of privatizing state services. The Mitt bit:

Politicians of both parties are privatization fans, although the Republicans are more so. Mitt Romney has flirted with the idea of privatizing veterans’ health care. He goes steady with the Medicare privatization forces and is believed to be secretly married to the folks who want to privatize public education through the use of vouchers.

“When you work in the private sector and you have a competitor, you know if I don’t treat the customer right, they’re going to leave me and go somewhere else, so I’d better treat them right,” Romney said in a round-table discussion with veterans in South Carolina. This is the exact road he was going down on the dreaded day when he said he enjoyed firing people.

Yeah, but the only one who got fired here was the dog.

Free the Seamus One!