Fully 57 of Mitt Romney’s 59 policy proposals to fix the American economy are as indistinguishable as Heinz’s 57 varieties of ketchup (and a lot less fun than Hitchcock’s 39 Steps). They are absolute standard-issue Republican dogma—reduce corporate taxes, pass the free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama (have you ever seen a prediction of how many jobs our free-trade agreement with Panama would create, even excluding the number of jobs it would destroy? Does it ascend beyond single digits?), repeal Obamacare, kneecap unions—utterly usual, utterly unsurprising.
But two are interesting.
In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
