Romney Reassembles the Bush Economic Team

The Wall Street Journal
reports that Mitt Romney is “tapping experts in the moderate camp of
GOP economics to help him craft a meatier campaign message,” drawing
heavily from President George W. Bush’s former economic advisers.

Among
the economists advising the campaign are Glenn
Hubbard and Gregory Mankiw, who both served as chairmen of
the president’s Council of Economic Advisers in Bush’s
administration. Hubbard, who helped craft the Bush tax cuts, also
was the architect behind Romney’s latest tax initiatives.

A slew of others Bush alumni advise the Romney campaign on health, trade, regulatory and labor issues.